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HAWAIIANS AS AGRICULTURISTS. 



The native Hawaiians on Maui, encouraged by the good pros- 

 pect of the rubber industry are engaging in this new enterprise. 

 Many of them have also commenced to cultivate pineapples and 

 grapes with every promise of success. The development of these 

 industries among the Hawaiians is in part due to the exemption 

 from taxation of land devoted to new industries and also to direct 

 encouragement by local planters. The attempt to induce the 

 Hawaiians to return to the pursuit of agriculture is a most praise- 

 worthv one and its beneficial influence should be most marked. 



FRUIT TR.\DE POSSIBILITIES. 



The extraordinary possibility of the development of the Ha- 

 waiian export fruit trade may be in some measure gauged by 

 the fact that the port of Celba, on the north coast of Honduras, 

 a town about one-sixth the size of Honolulu, dispatches some 

 twenty steamers of tropical fruit monthly to New Orleans and 

 Mobile, The demonstration which has lately been made of the 

 practicability of shipping pineapples and other Hawaiian grown 

 fruits in good condition to Chicago, has opened up the whole of 

 the western and middle States to our trade. The extension of 

 our export fruit trade must follow as a matter of course, and 

 during the next few years this will rank as one of the most im- 

 portant factors in the development of Hawaii. 



RUBBER SEEDS. 



The Nahiku Rubber Company has recently received a ship- 

 ment of 210,000 Hevea rubber seeds. Of these 5,000 are to be 

 planted at Koolau, 10,000 in Honolulu for experimental pur- 

 poses, and 190,000 are to be planted at Xahiku. 



BRAZIL RUBBER EXPORTS. 



A Consular report, just published, from Para, states that last 

 year the amount of rubber exported reached a total of 35,000 

 tons. The increased demand kept the prices high, and it is ex- 

 pected that the present level will be maintained, as the output of 

 rubber from other countries has not aflfected the Brazilian qualities. 



TO RECOVER WASTE RUBBER. 



A process is in operation in France, whereby it is claimed all 

 the effective rubber can be recovered from "perished"' rubber. 

 The process is said to be not expensive, and to fully repay its cost. 



