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PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



Approximately 1618 pieces of baggage belonging to immigrants from 

 foreign countries were examined, from which 7 lots of fruit and 28 lots of 

 vegetables were seized and destroyed. 



On July 5 a package of mango seed found in the mail from Manila was 

 seized and destroyed as contraband. 



On 'July 7 a package of beans found in the mail from China was fumi- 

 gated precautionary. 



On July 8 the S. S. Tangaroa, from Fanning Island, brought 10 cases 

 of empty bottles packed in straw in which two colonies of ants were found. 

 From the condition of the straw, evidently these cases must have stood in a 

 yard or near a landing for some time, as the straw was badly decayed 

 and sow bugs, cockroaches and centipedes were found. The 10 boxes were 

 placed on a truck on which a tarpaulin was laid, and hauled to the fumi- 

 gating room and fumigated with carbon bisulphide. 



On July 9 a lot of sandpears and two packages of corn were found in 

 the mail from Japan, seized and destroyed. A package of beans and a 

 package of vegetable seeds, also in the mail from Japan, were fumigated 

 precautionary. 



On July 11 a case of orchids brought from Manila by a passenger on 

 the Marica was returned, being prohibited. A package of mango seed in 

 the mail from Manila for the Board of Agriculture and Forestry was 

 burned, being prohibited. 



On July 17, two packages of dahlia bulbs from the mainland were fumi- 

 gated on account of aphis. 



On July 21 a package of seeds in the mail for Dr. Lyon, from the 

 British Guiana Botanical Gardens, was fumigated precautionary. 



On July 26 a lot of corn in the baggage of a passenger from the Orient 

 Avas seized and destroyed as contraband. A package of dry beans in the 

 mail from Japan was fumigated on account of Aveevils. 



HILO INSPECTION. 



Brother M. Newell, Inspector at Hilo, reports the arrival of five steamers 

 at the port of Hilo. Three carried vegetable matter, consisting of 191 

 lots and 2068 parcels, all clean. 



KAHULUI INSPECTION. 



Mr. Will J. Cooper, Inspector at Kahului, reports the arrival of 10 ves- 

 sels at the port of Kahului. Three carried vegetal)le matter, consisting of 

 16 lots and 816 parcels, all clean. 



INTER-ISLAND INSPECTION. 



Sixty-two steamers plying between Honolulu and the other Island ports 

 were attended and the following shipments passed: 



Taro 540 bags 



Vegetables 331 packages 



Fruit 251 



Plants 130 



Seeds 1 



Sugar cane 74 cases 



Total passed 1327 packages 



Fifty-five packages of plants (which includes Spanish moss), as well as 



