Show The 1Iwleli hla w Honolulu ISXing Kftlakaua is an a visit to Maui He is actively engaged in promoting the culture of cinchona tobacco to-bacco and ramie The culture of thee products will it is expected be aided by some bounty provided by the next legislature legis-lature Great hopes are raised in the islands in connection with the treatment of leprosy Heretofore the victims of the disease and their friends resisted the segregation of the sick on the Island of Molokai now that a branch hospital has been established estab-lished near Honolulu where the diseased dis-eased can get sight of their friends they come forth voluntarily to be treated All bidden lepers have come forth from their retreats and the new treatment and management have produced excellent results Planters are uneasy about the supply of labor The immigration of Chinese has ceased and Norwegian and Portu gese immigrants are so prone to breach of contract and to causelessly injure the good name of the islands that planters want no more of them Their attention is now turned to India and Japn for recruits re-cruits of laborers and people A prohibitory liquor law is much di cussed A public loan for internal improve ment is the prevailing topic among politicians A loan of 2000000 BS large a sum as can be judiciously expended ex-pended for the next two or three years can be readily obtained on governments bond at home The material for a marine railway in Honolulu has arrived and the work is well on the way The total exports from the kingdom in 1881 were 671472637 total imports 454797864 imports of American goods for 1881 339631084 |