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Show A NEW HAWAIIAN MINISTER. The Pre-lnolioa of xrtr lu the ftlaad Kingdom Customs Statistics. Sak Fimncisco, Aug. 5. Hawaiian idvicei by tho sltiamev "Australia." it ate that "Queen Lilittokalini has tend-iivdllon. tend-iivdllon. J. Molt Smith the portfolio if minister of finance vice Weidmau, vsigued. and that he has uecepted it. The customs statistics show for the last six months of the present year that .nere wns an increase of exports of tiigar from tho islands of twenty-four hotisand tons over the samo period in 8!I0. Most of tho plantations have finished ;rimling cane for the season. Tho total iroduclioii of sugar for 18'Jl is estimated it about two hundred and thirty thou-and thou-and tons. An average reduction 'of .-wcnly.livo percent of taxs on sugar l:inL:ilioiis has been granted by tho abiiicl., as the. result of a conference villi Hie planters, who complain of tho i Icprociat.ion iii value of sugar, owning ; i the tariff measures of tho United Stales. . |