New honey.—The honey bees at Dr. Hillebrand’s place are making new honey and it is very fine, just like the honey made by bees in other places. The work of this ever working species that is living here in Honolulu as malihini is going well. Kapena purchased some bee colonies and they were taken to Kealakekua.
(Hae Hawaii, 9/15/1858, p. 95)