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. Continue reading
Honey in Hawaii, 1858.
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Category Archives: Foreign Animals
Crows and tiny birds, 1869.
Crows.—It was something marvelous to see the Crows brought by Dr. Hillebrand [Kauka Hilabarani], flying from the ridges of Haili to Continue reading
Canaries for sale, 1865.
CANARY BIRDS!
THE BEST EVER IMPORTED
into this Market, guaranteed
Good SINGERS!
For Sale at
C. FRED. PFLUGER’S
Fort Street, nearly opposite Messrs. von Holt & Heuck.
(PCA, 8/12/1865, p. 1)
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Volume X, Number 6, Page 1. August 12, 1865.
More rice birds and rice paddies on Kauai, 1865.
[Found under: “He Palapala na Kauka Kulika mai.”]
Pertaining to the Rice in Waimea.
Rice is planted much here in this place. The rice just newly planted here in some paddies is growing and it is green when looking at it. Continue reading
More on the importing of birds and plants and laborers, 1865.
Planters’ Society.
A general meeting of the Society was held at the Court House on Saturday last, April 1st, 1865, pursuant to a call published by his Ex. R. C. Wyllie.
Mr. Montgomery was called to the Chair, and stated that the objects of the meeting were, first, to consider the amalgamation of the Planters’ Society with the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society.
Hon. G. M. Robertson, appointed at a former meeting to report on the proposed step, stated that the simplest way for attaining the object was for the members of the Planters’ Society to unite individually with the R. H. A. Society. Continue reading
Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society and the importing of plants and animals, 1865.
[Communicated.]
Mr. Editor:—The eminent success which has attended Dr. Hillebrand’s first consignment of plants and birds per Alberto for the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society, ought certainly to operate as a stimulus to all who feel interested in the material progress of these islands, to lend a helping hand to enable him to avail freely of the facilities and opportunities he now possesses of procuring and forwarding here the vast number of plants, &c., suitable to our climate, Continue reading
Scary talk, 1865.
[Found under: “Various Items.”]
Commendable—There are few or no song-birds native to the Sandwich Islands, and the Hawaiian Government is importing rare and beautiful birds from China, setting them at liberty in the suburbs of Honolulu. Continue reading
List of plants and animals imported in 1865.
[Found under: “NOTES OF THE WEEK.”]
The R. H. Agricultural Society [Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society] received from Dr. Hillebrand, by the Alberto, Continue reading
In praise of the mongoose, 1866.
[Found under: “NOTES OF THE WEEK.”]
About Rats.—A correspondent writes us as follows: “In your last issue I have remarked a paragraph on Snakes vs. Rats. It seems wonderful to me that none of our rat-eradicators, nor the inhabitants of these Islands, have ever alluded to a small animal called the Mongoose Cat (Mustela), or Weasel kind. Continue reading
New birds from China, 1865.
Containers of new birds.—Upon the trading ship of the Chinese that stopped here, there were containers of new birds. The thing these birds do is to eat creeping things of the earth, they being caterpillars [peelua], worms [koe], and so forth. Continue reading
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