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84 | HONOLULU. On Saturday all the people who can come into town do so, and go to the fish market. Not only fish, but fruits, vegetables and meat can be purchased there. The fishermen and those who sell the fish are chiefly natives, and this is the place to see them dressed in their quaint garments, with their garlands of leis about them, wholly absorbed in the business of the day. It may be interesting to the reader to learn the price of some of the provisions in the market at Honolulu. Fresh Hawaiian butter, twenty-five to fifty cents per pound. Hams, sixteen to thirty cents a pound. Bacon, sixteen to twenty cents a pound. Cheese, twenty to thirty-five a pound. - Family pork, fifteen to eighteen a pound. Corned beef, seven cents a pound. Fresh meat, six to fifteen a pound. Porter house steaks, six to fif- teen a pound. ‘Tinned fruits, one dollar seventy-five to two dollars and a quarter a dozen. Golden Gate flour, one hundred pounds, two dollars and a half. Lower erades two dollars and twenty cents. Hawatian rice three to five dollars for one hundred pounds. Bananas. twenty-five to fifty cents a bunch. Potatoes, one to two cents a pound. Eggs, twenty-five to fifty cents a dozen. A case of rolled oats, five dollars and a half. Ice, in small quantity, one and a half cents a pound, and over fifty pounds, at one cent a pound. Water pipes are laid nearly all over the town, and the city is lighted with electric lights. Honolulu has a com- plete telephone system. Surface cars, drawn by mules, run at short intervals along the principal streets, and continue out to Waikiki, -_—— eee ; comicbooks.com