The city is lighted with electric light, there is a complete telephone system, and tramcars run at short intervals along the principal streets and continue out to a sea-bathing resort and public park, four miles from the city. There are numerous stores where all kinds of goods can be obtained. The public buildings are attractive and commodious. There are numerous churches, schools, a public library of over 10,000 volumes, Y. M. C. A. Hall, Masonic Temple, Odd Fellows’ Hall, and theater. There is frequent steam communication with San Francisco, once a month with Victoria (British Columbia), and twice a month with New Zealand and the Australian colonies. Steamers also connect Honolulu with Japan. There are three evening daily papers published in English, one daily morning paper and two weeklies. Besides these, there are papers published in the Hawaiian, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese languages, and also monthly magazines in various tongues. United States Consul-General Mills, of Honolulu, under date of February 8, 1897, transmitted to the Department of State the official figures showing the result of the census of the Hawaiian Islands, which had just been completed. The Hawaiians head the list with a total of 31,019. The Japanese colonization comes next, with the Chinese a close third. The official table, as prepared at the census office, in 1890, is: Nationality. Males. Females. Total. Hawaiian 16,399 14,620 31,019 Part Hawaiian 4,249 4,236 8,485 American 1,975 1,111 3,086 British 1,406 844 2,250 German 866 566 1,432 French 56 45 101 Norwegian 216 162 378 Portuguese 8,202 6,989 15,191 Japanese 19,212 5,195 24,407 Chinese 19,167 2,449 21,616 South Sea Islanders 321 134 455 Other nationalities 448 152 600 —————— —————— ——————— Total 72,517 36,503 109,020