First labor organization formed, the Hawaiian Mechanic's Benefit Union.
Blight attacks coffee plants and planters abandon practically all coffee growing on Kaua'i.
The Islands export 700,556 pounds of sugar and 48,486 gallons of molasses.
$1,130,000 worth of imports arrive in Hawai'i; exports total $470,000.
Theophilus Harris Davies arrives from England. Starting as a shipping clerk for Janion, Green & Co. in Honolulu, Davies later builds Theo Davies into one of Hawaii's powerful Big Five companies.
