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LOCAL INDUSTRIES.
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TAHITI LEMONADE WORKS.
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The Tahiti Lemonade Works, at Sunny South, on the road half way to Makiki, established there for the pure artesian water since 1884, are well worth a visit, for their spaciousness, completeness and the beautiful machinery employed.  Their inspection will amply recompense anyone, and especially if he be inquisitive as to the process of making aerated waters, of which such enormous and ever-increasing quantities are consumed daily and hourly all over the world.
  By the Glengarger, now in port, the proprietor has lately received an anti-atmospheric apparatus, McEwen's patent, owned by Mr. D. Rylands, of Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, and which is fast throwing out of use all the old systems.  This machine is specially designed for producing aerated waters of exceptional purity and strength, from which, during the process of making, all impurities are scientifically removed, and all atmospheric air excluded, whilst having a power of several hundred dozen per day.
  For the benefit of those not informed, it may be here stated that there are two systems of making gaseous waters, viz.: the American or intermittent, and the European or continuous, the difference between the two being easily understood.
  The American plan consists in placing two or more cylinders, connected by tubing, side by side; in the first of which the gas is produced by allowing sulphuric acid to run down from the generator above, on to the carbonate or whiting, and which gas by the pressure evolved rushes with great force into the second cylinder, and commingles there with the water previously placed in it for the purpose of saturation.  In this process neither pump nor gasometer is used, and the operation is perfectly simple, ingenious, and economical.
  The European or continuous system, universally adopted in England and throughout the continent of Europe, does not permit the repudiation of either the pump or the gasometer, as the high scientific authorities on the subject declare the gasometer to be absolutely indispensable in every apparatus, intended to produce an article of commerce--aerated waters healthful and perfectly pure; not withstanding the pretensions of those who, for their own ends, assert they believe, or would have others believe, that both the gasometer and pump may be suppressed with impunity.
  The utility of the gasometer is evident after a little investigation and study.  It stores and expands the gas after it has been purified by passing, in its way from the generator, through sixty to a hundred gallons of water.  The use of powerful pumps is equally recognized, as their arranged speed keeps the pressure in the cylinders always at the same height, and this can be done by no other known method.
  To return to the Tahiti Lemonade Works, this , we believe, is the only manufactory on these islands using the more complicated machinery of gasometers and pumps, driven by steam power.  The Anti-Atmospheric machine above referred to as recently received, may be said to represent the last victory of progress, as (putting its pretty, graceful, and striking appearance aside), it is guaranteed to make the purest and best aerated waters in the world, against all competitors, at a savings of 30 percent in material and 50 percent in power-no small mater where making hundred dozen a day is concerned.
  The large factory at Sunny South, 60 feet in length, is cool and admirably clean, and the different machines (there are three) are remarkable for their polished brilliancy.  With them no metal contamination can possibly take place, as they are thoroughly covered with silver.
  Everyone is recommended to visit these works, where, at all times, the public are freely admitted and welcome.