The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-03-17

Tn paH week has been one II unusual actsity- Earre num-
bar of uhalers and several merchantmen having arrived or
touched At this port business has been quite active.
Tbs brig Hero, 20 long expected ffum Hongkoug, arrived on
cargo OF China and Manila goods, which ae In demand, and vii,
probably meet q prompt sale. We hear q the sale Of All the
cigars and tea imported by her.
The mail packet Yankee arrived promptly on the 18th. land
ing the New York mail Of Feb. s in thirty seven days from that
city She brings a cargo Of merchandise and some eight or ten
passengers She is to continue as a packet on this route
On the 18th, the schooner r.. L. Frost returned from her ex-
petition to the southwest, in search Of new guano islands It
10 reported that the expedition has met with entire success,
having visited and taken actual possession Of the islands (Which
are not laid down on any char, and the locality Of which we have,
as Jet, been unable to lean) and found . large deposit Of guano
thereon She brings back samples, which are certainly superior
TO anything we have yet seen, excepting the Chincha Island
article. Holes were dug In the deposits five feet deep, without
reaching bottom, and It Is estimated that several millions Of tons
Of guano are on the islands. Immediate arrangements viii, we
suppose, be made to work the guano.
The bark AdeLaida, which now forms one Of our regular packet
line, sails to-day a full of freight and passengers as she can
stow We are glad to notice the project to keep on a third
vessel on the regular line, 80 well supported, and hope f may
be permanent The 4delaida takes away some Of our Oldest
residents, including Or. Robt- ". Wood, the proprietor Of two
Of our most hourishing sugar plantations, who, with his LADY,
embarks for a visit TO New England, from which be has been
absent twenty years We wish him q pleasant voyage and safe
return to our islands, with whose commercial progress he has
been for % many years, and Is still, intimately connected
The cippes ship F7esfring, which arrived yesterday, is char
tered 10 load guAno at Jarvis Island, and win sail thence in a
day or two.
We note q few transactions:
~sUGAR-Duil-best quality, 7c "a TIC dark, &C.
MOLASsES-Hed at 15c- No sales
LUMBER-The stock Of both Northwest and Eastern Ii large'
AL in dealers hands, The Jenny Ford, with a car
90 II 3oo, 900 feet, Is due from Puget Sound, having sailed on the
2d Feb. The L. p Foster was to sail In about two weeks
shz With . further supply,
sALr-No sales We quote 81 per b.
ARROw-ROOT-wor &c.
HIDES AND sKINLl1e for hides, 25c a 3Sc for skins
CIGARsLImportasions by the Hero amountto go NJ Manila,
- buows. 10000 Mo- i, 100000 No. 2, and 10000 No. 3-an
Of which have been purchased BY one party at high figures
The lot Of No. ! has realised, we hear, over SO 10 per Ma
high figure for this market
TEA-soo boxes choice oolong, Is ins each, ex Hero, have
been sold on private terms.
GRICR+saIe at Auction, 10 bags, at 4lc: balance Of lot With
drawn
REwOOD-Remainsh high at su2 Y cord
POTArOEs-By the quantity, Irish, 81 So sweet 81
OLA sale on the 18th Of 500 gallons, ex Black WaTTiOr,
realised An average cf Sc
ExCHANGE-Pu 10 days bills There have been uansac-
tons however at . lower fgure-
san FRANCISCO
Our advices by the Yankee are up to the Sd inst The
MARKET had undergone very little change from our previous re-
port We notice .'sHght advance in crushed sugars based on
reports Of the New York market
FLora-Large Sales Of HaxaII and GaIIsso had been male at
$40. Domestic has receded to 81 % q $s"-
OXrs-LAry sales at DC a 2i-loc-
Poz.ro.s..2.e q z = i. 1 S 1s ;sse'' &c "a
co1IHLAi =. advice: from, from, Rio I , maS ys.s Sc ;. .sss loading Pia ss
this port with coffee, 10 sail about me middle Oh .
here are quite nominal a. 17i "a lsc Y b, with an anxiety on
the part Of jobbers TO realize
sceAa-China No. i, &c "a eic. We notice no saies d 81
MoLAssEs-saes Of Is brs 5 l. at Csc Is DO, superior 'e-
sALI-saes Of 5 and 10Th bags table salt at &c H..
MArrIxe-Sales Of white China, ~ at 50 70; o. at$ 90
NEW BEDFORD. OIL 81
srszn-The market for sperm oil remains firm, although the
.r.nsacuops have been considerably less than those OF last week.
The saIes since our last embrace SIS bbis, in parcels, as follows:
LAO bbls dark CT 130 cents. 20 do. do at lbs cents, 80 DO,
good, at las cents, LIS do at 14s cents, and 30 do at l'o cents
y gallon
Wa1Iz-Is in acdUk demand, and we notice an advance on
last weeks quotAtions- The transactions include sales OF oJsSo
bbh to manufacturers We quote ISIS bbls at % cents, ooo
40. AT So cents. 500 do. at 56i cents p gallon. Also, $50 bois at
40 cents. 10 do do. at so cents, 200 do brown, at 80 cents, and
$50 do. south Sea at 81 cents q gallon The market closing