The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-12-13
NJ NJ
rHURsDaY. DEcEMBER Is. 1890.

oS sunday l-i- the bris orbrt touched a: thi- port, ~ route
for HsaxSaG-. whittier -he Wa b1Gud with a cargo % produce,
zna Ier a s< paper, with sAn Francisco advtees 30 Nov. l.,
.oi Eastern PaP-rs tn oct Il. With t=Isrraphie dispatches from
New York % Nov. , A brief Errort % the price, current IN -an
Fnncsr7 at the dzt- Of thu sailing Of th~ brg, VII: b found
below She sailed .yais on the 10Th
The schooner AESf. % days frou Japan, also ar. we'd On
Sunday. s.a Interesting aagiees from that quarter. sSd 4 fall
cargo Of Japzn-se products and VAR, most % which -m -
AndsI hSrs- The seAoousr VII proceed on 70 San FE'seiseO
early nszt week
ThIa arrival furu.sss. ~ <ith sone reliable information r.
ssrdsEz tie valas Of foreign coins IN japan A. near As 80 can
gather, the foIosIEz are the values At xhieh they arr eurren.
AeIcan dollars, Sc cents nvefrAne dollars. about IS cents
two AEsEse1H have, SANE A q hseiraEc piece, . cents
Ansrscas gold. nc; current. except as merchandise, bought and
Sa ~ weight Al American COLL Is taken ~ the Custom
Houses oy weight at - CENTS to the dollar. But foreign
silver coins are settling down 20 n reliable ossi., subject, q
eoar,-. 70 the faetuzrIoE. and demands q trade. and they viii
regliaos themselves There Il no reason Why silver ani gold il
japan should not soon hec1me fixed iu - value, as vel "a N
China We say "aH-d." me.aing q eourse hr general trade
purposes The value Of coin Ia nowhere, in the tenssly popu-
Lated e1untrt-s % Asia. permanent or f1ed, bu; ever varying
like is representative, exchange. For general trade purposes,
the best coins to b taken are esid-utIy Mexican and American
silver. Al coins are taken IN Japan A. r. China by freight.
Our c7;emPoraTy give. a tabr q prices current in japan,
noIe % which en BE- relied on, a. thsy are merely nominal
whzIsrs' drans are AIKEN NJ a discount q ;hlrythres PER e-ni-
Tor one-shirt OF the face o. tae bHD- FOr ia-tance, Two hundred
Mexican dollars ae given fT = dr'H On New Belf'rt DE sd
Whalsrs can procure now Ia HaSciaii fresh provisions AMI
ssOres, and in fact every thing. except Lawyer Thes- arr a
scarce articis.
IRON 81 = tntDTEation - can cDl1ln- AnneTrcal-- OF ~
foreigners ia Japan, appear u be The most respected, and even
enjoy privilege denied % others, or conceded only with rsluc-
tznes- This being the case, they posses superior advantages
IN establishing trade with the japanese Many articles pro-
duc>d by them. a. rie-, oil, fish, AMI their various wares viii be
IA demand with foreign nations, and the tradc in these must
10; only Increase but be- quite profitable, IT least for a while, 81
bnz "a the prices in japan remain low.
The mail from san francisco i nov booked for eagerly, and
sH probably be in by Sunday next
WhsIers have continued 70 clear out during The past week, as
VII be seen by our report Of departures \ number Of them are
bound home. We have no whaIeshig arrivals TO report
The brig josephine returned "a Monday, AFTER an unusually
mort run to Jarvis Island and back having been absent only 10
days She brings up the effects saved from tile ship SHUeT Star, 1
wrecked on that island, a : reported ia another coIlmE. Thee
Effects are advertised 20 be sold tomorrow At public auction.
The brig will return on Saturday Or Monday 70 the GuanO
Islands. /
An auction sale Of staple English goods took place yesterday
az the sales room Of A. q. Everett, bet The prices realized were
Io~ and unsatisfactory.
General business has been fair. though a perceptibIe falling of
= reportsd- OF come staples, the quantity in the market aP-
pears 10 be enormous, and sufficient 70 supply the demand 0r a
I.riod-
We have had Cur attention csled To the crrOne0us quotations
,feurent prices q proiuoe- in the Poig7s,ign- IL il always
,nnoying To buyers AMI sellers, the latter frequently living on
he other islands, TO have these false quotations given, asst
special eurrrspondencs % correct them, and frequently
.ngsnsers III feelings wholly gnnece-sary. These mistakes have
oecon. 80 frequent a. 10 b. q source q continual annoyance to
ar merchants, and 2 the Government chooses 10 i-sue the sem
lance Of n newspaper, 3; j. d~siralIe that correct fgury- be
ivsn, or none AZ all. !.