The Hawaiian gazette., 1868-10-14
COMMERCIAL.
HONoLuLu. OCT Is. 1855.

The arrival Of the whaling bark William Rotch,
from the Ochotsk, with some 100 barrels Of OIL is
already causing some activity in business generally.
One arrival may not do much, but it brings in view
the fact that the season is at hand and leads TO pre-
parations for IT,
The onoulinui and KAilua Sugar Plantations were
sold at auction yesterday, by c. s. Barlow, the for
MGR selling for s1l.5OO. and the latter for 5000.
These properties sold to close certain interests
and considering their situation and Improvements,
brought fair prices. Thee. II. Davies was the pur-
chaser.
Messrs. Adams & Wilder are holding sale as we
write. The class Of goods offering are new and desr-
able, and are bringing fair prices.
We have noticed some provisions going of to the
vessels that have far arrived but the
not be considered as having commenced yet prices
established. The prospect is that market viii
be fully supplied with both provisions and money at
low rates. and A. have semi-monthly steamers the
rates Of exchange well as the prices for provisions
will be E1led somewhat by the San Francisco market
The steamer Montana will be due here next Mon
day.
The Camden sailed on Friday with small freight
Of sugar and molasses.
The brig Kamehameha V, which has undergone
thorough repairs, sailed on Saturday for the GuanO
Islands with supplies and IS laborers.
The whaling bark Janus, arrived to-day from the
Japan Sea, with ~ barrels sperm oil.
The prices Of oil and bone for paying of crews has
been placed by the United States Consul, Elias Per-
kins, at the following rates:
Sperm, per gall csc Arctic bone, per lb e. as
Whale - .... IS lOchOtsk bone g As
Coast, $3.50. y kodiAek bone " 80. ~
PRICES OF OII,-The New Bedford Oil Market for
the week ending Aug. 3lst, was follows:
sPERM-Is quiet, the only sales since our last
being parcels amounting to 575 bbls prime quail
ity, at 81 so gallon. There il inquiry for export
but at reduced figures
wHALK-The market since our last has been very
active and ah advance in prices has been established
The transactions reached 455 bbls follows: 500
bbls inferior Northern and $50 do prime SIC:
T3O do prime aud inf-ior Northern and DO do coast
at SIC; 500 do prime Northern at sc; COO do fair
humpback $40 do inferior coast and $50 do prime
Northern on private terms, all for home use. The
market closes with further inquiry. Holders de
handing 9Oc for prime Northern.
WHALEBoSE-IIas been In good request, and
have report sales Of 1900 De Northwest and 1900
do Arctic at 81 r n. In New York sales were made
Of 22000 lbs Arctic at CSC gold and COO do 0chOtsk
private terms.-Aha
The subject Of the equalization Of duties sugar
imported from foreign countries which has for long
Time engrosseQ tie attention oi ulIerent Euro-
pan powers bids fair 10 be definitely settled. Rep
reseniatives of the governments Of France Holland
Belgium, Prussia and England, assembled
at Hague. for the purpose Of holding conference
ooking to such equalization.
THE Chicago Tribune summarizes the crop pros
poets Of the northwest from all Of information
at its command The corn crop wilibe the heaviest
ever known, being at least fifth larger than the
average Of the past ten years The yield Of wheat
and oats will not exceed the average yield per acre
but q much larger breadth Of land than before
hasbeen sown and this will make the crop oae-tenth
above the average.
GREAT VoYAGE.-Bark Mars, Capt Gray, which
rived at New Bedford IN August last, after an alb
Of 33lS months on the coast Of Chilli has made
very successful voyage, having taken 1850 barrels
Of sperm and SO do whale oil. On the capital invest
ed. this is u the most profitable voyages
made.
THE rabbit trade in London, during the season, is
enormous. Two steamers loaded with these animals,
skinned to avoid the fur tax and dressed like sheep
arrive in London from Ostend weekly.
NOTWITHSTANDING the snow sheds, erected over the
Pacific railroad, in many places crushed last
winter the company have not abandoned the plan,
but ere now engaged in erecting sheds with very
pointed roofs calculated 90 withstand almost any
pressure Of snow Forty miles will have to be
ed in this way; and y mills running night and
day and employing 1000 men does not meet the needs
Of the enterprise, 1t requires 100000 feet Of lum
Der TO construct mile Of sheds. The forests both
sides Of the track are rapidly disappearing.