The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-03-04
ooMmERo1AL.
FRlDAK MARCH 3. 1s71.

Ga p q .-r FRIDAY MARCH ., 1871.
owing 20 tie unsettled state Of the weather but very little
sind produce has come forward. We understand that con-
sid abe sugar is stored on Hawaii ready for shipment, but the
s1a 4oners have not been abe to make their regular trips. The
tgsooner Kate Lee has now been absent a month, and most Of
tha schooners are making long trips, owing to unfayorable
- Their. This leaves very little sugar on hand in Honolulu
f- shipment.
he steamer Wonga Wonga, from Australia, arrived on the
esUs ut and the steamer Moses Taylor, Of days from San
Fs aeisco, arrived On the 26th ult, bringing dates to Feb
70 v i6th- From the Alta OF the 18th OF February we quote:
+UoAR-The present supply Of Crushed and other Refined
tE- customary stoPpags of the rehneries at the close OF the
-, viii an soon be remedied by The California and the San
ncisco and Pacific Rehneries turning out full supplies By
- way. we UNDERSTAND that the latter company has bought
81 the Golden Gate Refinery. This establishments together
n the Bay Refinery, viii remain ne Tor another year IL
however, moOted on The street that the AlTarado Beet
Izarie" viii soon use mp their stock Of beets, and will then
RI ! their attention TO refining Cane Sugar. until the beet crop
.s7I ripens. How true this report is, we do not know. but
e reason TO believe there is at least money in IT," Be it
tmay, the two leading rehneries named have ample capa-
for refining all the sugar required upon the Pacific Slope,
the ability to control the market, and to make the price so
le considerable competition manifested during the year upon
eh we have entered. The Comet, from Honolulu, brought
kegs the China steamer, very little. We quote la
nSn, S4Di TSe AZ de, Ts1issy IF R R sn1a LIE Tom urn hiv lr an eo oe-
ie to command I35c- The price Of California Crushed is
% " fixed at 15c. do Cube, 15ic. Grniulated, I4c. Pow
o. ed, Ale; Golden e and Yellow Coffee, 12c. The tempo
advance in Crushed IS owing TO light supplies al the mo-
ut, pending repairs now making at the refineries-
.. eTabIe extent, on the ability Of France to turn out her usual
1000 tons. In relation 10 the comparative merits Of Cane
] Beet Root Sugar our Liverpool circular remarks: alt
; become more and more evident that there is a difference
r the relative value Of Cane and Beet Sugar, altogether I'M
sounEable and unwarrsntable, ard prominently in favor Of
: latter description. British rehDers, thoroughly alive TO
: fact, are now eagerly buying Beet Sugar. and We may
ry state that the sales to the United Kingdom up 10 the
esent are double those OF any previous season and although
2 are unable TO give any Ohcial statements, we cannot be
orcused Of exagseration If we estimate such sales 10 reach
earIy 100000 tons. Of which a Considerable part has been
ipped already. The exports Of Austrian Sugar 10 the United
ngdOm have not been 10 any great extent, as Holland and
EiIzeTland have been eager buyers, whilst Zollyerein has
4rcely shipped any as yet"
The brig ByzaniiHm, % days from Tahiti, arrived on the
IN uL- .r "
The steamer WOnSG HoHgG sailed ON Sunday, the 26th nit,
"A Australia, remaining in port only about 90 hours, taking a
1aI freight
The steamer Moses Taylor sailed on the 81 inst, taking a
Il freight and a large number Of passengers.
The bark PiOIsne is advertised TO sail ON the 18th for San
z raDcisco.
The bark NGEob will sail for HOngkong on Monday, taking
small freight and several Chinese passengers.
The Robert COlDdn will sail next week for Victoria, B. C.,
O., be followed by the Byzantium.
The bark Wilhelm l. has surrendered her Hawaiian register,
nd will sail for the guanO islands for a cargo, from thence to
y amburg, under the North German flag.
Thebark FidehtGs has completed repairing. and win be put
oder the Hawaiian fig. Her destination not yet determined.