The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-09-09
Miscellaneous Items.

A good old man from the country, on
being asked if he had purchased any
Easter cards, answered: Why, no
Why should /? My old pack is good
enough yet
IT is well known that screws when
used i'm soft wood are usually driven in
with the hammer, and given a turn or
two with the screw-driver to bring them
flush. Recognizing this fact, a manu-
facturer has brought out a new screw
which is adapted for driving, and which
enters the wood without tearing the
grain. The gimlet point is dispensed
with and a cone point substituted. The
thread has pitch that it drives in barb
fashion, offering no resistance in enter
ing. but firmly resisting all attempts to
withdraw it except by turning it with a
screw-drIyer
Two sugar retineries are being built
in HongkOng. The largest of these
will be nine stories, and a tank on the
roof five feet deep, making total height
of 40 feet. Its capacity will be $50 tons
a week The estimates for plants, site
and buildings exceeds one million dol
lars. and the machinery and appliances
have been contracted for at Greenock,
scotland. The other sugar refinery,
the result of Chinese enterprise and
capital, the chief owner being a we'll
known Chinese mercsJ-.lt Lee Yeung.
Its capacity will b. Sifty-tons n week,
and its estimated cost is about S300,000
These enterprises are not a first attempt
of the Hongkong colony in the sugar
refining business. About ten years ago
a refinery was put up Mt cost OF nearly
s.. 500. 900. Extravaganza, defective
machinery and appliances, and unfami-
Iiarity with the work and limited mar
ket for refined sugars swamped the en-
terprise ut n loss to the Hongkong
Bank of about S1,250,OOO. Since the
first fatal attempt machinery has been
improved and proper competent persons S
can be had to manage the affair. The
market for the refined sugar has also
been considerably enlarged during the
past decado in both Japan and India,
and the outlook is rather favorable for
the sugar refineries ut Hongkong.
Tux great Hamilton sale in London
concluded last month, realized 81 ,9S1 ,olC
or $500. 600 more than was expected
Some astonishing results came out II
making summary of the prices palC
for the most important pieces of furni
ture and the pictures. Thus OF splendlC
buhI mareueterie and other exception
aIIv fine furniture, ten lotsbrought S315
sG2.5O OF the pictures the same mum
ber-ten-of those which brought tn
highest prices amounted to S119, go
.,,Sing an average of $4,000. Thel
taking selection from the highest
nriceI lots - is found that eighty-fou
brought 81, ,O34, ,599.75, OF the beautiful
\ enamels, silver-gilt cups and rock crysta
and either precious material ten lot
brought sI67 1880. Thus ended thi
wonderful sale, which has create'
a sensation quite beyond all Precedent
and may be considered to be altogethe
bv far the most important as regard
money value that has never been KNOW
to saw nothing of the surprising exec exec
lence of many of the works OF art In
stowe sale of forty days gave total
s377, $40; the Strawberry HUI ao9a sale eoI
ten DAYS only realized about s2OO, W,
the BernaI sale, 1914, ,155; so that tn
Hamilton sale exceeds these by mol
than five times the amount