The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-05-26
Business Notes.


The BRITISH Trade Journal for April contains
many interesting and valuable articles, of some
Of which we give a brief synopsis.
4 vessel called the Sheila, from Calcutta, last
October, for British Guiana, with a cargo of
coolies, had cholera on board during the pas
sage, but o. arrival at Demerara was able to
show n clean bill of health from St. Helena,
where she had touched. After her arrival at
Demerara q coolie was taken i'll. with un-
doubtedly the customary symptoms Of cholera. :"
lie recovered apparently, was discharged, and
four days afterwards was under treatment again,
complaining of weakness. He died on the 18th
OF January. of pronounced debility. The Sheils.
IN consequences, was quarantined III days.
This goes to show that IN other places than the
Hawaiian Islands the authorities consider them
selves bound 10 use extraordinary precautions TO
prevent the Introduction Of contagious diseases.
THE French Government intends to use
Madagascar as Q convict settlement sounds
like counting chickens before they're hatched.-
a canal is to be made between Ceylon and In
dia. One has been needed for a long time, aud
now 1t Is to begun.-The Americans having sue
ceeded IN raising the demand in Australia for
articles of their manufacture from six TO some
hundreds, the English manufacturers have be-
gun TO ask the reason why. The reasons given
are that the American goods are more reliable in
quality, of better finish, contain not an ounce
OF unnecessary material, and are thoroughly
adapted q the use to which they are pRt.-And
now they are trying to capture the Rus
sian cotton market, aud. the Journal adds,
they viii have the market il our manu-
~facturers are not on the gpi ujr-.'-Oleo-
maFglne, as now manufactured for the
French markets, IS made Of the following
ingredients. Good creamy milk one half, 30
per cent. OF " margarine" made of good fresh
suei, and 20 per cent. of oil arachides-a bean
which tastes something like a hazel nut. The
only objectionable portion of this compound is
the mils.-Money Is SO tight at Natal. South
Africa, that it Is difficult 10 obtain bids for th~
sugar estates that are broughs into r.; -naFket;
that tbe snr,r in1nstr. "a Nafal does not pay
Things are inGantly worse in the Diamond
Fields. Kimberly mas seen its best days.
Fiji has seven sugar mills in operation, an
eighth viii shortly start crushing, and FIVE more
are being constructed, and one more talked
off, The only drawback TO business there
seems to be that mill-owners will not give
the planters quite what they think TO be the
value OF their cane. POSSIBLY, such a state
of things may have once-we don't say it
does now-prevailed here. j-Shares in aloe
fibre companies in MauritiGs have been boom
ing lately because the fibre brough in the
London market e42 to e48 per tou; that is say ten
cents a pound. Would it not be well to look into
this matter a little here @Venezuela, in COM
mon with other South and Central American
States, has been unfavorably affected by the
recent depreciations IN the value of coffee, for
the wealth of the country depends almost en-
tirely upon the export of that article. OF course
sugar, our main dependence, is never going to
g depreciate'' either in yield or yalue.-DoEkey
flesh is IN demand for t'potted meats. And
why not ? In Persia the flesh of the wild ass is
regarded as : venisen - to be sure there is a
between the way that the Persian
donkey is fed and the English, which probably
affects the quality of the pottsd meats.-The
Calcutta International Exhibition is to be sup
ported by the Governments of India and Bengal,
and its success is therefore assured. The exhi-
bition will open next October or November, and
will be a most interesting show.-AnI Ink Pencil,
the writing of which leaves an indelible black,
red or, blue. mark according TO the kind of
craYon -used-has been introduced, and if the
point isn't crumbling always of, as is the habit
of most new pencils. it promises to be very use-
full.