The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-04-21


Elton. ........... Honolulu $500. Il 1913
Mauna Ala. -. Mahukona. -. 1926
| Tampa ....-. Hilo. 1896
| Sussex. ............H Honolulu $500. 1916
Total. .......................949 .372
The list for the past week includes
three British steamers, the Hounslow,
| Elton and Sussex. The Eton's cargo was
the largest that ever left the islands.
The imports for the week were over
| $4,000, 900 pounds, and the total for the
| month of March largely exceeds the i'm
ports for anT previous month on record,
| estimated at over 50 900, 900 poGnds.
! In the first two months OF the current
year the imports OF Hawaiian sugar were
as follows:
January, lbs .................... q, 49,, 1887
| February. ............... ....... 30 $50 800
The largest imports tor any month in
1890 were 81 1893, $3.50 lbs. in dune.
In January, 1890, the imports from
Hawaii were 1,757, 1855; for the CORE
spending month this year they were
| "a, 735 1897 pounds.
In February, 1890, the imports were
IS, III SOC; Tor the corresponding month
this year they were 29,6S7 ,SO5 pounds.
In March, 1890, the imports amounted
to so 1868 ,313 pounds; the same month
of this year they reached the enormous
figure Olga 100000 pounds.
To bring this latter amount in the
thirty-one days of the past month re-
quired fleet of forty-two vessels, sail
and steam, and considerable number
are still on the way.
The totals for the quarters are as fol-
lows: 1890, 81, $3.50 pounds; 1891,
129, 323, 1872; excess Of 1891 over 1890,
73, 424 ,42S.
The price of the duty on this excess,
which now comes into direct competi-
ton with free sugar from everywhere,
amounts in round numbers, TO some
thing like a million and 2 half of dollars.
This is the profit the planters have
reaped by their rush and enterprise, and
the amount that the long-term contract
refners are ont OF pocket. The lesses
are piled on two firms, the trust that
controls the American Sugar Refinery
and the SYreckels company OF the Cali
fornia
That the rush out OF the country was
on a par or even ahead,of the proper
tionate excess of imports is shown by
the following figures:
In January, 1890, rebate was paid on
216,S36 pounds of refined foreign sugar
sent aboard after refining. In January
of this year the figures we're l 500, 1922
pounds.
In February, 1890, the exports OF
same were 269, 533 pounds. In Febru-
airy, 1891, |, 597 81 pounds.
In March, 1890, the exports We're J2l,
632 pounds. In March, 1891, 8, l59 .352
pounds
The Spreckels firm have got another
corner of the deal that is going to turn
them in 4 pretty penny. When the
! Mckinley bill passed they had $4,000
4 tons OF Java sugar contracted for, and
/ much OF il even on the way. The pas
! sage OF the bill would have left a less
clever man than John d. SpeckelS in
/ very tight hole There was no bonded
! warehouse room to be mad here, and it
! looked dismal for time until he char
! tered Mission Rock, converted it into a
private bonded warehouse, stored his
| sugar and sat dGWn to wait until the
| Mckinley bill should admit it fsee on the
| LIST of April be saves $3.50 per ton
on %, 900 tons, figure that will leave
handsome profit up in the six figures
after the rent of the Rock, insurance and
| interest on the investment from Novem-
Der to date are paid.
ColIectorof Port Phelps has received
an important circular from the Treasury
Department in connection with the
Reciprocity Treaty between the United
/ States and Hawaii.
The circular states that nothing in the
! Mckinley tariff shall be held to repeal
or impair the provisions of the Hawaii
| an treaty which was concluded between
the United States and Hawaii in 1873.
! The provisions of the treaty will be in
full force and effect as ii the new tariff
had not passed. An insight into the
| things was gained yesterday in an inter
view with prominent Federal official.
By the terms of the treaty with Hawaii
raw sugar from the Islands has been adj
mitted free OF duty. In 1876 an import
ant case was decided by the Secretary OF
the Treasury which fixed the technical
limit OF what constitutes raw sugar.
The California Sugar Refinery had i'm
ported a lot of sugar from the Islands
which had been partly cleansed by
the centrifugal process In use among
the planters. At the time OF the
Importation the customs auCnOflIleS
had a fixed standard called "Ducth
Standard 16," by which raw and
cleansed sugars were gagged. 1t APP
peared that the importation in question,
being partially cleansed, was above the
"16n standard Duty was accordingly
levied upon it. The Secretary OF the
Treasury in reversing the Collectors de-
cision declared that the sugar was unre-
fined, although an analysis showed it to
be as high as 20, according to the tech
nical terms in use among the customs
authorities Thereby a precedent was
established that will operate curiously
enough after April LIST. The Mckinley
tariff exempts from duty importations
of raw sugar which is not above " Dutch
Standard 16." The treaty with Hawaii,
amended by the decision oil the Treasury
Department, raises the limit in the case
Of island sugars, and considers them
raw when they range to as high a
standard as 90
The fact is then, that, while raw sugars
admitted from other countries is really
raw" Hawaiian sugars, admitted free,
are really partly cleansed, and might be
immediately nlated nnon the local mar