The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-05-05
Sugar.

Sugar.
New YORK, April 23.- Cuban
centrifugal, 90 degrees, 81 cents.
GRADUATED, 4 5-16 cents.
The local market is absolutely
without feature. Arrivals are free
and stocks are accommodating for
the usual busy summer season.
A story that Santo Domingo has
been virtually sold to a company
of Americans, who propose to
create vast sugar plantations there,
has been circulated and denied. 1t
is net believed that there is any
thing in it.
Change in the SpreckeIs Interest.
Now that the question as to
price Of Hawaiian sugar has been
settled there will be some changes
in the management of the Spreck-
els interests at this end of
the line. AS will be remembered,
G. August Spreckels retired from
the firm of J. ID. Spreckels & Bros,
and from all connection with the
refinery business, some time ago,
and went into a great railway en-
terprise here. This he has given
up, and has started for Europe for
his health. He will be gone in
definitely. The old firm of J. D.
Spreckels d Bros. has been incor-
porated without him, with capital
stock. Of 100000, divided into
10000 shares. OF this J. D. Spreck-
els and A. B. Spreckels have 1875
shares, the balance being distri-
buted SO as to secure five directors.
The title of this company is the J.
D. Spreckels & Bros Company,
and it will transact all the business
of the old firm. J. d. Spreckels is
president, A. B. Spreckels vice
president, Charles A. Hug secretary
and Walter D. K. Gibson treasurer
John d. Spreckels has gone to
Europe for six months trip, and
in his absence the business will be
managed by Claus Spreckels and
A. B. Spreckels. When Mr.. Spreck-
els left the city the ferryboat on
which he was accompanied
across the bay by five Of the
Spreckels tugs and brass band.
They gave him a great send off at
Oakland. Those who went across
the bay in the party were Mr.. and
Mrs. Claus Spreckels, A. B. Spreck-
els, R. J. Creighton, Charles A.
Hug, William Crews, Cornelius
OConnor, james Glib, S. M. Short
ridge, Albert Stetson and Thomas
Watson.
Nor is this all of the festivities
that have been INDUCED in. On
the evening of the Goth, Claus
Spreckels was given a compliment
airy dinner by the heads of depart
ments of his various interests, and
J. d. and A. B. Spreckels were,
with him, the guests of honor. The
affair took place at the Delmonico,
and about twenty gentlemen were
present. During the evening, aside
from the speeches, Captain Dan
Haskell, of the tug Relief, was given
check for $3.50, presented by the
English underwriters of the city,
as testimonial to his pluck in
towing the ship Kinkora to Port
land under circumstances of I'M
usual severity and danger.
The King and BIackbirdine.
King McBora, of Butaritari, has
departed for his island home on
the Montserrat, which has just
sailed for the South Seas via Ma
naimo, where she will coal. The
steamer will also call at Honolulu
on her way down, and will remain
some time.
The King would have gone direct
on the schooner Tarawa, which
sailed about a fortnight since, but
that his pilot and Interpreter,
" Duke Jack" as he was called,
was lying at deaths door. Jack
had been q very sick man, and he
died shortly after the Tarawa got
away. He had had cancer of the
liver for some years. His funeral
was attended by the King and by
nearly all the island traders and
their families, such as A. Crawford,
the Wightman Brothers and others.
Jack was buried in Laurel Hill
Cemetery.
There is a great deal of interest
manifested in this trip of the Mont
serrat's. She is steamer of about
800 tons, and is entirely too big for
island trade. She took enough
stores to feed a regiment, and it is
openly asserted that her object is
to take a cargo of Gilbert Island
natives from their homes to Mexico
to work on the plantations. This
is exactly the same mission as the
Inflated brig Tahiti was in when
she came to her mysterious end.
Of the Tahiti there is nothing
more to be said. She was seer
last November bottom up off the
coast of Mexico bv the cantain n