The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-02-06
ABOUT SUGAR
Latest Quotations on
The Market.
The Effect Of the Plague Upon Ship
ments--Porto Rico and Phi
Iippine Duties

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given below to January 2ith The lat
est quotations are from kilograms to
Williams, Dimond & Co. of San Fran
cisco, and are furnished for publica-
ton through the courtesy of Messrs.
+. A. Schaefer & Co. of Honolulu. 9th
er matters of interest to Hawaii are
taken from the latest circular of Will
lett & Gray, who touch upon the effect
of the plague upon sugar shipments
and the duty upon Puerto Rico and
Philippine sugars. The following is
the weeks summary:
Sugar-Changes were made in the San
Francisco market the afternoon of Jan.
10, dry granulated being advanced to
DC and sugar for export to Honolulu to
3Ac for dry granulated, since which
the lists have again been changed,
Jan. 10 another advance of II, making
dry granulated in the local market
Sic, for export to Honolulu 3%c, since
which no change reported.
Basis-Was advanced on the 18th,
cost and freight sale, 1,500 tons at A: "a,
again on the 18th, spot sales 1900 tons
at Az, since which no sales reported,
making basis for Island sugars, Jan.
%, New York, 4$c; San Francisco, 4c.
Dry Granulated - Continued I'M
changed until jan 10, when it was ad-
yanced in the New York market to
sc less l per cent, equivalent to 495
net, since which no change reported
London Beets-Jan. II, 9s AID; 18th,
9s 71sd; 10th, 9s Cd; Goth, 9s 71sd; 22d,
9s SID; 23d, IS 71ad.
Eastern and Foreign Markets-Lat-
est mail advices from New York, I'M
der date of Jan. 10, report market
steady and strong at current quota
tons, AIS bid for cargo of Demerara
centrifugals, while sellers are holding
for lie advance, which buyers are
not yet ready to pay. Offerings light
and conditions favor sellers. Euro
pean markets quoted little easier for
beet sugars. Contracts for May deliy-
cry offered at IS 10kd; Oct.-Dec. deliv-
cry. 9s AID. All conditions, however,
point to continued steadiness in the
raw sugar market"
London cable. Jan. 49, reports Java
No. is d. S., lis 3D.; fair refining los
Cd; Feb. beets, IS 71sd, as against 9s
2Ad same date last year.
Statistical position-Willett & Gray
report total stock In all hands estima
ted Jan. IL. 1S3,221 tons, against r99, 1888
tons same date last year. Cuba six
principal ports, II, 400 tons, against
1856 tons last year. Total stock in all
principal countries at latest uneven
dates, Jan. IS by cable, 1,473,621 tons,
against 1,428,1 65 tons; excess over
last year, 45,456 tons.
We would call your attention to ar
ticle in Willett & Gray's Weekly Cir
cular, dated Jan. 1S, on the Interrupt
ton of receipts of sugar on account of
the plague in the. Islands. 1t may be
of interest to you to know that the es
timated total consumption of refined
in the United States during 1899 was
2,040,676 tons, of which the American
Sugar Refining Co. supplied 67.9 per
cent, Independents 1871 per cent and the
beet factories 81 per cent, foreign re-
fined 3 per cent, while the pre-
vious year total consumption was l.
1885, 33 tons; American Sugar Refining
Co. 67.2 per cent, Independents 29.2
per cent, beet factories is per cent,
foreign refined Is per cent. The diff
ference between raw 96 degrees and
refined averaged during 1899 SOC per
100 pounds, against 73c in 1898.
From Wiuett & Gray.
1t is possible that there is some an
ticipation of interruption of receipts of
sugar from the Sandwich Islands on
account of the outbreak of the bubon-
ic plague in the Chinese quarters of
Honolulu. We learn by wire Of %
deaths thus far in that city. The Ha-
waiian Gazette, received this week,
gives report of extraordinary efforts
making by the Government to limit
the plague to the Chinese district, Chi
natown being entirely surrounded with
a guard of Government soldiers. Late
arrivals at San Francisco of sugar from
Honolulu have been detained in quar-
antine and fumigated before landing.
ShiDments of Sandwich Islands sugars