The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-08

| consist of engineers. but if he be a
master, pilot or mate, then the jury
shall consist of either masters, pilots OF
mates. In enforcing the attendance OF
/ jurors the inspectors shall have the
same powers as those exercised by the
| Circuit Court of the United States. Inc
accused shall be entitled to be repre-
! scented by counsel, and shall nave the
privilege of questioning and obJectlng
to jurors. The verdict of the jury snail
! be final so far as the facts are con-
cerned, except that the board of in
spectors, if it deems the verdict con-
1 trary TO evidence, may set the same
aside.
If a majority of the jury shall be sat
| isfied that such licensed officer is in
competent, or has been guilty of mis-
behavior negligence. unskillfulness or
wilifully violated any OF the provisions
| of the statute they shall so find in their
verdict. and the board shall thereupon
suspend or revoke the license of the
accused. unless it set the verdict aside.
In that case the board may render a
final decision or it may order a further
investigation before another jury. In
the latter case the evidence taken on
the first investigation may be read in
evidence upon the second.
Jurors shall be entitled to the same
compensate ton as jurors in the United
States Circuit Court of the circuit. The
three nor more than five persons. The
right of appeal is preserved.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
1t is not easy to tell what would be
the result to the consumer of reducing
the duty on Cuban raw sugars, says
the New York Journal of Commerce.
The fact that the admission of sugar
from Hawaii free of duty did not re-
duce the price of sugar to the consum-
er proves very little. During the TWEEN
ty-three years of the reciprocity treaty
with Hawaii the Hawaiian production
Of sugar was very small compared with
the Cuban production. Therefore the
Pacific railroads. in combination with
the steamship companies, maintained
rates which kept eastern sugar off the
Pacific coast and confined Hawaiian
sugar to the Pacific Coast There was
no competition in sugar because there
was no competition in transportation.
Recently there has developed competi-
ton in California between the great
beet producers and the smaller indie
pendent producers. between California
beet sugar and Hawaiian cane sugar
and, in the interior of the continent,
between sugar from the East and sugar
from the Pacific coast. With this
amount of actual or potential competi-
ton it is not at all certain that
reduction of the duty on Cuban sugar
would be felt only by the Cuban grow
er. If it was, it would not hurt the
domestic producer; if it reduced the
general price of raw sugar it would be
pretty certain to reduce the price Of
refined also
THE -HANKOW ROAD.
In a day or two a corps Of surveyors
Will arrive from New York en- route to
China to complete final surveys of a
railroad $50 miles long, which is to be
constructed in that country by an
American syndicate. William Barclay
Parsons, consulting engineer of the
New York Rapid Transit Commission,
made the preliminary surveys about
three years ago under the direction of
the late Senator c. 3. Brice of Ohio |
who was at the head of the syndicate |
Mr.. Parsons is now the president of the |
syndicate, and he has selected the sur
veyors who are soon to finish the sur |
veyS.
The road is to run from Canton
north to Hankow, where it will connect
with the Belgian syndicate's line to
Picking. The actual work of construc-
ton will commence some time next
and it is expected the line
IAN be finished in five years. Chinese
abor will be used in building the road
out all the manufactured supplies. !
such as rails, cars, locomotives and
bridge material will be purchased in
he United States, and large quanti-
les of the same shipped through the
bort of San Francisco
The syndicate for building the road |
will get from the Chinese government
AZ, 500, 600 in ffty-year per cent gold
'onds, besides certificates of indebted
less for cash, which will entitle the
folders to a certain percentage out
f the annual net earnings of the rail-
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