The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-11

I duty paid and 9-16c- for 81 deg test
equal 3.99c. duty paid.
European beet are offered at 9s. Cd.
c. & f., for July shipment being on a
parity of 3.98c. for 96 deg. test Centri-
fugals. Java sugars can be bought at
10 shillings c. & f. for Juiy-August
shipment, equal TO 3.9ic., duty paid. for
So deg. test. and one cargo for July
shipment September arrival at les
143d. c. and f, equal to 394c
Reports from Europe state that Am
erican refiners have lately secured so. :
900 tons beet, which is probably not
strictly correct, but may not be far
wrong il late purchases of Javas are
included.
REFINED.
The influence of the strengthening of
the raw sugar market made itself felt
in the refined sugar market towards the
end of the week. The american stop
ped taking orders, except for prompt
shipment. which threw a large business
in the direction of Howell and Arbuckle
so that the Howell advanced prices SC
per 100 lbs. and Arbuckle advanced Zoe
per loo lbs. in their special competitive
territory in Ohio and West Virginia
but still leaving them 15cs per 100 lbs
below other refiners in that territory
Just at the close the American
marked up their list points, and they
are willing to take orders at the adj
vance for shipments delayed 80 days
with usual guarantee. Arbuckle's prices
except for Ohio and West Virginia re-
main unchanged, on basis of 4.75c. net
cash for GRADUATED. in barrels. with
other refners basis of 4.S0c The de-
lnand is now lighter as buyers have
contracted for quite full supplies
ahead.
Fruits are coming in more abundant
ly and warmer weather has set in, Civ
ing promise of an increase in the actual
consumption. At New Orleans. prices
were advanced 10 points to-day, due to
the reiners there being largely oversold.
There is not much doing in Foreign
Granulated, which are offered to-day
at lis. SID, c. & f. for German and
Austrian First Marks in single 224lb.
bags, and which would cost 4.52c. net
cash, duty paid.
CYCLONE IN CUBA.
Rains interfere with those centrals
that wanted to make the most of the
weather, and but six have now the
courage to continue operations in the
face of such discouragements as are
given in the following report from our
friends on the spot. They write regard
ing the late cyclone:
Santiago, Cuba, June Is, 1904.
I'VE have been visited by the worst
cyclone known here in years. It began
to rain on Sunday and on Monday, es-
peciaIly towards evening, the water fell
~, II;
and the sea was frightful. The damage
done both in the city and country is
very great All the streams grew into
furious rivers and carried everything
before them Half the village of Cobre
was washed away, drowning about so
people Every bridge on the Cobre Rail-
road was carried off. A large new bridge
on the Guaninicum River was also car
ried away, this bridge being the one
near the Santa Anna Sugar Estate.
Upon the Havana train coming on
the Boniatico Bridge, near Moron, some
Is miles from Santiago. the structure
gave way, the engine and tender. mail
and baggage cars were precipitated into
the river. The fireman and mail con-
ductor were killed, and the engineer
and train conductor wounded. The
washouts on the Central Railroad are
only partly known as yet, because not
a wire-telegraph or telephones left
standing anywhere. We cannot COM
municate with Cienfuegos, Havana OF
New York. either by the English sub
marine or the French cable. To-day I
am compelled to cable to Havana via
Kingston, Bermuda and New York.
1T is quite evident that no trains
can be run on the Cuban Central Road
for two or three weeks, or perhaps
longer