The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-12
COMMERCIAL
Continued from page A.
THE WEEKS TRANSACTIONS

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| Following are the recorded transac-
| lions reported on change for the week:
| Eva Plantation Co. C$20. 55. So at
| $31.50 100, so at $31.75, 425 at SS2, 20 at
| $31.50 at $31, % at $31.7 80 at $33 b.
| 80 d.; Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar
Co. ($100), 10 at $1,000, so at $95, 10 at
$3.50: Hawaiian Sugar Co. $500, 100
at S34.25: HOnokaa $500, 40 at $24,1 1-2,
| 745 at $24. 30 at $22.5 so, 10 at $22. IS. 20
| at $23 200 at $23.37 II. rs at $2S. 25, 325
at $23.12 1-2, 10 at $40 81 so, IS at
$40 SIS; kahuku 500 so al $34 so; XII
hei $3.50, %, 60 at $14.50, so 250 at STATS,
u at s14.S7 IL; McBryde $500, 10 at
$1025, 10 al $10.37 1-2, 10 at SO, 40 a
$1,000. 80. 20 at s10.75, 80 at $1,000, 10,
375 at $10.75. 10 at 50; Onomea (S20),
80 at $40 Ookala $500, 50 at 50, IS at
so. 10, 200 a $50; Olaa ($20), 100 at
$3.50; Pioneer C100). 5, Is at $3.50; Waia-
lua (s1OO. 100 at SIS, 3D. so at SIC, 5 at
SIS; Honolulu Rapid Transit ($100),
com. 5, at $3.50. at $65, pref. at
s100,5O; o. r. & L. Co. ($1O0), 20, % at
$7750; Hawaiian Sugar p. c. bonds,
$1,000 at 102; Waialua 6's. $1,000 at par.
GENERAL REVIEW.
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have placed the matter OF what shall
be done with the plantation in the
hands of B. F. Dillingham;, who is him
self the principal bondholder. Mr.. Dill
lingham has had several expert sugar
men examine the plantation and report
thereon. It is understood their reports
are extremely favorable. They will be
published in full in tomorrow mornings
Advertiser. The experts are George r.
Ewart A. Lidgate and j. T. Moir
One hundred men are now a work on
the great Kohala ditch. Operations
have been started near the water sour
ces in the mountains, and will soon
be prosecuted on all sections of con-
struction. The first division if the ditch,
to deliver 81. 100000 gallons daily, is I'M
der contract to be completed in one
year.
Honolulu has been enlivened the past
week by the arrival of four ocean liners
besides the transport Sherman home
ward bound from Manila with the 21st
Infantry, whose band most acceptably
contributed to the towns pleasure dur
ing the vessels stay. Two of the big
hotels are filled and the third is filing
with tourists while from San Fran
cisco it is learned that heavy bookings
for Honolulu by early steamers are be
ing made. The Rapid Transit Co. is
going to transform its vacant corner lot
at Beretania and Alapai streets into a
park. Public improvements in their
respective Jurisdictions are being work
ed for, against the Legislative session,
by Republican precinct clubs and the
Waialae Improvement Club
Public interest is concentrating on
the opening of the Legislature next
Wednesday. Country members arrived |
in town profess a desire to dispatch |
the business in sixty days and so avoid |
an extra session, but what with the |
county bill. bills of the administration |
and the judiciary, bills of the liquor |
and anti-liquor people and no telling |
how many private measures, the goods |
will be hard to deliver. A special COM |
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce |
will scrutfnize every bill introduced. |
joint committee of the Chamber. the |
Merchants Association and the Plant
erss Association will consider an /
amended taxation law.
There is a prospect that Congress will |
give the Philippines a 50 per cent. re-
duction on the Dingley tariff. The
First Circuit Court judges have adopted
a new rule to insure the payment of
the inheritance tax before an estate
liable thereto is settled. McBryde stock
holders have ratified the directors ar
of promoting the Kauai |
Electric Co.'S enterprise. New corpora
tons registered are the Kahului Whole
sale Liquor Co. consisting mostly of
Japanese and the Hind Plantation co.
The Honolulu Iron Works Co. has con-
structed a 12-roller sugar MILL one OF
The largest in the world, for the Ha-
waiian Sugar Co. CMakawelD. The
steamer Arizonan takes for Delaware
Breakwater. a cargo of sugar worth
a bout a million dollars. Theo. H.
Davies & Co. Ltd, has assumed charge
IF the store of Manuel A. Rego at ko-
oa. Kauai the proprietor having got
INTO trouble as postmaster with the
Federal authorities. Lace-making has
been taught in some of the Honolulu |
public schools for the past two years,
aided by a small subsidy. and yesteT-
lay an exhibition of the work Of pupils
was held by the Kilohana Art League.
The Hawaiian Fruit & Plant Co has
been adding to its area OF land by re-
cent purchases. A cores ondent of the
s dy-artiseT. signing himself "F,xpert'' |