The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-29

| Our last circular per Nippon Mdru
was dated July %, 1906.
Sugar-The California & Hawaiian
Sugar Ref Co. reduced prices in the
local market, August 18th, 10 points
but advanced prices total of 80 points
on Sept. - followed by another adj
vance of % points Sept. II, their last
list for California, Oregon and Wash
ington being as follows:
Granulated basis, 5.10c; powdered,
5.20c: fine crushed and (A) crushed.
5.35c; berry, 5.10c; extra fine dry gran
ulated, slice; coarse dry graduated,
5.10c; Gamer s graduated, 5.10c; con-
fectioners' ca, 5.10c; confectioners
crystal, 5.20c; cubes, 5.35c; bricks,
i 5.35c; beet graduated, goo Id. bags
only, 5.00c; excelsior (A), 4.70c; extra
! OBJ, 4.60c; golden (C), 4.5oc; yellow
i (D), 4.40c.
Similar changes were made for Alas
ka and Hawaii, the last list of the
California & Hawaiian Sugar Ref. Co.
quoting dry graduated at 4.S5c for the
localities in question.
New York Basis 96 Deg. Centrifu-
gals-July p to August ,, no sales; 3rd,
! spot sale 100 tons at 3 Use; 4th, "to
arrive" sale 80 tons at 3 Use; 9th to
9th. no sales; 10th, spot sale 1000 tons
at 3 7-8c; 18th, no sales; 18th, to
arrive' sale 100 tons at Use; 18th
to 10th, no sales; 18th, cost and freight
sale 1000 tons at 5000; 18th to 22nd,
no sales; 23rd, to arrive' sale 900
| tons at 4c and on same date spot sale
$50 tons at &c; oath, Fto arrive sale
500 tons at &c; 18th to Sept. 18th, no
sales: 8th, spot sale 1900 tons at lice;
10th and 18th, no sales; 18th, ito ar
riveV sale go tons at 4 3-32c; 18th to
18th, no sales; 18th, spot sale $50 tons
| at 4 I-Sc; and on same date Ito ar
riveD sale 100 tons at 1-Sc; 18th, to
arriveo sale 1900 tons at 4 1-8c; since
! which no sales, establishing basis by
transactions recorded 18th and 18th
inst at 1-Sc.
London Beets-July 18th, IS Cd; 2Sth
to 31st, SIS 3-4d; August 1st, SIS I'D;
md ana ORG, oS gu; fIh W oeh, %
I Id; eth to 9th, IS l I'D; 10th, IS
/ 0 sd; 18th, IS IL lad; 18th, IS 10
I'D; 18th, 9s Cd; 18th and 10th, IS
IL lid; 18th, 9s Cd; 18th, 9s 2 Id;
Goth. 9s l I'D; 21st and 22nd, 9s 2
Id; 23rd, 9s Sd; oath, 9s 3 3-4d; 25th
i and 9th, 9s 5 Lid; 18th, 9s Cd; 29th
to 31st, 9s I'D; Sept. 4th to 18th, SO
cd; Sth and 10th, 9s q 3-4d; 18th, IS
Z I'D; 18th, 9s 10 I'D; 18th, 9s IL
lid; 14th, los 03-4d: 18th, los l I'D;
18th and 18th, 9s IL Lid; 10Th, 9s
10 I'D; goth, 9s Cd.
New York Refined-An advance OF
i 10 points over previous list prices oc-
Cured August 6, followed by another
advance of 10 points September -
establishing price on that date Oh
49oc, net cash in barrels equivalent to
4.s5c net cash in bags. Since that time
no further change has occurred.
London CabIe-September 18th quotes
Java 96 deg. test lis 3D. Fair refining,
9s Cd against los and SIS Cd respectively,
same date last year. October beets,
los 2 lid against 5s I'D, corresponds
ing period previous year.
Latest Statistical Position illett &
GRAY report Z. s. four ports in all
hands estimated Sept. 5th, 250, 435 tons
against ,02S tons, same date last
| year. Six ports Cuba, estiHated Sept.
4th, $4,000 tons against 206,00O tons,
same date in 1905. United Kingdom
Aug. 1st (bonded stock 100000 tons
against 100000 tons previous year.
Total stocks in all the principal coun-
tries by cable Sept. 9th at latest I'M
OF I :
404,026 tons; increase from last year
462, 406 tons.
Sugar crops of the world-total cane
sugar crops CIV. & g. 4,SS5,S33 tons
European beet sugar crops Of. o.
Licht) $4,000 Constituted States
beet sugar crops (W. & CD. 2S3,717
tons. Grand total cane and beet sugar,
12,139,550 tons against 1881 ,552 tons,
previous campaign estimated increase
in the world IS production 1907 sos tons.
Eastern and Foreign Markets-The
frmness in the raw sugar market, to
! which we called attention in our cir
! cular of July Goth, has continued with
out interruption throughout the period
under review and quotations have hard
ened appreciably, latest mail advices
from New York under date of the 18th
| inst. revealing activity.
The dominant feature of the situation
| is to be found in the outbreak of an
| instruction in Cuba which has become
serious and the complications which
| have arisen politically in that country
| prove very detrimental to business and
| unless a satisfactory solution of the
| questions at Issue is shortly reached
l to which end the National Government
| at Washington is apparently exerting
| every influence at its command-stagna-
| ton may follow and the large sugar in
| terests of the islands are bound to be
l heavy sufferers, in which event it is of
| course to ue expected that the crop
! will be lessened by the lack of atten-
+ ton to the fields and by the diminish
ed supply of labor, even If positive de-
l struction to cane fields and factories
should be avoided.
The alarming advices from Cuba
| have not failed to exert a heavy in