The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-07

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n NJ. Won Hoit......... $50 $50
kona Plantation 49,. .. 1000
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Totals ............ 440,0l7 ass, $50
The shipments of sugar by the su-
gar Factors Company up to June
/ have been 25S,5S2 tons of which 200. 254
/ tons had reached market leaving IS. sos
/ tons aiioat. The average price received
was AIS cents pound or $3.50 ton,
making the total in round numbers
SIC. 700, 900. Sugars shipped by Others
/ than the Sugar Factors Company viii
, amount probably to s4l75. GOO making
| the total of sugars from the Islands
marketed to June I. $al 200, 600.
CHANGES IN KTHEI.
Tffe death of Prince David havana
nakoa who was vice president of Kihei
Sugar Company, necessitated the cleo
ton of some one to fiji the vacancy in
order to comply with corporate re-
quirements. A special election was
held on Friday at which Gen. J. H.
Soper. who has been a director for
several years, was elected vice presid-
ent and f. f. Paxton, a director.
The stock continues to come in The
exact amount now transferred is 460S6
shares, while a considerable amount
more is in sight
FEW TAX APPEALS.
Acting Governor Mott-Smith yester-
day appointed the tax appeal court for
the taxation division, those for the
other divisions having already been
appointed. His appointees are J. F.
Brown, James F. Morgan and Walter
F. Dillingham;, There were originally
fewer tax appeals this year than
usual and this small number has been
reduced by compromise and settle
ment to about dozen. OF these. five
are pineapple plantation appeals all
Ringing on one test case. the question
to be decided being whether under the
law of the last Legislature the whole
plantation plant is exempt or only
forty acres. in some cases. The tax
appeal board will meet Monday
morning at 10 o'clock and, it is expect
ed. will be able to dispose of all cases
in two or three sittings.
A GOOD YEAR FOR HONEY.
Owing to the shortage in honey pro-
duction in California this year-Cali-
fornia being the chief source of the
worlds suppiy-the price of honey has
gone up. and this years honey prod
uct of Hawaii will be an exceedingly
profitable one to bee-keepers. 1t is
also expected to be very much
larger one than usual. The exports of
honey from the islands last year
amounted to $4,000. as against $34,-
600 the year before and as against
sugar exports last year of $26,0O0.0O0
DEPARTURE OF THE HAWAII.
The departure of the yacht Hawaii,
though not commercial matter, was
an incident of very wide interest.
PEARL HARBOR WORK.
On the Siberia on Monday, G. w.
Parks, a civil engineer of the Navy
Department. arrived, with his~assist-
ant, Glenns, Burrell, and a force of
assistants and draughtsmen, TO begin
the surveys and collection of data at
Pearl Harbor in regard to the naval
station, drydock and repair shop. to
lay before the Naval Board of which
Captain Seaton Schroeder of the Navy
will be chairman. which will hold sit
tings during the visit of the fleet.
These men have already gone to work.
behring's have begun on the proposed
site of the drydoek. and along the
channel into the harbor to determine
the materials which will be encoun-
tered.
A THOUSAND A WEEK.
The disbursements of Federal money
through the United States courts have
amounted to an average of a thousand
dollars a week for the past three
months.
FEDERAL BUILDING SITE MONEY
The money for the Federal building
site will very likely arrive by the
China, scheduled due tomorrow from
the Coast.
FUMIGATING PINES.
BY arrangement with the California
State Board of Horticulture, all ship
ments of pineapples may be fumi-
gated here instead of on arrival at
San Francisco. thereby reducing the
cost of marketing.
AUTO TRUCKS OVER THE PAIL.
A proposal for auto trucks to carry
freight over the Pail has been made.
CEMETERIES TO BE CLOSED.
The Board of Health has finally de-
cided to close UP fnsanitary cemeteries.
Three months notice is to be given.
A BUSINESS CHANGE.
The absorption of the business of
the Rosenbergs, in so far as it applies
to clothing and haberdashery, by L.
B. Kerr 81 Co, Ltd, marks the going
out of one firm controlling three
stores. and the extension of the bust
ness of another. The deal has been on
the taps for the past six months, Mr..
Isadore Rosenberg, who controlled the
business from San Francisco, making
overtures to Mr.. Kerr that long ago.
The agencies operated by Harry Ros-
enberg, it is said, viii be continued by
Mr. Young. who has had charge Of that
branch for some time. Whether Mr..
Harry Rosenberg will return from the
Coast is not stated.
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