Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-09
BUSINESS ITEMS

BUSINESS IlEMS
An experiment in Oiling the roads
in Kau district has been started.
One hundred acres of land on ka
huku ranch are being cleared for
planting in corn next year.
Consular Reports washington Of
Nov. 9 quotes The Star-Bulletin's re-
October.
The Kona coffee crop is 80 large
this year that great difficulty is being
experienced in gathering it, Some of
it is likely to be lost on account of the
scarcity Of pickers.
Prices started to rise on the New
York stock exchange Saturday, but
a break in some industrials checked
The advance. Beet sugar stocks. drop.
Led two and half points. Bonds
We're steady.
There was no change in the price
of Centrifugals in New York on Sat.
urday. The sale at 1892 reported by
private cable on Friday was probably
for future delivery, as the Saturday
press cable still quoted 4.05.
Closing prices for Hawaiian stocks
in San Francisco on Saturday were
as follows: Hawaiian Commercial,
1925 asked; Hawaiian Sugar, So bid
Honokaa, bid, 10 asked; Hutchin-
son, 16 bid, 1850 asked; Kilauea, IL
bid; Paauhau, 1925 bid; Union, 81
asked.
Peruvian commission found on in
vestigation of conditions, to devise 4
basis of operation of the employers
liability law, the minimum wage for
the agricultural and mining industries
in the coast region to be 40 cents, and
for the manufacturing industries So
cents: in the Sierra region, 20 cents
for agricultural industry and 40 cents
for mining and manufacturing indus-'l
tries; in the Montana region, 73 cents
for all three.
With the Parker ranch people get
ting in large amount of lumber for
the erection of buildings at Kahuku,
the Volcano Stables getting their
lumber, machinery, etc, on the
ground preparatory to starting opera
lions Oh the lava flow road, and the
water pipe being transported along
the lines of the two new water Sys-
tens, business is certainly on the
in 4
Tribune.
Sugar is the most important agri-
cultural product of Peru. Her exports
of sugar in 1910 were 1880 short
tons valued at $6,731,075, and in 1911
,699 short tons valued at s. 1922
492 The plantations in the vicinity
of Lima furnish 10000 tons of white
(washed) sugar and about 10000 tons
of "chaneaea" annually. Large guam
titles of rum and alcohol are produced
as by-produCts. There are no sugar
refineries in the country.
According to the IIiO Tribune. !
there was no opposition at the meet
ing of the Hilo Telephone Company
phone Company Of Honolulu that the
stockholders of the liilO company eN
change their shares for stock in the
Mutual, thus giving the Mutual full
control OF the local telephone. There
were 1874 shares represented al the
meeting out of the total of 1900 shares
in the corporation. The Star Bulletin
last week stated that the Mutual had
received an offer of the control OF
The HilO company.
To prevent the stOppagt of East In |
dian immigration by the Indian gov |
eminent. the planters association Of |
Fiji voted in favor CT the repeal of
the penal claus" in labor contracts !
Word had Leen received that the
clause was going TO be published IL
India, and the opinion OF the FIJI i'm .
migration Officer in India was quoted !
that on the Gay the peHH! clause ap- (
peared on the indentTreS. Indian EN- ,
4rGtiOn would cease instantly, aItO- .
matiCally and altogether" NOtitica- /
Ion was received from the colonial !
st CTctary that the recruiting of Iudi- !
ans in Fin for the Solomon islands |