Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-14


Honokaa, and 8.
honolulu Brewing, 21.75 and 21.75.
| McBryde, and ).
also to be a good diviner of hidden
| waters When the discovery is prac-
| tical1y confirmed, if such happen,
| there will no doubt still be sceptics
who will say that it was guessWork.
A new insurance company, the first
| of its kind in Argentina, has been
organized at Buenos Aires, with direc-
| tors, capital and staff completely Ar
! gentine The company will principal
| ~ insure that proprietors of houses
or other property will receive their
rents regularly and without any trou-
BILE in collecting or having any worry
with collectors.
| The Trent Trust Co. lately sold
| eight lots in Manoa-two each to Ken
meth Brown, G. F. Wright and J. a.
Lyle, and one each to Mrs. R. NJ. FL
| lingsworth and r. A. Lyon A house
| and lot at Kalihi for $500, and q
house and lot at Kaimuki for $4,000,
and latter to John w. Thompson. are
other sales reported by the Trent
agency.
, AS the damages for the E. O.. Hall
& Son property will absorb mon than
the balance remaining after other
judgments of condemnation for the
Federal building site, ont of the ap-
preparation of $350000, Congress will
be asked to vote the deficiency. In
| the meantime the Hall case is sus-
pended in the position of being ready
to go to the jury, in the hope Of an
Famicable agreement on an award.
The customs receipts of Japan from
April l (the beginning of the fiscal
year, down to the end of September
amounted to $14,611, 425, an increase
of $2,753, 400 compared with the re-
! turns for the corresponding period of
last year. The receipts for the whole
of the fiscal year are estimated at
$24,S46,319 and it is generally expect
| ed that unless something eXtraordin-
airy happens the actual receipts will
! far exceed this figure.
Shipments of raw silk from Yoko-
hamt to the United States this year
are unusually large. This is due part
| ly to the revival in business circles
in the States consequent upon the
| abundant crops, and partly to keen
| competition between the various ship
ping companies on the Pacific, result
| ing in a great reduction of freight
rates. Shipments from January l to
| October 10 had an aggregate value of
| $55,212.265. or $7.549,6S0 more than
( the returns for the corresponding pc
riod of last year Orders from the
| United States continued to arrive, and
! it was expected that the shipments
| during the remainder of the year
would amount to ever $14 100000. On
! October II quotations on the IOko-
I hama market ruled at $3.50 per bale,
| and there were indications that fur
! Their advance would be witnessed.
Vice Consul General E. G. Rabbit
| Yokohama. reports: The Department
Of Agriculture and Commerce has is
sued it's second estimate of the rice
crop for 1912 reporting that. owing to
the recent typhOon and the unseasOn-
able hot weather following, there has
! been a reduction Of some 100000
bushels from the first estimate. The
: crop for 1912 is now figured at 263.
! 311243 bushels. an increase OF ap-
! proXimately 4.S36S3O bushels over
1911. and 27,76S.S6S bushels over an
average yield. The typhoon also dam
aged the tobacco crop TO consider
able extent. In August last it was
estimated that 94.S73,00h pounds
would De produced. but later reports
! indicate that this will be reduced by
2,471,0n" pounds, the crop being esti-
mated al approximately 92,4ooN00
! pounds.
! FIJI cane planters are asking for
, bonus such as the plantation laDOrers
| of Hawaii lately received under an
! advance promise of the plantation
! companies. In a report Of meeting
! of the ReWa branch OF the planters
association OF Fiji, in the Western
! Pacific Herald, it is stated:
: 1T was resolved that the general
! manager of the {. S r. Co., Ltd. he
written TO asking for bonus of IS.
! I'd. per ton on cane supplied during
/ 1910 and 1911. in consideration OF the
: high value of sugar, and the fact that