Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-19
BUSINESS ITEMS

DUSIWcSo IIEWS
Cattle imported into the United
States numbered 1887 in 1904, 1873 1902
in 1909, and 325,717 in 1912.
The directors of Oahu Sugar Com
pany yesterday decided to suspend the
dividends until further notice.
Business was dull on the New York
ruled slightly lower than the day be-
fore. 49,"
The worlds sugar crop for the 1912
Is season is estimated at 18,052,216
tons, or 2,201,533 tons greater than last
year.
The Western Farmers Convention in
session at Winnipeg, Manitoba. decided
to adopt cooperation in buying and
selling. ......
Hawaiian stocks closed yesterday in
San Francisco as follows: Hawaiian
Commercial, 80 asked; Hawaiian SUI
gar, 81 asked; Honokaa, 4.50 bid, $40
asked; Onomea, $3.50 asked; Pau
hau. IA bid; Union, $3.50 asked; Homo
lulu, % bid. s.. 49,.
Paper bags are not used extensively
at Chihuahua, Mexico, writes Consul
Letcher. Better-class grocers en-
ploy them, but the small retail mer-
no fhora
skillfully into cornucopias. Old papers
are worth 2 1-5 cents per pound.
o. A. Bierbach, secretary of the
Honolulu merchants association, has
received many letters from CONNER
cial organizations, as we'll as business
correspondents of the Chambers Drug
Co., reporting hearty cooperation in
the campaign.
Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd, re-
ceiVed cablegram yesterday which
told of sale of Porto Rican SO de-
gree test centrifugals, affecting the
basis for Hawaiian sugar for delivery
in New York prompt shipment by
steamer, at 1886 or 0.03 cent higher
than the market price that day. S..
Papers of incorporation of the
Sweet Shop Company have been re-
ceived at the Office of the territorial
treasurer. The capital stock is placed
at $4,000 each, the shares having a
par value O. $100 The incorpators
are c. S. Brown, Ella c. Brown, r.
P. Faithful, B. D. r. Stanley, J. B.
Case, and T. E. Robinson
Consul-general E. D. Winslow, of
Copenhagen, reports that the new po-
lice regulations effective April forbid
the wearing of unprotected hatpins in
the streetcars of that Danish city, and
that after the date mentioned no per-
son will be allowed to enter a tram
without guard on the point of each
hatpin. =
Canada's 1912 wheat harvest will ap-
proximate 2O0O00,0O0 bushels and it's
disposition will be about as follows:
Home consumption ian average of
eight bushels per head of population),
6O,000,000 bushels; frost bitten, hence
good only for chicken feed. 40,000.000
bushels; available for export, 100000
900 bushels
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar
Company has issued its annual state
ment, showing Il net profit of $2,176.
591 for 1912. 1t paid dividends of
S1,600,000 on its capital stock Of $10.-
O00.0 900. and increased its surplus to
$5SS,391. UnfavOrable weather has al
fected the 1913 crop. which is not OK
Pected to exceed 5N.G&0 tons Of sugar.
BY deed of March 81, William c.
Parke, Annie H. <Parke and Bernice
Parke Walbridge conveyed to Charles
NJ. Cooke, Ltd. the Model building
property on Fort street, adjoining
the Progress block. for the consider
alton of $4,000. 1t contains an area
of 1879 square feet. upon which
stands the Model building, a three
story business structure, the two up
per floors of which are at present oc-
cupied by the United States district
court and Offices connected Herewith.
On March 16. 1911, Bruce Cartwright
sold the Model building property to-
Mrs. Annie s. Parke for $4,000, so
that the price her heirs have just
obtained represents a profit of $12,
500 IN a little more than two years.
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