Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-08
ALMOST QUARTER
OF MILLION JUMP
IN CARGO VALUE
Sugar on Georgian win Bring
Fat Price on Arrival at New
York; 0laa Gains $53, 900
From Slides at Panama
WAIALUA, EVA, 0NOMEA
TO PAY BIG PROFITS
-Four December Dividends An
.nounced This Morning Total
$3.50, 600; Brewer & Co. to-
Return "a Per cent for 1915

Friday morning the AmerieAn-Ha-
waiian freighter Georgian Is due at
New York with 5000 tons of Big Island
sugar aboard-sugar which has in
creased almost q quarter OF million
dollars in value In transit since the
vessel left HilO September 2S.
On the date Of sailing sugar was
only $50. making the cargo worth
y6l1. 300. Because OF slides In the Pan.
anna canal the vessel had to 60 around
by the Straits of Magellan, and today
because of the long voyage the cargo
Is enormously enhanced In value. At
5:3S. yesterdays price, the 5000 tons
aboard is worth ss5S,s00, an increase
of s247, 800.
This shipments jump in value Is as
cribed as one of the causes Of the
big increase in the price Of Olaa,
which company Is understood 70 have
something more than 1900 tons aboard
the Georgian. The 0laa sugar. worth
about $4,000 when shipped, viii, II
prices stay at the present mark until
Friday. bring the company about $780,
.OO0-an increase Of $4,000, for which
the Panama slides may be thanked.
Walaiua, EN1, onoinea.
Three sugar companies declared tat
dividends this morning Waialua, Eva
and 0nomen. while G. Brewer & Com
pany also announce large extra dis
bureement
Waialua directors have announced
the payment Of q 2 IL per cent DIVE
dend on December is, Of which per
cent VIII be de regular monthly diyi-s
dend, ana IA !, December special.
This will bring the companys pay
ments for the calendar gesr 1915 M
% y per cent g S5to, goo. the com
pepy having 9 capital stock q s. .seQ.s
~; The ex,rs siyi6sa1 on|ruIa,us uin
Be (65. 800 and The fep,l1i ~ oDo-s
tot6i December payment q 4112,5O0
for the company.
Ewa directors. also meeting this
mornink. declared On extra dividend
OF ? per cent. payable December 81. In
addition TO the regular Of per cent
which Il paid monthly. Eva has
capital stock Of $1,000, 900, and the to-
tai December dividends will be $780,
600, $4,000 being the regular monthly
disbursement, and 100000 the Decem
her extra.
90 per Cent on onomea.
Onomea. which has capital stock
OF 81 500 900. raised its rate to 30 per-
cent for the year this morning. by the
declaration OF special, payable De-
eember 20, Of 4 1-2 per cent, in add
ton to the regular per cent paid
monthly. This makes payment this
month Of s1.10 per share for 0nomea
owners, the special totaling $67.500
and the regular $4,000, total Of $S2,.
500. Onomea's total dividends for
1915 will amount to s45o.0O0.
G. Brewer 4 Company, Ltd, will
have paid "a per cent this year. alto
tai OF $4,000 profits, when on De
cember 81 the special of IL per cent
declared this morning is paid out with
the regular monthly per cent. The
Brewer capital stock is $4,000, 900, and
the extra dividend will come to SIS.
0O0 in addition to the $4,000 called
for by the regular. "a
The four December dividends an.
nounced above make the neat total
OF $s50.0OO.