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THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER ; HONOLULU,- MARCH 31. 1S9S. i J i" .1 ... I" I . ? - it I W W f iai i fW ram :i in. ii . Li CO'S LIFE and FIRE nil in List of Latest Novelties. A WAR RISK NOV Some Hawaiian Sip Against Privateers. Ii AGENTS FOR England Myfual Lite insurance Go OF BOSTON. in fite Insurance Coisny OF HARTFORD. J CO, I'D. : Honolulu, H. L in .Queen Street, AGENTS FOR Hawaiian Agricultural Company, Ono- mea bugar Company, Honomu Sugar Company, Wailuku Sugar Company, wainee sugar Company, Makee Su gar Company, Haleakala Ranch Com pany, Kapapala Ranch. Planters Line, San Francisco Packets, Charles Brewer & Co.'s Line of Bos- lon rackets. Agents Boston Board of Underwrit era. Agents for Philadelphia Board of Un uerwriiers. LIST OF OFFICERS? P. C. Jones, President; George H. xiuoertson, Manager; E. F. Bishop, Treasurer and Secretary; Col. W. F. Allen, Auditor; C. M. Cooke, H. Water- juuae, u. it. uarter, Directors. Sun Insurance Office. OF LONDON. The largest and oldest purely Mre Insurance Com pany in the World. POLAR- STAR ICE CREAM FREEZ ER. Freezes in one minute. MOSQUITO OR FLY FANS. Will run an hour cn one winding. IDEAL PAN. For bread bakinfr, Something fine. BICYCLE TREADLE GRINDSTONE FRAMES. A labor-saving device. IDEAL WATER FILTERS AND COOLERS. A small refrigerator and filter combined. REVERSIBLE SOCKET HAIR FLOOR BROOMS. Sweeps at any angle. UNIFORM BREAD SLICERS. For cutting bread for sandwiches all the same thickness. BERKEFIELD FILTERS. These are attached to any water faucet and filter perfectly with any pressure. PLANET FURNITURE AND CAR PET BEATERS. Will not wear out the article beaten. STOVE POLISHING MITTENS. Clean the stove perfectly without soiling the hands. EUCHRE PUNCHES. Just the thing for card parties. PHOENIX CHIMNEY CLEANERS. Fit any chimney. ANGLE LAMPS. Burn kerosene econ omically and do not throw any shadow. A good Invention. COMBINED SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS. Two In one. A very handy article. OPENING RATE A LOW ONE I 1 Crullers ! Say "Yes' and Prove It. (Fried Cakes, or Doughnuts) FRESH EVERY DAY. I A Business of Which Little Has Been Said-It Is a Recognized Feature. London the Hoad. Capital : Net Surplus : : : : $12,000,000. ' 8,ooo,oco. BISHOP & CO., Agents for the Hawaiian Islands. WM. G. IRWIN & CO., LIMITED. Wm. G. Irwin.. President and Manager Claus Spreckels .Vice-President W. M. Giffard. Secretary and Treasurer Theo. C. Porter. Auditor SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMISSION AGENTS AGENTS FOR THE Oceanic Steamship Company Of San Francisco, CaL Cio.ua Spbbckkls. WM Q. IBWIN GLAUS SPRECKELS & CO, Bankers, HONOLULU - - H.I. Ban Fbancisco Ask NTs Th Nevada Ban! of San Francisco. DRAW EXCHANGE ON San Francisco -The Nevada Bank of Sac Francisco. Ijondon The Union Bank of Loudon (Ltd.). JJow Vork American Exchange Nation" B&nk.N Chlcaj?o-Merchant8 National Sank. Parts Comptoir National dVEhCompto df Paris, t-t. "Berlin Drfigdner Bank. Honsckon&r ud Yokotia ma Hongkong and Shanghai Ranking Corporation. New Zealand and Australia Bank of New Zealand. Victoria an Vancouver Bank of Brit. ish North America. I Deposits Receivtj. Loans made on Approved Security. Commeiial and Travelers' Credit lasned. Bills of Ex-hange Bought and Sold. Collections; Promptly Accounted For : 0 "4 0 .When other hoofs another shoes Have not been fariiuwen 'And hy the language tlt you use It's plain there's beenv geiL In such a scene, we Ask you not to worry, But remember the KING OREET . SHOEING SHOP OF T. BmuRRAY Every mule or horse Bhoe pU on is in iteslf a perfect gem. To get the like, ring up or your critter to the shop of T. B. M. We employ first class mechjCJ 1 only. "Prices. to suit the times." Telephone 592. HI fli 1)1 VON HOLT BLOCK. PHOTOGRAPHIC CO, Ld. Mott-Smith Block, cor. Fort & notel Sts. Instantaneous Portraits, Iridium, Bas-Relief, Carbon and Platinum, SPECIALTIES. All work done bv first-nines wnrlimdn and nothing but high-class work executed.' rictures alter Kemnrandt and liartoiozzi Mezzo-tints. Sole mourietor of the Relief and Iridium processes. Groups at residences, flashlight or davlieht. Convins? and enlarging. Life-size pictures on Porce lain, finished in water-color. SPnia nr pravnn Appointments by Telephone 492. No stairs a. ii- m i t . . . 10 waiK up. iaKe elevator at ground floor. THE CLUB STABLES (Limited) Fort St., near Hotel. Telephone 477. UlHT mm Sales PROMPT SERVICE, STYLISH TURIN OUTS. SAFE DRIVERS. We are especially equipped to cater o your trade. Fair dealing and good service is what we. depend upon to get t Drs. Rowat and Karr are always In attendance at the Stables. Hack Stand Telrephone, No. 319. Hacks Nos. 45, 62, 63, 65, 70, 73, 97. C. H. BELLINA, Manager. Kimonos, HUSTACE & CO., Wood and Coal ALSO White and Black Sand Which we will sell at the very lowest market ' rates. Telephone No. 414. ALL PATTERNS AT REDUCED PRICES. OZAK WAVKflLEY BLOCK, HOTEL ST. That, some Hawaiian sugar now in tran sit for New York is carrying war marine Insurance will be a surprise to a large portion of the population. It is a fact. If the strained relations between the Unit ed States and Spain last for any time at all, It Is certain that every ounce of the principal product of the Islands as ship ped will be guarded by policies against Spanish privateers. Advices in detail concerning marine war insurance came to several of the leading agencies and to a number of individuals here by the mails of the S. S. China and S. S. Moana. It would occur to the ordi nary individual that this feature of a conflict between nations would gradually grow as such a genuine and destructive argument proceeded. On the contrary, war marine insurance is an established institution of many years standing. The department exists as a bureau of every great marine insurance company. London is headquarters for war marine insurance. But if Spain and the United States go at each other on the high seas and possibly on land, the sub-agencies at San Francisco, New York, Philadel phia, New Orleans and other American seaboard cities, will doubtless by given full authority. The business will be something immense in volume. Honolulu may have a branch. Then will certainly be important representatives here of the great concerns Interested. As intimated, war insurance rates are fixed, or rather have heretofore been fixed in London. All of the scares of late years have been amongst countries in which the Britains have had almost a national mo netary interest. Much of the diplomatic policy of the countries at issue has been formed in London. In the struggle that a great many people believe is "pend ing," there will be somewhat of a dif ference, but London capital w-ill be alert. It may be that the financiers of the Unit ed States will be unwilling to permit so great a business as war marine insurance to go abroad when the United States la a party to the fighting. A good many calculations enter into naming the figure of the premium for a risk during a war, or when one is in pros pect. First Is considered the countries generally. Next comes what is perhaps really the prime consideration. Thjs is naval strength. If there was war between Great Britain and the United States tho premirm on American cargoes and bot toms, would it is the opinion of a man here who should know, be not less than 75 per cent. On the other hand the in surance rate on a British bottom would be merely nominal. In case of war, Brit ish merchant ships would travel in fleets under' the convoy of ships that Britain could easily spare from her navy after placing a line around the United States seaboard. The rate at which the one lot of Ha waiian sugar now carrying insurance against attack by a Spanish privateer is one and one-half per cent. In one of the letters from San Francisco it is stated that this will be the rate till the verdict of the commission investigating the Maine disaster is made public, unless in the meantime there is a collision or a new complication of some sort. On the day the China left the war fever was low. The Coast agent advanced that he thought if half a million of sugar was in sured against war loss he could get a rate of perhaps one per cent. If war be declared the rate at first from the first day will be between live and ten per cent on American or Hawaiian cargoes, which are regarded as practically the same. In this statement is again given the judgment of a citizen who has in vestigated the subject very carefully and who controls one of the largest sugar crops of the country. One of the gentlemen largely interested both in plantations and shipping said last evening on the subject of war marina Insurance: "If the trouble between Unit ed States and Spain comes, as now ap pears very likeij-, I think we can outwit both the enemy and the insurance com panies. The premiums they would de mand of us would be something away be- ond what the business could stand. The American flag would go up here at once, but even if it did not we would come in for abuse from Spain on account of our former affiliation and well known sympa thies. My Idea would be to cease ship ping around the Horn entirely. It would pay to have the centrifugals for the East ern refineries go from San Francisco by rail. There would be here in any event a quite formidable American war fleet. We could send out a sugar fleet say once a month and it could have convoy to San Francisco. The packets in the trade are all handy boats and they would be armed and could do a little in self defense. The water in the Pacific is so smooth that it would be no trouble for the fleet to travel like a .squadron of war ships. By some such arrangement our business could pro ceed safely. When you answer in the affirmative be sure you are in a position that will bear out your assertions. There is no such word as "Fail." Say "Yes," and stick to it. Say "Yes," and prove it. Have we good fitting shoes? Have we the latest styles? Are our shoes up-to-date? Are our shoes cor rect in price? YES, to all these Questions, and wo ran Tte GGrill&fl BakeiT. prcveit- If you doubt this declaration, come and see us ii til V.UU UU. GREATEST VARIETY. BEST GOODS. LOWEST PRICES. 833 FORT ST. TELEPHONE 677. THE EYEBT OF AN EYENTFUL YEAR WILLISON'S ipt iifflimrno 0i tin -AND A. E. MURPHY & CO. Island Orders Solicited. 205 Hotel St., Arlington Block. Opp. Elite Ice Cream Parlors lili Mlill WILL REOPEN AT FISH MARKET PLAZA, Saturday, April 2, 1898 Under the auspices of the Rugby Footballers. Every person investing 25 cent in tickets will receive a coupon, and tho perosn having the larsrest number of coupons at .the end of the Honolulu season win be presented with a Hand some Horse. Popular Prices. 23c. 50c. and Re served Chairs, $1.00. at Wall. Nichols Co.'s. One Ticket admits to all. Plaid. THIS Season's stock of $ ttrinpri Ribbons will be much 2 Oinpcu, o larger and more varied 0 Watered 5 than ever bef, com- 1 Rihhnne- a Pnsing all the latest nov- K1DD0DS. A elties in fancy and plain ooo Ribbons. Per "Zealandia" we received our 2 2 first instalment, of the new shades 2 0 for this season. There is no neces- 0 0 sity of your looking elsewhere, as X uui biuLrv Loiibisis or an snaaes ana designs that are new. 0 0 0 fl 0 TEMPLE OF FASHION Fort St. M. G. SILVA, Prop. 0 0 0 0 Q ce s D 0! -AT- 2" Music Box Coupons must be returned April 1st. Counting takes place April 2d, from 7 to 9 p. m. Harry Dixon and Wife. Harry Dixon and his wife, formerly of Willison's circus, were through pas sengers on the Moana from San Fran cisco yesterday. They went to the States from here about a month ago, and after a very pleasant time there, are returning to their home in the Colonies, there to accept an engage ment. JORDAN'S. In Ladies', Gent's and Children's HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR ! FOR ONE MORE WEEK. Another Monster Reduction in LADIES' SILK UNDERWEAR, Usual price $1.25, reduced to 75 cents. Gent's Silk Undervests and Drawers, Ladies' Ribbed Undervests from 5c. each up. Children's Underwear, Ladies' Black Hose, plain and drop-stitch, Gent's Half Hose, black and colored. Equally great reductions, in fact prices are lower than ever. Come early and get first choice. !. I. JORDAN, 0 4 FORT I W STREE Hamakua Plantation, Paauilo, Hawaii, H. I. Mr. J. G. Spencer, Pacific Hardware Co., Honolulu. Dear Sir: The Secretary Disc Plow I pur chased from you is giving us satisfaction. We are using it to plow under a crop of lupins. They are three feet high and very thick. Your plow turns them completely under, at the same time plowing the land fourteen inches deep. I feel satisfied that with this plow the draft for the same quantity and depth of work is as 6 to 8. That is, with the' old' plow, to do the same work, it takes 8 good mules; with your plow it takes only 6, and they are less tired at night. Please send me another plow by first schooner leaving for this. You are at liberty to use this in any way you may see fit. Yours truly, A. LIDGATE. ET 7S.OO! THE BOLTLESS "Sylph" Cycle 1 t i 4 1 I Few Timely Hints 5 & -3 9 .,- -- fee - -J'"" if-?-y.--.:.:- Honolulu Bicycle Co. Telephone 009, 409 Fort St. On some of the many articles suitable for horsemen now the races are on: ooo SHEETS AND HOODS, GIRTHS AND SURCINGLES (Light Weight), COOLING BLANKETS, HORSE BOOTS, RACE SPURS, BLANKET PINS DERBY BANDAGES, TURTON BITS, SULKY WHIPS, JOCKEY BATS, SWEAT SCRAPERS, SALT SACKS AND SPONGE OOO Boyce Tablets, Elliman's Embrocation, Dixon's Condition Powders, Horse Liniment, Castile Soap, Etc. XT W lUiU MS. TELEPHONE 662. P. 0. BOX 496. King St., near Mann St., Honolulu. And o-fc W i lo, Hawaii. ADVERTISE if I 4 4 5 ir m j! a