Commercial.
The amount of revenue received at the Cus-tom-house on goods cleared for consumption this day, was L 714 10s 3d.
The New Zealand Herald of August 6 says : By the cessation of the San I rancisco route, New Zealand is losing a valuable trade with the Hawaiian Islands. In the one item ot i-.ucar alone our merchants might transact a profitable trade at the present time, had they means afforded them of doing so. Late advices inform us that “Honolulu is just now preeminently the sweet city. There is more sugar here on storage from plantations than probably ever before accumulated at one time—not far from 18,000 packages, or considerably over L2 000 000 It has been coming during the past month by about every arrival from the other islands, filling up all the available storage room in the city, until during the past week agents have been compelled to pile up large parcels on the wharf.”
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Evening Star, Issue 3281, 26 August 1873, Page 2
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158Commercial. Evening Star, Issue 3281, 26 August 1873, Page 2
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