THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE SUGAR KINO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8020, 6 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE SUGAR KINO.

A writer of New York Gossip says :—Claue Spreckels Bailed on tho same etearnahip with the Queen of Honolulu, Spreckels' family sailed the week before. The talk in the hotel corridors is that the Sugar King took the opportunity to have quiet talks with the Qioeu.ou tho subject of tko little debt of about a million dollars due from Kalakaua. Kalakaua borrowed money and mortgaged hie kingdom. The money is all g onO( an d Spreckels would liko to get the thing fixed np without making trouble to the Royal family. It ia rumoured that tho Queen is not averse to making somo financial deal to get tho King out of trouble, ami somo bond scheme is likely to be dovised. There in no suspicion that Spreckels wauta to get rid ot hia sugar plantation, however. Tho inventor of some marvellous and rnyai terious process of eugar-relining on the Keeley motor plan has boon trying to get Spreckels interested. Ho aaya hits process extracts 75 por cent, of sugar at one-tenth of tha cost lof the usual method. He will not divulge hia scheme, and has tho mysterious machine in his room. A barrel of raw sugar is placed thereon before tho eyea of tho investigators, •and they wait outside half au hour, hearing tho operations in tho room, the inventor being in thero working the maohine all alone. When tho iuvostigfttors are re-admittod tho barrel of raw sugar is gone, a barrel of refined is there, and " Presto! Ch.ingo !" racket ia very remarkable —too remarkable, iu fact, for Sprookt'le, who wauta to soo the inside of the machine first. Tho inventor says buy the machine for a few millions firet and look at it afterward. There is a singular lack of confidence between inventive genius aud capitalistic Au Englishman named Roborteon wa3 intorested in si " now yon boo it and now you don't sugar machine," and tried to got nr» a etock company of English capitalists. The Kritishors aleo bad a perverse curiosity about the details of llobortsou'a invention. Finally they got tired and quit. Perhaps Spree Kola h.ia co:io to England to find Kobortson and compare notca. Tho prioo of sugar haa not yet been reduced by tho now process.