MONDAY, JULY 5, 1897.
HONGKONG MARKET PRICES,
Crected to Saturday, July 3, 1897.
Ai 1020 Cash per Dollar Mexican,
PLION.
to
catly
Price :
Pomfret, White
200
Eigens. Lewart,
Chinese Names.
Pomfret, Black
J80
Cash, Cash
Butcher Meat.
肉食
Prawne,
250
Ray,
50
Back Fish,
DO
£ 1 1 1 1:8
̇花椒
皺藥
Bacon, English,
1b
來路烟猶肉
明蝦 琵琶沙 石狗笼
Bosch,
蠶雄
JJ
Ame. Sugar cured,
320
11
Foochow
220
#
11
甄州烧猪肉 Shark,
Salmon, (Canton),
200
"
x
60
Japan, oured
241
11
日本做肉
bat binds,
· 100
Beef zlom & prime cnt, eally 140
AWES
Skate
โป
Corned,
..salty
140
#48
SUR
140
Roast,
1:0
先牛肉
bype:
220
+1
Soup,
100
|
Sules,
200
RELA
23
Steak,
120
J
十耙
Teuch,
Bullock's Brains, .
per set
uu 60
4-p
Turbot,
180
在口期
J
Tongue fresh, cach
200
4-
Turtles, small, fresh water,
300
V
corued
310
P
JJ
***
Whiting,
calty
70
**
Head,
500
24
牛酸
White Bait,
00
鑾籐仔
Heart,
160
· "
Haap, Salt
ently
140
牛燒
Fruits.
Fael,
encli
60
50 .4
菓子
"
Apples, (California),
• catty 300
>
Kidneys,
EO
牛髅
金山平菜
**
>
(Tiantain),
Tail,
100
牛油
天津李暴
事
(Japan),
230
日本平集
Liver,
L
.ently
70
4st
JJ
bananas, fragraut,
40
47
Tripe (undressed) catty 60
50
牛肚
麻油香葱
#
(brides),
+
50
Calves lead and Foot, aut Hams. American,
500
牛仔頭脚
山香蕉
Chestnuts, Chinese,.
150
11
un.
. lb.
320
花火腿
Carambols,
100
楊桃
Chinese,
240
金華火腿、
Cocoanuts,
exch 60
**
English, New,
440
米路火罐
Ground Nuts,
catty
90
花生
Japan cured,
$80
日本火腿
Grapy +
170
鮮機子
31
Shanghai,.
220
上海火雞
Lemons, China,
200
Mutton Chup,
160
Peel,
"
12
椒餅
160
Leg,
MY
"
Lichoes. Drivd,
260
荔枝糙
Shoulder,
120
**
"1
Frosh,
150
"
荔枝
Figs Chitlioga,
. catty
70 60
Limes,
檸檬
16
Foot,
110
Mango, (Saigon),TM
esplı
·南芒業
13
Fry,
llesd,
Floark,
150
♪
(Manila),
宋芒
each
500 454
Mangosteen,
doyau
山竹子
50
40
Oranges, Sweet,
cally 180
33
新會蕭證
» Kidneys,
70 pais
Liver,
ib.
100
Greek, Red,
100
#
青橙
紅桔
}
Pork, Chop,
, catty,
180
Olives,
白醬:
Corned,
บ
Leg,
300
Fat or Lard,
150
17
Shoeps' Head and Feet, cet
350
Heart,
50 , cách
"
+1
Kidneys,
70
L
13
Liver,
lb.
150 140
F
Sucking Pigs,
each $1.75 $1.25
1 1 1 1 199
鹹豬肉
Pine-apples,
esch 100
本地波蘿
Pears,
• catty 100
*
מ
(Tientsin),
300
J
天津雪裝
雞歐
Plum, Red,
60
#1
紅樂
40
Pamelo,
each 130
(Siam),
Peuch, (Sweet),
Raine, Muscatel,
catty 100
100
+
Suet, Beef,.
lb.
110
>
Pudding,"
Mutton,
H
100 生鲜油
Water Chesnuta, com.
Yeal
calty 130
1+
Walnuts,
Poultry.
10
12
1
***
Let
40
Mandarin,
60
13
180
I
Vegetables, &c.
Chickau,
eatty 230
SA
Сарола,
503
Ducks,
160
Artichokes, Shanghai, ・ catty Besus, (French),
او
*
Daves,
Eggs, Hen
doz,
Duok
Fowl,
Batty
Geese,
Евген
•
1.1
cach
140
נן
120
110
Beet Root,
Brinjala, Green,
190
100
Losg1
. ench
catty
Red,
33
Brassica,
13
萬仔
Musk Deer,
*
發票
Bamboo Shoote,
Cabbage, Chinese com, .
Partridges,
Cabbage,
Pigeons,
170
12
白鲜
Cauliflower,
Pheasant,
Rice Birde,
Qual.
Enipe,
Turkort, Cock,
"
, calty 450
850
brace
doa,
Cairota,
Gelery, Chinese,
"
Ben,
1
נו
Toal,
›
, each
Cucumbers,.
Wild Ducks,
✓ pair
Bitter Squashy
Fish,
海讎
Garlio,
Ginger, young,
Barbol,
catty
200
雄
Bream,
80
"
BA
Indian Coru,
Bombay Ducks,
O'ton Fresh Water Fish, catty-
100 piover 250
***
Horse Radish, S'hat, " 120
piece 90
10
| Lettuce, (English), 43..exch
Mushrooms, Freab, . Dalty
Onions, Bombay,..
الجبد
100
-
, each
"
. catty
*1
English
12
Chilies Dried,
62
180
$3
Rod,
€0
Curry. Stuff, English,→→4-
40
60
20
智惠
40
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THE CHINA MAIL.
IN PRAISE OF HONGKONG. The following extmot from a private' fetter of a Gorman resident of Kobe, who went home for a trip on the German mpil steamer Frin: Heinrich, in published is the Kobi Chronicle amor.
Intimations.
G. FALCONER & Co.,
THE NATIONAL PROSPERITY. The half-yearly summary of banking ac counts published in the Economist
give some idea of the national prospority. These Figures show in round number that on Saturday, May, 22nd, the joint stock banks enjoyed my stay in Hongkong very of England and Wales hold on deposit or much The
place appeared to me like current account about £850,000,000 of the paradius ; the besutiful and splendid ve- country's savings. For the second time in DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WABE. paradiva: getation, its variety and exuberance appeara a locada there is a slight
pared with the previous half-year, the def- ciency of some £15,000,000 being caused by
falling-off se
com.
to w people from higher Intitudes like wenders. In the bushes, full of many coloured flowers, the singing of birds is oneamalgamation and onsfailure. Otherwise continuous, and pignons and jackdawa are the accumulation of our hoard has steadily innumerable. As I lived just above the progressed from £33,000,000 in 1886. But G.
Els Scotch and Irish banks have on their booke I was in a good position to public garden, observe. This genion contains an in- £141,000,000, the share of the former boing credible number of plants, bushee her more than double that of the latter, and trees from all parts of the whilst £2,500,000 ane garnered up in the... world, all nataed and specified. Many a Foreign and colonial houses possessing
Inte of Man and the Chaand Islands. 818 hour I have spent there. Remarkable, too, in what the English have made of this London offers show a sum of no less than island of rocks. Hats
ats off before such energikers, so What a namber of roads in perfect earidi. tion all over the island, what substantial and splendid buildings carried up to the very top of the mountain. The Waterworks receive their water frorn the other site of the island through a tunnel, filter it above the town, distribute it and pump it even to the houses on the Peak. Our Japanese friends might lean something from this also Mr Trotzig-if we were not in a chronic state of impecuniosity as regarde Municipal funds. The people seemed to me more dili
,000,000 on their books, and private bankers, so far as they disclose choir busi- nese, are entrusted with some £50,000,000 of the country's wealth. Thus we arrive at a grand total of £987,000,000, which represents in the main the floating or uninvested capital of the well-to-do-clauses, for the savings of the working man are only partially included in the reckoning
THE RAILWAY DEAL IN CHINA,
gest than in Kobo. I had much opportunity of the asset position regarding the cons- We can scarcely feel certain at present
of looking about and souing the shops.
where.
with the execption of silver goods, every-truction of railways in China that has beom g decorative is from Japan. The market by the alleged Belgian syndicate buildings are excellent, and I adniced agreement with the Chinese Government.
oxcellent thu
(The voice is the voice of
of Belgium, but the car and other dsb. Men work pumps Or is it that the agreement is only with hands are the hands of France and Russia.)
heng
arrangements to
tean whereby the water is in con- shent, who for his part has to provide
stant
motion and
mixes with the air. The akundance of tropical fruits and vegetables in the markets is noticeable. But I liked the butchers' shops lesa.'
2,000,000-a saa that may take son dif- culty to raise. Doubtless the Belgian- French syndicate, with which tha Rasso- Referring to the Prin: Heinrich, the Chinese Bank scars to be usurinted would writer is strong in his prase of the vessel, not have any supreme difficulty in raising the which on the run to Singapore went une The Timer rightly points
£4,500,000 it has contracted to do. Though, steady as if no Hes could make her roll. under Chinese cambrod obviously offer in railways The appointments, ho says, are those of a palace, and the speed of the two days pro who are asked to find the money:
themselves a very slender security to those Lengo oeding arrival at Singapore was 306 and 330 mota respectively.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN' UP
TO DATE.
the prospects of a railway loan, to bo raised
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in Europe on its own merita, are not PRICE LISTS. particularly bright. It is not the ques tion of making ways in China that this and other countries who are ap parently left out in the cold need cavil st. According to a contemporary (writes It is the mothed of their construction Truth), there is not one of us who, chal- and the monopoly sought to be crested lenged suddenly to recite the words of what that are
The British, the Mr W. S. Gilbert calls our illiterate Americas, and the German Ministers have National Anthem,
could through the verses. I am inclined to think promptly protested against those portions of
which arrangement
infringe that my contemporary is right. Wo all of the projected na know the tune of God save the Queen, the principle of the most-favoured-nation treatinent, and it may be assumed that but when it comes to the words that is their complaints have brought about formal very different matter. The fact is that correctness in the terms of the concessions most people are apt to sing their own than have so far been reported. It version of those words. Thus it is not however, a The Times also reminds us, difficult to imagine the enthusiastic Big saucely necessary to observe
that Englander yelling, with swelling chest cors then this
is required to safe and quivering nostrils, soine sach version guard the intercars. of nations not di as this:-
rectly ameurned in the present negotia-
Thy choicest gifts in ore
O God be pleased to pour-
On me, I mean;
Stop pens censorious, Make ne notorious, Wealthy and glorious
God save the Queen!
me grab niggers' land, Let me control the Rand
God save the Queen!
Lot me duly the lawe,
And raid without & cause; Let me get the applaus
God save the Queon!
Then there is the Colonial magnate.
seems to hear him carolling
Uh, may this Jubilee
Make nie & C. M. G
God save the Queen!
Things look extremely bright,
Joseph is most polite,
Knight
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to
But we are often hardly careful
eful enough watch over the observance of our treaty rights in cases such as the presént. We have also heard complaints of late that all British view firms do not obtain the assistance that they desire or are entitled to receive in an with others from their own
equal en mag repeat that we desire to 1 officials.
seo railways in-Ching, and we are sufficient- ly imbued with the principles of free trade not to grudge the success of any nationality, What we object to is unfair competition and methods which are sought to be brought One about by which this country is shut out from such competition. The necessities of China will probably compel the construc- tion of railways ero long, and we desire fair. dealing and no favouritism. To secure these it seems certain British diplomacy will have to remain very active.-L. and C. Express.
I may go back a
God save the Queen! Nor does it
it requires
any very great stretch of imagination to faucy the New Millionaire declaiming with great gusto some such asntiments as these
O God, confound tho Bears;
Send up my stocks and shares-
God save the Queen!
Oh, let me quickly get
Inte the smartest set;
Blake mo & Baronet→→
save the Queen!
God
Oh, lot this record year
Crown my most odd sreer-
God save the Quien
Let shani philanthropy
Gild now my apoyen
(All on the strict get
God save the Queen.
Thinks, too, what.
an army of subscription
Peeking Tithunter and Tondios there
ush now be all on the
over the country engaged
in ainging some such verse as this:-
Hope on our proposta gleams,
God help our varied schemes
God save the Queen
Our loyal plans wo raix
With most self-seeking tricks; On these our
our hopes wo fix-- God
And can
Sve tha
Queen!
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Sour people seem to believe that it is witty to say I don't think " every time anybody ventures ag observation." YOE, replied Miss Pepperton, and in most cases it isn't witty at all. It's merely a vom monplace utterance of truth,
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Oh, I
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But strawberry loaves, I YOR,
Scon shall entwine my brow
God save the Quién i
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P
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Green,
30
Outsch,
Shanghai,
"12
60
保溫裹
Codfish, Salt,
80
羊鼠魚
Japan,
-50
វរ
Crabs,
160
FI
Quttle Fish,
80
Ukroes,,
120
Dab,
60
沙孟箱~
Paraley, English,. bundle 10
Daco,
Potatoos, Sweet,
Bhanghai,
calty. 20
上牌警仔
Dog Fish,
Eels, Congor,
Eels, Yellow,
餅沙
Japan,
20
日本舉行
American,
花屏照仔
File Fish,,
Fresh water,
-180
Frogs,
Fresh Fish,
250
Purelize,
EX
·200
Papaw,
Redish
Focchom,
Mauso,
Pumpkin,
Elbe, best quality, par pirul,
***
25
20.
doren
$4.10
$30
胖
Garoupa,
Gudyoop,
Gurnard,
Herrings,
Halibut,
Labrute
Bosch,
Lobeter
Machural,
Monk Tab,
Mulle
Oystati
Farratiak
P
120
**
Common
Ebalota,
180
190
Epinage, (Chins85).
Splosch,
Snake Goard,
Tomatoes,
Taros,
Turulpe, Frol, (Long); ( Vegitable Kinrow
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