June 20, 1895.]
The German cruiser Prinzess Wilhelm, Capt. Holtzendorf, arrived on Saturday from Singa- pore, which port she left on the 10th inst. She is reported to be bound on a special mission to Japan
The appointment of Dr. J. A. Lowson to be Acting Colonial Surgeon, vice Dr. J. M. Atkin- sou, temporarily invalided. is gazetted. The community will learn with regret of Dr. Atkin son's illness.
On Saturday a Chinese girl was fatally in- jured at Shaukiwan. She was at work in a quarry when a large stone slipped and struck another store, which hit the girl in the stomach and killed ber.
It is reported that at the last meeting of the Japanese Currency Investigation Committee at the Finance Department it was decided that it is unnecessary and inadvisable to change the present currency system.
Sir Fielding Clarke and Lady Clarke have booked their passages by the C. P. steamer Empress of Japan, leaving Vancouver on the 24th inst. and due on the 17th July. The Hen T. H. Whitehead has also booked his passage by the same steamer, so that the report that he was to be transferred to New York is apparently unfounded.
TIENTSIN.
FROM A C ›REESPONDENT}^
10th June.
For six months Tientsin has been the worst news centre in China. A fair minded man's only chance was to be quiet and let the incompatible rumours neutralize each other. Things are still bad here in official circles. We have two Viceroys, each a little uncertain as to the pre- rogatives and powers of both, and the comical spectacle of an army of expectant and executive officials unable to decide whether Short or Codlin is their friend.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
473
Hongkong sports will take note that for the same reason there was a great dearth of autumn and spring griffins. The Mongol cavalry would not have been squeamish in appropriating a whole mob, if the native speculators had been ments for the fortnight amount to 5,500 Boxes at CANTON, 18th June-Macao Congous.-Settle- unwary enough to send them down. Our Spring Tls. 11-24 per pioul, showing no quotable change Meeting, however, produced one grand grifiu in values, but the market closes weak. Hoyunes (Mr. G. Detring's Roitelet), who easily proved have attracted some attention and about 2,000 himself the best horse in Tientsin, winning the Boxes have been sold during the past fortnight up Maidens, the Derby, and the Champions. to Tls. 24 per picul, the Teos are of fairly good The only personal item interesting to Hong-quality and generally free from tar. Scented kong readers is that Mr. A. W. Maitland, our Capers.-There has been a steady demand through- late Bank Agent here, has retired from the out the period under review, purchases aggregat- agency and from the service. Mr. Duncan H.ing 40,000 Boxes, making 80,000 Boxes for the Mackintosh replacing him. Both gentlemen are season. Prices range from Tls. 10-33 per picul, "sports; the former patronized the gun and shewing a decline all round. Common and Me- pig-skin, the latter the bat and racket
dium Teas may be quoted Tls. 1 to Tls. 2 per picul; and Fine Tls. 3 per picul lower than opening rates, but Curios have not shared in the general decline, the few offered finding ready buyers at about steady. Teamen having disposed of the bulk of previous prices. At the close, prices generally are their heavy holdings are not now so anxious to sell as they were a week ago. Scented Orange Pekoem. -Very small sales of Long-leaf are reported. The usual proportion of Ouchaines included in the Caper settlements, the lowest quotation being Tis. 9 per pical.
A very remarkable article on China in the April Blackwood, dated from Tientsin, is well worthy of your readers' attention. Among other exposures there is a soathing indictment of one great local official which for trenchant attack and philippic has not been surpassed since Macaulay castigated Robert Montgomery.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Haxxow, 10th June.-Business reported since the 3rd inst. is as under-
1895.
1894. Settlements ... 44,170 4-chests. 65,484 4-chts. Consisting of the following Teas :- Ningchows... 9,901 4-chts. at Tls. 12.50 to 45.00
per picul. Ho-hows
According to a Peking telegram to the Mer- cury the United States Minister is in favour of taking the present opportunity of settling all outstanding cases still remaining unadjusted.
H.M.S. Porpoise will leave Chingkiang for Yokohama on the 22nd inst. The Plover is on the way to Tamsui from Japan, and the Daphne from Nagasaki to Shanghai to take up the duties Oopacks of senior officer's ship.
1,379 4,679 3,711
M
"
18.25 to 17.60
>
77
11,50 to 24.00
35
11.00 to 28.00
"
...
15:75 to 21.00
»
19.00 to 37.35
9.10 to 12.50
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Ooname Mr. F. C. Bishop, formerly Manager at Oonfaas...... 19,655 | Shanghai, and afterwards Inspector, of the Mer- | Ichang....... 2,670 cantile Bank of India, Limited, has been ap. Seang-tams... 2,181 pointed Manager in London of the Bank of The following are statistics at date compared Ohina and Japan, Limited.
with the corresponding number of days from the opening of last season, viz., 34 days.
Lui Kan-yi was promptly relegated into in- Quite a novel sight was witnessed on the notivity by being placed in command of the river yesterday morning, says the N. C. Daily troops. The two rivals are Wang Shai-wen News of the 7th inst., namely, a local steamer the locum tenens of Li while absent, and Li him-flying the American ensigu, the Feilung having self. As a result of this anomalous state of recently passed under that flag. affairs, novelties and reforms are at a dead stand- still.
· Li may or may not deserve the severe stric- tures which the Southern press have levelled at him, but one thing is incontestible: he is the only great Chinese official up here who is "prac- tical." He at any rate sees the needs of bis country and is willing to attempt their supply. Could be once quit himself of the harpies who nullify his every effort, be might still have a chance of doing something. Like King Arthur, he has been nudone by the men he made.
Chinese policy in Peking at present is alto- gether an affair of partisanship. “Is Li Hung- chang to be or not to be?" that is the question. Li's enemies fondly imagine he is scotched, if not killed, I think they will find themselves very much mistaken. Li was very much annoyed at the easy renewal of his leave when he returned from Shimoneseki; he fully expected to be called to Peking and was pro tem despondent at the re- haff. He has, however, at last been summoned to the capital and leaves this week.
The foreign officials in Peking seem to hold vague views as to the position of public affairs. The various Admirals have been allowed to with draw the gunboats from Tientsin, but the Lega- tion Guards (Marines) are still in the capital. In the not improbable contingency of an emeute, we should now have to rely on our own efforts. One result of the late war is in this counection worthy of mention. The various sections of the community in Tientsin have organized them selves, and a British Volunteer force has been drilled and armed..
The country around Tieutsiu still swarms with troops from all parts of the Empire. The Peking authorities summoned a quarter of a million men to avert the anticipated attack on the capital, but of this number, not 50,000 ever got in situ. The other 200,000 men had a paper existence.
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Hankow Tea.
Settlements Stock
Arrivals
The new Japanese Consul General for Shang- bai, Mr. Chinda, with his staff, is expected at Shanghai on the 31st inst. He will be accom- panied by the manager and staff of the Shanghai Kiukiang Tea. branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank.
The Indo-China steamer Fiksang, which had the misfortune to go ashore on the 25th May in the reach below Peitangkou, or Lower Nine Forts, in the Peiho, has been dug out, and she arrived at Shanghai on the 12th inst.
+
The coal trade in Japan is reported to be stagnant and prices falling! There are said to be enormous quantities on hand at Wakamatsu and Moji. The close of the war and the arrival of summer are both working towards the same end.
Settlements Stock
Arrivals
JAREN
1895.
501,1991-chts. 449,500 ]-chests.
28,222
10,502
1894.
529,421
454,002
1895.
1894.
250,769 †-chts. 199,328 -chests.
7,686
639
258,155
13
199,967
The entire business to date as compared with the number of days last year is as under:
1895.
1894.
For London and
America 145,000-chts. 153,000 4-chests, For Russia...... 606,968
489,828
4
751,968
"
642,828
22
The Nippon News Agency has entirely with- drawn the letter it circulated as the genuine communication of Admiral Fremantle to Mr. Ito at Chefoo. The latter says he did receive a | EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO GREAT letter from the British Commander, but not such an one as that published.
BRITAIN.
1895-96 lbs.
A conversazione by way of farewell to Mr. H. S. Wilkinson was given in the Public Hall, Canton and Macao.... .1,240,050 Yokohama, on the 31st ult. Mr. Wilkinson left Shanghai and Hankow.....3,283443 for Shanghai the next day, the place temporarily occupied by him as Judge of the British Court: being resumed by Judge Mowat.
4,523,493
1894-95.
lbs. 946,688
6,876,185
7,822,873
1894-05
The China Mutual S. N. Co., we learn from EXPÓRT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED the N. C. Daily News, are trying an experiment
STATES AND CANADA, with Chinese sailors for their vessels, and are sending on to Loudon by the Pingsuey and Ounfa twenty-four deck hands, who will man these two Amoy vessels on their return voyage to China.
Captain Davies, of the British ship Vortigern which arrived at Anjer on the 2nd June, reports having encountered a very severe gale in latitude 42* south and 68° east, in which he lost his port lifeboat and sustained considerable damage about the decks. The gale continued from the south- west throughout, with a tremendous high sea.
Foochow
lbs.
1895-96.
lbs. .2,112,164
1,176,938
28,823
163,842
2,140,987
1,340,280
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO ODESSA.
1895-90 lbs.
1894-05
lbs.:
9,098,910
The following telegram dated Kinkiang, 9th | Hankow and Shanghai ...10,677,227 June, appears in the Mercury-"The populace in and around Kinkiang is greatly excited and a EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED riot may take place at any moment. This ex-
STATES AND CANADA.
aris having purchased land for a sanatorium at Kiuling near the top of the Lushan (Donkey Yokohama Mountain), for which the authorities have refused Kobe to grant title deeds, notwithstanding that the ground was unoccupied.
The presence of these so-called foreign troops has sufficed to curtail the local trade very consi- derably. In the disturbed political atmosphere the wool and skin merchants did not care to for-citement is capsed on account of some mission- ward their cargoes down to the seaboard. Kalgan has been crammed with wool and skins ever since last July, and they are now coming forward in such quantities that the aggregate of exports is now almost up to normal.
1895-96 Ibs. 3,617,492 1,170,801
1894-95
lbs.
3,125,000
737,196
4.788,293
3,862,196