June 26, 1895.1
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT,
The inauguration of the now line of steamers | times with very doubtful prospects. A friend between Spain, Manila, and Hongkong has, we in Wanhsien writes that trouble Is feared there understand, been postponed, so far as Hongkong once the news of the riots reaches the ears of is concerned, on acconut of quarantine restric- the people. He also states that 60 miles away tions likely to follow the publication of the fact an insurrection is in progress. that a few sporádic c ses of plague have occurred halfway between Ichang and Chungking and is Wanhsion is in the colony.
in Szechnen province.
What really seems to be needed for the com- plote humiliation of China and to bring her to her senses is not a march and an attack on Peking, but a holding of the Yangtsze and the advance of an armed force into the very heart of the Empire.-N. C. Daily News corres-
Messrs. Lamke and Rogge inform us that they have received a telegram from Messrs. W. G. Halo & Co, Saigon, stating that ten days' quarantine will be enforced at that port on all vessels arriving from Hongkong. At Haiphong on the 12th inst. a notification was issued to the effect that free pratique would pondent. be given to vessels arriving from longkong provided that they had no Asiatle passengers On board and that there had been no case of ill- hess on board. The same rulo would no doubt
issued at Saigon on the same date. From the telegram received by Messrs. Lamke and Rogge it would seem that different decision has since been arrived at. |-
MISCELLANEOUS.
kiang, whose headquarters are in Ningpo, went
General Chang, Commander-in-Chief of Che out in the Chinese corvette Tuank'aï recently, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, for a praise
a piratical junk with forty men on board,
The German gunboat Iltis left Amoy on the 16th inst. for Shanghai and the French cruiser Forfait left on the same day for Tainapfu. These vessels, it will be remembered, were sent to Amoy in view of apprehended disturbances by the disbanded soldiers from Formosa, but ap parently their presence is no longer considered necessary.
Hankow Tea.
Settlements.......... Stock
Arrivals
489
1895.
1894.
"
510,674 1-chts. 454,891 f-chests.
44,767
16,789
555,441
471,680
1895.
1894.
Arrivals ..........
260,424 -chts. 210,615 1-chests
12,832
4,896
273,256
216,511
"
Kiukiang Tea. Settlements Stock
ر,
The entire business to date as compared with the corresponding ciroular last year is as under :
1895.
1894. For London and
America For Russia
160,000 -chts. 166,000 †-cheste. 611,098
$99,606
771,098
BRITAIN.
Canton and Macao...... Shanghai and Hankow
665,500
1895-96
lbs. ...1,240,050 .3,283,443
1894-95
lbe.
946,688 6,876,185
4,623,498
7,822,878
The following notification appears in Satur-off Taichow and the Chusan Islands and captured EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO GREAT day's Gazette:-It is hereby notified that the proclamation prohibiting the immigration of Chinese into the colony from the colony of Macao and the island of Hainau, issued by the Go ve-nor in Council, under section 1 of Ordinance 15 of 1895, on the 23rd day of April last, and published in the Government Gazette Extra -ordinary of that date, has this day been revoked by order of the Governor in Council so far as the island of Hainan only is concerned, and that the further proclamation prohibiting Chinese immigration from the port of Swatow issued under like authority on the 30th day of April last, and published in the Government Gazette Extraordinary of that date, has likewise been revoked this day.
ICHANG.
13th June.
The typhoon which was recently announced as having entered the Gulf of Tonkin was ex- perienced at Haiphong and Hongay on the evening of Wednesday, 12th inst. The wind blow with great violence, but thanks to the timely notice given and the precautions which were consequently taken the damage done was not very great.
The Kiangkwan arrived at Shanghai on Fri- day, 14th inst., from Hankow in a disabled con- dition. On the 11th instant at 2.25 a.m, the It looked last week as if we were on the eve a mile below Tangla, where she was taken in tow port paddle wheel broke and the vessel anchored of a disturbance Rumour was rife throughout on the 12th by the Margarete; she anchored the whole city. It was in every mouth that a again the same night; proceeding next morning man had been captured, taken to the yamên, and she arrived at the Red Buoy on Thursday night bad received 4,000 blows because he had kid and transhipped her passengers to the Margarete. napped three children and sold them to the The Kiangkwan was taken in tow by the Samson Roman Catholics. The priest having bought on Friday morning and brought up to the the children gave them each some medicine to Settlements. drink. Two drank it on while one kept the⠀⠀⠀ Wahu, the N. C. Daily News says, is in a liquid in her month. Instantly the eyes of rather unsettled condition just now, for the the two who had drunk came out and were Chinese rowdies having heard of the anti- taken by the priest and locked away in a box. Christian riots in Szechuen think they have a The girl who had not swallowed the medicine good chance of causing trouble at the river port ran away at this sight. We laugh at the A few days ago they visited the Roman Catholic absurdity of such a lo y. but it was talked mission and said a child had been lost and they about and earnestly believed by the people in were going to search the premises. The Taotai, the city. It was just such a rumour of kid- who was communicated with, said there was no mapping and selling children that led to the need to fear, as the child had been found, and a Former riot, and very little seeing the Dragon gunboat appearing on the scene the rowdies Boat Races were going on would have set the ceased their talk, but as soon as the vessel left people all aflame and brought their hate and they again commenced to stir up rumours.
Tengeance on our beadɛ.
The Consul on being told the state of affairs wrote to the magistrate." He at once issued a proclamation warning the people against dis- seminating or believing such stories regarding the Roman Catholics He said, "The original idea of the Roman Catholics was to exhort men to be good." There was nothing very strong in the proclamation, as if the magistrate himself bad an inner dislike of the mission.
One wonders when the Chinese people will cease to believe such absurd stories regarding the Roman Catholics or any other foreigners. The people on being ta.ked to on the impossibility of such inhuman deeds being done by any Christian always retort, We believe because we have no evidence to the contrary; we are not allowed to go into the Roman Catholic chapels and see for ourselves." We wish oạr R. C, friends! would throw their chapels, hos pitals, convents, and schools open wide, and let people see what is done in them; then surely ramour would cease. But sad to say, the doors are closed and the public are not admitted. Whether it is pride or ignorance that causes such a policy we know not, but we wish things were otherwise.
Gazette writes on the 13th inst. :-
The Peking correspondent, of the China in Szechuen are looked upon by the Imperial
"The trouble Court as in the nature of a warning of worse things to happen. Liu Chuan-lin, the newly appointed Viceroy of that province. has been ordered to proceed to his post without the formality of coming up here for audienca very unusual course." The same paper in its to believe that the French Government has issue of the 18 h inst. says:-We have reason obtained a promise from the Tsungli Yamen that all the demands of M. Gerard in con- nection with the Chengta outrages will be assented to iu fall,
COMMERCIALĮ
TEA.
1894.
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED' STATES AND CANADA.
1894-95
Amoy Foochow
1895-96.
lbs. ..2,112,164
> lbs.
28,823
1,176,938 163,342
2,140,987 1,340,280
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO ODESSA.
1895-96 lbs.
1894-95 lbs. 14,683,414
Hankow and Shanghai ...15,267,099 EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED
Yokohama
Kobe
STATES AND CANADA.
1895-96
SILK.
Iba. 3,617,492 1,170,801
1894-95 The. 3,125,000 737,196
4,788,293 8,862,198
and Burkill's circular)-London advices dated SHANGHAI, 20th June.-(From Messrs. Cromis 18th inst. report the Silk market
firm and quote Gold Kiling at 7/9 and Blue Elephants at scale, and settlements for the week are about 3,000 9/6. Raw Silk.-Business continues on a large bales. The market is strong and prices show an advance of Tls. 10 to 16 on last quotations. Teatlees. Fully 1,500 bales were settled during the week at advancing rates. In the face of this large business, holders are very firm and in some rates. instances are asking a further advance on current saams.-Are rather quiet at quotations given below. We quote Gold Kiling Tls. 332. Tay- Yellow Silks. The demand continues both for India and the continent, Mienyangs and Foo- yungs attracting most attention. Prices paid show no advance on last week's rates, but the biarket is firm. Arrivals, as per Customs Returns
Wild Silk. Be-reels and Filatures.-Further con- from the 13th to the 19th current are 4,251 bales of White, 104 bales of Yellow, and 913 bales of
to be made at full rates for the United States. tracts of Steam and Croisée Filatures continue Market Filatures have been in good demand for the continent. In Re-reels there is nothing! doing. Wild Silk.-There is a fair demand for Tussah Raws and Filatures at unchanged prices. Waste Silk. The only purchases made this week are about 500 picals of Tussah Wastes of various lescriptions. In new season's Wastes nothing
Purchases include:Teatlees.-Bird Fung-ling at Tls. 410, ditto. Chun-ling at Tls. 3921, ditto. Ying-ling at Tls. 360, Mountain 3 at Tls. 392}, litto. 4 at Tls. 865, Gold Lion at 360, Gold Kiling at Tls. 332), Silver Double Elephant at Tls. 332), Blue Phoenix at Tla. 832), Three Pagoda atį Tis. 895. Hangchow Teatlees.-Pagoda Tingfoong (old cargo) at Tis. 320, ditto. Tinghow at Tls. 312) to Tls. 317. Taysaam.-Wh. Kahing Gold Lion Ex. 1 at Tls. 325, Green Kahing Woman and Loom at Tls. 335 ditto, Tongpan at 3071, ditto. Cicada 1 at Tls. 3684, 9/12 Moss Single Butterfly
HANIOW, 17th June-Business reported since has been done yet. the 10th inst, is as under — 1895. Settlementa... 19,181 -chests. Consisting of the following Teas Ningchows 9,028 -chts. at Tl. The news of the riots in Chengtu and else-Ho-howa where does not yet seem to be generally reported Oopacks amongst the Chinese. When the circumstances
knowu we may suffer. It was expected Qoufaas by many writers while the war was going
Icbang... over, and we seem to be getting into unsettled the following are statistics at date compared
with the corresponding circalar last season:---
are:
on that the trouble would come after it was
626
1,378
Oonams
1,776
3,910 1,405
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Seang-tams... 1,008
17,638 1-chts.
per picul. 13.00 to 45.00 14.25 to 16.25 13.00 to 23.00 12.50 to 18.00 15.50 to 29.00 21.00 to 32.00 9.00 to 12.25
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at Tls. 3871, ditto. Double Butterfly I at Tls. 307, do. 2 at 290.—Chincum.—Tiger Chop Ting Ting