July 4, 1895,]
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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of the grounds of the Naval College for cricket
Some 2,500 disbanded soldiers from Formosa; and lawn tennis. The idea is an excellent one, temporarily interned at Woosung, were as the place is very dry, of, ample size for both embarked by the Shanghai military mandarins games, well shaded with trees, and within easy on board of two Chinese men-of-war and sent reach of the settlement, being not more than 10 back on the 17th inst. to their homes in Chin. minutes' ride in a 'rioksha. It is further to be kiang and Ningpo. A large number wanted to hoped that the ladies will find sufficient at. go up to the Shanghai settlements, and find- traction in the accommodation which can Boing their wish opposed tried to use force, but an easily be provided for them there, to induce them to grace the ground with their presence ➡Peking and Tientsin Times.
MISCELLANEOUS.
By the autumn it is expected that the whole Japanese army will be equipped with the Murata repeating rifles.
The Hyogo News says calico weaving is to be *shortly commenced by fire different companies in Japan. The Chuwo expects a large export of
the material to be made to China.
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According to a Madrid telegram to the Comercio the first stexmer of Messrs. Pinillos, Isquierdo & Co.'s new line will leave Barcelona on the 7th July for the Philippines.
The P. M. steamer China made the ran from
San Francisco:to Yokohama on her last trip in
13 days 26 minutes, or about a quarter of an hour over her record trip of two years ago.
The steamer Prolos, belonging to the Flengs burg Steam Navigation Company, has, the Japan Mail says, been sold to Japanese owners at the price of £10,000. Her net measurement is 1,150 tons.
Permission has been asked, and is likely to be granted. it is said, for the Yokohama Ex: change for cotton, cotton yarps, minerals, and shares, to include dealings in foreign shares in its list of permissible transactions.
armed guard from the fort speedily drove them on board of a number of native cargo boats waiting to carry them to the men-of-war.
The native junks that loaded full cargoes of beans and bean oil at Newchwang for Shanghai | recently are experiencing some difficulty in pass- ing through the native Customs at the latter Port, the N. C. Daily News says. There being no Customs at Newohwang at present, the junks import dues at Shanghai, but the Customs officials paid no export duties, expecting to pay only the declare their inability to pass cargo that does not bear the Customs chop of the other port. The junk owners have since appealed to the Taotni,
A small Ningpo junk drifted broadside on the bows of the Agamemnon at Woosung, on the 25th June, and the tide being
strong the junk broke in two and went down. The crew, consisting of ten men, endeavoured to Agamemnon and some of them were hauled on save themselves by olinging to the cable of the
others were saved by two boats from the German board by the steamer's officers and crew, while man-of-war Irene at anchor near the Agamemnon. Two, however, of the jank's orew were unfor- tunately drowned.
While some of the native passengers were landing from the Whampoa at Shanghai on the 23rd June, says the NC. Daily News, they others arrested was a major, who had, besides a were overhauled by the River Police and among The N. C. Daily News says orders are being to the number of 2,600. His luggage was seized number of shoes of syce, three bags of dollars sent to the arsenals throughout China to prepare on the suspicion that the Mexicans were a portion for the manufacture of quick-firing guns and of Government money which had been looted in cordile ammunition, the Feking authorities ap- Formosa. The Whampoa brought up quite a parently believing that the success of the Japa-lot of money which was in the hands of the nese was due to their possession of these instru- passengers, though there is no suspicion that
they came by it otherwise than honestly:
ments of war
The Chinese transport Shantung arrived at Woosung on the 23d June with 600 disbanded soldiers from Formosa. The men were imme- diately transferred upon arrival at Woosung into the corvette Weiching, which started the same afternoon for Hankow. The men were quiet and well behaved.
During a heavy storm at Bangkok the light ning struck the forcha, Maria amidships, and burst open about eight planks on the starboard side, leaving a big hola ab ut 12 feet by 5. Not a soul on board, however, was injured. It appears the copper plate saved the forcha's bottom from being damage'p
Company in Yokohama, was seized with a sudden Francois Beyer, an employé of the M.M. fit of insanity while in his own quarters about noon on the 20th June. He rushed from the hotel after smashing everything that came in his way and having easily flung aside several frenzy he tore off his clothes as he ran madly persons who attempted to intercept him. In onwards, and it was some time before the nufor- tanate man could be secured and borne to the General Hospital. outbreak he seemed perfectly natural-now he Five minutes before the is spoken of as a hopeless and dangerous lunatic. An Ordinance was promulgated at Tokyo on communication which has reached Osaka from A Kobe paper says:According to a private the 14th June containing the regulations for Port Arthur, and is printed in one of the verna. the Bureau dealing with the affairs of Formosa.cular papers, the Chenyuen has come out of The Bureau will be under the superintendence dock, where she has been undergoing repairs, of the Minister President and will have full and will shortly leave for Japan, together with control over military and administrative affairs in Formosa and the Pesca lores.
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Japanese Navy Department will, it is in a vernacular paper, ask the next Diet's consent to a disbursement of 120 million yen for building four more ironclads, four first class cruisers, four second class cruisers, and torpedo boats and gunboats in order to bring the total tonnage of the feet up to 220,000 tons. We (Hyogo News) think our contemporary is cer- tainly wrong in the last figure at any rate.
four other Chinese men of-war taken at Wei- All the forts at Port Arthur are being gradually haiwei. The Chenyuen is still painted black. demoli-hed, but the Nirgo-san fort has up to the present been left as before. For some time past there were a number of choleraic cases at Port Arthur, but the disease has now been com. pletely stamped out. Communication between Port Arthur and Liukungtao is mede daily by the Japanese man-of-war Mayakan and two haiwei. others. All is quiet at Liukangtao and Wei-
The Japanese Naval Department, we learn from the Japan Mail, recently despatched Mr Ishiguro, a naval expert, to inspect all the naval small schooner named the Kuisiloff, whose crew On the 16th June there arrived at Manila a ports and to select a site for a large new dock. consisted of the owner, his wife, and five children, As a result of his investigations he has recom-the eldest of whom is eleven and the youngest mended Kure, and the Naval Authorities have four. Two of the children are girls and three decided to approve Mr. Ishiguro's report. proposed new dock will be able to receive aft, depth of hold, and 15 tons displacement. The
The boys. The boat is 45 ft. in length, 9 ft. beam, Vessel of 15,000 tons. Mr. Ishiguro has b en little craft left San Francisoo on the 5th May, appointed to draw the plans for the undertak-1894, and after a run of twenty-eight days ar- iug.
it is reported from Canton, says the N. C. or three days she art sail for the Marianas, rived at Honolulu. After a stay there of two Daily News, that owing to the destruction of the which were reached in thirty-three days. She best portion of the Chinese navy, the new stayed at the Marianas for ten months, but the Viceroy Tan Chung lin, in order to cut down owner not being able to make a very profitable expenses. has ordered the closing of the Whampoa living there, he made for Manila, which was Naval School and the dismissal of the scholars. reached on the 16th June. There the Kuisilof The school will be re opened when China's navy excited much intere-t and was visited by large has been reconstructed and more junior. officers oumbers. The owner and captain is Frederick are required, a most shortsighted policy and iu Sebling, who was born in Berlin, but while a keeping with the anti-foreign Hunan party of child his parents emigrated and took up their which the new Viceroy is a chief.
residence at San Francisco.
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It is rumoured, the N. C. Daily News says. General, is to succeed Mr. M. B. Bredon as that Mr. Bruce Hart, eldest son of the Inspector- Commissioner of Customs at Chefoo.
The mother and family of Tang Chin-sung, the ex-President of the Formosan Republic, are now, the N. C. Daily News says, nt Nanking, Heavenly King in that city for their residence. having rented the former palace of the Taiping It is significant that the local authorities of runners about the premises ostensibly for their Nanking have placed a number of yamen protection.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
night's settlements amount to 4,500 boxes at Tls. CANTON, 2nd July.-Macao Congous.-The fort- 101-28 per picul, showing a decline of Tl. i to TI. 1 per picul on values current a fortnight ago: these consist chiefly of good Medium and Fine Teas, the small; moderate shipments are going forward to lower grades being remarkably scarce. Australia, but for Hamburg there appears to be little Stocks are
the extent of 1,500 boxes at Tls. 11-24 per picul. or nothing doing. Hoyanes have found buyers to Scented Capers.-Settlements are reported at making 98,000 boxes for the season against 71,000 18.000 boxes principally Common and Medium,
from Tls. 93-32 per picul and may be quoted boxes up to the same date last year. Prices range easier, but the quality generally shows a falling The quantity on offer is not large. Stocks in natives hands are estimated at 40,000 boxes, that figure. Scented Orange Pekoes.-About various prices up to Tls. 31 per picul. whilst unshipped settlements should be well with- 1,000 boxes of long-leaf have changed hands at
off.
Lewis & Co.'s circular).—News of the first sales of SHANGHAI, 28th June. (From Messrs. Welch,
on the 22nd instant, and cannot be considered new Black Teas in New York was received here satisfactory for shipments generally, Black Tea.~~ in Hankow, especially by Russian buyers, but the An active business in second crop Teas is current transactions on this market are hardly worth recording, and call for no remarks.
(2nd crop)... 222 j-chests at Tls. 231 a pioul.
Settlementa reported are:----
Wenchow... Ningchow
Hobow ...... Oonam
317 23 $246 " 770 "
"
16 to 19 a picul. 15 13 to 18
27
Total...1,625 half-chests.
tity has changed hands during the interval the
Stock.-4,269 half-chests. Green Tea.-Pingsueys.-Although a fair quan-
prices have only been maintained by new buyers market has had the appearance of weakening, and coming in occasionally. Teamen keep stocks on from the United States of new Teas may be looked offer small and are not forcing sales. Valuations for at any moment, and the course of our market lately to hand, and Teamen are encouraged in this will depend upon their tenour, We regret to note an admixture of "old" leaf in most of the Teas practice by the larger profits. obtainable on mired and nearly all disposed of at prices which must be Packed Teas. The first packs have all been shown, Teas than on those with pure infusions. Local
satisfactory to the native Teamen. No change of importance in rates has taken place during the interval. Country Teas-Fychows and Soeypans are due and may be Hysons. First settlements of country Hysons, expected immediately. which were sent down in advance of the chops, were made on 26th inst. at about one tael a picul higher than last year's opening rates. quality is fully equal to last season's early Teas. An attempt is again being tried to make Green former trials. Teas at Foochow, but judging from musters to hand it does not promise any better results than
The
Pingsney 17,111 -ch, at Tls. 13 to 38 a picul.
Settlements since 14th instant are :--- Local Packed. 3,740.
Tôtal...20,851 half-chests.
18 to 30°
Total settlements since opening of the market to date:
1895-96.
-chests.
1894-95:
-cheste.
Bingsueys Local Packed
34,684
against 35,758
4,846
2,914
Total
39,530
38,672
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA' TO ODESSA.
1895-06 lbs.
1891-95 lbs. 15,903,719
Hankow and Shanghai...19,770,552