July 18, 1895,|
The existence of cholera in South Formosa is denied.
The Tientsin correspondent of the China Gazette, writing on the 1st inst., says: The thirty-seven British marines who returned from Peking on Saturday embarked for the south on the British steamer Chungking this morning. The balance of the fifty Legation guards will no doubt return and form an escort for Sir Nicholas and Lady O'Conor.
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The visit of the Freuch men-of-war to Nan- king, the N. C. Daily News says, has had an excellent effect and the officials have been call. ing upon the missionaries with assurances that they will be protected and that they are per- fectly safe. They also invited the missionaries to a feast which was to be given on the 3rd inst.
Mr. Enslie's award in the Rheingold case, says the Kobe Chronicle, will be a serious blow to the unfortunate captain and owners of the vessel, who, including the thousand dollars admitted and deducting the $1.81 due to them, bave to $10,328.53 to the charterers. Altogether It is calculated that, counting the loss caused by the delay of the vessel at Kobe for seven or eight weeks, during which time she was earning nothing, this unfortunate dispute will cost the owners some twenty-five thousand dollars.
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The N. C. Daily News says:-The claim of the Indo-China S. N. Co on Messrs. Telge & Co., in consequence of the detention, etc., of the Tiksang, owing to contraband of found on her, which was gracefully and with war being perfect confidence submitted by the agents, Messrs. Jardine, Mathesōu & Co., to the arbitration of the Consul-General for Germany, Dr. Stuebel, has been allowed in full in the award just rendered. Messrs. Dowdall and Hanson appeared for the Yiksang and Mr.
Drummond for the defendant firm.
Three days ago a serious conflict took place between the local people and some five or six hundred' Hunan braves at Canton, in which a number of lives were lost. It appears that some of the Cantonese in passing throngh the quarter occupied by the braves in question had been in the habit of taunting them with assertions that their fellow-provincials, the Hunan braves in the North, had sold the country to the Japanese, being afraid to fight. The braves becoming exasperated set upon some of their detractors and mauled them badly. A large mob then collected and a fight commenced, which was only stopped by the Viceroy sending a large force of soldiers to the place. The Hunan troops have been removed to another camp at the back of the oity...
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
General Wang Tzu-lien, whose escape from Port Arthur, capture in Canton, and delivery noted, has been sentenced to bauishment to the to the Board of Punishments have already been New Dominions.
writes:-Li Hung-cbang has asked Mr. Detring A Tientsin oorrospondent of the Mercury
its editor, but he has disappeared-probably to close his pap r, the Chih-pao. H.E. also wants
his health. gone to your port (Shanghai) for the betrefit of
We (China Gazette) are glad to learn that the foundation for the rumour that the British Minister, Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor, that the distinguished diplomat recently sprainod bad met with an accident only lies in the fact his ankle while playing tennis and is suffering at present from what is known as a tennis foot.
News writes on the 29th June:-The Com- The Ichang correspondent of the N. C. Daily missioner of Customs has just returned from a week's stay at Shashi and now the Consuls have gone down there to prospect. We bear the Taotai has issued a proclamation forbidding the people to sell to foreigners except through the yamen. Whatever is sold will be at a fine price. According to an edict of the 5th instant, says Governor of Hunan, lately Commander of the natives in some parts of Shantung, the provincial the N. C. Daily News, E. Wu Ta-chong, graph lines have been cut and stolen by the Owing to the frequency with which the tele-
Hunan army which gave up Newchwang without authorities have recently proclaimed their inten- a blow to the Japanese, has been ordered to resign his Governorship and go up to Pekingishable by decapitation. The penalty in the tion to make future offences of that nature pan- and await the pleasure of the Throne. As Wu Ta-chêng is a protégé of Wêng Tung ho, Im- wire bas hitherto been 400 blows of the bamboo case of a thief convicted of stealing telegraph perial Tutor, the chances are that he will fare and a month's cangue. inuch better than the edict above quoted might seem to indicate
News from Weihaiwei, says the N. C. Daily The existence of plague at Fooctow is denied. Kun (Esmeralda) came ont and steamed away News, reports that on the 7th inst. the Idsumi In reply to a telegram from Shanghai asking for in the direction of Port Arthur. She looked toric fevers and diseases arising from insanitary There were three other cruisers in their war information the following was received:-En-uice and bright, having just been painted white. conditious exist in the city, but no plague. paint inside, Neither medical missionaries practising in the city transports was seen off the N.. Promontory At noon a fleet of four Japaneso single case of plague at Foochow. Two deaths nor port medical officer have been able to trace a steaming in the direction of Port Arthur. were reported by the natives to have resulted from plague; but the doctors found from ex. amination that they were fatal cases of typhoid.
A very sad accident happened the other daylat Woosung, says the Mercury, whereby one of the petty officers of the German man-of-war Prinz Wilhelm lost his life, through over-confidence and ignorance of the treacherous nature of the tide and under currents at Woosung. It seems templed to swim to the Trene, the sister ship of that, after leave hours, the unfortunate man at- the Pring Wilhelm, which was lying moore:l a though search was made with electric light, &c., cable length outside, but he was not seen again, for more than two hours.
Canton for making the subsidiary coins used The old appliances belonging to the miut in formerly to be sold, and scoundrels often bought them for making counterfeit coins. The reason why the people undervalue the subsidiary coins is that there are a good many coins made private- and consisting of haf silver and half alloy. The ly with the old moulds bought from the mint Chung Ngoi San Po suggested in an article which should prove useful to the mint people that all the old appliances should be destroyed and that the coins should be marked with the date of coining, so that the people may know in what year the coin is made.
Sergeant Nakamura, one of those injured in the explosion at Kelung, has told the story of that disastrous incident since his arrival in hospital at Hiroshima,
The N. C. Daily News says:-A sad fatality the Hyogo News. Several thous-occurred on board the Bygdo ou her trip up from says and cases of powder, he says, were seized after Hongkong. It appears that twenty-four hours the fighting on June 4th ad were left till the next day, under careful guard, in the premises of
after leaving port, the third engineer met with big temple in the southern part of the town. mate who was on duty at the time called the boat- an accident and lost three of his fingers The The Sergeant was then put in charge of a party to remove the powder to a safer place.band, but the sight of the wound appears to bare swain to assist him in binding up the engineer's As he and a number of others, including some officers, approached the spot the explosion The deceased was duly 32 years of age and was aff cted him, for he died half an hour afterwards. occurred; 27 in all were killed, and over 120 in married. He had been with the present master jured. An examination made as soon as possible of the vessel for six years. resulted in the arrest of two Chinamou found typhoon he was washed overboard, and it is sup. Last year while in a under the temple carrying boring tools and min- posed that this affected his heart. ing fuse. There is no doubt they caused the ex-
The Bygdo plosion, but sentence had not been passed upon and the engineer sent to hospital.
put in to Amoy, where the boatswain was buried them when Sergeant Nakamura left.
According to letters from trustworthy native sources at Chenglu, says the N. C. Daily News, the Viceroy Lin Ping-chang received about the middle of last month an Imperialedict condemning rioting against foreigners in his province. ` A despatch from the Tsungli Yamen to him also strongly protested and upbraided him on the same grounds, and threatened that if any more riots were reported from Szechuen after the arrival at Chengta of the Imperial edict and the despatch in question, Liu Ping-chang himself would be made to pay for all the damage caused by the rioters, coupled with being stripped of his rank and title and confiscation of his immense posses sions. This induced Lin to issue a metrical pro- slamation authorising any foreigner or native to kill the rioters-a proclamation so contrary to his nsual method as to cause people who knew him to ascribe the proclamation to the new Viceroy Lu Ch'uan-lin.
at Moji, it appears, says the Ke Chronicle, that From further details concerning the collision the transport Moji-maru, with a number of soldiers and horses of the 6th Division on board, came into port on Friday afternoon (28th ult.,) caught the vessel and brought her round on to but after the anchor was let go the tide suddenly
and she at once began to fill. the Toyomaru. The Moji was severely damaged, mediately made to get all the soldiers and horses Efforts were im- off the vessel, and though a number of the horses were drowned, it is believed that none of the men under water, but it appears from the latest are missing. The vessel filled until her stern was
in the bow of the Toyo i ru about 15 feet long. account that she is still afloat. A hole was made but above, the water line. The Taiwan aru, which was close by, is als reported to have sustained slight damage, presumably by the Moji-maru drifting against her. Fifty-eight horses were drowned on the Moji-maru.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
fortnight's settlements are reported at 3,600 boxes CANTON, 16th July.-Macao Congous.-The at Tls. 103 to Tl. 231 per picul, which, at the close, must be again be quoted TI. to Tl. 1 per picul lower than a fortnight ago. There is a small
demand for Australia and 'South America, but wo hear of no business for Hamburg. Scented Capers. -Transactions aggregate 25,000 boxes at Tls, 9} to Tls. 29 per picul, making 123,000 boxes since up to the same date last the opening of the season, against 79,000 boxes
year. The bulk of pur chases was effected during the first week of the
ruled weaker, marking a decline of Ti. 1 for com- ing the market for the time, but prices have since period under review, and had the effect of stendy-
mon, and Tl. 1 to Tl. 1 per picul for medium and buyers evidently waiting to hear the results of the fine Toas. At the moment the market is quiet, first shipments. Unshipped purchases amount to Small lots of Long-leaf find buyers from time to about 35,000 boxes. Scented Orange Pekoes.- time; for Ouchaine the lowest quotation is Tls. 8 Tls. 8 per picul.
Lewis & Co.'s circular).-London deliveries of SHANGHAI, 12th July.-(Frqu Messrs. Welch
China Congou for June were 2,210,000 lbs. and liveries and 9,480,000 lbs. stock in 1894. "Type" stocks 10,700,000 lbs. against 2,107,000 lbs. de- is quoted at 51 a lb. yesterday reports sales of new Black Leaf in A Reuter's telegram received London at 13. 2d. to 1s. 11d. a lb., but private, discouraging. Black Tea.-There is little change telegrams are ominously few, and their news is
few, though there has been a better supply of to report in this market. Settlements are very musters. Second crop Keemuns attract some
Hankow. The second crop will not be short of attention, aud clean Teas under taels 13) a picul are wanted. A steady, business continues in
last year's yield.
Settlements reported are:- Ningchow.. 360-chts. at Tls. 23 to 24 n pioul. Hohow
164 Wenchow... 197 2 Oonam .1,031
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17 171 to 20 13 to 134
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Total...1,752 -chts. chests at same date last year.
Stock.-11,754 half-chests, against 11,670 half-
per cent. larger than was brought to market las. Green Tea. With a probable crop at least 10 season (or say 30 millions to 31 millions to dea with in the place of 274 millions last season) it is
they are offered, especially as prices given ar difficult to understand the reason for the eagernes, to buy all descriptions of Green Tea as soon a
Buyers appear to be grading the Teas too high e much above every one's idea of safety, and ar giving growers and middlemen good profite
compare somewhat favourably with those of same partly no doubt because some of the chops to hand class last year. This will probably be corrected when the "choice" Moyunes and Tienkais arrive. It is almost impossible at this early date to guess how Teas will be distributed during the season, ideas are as follow:-Probable export
but our