July 24, 1895.].
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
year, the first six months having been pheno- menally prosperous.
IMPORTS EXCLUSIVE OF RIVER TRADE,
1894.
Steamers
lish papers published in the Siamese capital and they carry on a perpetual triangular duel. In one of them a barrister has an in- terest, another is controlled by a solicitor, and the third is, supposed to be in friendly Stoamers relations with the French Consulate. The Sailing ships barrister and solicitor carry their quarrels
Total. into the British Consular Court, where they appear against each other in cases in which they are directly or indirectly interested, and then they write letters to their papers Sailing ships about the matters in dispute, and even their reports are not. free from the ex- pression of personal feeling. The editor of one of the papers was recently in Court in reference to a dispute with one of his native staff. The solicitor interested in the rival paper of course appeared against bim, and the report published in the litigant's Beans paper contained the following passage:- "Mr. Tilleke, who declined to call
Total..
Net
Imported
1895.
No. Tonnago. No. Tonnage. 1,521 1,920,447 1,458 1,962,969 52-- 58,000 146 48,363
1,573 1,979,407 1,501 2,011,332
made up as follows:-
Articles.
Coals
wit.
Coffee Cobra
1,730 298,210
161
PASSENGERS..
In
1394. 1895.
creaßo.
De- crease.
Br tish vessels ar-
rivals carried... 70,311 British vessels de.
partures carried 43,412
68,276
2,038
56,913
13,411
Br tish vessels emi- grants carried...
22.742
33.751
11,009
Total
136,468 158,540. 21,420
2,033
Increase. No. Tonnage. 42,522
Decrease. No. Tonnage.
06
Neb... 22,872
Foreign vessels ar
rivals carried ... 25,029
24.81
189
6 10,597
Foreign v. ssels de-
42,522
172
10,597
partures carried 15,935 Foreign vessels
16,048
113
31,925
emigrants carried 7,535
8,029
491
1,474,331
1,514,730
Total
...... 48.199
48,917
3.7
189
Net...
418
River steamers ar-
1891.
1595.
In- De- crease, crease.
i
rivals carried River steamers de-
260,253 267,006
813
1,730
304,221
500
parture carried 318,09 241,1 1
77,453
16,011
500
Total
10
813 581,862 508,247
10
100
25,800
50,482
400 25,182
77,458 Net... 76,615
Kerosine
to Lead
Oil
69,745
41,079
28,666
100
100
Janks in foreign trado arrivals carried
56,411 37,104
723
2,571
2,508
24
Junks in foreign
1,190
1,190
625
G25
trade departures carried
429,320
459,591
6,250
50
815 1,262
8,770 350 543,841
1,300 91,674 103,608 500 13,811
559,105
1,474,334 1,541,730 523,856 721.134
30,271 6,250
427
11,93 F 500 5,074
15,264
103,127 32.731 102,722
Total
63,870 52,935
12,281 110,069
10,935
50
Net...
723 10,035 10,212
1,300 Total arrivals. $18,0 7 417,316 Total depart res... 411,826 ||266,917
661
174,-79
Total
Total
859,833 634,293 350 Total Emigrants... 30,277 41,780 590,110 726.073
175,540
11l5:3
11,563 · 175,64)
Net... 101,037
Difference.
Total by arri- vals...
2,298,100 2,265,864 103,127 135,458
Net
Emigrants Remaining
2,719 150,339 186,630 30,277 41,780 11,503 6,558 108,619 125177
32,326
Janksin local trade
arriva's carried Junks in local trade
departures ried...
3,015
3,220 184
car.
Total
2,450 1,6:1
-5,591 4.9:0
775
184
775
591
Opium Rattan
Sandalwood
Gener al
Total
any nesses for the defence, submitted that Ebony. the action had been conceived from Flour "malicious motives and attempting "blast the character. of a little man, that Mr. THORNE in effect--was a body- "snatcher and several descriptions of a Rice "brutal, bold, bad man, and that the fact of Salt. "his throwing a deadly missile like a tea-Saltpetre
cup at a defenceless Chinaman was enough Sapanwood "to brand him as a villain of the deepest Sugar.
Sulphur "dye and much more to the same effect,
Timber all from the textbook." That is pot Tea...... journalism. The public of Bangkok, we should think, take as little interest in the quarrels of the conductors or proprietors of | Transit rival papers as they do in any couimon street brawl. What the public wants, and has a right to expect, in a newspaper, is Con- honest reporting and fair comment. troversy on public topics may be useful and interesting, and the harder the blows dealt in the shape of fair argument the more en- tertaining and the more profitable for the elucidation of truth the contest is likely to prove, but the mere calling of names or in- dulgence in abuse is disgraceful and ought to be as rigidly excluded as hitting below the belt in a sparring watch.
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EXPORTS EXCLUDING RIVER TRADE.
Steamers Sailing ships
Total.... Exported.............
1894.
1895. No. Tonnage. No. Tonnage. 1,505 1,805,549 1,437 1,943|170 49 48,472 16 41,277 1,551 1,944,021 1,503 1,987,447
731,497 Increase.
710,973 Decrcase
No. Tonnage. No. Tounage,
THE TRADE OF THE PORT.
We have received from the Acting Harbour! Master, Hon. W.C. H. Hastings, the following in. teresting memo. on the trade of Hongkong dur- ing the first half of 1894, with accompanying tables
During the half year ending 30th June 1895, 4,451 European constructed vessels, a gregating 5,642,763 tons, carried 717,004 passengers and 3,281,280 tons; the latter made up as follows:-
Import cargo......... 1,597,444 tons Export
763,106 727,981
"
Transit
Buuker coal shipped
192,749
"
3,281,280
·Total.. Compared with the corresponding period of last year this shows a decrease of 70 ships, but an increase of 71,897 fons, showing the steady in- crease in the size of the vessels. It must be re- membered also that the Japanese flag has not been seen in the port this year. Last year it was represented by 88 ships, measuring 133,265 tous The Chinese flag has also been absent, but most of the vessels have passed under the English and German colours. Passenger traffic shows a decrease of 52,825. due donbtless to the war and the plague at Macao,
Imports show an increase of Exports show a decrease of
Transit shows a decrease of
Bunker coal shipped an increase of
.
tobs.
67,858
138,083
95.875
3,104
a total decrease of 37,996 tons. carried and handled. Reference to the annual report, however, shows that the effects of last year's plague were not felt till the third quarter of the
Steamers Sailing ships
Total.. Net
Exported.
47,621 49
3
47,621 51. 43,128 31
4,495
4.495
20,524
1894.
1895.
Shipped
Bunker Steamers. Coal. Steamers. 1,505 179;144 1,457
Increase.
Bunker i
Shipped
Net
SUPREME COURI
18th July.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
BEFORE THE ON. W. M. GOODMAN
(ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE).
!
ANOTHER COMPLAINT BY THE ACTING
ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
Bunker Coal. 172,145 Decrease.
The Acting Attorney-General (Hon. A. G. Bunker Wise)-I may mention that there is another case Steamers. Coal. Steamers. Coal. -an arson case. The depositio .s were sent out. 6,999 | but I have not seen them yet. They have not yet reached my hands, but it will be as well to 6,999
take the case at these Sessions sometime.
RIVER STEAMERS,
48
49
Ton- Imports Exports Bunker Pas- Year. No.
tons. nage.
tons. Coal. sengers. 1804...1,391 1,647,438 55,252 44,692 10,501 581,862 1895...1,144 1,443,984 52,714 52,139 10,604 509,217
NET.
No. of steamers
Increase.
53
Tonnage
7,517 103
Imports
Exports Bunker coal Passengers.
JUNKS.
Decrease
His Lordship-Would you like eleven o'clock to mrrow morning or Saturday ?
The Acting Attorney-General-Personally I would prefer Tuesday, if that would suit you...
His Lordship-The Court will not be avail able, as scaffolding will be put up in order to have the roof examined. Of course it would Be pos- 203,454 sible to have the small court, but it will not be
3,548 convenient.
The Acting Attorney-General-1 do not know when I shall get the depositious
75,615
Juuks in foreign trade imported 222,618 tons and exported 587,916 tons; excess of exports 335,298 tous. European constructed vessels imported in excess of exports 834,338 tons; excess of exports by junks reduces this to 199,040 tons, from which agaiu must be subtracted 192.749 tons of bunker coal shipped exclusive of coal supplied to Her Majesty's ships and foreign men-of-war, leaving a balance consumed, manu- factured, and in stock in the colony of 306,291 tons as against 317,089 tons for the Corre- sponding half year.
Junks in local trade imported 52,696 tons, of which 50,752 tons were earth and stones, clear- ing from Victoria with 4,510 tbus of general cargo and 5,701 tons of earth and stones...
His Lordship-I do not know why you have not ha them.
Mr. Phillippo-f appear for the defence in that case, and I should like it taken as soon as possible, as the prisoners have not been able to find bail.
His Lordship-I will take it to-morrow at 11 o'clock.
AN ABSENT JURYMAN His Lordship then asked for William Griffiths Humphreys to be called again. His name was called as a juror, but he did not appear, neither did he appear on being called a second time.
The Acting Attorney-General-I understaud he was served personally. To my knowledge this is not the first occasion on which he has absented himself.
His Lordship Of course jurors must under.