23 1807
CHINA ÖVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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settlement we he
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been made for circula--| buyers have readily paid the prices asked Prices orts, the high autho paid are $670 for Miu King Lan 11/13,
to pay the salaries for Kwong Shun Cheong 11/13 and mêns in the country $650 for Kwong Lun Fung 11/13 $630 for Kwon ad of, as has been the Wo Hing 18/15 and Kwong Sun On 11/18, $620 or shoes" by weight, for Kwong Lpn Hing 11/13, $615 for Yu King innovation will natür- Lun 11/18 and Shun Kee 10/12, $600 for Kum but will be made as King Cheong 18/15 $590 for Kwong Loong Cheong and Wing Kee 9/11, $555 for King Wo a mint with foreign: and there are a suficient number of Cheong 18/22. Short-reals—Are very scarce and the Treasury for disbursement. When especially in the lower grades there are but very payments in dollars, the market rate few desirable parcels. From prices paid we quote: $625 for Yu Wo Cheong 14/16; $605 for Kum will be adhered to, and for this purpose King Cheong 16/18, 600 for U Hau Cheong 14/16, it is intended to ask the Bankers Exchanges $590 for Tee Wo Loong and Yan Hing Cheong of each provincial capital to send to the Trea-1/16, 2675 for Koun King 14/16, and $580 for cury three times a month the lat, 11th, and Wo Lun Hing 14/18. Waste Nothing doing. 21st day of each month -the prevailing market Prices are very irregular according to quality, quotations of dollars in relation to taels, and which is so mixed that it is almost impossible to payments will then be made in accordance with give reliable quotatious, Stocks-Teatlees, 500 these quotations: Hupeh province has been bales; Filatures, 1,500 bales. the first to adopt the new step, which began on the 1st of the 2nd moon, the 3rd March.-N. C Daily News
The Japan Gazette of the 15th March says:- HMS Undaunted is flying the homeward ant, a telegram having been received on urday stating that the new crew of the uiser is being brought out by the Edgar We understand that the Edgar will leave home on 3rd of April, and that the two vessels will meet at Trincomalee, where the Undaunted will begin her now commission. The Edgar will then return home, the Undaunted remaining on the China Station. The instructions reached the Undaunted earlier than expected, and it is probable that the forthcoming Diamond Jubilee celebration is accountable for this fact. Soon after the arrival of the telegram on Saturday the officers and crew were informed of the contents of the message, and hearty cheers were raised, while the ship's band played Homeward Bound." It is satis factory to learn that the Undaunted is spoken of as a very comfortable ship, her officers apparently being as popular on board as they are among the residents of the port. The Undaunted's homeward pennant, we may mention, is one to be proud of; it measures as many feet as there are days in the year.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
EXPORT OF TÉA FROM CHINA TO GREAT
and Macao
BRITAIN.
1896-97
lbs.
....... 6,284,513
hai and Hankow...18,410,818
Shanghai, 19th March.-(From Mr. A. E. Bur- kill's Circular).-London telegrams are to 17th current,' and `quote: "Gold KilinsTM 8/6;· Blue Elephants 9/101, market steady." Raw Silk.** Settlements have been on a larger scale for the week past than we have experienced for some months; the most noticeable feature has been the demand for Steam Filatures, both for the States and for the Continent. Exchange has fallen considerably during the interval, and a corre sponding advance in price is noticeable in Tsatless of the lower grades, which have been most enquired after. Taatlees.-14/',500 bales have found purchasers at the quotations below, and the market is closing very firm. Yellow Silks. About 200 bales have been settled. Arrivals are on a very limited scale, and supplies of most kinds are almost at an end. Arrivals, as per Customs Returns, 11th to 17th current: 910 bales White, 39 piculs Yellow, and 112 piculs Wild Silks. Re-reels and Filatures.Some 1,200 bales Steam Filatures are reported settled, about one half fine sizes and one half 13/15 deniers; these parchases exhaust the stocks on hand. Of Hand Filatures, some 300 bales have been bought, cross and ordinary reels, and further large lots are still under offer. The export of Steam Filatures to date is: to London 21 bales, to Còr- tinent 2,322 bales, and to America 2,050 balès. Wild Silk.-No further contracts have been made. Dealers are now asking Tls. 205 for No. 1 Waste Silk Purchases of Tussah Warte 60 per cent; and 40 per cent. at Tis. 24.40 average, and of Filature Knubs at Tls. 86 have transpired, otherwise the market is dull and inactive.
EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND
JAPAN TO EUROPE.
MIS
HONGKONG continued when der
Latest
for
for Old
Malva. There had been very lit this drag during the past we almost nged. The following. quotat
New (thisyre) $760 with all'ance
(last yrs) $780
Old
Persian
this drug duri
$800
$550 to
ng to quality
otive demand. the intervs superior kinds of Pap wrapped has been almost exhausted I thus description= $500 to $580 accor
Today's stocks are estimated as New Patna Old Patnu..... New Benares Old Benares Malwa Persian
490 80
PATKA
DATE
New Old.
Now
6533
1897. Mar 653 Mar. 18 Mar. 196531
650
[660 38721 Már. 21 650 6721 660 700
22 650
672) 657
6762
660 715
7603
6761 660
675 660 $700
$700
760
760
700
760
656
6521 072 660 700
760
Mar. 20
M
Mar. 23 Mar 24
-677665700 $760 800
reh Moderate sales ha quotations Stookal
**** COTTON. HONGKONG, 24th_) been effected on 5,800 bales.
Bombay
Kurrachee Bengal Rangoon,
Dacca
Shanghai and Japanese Tungehow and N Madras
Sales 1166 bales Bengal,
15.75 to 17.00 P 15.50 to 17.00
16.25 to 17.50)
00 to 22:00
1895-96
lbs. 7,510,177
....12,749,506
37,144,332
48,503,655
-1899.97
bales. 21,317,405 | Canton ................................................................. 21,888 14,676,073 | Shanghai ............................................... 48,755 Yokohama..................................................... 16,976
82,619
1895-98
HONGKONG 24th slack during
amand
Week
£
bales ing Quots
15,145
Saigon Ordin
48,665
Bound
od quality
18,700
Siam
82,600
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED | EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN
STATES AND CANADA.
TO AMERICA:
1896-97
Shanghai
LEROV
Foochow
1895-96
lbs. 19,809,591 29,094,771 19,022,415 14,665,055 11,716,764 19,199,184
-1896-97.
895-98.
HONGKONG,
bales.
baler
Canton
8,844
9,100
Chinghai ỆN ĐẠI Tokohama
5,084
9,251
17,727
21,981
$6.75 to 6.50 to
50,648,770
56,959,010
26,655
40,362
Mike Moji Lum
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO
ODESSA.
1896-97
Changhai and Han
1895-90 lbs. 22,949,128 27,240,869
EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED
CAMPHOR HONGKONG, -24th March. cumula again and the Quotations for
to $48.00. Sales, 100 pic
-Stocks are now fac.
market is weaker repo
a nominally $47.60 Y
No
STATES AND CANADA.
1896-97
The inark
1895-90
prices has t
1b8 685,688 14,061 219
49,526,802
lbs. 29,601,011
800
97.20 to 7.23 per pol.
48 228,444
Brown
at the male