October 15, 1898.)
Colonel have been disbanded, under instructions from Peking, with the view of economising. There are only three garrisons of one hundred soldiers each remaining at the Viceroy's yamen. The disbanded soldiers were shipped to Shia. hing on the 9th instant.
HONGKONG.
Mr. D. Gillies was a passenger for Manila by the Esmeralda.
There were 2,116 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 169 were Europeans. The Marquis Ito arrived at Shanghai on the 5th October, having left Peking on the 28th September.
The retaru of communicable diseases notified during the week ended 8th October shows one case of enteric fever.
CHIN OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
It is reported that Major General Wilsone Black's successor in the command of the troops will be Major General Gascoigne, now com. manding the Canadian Militia.
Commander Hastings had an extraordinary specimen of humanity before him on 10th Oct. Four men were implicated in a gambling case. The stamp revenue last month was $26,558, One of them-the owner of the cargo boat in being an increase of $5.422 on the amount which the gambling took place--was a most collected in the corresponding month of 1897. repulsive object, his face being swollen and his A Simila despatch of the 26th September hands and feet covered with sores. It trans- states that Artillery Lieutenants Mair, Mul-pired that he was a leper. He and the others liken, and Colville have been ordered to join were fined, but instead of serving the alternative the Hongkong and Singapore Battalion: term of imprisonment he will be sent to the
leper island at Canton.
The maximum temperature last mouth was 90, on the 30th, and the minimum 73.7, on the 11th, the mean for the month being 80.9. The rainfall for the mouth amounted to 3.295 inches.
The French steamer Hoihuo, formerly the Fokien, which was so badly damaged in the typhoon of the 29th ult. and has since been undergoing repairs at the Foochow Arsenal, arrived here on 10th Oct. The Hoikao belongs to Mr. Marty.
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Owing to the dull business in cotton yarn it is reported that the Hugsheng Cotton Spinning Mills at Yargtzepoo will stop work temporarily, so soon as the balance of material on hand shall have been worked up.-N. C. Daily News.
COMMERCIAL.
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TEA.
A correspondent informs us that the Triads in the districts of Sunon. Tungkan, and Kwai- sia are preparing for à rising and, that absent members are being notified to rejoin the tricts. Many new members are also said to be Lewis & Co.'s Circular)-Our last "prin ed' branches of the Society in their respective dis-
SHANGHAI, 8th October.-(From Messrs. Welch, joining, including even some of the geutry. As Tea market advices were under date 26th ultimo, the projected Canton Volunteer Corps has not Black Tea-Only two small settlements are yet been formed, Liu Jung-fu, the Black Flageported. A few trashy "Shuntaams have been chief, is inviting recruits to join his standard shown, but it is to be hoped that no quantity of for the defence of the dry.
this low quality stuff is likely to be brought forward. Settlements reported are:-
480 half-chest, at Tls. 16 to 6 a picul.. Stock. 5,909 half-chests. CIREEN EA.-Late fel graphic advices from New York report there is 10 improvement in this market. This continued stagnation week after week begins to impress upon buyers here how larg a quantity of Green Tea must have remained unconsumed in the United States for some seasons past. Although vague stateļuents of 1rge stocks had been received from obres. ponders, it was difficult to believe that these were not exaggerated after two years of small export, and after last year's losses at sea and wholesale rejections of Pinguey. The position has been exposed by the levying of a duty, but it remains to be seen to what point the actual consumption of Green Tea in the Un ted States has fallen. Pingey Nearly the whole busin: si reported has been shipments on native account; there is little or n› deiawi otherwise. Country Teas-Tie volume of business reported is less than it was during the previous interval and the maket ses quiet with less desire on the part of buyers to operate. Moyunes have kept fairly stedy, and on the whol are no lower in price, thoug occasional chops lock rather cheaper. Tienkais in most cases show a rather weaker market. Fychors have fallen as much in quality as they have in price. cal-packed wante. A moderate business lins been done by are quite neglected. Hysons.--Choicest are still
MISCELLANEOUS.
A letter to tlio Osaka Asahi from Vladivo- stock states that Prince Henry of Prussia arrived at the city of Habarovsk on the 19th ult.. having proceeded thither by train from Vladi- vostock, which he left on the 16th ult. On the way the Prince was given a warm reception at Nicolaiersk by the military officers and leading merchants of the town.
The appointment of Mr. C. McIlvaine Messer to be Acting Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils, with effect from the We are glad to learn that Liaug Chi-tsao 11th inst. during the absence of Mr. J. G. T..the editor of the defunct journal Chinese Pro- Buckle, is gazetted. Mr. Buckle,, we under-gress, and Waug Shan, Secretary of the Board stand, is going to Japan on vacation leave..
On Monday afternoon a plot of Crown land situate in Macdounel Road (between Kennedy and Bowen Roads) was offered for sale by public auction. It comprises 31.700 square feet. The annual rent is 8216. The plotras sold to Miss Kate Mather for $3,829-825. abore the upset price.
It is notified in the Gazette that the Queen's exequatur empowering Mr. Rounsevelle Wild- man to act as Consul-General for the United States has received Her Majesty's signature; also that Mr. Edwin Wildman has been re- cognised as Vice and Deputy Consul-General for the United States.
of Rites, another prominent protégé of Kang Yu-wei, lave reached a place of safety, where they will be secure from the rage of the Empress Dowager, Jung Lu, and Li Hungchang. They arrived in Nagasaki a couple of days ago, on a Japanese steamer from Gazette.
Tientsin.-China
bitterness, the final proof that the fit had reached its height and that re-action must be taken.
correspondent of the N. C. Daily News says
Referring to the Peking crisis the Tientsin
The element of comedy is not wanting in more exalted quarters if the native statements can be accepted. They say that His Majesty appeared before his august anut in all the bravery of fereign clothes made by the uatire sartorial artist who jobs for the Legatious. Presumably, Captain T. Carlyle, R.A.. Inspector of Ord. like most orientals who get into foreign rig for nance Machinery, is to be transferred from the first time, he must have cut à curions figure Singapore to Hongkong. Capt. and Mrs. bowler hat and stick. The story is that this Carlyle will leave by the first trooper for Hong-droll vagary was the last drop in the uf
cup kong, probably the Jelunga, which will pass through with the Welsh Fusiliers. Capt. Carlyle will in all probability be able to, shoot in the Singapore team before he goes. He put on a very fine 101 the other day.--Free Press,
For working a horse while the same was suf- fering from a sore on the back, the liceused driver of No. 3 gharry was on 13th Oct. fined $25 by Commander Hastings. Sergeant Clarke noticed that the horse, which was standing opposite the, Central Market, was very restive, and on caus- ing defendant to remove the saddle ho found underneath a sore one and a half inc n dia meter. He had the horse uuyoked and taken to the stables.
An exceptionally high tile was experienced at Shanghai on the 1st October, partly due to the effect of the N.E. gale. The grass plats along the Baud foreshore were flooded to such an extent that in places the sampaus found suf- ficient water to float in. The Bund in several places was under water, especially hear the Gar- den Bridge, where it was impossible to pass on foot without getting wet feet. The Somehow Creek overflowed its banks so that the flow of rain water through the channels of the adjacent streets was checked and the roads were partially flooded. Similar overflows prevailed along the Broadway and out Yangtz-poo. The tide on the 2nd was also an exceptionally high one → N. C. Daily News:
Kang Yu-wei, the "Modern Sage" of China, formerly kept a school in Canton. The school was carried on until the other day and many of Kang's old pupils were still in attendance, but The China Gazette of the 6th October says:- hearing that they were to be arrested, on sus- Amongst the most interested spectators of this picion of being adherents of Kang in his politi-morning's powing was Lord Charles Beresford, cal movements they left the school and retired into hiding. On the 6th October the Punya Magistrate went with a number of his followers and shut up aud sealed the school-house. No arrests were made.
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who was one of the first to arrive at the rails, accompanied by his Private Secretary. The gallant Lord seemed to be hugely interested in the times, and doubtless the scenetecalled the days, when his figure was slighter and his hair Flogging as now inflicted in Victoria Gaol, thicker, that be, as a junior lientenant in the viz., with the birch, produces. Dr. Atkinson nvy, similarly spent his mornings twenty-five tells us in his auunal report, "no contusion of the subcutaneous tissues, the usual result being wound up the day with a game of bowls in the years ago at the Shanghai Race Course, and a superficial reduess which soon passes off and old bowling alley & the Maloo, where his does not interfere with the prisoner's labour."
score, which was not quite a record." is affec Most persons have probably had some experience tionaly preserved. Yesterday afternou Lord of this “superficial redness" in the earlier por-Charles accompanied Mr. C. J. Dudgeon on a tion of their career, As milk for babes it may be wholesome, but we should be inclined to doubt its efficacy as strong meat for men.
tour of inspection of the foreign cotton mills on Yangtszepoo Road. To-morrow Lord Charlas will have a meeting with the Marquis, Lto.
few buyers in "finest" Moyunes and Tienkais at Tis. 30,35, many of which show good valno compare with any previous settlements thia season. The demand is not active.
Setilem nts reported are:-
ichts.
Pinganey Moyune Lienkai
Fychow
5,023 shipped.
6,870 at Tls. 20 to 28 a picul 6,503
18 to 30 2,176
17} to 20
F1
71
Local packed...... 218 shipped.
20.82-1 4-chtz
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Total sttlements from opening of the market o date:-
Pingsucy Mayune Tienkai Fychow..... Lo al packed
Pingstey Moyune... Tienkai.. Fychow...... Local packed
1898-99.
Settlemen's. Stock.
-chits.
-clits.
25,7-38
15,165
41,725
34,060
34,051
11,417
13 115
3,217
Total...
129,086
52,763
1897-68.
Settlements. Stock.
f.chts.
j-chts,
59.930
25,410
$2,348
55,013
18.432
16,8.6
14,010
282
Total...... 98.8 18
$1,133
EXPORT OU TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.
A
1898-9.1
1897.98 ibs.
Il a. Hankow and Shanghai .. 9 277,051 10,103,236 Foochow
.10,573,771 14,664,212
300,250 3,194,0 6 3,132,080
$18,058
3,855,438
25,519,964
Amoy.. Canton
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
Shanghai.... Away
Foochow
1878-90 1897-08.
lb.
Iba. 7,186,001 10,548,100.
6 410,936
0,354,477
4.069,031
5,807,972
17,865,991 25,800,540