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It has been decided by the Board of Directors of the Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited, that the 5.12 anallotted shares (which were subscribed for nearly three times over, chiefly at the price EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED
KINGDOM AND CONTINENT. of $76 per share) shall participate pari passu with the other shares in the dividend for the current balf year from lat January.
The stamp revenue for the first quarter of the present year amounted to $99,995, as com- pared with $113,825 in the corresponding quar. ter of last year. There were increases in twenty-six items, amounting to $13,504, and decreases in sixteen items, amounting to $28,334, of which $26,669 occurred under the head of probate.
We regret to learn that telegraphic intelli. gence has been received of the death at Peking of Mr. R. A. Anderson, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, which occurred on 18th April the cause being typhoid fever. Mr. Anderson was transferred last summer from Hongkong to Shanghai, where he had been stationed on a previous occasiou, and at both ports the news of his death will throw a gloom over a large circle of frien is.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
337
COMMERCIAL,
TEA.
EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN
ΤΟ AMERICA.
1898-99
1897-98
bales
bálès.
Shanghai
10.275
12,185
1897-98 1.8. 15,099,727
Cantɔd .........................................................ṬLION 9,710
11,208
Yokohama................................................... 27,886.
· 81,860
12,60,188
46,821
54,793
687,651 5,889,288
84,281,854
HONGKONG, 21st April.-The
alightly Armer.
**
1898-99
1b,
Hankow and Shanghai...12 230 ₪63 Fonchow
..12,076,578 Amoy..
688.318 Canton
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3,149,722
81,044,281
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO
UNITED STATES AND CANADA,
shanghai.. Amoy Foochow
1898-99
16,621 547 15 036,418
1897.08.
lbs. 20,836,00
9.178,280
40,836,240
1898-99
lbs.
48,47,8454
CAMPHOR.
market
Quotations for Formosa are $68.00 to $69.00. Sales 85 piouls.
do.
do.
"
SUGAR
►
HONGKONG, 21st April-The weakness contin- ues and a further full is prices has to be recorded. 15,861,506 Quotations are:--
7,740,345
Shekloong, No. 1, White...$7.85 to $7.90 per pol.
2, White... 7.32 to 7.85 Shekloong, No. 1, Brown,.. 5.20 to 5.23 2, Brown... 5.10 to 5.18 Swatow, No. 1, White... 7.75 to 7.80
do.
1, White... 7.18 to 7.23 Swatow, No. 1, Brown... 5.00 to 5.05
do.
2, Brown... 4.92 to 4.95 Foochow Sugar Candy......11.55 to 11:60 Sheklooug
.......10.33-Lo 10.85
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO ODESSA 1897-98 . lbs. 19,462,293
The Adjutant of the Volunteer Corps is taking Shanghai and Hankow... 22,783,272 advantage of the trouble in connection with our new territory to endeavour to get recruits. He is wise, as it has been over and over again proved that there is nothing like a chance of active work for inducing young men to flock to the standard. The Volunteer force in England was originated owing to a scare of invasion from France, and the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, which had be- come moribund, was revived with vigour at the time of the Tientsin massacre.
EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
The following returns of the average amount of Bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 81st March, as certified by the managers of the respective Banks, are published:-
Banks.
Average Specie in Amount. Reserve.
ů
Chartered Bank of India,
Australia and China... 82,469,637 $1,500,000 Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation 6,902,870 4,500,000 National Bank of China,
Limited
Total
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448,721 150,000
89,821,228 $6,150,000 At the regular convocation of United Chapter, No. 1,341. E.C., held on 19th April, M.E. Comp. E. C. Ray (in the absence of M.E. Comp. the Hon. C. P. Chater, D.G. Sup.) attended by the D.G. officers, installed the following Prin cipals for the ensuing year:-M.E.Z., M.E. Comp. H. E. A. Hoile; H., M.E. Comp. W. M. B. Arthur; J., M.E. Comp. J. Brem- ner. The M.E.Z. then invested the following officers:-Treasurer, Comp. J. R. Grimble; Scribe E., M.E. Comp. G. J. W. King; Scribe N., Comp. I. A. Wheal; Sojourner, Comp. W. H. E. Smith; First Assistant S., Comp. G. W. Watling; Second Assistant S., Comp. H. Gilmour; Dir. of Cer., Comp. J. H. Varooe; Steward, Comp. F. Stainton; Jani- tor, Comp. J. Maxwell,
MISCELLANEOUS,
T.R.H. Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia arrived at Woosung in the Deutschland on Thursday evening, 15th April. The Princess went up Shanghai the same night while the Prince followed next morning. They were ex- posted, in company with Dr. and Mrs. Knappe. to proceed in house-boats to Hangcbow.
A Peking dispatch states that Captains Yeh and Sa of the Chinese Navy, both of whom are graduates of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, England, and took post-graduate courses as sub-lieutenants in the British Medi- terranean fleet in the early eighties, have been called by special ediot of the Empresa Dowager to Peking, it being her purpose to select one of the two to become the Admiral of the new Peiyang squadron. This squadron will consist, by July next, of six fast cruisers of from 3,500 to 4,500 tons, several torpedo gunboats, and gunboats.---N. G, Daily News.
Yokoha
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1898-99 1hg. 25.825.974 Kobe............................................440 141 13,048,634
39,774,608
SILK.
1897-98 lbs. 26,739,512 16,782,118
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MISCELLANEOUS EXPORTS.
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Per steamship, Malaya sailed on the 25th March. For Havre :-8 cases bristles, 59 bales 43,171,630 goatskins, and 229 bales hides. For Gothen
burg-5 bales hides. For Copenhagen:-1 case plants, I case blackwoodware, 2 bales hides, 21 packages private effects, 26 bales canes, 75 cases ginger, 76 cases ourios, 200 oases cassia,
SHANGHAI. 15th April ~(From Messrs. A. R. Burkill & Sons' Circular).-The Home markets keep firm, Blue Elephants are quoted in London at 18/3, and Gold Kilings Lyons at Fes. 82.25. Raw Silk.-The feature of the week has been the further settlement of New Season Silk, prices re- main about the same, but owing to a slight advance in Exchange, laying down costs are higher. We now estimate the total settlements at 6,500/7,00 bales, of which some 1,500 bales are coarse tilks. Including Hand Filatures, the settlements of New Season Silk amount to 20 per cent. of an average export of White Siik. Yel- low Silk.-50 bales old Silk have changed hands, we hear of no contracts for new Yellow Silk. Arrivals, as per Customs Returns, April 8th to 14th, are: 477 bales White, 94 bales Yellow and 149 bales Wild Silk. Re-reels and Filatures.- Further contracts have been reported for America in Hand Filatures, and the total settlements are fully 2,500 bales; for Lyons about 500 bales in all have been settled. In old Silk a small parcel of Pegasus 1 and 2 have been done for the
Continent. Steam Filatures.-We hear that con- tracts bave teen made for good Market Steam Filatures 18/15, at Tls. 840 for No. I. Shoushing Spinning Cocoons 4.50 to 1 have been settled at Tis. 1373 Shanghai prices. The Export of Steam Filatures to date is 3,991 bales to the Continent, 2,743 bales to America, and 146 bales to London. Wild Silk.-Sale are reported to extent of 50 bales (old cargo). Waste Silk.-Small business doing, 200 piculs Tassah Waste 60 per cent, have been settled at Tls. 254. Pongees.2,000 picule White Pongees, 21/22 in by 70 yds, by 56/7 oz. 5 per cent. congee Tis. 17.30. 1,500 picula Shan- tung Poogees, 19 in. by 19 yds, by 25/6 oz. Tla. 4.40. Shangtang Pongees, 18) in. by 18 yds. by 22 oz. Tls. 2.76.
Prices calculated by Maerten's Tables at 11 per cent. Exchange 2/84. Freight Tls. 7.80
bile. per Tle. Stig. per pel. per ib. 5221 12/9
11/10
Teatles.-Mountain 5
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Silver Double Elephant Gold Kiling
Heimtah Stork Chayling.
Yellow Silk-Tunglob
03
Kopun...
Wongchow Market 2.
Hand Filature.
Pegasus 1 & 2 Wild Silk --
Tussah Filature 8 Cocoons. Tussah Raw
Szechnen Tussah Raw
510
502
11/8
485 11/4
385 a 405 0/1 a 96
920 77 240 5:01
.655 a 645-15/1 a 14,10}
255 811 115 a 170 2,11} m 4:2° 185 a 200 4:04 a 4,104
EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND
JAPAN TO EUROPE.
Shangbai Canton Yokohama
1897-98
1898-09
bules.
bales.
47.965
..... 29.058
21,890
.................................................. 18,992
18,130
109,350
87,985
Per German steamer Bayern sailed on the 29th March. For Singapore :-750 bags flour, 72 coils rope, and 8 flasks quicksilver. For Colombo:-1 case linen. For Aden:-2 pkgs. mountain chairs. For Suez :--46 orates can- ned fruits. For Naples:-28 rolls matting, 17 boxes China ware, and 2 packages rattancore. For Genos:-650 bales waste silk, 10 bales raw silk, 5 cases essential oil, and 2 cases fans. For New York:-2 cases silk piece goods. For Barcelona :-5 cases silk. For Antwerp:-150 bales feathers, 100 cases cassia, 95 bales bamboo scraps, and 10 cases curios. For Amsterdam:--- 35 cases Chinaware and 8 cases ginger. For Bremerhaven 2 cases sundries.
For Bre men :-551 rolls matting, 69 cases sundries, and 18 cases blackwoodware. For Hamburg-404 bales feathers, 7 cases blackwoodware, and Scases
cnrios
Par steamer Moyune, sailed on the 29th March. For New York:-8,751 packages fire- crackers. 2, 16 packages cannon orackers, 3,403 packages merchandise, 2 743 rolls matting, 2,664 bales hemp, 1,44) packages preserves, 1,900 bales broken cassia, 140 boxes cassia, 150 bales cassia buds, 593 slabs tin, 288 packages ten, 30 bales raw silk, 3 boxes bristles, 25 cases dry lichees, 20 cases cantharides, 49 casks soy, 25 cas-8 ginger, 67 cases Chinaware, 55 cases lith. paper, and 5 cases atar aniseed.
Per steamer Suevia, sailed on the 30th March. For Havre:-45 cases bristles, 59 cases split bamboo, and 100 cases palm leaf fans. For Havre and/or Hamburg and/or London :-50 cases essential oil and 719 camphor. For Ham- burg-1 case cigars, 1 case feathers, 1 case silks. 5 cases bamboo fans, 7 cases goat rngs, 21 casos sundries, 40 packages orackers, and 60 staraniseed. For Havre and/or Hamburg and/or London :-67 casks egg yolk. For Amterdam:- 1 caso tea service and 75 cases preserves. For Rotterdam:-400 bales broken cassia.
Per P & O. steamer Formosa, sailed on the 5th April. For London:-455 bales hemp and 3 cases cigars from Manila, 27 bales bamboo, 18 cases feathers, and 60 boxes tes from Foochow, 124 bales feathers, 50 bases enues, 10 bales woollens, 95 bales mats and m
64 cases blackwood.
ware, 17 cases (" uni 10 packages sunt dries, and 343 btes (7,203 lbs. Congouf For Bunder Abbass :—114 packages tes.
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