May 20, 1899.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO ODESSA
"pot is, in consequence, much more convenient an Waterfall Bay, besides being more picturesque. In bis oironlar announcing his venture Mr. Edwards quotes Dr. P. B. C Shanghai and Hanko Ayres, who in one
porta said:- "The cause
annual re- much sickness
Yokohama Kobe.
· 1898-99)
lbs. 22,783,272
STATES AND CANADA.
1898-99 lbs. 25,944.170 18,949,634
89,890,804
1897-98
lbs.
ware, 15 cases human hair, 60 case litho paper,
brass bell & woodenstand, 500 bale
19,462,293|| cases product samples, 938 packages ili
4 cases bristles, and 350 packages prese
assware
Per steamer Serbia, sailed on the 28th April 1897-98 For Beyrouth:—17 Cases
lbs. Havre 3 bales matting, 5 cases human hair 26,826,182 78 bales cane, and 120 bales bambooware. For 16,732,118 Havre and/or Hamburg--2 cases feathers. For Havre and/or Hamburg and/or London - 43,558,40 40 cases bristles, 100 cases camphor, and 915
among the middle and poorer class of Eur- | EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED
is the absence of all means of recreation. opeans If some means could be adopted for daily trips in steam-launch with sea bathing it would mean the alleviation of much suffering among the people that have to spend their days during the summer months in the office and the nights in miserable tenements that are only fit for Chi- nese, and I believe it would be the canse of a great reduction in the annual death rate." Mr. Edwards is endeavouring to get a liquor license for the place, which is well suited for one, the mat-shed including comfortable rooms and a bar.
SILK.
cases preserves. For Hamburg :-loase private effects, 1 case Chinaware, I case pictures, 2 cases feathers, 88 rolls matting, 150 bales canes, and 1,250 boxes tea. For Lisbon:-7 cases China-
ware.
SHANGHAI, 18th May-(From Messrs. A. R. Burkill & Son's Circular)-Home telegrams re- port the marketa eneier. with Blue Elephants at 12/0 and Gold Kiling at. Fes, 324. Raw Bilk.- The water account for last year is published Deal rs with a view to O covering their heavy Per P. & O. steamer Bälläarat, sailed For Glasgow: — 10 in theGazette. The total receipts were $135,413, contracts for new Si k at a profit have depressed on the 29th April, and the balance of receipts over expenditure the market to Tls. $15 for Gold Kiling, and at packages private effects, curios. For Man was $18,327. The water rates in the Hill Dis- this figure a fair business has been done. The chester:-541 bales waste silk. For London trict amounted to $2,592, and a sum of $1,873 | weather is favorable, and everything seems pro-opl. Manchester:-155 bales waste silk, For is entered against the Peak under "Amounts pitious for a good crop. Contracts have been London:-1,798
tea and 22 packages cases oigars from rendered to Treasury," which presumably re-
made during the week to extent of 1,250 balus| feathers from Foochow P REAL Tsatires; mostly for delivery July/August. Yel- Manila, 2,516 boxes tea (52,536 lbs. Congon), presents the charge made for excess consump
low Silk.-Nothing doing. Arrivals, as jer tion or for water supplied under special agree
400 bales waste silk, 45 bales raw silk, 2 cases Customs Returns, 6th to 12th May, ere: 129 bales ment. This gives a total of $4,465. The ex-
White, 64 bales Tellow and 215 bles Wild Silk silks, I cage Chinaware, 5 cases bristles, and 4 cases marine stores. For Marseilles :—3 cases penditure in connection with the supply to the
Re-reels and Hand Filatures.-Mars Chop, old Hill D.strot is not separately stated, but we
cargo, has been done at Tls. 60. Stenm Fil- silks, 3 bales punjum waste silk, 1 case feathers. believe the cost of pumping alone amounts to atures. A contract has been made for 13/15 deniers and 114 bales raw silk, For Lyons-420 bales between ten and twelve thousand dollars a year, Chingwah 1 and 2 at Tls. 840 avg. price, and also or more than twice the total amount paid by for Kinlun Donble Horse at quotations below. the Peakites. The balance has to come out of The Export of Steam Filatures to date is as the rates contributed by the less fortunate follows: England 156 balee, France 4,361 bales, dwellers on the lower levels. And, furthermore, America 2,923 bales. In Wild Silk, a contract while the said less fortunate dwellers. on the has been made for Tussah Filatures, 4 Cocoons, lower levels are put on short allowance during | at Tis. 280. Waste Silk.-Not ing doing, no periods of scarcity the full supply is maintained stocks. Ponge-s.-We hear of the settlement of:
in.'. yds.
oz. at Tis. at the Peak. In this instance the Government gives a literal application to the passage of soripture "To him that hath shall be given." The Peakites are very well able to pay the full cost of their water supply.
1,000 pieces Shantang (19 by 19 by 23/4 ...4.20
Pongees,
EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA
JAPAN TO EUROPE.
Shanghai Canton
Yokohama
1898.99
biles,
(5.210
32,020
19,011
116,271
AND
1807-08 bales. 50 482
23,284 18,140
91,996
1897-39
From the Shanghai papers we learn that that notorious scoundrel-Ya Shui-wan has been appointed to assist in the delimitation of the Shanghai Settlement extension. Some years ago Yu was engaged in a suit in the Supreme Court of Hongkong in which he tried to gain possession of property belonging to his sister. Bir Fielding Clarke, who tried the case, gave orders for his committal on a charge of perjury. but while the warrant was being made out Yu slipped away and succeeded in concealing him- EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN self until the evening, when he left the colony disguised as a coolie. He was at that time en- gaged in a solicitor's office in Hongkong, but held mandarin rank in China, and he has since been in Chinese official employment in the North. On one occasion when Sir Nicholas Hannen had to conduct an enquiry con- jointly with a Chinese official Yu was the official appointed, but Sir Nicholas de- clined to meet him, and the Chinese authorities had to appoint another delegate. It is to be hoped that a similar course will be adopted on the present occasion, assuming Yu to be the man we suppose him to be and that a similarity of names has not caused a confusion of identity
T
COMMERCIAL.
TEA EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNIVED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.
1898-99
Ibs.
Hankow and Shanghai...12 291,214
Foochow
Amoy.
Canton
12,682,534
1897-08 It's. 15,357,29% 12,160, 03 688,918 685,651 6,183,918 6,039,514
80,846,014 34,249,168
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA,
Shanghai
Amoy
Foochow
Shang' ai Canton
TO AMERICA.
1898-99
bales.
bales.
11.446
12.564
10,176.
1'1,463
28,796
32,279
50,418
56:306
Yokoham................................
CAMPHOR.
HONGKONG, 19th May.A further heavy fall in prices has to be reported. Quotations for Formosa are $62.00 to $65.00. Sales 20 piculs,
SUGAR.
raw silk.
Per steamer Savoia, sailed on the 4th May. For Suez:-10 cases cassia and 150 packages tea. For Havre:-6 boxes feathers, 16 boxes human hair. 5) boxes bristles, 82 boxes ('hina- ware, 200 boxes palm-leaf fans,and 207 packages canes. For Havre and/or Hamburg: human hair.
cases
and/or London Havre and/or Hamburg
-25 bales feathers. For Ham- burg-1 case China ink, 2 cases silks, 3 cases bambooware, 4 cases cigars, 21 cases Chinaware, 28 cases oraokers. 78 rolls matting, 92 cases bristles, 181 bales feathers, and 750 cases casSİA. For Hamburg and/or Antwerp and/or London -3 cases bristles and 15 cases essential oil. For Antwerp-75 bales bamboos. For Rot terdam:-32 cases shells and 40 bales tobacco. For Lisbon:-4 cases Chinaware.
Per P. & O. steamer Catania, sailed on the 5th May. For New York:-5 cases blackwood- ware 7 cases human hair, 10 cases broken cassia, 12 cases cantherides,, 48 cases Chinaware 50 casks preserves, 65 cases bristles. 90 packages canes. 140 essential oil, and 1,474 cases merchandise.-
Per steamer Ernest Simona, sailed on the 6th May. For France:-446 bales raw silk, 50 bales waste silk, 7 cases silk piece goods, 7 cases curios. 50 star aniseed, and 5 packages canes, For London:-1 cases silks.
OPIUMN
HONGKONG, 19th May-Bengal.-There has been an improvement in the market during the interval and pricva have advanced, current quotations being:-New Patua $740, old Patna $762), New Benares $727}, and old Benares $775, MalwaThere has been little doing during the past week and rates have undergone a fur- pel.ther decline for some qualities. Latest figures
HONGKONG, 19th May.-Prices have further advanced owing to smallness of stocks. Quota-
tions are:-
Shekloong, No. 1ị White.....$7.85 to $7.90 or
do.
2) White... 7,30 tó 17.35 Shekloong, No. 1. Brown,.. 5.15 to 6.20
do.
2 Brown... 5.00 to 5,05 Swatow, No. 1) White.... 7.75 to 7.80
do.
1) White... 7 20 to -7.25 Swatow, No. 1, Brown... 5 05 to 5.10.
do.
2. Brown 140 to 4 Đã Foochow Sugar Candy. 11.10 to 11.13 Sheklooug
9.95 to 10,00
MISCELLANEOUS EXRORTS.
12
Per Norw. steamship Liv sailed on the 1898-99 1897.98.
lbs.
21st April.~ For New York —-—1,470) rolls mat- 20,836,000) | ting. 800 bales and 150 boxes cassia, 1,1-4 alabs 15,881,506 tin, 90 Soxes essential oil, 10 boxes cassia oil,
27 7,740,34
cases blackwoodware, 1,109 packages mer chandise, 1 case cigars, 1 cases carthen and 49,478,454 | rattanware; 80 bales rattancore, 73 cases China-
lbs: 16,621,647 15 036,413 0,178,280
40,836,240
are :-
New Malwa $700 with all'ce of 11 to 3 catty.
0 to 2 Old (2 yrs.)
"
(314
33.
(5/6) $770
(7) $810
ני
‚· (8;.) $840.
Persiun.There has been a very
to 11
to 1
4 to 24
and a large business has been done in Paper-tied Opium of the superior qualities and rates have advanced. There has been no demand for Oily Opium. Closing rates are ➡Oily $93 Land Paper- tied $650 to $765 nccording to quality,
"l'o-day's stocks are estimated as under-
375 chests New Patna
Old Patna New Benares Old Benal Persian..
Malwa