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November 4, 1899.]
CANTON NOTES.
[FROM THE "O CHUNG NGÓI BÀN PO.” kang Yi, the High Commissioner, will leave for Shanghai by the Kwang Lee in a day or two. His Excellency paid official farewell calls on the 30th ultimo on all the inandarins.
It is reported that the leading merchants of the Bevonty-two guilds have promised to pay to the Government annually 4,000,000 taels, which sum is to be raised from the different shops according to their business large or small, as a substitute for all likin taxes. Some say this will prove to be mere talk, for it will be exceedingly difficult to get the merchants to pay their proper shares, Elis Excellency has refused to permit the farming out of the pigson lottery and fantan gambling.
Owing to the long continued drought, the local Rathorities a
are praying for rain daily in the Shing Wong temple, The Viceroy and the Governor will go personally to Po Lo temple, near Whampon, on the 10th instant, to pray for rain,
It is reported that negotiations have been opened with Kang Yi, the High Commis sioner, by Wong Chuen-siu, the late Director of the Lekin Bureau, with a view to compound. ing the crimes alleged to have been committed by the latter. Kang asks that $700,000 be paid to the Government. Wong offers $400,000.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The names of the new directors of the Tung Wa Hospital and the annual accounts of the institution are published in the Gazetto. The income amounted to Tls. 24,889.
It is notified in the Gazette that no dog brought from Japan will be permitted to land in this colony for a period of six months from the date of the notification, namely, 24th Oct. ceptory held on the 26th October, E. P. Sir At a regular meeting of the Victoria Pre- Kt. F. D. Goddard was reelected to the office of E. P. for the ensuing year and Sir Kt J. J. Bryan Treasurer.
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tion with the Chinese Regiment at Weihaiwei We learn that a serious discovery in conneo- has recently been disturbing the British offloors non-commissioned officers became possessed of a at that station. By some means one of the number of documents in Chinese, found in the quarters of the men, and by the aid of the
membership and the rules of a secret society of interpreter-who by the way is a German—it was learned that these papers were tickets of
owners belonged. As result twenty or thirty a very undesirable character to which their The second edition of Consul-General Wild- know something about China, do not imagine men were summarily discharged. But we, who man's charming "Tales of the Malayan Coast" this will stamp out secret society work amongst has just arrived. In this edition will be found Chinese recruits at Weihaiwei. Shantung is a full page picture of Admiral Dewey, a full fairly honeycombed with such organizations. page picture of Mr. Wildman, and a full-page | China Gazette. autograph letter from Admiral Dewey to Mr. Wildman. We understand that the book has had a remarkable run, the first edition selling out in little more than a month.
The San Francisco Chronicle says:--One of the bitter fruits of the boilermakers' strike in this city is seen in the order for work to be done in Hongkong on Army transports which was formerly done here. And the worst of it is that such work when once diverted remains diverted to the end. San Francisco has never recovered the iron moulding which was lost through the greatest strike this city has ever
seen.
Sham Chun-hün, late Provincial Treasurer of Kwangtung, who carried away the good Notwithstanding the severe sentences passed wishes of the people, for he made strong efforts at the Supreme Court upon men charged with to parify the Canton administration and brought robbery being armed, there seems to be no many charges against Wong Chuen-sin and dimination of this class of offence. Two ex- other officials of making squeezes, has memori- ceptional cases took place on Wednesday night. alized the Throne censuring Viceroy Tan on In one case some eight men armed with knives account of his being unable to keep his subor-visited the house of the signalman at the Peak, dinates from making squeezes and taking no
while the man was absent, and stole money steps to root out the pirates and robbers. He and property to the value of $12. Subsequently says that since Tan became Viceroy the robbers three of the men went to the house of the have become bolder and more fierce day by day. watchman, who was also absent. They attacked On the 25th October some soldiers were sent his wife, stabbing her about the head and neck from Canton to Fa-un for the capture of some and then tying her up, after which they took notorious robbers. The robbers, hearing of away money and property to the value of this, gathered a good number together and $57. The woman is now in the hospital. marched to a place named Kufong to attack the soldiers by surprise, When the soldiers approached, the robbers opened fire, and the soldiers were obliged to make their escape with seven killed and ten wounded. The case has been
reported to the Viceroy, who has sent two hundred soldiers to the scene.
All the junks plying between Canton and Fa-un, Kwoon-iu, Samshui, and Kamkai have stopped running on account of the danger from pirates at Mankan, which they have to pass on the way.
HONGKONG.
The Hongkong Church Missionary Society has commenced the issue of a small journal en- titled From Month to Month, giving missionary
∙notes and news.
The return of communicable diseases notified as occurring on the colony last week shows that there was one case of plague (found dead on board the steamer Fatshan by the Police), one case of enteric fever, and one case (fatal) of puerperal fever.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The prospectus has been issued of the Shang- posed capital is Tis. 50,000. hai Steam Laundry Co., Limited. The pro-
Lieut. A. H. Oldham, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, takes command of H.M.S. Snipe and Lieut. Hillman transfers to the
Woodlark.
Mr. Alfred A Kranss, in a letter to the Manchester Guardian on the proposed Burmo- Chinese Railway, says: I can give an instance of the increase in the value of land in the opened in China. About five acres of land at immediate neighbourhood of railways recently Tientsin and at Wopsung were sold in the year 1880 for £700. The railroads have since been extended to each place, and the ten acres are now valued at upwards of £15,000.
The N. C. Daily News of 28th October, says:-The German steamer Mathilde, which we reported in our yesterday's issue as having met with a mishap, broke her tail-shaft when half- way between Shawieshan and Kiaochau. The
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.
1899-1900
lbs.
221,484 13 095,088 4,042,645
1808.99
10,608,822 1890,250
11,408,050
9,77108
Hankow and Shanghai... 9,514,030 Amoy. Foochow Canton
26,003,242 26,177,028
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO. UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
Amoy Shanghai...
Foochow
1899-1900 Iba.
1898.99.
-lbs.
1,222.849
1,132,677
8,339,928
7,253,028
5 630,617
6,876,852
16,193,394
14,262,451
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO ODESSA 1809-1900 1898-99
Ib.
Shanghai and Hankow... 25,363,948
lbs.
22,676,00
ÈXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
Yokohama
Kobe..........................................
1899-1900
The.
1898-99 lbs.
22.212 276
21,084,786
11,782,517
11,235,261
38,094,793
33,320,047
SILK.
E. Burkill & Sons' Circular):-The Home markets.
SHANGHAI, 28th October.-(From Messrs.
are firm, the quotation for Blue Elephant in
London is 119 and for Gold Kilings in Lyons
The
Fcs. 31.50. Raw Silk.-The market is much bet ter this week, the home markets are stronger. and prices show an advance of Tls, 21 to 'l'ls. 5. Total settlements are some 1,750 bules. Chinese have been operating on this market as well and a fair quantity has been bought to bę sent back in the country to be made into Hand Filatures. Yellow Silk Market quiet, a fair
At the Magistracy on Wednesday a coolie accident was evidently the result of a hidden business has been done, and some 250 bales have
named Tung Tai was committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder. On the 24th September he and a street coolie named Fong Wai quarrelled and prisoner is alleged to have struck deceased a blow on the head with a bamboo, the wound subsequently causing his death. Dr. Bell said deceased was brought to the Government Civil Hospital unconscious by Inspector McLennan. He was in a dying condition. He had a small skin wound about one-eighth of an inch long on the top of the scalp, slightly on the right side. He died at half-past seven o'clock. A post mortem exam ination of body showed that all the internal organs were healthy. Under the wound on the scalp there was an extensive star-shaped fracture extending right and left to the base of the skull. These was a small clot of blood im- mediately under the fracture. On e left side the whole surface of the brain was covered with- blood. Fracture of the skull was the canse of death. Mr. Gomperts ordered $20 to be given to the widow of the deceased out of the poor box.
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flaw in the metal as the sea at the time was perfectly smooth and uo undue strain far to the westward to be sighted by the brought on the shafting. The vessel was too
Promontory; however, she was fortunately numerous steamers making to and from the picked up by the German cruiser Hertha bound from Kisochan to Shanghai and towed to port. three convictions have been obtained at the During the present year, says the Union, Mixed Court Shanghai, against natives who were charged with incendiarism, the last delinquent being sentenced on 20th October to eighteen months' imprisonment. The British Assessor these policies if the Insurance Companies did said:He wished to point out that in issuing not protect themselves by ordering an inspection of the place, they would be putting a premium on arson. He visited the place himself yes- terday and found that the value of the contents was nothing bear the amount insured for. It tion of the house ought to have been ordered by was a clear case of arsen and a foreign inspec- the Insurance Company-
been settled. Arrivals, as per Customs October 21st to 27th, are: 861 bales
365
balea Yellow and 73 bales Wild turn,
Hand
strong and the demand still continues both from Filatures And Re-Reels. The market is very
advance; the Mayhengu having been taken at the Continent and America; prices show a decided Tls. 25 per picul advance during the past fort- night. Settlements are some 500 bales, divided very strong, and very little can be bought in fine between the two markets. Steam Filatures are
sizes, on which the demand runs. Settlements
are fully 200 bales, all for the Continent. The Export of Steam Filatures to date is 1 2,128 bales
to America, 2,258 bales to the Continent, 43 bales
to London, and 6 bales to Japan. Waste Silk. A very strong market for Gum Wastes, which are now very high: Settlements reported are:-
at Tla picula
50/60 White Fine Gum 73 p. c. I. 193/1871.
1-20 p. o. II and 5 p. o. III .... 100 White Coarse Gum 60 p. c. 1,
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105/110.
30 p. o II and 10 p. o. III ..}. by 18/19 yda. by 22/21 ozs. cargo have been Shanghai Pongees.—7 000/8,000 pieces of 181/19
settled at Tia. 8.00 at Tla. 8.55,