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The owners of the 8. 8. Belgian King have filed a suit against the owners of the Tellus, claiming salvage for towing the latter vessel to San Francisco after both vessels had collided, as already reported in these columns.
The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty Commanders.-C. S. Hick ley, to the Barfleur; W. C. M. Nicholson, to the Aurora; and J. N. Hill (R.N.R.), to the Centurion, additional. Lieutenant.-P. 8. Litchfield, to the Terrible ('1.)
The wave of patriotism which has swept over Great Britain has led to the Volunteer force being increased during the past few months by thirty-three companies of artillery, 249 engin. eers, 49 submarine miners, 1,859 infantry, and 3 medical staff corps-roughly estimated at 25,000.
M. de Bezaure, Consul-General for France at Shanghai, made last week a representation to the Taotai on the subject of scandalous coloured broadsheets being sold in the native city, representing the murder of foreigners, etc. It turns out that many of them are from the blocks used at the time of the China-Japan war, only the text being changed, while one or two of them date back to the last Franco-Chinese
war,
According to the Melbourne Monthly Report of Messrs. Copland, Mackie & Co. for July, the new season's China tea met with a good recep- tion in the sale-room, and almost the whole of one consignment of 19,000 packages was taken up at the sale, at prices which were satisfactory to vendors whilst showing good value to buyers. The Nagasaki Press publishes a statement from Tokyo to the effect that it has been dis- covered that all the telegrams despatched to and from Peking, through the hands of Yuen Shi- kai, during the siege of the Legations, were
concocted by Yuen himself, Li Hung-chang, and San Suen-kwai [i.e. Sheng], Chief Commis- sioner of the Chiness Railways, either at Shang-
hai or at Tsinanfoo.
It is perhaps to be regretted that no regi- ment with a strong Pathan element in their ranks should have been sent to China, states the Indian Pioneer. Some that have been selected have Pathan Companies, but a class regiment like the 40th might have been given
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a chance of showing what it could do on service. It is made up almost entirely of trans-frontier | tribesmen, and its composition is such that it can never hope to be employed on the North- West Frontier. To whatever part of the bor- derland it might be sent, there would be some sepoys who would have kinsmen among the enemy. To keep such a regiment perpetually on garrison duty will mean that in the long run deterioration will set in, and that the native officers and men will lose their soldierly spirit. The 40th have never been blooded yet, the Pioneer proceeds to say, though it is certain that in action they would give a good account of themselves. An excellent opportunity offers now for using them in China, and if more troops have to be sent they might well be chosen. It would be the making of the regi- ment.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
ranée, Havre, are almost precisely of the same type as the French t. b.'s. They are each of 312 tons. One will be launched this month and the others later.
many
Professor J. M. Dixon, who was for years one of the best known foreign residents of Tokyo, is reported to have been killed in a bicycle accident at Glen Park, Colorado. from Yokohama to China, Europe, and America The value of Japanese gold coins exported
from the beginning of the year up to the 15th ult., is estimated at 13,600,000 yen.
The Telegraph Companies inform us that telegrams for Newchwang can be accepted at sender's risk. They will be telegraphed to Shingking and thence forwarded by courier to destination. The courier charge is $12.00.
The Kobe Herald states that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha will shortly resume the running of its steamers on the North China lines, as the chartered steamers will gradually be discharged by the Government, and the Company is also requested by the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha and others to transport their cargo to North China. It is reported that the freight on coal at Moji is falling at present, as many discharged steamers are now gathering there.
The Foochow Daily Echo of the 1st inst. has the following items:-There has been rain at last. It has not come a day too soon, as the arops were beginning to suffer from the drought. A good deal more is wanted, and as the weather is now broken we shall no doubt have plenty.- We hear from Kuliang that two foreign sports- men arrived there a day or two ago attracted by the stories of there being tigers about. Their investigations so far lead them to believe that the animal that has been helping himself so freely to the dogs in the neighbourhood is a leopard and not a tiger. Not a word of in- formation can be got about the headquarters of the beast and it seems unlikely that they will come across him. The natives at Kuliang are not a sporting lot. Whenever land being bought on the hill there is always some trouble about the graves, through some of the owners standing out for a price which would reduce the squeezes of the middleman too much. Some such trouble occurred on Tuesday in the vicini. ty of the Russian Consulate over some ground being bought as a site for a Russian chapel, and there was quite a demonstration of aggrieved natives, every man, woman and child within earshot running to join in and add to the num. bers, noise and confusion. In the end the mil itary had to be sent to the spot to assist the police in restoring order, which was quickly done.
[September 8, 1900.
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO: UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
∙1900-1
Shanghai Amoy Foochow
1899.00
7,026,439 8,784,398
6,608,634 2,643,067
18,635,078
6,377,465
CAMPHOR.
the market is nearly the sand as when last HONGKONG, 7th September. The position of
-$95.00 reported. Quotations for Formosa are to $95.50; sales 270 piculs.
SUGAR.
HONGKONG, 7th September. The tone of the market has improved a little, and prices are slightly advancing. Quotations are:--- Shekloong, No. 1, White......$7.56 to $7.80 pcl..
2, White...... 6.95 to 7.00
do.
Shekloong, No. 1, Brown 5.17 to 5.20
do.
Swatow,
do.
Swatow,
"
2, Brown No. 1, White..
"J
1, White.. No. 1, Brown do.
2, Brown Foochow Sugar Candy Shekloong
1
...
·
*
4.96 to 5.00 7.64 to 7.70 *
23
7.05 to 7.10
JJ
5.00 to 5.05
... 4.94 to 4.99 .11.28 to 11.25 9.95 to 9.98
22
57
MISCELLANEOUS EXPORTS.
Per American ship S.P. Hitchcock, sailed on 26th August. For New York:-26,775 rolls matting, 1,026 bales rattancore, 1,000 cases broken cassia. 798 boxes cassia, 594 pokgs. firecrackers, 300 cases p. 1. fans, 126 bales straw- braid, 100 casks soy, 100 cases cassia buds, 90 cases heather brushes, 83 bales canes, 55 cases Chinaware, 50 cases strawcuffs, 40 pekgs. rat- tanware, 6 cases camphorwood trunks.
Per steamer Ernest Simons, sailed 27th August. For Marseilles:-80 bales raw silk, 22 cases silks, 423 pks. tea, 1 box treasure (86,800). For Lyons:-446 bales raw silk, For London-95 bales raw silk, 200 bales pierced
cocoons.
Per steamer Rhipeus, sailed 28th August, For London:-4,902 boxers 102,942 lbs. scented caper tea, 4,290 boxers 90,090 lbs. Congou tea, 5 half-chests tea from Amoy, 13 boxes (particulars unknown), 3,547 bales hemp, 150 bales waste silk, 120 bales canes, 130 rolls matting, 7 bags ore, 45 bags shell, 80 cases shell, 72 cases cigars, 100 cases fans, 5 cases cowtail- hair, 10 cases essential oil, 161 cases Chinaware, 54 cases black woodware, 15 cases feather dusters, 4,190 cases preserves, 801 cases preserves, 390 pkgs, flower bulbs, 10 pkgs. personal effects, 30 pkgs. sundries. For London opt. Manches
Lieutenant-General von Lessel, who comes out with the staff of the German expeditionary force on the Aachen and Rhein, has been con- ter:-150 bales waste silk. For London opt. nected during a great part of his career with Hamburg-250 bales cassia ligues, 227 bales the German General Staff. He obtained his canes. For London opt. Amsterdam opt. lieutenancy in the 2nd Guards Regiment in the Hamburg-50 bales feathers. For Liverpool. campaigns of 1865 and 1870-71. After study-case lychees. For Glasgow:-4 pkgs. sun- ing at the Staff College for three years and
dries. For Dundee :-50 casks preserves. subsequently commanding a company, he was
For Hamburg-4 cases shell. For Buenos attached to the General Staff of the army and Ayres:-150 pkgs. tea.
also acted for a time on the staff of the 3rd Army Corps and of the 7th Division. After some further service in a regiment of the line, he returned to the General Staff as major in 1885. From 1886 to 1888 he was attached to the 20th Division, and from 1888 to 1889 to the 10th Army Corps, then under General von Caprivi at Hanover. Subsequently he was chief of the staff of the 1st Army Corps, and in 1896 he became commander of the 2nd Grenadier Regiment, and in 1897 Major-General in com- 1898 till May 22, 1900, he was acting as Chief mand of the 28th Brigade at Düsseldorf. From Quartermaster, and since then he has been com manding the 28th Division at Karlsruhe.
Russian newspapers give the following bat. tleships and torpedo boats now under construc- tion at Nikolaieff, the Baltic Shipbuilding Yard, and at Havre, as part of the Naval Pro. gramme for the year. The battleship, Knux Potemkin Tavritcheski, building at Nikolaieff, in the Black Sea, will be launched in the autumn. Her displacement is 12,480 tons; her engines, 10,600; her speed, 16 knots; and she will carry four 12in. and 16 6in. guns. A new battleship, the Knas Suvaroff, is now being laid down at the Baltic Shipbuilding Yard. Her displace- ment will be 13,600 tons; her two en- gines will be each 8,150 h.p., and will be supplied by 20 Belleville boilers. Her armament will consist of four 12 in., 12 6 in. and 20 3 in. guns, and a number of EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED
KINGDOM AND CONTINENT. machine guns. The armour will extend along
1900-1 1899-00 her whole length, and will be 10 in. in its
·lbs.
lbs. thickest part. She will be nearly of the same type as the Borodino, Orel, and Imperator
198,068 179,984 Alexander III, the last of which is building at
9,587,610 9,491,174 the same yard. The three deep-sea t. b.'s Osetr, Kephal, and Losos, building for the Russian Navy at the Forges et Chantiers de la Mediter-
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
Hankow and Shanghai... Amoy Foochow
Canton
9,785,678 9,671,168
Per steamer Chusan, sailed 1st September. For Manchester:-100 bales waste silk. For London:-15 cases bristles, 100 bales waste silk, 85 bales raw silk, 5 cases silks, 1 bale cane sample, 1 case bird feathers. For Lyons:-499 bales raw silk. For Marseilles:-100 bales waste silk, 175 bales raw silk.
RICE.
HONGKONG, 7th September.-More demands consequently going further upward. Quotations having come from the mainland, prices are
Bre:-
Saigon, Ordinary
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31
Round, Good quality Long
Siam, Field mill cleaned, No. 2...
53
J
Garden,
White
39
No. 1
Fine Cargo...........................
.$2.85 to 2.90 2.95 to 8:00 3.84 to 8.37
8.00 to 8.04
3.87 to 3.40
4.00 to 4.05
4.22 to 4.25
MISCELLANEOUS IMPORTS.
HONGKONG, 7th September.-Among the sales reported during the week are the following:—
YARN AND PIZOR GOODS. Bombay Yarn- 650 bales No. 10 at $86 to $89, 500 bales No. 12 at $89 to $91, 100 bäles No. 18 at $94 to $99, 1,200 bales No. 20 at $90 to $108.50. Grey Shirtings.- 250 pieces 10 lbs. Blue Dragon at $4,40, 1,000
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