June 8, 1901.J
It is stated that a portion of the baggage pirated by a junk from the wrecked P. & O. liner Sobraon has been recovered.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
COMMERCIAL.
HILK.
477
By grants made of £1,000 each on 2nd inst. by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, a new see of Shantung Five leading Tokyo papers, including the has been provided with an endowment of £400 Mainichi, are reported to have been suspended per annum, and the Bishop in Cores with an for discussing too freely the democratising of endowment of £300 per annum. To each of the government.
these funds an anonymous benefactor gave Season's Silk are nil. Some contracts have been CANTON, 25th May.-Taatloes-Stocks in Oki The Japanese military authorities contem-sufficient capital to produce £200 per annum. plate changing the uniform of the army to grey or khaki colonr, the present white having statement that one of the officers of the transments are reported, but buyers in general connot The Manila Times is responsible for the not transpired. Re-reels.-A few further settle- made, for second crop Silk, but the prices have been found very disadvantageons in the Northport Grant states that the sentiment in pay the prices asked for contracts in new Silk, China campaign.
retention of the Philippine Islands, and there done during the fortnight under review, the total America was now practically unanimous for the Filatures.-A good general business has been- was a marked subsidence of the anti-imperialist settlements for Europe amounting to about 1,400. party. The apparent change was attributed bales for this period. The new Silk (let crop) is to the capture of Aguinaldo and the many neglected and paid at rather low prices. The anti-expansionist feeling that was so evident the weather being favourable lately. Prices in surrenders that have lately taken place. The second crop promises to be better in quality, the - during the election was quickly vanishing.
general are unchanged.
It is officially stated from Singapore that the Queen of Siam has given a further donation of $200 to the "Queen of Siam's Library" for English-reading patients at the General Hospital, Singapore,
The Straits Government has sanctioned the Singapore Municipal electric light insta lation scheme, for the provision of which a sum of $150,000 has been set apart in the new Singa- pore municipal loan of $1,000,000.
Sir Ewen Cameron has, we are glad to learn from home papers, completely recovered from his recent operation, and resumed his post at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation from the beginning of l'ay.
The Shanghai A.D.C. gave its 124th performance on the 4th inst., when His Excellency the Governor was staged by the Shanghai amateurs for the first time. Partiou lars of the performance are not yet to hand.
At a special sitting of H.B.M. Supreme Court Shanghai, on the 28th alt., Sir William Neville Montgomery Geary, Bart., was admitted by His Honour, Chief Justice Wilkinson, to practise as a barrister in the Supreme Court for China and Corea.
Japanese papers now state that atte.ipts are being made to form a Hoshi-Katsura Ministry. Count Inouye is busily engaged, and has been received in audience by the Emperor. There is even a rumour that the Count is inclined to accept the portfolio of Finance.
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The Jiji learns that about ten vessels of the British squadron en the China stuition will assemble at Nagasaki on or about the 14th of next month on their way to Yokohama, at which port they are expected to arrive about the 20th of that month. The vessels will then proceed to the North, and will engage in manœuvres in the neighbourhood of Hakodate.
The Universal Gazette states that while the Court has consented to stopping the Provincial Examinations for the M. A. degree for five years throughout the Empire, those of Kwangtung province will continue as heretofore owing to the fact that s.oppage will prevent the con- tinuation of the Weising Lottery at Canton, which gives a million and a half dollars a year
to Government!
The Echo de Chine says that M. Doumer, Governor-General of French Indo-China, who has been so successful in his promotion of the railways in the colony he governs, is now aboat to consecrate his indefatigable ardour to the promotion of railways in Yunnan. He relies on the concurrence of those who have savings to invest and of the great French captains of industry, and trusts that when he leaves Paris on the 27th of July next, the scheme will be in
train.
The New Press of the 24th inst. reports:- Yesterday morning the local share market was in a flutter of excitement over the sudden boom in the shares of the Kaiping Coal Mine, for which the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co. here are the agents. It was currently reported in & telegram received pay that, according to from the mine at Tong Shan, a new discovery of tin had been made. Consequently, the shares soon rose to 450 taels yesterday morning, but dropped to 350 taels in
the afternoon.
of late in the native papers, says the N.-C. Daily There have been various rumours and reports News, that the Secret Societies were contem- plating serious attacks in the 4th moon-that Nanking, Chinkiang, an Wuchang. Little is, at this time on the Yangtsze ports, especially credence need be given to these reports; the Yangteze Viceroys are quite strong enough to keep down the secret societies; and these reports this means to frighten the well-to-do people are mostly spread abont by those who hope by into returning to their homes in the country, and rob them on the way.
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CAMPHOR.
HONGKONG, 7th June-No arrivals.
SUGAR. been reported, the prices are consequently going HONGKONG, 7th June-Large arrivals having downward Quotations are:--- Shekloong, No. 1, White. Shekloong, No. 1, Brown
do.
do.
| Swatow,
2, White.
2, Brown
$8.75 to $8.80 pól.
7.95 to 8,00 6.75 to 5.80
6.70 to 6.75.
do.
No. 1, White...... 1, White. No. 1, Brown
8.65 to 8,70
7.70 to 7.85
5.70 to 5,75
do.
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2, Brown... 5.55 to 5.60
Swatow, Foochow Sugar Candy, Shekloong
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RICE.
..13.45 to 18.60 ..18.75 to 12.80
market is nearly the same as when last reported. HONGKONG, 7th June.-The position of the
Quotations are:-- Saigon, Ordinary.......
Siam,
Round, Good quality Long
No. 1
.82.40 to 2.45
3,50 to 3.55
3.70 to 3.75
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Field mill cleaned, No. 2 Garden,
****** 2.45 to 2.50
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.............. 3.25 to 8.30 White............ .......................................................... 3,95 to 4,00 Fine Cargo
4.85 to 4.40
MISCELLANEOUS EXPORTS.
A San Francisco telegram, dated April 26th, has the following references to the Minister to China:-Major Edwin H. Conger, United States Minister to China, has to-day received scores of callers, who have gratulated him and his family upon their escape from the murderous Boxers and safe and happy return to their native land. When asked about the report often repeated during the last few months, that he is "out" with the administra- tion and is practically recalled, Minister Conger said there was absolutely no foundation for the rumour. "One of the last letters I had before starting home," he added, Secretary Hay, assuring me there was no foundation for stories that have appeared in the papers to this effect. He said he wrote fearing I might be influenced by the lies that were Per steamer City of Peking, sailed on the 1st appearing in the papers, and he explicitly told May. For San Francisco:-1 case silkgoods. me that my course was fully approved by the For Acajutla:-1 caso silkgoods. For Corinto: department and the President, and that-1 case silkgoods. For La Libertad:---4 cases my work was entirely satisfactory. The silkgoods. For Champerico:-2 cases silk goods, administration has nothing to do with the For Guayaquil :-3 cases silkgoods. For New discussion of my name for the governorship of York:-2 cases silkgoods, 15 bales raw silk. Iowa. That came up since I obtained leave, and is being urged by friends without regard to my Per steamer Gaelic, sailed on the 7th May. relations with the administration." Minister For San Francisco:-10 cases silkgoods. For Conger will not say positively what he will do La Libertad :-1 caso silkgoods. For La Union: until he returns to Iowa, but his intimation 2 cases silkgoods. For San José de Guatemala: plainly is that he will not disappoint the friends-1 case silkgoods. For Panama:-18 cases who have stood by him all his long political silkgoods. For Guayaquil :-3 cases silkgoods. career if they want him to take the governor- For Whitehall:-5) bales waste silk. For New ship-and they are saying so.
York:-159 bales raw silk.
The Foochow Echo of the 25th alt. says:- The late Tartar General, Shan Lien, is to be Per steamer Hongkong Muru, sailed on the buried with his fathers outside the Ch'i Hus 18th May. For San Francisco:--12 gat, of Peking, in the family burial-ground. goods. For La Libertad-1 osso silkgoods. His coffin was escorted in great state on Thurs For Acajutla :-5 cases silkgoods. For Carinto: day from the City to the steamer (the Hein-2 cases silkgoods. For Champeries—3 Fung) which is taking it up to Shanghai. At silkgoods. For San José de Guatema two in the afternoon the funeral cortege arrived cases silkgoods. For Panama :----2 at the long Bridge jetty on the island. The goods. For Balparaiss:- coffin was borne by thirty-six bearers on a For Whitehall:-50 bales magnificent bier. Near the jetty, where the New York:—1 case silkgoods, coffin had to pass, two tables were laid out, on which stood the usual sacrificial offerings Per Imperial German Mail steamer Sachsen, and the tablets of the late General and his sailed on the 29th May. For Aden: 1 ber ancestors. All the high Provincial Authorities, silkpiecegoods. For Port Said: Tartar and Chinese, (except the Viceroy, who boofans. For Smyrna :~~ -10 could not be present) were in attendance. The oil. For Trieste -——-100 bales Chinese officials, including the Provincial Judge half-chests tes, 25 cases and the Taotsis, Superintendents of the Board-230 bales raw silk, 100 of Foreign Affairs, all knelt down and kow pkgs. canes. For Genon towed to the tablets at one of the tables; at the 40 pkgs.
For Antw
Commenting on the censorship exercised by the polios authorities in suspending some of the Japanese papers for publishing the pro-
Herald says: ----
After careful perusal of the manifesto, we fail to see how its publication could possibly be regarded as inimical to peace and order. The prohibition is absurd Day after day, scurrilous personal abuse of the most vulgar description is absolutely ignored, but the academic expression of socialistic principles, which are discussed as mere matters of course in Europe and America, at once | ception of the French and Dutch was all | ton, 15 boxen Chinaware elicita this extraordinary order.
gramme of the now Socialist Party, the Japan other, mid the firing of cannon and the blowing tanoorə, 36 rolls 9
of shawms, the new Tartar General and his suite knelt while the names and titles, life, deeds, illness and death of Shan Lien were read out to the world. The new General kowtowed to the tablets of the dead one, and all the officials rose to greet the nephew and heir of the man who had gone to join his ancestors. The Foreign Consuls with the ex-
present, and saluted the soffin as it passed.
For Antwerp and For Amsterdam preserves, 3 bale 190 bales canes ting, 78 hall che Bremen and/or H For Hamburg
feathers.
apa, 50