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·COMMERCIAL.
THE YOKOHAMA SILK REPORT. Business has continued on a fair scale; but as the natives incessantly drove prices up, buyers finally withdrew from the market, and during the last few days hardly anything has been done. Spring Reelings are now beginning to arrive in larger quantities, this quality being about normal. A few small lots of Re-reels are expected to be offered for sale within the week,
Waste Silk Market unchanged. The small business passing is chiefly in Kibizzo Filature. Settlements from 28th March to 17th April 2,506 piculs. Total Settlements from 1st July to 17th April:-58,800 piculs. Stock on the 17th April is estimated at 8,300 picula, viz:—Kibizzo, 1,800 piculs; Pierced Cocoons,piculs; Sun- dries, 700 plouls.
YOKOHAMA MÄRKET REPORT.
The "Yokohama Prices Current and Market Report," published by the Yokohama Foreign Board of Trade, dated, Yokohama, April 18th, 1906, has the following:-
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IMPOETS.
Yarns.-Market dull, prices lowered by yen 10 all round. Shirtings. No business, but prices maintained. Fancy Cottons and Woollens. No change to report. Metals-No sales reported condition unchanged. Kerosene.-Market steady, native oil firmer. Sugar.-The Market has remained quiet and no business has been put through in any direction beyond the sale of 4,900 bags at the auction of the Tokyo Refinery on the 16th April; prices remaining identical with those obtained at the last auction, Indigo (Natural).-Forward contracts are now coming along, but there is little new business.
EXPORTS.
Tea-A few samples have been shown and give promise of good quality in the crop, should the present warm weather continue. Total settle, ments from May 1st to April 14th amount to 109,094 piculs, against 176,800 picul at the corre- sponding date last year.
HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
PIECE GOODS.
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Messrs. Noel, Murray & Co.'s latest Report on the Shanghai Piece Goods Trade, dated Shanghai, 12th April, 1906, states:--The task of writing a report on this market is getting harder and harder, as sales from firet hands have become very scarce, and operators are not sufficiently proud of, or confident over, their forward trans- actions to care about talking of them. They feel that they are treading on dangerous ground, and alone anyone else, that their actions are really just cannot very satisfactorily convince themselves. let being pushed along by the force circumstances. And the contagion is spreading, for although individually no such large quantities as were reported to have gone through last week have been repeated, more firms have felt the necessity of buying to secure the cloth for their regular chops. It was the native dealers who initiated the buying last year, but it is the import houses that have forced them to do so this year, when the position is very much worse in every respect. Then the price of cotton was fully 45 per cent. lower, the end of the war was in sight when a stocks of most commodities were less than half | booming trade was expected to follow, and the
what they are now; whereas the demand since the war ceased has been most disappointing, and has in no way come up to expectations, and the monetary state of the country is in a most unsatisfactory and disorganised state, likely to become worse before it improves, and yet people have the temerity to buy for far ahead delivery for such a fickle market as this is. True, exchange is over 10 per cents more favorable at the moment, but who can tell what it will be twelve month hence! The news received from Nowohwang is not at all satisfactory concerning that market, but it is most difoult to get at the bottom of it all. The transport facilities are certainly very inadequate still, and the country is infested with robbers on all the routes to the North. Heavy stocks of goods are lying at the stations a little way out from Newchwang, the only articles of which there is a scarcity, apparently, being fancy goods, and they are receiving the chief attention of buyers here. The representations and protests that are being made by the Governments of some of the more interested countries in the trade of Manchuria, are having a salutary effect on the Japanese Government, and it is anticipated that before long freer access will be permitted to Foreign traders and their wares; but the time has not come yet. The Tientsin and Shantung markets are the only ones with any life in them at present, but the demand from thence is altogether inadequate to make any impression on the enor- mous accumulation of stocks here.
Holders are becoming despondent and are accepting prices for goods that cannot be replaced within at least ten per cent. No relief comes from the Biver marketa, which are feeling very severely the effects of the iniquitous circulation of a dis- credited copper coin as currency. booking of orders, both for India and this market, With the free Manchester is in a very strong position and manufacturers are once more able to dictate their own terms. There is, apparently, a keen com- petition for the balance of the cotton crop avail- able, and prices continue their upward movement, Mid-American having advanced to 6.17d. For Egyptian, however. prices are going up by leaps and bounds, 101d. being the latest quotation from Liverpool. The American market is still very strong, but it was found there were no takers here at the exorbitant prices quoted last week. A counter offer in the neighbourhood of 138, Od. for Buck's Head 2.85 yard Sheetings has, it is reported, been accepted for 2,000 bales, December or January shipment. It is difficult to conceive on what buyers are basing calculations in these MalwaThe market is dull and weak. The long distant purchases at such extravagant following prices are nominal.
prices and in face of enormous supplies that have to be got rid of. The market for imported yarns is neither active nor strong, but for local spinnings there has been a good demand, and contracts to the extent of nearly 20,000 bales have been signed for, delivery extending up to August. Cotton is firmer owing to the buying to cover the above- mentioned yarns contracted for.
Quotations:Common, Good Common, Medium, Good Medium, Fine, Finest, Choice and Choicest, nominal.
GENERAL EXPORTS.
Fish Oil.-The summer catch having commenc- ed, the position of the Market is rather unsettled and no transactions are reported. Copper.-A few hundred tons are reported closed at yen 45.00 to 45.50 per 100 kin. Later on the market has declined in sympathy with weaker reporta
from home.
OPIUM.
HONGKONG, 19th April, 1908.- We beg to con- tinue.our advices of the 5th April, since when the movements in our various Opium markets have been as follows:-
Malwa, Patna.Benares, Persian.
Stocks as per circular of
5th April, 1906 .. Apr. 6th Imports per Decanka..
C. Apcar
9th
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Less Exporta to Shanghai Less Exports to East and
West Coast Ports including ( Local Consumption for the fortnight..
Estimated Stocks this day
1,720 2,886 1,201 1,913
160 130
1,813 2,546 1,391 1,913
90 494 238
92 600 270
1,831 1,452 879 1,913
Bengal The market has been fairly active owing to stocks in Chinese hands being light, and prices advanced to $895 for Patna and $822) for Benares, closing quiet,
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New
950
2 years old
970
3
1,000
4/5
1,100
1,150
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Persian-Market is very quite.
HONGKONG, 28th April.
· Quotations are:-Allowance net to 1 catty.
“Malwa New - ...................$950 · to per picul.
Matwa Old
$1000 to
do.
Malwa Qider.
..............$1050
to
do.
a Malwa Fery Old $1100
to
do.
Persian Fine Quality: $950 /
to
do.
Persian Extra Fine ...$1000
to
do.
SPatna:New W.......................:$880
to
Fazna Old zi......ÕTTI................ $855
do.
Benares New ................................$810 Benares Old .....................
to
do.
do.
per chest.
MISCELLANEOUS EXPORTS. Per P. &. O. steamer Arcadia, sailed on 21st April. For Rotterdam - 5 cases cigars. For Manchester:-200 bales waste silk. For Mar- seilles :-5 cases feathers, 4 cases private effects, 100 packages tea, 128 bales raw silk. For Lyons : -142 bales raw silk. For London:-10 cases silks, 1 case silver cups, 231 bales waste silk, 2 cases feathers, 120 rolls matting, 2 cases cigara, 6 packages private effects and curios. For Milan :----- 20 bales raw silk.
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Per steamer Diomed, mailed on 11th April. Beyrouth-20 rolls matting. Constantinople:-26 cases galangal" evo,
London or Hamburg 64 boxes_camphot. Amsterdam :—-50 cases ginger, For Ameterdádi or Rotterdam or London :---100 baleá galangal. For Rotterdam 100 rolls matting. For London BẤT -100 bales waste silk, 230 oasen chinaware, éboy- bales canes, etc., 832 cases sundries, 100 casos mi 60 bales bristles, 48 cases blackwoodware, ota, 671 -
p. shell. For London or Glasgow :---8 cases vormi- Dundee:-9 bales tes mats. For Liverpool lion, etc. For Glasgow ----18 boxes sundries............, For
cases chinaware. For Manchester:-10 bales waste silk. For Glasgow or Dundee or Leith 178 packages merchandise. For London or Cotri tinent :—260 bálos bristles, 119 balos feathers, 897 bales canes, 144 bales mats. For Antwerp:-1330 bales bamboo scraps matting, 335 bales feathers,
87 cases bristles.
Per steamer Prins Bitel Friedrich, miled on 15th - April For Colombo-5 cases_glassware: --- For Aden:- 60 cases preserves. For Suryrus ----10 cases essential oil. For Alexandrette :---5. CROSI
6 cases essential oil. For Genos:-189 bales raw glass bangles. For Naples :-40 cases Staranimoed,
eilk, 34 rolls matting, 20 cases essential oil, à casós hemp, 1 bale hemp, 1 case chinaware. For Venice-250 cases cassia. For Antwerp -3°0 bales bamboo, 88 bales leaf tobacco, 1 case miusical instruments. For Amsterdam: 47 rolla mätting." For Rotterdam 100 bales bamboo scraps. For Bremerhaven :—20) cases essential oil. ··For · Bremen:-542 rolls matting, 3 For Hamburg —283 bales feathers, 80 rolls matting, 57 cases blackwoodware. 27 cases china, ware, 24 cases bristles, 23 esses human hair. 20: cases vermilion, 7 cases feathers, 5 cases china paper, 5 cases essential oil, 1 case grass cloth. For Copenhagen :-35 rolls matting.
súrios,
Per P. & O. steamer Socotra, salled on 25th April. For Antwerp:-58 rolls mats. For Man chester:-50 ales waste silk, For Havre :–108 cases camphor (opt.), 587 picule tin (opt.)- For Marseilles. 4 bales human hair. For London i -1 case lacquerware, 4 cases camphor, 8 paak». ages private effects, 213 balea canes, 140 packagea m'dise 3 osses rattan ware.
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HANKOW, 18th April, 1906--The prices quoted are for the net shipping weight excluding cost of packing for export :—
Per pioul. Cowhides, Best Selected..................... Tla. 37.80
Do. Seconds
$3.50 Buffalo Hides, Best Selected......................................... 18.25 Goatskins, untanned, chiefly white color 70,00 Buffalo Horns, average 3-lis..each White China Grass, Wuchang and/or
Poochi.. WhiteChinaGrass, 8inshan and/orChayu Green China Grass, Szechuan Jute
DANCE
White Vegetable Tallow, Kinchow White Vegetable Tallow, Pingchew
and/or Macheng
White Vegetable Tallow, Mongyu Green Vegetable Tallow, Kiyu, Animal Tallow
Galinuta, usual shape
Do. Plum do. Tobacco, Tingchow Do. Wongkong Black Bristles Feathers, Grey and/or
M
9.50
12.00
#
11.25
"
12.50
"
6.00
"J
9.30
22
9.00
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8.50
8.75
10.00
18.50
静
18.50
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8.00
$11.00
110.00
White Duck Wild Duck
(nom.)
NCOURA "
3.80
#
4,00
8.00
(nom.) $8.80
10.00
Turmeric Sesamum Seed Sesamum Seed Oil Vegetable Tallow Seed Oil. Wood Oil
Tea Oil ...............................
$28 to $30
$14
$17
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HONGKONG QUOTATIONS, HONGKONG, 30th April, 1906.
Apricot. Borax Cassia Cloves Camphor
Cow Beroar
$14. $19
.$20 185
.$185
$470
Fennel Seed
16
Galangal
$13. $18.
Grapes Kismis vide
Olibanum............**
Oil Bandalwood
Rosa........
段
#
Cassia
Raisins
Senna Leaves
Sandalwood ..........................................