422
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
1906. -Chests. ... 139,083
1905, -Chests. 1833,071
Settlements The following are statistics at date compared with the corresponding circular of last season,
vi 81th May, 1905.
HONGKONG WEEKLY press and
(June 11, 1998.
is that Tientsin is buying at full rates for March- [
MISCELLANEOUS EXPORTS. April shipment. The auction particulars cover practica ly the whole of the transactions this
Messrs Arnhold, Karberg & Co.'s Fortnightly Hankow, 30th May, 1906.-Business reported werk. The only movement of any importance we
Produce Circular, dated Shanghai, 23th May, since the 23rd instant is as under :---
bear of is the placing of 150 cases Dyed Fancies drop in first cost prices which has brought out a 1906, states :-Gallņuts.-There has been a smart on account of the manufacturers, the goods
a number of orders. --Cowhides.-The market :* having been rejected by the indenter for inferi-
remains unchanged and there is very little doing. ority. The yarn market continues in the same slugglish state, the Szechuen demand has collapsed Demand remains slack and there is very little
Tobacco.--No business transacted." Feathers for the present owing to suspension of boat traffic. Native cotton is steady, Grey Shirtings. Prices doing, Cotton.-Market remains steady and for at Auction do not show much change one way allow.-There is very little doing in white veg. export business prices are quite out of reach. or the other for any weight, and may really he called steady.
į tallow as prices are too high to admit of an White Shirtings. The same
extensive business being done. Strawbrai-L remarks may be applied here, prices being in and Split, Loyeh and Cordeges are about the only For the first two qualities goods in the market. very high prices are asked which, combined with the present rate of exchange, make business impossible. again been done in mottled braids at firm prices. In Tsingtan a good business, has
Goatskin Rugs.-There is practically no stock left in Shanghai. Wool. Sheep's.-Market is very firm, the only check to further advance being the USA. duty limit for wools costing over 12 cents.
1905. Chests. -104,714 : 128,044
HANKOW TEA?"
1000. -Chests
Settlements...
105,822
Stock
157,037 :
Arrivals
.262,839
1908.
KIDKIANG TRA
-Chests.
Settlement
Stock
54,161 06,204
.232,758 1905. „}-Chests 69,629 68,975
-138.598
121,025
SILK
Messrs. A. E. Burkill & Sons Silk Circular dated Shanghai 26th May, 1906, states:-The Home Markets are quiet. Gold Kiling is quoted in London at 13)- and in Lyons at Fes: 36.25, Raw Silks-Market during the week has been dull, stocks are almost exhausted, and buyers appear disposed to wait the advent of the new crop to fill their requirements Green Kaihings, Contracts for new silk we hear have been unde on the basis of Tls. 5374 for Duck M. Yellow Silks.-Stocks are very small and there is not much enquiry. Hand Filatures. Considérable speculative activity has been shown during the week in this class of silk the larger portion being in grant reeled filatures, Prices paid mark a fur- ther decline in prices of Tis., 10.20 per picul. Steam Filatures.-Parcels of low grade steam filatures in fine and mixed sizes have been taken for the Continent in fair quantities throughout the week, Waste Silks.-We do not hear of any transactions, the prices which are being spoken of for the new crop are quite out of the question compared with home ideas.
.
PIECE GOODS.
Messrs. Noel, Murray & Co.'s Report on the Shanghai Piece Goods Trade, dated Shanghai, 31st May, 1906, states:-Importers and, dealers are still anxiously awaiting news from the North that the situation in Manchuria has been relieved, and for that purpose are carefully noting the progress of the small commission of importers who went up from here to investigate. From telegraphic advices they have been to Moukden, have returned to Tientsin, and are expected back via Hankow towards the end of next week. Nothing is known as to the effect of their investi- gations, but it is understood not to be entirely barren of results. Whether or no it has any- thing to do with this mission, there are persistent rumours that slightly better news has come down of the market there, and that there are enquiries for certain descriptions of American sheetings. The stock remaining in Newchwang is put down at only 15,000 bales, but the native holders have the iles that, like 'Tientsin, buyers in the North are holding off in view of the depressed state of the market here, in order to buy at still lower prices. It has been suggested that now is the time for a syndicate to come forward with about three million taels and buy up the stocks of American goods in the hands of weak holders, which can be done at about 20 per cent. below replacing cost, and so save the situation. Unless some- thing of the sort is done the life will be worried out of this market entirely, and a financial panic must result. Meanwhile the increasing deartioas of rice is threatening, to cause serious trouble in the near districts to this, and some outbreaks have occurred. This is evidently due to the floods reported in the customs-annual returns. This is always considered the slackest season of the year, but never before do we recollect such utter atagnation. There is no buying from stock, no indent business. going through, and clearances are shockingly bad. It is said there is a slight enquiry for certain goods, and even for shirtings for Haukow, but the dealers here are so well supplied it is not necessary to call on first hand holders, and so there is no tangible movement in the market, the book being quite devoid of any transactions. News of the home marke's is becoming scarce, the futility of wasting money over telegrams being quite obvious. Offers of goods from Manchester have only had the effect of raising smiles of derision! Cotton has fluctuated slightly in Liverpool, advancing since our last to 8.20d, for Mid-American, but has since gone back to 6:16. Egyptian remains unchanged, 103d. The only news of the New York market
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out, without violent fluctuations. Drills and Sheetings. We do not recollect the market being in a more lifeless state than it is at present for these goods, they are an absolute drug on the market. Fancy Goods.-These are practically as nusaleable as the plain staples and no indent orders are going forward. The fast blacks at auction show rather more than the usual fluctuations, though on the average there cannot be any great change in values. Turkey Reds were slightly` easier. Woollens.-The long continued decline in Camlets appeared to have been arrested, judging by the price realised at yesterday's auction, but this morning they were weaker again. Long Ells are rather steadier, but Lastings and Spanish Stripes are both without strength. Cotton Yarn.- ladian. The market seems to be a shade steadier though the demand, such as it is, is confined to the Yangtaze markets. There are no special features to note, the margin in prices between Nos. 10s. No. 208. being still very noticeable. The sales as reported amounted to 1000 hales, but we understand some 3 to 400 hales of the lower count were bought in addition from second hands for Tientsin.
AMOY CUSTOMS RETURNS,
JUNE 2ND, 1906. List of the principal goods passed through the Amoy Customs House from 19th May to 25th May, 4 p.m., 1900:-
IMPORTS. Goods.
Cotton, Raw, Indian
Lead, in pigs
Tin in slabs. Iron, Nail rod Quicksilver Iron, Old Iron wire
HANKOW, 30th May, 1906-The prices quoted are for the net shipping weight excluding cost of packing for export :
:
Cowhides, Best Selected....
Do. Seconds Buffalo Hides. Best Selected Goatsking, untanned, chiefly white color Buffalo Horns, average 3-fis, ench White China Grass, Wuchang "änd/or
Poochi.
WhiteChina Grass, Sinshanand orChayn Green China Grass, Szechnen.
Jute....
White Vegetable Tallow, Kinghow,..
and/or Macheng! White Vegetable Tallow, Pingchew.
White Vegetable Tullow, Mangyü, Green Vegetable Tallow. Kiyu Animal Tallow
Gallnuts, usual shape
Do. Plum do
Tobacco, Tingchow
Do. Wongkong
Feathers, Grey and/or White Duck
Vegetable Tallow Seed Oil, Wood Oil
1
Tea Oil
QUANTITY.
pls.
Native
69
Yarn
689
Shirtings, Grey
pes.
970
Black Bristles
. T-Cloths
300
Shirtings, White
193
Wild Duck
T. Red Shirting
"
BJ
| Turmeric
Drills
45
Shirtings Dyed, Brocades..
Dyed...
Sosamum Seed
227
Sesamum Seed Oil
247
Damasks
Camlets Lastings
Spanish Stripes
yds.
Lustres, Figured ·
pls.
45
Rice
289 TO 21,802
Opinu, Patna
Benares
30
Persian
Malwa..
Szechuan
Yunnan
11
Kiangsu
303
Sapanwood
Sandalwood .. Rattans
10
30
2.700
2,423 12,000
17
25.208
21
pes. 36,900 gal..
Sesanum Seed
Wheat Flour
Beancake
Beans and Peas Bicho de Mer Mats Tea...
15
Oil, Kerosine American.......
Borneo in bulk Russian Sumatra
**
Coal
Tobacco Leaf Vermicelli
Sugar, White
Brown Candy Hemp Baga
Sacking Paper 1 Quality
•
E
Bulk
1
tons.
Per pieni. Tls. 37,00
33:00
18.00
#
,,
(nom.) 8.50
11
1100 10.25
18.50
5.00
9.80
9.60
9,00
30.00.
10,00
16.20
18,50
9.00
10.50
110,00
(nom.
3:50
3.90
11
8.00'
"
(nom)
7:81
10.00
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TONNAGE.
HONGKONG, 1st June. There has been a good demand for tonnage, particularly from Saigon to Hongkong, re ulting in a fair number of charters: From Saigon to this, 141 cent last; to Philip- pines, 28 cents last ; to Jafan and Java, no inquiry, From north coast Java to Hongkong, 27} cents for small curriers; to Japan, no inquiry. From Newchwang to Canti, 20 cents per picul last to Amoy, 20 cents per picul. From Iloilo to Hongkong, 18 cents per picul. Coal. From South - Japan coal port to Hongkong, $1.85 per ton last, From Hongay to Hongkong, $1.25; to Swatow, $1.50; to Canton, $1.00 per ton. The following are the settlements
Mortlake →British steamer, 1,737 tons, Moji to Hongkong, $1,40 per ton. ›
Quarta--German steamer, 1,116 tons, Moji to Hongkong, $1.40 per ton.
Aberlour-British steamer, 2,081 tons, Mojito Hongkong, $1.35 per ton.
Hongkong, 130 per ton.
pls. 065
QUANTITY, ple. 145
376
pes. 4,000 15.350
2
ple.
Thea German steamer, 2,199 tons, Moji
:
Totti German teamer; 2,575 tons, Kuchipotau to Hongkong, $1.30 per ton.
Powhatan –– British steamer, 1,040 tons, Hongay to Hongkong. $1.25 per ton.
Nithadate British steamer, 2,234 tona, Hongay: to Chefoo, private terms.
Skuld-Norwegian steamer, 917 tous, 3 tripse Hengay to Canton, $2.00 per ton.
A steamer Hongay to Singapore, $2 73 per ton. Fiume-Germán steamer, 128 tons. Honkohe to Hongkong, 17 cents per picu).
Cairo-Norwegian steamer, 1,387 tons, Saigon to Hongkong, 14 cents per picul.
Atlantis - American steamer, 959 tons, Saigon to Hongkong 14 centà per picut.
Amara – British steamer, 1,566 tons, Saigon to Hongkong, 14 cents per picul."
Hans Wagner-German steamer, 061 tons, Saigon to Hongkong, 14 cents per picul.
Germania--German steamer, 1,714 tons, Saigon to Hongkong, 14 cents per picul
145
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EXPORTS. GOODS.
П Tobacco, Prepared Kittysols (umbrellas)
M
550
13
2
36
рен. 9.450