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A special correspondent writes from Shanghai to The Times Trade Suppie Imoat that cotton goods from the biggest sisse of foreign manufactures consumed by the Chinese, and Shanghai is the chief market There the bulk of the business is at the auction sales. Thuso auctions are held weekly by three big arms Maitland & Co. Ltd, Probet. Hanbury &Co, Ltd., and Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. Maitland & Co, own locally as Tuan Fong, bava dons their piece goods business in this way for half a century or more. Probst, Hamburg) whose Chinese name is Kung Ping, began aus- tions about 1910, and Ewo, the Chinese. name of Jardine, Matheson, about 1850. Maitland's is the most important of the three, and takes place every Thursday, in all conditions," good, bad, "er ins different, aid they sell, without reserve, putting up to auction as far as possible the "samo" quantity week in, seek out.
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In this respect their mokhoda differ from | Italian Marbis or Hongkong Granite, Ewo's, for Ewo withdraw good when the prices bid do not suit them. Another Jar RECEIVED A SHIPMANT OF ITALIAN characteristic feature of Maitland's 'au tion is that all the goods put up for sale are their own, whereas at the Kung Pins or Ewo auction consignment goods arO included. The three auctions together i (kung Ping's takes place on Tuesdays, Ewo's on Wednewilaya) represent a large propertion of Shanghai's -piece-goods. trado,
Apart from the auctions, business is done in two way, merchantwise" and "indentwise. The sales to the Chinese are generally made in sterling, and tha settling of exchange is their respon- sibihty. In this respect Shanghai buai- ness differs from that of Hongkong, where sales are effected in dollars, sod the importing house sottles exchange.
Many regurd Hongkong's method as much more desirable, becanso it elimi nates one element of ris of which there are many in the indent business. They were illustrated in the post-armistice do bacle, when dealers who had cof aettled exchange and found it going heavily against them made no attempt to take up their contracts, a course in which they were helped by the case of escape to Ningo-more-far," a vaguo geographical expression, whica includes the neighbour- ing treaty port of Ningro and any other of the cities or small towns of Kiongah province and the province of Chekiang." The law in China in such cases of default is short-armed." Dealers, disappeared by the dozen, and to invoke the help of the Chinese authorities, in bringing them to
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Business, whether done merchantwise or indentwise, is, generally speaking, Banned. bad.p. terms (documents against payment), though in certain ex- |roptional instances d.a. terms (documents) against acceptance, are arranged. Native intermediarios play an important part. The European importers are a mere handful la comparison with the huge po pulation to which they sell, and even i they were able to speak Chinese fluently," it would stil te impossible for them to get into such close, direct contact with dealers as to be able to place thear, size them up, and enter into agreements with them without native help. Hence all foreign importing houses in the piece goods as in other trudes "have native staffs, large or small, of which the prin It is reported that Senator Pittman cipal man is the compradore. In what will soon place before the Backing and ure coming to be regarded as the " good Currency Committee of the Senate all old days, the compradore in Shanghai, data pertaining to his Bill recently intro- like the guarantee brokers of the same duced for the completion of purchases of perind in Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, or silver under the Pittman Act of 1918. The Karachi, was responsible for the business Senator will cadeavour to have such be introduced, and could be looked to inaction recommended to Congress as will the event of default. To-day that is rarely if over the case. Yet the compradore is a very necessary person."
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In a further letter coming back to the anctions, the writer states "the actual process of bidding, is an exceedingly in teresting thing to watch. Imagine a room 60 feet by 43 feet and a crowd of some 200 Chinese wearning short black jackets, dark blue or brown shirts, and caps ex Japanese competition: (B) to the com- HONGKONG CIGAR STORE LTD
squash" bats, standing below a plat
was 9,977,253 pieces; in 1923 it was 1,080,180, the diminution being due (a) to
form on which is a desk presided over by Petition of local cotton mills.
en Englishmay helped by a Chinese assistant on either side. The English man conducts the, auction in English in the orthodox fashion, with a hammer and the usual professional clichés. The bidders, a large proportion of whom are brokers buying on behalf of constituents in various centres, have all sorts of methods of making their kids known, a lift af two fingers, a nod of the head, the wink of an eye, soinstimes the merest semblancs of a sign: Indeed, there are occasions when a stranger to the "scene mght imagine that the suction was hang ing fire and would certainly be puzzled at the fall of the hammer at a figure reach ed he could, not say how, for he might Havy beard no more than three or four bids and yet the price, at which the prior was knocked down would show that There had been a dozen or more. It is in catching these swift, silent signs that
· Lle skill of the auctionïver lies, and years of practice are behind such an auctioneer, for instance, on Mr. C. M. Bain, of Maitland's." The bidding that is vocal is in English and often, of course, the rapid succession of bids, rising above the |hubbub of talk that alinnat invariably characterises a Chiness crowd, no matter what the business in band may be, makes plenty of noise,
Two general and rather important statements may be made about those auctions, done that the volume of tha trade in grey goods is smaller than it used to be; the other that the total volume of European business done has decreased since the war In 1914 the total delivery of European grey goods (Continued on nest column.)
and the
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