1897-07-05 — Page 5

MONDAY, JULY 5, 1897.

HONGKONG MARKET PRICES,

Crected to Saturday, July 3, 1897.

Ai 1020 Cash per Dollar Mexican,

PLION.

to

catly

Price :

Pomfret, White

200

Eigens. Lewart,

Chinese Names.

Pomfret, Black

J80

Cash, Cash

Butcher Meat.

肉食

Prawne,

250

Ray,

50

Back Fish,

DO

£ 1 1 1 1:8

̇花椒

皺藥

Bacon, English,

1b

來路烟猶肉

明蝦 琵琶沙 石狗笼

Bosch,

蠶雄

JJ

Ame. Sugar cured,

320

11

Foochow

220

#

11

甄州烧猪肉 Shark,

Salmon, (Canton),

200

"

x

60

Japan, oured

241

11

日本做肉

bat binds,

· 100

Beef zlom & prime cnt, eally 140

AWES

Skate

โป

Corned,

..salty

140

#48

SUR

140

Roast,

1:0

先牛肉

bype:

220

+1

Soup,

100

|

Sules,

200

RELA

23

Steak,

120

J

十耙

Teuch,

Bullock's Brains, .

per set

uu 60

4-p

Turbot,

180

在口期

J

Tongue fresh, cach

200

4-

Turtles, small, fresh water,

300

V

corued

310

P

JJ

***

Whiting,

calty

70

**

Head,

500

24

牛酸

White Bait,

00

鑾籐仔

Heart,

160

· "

Haap, Salt

ently

140

牛燒

Fruits.

Fael,

encli

60

50 .4

菓子

"

Apples, (California),

• catty 300

>

Kidneys,

EO

牛髅

金山平菜

**

>

(Tiantain),

Tail,

100

牛油

天津李暴

事

(Japan),

230

日本平集

Liver,

L

.ently

70

4st

JJ

bananas, fragraut,

40

47

Tripe (undressed) catty 60

50

牛肚

麻油香葱

#

(brides),

+

50

Calves lead and Foot, aut Hams. American,

500

牛仔頭脚

山香蕉

Chestnuts, Chinese,.

150

11

un.

. lb.

320

花火腿

Carambols,

100

楊桃

Chinese,

240

金華火腿、

Cocoanuts,

exch 60

**

English, New,

440

米路火罐

Ground Nuts,

catty

90

花生

Japan cured,

$80

日本火腿

Grapy +

170

鮮機子

31

Shanghai,.

220

上海火雞

Lemons, China,

200

Mutton Chup,

160

Peel,

"

12

椒餅

160

Leg,

MY

"

Lichoes. Drivd,

260

荔枝糙

Shoulder,

120

**

"1

Frosh,

150

"

荔枝

Figs Chitlioga,

. catty

70 60

Limes,

檸檬

16

Foot,

110

Mango, (Saigon),TM

esplı

·南芒業

13

Fry,

llesd,

Floark,

150

♪

(Manila),

宋芒

each

500 454

Mangosteen,

doyau

山竹子

50

40

Oranges, Sweet,

cally 180

33

新會蕭證

» Kidneys,

70 pais

Liver,

ib.

100

Greek, Red,

100

#

青橙

紅桔

}

Pork, Chop,

, catty,

180

Olives,

白醬:

Corned,

บ

Leg,

300

Fat or Lard,

150

17

Shoeps' Head and Feet, cet

350

Heart,

50 , cách

"

+1

Kidneys,

70

L

13

Liver,

lb.

150 140

F

Sucking Pigs,

each $1.75 $1.25

1 1 1 1 199

鹹豬肉

Pine-apples,

esch 100

本地波蘿

Pears,

• catty 100

*

מ

(Tientsin),

300

J

天津雪裝

雞歐

Plum, Red,

60

#1

紅樂

40

Pamelo,

each 130

(Siam),

Peuch, (Sweet),

Raine, Muscatel,

catty 100

100

+

Suet, Beef,.

lb.

110

>

Pudding,"

Mutton,

H

100 生鲜油

Water Chesnuta, com.

Yeal

calty 130

1+

Walnuts,

Poultry.

10

12

1

***

Let

40

Mandarin,

60

13

180

I

Vegetables, &c.

Chickau,

eatty 230

SA

Сарола,

503

Ducks,

160

Artichokes, Shanghai, ・ catty Besus, (French),

او

*

Daves,

Eggs, Hen

doz,

Duok

Fowl,

Batty

Geese,

Евген

•

1.1

cach

140

נן

120

110

Beet Root,

Brinjala, Green,

190

100

Losg1

. ench

catty

Red,

33

Brassica,

13

萬仔

Musk Deer,

*

發票

Bamboo Shoote,

Cabbage, Chinese com, .

Partridges,

Cabbage,

Pigeons,

170

12

白鲜

Cauliflower,

Pheasant,

Rice Birde,

Qual.

Enipe,

Turkort, Cock,

"

, calty 450

850

brace

doa,

Cairota,

Gelery, Chinese,

"

Ben,

1

נו

Toal,

›

, each

Cucumbers,.

Wild Ducks,

✓ pair

Bitter Squashy

Fish,

海讎

Garlio,

Ginger, young,

Barbol,

catty

200

雄

Bream,

80

"

BA

Indian Coru,

Bombay Ducks,

O'ton Fresh Water Fish, catty-

100 piover 250

***

Horse Radish, S'hat, " 120

piece 90

10

| Lettuce, (English), 43..exch

Mushrooms, Freab, . Dalty

Onions, Bombay,..

الجبد

100

-

, each

"

. catty

*1

English

12

Chilies Dried,

62

180

$3

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€0

Curry. Stuff, English,→→4-

40

60

20

智惠

40

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THE CHINA MAIL.

IN PRAISE OF HONGKONG. The following extmot from a private' fetter of a Gorman resident of Kobe, who went home for a trip on the German mpil steamer Frin: Heinrich, in published is the Kobi Chronicle amor.

Intimations.

G. FALCONER & Co.,

THE NATIONAL PROSPERITY. The half-yearly summary of banking ac counts published in the Economist

give some idea of the national prospority. These Figures show in round number that on Saturday, May, 22nd, the joint stock banks enjoyed my stay in Hongkong very of England and Wales hold on deposit or much The

place appeared to me like current account about £850,000,000 of the paradius ; the besutiful and splendid ve- country's savings. For the second time in DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WABE. paradiva: getation, its variety and exuberance appeara a locada there is a slight

pared with the previous half-year, the def- ciency of some £15,000,000 being caused by

falling-off se

com.

to w people from higher Intitudes like wenders. In the bushes, full of many coloured flowers, the singing of birds is oneamalgamation and onsfailure. Otherwise continuous, and pignons and jackdawa are the accumulation of our hoard has steadily innumerable. As I lived just above the progressed from £33,000,000 in 1886. But G.

Els Scotch and Irish banks have on their booke I was in a good position to public garden, observe. This genion contains an in- £141,000,000, the share of the former boing credible number of plants, bushee her more than double that of the latter, and trees from all parts of the whilst £2,500,000 ane garnered up in the... world, all nataed and specified. Many a Foreign and colonial houses possessing

Inte of Man and the Chaand Islands. 818 hour I have spent there. Remarkable, too, in what the English have made of this London offers show a sum of no less than island of rocks. Hats

ats off before such energikers, so What a namber of roads in perfect earidi. tion all over the island, what substantial and splendid buildings carried up to the very top of the mountain. The Waterworks receive their water frorn the other site of the island through a tunnel, filter it above the town, distribute it and pump it even to the houses on the Peak. Our Japanese friends might lean something from this also Mr Trotzig-if we were not in a chronic state of impecuniosity as regarde Municipal funds. The people seemed to me more dili

,000,000 on their books, and private bankers, so far as they disclose choir busi- nese, are entrusted with some £50,000,000 of the country's wealth. Thus we arrive at a grand total of £987,000,000, which represents in the main the floating or uninvested capital of the well-to-do-clauses, for the savings of the working man are only partially included in the reckoning

THE RAILWAY DEAL IN CHINA,

gest than in Kobo. I had much opportunity of the asset position regarding the cons- We can scarcely feel certain at present

of looking about and souing the shops.

where.

with the execption of silver goods, every-truction of railways in China that has beom g decorative is from Japan. The market by the alleged Belgian syndicate buildings are excellent, and I adniced agreement with the Chinese Government.

oxcellent thu

(The voice is the voice of

of Belgium, but the car and other dsb. Men work pumps Or is it that the agreement is only with hands are the hands of France and Russia.)

heng

arrangements to

tean whereby the water is in con- shent, who for his part has to provide

stant

motion and

mixes with the air. The akundance of tropical fruits and vegetables in the markets is noticeable. But I liked the butchers' shops lesa.'

2,000,000-a saa that may take son dif- culty to raise. Doubtless the Belgian- French syndicate, with which tha Rasso- Referring to the Prin: Heinrich, the Chinese Bank scars to be usurinted would writer is strong in his prase of the vessel, not have any supreme difficulty in raising the which on the run to Singapore went une The Timer rightly points

£4,500,000 it has contracted to do. Though, steady as if no Hes could make her roll. under Chinese cambrod obviously offer in railways The appointments, ho says, are those of a palace, and the speed of the two days pro who are asked to find the money:

themselves a very slender security to those Lengo oeding arrival at Singapore was 306 and 330 mota respectively.

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in Europe on its own merita, are not PRICE LISTS. particularly bright. It is not the ques tion of making ways in China that this and other countries who are ap parently left out in the cold need cavil st. According to a contemporary (writes It is the mothed of their construction Truth), there is not one of us who, chal- and the monopoly sought to be crested lenged suddenly to recite the words of what that are

The British, the Mr W. S. Gilbert calls our illiterate Americas, and the German Ministers have National Anthem,

could through the verses. I am inclined to think promptly protested against those portions of

which arrangement

infringe that my contemporary is right. Wo all of the projected na know the tune of God save the Queen, the principle of the most-favoured-nation treatinent, and it may be assumed that but when it comes to the words that is their complaints have brought about formal very different matter. The fact is that correctness in the terms of the concessions most people are apt to sing their own than have so far been reported. It version of those words. Thus it is not however, a The Times also reminds us, difficult to imagine the enthusiastic Big saucely necessary to observe

that Englander yelling, with swelling chest cors then this

is required to safe and quivering nostrils, soine sach version guard the intercars. of nations not di as this:-

rectly ameurned in the present negotia-

Thy choicest gifts in ore

O God be pleased to pour-

On me, I mean;

Stop pens censorious, Make ne notorious, Wealthy and glorious

God save the Queen!

me grab niggers' land, Let me control the Rand

God save the Queen!

Lot me duly the lawe,

And raid without & cause; Let me get the applaus

God save the Queon!

Then there is the Colonial magnate.

seems to hear him carolling

Uh, may this Jubilee

Make nie & C. M. G

God save the Queen!

Things look extremely bright,

Joseph is most polite,

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But we are often hardly careful

eful enough watch over the observance of our treaty rights in cases such as the presént. We have also heard complaints of late that all British view firms do not obtain the assistance that they desire or are entitled to receive in an with others from their own

equal en mag repeat that we desire to 1 officials.

seo railways in-Ching, and we are sufficient- ly imbued with the principles of free trade not to grudge the success of any nationality, What we object to is unfair competition and methods which are sought to be brought One about by which this country is shut out from such competition. The necessities of China will probably compel the construc- tion of railways ero long, and we desire fair. dealing and no favouritism. To secure these it seems certain British diplomacy will have to remain very active.-L. and C. Express.

I may go back a

God save the Queen! Nor does it

it requires

any very great stretch of imagination to faucy the New Millionaire declaiming with great gusto some such asntiments as these

O God, confound tho Bears;

Send up my stocks and shares-

God save the Queen!

Oh, let me quickly get

Inte the smartest set;

Blake mo & Baronet→→

save the Queen!

God

Oh, lot this record year

Crown my most odd sreer-

God save the Quien

Let shani philanthropy

Gild now my apoyen

(All on the strict get

God save the Queen.

Thinks, too, what.

an army of subscription

Peeking Tithunter and Tondios there

ush now be all on the

over the country engaged

in ainging some such verse as this:-

Hope on our proposta gleams,

God help our varied schemes

God save the Queen

Our loyal plans wo raix

With most self-seeking tricks; On these our

our hopes wo fix-- God

And can

Sve tha

Queen!

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For fifty pounds or e

Then I will shout, Bravo:

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No credit, that's mote

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No money given back-

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Japan,

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វរ

Crabs,

160

FI

Quttle Fish,

80

Ukroes,,

120

Dab,

60

沙孟箱~

Paraley, English,. bundle 10

Daco,

Potatoos, Sweet,

Bhanghai,

calty. 20

上牌警仔

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Eels, Congor,

Eels, Yellow,

餅沙

Japan,

20

日本舉行

American,

花屏照仔

File Fish,,

Fresh water,

-180

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Fresh Fish,

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Purelize,

EX

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Papaw,

Redish

Focchom,

Mauso,

Pumpkin,

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***

25

20.

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$4.10

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Bosch,

Lobeter

Machural,

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Farratiak

P

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**

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190

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