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COMMERCE AND FINANCE Estimated supply

TRADE MARKI DISPUTE.

LONDON, February 24. The Manchester Guardian hears. that the dispute with regard to traile marks is in a fair way to settlement-Rauter.

The

CHINA TEA..

LONDON, February 24. question of preference against China tea will come up in the Budget discussions in the House of Commons.

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Crop for 1923. 55,406,000) Held from 1922. 0,780,000 Import from Korea: 8,100,000 Tnport from For

900,000

Total

86,246,000 Estimated consumption Koku.

In Japan Proper... 66,080,000 Used for sako, vino- gar and cakes or exported

400,000 5,000,000

Total

71,480,000 The deficit 5,934,000 koku will have to be made good by importa tion of foreign rico.

Hold for next year..

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GOPRA TRADE.

Although the amount involved is not very large, equality of admission, says the Manchester

From the report recently scb- Guardian, is a point of pride with China, and if the policy of dismitted by the Auditor-General (Mr. criminating against China be J. W. Tamuel at Melbourne it ap that the Expropriation abandoned it would probably peared improve Chinese opinion towards Board it Now Guinea was indebted British imports, which declined to the Commonwealth to the extent

of approximately £900,000. last year. Reuter.

EARTHQUAKE INSURANCE.

the same

THE CHINA MAIL.

DOULEUR D'AMOUR.'

If the waters of seas and oceans Turn ink-wells all of a start-- I cannot describe the emotions, The drama of the silent heart

All those fancy aches of one's

childhood

Are balmed by a mother's sweet

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The sympathy which-in one's

manhood, Can fessen no pain self must bear

And all the poignant stabs of

King-Love

Are griefs one must bear all alone, For no pleadings, no shudders

enough-

Can repel the passions outgrown The sense of the touch seems so

thrilling

Yet mingle with anguish and palu, with electrical When flames

feeling.

Overwhelm one like lava-rain

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CHINESE AND CEYLON PRODUCTS COMPARED.

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growers American-

*The report of the supervising tea examiner shows that the China teás (including congou, scented Canton, Canton oolong, pingsucy green, Foochow oaleng, scented orange pekoe, capers, and country green) ad- mitted to the U.S. during the fiscal year 1921-22 amounted to 16,596,833 pounds, and 'during the fiscal year 1922-23 14,278,116 pounds, a decline of 14% However, imports from Chia seem to be increasing during the present tea' season.

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A $1,000,000 India-tea advert- ising campaign, to be continued in, the United States for five years. has been started on February 1. It will be concentrated for the first year in New York, Boston. and Philadelphia, the second year. In It has been ascertained that the greater part of this sum has been When silence sends pulses all Chicago and the Middle West, the

bounding

third year in the Far West and levated to the improvement of the "capm plantations, which are now While indifference seems to dwell-Pacific Coasty the fourth year in at the heart are the South, and the fifth year in the coning int bearing. wugh Then tugs

vibrating

entire United. States, to weld the efforts made some time ngo by the Conwealth to dispose of come To the chords of heaven and hall; sectional advertising into a com

pact whole, says The Tea and Coffee of theso estates provel fruitless, this

London, Trade Journal (New York.)

February 24-A The campaign is under the most important statement regard direction of Sir Charles F. Higham, advertising agent and publicity ing India will be made in the expert of London, and will be House of Lords on February, 26. carried out in America by William In view of the Sawarajists' demand for a round-table conference, with H. Rankin, president of the William H. Rankin Co., New York the object of achieving immediate self-government, it is understood and Chicago.

that the Government is prepared to sanction. an inquiry into working. the reforms, but, in a form different American people to drink more from a round-table conference. Indiastea, without disparagement The Cabinet is not disposed to of coffee, cocon, or other beverages. depart from principles embodied There will be little but newspaper in the Government of India and trade-paper advertising, to

Act.-Reuter. reach the consuming public through the public press and the distributing forces through, tea, grocery, and other wholesale and retall mediums.

burning

TOKYO, February 21. While the larger Tokyo com- panies are prepared to pay ten per cent. sympathy" insurance

Government to-day was not altogether unfortunate. as We avoid the thing we are seeking claim, the decided to assist the weaker since then the price of copra has While our souls cry out 'It's a

lio!- increased very greatly, hoing now coup mies to pay

to the extent ofquated at £20 a ton, which is under- While cheek-pallor seems to be percentage eighty milling ven, which will be stood to be a payable proposition, loaned at 4 per cent, redeemable Recommendations have been made With a glow that can, never dic

through the Commonwealth an in 50 years.

Sll policy holders will re-thorities that the plantations Ahould To-day, all the streets seem so

lonely, ceive prferential treatment. The be offered at auction, and that if decision is being submitted to satisfactory bids were not made the Privy Council, after which it values should be put on them and will be embodied in an Imperial in attempt made to dispose of them hav private tender, Failing this, no -Ordinance-Reuter.

thing would remain but for the Ex- ropriation Board to continue ta eran the plantations until some other means could be found of dis- rosing of them. It is clained that the amount spent by the Expropria, tion Board on the plantations has increased their value to a like ex- tent, and that a conservative estim-I ate of the value of the properties may be set down at £5,000,000,

RUBBER RESTRICTION.

LONDON, February 25. In the House of Commons. re plying to a question suggesting the abandonment of the rubber export restriction policy in British Malaya, in view of the increasing supply of robber from the Dutch East dies and the diminishing G: H. output of Malaya, Mr. Thomas. Secretary for Colonies, said he did not contemplate a

TAXING RICE.

Whether or not the Customs|

A vacancy fanfares the throng, And life's hustle and din seem

so empty--

Less that presence for which

long.

I

Then the cold is cruel and lashes On a heart that trembles anew, And the wind swivels and flashes That cry-Oh I love you,

love you'!

wander through each lane with

'despair

Paths where her feet have once

trod,

1 fancy her phantom is there But truth pierces me like a sword

river

reversal of his predecessor's policy duties on rice should be restored. I clasp, her! I kiss her! I quiver, in this matter. He was not aware was a topic of discussion at a Japan. I quiver with delirious pains that any substantial body of ese Cabinet Council on the 8th inst- For my heart is a shimmering

Following a sintement by opinion either at home or in Malayaant. advocated repeal of the ordinances Viscount Maeda, Minister of Agri And fires course in question. Reuter

culture and Comuneree, a free ex- change of views took place among OCTTON MARKET WEAKER.the Ministers present. "Some made a strong bil for the extension of They Inder dale Folmary 25, Messrs the period of exemption. Polishwalla and Kotwall report: mtended that the demand for re-

veins

through my

H. M. SILVA.

The campaign is to be an open,

to Induce direct effort

One of the few minor publicity. methods will be a series of prizes to be given to school boys and girls for the best essays on Why I Prefer India Tea," with college professors to select the winners.

THE PENINSULAR" AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO AND BOMBAY.

AND

The fund for the campaign comes from the India tea growers, THROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED who have voluntarily assessed FOR EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN themselves to the extent of £40,000 CONTINENTAL PORTS AND LONDON. a year to increase toa drinking in-

the United States. The Indian THE Stomship Tea Cess Committee sent Harold Newby, their commissioner, last.

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and on top of this government, subsidies are provided in China for deserving tea planters. As -result, exports of tea from

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"ALIPORE"

Hongkong 20th February, 1924.

CONSIGNEES.

year to make an extended pre-arrying His Majesty's Mails will to liminary investigation. Now Mr. despatched from this port at Noos, Newby has resigned as com- on FRIDAY, the 39th February, Since the departure of the. Inst storation chiefly came from parti-variety in 1924, according to details missioner, and Bir Charles Higham taking Cargo for the above Poris.

Silk and Valuable Cargo for Italy, the Japanese Consulite, now being plans.

Franco and London (under arrange mail, on January 20, our markets who were prompted by the deeing made in the annual report of is in charge of the execution of the

The following has appeared in meat, will be conveyed by this Steamer remained steady and on the advent sire to promote agrariau interests completed, and in the opinion of The Chinese New Year, a moder. While it was undoubtedly important shimers closely linked with expert the American papers:

proceeding to Bombay and, there tran "Tea merchants in China are shipped to the on-carrying Steamer for ate business in No. 10s. was done, to look after the interests of far-

trying very hard to develop the Marsailles and Loudon, principally for the Yunnan marketers, it was far more important to and import conditions of Vancouver.

American market, and as a result Parcela will be received at the Office whilst some selected chops secure put the national life in a scene Probably the largest item is lumber.

placed for more than 20,000,000 of the Chinese having sent a tea until 5 r.M. the day before aniling. an ayrice of $1 to $3 per bale.sis Granting that there was a fer which orders have already been On the other hand. No. 12 have shortage of rice supplies to the ex-feet from: British Columbia forests.

commission to India and CeylonThe contents and value of all packages tent of 5,000,000 koku from the

an industrial school has been | are required. continued in poor request, only a home yield, this deficit must of ne- Breaking all previous records, established at Nanking, where For further particulars apply to ~*. few bules changing hands at precessity he made good by imported Feat Willinan and Port Arthur dur- the sons of planters are learning MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., vious rates.

foreign rice, and it was therefore

Ageats. up-to-date methods of cultivation, The latest advices from Bombay

bushela of gmin. give quotations there as being about only proper that every facility in 1923 shipped from elevators Bhipments for the crop year from $4 higher than those ruling here. Should be provided for the importa 206,871,361 Many of the mille still remain of foreign rice.

In spite of the view of these Mini-September 1 until the close of navi closed.

The tone of our market, at the stars, the Minister of Agriculture tion. December 24, were also

969 bushels. close, is weaker, owing to the de-and Commerce is reported by the higher than in 1922, being 211,597.7: China have largely increased to

compared with Asahi ns being strongly inclined to

Canadian terminato the period of exemption 187.600,052 in 1922.

ports received 156,094,675 bushels. ut the end of March.

United States ports 140,625.386) Imshels od 190,300 bushels wore. shipped direct to Europe in foreign hottore. In addition. 180,508,690 pounds of mixed grain and 195.143 tons of screeninga were shipped.

At the statutory meeting of Rem- The year under re-bau Jelei Rubbor, Ltd. (the recent advance of $6 per bole, but latterly view began with a fine prospect, amalgamation of sight Malay Rnh owing to decline in American Cof-386,100 kin being exported in her Estates), held on January 22 tom, prices have lowered, $5 per January The figure kept on des- the linen stated that for the bale. 400 Bales Nagasaki No. 20s. At $178/283; 400 Bales 3 Horses ending and touched the lowest level period April-December, 1924, the No. 168. at $252: 400 Bales 3 August, when the export was less company had sold forward ton tons. Horses No. 20s, at $264: 900 Bales than 100 kin. The curve them be- ribber per month at the equiva gan to rise and December reported ent of 1s. 4d. per pound, landed Yellow Jona No. 20s. at $265/273; less than 19:740,000 kin. The London. All the details in connec 900 Bales Belen No. 10. at $239 market was very firm throughout tion with the acquisition of the es 900 Bales Seter No. 20. ut $284: the year, quoting an average price tes have been completed, and the 800 Bales Blue Fish No. 20s. at of Y.66. na ngainst Y.67 for 1922. company took possession on Decem- $282.

The first two months of the current ber 11 Inst.

cline of American cotton.

Total Sales 2,000 bales. Unsold stocks 9,000 bales. Bargains in Chinese hands, 2.100 bales.

KOREAN COTTON,

Shanghai-In the early part of

A Seoul special to the Jiji puts the interval, prices were quite firm, but a decline of Tis. 2 to 3 is re-the Korean cotton exports for 1923 at 21,190,700 kin valued &t ported at the close.

Japanese Yarn:-In the early 1,924,000-an increase of 20 por part of the interval there was anent, on the amount exported the

previous year.

Raw Cotton:-No Sales. Stock year are expected to give a fine 100 balea Bengal only. Quota showing, the message states. tions:-Bengal $67 to 62 par picul.

Chinese $50 to 60 per picu),

RICE CROP.

GENERAL NOTES.

every nation save the United States, where a decline in China tea imports of 17% for 1923 under 1921-1922 is recorded*

"It is interesting to find that Java and Sumatra teas, as well as some China teas and Formosa. colong, have been steadily advertised in the United States,

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yet they are markedly inferior THE Stamship

the Indian teas, as evidenced by the fact that in the

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COLUMBIA PACIFIC SHIPPING CO. (Operating United States Government Ships.)

From PORTLAND, ORE, JAPAN PORTS, ETC. HE Steamship

MOVEMENT OF STEAMERS,

The B. F. "Calokas" arrived at New York on Feb. 24,

The O.P.8, R.M.E., " Empress of Asia??.

ie dno bare to-day at 5 pm, and will'

Tho P. & O. 4.a. “Padas” leló Singa- pore for this port on Feb. 31 at 10 am. with the outward. English Mails and is

The C.P.E. RMS." “Kmpress of

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"CITY OF YORK". report of the supervising tea have arrived from abovementioned examiner in Washington I find ports, Comigases of Cargo by her are.

“PAWLET" Formosa oolong, Japanese tea, hereby notified that their goods are be and Canton oolong rejected foring, lauded at their risk into the having arrived from above ports. berth at Pier No. 5, Kow con Whs f.. quality, while all Indian teas to hazardous and extrs hazardous Godowas Consignees are requested to present amount of over. 3,000,000 of the Holt's Whut whosee delivery their Bilis of Lading in exchange for Delivery Orders, and take immediate pounds passed, without question. may be obtaimod."

"As a matter of fact, the All broken, obsted and damaged goods delivery from alongside steamer, du bere to-morrow at about noon,

All Cargo not taken delivery from popularity of India tea has been are to be left in the Godowns where steadily growing in the United they will be examined by the Holt's steamer by 26th February, 1924, willAstralia arrived at Shanghai vestar- and is flue at Robson Feb. 28 at 8 am, States, the tea import statistics Wharf on any Tuesday ajor Faclays be landed into the hazardous and/or day at 8 pm left Alushaf 11 p.m. The B. F. 8.x. Antilochus for Mar showing that in the 10 months between the hours of 10.45 am, and non-hazardous godowns of the Hong

kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown low. Havre,, Livornool and Glasgow ending with last October the im-noon within the free storage period." ports of Jananase tea decreased No claim will be admitted after the Co, Ltd., at consigneer risk, whence off Shanghel on Feb. 25 for this part

vil and is dua bera on Feb. 99. · The vessel· by over $500,000, while the im-Goods have left the Godowns and cargo delivery may be obtained.

will be d dosastched at 3 p.m. on Mar. 1. post of India toas showed an remaining undelivered ou and after All broken, chafed and damaged

The B. F. As Machson" left Liver increase of over $1,000,000 Thursday, 28th February 1924 will be cargo will be examined by Meserial on Feb. 9 for Straits, Hongkong, Much of this is due to summer subject to rent.

Anderson & Astle (Marine Surveyors Shanghai and Japan and is due bere op consumption of iced tea for All claims against the steamer must. at the godowns on 2nd March, 1924 or About Mar. 14.

The AO.L. Ka V. West Laon" which is bouquet of India tea make it before 6th March 1924, otherwise it. No claims well be much more desirable.will not be recoguised

the gons have left the steamer or led from Battle on Feb. 1. No Fire Insurance whatever will be godowas, and all goods retaine The D.B T2, de 1! Pres.. Adsow" which What Newspapers Say

offooted. P This was cabled to the Hearst

from New York on Feb. 7'on schedule. i will be hublejt to rent d and the crop 55,400,154 koku was next, with 7,105,057 028 realization of old stocks which warn newspapers from their London Consignses of Cargo from, BREMEN. Undelivered hiter 2nd, March." 1924 is due at Hongkong an Mar. 318b anilad The 0.4.8. Co., Ltd., as. “ Victoria ** These figures compared with those valued at $4,828,384, followed by the tampering most traders. General office ba December 30.01 and HAMBURG are notified that All claims against the steamer

Gpusral Average Bond must be signed must be presented to the Undersigned with australian Mell left Hyder for For We show on these auth1 Yulton with 669,193 ozs., valued by spooking, 128 was a poor year, A big drinking drive is to be and a deposit of 3% on nett arrived on fore 10th March, 1924, of Hongkong in Queensland ports, Ban

arer, of 0.240 cha (0,2 per cent $447,097: Nova Scotin, 56 ozs. due to the restricted danand for inaugurated throughout America market value of cargo must be paid

and Manila on #ab. 18 1994 and is buc decrease in the crop of 5.227. ** 690 toku (8.6 per cent.). The crop valued at $58, and Manitoba, 20 nearly all classes of importe A in the new year by Sir Charles before, Bills of La log will be counter they will not be recognised expected to by hers.or on about Mar. 1994 The Wing On Oh.. Ubi., Agenta, was 2,509,207 koky below that of anoze, worth $14.

large amount of capital was locked Higham, friend of formered for delivery

The ... as "Barcelon" left Livers average year Ad to the food situ Trade between the part of Van-affected the bazaat.”

up in non-coupon rubber which also Premier Lloyd George, who will

zool on Feb. 17 for Fonsng, Singapore, The Crown salli next Wednesday on the

Horelons and Chenglial na là đặe here tion for the current year we give couver and Japan will probably Arrents question was approaching Majestic Sir Charles has been the following figures :

on Mar. 18, breaks all records for volume and malfactory solution.

At the annual meeting of the F.M.B. Chamber of Commerce, at Kuala Lumpur, the Hon. Mr.-J. H. M. Robson, presiding, declared that belief in the beneficial effect Alver production in Canada dur- of rubber restriction had to a certain 18,531,430 fine 078. valued at had been decided falling off in trids $12,070,760. Ontario led all other during the last few months of the vinces in silver production, ac year. Building operations were counting for 10,411,900.02s, valued limited. The most satisfactory at 87:300,305. British Columbia feature was onportunity for the

The Japanese Department. of ing 1928 is estimated to amount to extent been justified, although there which beverage the body, and be presented to the Undersigned on or at 10a.m. amitted after dan 4 Honeking on or shoub Kar, £5

Agriculture and Commerce has just published the figures for, 1923, ac- curding to which the area under en tivation Inst year was 8,147,897 cho,

| kan

commissioned by India tea

No Fire Insurance whatever will THE BANK LINE, LIMITED, be effected as

ARNHOLD & CO. LTD., General Agents Hongkong, Februmry 23, 1924.

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