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SHANGHAI,
stoners, a dock, an extensive wharves and godowns in the French Settlement and at Hgkew.
The hotel ace mindation of Sha ghai was formerly, like that of Hongkong a. Yokohama, of the most miserable di sertion, but by the opening of the "Central” and the re-bulding of the "Astor House" in 1876-77, it is now in this respect unexcelled by any port in the East. There are three daily newspapers, the North China Day Ners, morning, and the Shanghai Courier and Shanghai Mercury, evening, also two weeklis, the North China Herald and the Celestial Empire. There are two native daily papers; one of them, the Shun-pao, sold at the pri e of eight cash, eqal to a farthing and a half, has a very large circulation; the other is the organ of the officials. In one matter, that of Postal are modation, Shanghai is incon- veniently over-supplied, there being British, French, American, Japanese, Local, and Customs Post-offices. It is hoped that the Chinese Government may soon establish a general postal departout in connection with the International Union, to be under the control of the Foreign Customs, or that failing this the other Authorities may sent to all correspondence passing through either the British or Local Offices. A foreign hongs and even private houses have to give themselves faucy Chinese ames, by which only are they known to the natives. The system is, however, found
have its convenienc s.
The currency of Shang) ai is the tael of silver, cast into "shoes" of fifty taels, nore or less. The foreign banks issue notes of the value of five taels and upwards. S:ualler transactions are conducted in clean Mexican dollars and copp. r cash. There are seven foreign and innumerable native banks in the Settlement.
It is
Shanghai is the great emporium for the trade of the Yangtsze and Northern ports and to a considerable extent for Japan. The export of Tea from 1846 to 1850 averaged sixteen million pounds, and Silk during the same period seventeen thousand bales. The total import and export trade of 1863 was sixty-five million Taels. now double that amount. The total tra le in foreign bottoms, import and export for 1880, as given by the Customs Statistical Department, was Haikwan Tls. 134,916,231, equal to about $209,000,000 or a little under for'y millious s'erling. This exceeds the amount in any previous year. It may be summarised as follows:-
Imports of Foreign Goods from Great Britain.... Imports of Foreign Goods from India
Imports of Foreign Goods from Hongkong Imports of Foreign Goods from Japan
Imports of Foreign Goods from Continent of Europe
Imports of Foreign Goods from United States
Imports of Foreien Goods from Chinese Ports Imports of Foreign Goods from other Countries...
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Tls. 21,551,317 20,699,8 3
6,181,992
3,221,5 2
2.254, 94
1,186,890
1.070.635
950,690
Hk. Tls. 57,117,133
O is amount there was re-exported, principally to the Northern and Yangtsze ports
and Japan to the value of Haikwau Tls. 42,541,209
Imports of Opium
Imports of Cotton Goods ...
Imports of Woollen Goods
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...
Tls 21,360,616
Imports of Metals
Imports of Coal
Imports of Seaweed
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Imports of Timber...
Imports of Ginseng
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18,886,320 5,228,91!
3,086,839
766,926
627,138
572,668
507,015
5' 0,346
Imports of Dyes and Colours
Imports of Kerosine Oil ... Imports of Sundries
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37-,170 5,20',184
Hk. Tls. 57,117,133
Imports to the value of Tls. 864,672 were sent to the iuterior under Transit Passes. The imports in foreign bottoms of native produce not re-exported amounted to Hk. Tls. 7,589,731.
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