January 31, 1895.]
Sung Fan, Governor of Kweichow, has been transferred to the Governorship of Yunnan, vice T'an Chün-pei, deceased, and Tê Shou. another Manchu, Treasurer of Anhui province, has been promoted to take Sung Fan's place in Kweichow.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
on
ram-
1st 2nd 2nd
J
J
31
3rd 23. 3rd
33
13/15.$700
10/12 $675 to $695 13/15 $660 to $680 10/12 $660 to $675
Punjum Books No. 3&4 Punjum Waste Steam Waste Extra
13/15 $570 to $680
95
1/74
$ 86
1/6
$ 97
1/84.
No. 1 8 77
1/4
1/1 1/0
Gum Waste ......No. 2 $ 62 Pierced Cocoons......... $ 60
89
The export of cotton yarn from Japan to but these also speedily ceased and business fell into China is reported to have been entirely suspended a state of complete stagnation up to its present of late.
entire suspension by the native holidays. Subjoined From Japan papers we learn that the German quotations are consequently nominal and will remain steamer Brema has been transferred to a Japan-so until the re-opening of the market. Purchases for ese, who is reported to have purchased her for America have been confined to 40 bales Kon King A Yokohama telegram to the Shanghai Mer £10,500. The Glucksburg has been purchased 14/16 at $610. Waste-Has been very little dealt cury reads as follows:-Au official telegram by the Chuetsa Steamship Stock Company and in and apart from Steam Waste, which has sold in dated Fusan the 17th instant, states that on the rechristened the Hinomuru, to regularly run
small quantities at $96 to $97 for Extra and $77 night of the 12th a detachment of Japanese between Kobe and Hokkaido. The Naramaru for No. 1, no business has transpired. Stocks:- troops from Rakutong attacked a large body of (late Metapedia), now owned by Mr. Hiromi, of Tatlee 150 bales. Cumchuck nil bales. Filature Tonghaks at Hohou, Province Chiuseido. The Osaka, is also put on the Hokkaido line.
1,000 bales. We append quotations in Canton, attack was repeated on the morning of the 13th. H.M.S. Redpole left Shanghai early
with laying down cost in London and Lyons. Ex- when the rebels were defeated and completely the 23rd instant for Wenchow, having been change 6 months' sight, 2/01 and Fcs. 2.54 per dispersed, with a loss of several hundreds killed. despatched there
Dollar. at the request of Mr. The remainder fed northwards, leaving in the M. F. A. Fraser, I.B.M's Acting Consul.
Filature, 1st Class, 11/13 $710 hands of the victors a quantity of cattle, horses, who reports a disturbed state of the the and arms.
Wenchow district, where brigandage is A Yokohama telegram to the Shanghai Mer-paut, As Mr. Fraser reports that a strong cury gives the substance of a telegram, dated anti-foreign feeling is displayed by
the 1laiching, 17th inst in which General Nodzu officials some protection for foreigners is reports thirty-four battalions of Chinese in the urgently needed, and consequently the Redpole vicinity of Yingkow, commanded by Generals has been despatched to Wenchow for the pro- Hsiw, Chang, Sho, and Ko. A Chinese force, tection of foreign residouts. six thousand strong, was observed advancing Singapore papers to hand contain report north-west from Fobensai. Another force, about of the great public meeting held on the 11th two thousand strong, with five guns, and a force inst. to express approval of the resignation of four thousand, are near inmochang. The of the unofficial members of Council, Justices First and Secoud Japanese Armies have made of the Peace, and Chinese Advisory Board. mutual arrangements regarding Newchwang The meeting was a large and enthusiastic and Yingkow.
one and entirely unanimous. In one feature, At the regular meeting of the Eothen Mark bowever, it was not entirely successful; it was Lodge, No. 264, held on Monday night, Bro. .hoped that ladies would attend. but only one Cooke was installed as Worshipful Master for the responded to the invitation. The Penang mem. ensuing year and appointed. his officers as fol. bers of Council and Justices of the Peace bave lows: S. W., Bro. P. R. Simmonds, J.W., Bro. not joined their friends in the sister settlement S. L. Darby, M.O., Bro. J. R. Crook, S.O., Bro. in resigning. The reason appears to be that E. C. Ellis, JO, Bro. S. J. Hanisch. Chaplain, Penang is as much irritated at the treatment it Bro. Rer. St. A. Baylee, Treasurer. Bro. A. receives from Singapore as Singapore is irritated O'D Gourdin, Reg. of Marks, Bro. A. Tillet, at the treatment it receives from the home Go- Secretary, Bro. J. Dyer Ball, S.D Bro. .vernment. It seems to be a case (reversed) of Macdonald, J.D., Bro. G. L. Tomlin, D.C., Ero. the little fleas that do us tease have lesser fias J. R. Schwarzkopf, Organist. Bro. C. W. to bite 'em." Mr. Huttenbach, one of the Singa- Longuet, I.G., Bro. F. F. F. Kiene. Steward, pore unofficials, has since withdrawn his resigna- Bro. W. M. Wood, Tyler, Bro, J. R. Grimble.
In December, 1893, a stabbing affray took place at Shanghai, near the Rifle Butts, in which some sailors belonging to the German mail steamer Freussen fatally stabbed a young native apprentice carpenter and wounded a jia- ricksha coolie. In addition to various sentences punishing the guilty persons at the German EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED parcel of Szechuen light Tussah Waste which was
tion of his seat in Council. Mr. Huttenbach did
not resign directly over the military contribu- tion" question.
courts of Bremen, the German government in-
tend, the N. C. Daily News says, to compensate.
the family of the murdered young man and the
jinricksba coolie in the sums of $300 and $150, res! Yokohama spectively. According to the usual mode of pro- | Kobie
cedure this money should be sent to the Mixed
Court magistrate and by him bo handed to thời
sufferers. As the character of yamen underlings
COMMERCIAL. TEA.
STATES AND CANADA.
1894-95
Ds. 28,462,134 16,645.876
45,106,010
Gold
& Burkill's circular.)-London telegrams dated SHANGHAI, 24th January.-(From Messrs. Cromie 22nd current report the market firm.” Kilinga are quoted 7/74, and Blue Elephants at 7/6 per lb. Raw Silk. After the large business of the previous week, the market has been quiet, withi only small settlements. Holders have been more easy to deal with and prices are 7 to 10 Taels down from the highest point. Tsatlees. About 400 bales have changed hands at drooping rates. At the close we quote:-Mountain 4 Tls. 385, Gold Lion Tls. 370, Gold Kiling Tls. 340. Taysaams.-With the excception of a small parcel of Skeins nothing has been done in these sorts. Yellow Silks-Have attracted a fair amount of attention at unchanged 17th to 23rd January, are 1,087 bales of White, 230 rates. Arrivals, as per Customs Returns, from the bales of Yellow, and 358 bales of Wild Silk. Re- reels and Filatures.-Have been dealt in to a large
the former at an advance of 11s. 2 per picul. extent; the latter at an advance of Tls. 10, and The bulk of the business are contracts for delivery in two to three months. Wild Silks.-Some business has been passing in Tussah Filatures 4 Cocoons at 118. 225, and Tussah Raws market No. 1 at Tls. 155. Waste Silk.-The only business we hear of is a
sold at Tis. 19. Pongees.-Nothing to report. 1893-94
Purchases include:-Tsatlees.-Yellow Elephant lbs.
at Tls. 390, Mountain 4 at Tls. 385, Gold Lion at Tls 370, Gold Kiling at Tls. 340, Silver Double 28,623,687 16,480,793 Elephant at Tls. 3424, Siebing Quougfoong at Tls. 3371. Skeins.-Leeyang Green Monsters at Tis. 250. Yellow Silk.-Miepchew at Tls. 2324, Kopun at Tls. 230, Wongyi at Tls. 205 to Tls. 210, Foo- Yung at Tls. 195 to Tis. 200, Szechong at Tls. 165. Filatures.-Veekee Old Man chop Croisée Extra at Tls. 5124, độ. No. 1 at Tls. 502, do. No. 2 at Tls. 4921, Market Chop (not croisée) 1 at Tls. 450, do. 2 at Ts. 440, do. 3 at Tls. 430. Re-recla.-Worm and Leaf 1, 2, and 3 at Tis. 3821, 372, and 362), Red Pagoda 1, 2, and 3 at Tls. 3821, 21,329,281 372, and 362). Wild Silk-Tussah Raw Market 1 at Tls. 155, Filature Tussah 4 Cocoons at Tls. 225.
45,101,480
is too well-known, the in thers of the dead ap. EXPORT OF TEA_FROM CHINA TO GREAT
prentice and the inricksha coolio have, we hear. petitioned the German Consul-General to be allowed to receive their money direct from him instead of through the yamen. No reply has as yet been given to the petitioners, but it is to be hoped that the German Connlar authorities will see that the persons to be indemuified get
their dnes.
Foochow
Shanghai,
7
BRITAIN.
1894-95 Tbs. 7,597,185 740767 .13,777348-
1893-94
lbs. 8,178,734 699,647
EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN TO AMERICA.
1894-95
1893-94
1894-95.
1893-91
bales.
bales.
lbs. 3,063,400
lbs. Canton......
6,473
2,329
.16,894,081
19,376,012 Yokohama
1,349,192 Shanghai....
6,350
2,051
21,151
10,245
8,140.519 25,783,527.
5,883,106
24,176,823
33,974
14,625
EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN TO EUROPE.
1894-95
1893-94
bales.
bales.
1894-95 lba.
1893-94
Canton ... lbs.
Shanghai 21,619,462 | Yokohama
12,431
13,618
* 41,827
41,420
14,933
15,592
Total to date .........69,191
70,660
53,881,527 50,785,133
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO ODESSA.
Canton and Macao Amoy.
25j514,030 Shanghai and Hankow ...21,551498
43,706,798 55,721,692 A correspondent who, theN. C. Daily News says, has had the advantage of long experience | EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED in forming his opinions sends to thats journal th
STATES AND CANADA, following about the Admiral of the Peiyang Squadron-Despite Tientsin telegrams there seems good reason to believe that Admiral Ting Canton. Juch'ang still at Weihaiwei, for we under Amoy stood that by Imperial orders he is permitted to
Foochow remain at his post for the present. It yet re mains to be shown that Ting deserves the cen- sure that has fallen upon him. As to the charge of cowardice, his early military career, the ac- tive measures he took when assisting Governor Liu of Formosa in 1888, and the opinion of those Europeans who have had best oppor- tunity of judging by personal intercourse with Hankow and Shanghai ..22,555,223 him, all deuy the accusation. Ting is further charged with being partly responsible for the loss of Port Arthur, but where was the authority CANTON, 20th January.-Business is at present that must accompany responsibility ? His com-interrupted by the Chinese New Year holiday. mand was afloat, not ashore; what power he hadeviewing the fortnight, there are no settlements there was due to influence, which authority was supply is almost exhausted dad stocks are so much to report in Tsatlees or Re-reels. The season's entirely centred in l'ientsin, a fact well known reduced that it is impossible to give quotations for there. Surely it is unjust that opinions, irre: this class. Filatures. The excessively high prices sponsible in some cases, unjust in others, should asked by dealers after the activity reported in pur receive such ready credence, and memorials from last circular caused nearly all buyers to retire im- such officials as Governor Li of Shantung, who mediately from the market. A few purchases how. is far away from the seat of war and can only ever, continued to be made at the alvanced rates speak from hearsay should have such power to on the basis of $700 to $690 for Kwang Wo Hing damn brother officials.
|11/13, 13/15, and $660 to $670 for 2nd class 10/12,
SILK.
CAMPHOR.
HONGKONG, 80th January.-Nothing has been done during the past week, but prices are higher. Quotations for Formosa are $28.50 to $29.00.
SUGAR.
HONGKONG, 30th January-Very little business doing, but a slight reserving in rates has to be noted. Following are the quotations: Shekloong, No. 1, White...$7.58 to 7.60 per pol.
2, White... 6.98 to 7.00
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