July 24, 1895
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT. There were 2,028 visitors to the Gity Hall Cattle plague has broken out at Mr. Hall's Museum last week, of whom 134 were Ehropeans.dairy farm, Shanghai.
The Treasurer of the Kowloon Institute begs to acknowledge with many thanks the sum of $118, being the proceeds of M. Brady's enter- tainment in aid of the above on July 7th.
At the general election in 1892 the number of votes polled in the Hongkong test election was 350. On the present occasion the number is only 266. The falling off is probably due not so much to a decline in the interest taken in home politics as to the fact that this year it was not sufficiently made known that a poll was
to be held.
The steamer Queen Victoria, upon arriving at Kobe on the 4th inst, reported passing through a heavy typhoon after leaving Hongkong on the 25th ult. She lost a lot of dock gear, the bridge ladders, and 164 cases of coconut oil The steamer Arroyo, Bombay to Kobe, also re- ports that she was caught in a typhoon on the 25th ult. near Hongkong, She brought 17,000 bales of cotton from Bombay, some of which were damaged by water. She received some injury to her machinery.
The General Manager of the New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited, received by the Tai- yuan the following telegram, which came over- land to Port Darwin : Have resumed mining) operations. Output steadily increasing
Bal- moral mill is running on ore from Queen. There is not sufficient water availabl to run a the machinery. At the lower level Grant's tunnel | has cut reefs, orp is good and will pay. Oliver's Freehold battery crushing for the public before we do repairs to machinery."
FOOCHOW.
The steamer Daphne recently took $1,000,000 from Japan to Shanghai.
over
The Changon, from Shanghai to Haukow, having broken her starboard shaft, has been towed back to Shanghai by the Tehhsing.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
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HANKOW, 15th July-Business reported since the 1st inst. is as under :-
Consisting of the following Teas
Settlements... Shipments to
1895. 21,763 -chests.
1894. 42,968 1-chts.
Shanghai on Native acct..
1,787
1,056
per picul.
1,489 -chts. at TIs.
13.50 to 19.25
1,321 5,883 4,798 4,915
16.00 to 20.50
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10.65 to 13.10
10.25 to 16.50
...
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12.50 to 16.76 10.00 to 11.30 The following are statistics at date compared with the corresponding circular last season :-
haikuan, says the N. C. Daily News, that the. It is reported from reliable sources at Shap- highway between the Great Wall there and North Kinchow has, since the declaration of Ningchows peace, been so badly infested by disbanded Ichang. bandits, that robberies and bloodshed are of Donams. soldiers, who have joined the regular mounted Oopacks almost daily occurrence, thereby causing a Oonfans general suspension of trade in that part of Seang-tams... 3,411 Manchuria which was once the most prosperous trade outlet for the other side of the Great Wall, It has also been computed that the strength of the so-called "Mounted Bandits," who are really secret society men, hostile to the resent dynasty, has been increased by over 8,000 men. in this way, and grave apprehension is being Shanhaikaan and North Kinchow in conse- ontertained by the high military authorities at
1.
nence.
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very
Hankow Tea.
Settlements Shipments to Shanghai on Nativo acct.. Stock
Arrivals
Kiukiang Tea,
Settlements. Shipments to
1895.
1894.
637,196 1-chts. 563,072 1-chests.
4,164 41,777
683,137
1895.
1,163
40,408
604,643
1894.
207,431 -chts. 235,191 -chests.
Shanghai on
Native acct.. Stock
nil.
18,856
Arrivals.
316,287
nil. 15,720
250,911
the corresponding circular last year is as under :-- The entire business to date as compared with
1895.
1894.
For London and
America 229,000 1-chts. 200,000 3-chests. For Russia
592,263 ****.. 706,627
934,627
798,263
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EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINÁ To great
The Courrier de Saigon says that the Minis- ter of Finance is more than ever opposed to the introduction of the Japanese yen in Indo-China, but has decided to assimilate the weight of the French trade dollar to that of the Japanese coin. Our contemporary says that under these condi- tions.France will be in an excellent position to put her dollars into circulation in the Far East. for the contract with the Messageries Maritimes requires that Company to carry public funds free of cost, while the rivals of France are obliged to pay freight on silver from Europe. Tho 13th July..
French Goyaument will thus effect a saving of Upwards of a hundred houses were destroyed one per cent, in addition to the advantage on the in the fire of Monday last on the main and striking of the coin, which can be done more opposite the foreigu hongs. They were all economically in France than in Asia. The small tenements; mostly shops
Courrier thinks it a mistake, however, to refuse Shippers of tea to Europe en scarcely com-legal currency to the Japanese yen, the actual plain of an insufficient supply of tonn g this circulation of which in Indo-China is now season. Since 1st June sixteen steamers have large. called in, against twelve last year to the same an. It is a potn và #homa date. No.
areticeable feature, however, that the sixteen have carried away barely more tea than the twelve did last year, taking in the comparative statement the cargo of the Benalder, which steamer sailed on this day last year.
The reported relaying of torpedoes in the river this week turned out to be incorrect. pears that a remsant of thoso previously sunk were being raised, and this work being seen led to the supposition that relaying was going on.
H.E. The Provincial Judge, Chang-kuo- ehiêng, left on Thursday morning amid much gun firing in his honour. II. E. appears to have been very popular during his term of offic. here; He was a passenger in the. Fuhy for Shanghai en route for Shantung to take up his new appointment. His successor has not yet arrived, The tea market is vory quiet. Stocks of all kinds are very light as compared with previous years at this date: Thro are no steamers load- ing for London; in fact there is only one steamer A correspondent writes from. Ichoufu to the Hankow and Shanghai...23,272,007 (19,205,750 in port at all, namely, the Sikh, which clears to-N. C. Daily News: It is generally taken for day for Sydney and Melbourne and other granted by the Press of the western world that Australian ports Echo.
MISCELLANEOUS.
It ap-
BRITAIN.
1895-96
1894-95
lbs.
..2,584,358
1,819,606
.8,436,197
7,755,143
..10,104,545
10,014,635.
21,120,100
19,589,384
On Sunday evening. 11th inst, four unknown mentored the house of a native money-lender
ty at Shanghai. The Canton and Macao............. living inside the native cu strangers, the N. C. Daily News, Says, wanted to Foochow
borrow a few dollars." but as the oney-lender, | Shanghai and Hankow fortunately for himself, was absent at the time, the men were told to wait in the man office. It so happened that a few dollars were lying on the table in the room, and these one of the EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED visitors at ouce proceeded to appropriate. A male cook of the house saw the theft and im- mediately collared the thief, whereupon one of the band drew a sharp dagger and making a circular sweep with it actually severed the cook's head from the trunk learing only a shred of skin connecting them. The men then decamp dun- opposed, the bystanders being either rooted to the spot by astonishment at the sudden cata strophe, or too much afraid to try to oppose the lesperadoes.
Amoy
Shanghai
Foochow
STATES AND CANADA,
1895-96. lbs.
lbs. 4,084,742 3,577,740 2,634,556 1,445,986
1894-95
.5,660,819
5,225,290
12,379,617
10,249,016
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO' ODESSA.
Yokohama Kobe
SILK.
1895-96 lbs.
شوری
1894-95 lbs.
1894-95
Ibs.
11,347,749 5,379,015
17,582,947 16,726,764
the war just ended must be followed by a sudden | EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED revolution in Chinese thought and practice. To
STATES AND CANADA.
1895-96 one fresh from a vacation at home and hoping
lbs. against hope that the time of awakening may be
..11,575,044 at hand, it is a triedisappointing to sail in a leaky
6,007,903 A Japanese contemporary states that the house boat up the Grand Canal into southern matting trade in Kobe is very flourishing this Shantung and see not on sight or hear one word year, contracts up to the present already total- o indicate that anything at all is acknowledged ling a value of 2,000,000 you. This is the figure to have happened, Wo have trodden the miny at which the aggregate export of matting from streets of the same old Chinkiang and been Kobe was valued last your. It is confidently cheated by the same smirking boat agent as of anticipated that the export this year will be yore. We have bch objects of curiosity to the almost doubled.
same dirty, half-naked crowds and to the same In their circular, dated Manila, 10th July, supercilious gentlemen. We have listened at Messrs Warner Blodgett & Co. say: The might to the warlike note of the ancient trumpet British barqne Highlands, 1,234 tous register, of brass, blown in some neighbouring barracks, which sailed from Iloilo on the 25th ultimo for and in the daytime been inspected by rows of took ground on Oton Bank and returned to True, the sight of a couple of steam dredgers Delaware Breakwater, with a full cargo of sugar, ragged and decidedly unwarlike" citizen soldiers" Iloilo. Surveyors considered the damage sus and a stray launch stimulated our hopes, but we tained to be trifling and recommended that the reflected that these were sufficiently familiar véssel should proceed to sea. One last advices sights on the Gr. n Canal five years ago. No, are to the effect that the crew objected to con-it must be admitted that reform is not yet in tinue the voyage, and that it was possible the the air. But let us be patient. Even a revolu- vessel might come on to this port for more tion may be pardoned for moving with a certain thorough survey and possible repairs."
amount of deliberation in China.
SHANGHAI, 18th July.-(From Messrs. Cromie and Burkill's circular).-London telegrams of the 16th current report the market "quiet." Gold Kilings are quoted 7/9, and Blue Elephants at 10/3, and deliveries up to the 15th were 400 bales. Raw Silk. The market has gone very quiet all round. Holders are willing to make concessions, but not to the extent that buyers demand. Busi-
bought at Tls. 335, but buyers only offer Tls. 330. ness therefore has been very small. Tsatlees. No transactions reported. Gold Kiling could be Taysanus.-Small transactions in Kabings and Woosie at rather easier rates with the exception of Cicada 1, which have advanced Tls. 5. Yellow Silks.-A moderate business is doing at quotations which show no difference from previous rates. Arrivals, as per Customs Returns from the 11th to 17th July, are 2,661 bales of White, 447 bales of
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