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By a decree of the 31st December, H.E.! Yang Ja, Chinese Minister to the United States, Spain, Peru, and Brazil, has been appointed Vice-President of the Imperial Clan Court. This, the N. C. Daily News says, will enable him to be made either a Governor of a Province upon his return from abroad, or Vice President of one of the six Boards of Peking. This is rapid promotion for an official who was only a Taotai three years ago.
To provide against possible disaffection in the Liaotung Peninsula, an edict of the 30th of December commutes all the land taxes for 1894 and 1895 and for the ensuing year (1896). | Furthermore, the Emperor. in pity for his subjects who have suffered from the war in East Manchuria, tells the people of Fenghuang- chêng that they are further absolved from paying their arrears of taxes which had been owing to Government before 1894.-N. C. Daily News.
Referring to the reports previously published as to Captain Lang's again taking charge of the We may Chinese navy the China Gazette says :- add that Captain Lang, at the solicitation doubt. less of Lord Salisbury, expressed his willing- ness to return to China providing he were given supreme direction of the future navy, and we are now told that the Chinese have consented to invest him with full powers, so that it is very likely Captain Lang will undertake the task of creating a second mary for China, which no doubt she will lose again just as she did her first. The Nagasaki Express says:-- For a choice variety of colours the Russian warships in their war-paint, now and recently in this port, "take the chromo as our American cousins put it.
Some of the vessels are grey, some
almost white, some dark green, some light green, while one was a beautiful steely blue. Nominally they are all supposed to be sea green and the various tiuts and hues ex- hibited by the vasty deep have been evidently all faithfully copied by the Russian captains. who have thus given quite a kaleidoscopic appearance to their fleet.
The Avenir du Tonkin says:- We are glad to learn that au important industrial combina- tion has been formed in Paris for the purpose of preventing the orders which the Chinese Go- vernment intends placing in Europe for its in- 'dustrial and warlike outfit falling into the hands of German houses. These orders amount to the large sum of forty million (francs) for the province of Nanking (Kiungsu) alone." Our contemporary goes on to urge that the efforts of the French manufacturers will be fruitless unless supported by diplomatic and consular assistance.
Dr. Yung Wing. Ph.D., a graduate of Yale University. U.S.A., and a naturalised American citizen, who was the originator of the educa- tional mission of Chinese students to the United States and who is now in China, having come from his adopted home in Hartford, Con- necticut, seven months ago, at the special request of the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, has been asked by the latter to formulate a scheme for the grand trunk railway between Hankow and Peking and Hankow and Canton. Dr. Yung Wing has the rank of a 1st class ex- pectant Taotai of Kiangsu, with the brevet 2nd rank button and peacock's feather.-N. C. Daily News.
When entering Amoy harbour between seven and eight o'clock on the morning of the 5th January, an hour before low water, the German flagship Kaiser touched, in the usual track of unknown rock, the position of steamers, an which was afterwards made out to be half way between Coker and Brown Rocks, a little to the eastward of a line drawn between the east buoys marking these rocks. The depth of water over the rock was found to be from four to five fathoms at low tide, but one pinnacle was found with only 21 feet of water over it. It must be regarded as a wonder that this rock has not been struck before, as hundreds of steamers of more than 21 feet draught have passed over or near it. The Kaiser was in charge of a licensed pilot, the Harbour Master being also on board. The damage done to the ship's bottom is luckily not very great, and will be repaired in a few days at the Kowloon Dock, where the German Admiral's flagship is at pre- sent lying.
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
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[January 16, 1896.
pical.
2.823 at Tis. 14.50
2,484 276
19
16.5 1 to 28.00. 17.00
Total...... 5,83 -chts.
The Soochow correspondent of the N. C. Settlements reported since 13th ult:-
l-chts. Daily News writes under date of 30th Decem- ber: -" Two foreigners and four natives passed Moynne by Soochow on Sunday, the 29th inst. They Tinkai were surveying the ground for the much-talked- Fychow of railway. They placed the road on the north of the city, and about a quarter of a mile from the wall. A proclamation has been issued stating that a railway will be built from Shang- hai to Soochow From Soochow there will be two branches, one going to Hangchow, the other to Nanking." The following paragraph referring to the same matter appears in the China Gazelle Mr. Silva, the Belgian en- gineer, Prefect Shen, and several Weiyuens have arrived at Soochow on the railway survey. They are now surveying the line via Lomen
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Fong-men. Pwan-men, Su-men, Chang-men. to Chinkiang and Nanking. From Pwan. men a branch line will run to Hangchow."
serious
Total settlements from opening of the market to date :- Pingsney ...180,916 ¦-chts. against 162,609 4-chts. Moyune Tienkai Frchow
...] 20,128
(14,752 21,128
Loil P'ked. 2o 621
101,800 76,585
JI
19
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18 C07 17,186
Total 442,745 }.chts. Total 379,186 1-chts, Total arrivals to date are:-444,642 half-cheets, against 379,186 ball-chests to same date last year.
EXPORT OF TEA. FROM CHINA TOJ GREA! BRITAIN,
1835-90
lbs. 7,312,845
1894-05 Ibɛ. 7,431,215
Canton and Macno
159,410
..... 11,175,408
740,767 11,357,243
21,591,499
44.123.758
The Shanghai Mercury of the 4th January says:-We regret to state that within the last few days there have been a number of very
cases of small-pox amongst | Amoy
several the foreign residents,
of which Frochow have resulted fatally. The disease is of the most Shanghai and Hai kow 21.111,512 virulent nature, and it has been imported into the Settlements from the native city, where, we learn, large numbers of Chinese are dying daily from it. There are at present ten cases in the hospital, and there were two deaths to day. It
is stated that in four of the cases, of a man and wife and two children, the disease was contracted in the hospital itself, and if this should be cor. rect it but emphasises the fact that future patients should be immediately isolated, at Poo- tung in the wards erected there originally for plague patients, if such are now in existence. Since the above was written, on inquiry at the hospital. the authorities state they are
unaware four persons contracted the disease at the hospital.
40,159,184
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EXPORT OF TEA FROM CI INA TO UNTI ED STATES AND CANADA.
A noy Foochow Shanghai
1895-96. lb. 11,834,381 6.666,651 20,0:0,320
1891-05
lb. 16,891,081
4,626,555
25,796,160
46 $30,302
47,316,796
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO
ODESSA.
1893-96 1h8.
1891-05 lbs. 22,555,223
Hankow and Shanghai...27,210,863
Yokohama Kobe
STATES AND-CANADA.
1895-96 11: 29,389,019 18,377,248
1894-95
lbs.. 28,078,876 16,235,648
47.766,361 144,314,024
SILK.
A Censor, according to a Peking native cor- respondent, says the N. C. Daily News, has re- cently memorialised the Throne to the effect that the collapse of China in the late war with EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED Japan was mainly due to the ex-Viceroy Li Hung-chang's confiding positions of trust and national importance to unworthy protégés who failed to do their duty to their country at the crucial moment. It was to remedy this that Wang Wen-shao was appointed to succeed Li in the Peiyang administration. Instead, however, of taking the lesson to heart and making a clean sweep of the former Viceroy's protégés upon being made substantive Viceroy of Chibli, Wang Wen-shao still retains under him in Tientsin five of the most important men of Taotai rank belonging to that class, namely, Sheng Hsuan-buai (de jure Customs Taotai of Tientsin). Huang Chien-yuan (Manager of the China Merchants' and acting Customs Taotai), Lo Feng-loh (ex-Naval Secretary of the Peiyang fleet), Wu Jim-pah (ex-Compradore of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Tien- tsin, now Manager of the North China Railway), and Wu Ting-fang (Ng Choy. ex-Barrister-at- law and now assistant manager of the above named railway). These men, remarks the Censor in question, "should have been dismissed long ago from the Chibli administration for reasons quoted above."
COMMERCIAL
TEA.
Messrs
CA TON. 14th January.-Tsatices and Re-reel -There are no transactions to report since our last, and quotations are ominally unchanged. Filatures-Remained very dull during the earlier part of the fortnight but the demand for Lyons has improved somewhat towards the close and
recent settlements amount to about 300 bales.
Prices show con-iderab'e weakness all round and business on ready order could be done ut $5/10 per picul below subjoined quotations. Prices paid are: 655/6624 for Cheong Kee 9/11) $635 for Hing Loong and Poo Cheong Wo 10/12. $020 for Yut Cleang Wo 10/12, 620 for Poo Cheong Wo 13/15, $50 for Wai King Wo 18/22 and Sun King Lun 11/13. The enquiry for. America has been very slack on the basis of g610. fer No. 1 14/16, and settlements are unimp rtant. Waste-weaker with only moderate transac tions. Stocks:-Tsatiec, 800 bales. Filatures, 5,000 Tales. We append quotations in Canton, with laying down cost in London and Lyons. Exchange, 6 months' sight 2/2) and Fes.2:76 per Dollar:- Tsatico
Filature 1st class
No. 1 $490
8/101
No. 2 $175
8/7
No. 3 $4
8/4
No. 4 $140
7/11/
No. 1 $430
17/91
No. 5 $415 11/13...$6: 0 to $670 18/15...680 to $670 9/11...$660 to $663 10/12...$650 to $655
776)
13/15. .$689 to 5650). 10/12...630 to $640
SHANGHAI,
10th January.-(From Welch, Lewis & Co.'s circular).- London deli- veries of China Congou for December were 1,820,040 lbs., against 2.271,000 lbs. for the corresponding month in the previous year, and the stocks on 31st ultimo were 18,800,000 lbs., same datein 1894. | against 23,000, 00 lbs. on
Black Tea. Some 788 half-chests are reported ng shipped. Stock. -8,675 half hests, against 4,814 half-chests at sime datelast year. There are important stocks, say 30,000 to 40,00 | lialf-cbests, still in tea-men's hands in Har kow. Most of them are first crop Tens, and if realised would result in heavy losses to holders. Green Teas.-
reported. Pingsney.-No settlements
Some Tiendong leaf is bing packed locally as Pingstry. but the quantity is limited. Country Ten.-The market has been cleared of stock at Re-reeled Lacklow No. 1..$555 to 560 about 1revious pricas. No further arrivals of any consequence are expected from the conatry. A fair quantity of Tea romains in buyers' hand. and our export figures cannot be closed at presenst
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2nd
2nd
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2nd
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2nd
3rd 3rd
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Satow
$150 Suilam... $415
11/13 $5 to $545 13/15 ..$565 to $545
Long-ree's Lacklow
$48元
No. 2..$535
No. 3..$520
No. 4..$205
Mahang ...No. 1 $525
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Punjum Books No.3 & 4..$ 85
=1/7}
Punjum Waste
$75
Steam Waste Extra
=1/64
No. 1......$ 62
-1/2
Gum Waste No. 1.... ..$ 72
=1/44
=1/0}
Pierced Cocoons
.$.60
=1/2
For Europe
No. 2...... 52
Settlements for the fortnight :-
1895-96.
500 bales..
For America.. 100 For Bombay..
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60
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21
[& 20 piculs.
1894-95. 2,500 bales.
5
400 80 [& 20 piculs.
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