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A contributor to the Japan Gazette writes Ingenuity is the foster-mother of business. A local merchant had consigned to him a case of corn-plasters. He stated there was no demand as the Japanese wear neither boots nor shoes. Make a demand" was the peremptory reply. The merchant pondered and then a happy thought struck him. It was summer-time aud many were the complaints made of hara itai. | So he gravely told some Japanese that if the corn-plasters were placed on the stomach in a particular position they would cure many diseases. They were tried and pronounced wonderful, and testimonials flowed in eulogizing their efficacy. That is why corn-plasters now figure so largely on the import list.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
The Perak correspondent of the Straits Times says-It is believed that the present year will prove a prosperous one to the cane growers of Perak. Not only is there an increase in the area of cultivation on the old estates, but there have been applications for land in the Krian district which represent the investment of a considerable capital. The Government granted 5,000 acres of land to a European some two years ago, and a company having been formed, this property will be shortly put under cultiva- tion. The money, which was raised amongst European capitalists in China, is said to amount to 400,000 taels. In addition to this there are several Chinese ventures about to be made.
The Shanghai Mercury devotes an article to
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it off until his return, when he said he would certainly take out a policy.
The Kobe Chronicle says:-Though the many friends of Captain Wettin in the Far East will regret to learn that this is his last voyage on the Hohenzollern they will be glad, for his sake, to know that the removal means a gratifying promotion. The genial captain has been appointed to the command of the Kaiser Wilhelm II., on the Genoa-New York line, on which vessel he was serving as chief officer until he was appointed captain of the Hohenzollern eighteen months ago. This posi tion is to be filled by Captain Harrassowitz, who brought out the Lübeck. Captain Wettin should need no assurance that the good wishes follow him.
At Manila on the 26th April an outbreak controverting some remarks of the Japan Mail of his numerous friends in the Far East will
occurred in the leper hospital of San Lazaro which resulted in two men being killed and another seriously injured. It appears that for some time past eight of the patients had been scheming to effect their escape and on the day named they made the attempt. Their plan was to murder the men in charge of the ward, who were patients promoted to office in consequence of their good conduct. Accordingly at seven o'clock in the evening they placed themselves in convenient positions and when opportunity offered the attack was made, with the result that two of the ward keepers were killed and another seriously injured. The noise of the disturbance brought the staff of the hospital on the scene and the conspirators were placed
under arrest.
So far as we can learn there will be but one British steamer to go up this year to Hankow to load tea for London, and that one will be the China Mutual S.N. Co.'s steamer Oanfa, which is expected to get away from there on or about the 15th May. The market will in all proba- bility open on the 8th. The few still interested in the tea business do not prognosticate favour- ably for this season's tea. The weather this year has so far been decidedly against the crops, which means an inferior, small, and late market. The tea trade of China has collapsed, and in a short time will not be worth the name, and
China has only herself to thank for it. What a vast difference when compared with the past. Few British merchants are now interested to any extent. The greater portion of the China tea now goes to Russia, direct to Odessa or via Tientsin by the caravan route.--Mercury.
A correspondent writes to the N. C. Daily News from Newchwang, under date of the 21st April: "H.M.S. Rattler was safely floated out of dock on the night of the 16th, and to the great regret of the whole community she left here yesterday for Chefoo and Chemulpo. This fine vessel during the winter has been like a yacht full of gentlemen, and she will long be gratefully remembered in Newchwang. Everything is exceedingly quiet and business almost at a standstill here, there being only three steamers in port. On the 20th a large number of soldiers straggled through the settle- ment into the city, a very shably and forlorn- looking lot. having evidently travelled some distance." The same paper hears from Chefoo under date the 23rd April, that in consequence of a telegram from Newchwang H.M.S. Porpoise was despatched there on the 22nd. It is sup- posed that there was some uneasiness there about the disbanded soldiers.
Incendiarism is suspected in connection with the recent burning of a rice mill at Cholon. The Courrier de Saigon comments as follows:- "With the system of extreme protection, which results in giving to the yellow race the same rights as those enjoyed by the French, with these execrable tribunals whose workings of equality kill our influence with the population, the Chinese make themselves at home, they carry their head high, they adopt our models, and they drive us out of our colonies. The gigantic syndicate of a hundred thousand traders not having sufficed to at once strangle French
industry and reduce to ruin all the French mills the Chinese are adopting a more ex- peditions system; they burn our mills, they monopolise the grain in the most shameful manner, they subsidise incendiaries to keep them realy to poison or shootus." Those wicked Chinese! No doubt our friends at Saigon, when they were kowtowing to Li Hung-chaug, told the great man all that they thought of his country and his countrymen.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
BRITAIN.
1895-96
lbs. 7,146,099 781,523 Foochow
.11.175,408 Shanghai and Hankow... 21,111,512
Canton and Macao Amoy
1894-95
lbs. 7,813,790
772,692,
14,357,248
21,591,499
44,531,229
statement that the Mitsu Mill projectors have on the cotton industry at Shanghai. As to the abandoned their enterprise in Shanghai owing to their fear of vexatious taxation of cotton, etc., by the Chinese, the Mercury says:- On this subject we are inclined to think that EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO GREAT the Japan Mail says rather less than it knows. We, too, have information concerning the reasons which have actuated the Japanese cotton spinners, which it were premature to touch on at present. Suffice it to say that the "ad. vice issued by the Japanese Government to its nationals to cease from all industrial tions in China for the present arises from vexatious factory taxes. weightier causes than any fear of likin or The Japan Mail is hang on the negotiations now pending over well aware of graver issues than those which
Navigation. At the same time we agee with the Supplementary Treaty of Commerce and
should have adopted so cautions, or rather, Mr. Ariga Nagabumi in regretting that Japan
so fainthearted a policy. The shadow of the Great Bear, now looming large over China, is not likely to be removed by such tactics.
opera-
All hands
40,511,542
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED
STATES AND CANADA.
Amoy.. Shanghai Foochow
1895-96.
1894-95
lbs. .16,180,101
lbs 19,447,739
6,066,651 29,029,320
4.626,555
25,796,160
51,276,072
10,870,154
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO
ODESSA.
Hankow and Shanghai...27,290,563
1895-96 lbs.
1894-95
lbs. 22,555,223
EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA,
1895-96
1891-95 Ths.
lbs. 29,839,717 28,777,516
18,732,080
16,879,9-1
Yokohama
The Chefoo correspondent of the N.C. Daily few days ago, from Fusan, and thrilled us by News writes:H.M.S. Porpoise arrived here a
the relation of an event which speaks well for the discipline and pluck of her crew. were at quarters one evening, when the good ship was steaming slowly against a head sea, A heavier occasionally plunging heavily. plunge than usual buried the bowsprit, and with it a bluejacket whose duty had taken him for a moment to this perilous spot, deep below the surface: the heavy sea swept the forecastle, Kube causing some coufusion, and had not the gallant commander, who happened also to be temporarily officer of the watch, by good fortune had kis eye on the luckless bluejacket, his absence from the emergent bowsprit might have escaped notice. The engines were promptly stopped, and hardly had the pipe "man overboard" been were in their heard, ere the lifeboat's crew places and the boat half lowered, almost before the officer referred to had had time to decide whether he dared give the order, to risk six lives for one. The boat was no less smartly let go, when the order was given, the man picked up, and the boat again hooked on and hoisted, all concerned showing the greatest coolness and presence of mind, though the boat's crew, bar the coxswain, were all young seamen ander 21. May each one of them get as prompt aid in
any emergency which fortune may have in store for him as they rendered their shipmate on this
occasion!
48,371,797 45,657,467
SILK. CANTON, 5th May.-Tsatlees and Re-reels.-No Filatures.-Shertl y enquiry. Prices nominal. after our last report alvices of a better feeling and slight advance in Lyons caused a censiderable increase of activity. Buying at once became general and helders took advantage of the more- ment for clearing some 2,000 bales before raising their rate. With the advance in prices buying cased. The Lyons market relapsed into ita former dull cond tion, and although some trace: of firmness still linger here, especially on good chopa in fine sizes, prices in general are pretty well back to their previous level. Business with Americn still remains at a complete standstill. · Waste. The firmer tone of prices consequent upon the active enquiry reported in our last, and a rise in Exchange, have combined to check father business. The market closes qu'et at fairly steady rate. Stock-Tstlec, 210 ales; Filature, 6,000 bales, teeled and uncled, to close of season. append quotations in Canton, with laying down cost in London and Lyons, Exelange 6 months' sight 2:24 and Frs. 2.8 per Dollar
No. 1 $4 No. 2 $175 No. 3 4
Tsutleu
No. 4 $440 No. 11 $430 No. 5 15 J
Nominal.
The lamentable disaster to the Onwe is being used to point a moral in the life insurance line, and a very good moral, too. The NC. Daily News says:No better instance of the value of life insurance could be offered than the fact that three of the foreigners on the Owo were insured in the Equitable for sums aggregating $25,000 Mex. Presuming, which we trust is not the case, that these three men are drowned, we may well consider how long it would have taken to raise by subscription a sum of $25,000 Filature 1st class 11/13...$25 to $615 for their families; and that would have been charitable aid, whereas this is the result of prudence. It is some slight consolation to know that the foresight and thrift shown in these instances will assist materially to lessen the distress which so often follows a disaster of this kind. The compradore had been asked to insure his life in the Sun Life Assurance Co., and it | Long-reels Lacklow was pointed out to him that there was no time like the present. However, he decided to put
1st 13/15...$625 to $615
J
2nd
*
9/11...$60 to $625
2nd
*
10/12...$590 to $610
2nd 2nd
18/15...$50 to $:90
3rd
27
*
10/12... $575 to $581
11/13 $505 to $181 3rd 13/15 ..$505 to $480
.$495
Satow
$460
Sui'am
$420
9/1
8/9%
8/61
8/2
B/-
7/8
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