May 27, 1896.]
A case of robbery with violence at Cosmopo- litan Dock was reported to the police on Thurs- day afternoon. Two men went into the quarters of the pumping man at the dock and bound a woman, who was the only occupant of the house, hand and foot and stuffed her mouth with paper and cotton waste. They then took two bangles, mounted in gold, and a gold finger ring from her and decamped. The police were immediately informed and Inspector Butlin and several con- stables made enquiries and succeeded by three o'clock in ascertaining that the stolen property had been pawned. In the evening a man was arrested by a Chinese detective and he was re- cognised by the pawnbroker as the man who diosed of the property, but the woman said he was not one of the men who had robbed her. The man was charged with unlawful possession of stolen property and at the Police Court on Saturday was remanded for further inquiries to be made. The woman can identify the robbers. The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals ---
Colonial Government On Tai Insurance Co., Ld. Aberdeen Paper Mills Co. Skött and Co...
W. G. Humphreys and Co.... Gibb, Livingston and Co.
Chai On Marine Insurance Co., T. Jackson
Wing Kee and Co...
W. D. Graham
Wei Yuk
H. M. Hillier..
Ho A Mei
$300
100
50
50
25
25
Ld. 25
25 25
20
20
10
10
Tse Yat
10
J. Kennedy
10
Sr. Don José de Navarro
.10
Hon. R. Murray Rumsey
10
Ed. Osborne
10
H. Fazulally and Co.
10
H. F. Meyerink
10
Bismarck and Co.
10
10
10
10
10
5
J. B. Cousing... A. M. Essabhoy Liao Tze San..: A. J. do Rozario
J. A. Clarke
Cottam and Co.
Fung Tang
Hon. A. M. Thomson
W. Brewer and Co.
A. S. Cohen
A. Denison
T. Meek
G. L. Tomlin
Paul Brewitt F. D. Goddard Chas. T. Kew... H. E. Bottlewalla C. A. Camroodin C. Ookerjee and Co. S. D. Moonshee
J. G.
M. H. Katrak.
F. Jamsetjee
E. Ellias and Co.
CANTON NOTES.
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[FROM THE "CHUNG NGOI SAN PO."| A soldier named Luk Aming, who had asked leave to return to his native home in Samsui, saw a woman with a parcel of clothes in her hand walking along a street. He snatched the parcel from the woman and ran away with it. The woman cried out loudly and the soldier- thief was consequently arrested and handed over to a petty officer, who held him in custody. When the case was made known to Colonel Cheng Yun-tsoi, son of late Admiral Cheng- shao Chung, the thief was at once brought up for trial, and the charge being proved, sentence of death was passed. The prisoner was taken to Tin-chi-ma-tau for decapitation on the 19th inst. Owing to the depreciation in value of the Chinese subsidiary coins the rice merchants have made a rule that every ten cent piece is to be counted for 7.1 candareens instead of 7.2 candareens.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
Wan-yang district, in Hupeh, and nephew of Ho King, Viceroy of Fukien during the Franco.. Chinese war. About ten years ago his Excel. lency was colonel of Kowloon.
COMMERCIAL.
'IEA.
453
HANKOW, 18th May.-Business reported since the 11th inst. is as under :-
1896.
1893. 69,786 -chts. 226,979 1-chts. don being calculated at 3/2 per tael Exchange, Consisting of the following Teas, cost in Lon-
and 47/6 per ton Freight.
Ningchows Khemuns
Ho-hows..... Copacks Oonams Seang-tams..
per picul,
18,269 j-chts. a' Tls. 20.00 to 53.00 30,011 2,058 17,918 745
"
24.00 to $3.00
"}
#1
16.00 to 18.00
JJ
26.00 to 40,00
29.00 to 37.00
23.00 to →
255
**
The following are statistics at date compared with the corresponding number of days from the opening of last season, viz., 9 days. Hankow Tea
1896.
1895. Settlements ... 19,072 -cuts. 196,132 -chts. Stock .....
......101,443
129,763
A few days ago a notorious robber named Chan Shing was arrested by a military officer in
Settlements He was sent to Canton and was tried Honam. in the Military Court. When he was brought up for trial, he refused to kneel down, but was forced to do so by hard flogging. He then ad- dressed the Court calmly and said that he formerly joined with Ta Pau-lung and Li Man to commit grave robberies, kidnap girls, and capture rich persons for ransom,
but after Ta Pau-lung and Li Mau had been arrested and beheaded, he was the head, and many rob. beries were committed under his command. Last year he joined with Soon un, the head of the attempted insurrection in Canton last year, who paid him a good deal of money to get men for the purpose. He had hired for him over one thousand men and they were scattered all over Canton in readiness for the proposed revo- lution. He was then fold that if he would give information leading to the capture of Soon Kiukiang Tea. Mun he would be released. In reply he said he had heard that Soon Mun had gone to some foreign country under the disguise of a foreigner and that it would be exceedingly hard to effect his arrest. He was again asked con- cerning several small robberies, whether they were committed by him or not. He said loudly that he never committed such small robberies.
Several days ago the lekin station at Chan Chuen was robbed by a gang of thieves, who
broke into the house and tied up the inmates. They carried away with them everything of value. The case has been reported to the Viceroy, who demands the immediate arrest of the culprits.
On the 20th instant' a trader who carried several pieces of silk on his shoulder for sale was attacked by several robbers when he was walking along a street named Kun-yam-kui. The robbers sprang forward and snatched his silk from him and ran away. The trader gave chase,, but the robbers; fired at him, and the trader, who was struck by one shot, fell to the ground. At last some policemen appeared and one robber was arrested.
Governor Wong Wai-sum left Canton for Yunnan to take up his new appointment ou the 22nd instant. It is said that his Excellency will travel by land instead of going by steamer to Rangoon as last reported.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The C. M. S. N. Co.'s steamer Toonan, Cap- tain Mertens, which arrived at Shanghai on the 20th May, reported picking up, off Tungsha Lightship, the crew of pilot boat No. 3, the Syren, which had been run down by the steamer Flintshire the same morning. Pilot Bull, we (Mercury) understand, was on board at the time of the accident, and he had just left the Flint- shire, having piloted her out, when the accident happened.
The Mercury has the following note on a new enterprise projected at Shanghai:-We hear that the lease of the Central Hotel block has been acquired by a syudicate on behalf of the Central Stores, Limited, a company now being formed for trading in all kinds of goods on a similar basis to the Army and Navy and Civil Service Stores in London. It is proposed to carry on the hotel business in conjunction therewith, but on an extended scale.
Arrivals.........120,515
2+
1896.
JJ
325.895
11
31
1895. 79,027-1-chts. 79,716
157,743
Settlements 56,021 -clit. Stock.......... 80,687
Arrivals...... 136,708
The entire business to date as compared with the corresponding number of days from the open- ing of last season, viz., 9 days.
For London and
America For Russia
1896.
24,000 4-chts. 51,093
75,0:3
1895.
*
40,000 -cuts. 23 1,159
274,159
EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
Yokohama Kobe
SILK.
1896-97
lbs. 249,459 ..35,163
1895-96 lbs. 1,001,137
156,540
1,157,667
284,622
SHANGHAI, 21st May. (From Mr. A. E. Bur- kill's circular).-London advices to 19th current quote a dull market; Gold Kiling 7/10), Blue Elephants 10/-. Raw Silk.-Actual purchases are on a very small scale and prices are irregular. Attention is now directed almost entirely to crop prospects. The weather continues extremely propitious and with vory few exceptions accounts from the country agree as to a favourable outturn, The reason is rather late, but the education of the worms has been unchecked so far and the critical period is past in most districts. Arrivals.-AS per Customs Returns, May 14th to 20th, 47 bales White, 15 iuls Yellow, and 287 piculs Wild. Silks. Waste Silk.I hear of no transactions of importance. Pongees-In White Cloth some contracts have been made 21/22 in. by 70 yds. at Tls. 134 to 1. according to quality and dressing.
Purcases include:-Tsatlees.-Gold Lion at Tls. 845 per picul, Yaconlay Seeling at Th. 310. Yellow Silk. Mienchew at ils. 232f Re-izel.- Market Crop at Tls. 310. Wild Silk.-Tussah Raw 3 at Tls. 170.
EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN TO EUROPE.
Slangbai
Canton
Yokohama...
1995-06
189-1-95
bales.
bales.
50,460
50,075
19,039
15,754
23:89
2:,679
99,068
86,508
EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN TO AMERICA.
Canton
Shanghai Yokohama..
On Sunday morning, 17th May, the French authorities at Shanghai, with Commander Mau- det of the French gunboat Cométe and a party of Marines, all in full uniform, paid a tribute to the statue of Admiral Protet, to honour the thirty-fourth anniversary of the death of the Admiral, he being killed on the 17th May, 1862, when fighting, with the Chinese troops against the Taiping rebellion when Shanghai and Poo- tung were infested. Admiral Protet met his death at a place called Nan-chiao-cheng in Poo- tang, where he is to be officially worshipped, by Imperial command, twice a year, in the spring Telegraphic information has been received and autumn, in the same way that any great from Peking to the effect that the office of Ad- distinguished and loyal Chinese statesman is miral of Canton has been conferred on H.E. Ho after his death: We mention this as it is not Chang-ching, who is Commandant-in-Chief of | generally known amongst foreigners.-Mercury. | 100 piculs.
1897-96
1804-93
bales.
bules.
9.387
8,793
.10,069
9,662
.28,592
27,430
48,0-18
43,885
CAMPHOR.
HONGSONU. 26th May.-Large supplies have come to hand and a decline of $5 per picul has taken place. Quotations for Formosa ere $14.60 to $45.00. During the past week sales have been
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