January 14, 1897.1
At the Police Court on Friday a Chinaman who had been in the employ of the Hongkong Butchery as a clerk was charged with stealing $390. – The prisoner bolted to Singapore with the money last month and he was arrested at that port and brought back to Hongkong by a Chinese detective. The prisoner admitted the offence and was sent to gaol for six months
with hard labour.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The British steamer Queen Olga, Capt. Harris, which arrived at Nagasaki from Yoko- hama on the 1st January, was, we learn from the Nagasaki Shipping List, leaking badly and would probably have to discharge her cargo and dock for repairs. The Queen Olga is bond from San Francisco for Bombay with a fall cargo of wheat, and left Yokohama for Kuchinotsú, at which port she meant to coal, on the 27th December. On her way thither she shaved the Tomioka Reef at the neck of the gulf, and seriously injured her bottom. Until all the pumps were set to work she was making about 13 inches of water an hour. Her cargo, however, is reported not to be seriously damaged.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT
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Total
Settlements dato
Pingsney. Moyane
215 shipped
in opening
Settlements.
Tienkai ... 60,642 Fychow #15,599 Local p'ked 8,005
chts.
NII
Total...316,977 1-chts.
The Straits Times of the 81st December says :—!
The Bu
paperchase yesterday afternoon commenced in Orange Grove and concluded at Mo the Officers' Mess. There was a good field, but Tienkai
Local packed.. the success of the chase was marred by a serious accident to Captain Radclyffe, of the Rifle Brigade When taking one of the jumps at the barracks, Captain Radclyffe's horse swerved towards one of the wings.. Rushing through it the captain was thrown, and it was found that his leg was broken above the knee. Several medical gentlemen were present, and the injured officer was removed to his quarters. An order was issued at Manila on the 27th December the preamble of which sets out that the concentration in the capital of all the pri- souers apprehended in the provinces for com- plicity in the rebellion gives rise to grave difficulties in the ordinary administration of justice, interferes with the good administration of the prisons, and is an obstacle to the re- establishment of tranquillity, the public mind not being likely to recover its lost repose whilst its attention is excited by the sad and horrible spectacle of continual executions of the capital sentence. The infliction of the penalty of the law at a distance from the places where the crime was committed also At Shanghai on the 31st December a blue-lessens the force of the example and so defeats one of its principal ends. Hundreds of ao- jacket named John Jones from the U.S.S. Yorktown was drowned whilst attempting to cused persons being confined in places defective rescue one of his comrades who had been preci- in security and in hygienic conditions en- pitated into the river accidentally. It appears dangers alike the public health and the proper the latter, whose name was J. Anderson, was on investigation of the cases, which calls for the watch at 4.30 a.m. and while going towards the prevention of communication between the pri port gangway leading to a platform he fell soners and effective custody. The increased overboard, as the gangway had been taken in work thrown on the officials resident in Manila, which is constantly increasing, retards the for repairs. Immediately on the alarm “ overboard" being given, all hands turned out trial and conclusion of important cases, and, of their hammocks and before the boats could the capital being made the sole centre of be lowered into the water Joues jumped over. the administration of justice, the operation of the law is felt in other districts to be weak and board, bat was not seen again. In the mean- time, however, the port life buoy was thrown tardy. Such grave evils call for prompt remedy, overboard and Anderson managed to keep and it is therefore ordered that courts martial himself afloat until the boats picked him up.-
are to be held in the districts where the pri- soners are apprehended. The order contains China Gazette.
ten articles, in which detailed instrnotions are given as to the conduct of the proceedings at the district courts,
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A new social departure has been taken at Tientsin. The smoking concert season was opened on the 19th December, and the ladies, not to be left out in the cold, organised a social evening of their own. "Who got home first!" was a question which greeted most of the married men as they entered the Club on Sunday morning. A report of the ladies' social appears in the Peking and Tientsin Times, from which it appears that the entertainment was a great success. The notice concludes with the statement that "these social evenings are undertaken with the simple desire of amusing ourselves in the absence of our husbands, and not with any desire to rival, or any wish to attend, the smoking concerts."
This is ap- parently intended as a reply to an impertinent express" that had been anonymously issued with reference to the affair.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
CANTON, 18th January.-Macao Congous.-Set- tlements during the past month amount only to 2,600 boxes at Tls. 11-23 per pical, recent values showing a decline on former prices of Tls. 1-2 per pical. Some of the Teas are fine and flavoury, but
rather thin. There is still a stock of 1,500 boxes. We hear of 4,000 boxes of Common bold-leaf Tea having been settled for Hamburg. Scented Capers, -No fresh settlements have transpired since our last advices, but some 1,600 boxes are reported to have gone forward on native account, which will bring the total for the season up to 5,135,000 lbs.
SHANGHAI, 8th January.—(From Messrs. Welch, Lewis & Co.'s Circular). Our last printed" Tea market advices were under date 24th ultimo.
Black Tea.-There is no demand. A few chops have been shipped off on native account.
Settlements reported are :— Ningchow. 176 -cht. at Tls. 13.00 a picul. Wenchow. 469 shipped Oonam
JJ
760 *
1,411 half-chests.
SILK
been
Shanghai, 7th January, (From Mt. A. R.
6th Burkill's Circular)London quotations current are 8/3 for Gold Kilins and 10/3 for Bl Elephants,"market quiet." Baw Silk has been a rather better feeling apparent the past few days and small orders has coming in for Tsatlees mostly of the Gold class and also for Coarse White Silke. —Ahout 500 bales have changed handsat quo tions. Taysaams.-100/10 have been bor but as stocks are very small these Silks are firmly held than Tsatleea: To-day's p a decline of about Tls, 10-per picul fro highest point. Yellow Silks are still wanted, and anything of pas able quality commands ful Holders are very firm and are intent further advance on such descriptions, ns, best Wongchowa and Szechuens. Arrival a Customs Returas 30th Decencher to fith Jaunary, 640 bales White, 160 pieals Yellows, piculs Wild Silks Be-reels and Filatures No business. The Expert of Steam “Filâtures to date is 2 bales to England; 1,336 bales Conti: ent, and 1,318 bile to America. Silk -No transactions. Pongees About pieces have been settled at Tis.-1.75 to 'l'le. 3.35 for varius measurements und weights.
CAMPHOR,
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the
HONGKONG, 13th January. The market weak and prices are lower. Quolations for Formosa are $44.25 to $41.50. During the week sales have been 100 piculs.
SUGAR.
HONGKONG, 13th January-Prices have fallen and the activity previously reported has subsided. Following are the quotations:- Shekloong, No. 1, White...$7.27 to 7.30
do.
White... 6.65 to 6.68
Shekloong, No. 1, Brown... 4.50 to 4.62
do.
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2, Brown... 4.28 to 4:32. swatow, No. 1, White... 7.20 to
do.
2. White... 6 28 10 6.30 Svatow, No. 1, Brown... 4.40 to 1.4
do.
2, Brown, 4.25 to 4.28 Soochow Sugar Candy.....:11.00 to 11.03 9.50 to 9.53 Siekloong
MISCELLANEOUS EXPORSTS
The steamer Radley, Hongkong to New York, 26th December, took 17,994 rolls matting, 1,400 bales cassia, 37 packages bambooware, cases chinaware, 27 packages rattan
3 cases cigars, 167 bales feathers, 498 merchandise from Shanghai --—- tea. 350 rolls matting, 212 ba 506 bales wool, and 104 bales stra
Green Teas.--Pingsueys.-It is difficult to
The American ship Belle Bath, ascertain bow much of the business reported is on native account, and how much has been to New York 30th December, tool
said packages firecrackers, 5,050 bales casa bought by Foreign bayers, but the latter to be a very small proportion of the settlements. rolls matting, 600 cases Saigon The unsold stock is mostly of undesirable quality, palm leaf fans, 200 cases joss and there is not much to be said in favour of a chinaware, 49 bales, rattanoo
merchandise, good many of the settlements in this respect.
At Shanghai on the 6th January the I.C.S.N. Co.'s new river steamer Suiwo ran a very suo. cessful trial trip to the Red Buoy at Woosung. A large party assembled on board at the invi- tation of the agents, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., and a start was made shortly after 1.30 p.m., the vessel being under the command of Captain H. Hogg: Soon after the start an excellent tiffin was served, to which full justice was done by everyone. The usual toasts were proposed and honoured and the trip on the whole was a most enjoyable function. The toast of prosperity to the ship and her owners was proposed by Fleet-Engineer Ryder, of H.M.8. Bolus, who spoke in glowing terms of the ship and all her arrangements. The toast was suitably responded to by Mr. W. F: Inglis on behalf of the owners. Mr. Colin Buchanan said that the owners looked on the Suwo as a most successful vessel. The builders had had the advantage of their experience in building the Kutwo, and they had so far pro- fited by it that they had succeeded in building a vessel of the same tonnage with three inches
Hysons. Owing to the discouraging news from less draft of water, and able to carry 150 tons Bombay the demand for these descriptions has
cargo more than her sister and, moreover, a
been checked, and Teainen, being anxious to stronger ship. The Suiwo returned to the realize a marked decline has taken place, wharf shortly before 5 o'clock and the party Tis. 4 to Tls, 6 below prices once refused has separated all expressing themselves as · greatly been the average rate for purchases, whilst one d with the trip and the arrangements parcel of choicest" Mayune originally settled What ad been made for their comfort and en- at Ts, 43 a picul has been resold at Tls. 85 a tertai ent.—N O. Daily News2) | picul,
Country Teas.-The market has been cleared. of stock at about previous rates. No further supplies are expected from the country this
sen-on
The German steamer Gassius Hon New York 31st Dec matting, 6,563 pac oil, 23 cases blacki
The steamer Achill
31st December, took particulars); 504 « ca essential oil, 21 o effects, 12 packages
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