May 28, 1898.
At the Magistracy on 25th May Commander Hastings fined Li Sze, a junk-master, $100 for "neglecting to go into quarantine while on a voyage from Canton to Hongkong, such port of Canton being a place at which a contagious or infectious disease prevailed." On Monday after. noon defendant sailed round the north side of Stonecutters Island into Yaumati. On Thurs day two more junkowners were each fined $100, on the information of Constable Hammond, for neglecting to go into quarantine, they having come from Canton.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRARE REPORT,
From a private telegram we learn that Surgeon Ammen Farenholt, U.S. Navy, son of Com mander Farenholt, commanding the U. S. S. Monocacy, is assigned to the cruiser Charleston, which is ordered to augment the American fleet on the Asiatic Station, and is the flagship of the convoy of steamers carrying 15,000 troops from San Francisco to Manila.-N. C. Daily News.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO GREAT BRITAIN.
1897-08
lbs. Canton and Macao
6,039,514 Shanghai and Hankow ... 15,357,295 Foochow
12,16 4,768 Amoy.
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been made in new season Hand Filatures of Buffalo & B and C and Pegasus 1, 2 and 3 at Tls. 560 average, about 150 bales are said to have been done at these rates. The Export of Steamn Filatures to date is: 5,929 bales to America, 4,189 bales to the Continent, 58 bales to Japan and 56 large business doing in Tussah Raws 1, 2 and 3 at Tls. 175 average price, most of which is ex
bales to London. Wild Silk.-There has been a
ported press-packed. Settlements amount to 300/100 bales. Waste Silk.-About 400 picals Tussah Waste have been seftled at Tls. 23 average price. The market for all other classes of Waste is quiet, Pongees. About 2,500 pieces Shantung Pougees have been settled. The follow- ing are the particulars :-
19 in. by 19 yda, by 22 23 oz...at Ts. 4.20 per picos.
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24:25 33/34
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CAMPHOR.
HONGKONG, 27th May. and prices show a decline. mosa are $ 42.75 to $13.00.
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The market is weak Quotations for For- Sales, 250 picule.
HONGKONG, 27th May. The market is brisk and the advance in prices continues. Quotations
Arc:-
685,651
34,243,108
1896-97
lbs. 6,359,656 10.119.126 12,994,268 616,350
39,089,430
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We read in a private. letter from Tientsin dated the 14th May, that Prince Henry made no effort to be polite to the Viceroy, his tone Dr. Clark, the Medical Officer of Health, towards the Chinese officials being decidedly appeared at the Magistracy on 20th May to give lofty. That he could be actually discourteous evidence against Shek Kwok Yee, of Gage is impossible, but he was undoubtedly right in Street, who had been summoned for not abating showing them that he came as the reproseuta- a nuisance, of which the Sanitary Board had tire of a superior civilisation, and that he did given him notice, on his premises at Chuk King | not come to ask the favour even of an inter- lane. The doctor said that he visited the pre-view.-N. C. Daily News. mises in question during March, and he reported to the Sanitary Board that they were unfit for human habitation. In consequence notice was served apon défendant to put the premises in habitable condition within 14 days. Defendant had, however, done nothing and people were living there. A fine of $25 was imposed.
Says "The Moralist" of the Straits Times: The future of the Raub Mining Com- pany is looking very hopeful. The Acting Manager tells us that he expects the next crushing to be eren better than the last, which was a record crushing. Then we are told of new discoveries, so considerable as to amount in substance to the discovery of a new mine. | EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED Concurrently, everything is being got ready
STATES AND CANADA. for the electric plant which was ordered some considerable time ago. Further, the completion of the Government cart-road to Raub has cheapened and quickened the transport of the Company. Finally, Mr. Bibby is coming, and he will no doubt stop a week or so in Singapore, and talk, with his usual modest certainty, of the magnificent future that lies before Raub, and the manner in which those twenty square miles will finally make South Africa look small. Mr. Bibby's appearance ought to have a good effect upon the market; Mr. Bibby, after a holiday, ought to be even a more cheerful per- son than Mr. Bibby longing for a holiday. I think I will hold my few shares for a rise. say to $50.
MISCELLANEOUS,
A Polo Club has been inaugurated at Shang- hai.
People who employ Chinese chiropodists should be careful to see that their instruments are clean. Only a few days ago, a foreigner died at the Shanghai General Hospital from gangrene after having been attended by a Chinese chiropodist. We have known of other cases where people have suffered from the same cause.-Union,
The N. C. Daily News of the 13th May says: A report was current yesterday that the Nanking Viceroy had issued an order that no cocoons were to be sold to foreigners this seasou, and that the Italian Government had protested, and the Marco Polo was to be sent to Nanking to enforce this protest. What has really occurred is, we believe, that the magistrate at Wusish has issued an order prohibiting the compradores of the various firms from employ- ing foreign capital and from insuring, and the order has naturally been protested against. We announced some days ago that the Marco Polo was going up to Nanking, and she will leave Woosung for the river on Sunday morning, as originally intended.
A shooting fatality occurred at Nagasaki on Sunday evening, 15th May, at about 8.30 o'clock, in the house of a man named Kelly, who is the proprietor of a beer-shop in Oura. Exactly what occurred is not yet known. Shots were heard, Kelly ran for help, and when some German blue-jackets entered the saloon they found a man named Ganoin on the floor in a dying condition. The wounded man expired in a few minutes. Gannin was an American, and in the absence the U.S. Consul, the Vice-Con sal, Mr. W. H. Devine, held a Coroner's in- quest on the body yesterday. The verdict of the court was that the deceased died in conse- quence of shot wounds. Kelly was arrested on suspicion of murder and is now in gaol. Nagasaki Press.
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Yokohama... Kobe
1897-98 Hs.
26.890,058
15,776,317
1896-97 lbs. 27,574,153 11,961 212
42.667,753
SILK.
+1.635,365
CANTON, 13th May.-Tsatleez. - A few small settlements of No. 1 are reported for Bombay at
20. Nothing has been done for Europe and quotations are entirely nominal. Re-re-l-No| business to report. Offers at $ ́60 and $150 for No. 1 Grant met with no response. Filatures. Home markets remaind very dull and prices continued weak. From sales made we quote Kwong Shun Cheong and Mín King Lam 11/13 and 18/13 $740/739, Yu King lan and Sun Yu Lun 9,11 $750, Kwong Pou Kec 9/11 - 730, Kwong Sen On 11/13 and Kwong Wo Hing 11/13 8725 Kwong Lun Feng 11/13 $720, Cheong Kee 9/11 and Hip Saw Choy 10/12 $710, Wing King Lun 9/11 $700. Kwong King Loong 11/13 $695. Han King Cheong 11/15 and Victoria 11/13 $67), Hing Loong Cheong and Yu King Lun $672), Chun Snu Hing toy20 $470, Shie Le Wo 11/13 $600, King Wo Cheung ani Wai King Wo 18 22 3390 Short-r els. The news of the American victory at Manila appears to have created for a moment a better feeling on the New York market, but it soon collapsed into the former groove. -Unchanged at former prices. Stocks.-Tsatlees, nil. Filatures, 1,000 bales.
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2. White... 7.08 to 7.10 Shekloong, No. 1, Brown..... 480 to 4.81 Browr... 4.67 to 4.70 Swatar, No. 1, White... 7 21 to 7.21 z. White... 691 to 6.95 Swatow, No. 1, Brown... 4.70 to 4.73
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2. Brown... 4.56 to 4.GO Foochow Sugar Candy ...11.15 to 11.20 Sekloong
...... 10.00 to 10,50
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MISCELLANEOUS EXPORTS. · Per steamer Andalusia, sailed on the 12th May. For London :-6 cases fans, 100 casks preserves, 112 cases blackwoodware, 190 cases Chinaware, and 79% packages firecrackers. For Glasgow:-100 casks preserves. For Manches- ter-450 bales waste silk. For London and/or Hamburg-20 bales duck feathers, 40 boxes essential oil, and 529 packages canes. For Lon- dou and/or Hamburg and/or Antwerp :--50 casks wood oil. For Hamburg:-1 case earthen- ware, 2 cases woodware, 3 cases copperware, 5 cases paper, 6 cases sundries, 6 cases black- woodware, 15 packages rattanware, 15 boxes essential oil. 30 bales rattan shavings, 35 boxes Chinaware, 60 cases bristles, 85 cases fans, 167 bales feathers. 200 cases cassia, 213 packages firecrackers, 265 rolls matting, 283 packages canes, 344 bales galangal, 700 cases tea, and 762 cases Formosa camphor. For Bermen :-17 cases bamboofaus and 30 bales rattan shavings. For Antwerp:-30 bales rattan, 43 cases wine, and 200 bales bambooware. For New York: 54 bales raw silk.
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Per P. & O. steamer Formosa, sailed on the 14th May. For London:-1,631 boxes tea 23 cases Chinaware, 60 cases blackwoodware, 15- cases lacquered ware, 18 cases curios and effects, SHANGHAI, 21st May.-(From Me sr. A. R. 5 cases and 43 bales feathers, 5 cases and 85 Burkill & Sons Circular). The latest London casks preserves, 536 bales mattings, 1 bale silk advices quote Gold Kiling 9/74 and Blue Eleph-piece goods, 30 boxes cassia, and 23 packages ant 10/74, and a quiet market. Raw Silk sundries. For Gibraltar:-1 case curios. For
Malta:-1 case curios, and 2 rolls matting.
Since our last circular, large contracts have been inade in new season silk, and settlements amount
Per P. & O. steamer Coromandel, sailed on the 14th May. For Hamburg:-100 packages tea from Foochow For Amsterdam:-200 boxes tea from Foochow. For London :-8 Foochow, 53 boxes tea, and 18 cases silk piece bales feathers and 2,452 packages tea from
goods. For Franco-414 bales raw silk and 1 case silk piece goods. For Milan :-5 bales raw silk. For Gibraltar:-1 box silk piece goods, and I box lacquered ware.
to about 1,7:0/2,000 bales, but at moment the market has become quict again; the Chinese would probably sell, to a moderate extent, further quan'ities at prices below, but the demand bas slackened. Teatlecs.-Settlements of new Silk are about 1,300 bales. Taysans-Abent 250/300 bales have found buyers. Hangchows.-Abont 100 bales have been contracted for, on the basis of prices below. In old Silks thera have been settlements in Skeins of about 50 bales, and in Yellow Silk of about 50 mles as per quotations below. Crop.-Latest advices point to a fairly good crop, and there does not seem to be the least doubt but that a larger crop than last year's can be looked for. The general estimate gives a crop of White Silk of quite 8/3,000 bales more, i.e., about 53,000 bales, and we are inclined to think that this figure will be reached, but it is too early yet to give any definite estimate. Arrivals, as er Customs Returns, May 14th to 20th are; 32 bales White, 57 bales Yellow. and 115 bales Wild Silks. Re-reels and Filatures,- | figuera :— In old Silks we hear of a settlement for America of Plough Chop, 1 and 2, and for Lyons of some Pegasus No. 4 at Tls. 5171. Some contracts have
OPIUM.
HONGKONG, 27th May.-Bengal-The market has ruled quiet in the interval and priegs have declined, New Patna closing at $6984, Old Patua at $747, New Benares at $698‡, and Old Benares at $720,7
MalwaThere has been nothing doing in this drug during the past week and quotations are unchanged, the following being the current
Old (2/5 yrs. ) $810 with all'nce of
(6/7 ) $810 $860
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