July 16, 1898.]
The British steamer Lombard arrived at Singa- pore on the 3rd July from Hongkong, having had to pat into Labuan through stress of weather, She left Hongkong on the 17th June and fears had begun to be entertained for her safety.
We understand that Messrs. Lütgens,
per ton.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
J
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sergent George Danson, of the Shanghai Municipal Police, left Shanghai on the 3rd June to take charge of the police force which is being established at Weihaiwei by the
British Government.
The polo games on the race course at Shang- bai on Saturday afternoon, 2nd July, were marred, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, by a couple of accidents to players of a some- what painful nature. Mr. Souter fell and his pony rolled over him severely injuring his foot and rendering his removal from the ground with rather more serious consequences. necessary. The other casualty was attended Mr.
des Voeux was the victim and he was struck in the face over the eye, his glasses breaking and severely cutting him. He bled profusely and it was at first thought he had sustained an
to be the case, though Mr. des Voeux suffered considerable pain.
Einstmann & Co., General Agents of the Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co., A conrageous rescue from drowning took Limited, have received confirmation by letter dated 14th June last of the wire of 7th Jane to place at Singapore shortly after midnight on the effect that the main reef in the Great the 28th June. It seems, says the Straits Times, Eastern Mine had been struck.
that a man named Mut, who is the chief chin- They also learn that a trial crushing of two tons of quartz teng in connection with the revenue department of the Opium Farm, went out in a sampam to from the Bank of England and Zula shafts board the steamer Siam, which had arrived from injury to the eye. Fortunately this proved not Amoy. It was dark at the time, and Capt. Fraser, the master of the Siam, was standing at the head of the gangway. Mat was about to from the gangway into the water. board the vessel when he saw the captain fall Withont hesitation, Mat
from
the sampan and rescued Captain Fraser, who was un. conscious, but who was restored to life on the Capt Fraser, it is said, had not been in the best of health during the Toyge and had suffered considerably with his head. Mat injured his clothing and lost a bag articles. containing about three dollars, and several other
had been made yielding 1 ounce 17 dwt. 18 grs. A servant boy named Wong Shui Hing was charged at the Magistracy on Thursday, on the information of Mr. N. P. Nolan, interpreter, with using abusive language, whereby a breach of the peace might have been caused. Com- plainant said that on the 8th inst he engaged defendant as cook at $8 a month. At noon on Wednesday defendant asked him for some money for food. He toll him he had already given him 20 cents and he would pay him the rest at the end of the month, whereupon defendant said that if he did not pay him all his money for the work he had done he would charge him, subsequently becoming very abusive and making use of a very foul expression. A fine of $10, or a month, was imposed.
At the Magistracy on the 8th July a German seaman named Gus Raymon was charged with stealing clothing belonging to Henry Perch and others from the Sailors' Home. Peroh, a seaman out of employ, said he was staying at the Sailors' Home, where defendant was also staying. The light coat produced was his property, and was worth $10. He last saw it on his bed under the pillow on Thursday morning. He missed after dinuer. Suspecting défendant, whom he had seen going out with a bundle, he went out to look for him. Не He met him returning in a 'ricksha. followed him to the Home, where he charged him with the theft. Afterwards he went out with a constable and identified the coat in a shop, defendant being identified as having sold it. Two other seamen staying at the Sailors' Home had missed articles of clothing, and a Chinaman deposed to defendant having sold them to him. Defendant, who was arrested by P.C. McDonald, was sentenced to three months' hard labour.
Alexander Johnston, the chief engineer of the Suisang, appeared before Commander Hastings at the Magistracy on Thursday morn- ing to answer a charge of "unlawfully driving a bioycle furiously to the danger of the public, thereby seriously injuring one In Kam.' 'The Captain Superintendent of Police said that a little before seven o'clock on Wednesday evening he was riding a bicycle going westward along the Wanchai Road ascending the hill under Morrison Hill when defendant passed him on a bioycle. When defendant got over the brow of the hill he put his feet up and let the bicycle go. Defendant's hands were on the upright staff of the handle bar instead of on the grip. He kept in the centre of the road until he got to the foot of the hill. Then for some reason he swerved to the right, the wrong side of the road for him going west. Witness saw that there was a Chinese woman and a European child to the right of defendant, at an angle of about 45 degrees to the course he had altered from. They were. sitting on the side channel with their backs to the road. Hearing the bicycle coming (witness did not hear the bell) the woman got up and tried to pull the child aside. Immediately. afterwards the front wheel of the bicycle struck the woman on the back and knocked her face downwards into the side channel, the child be- ing also knocked down. Defendant fell over the handle of his bicycle clear of the side chan- nel. Defendant had three companions with him on bicycles. An exceedingly danger ous thing. for defendant to do was putting up his feet going down the hill in that way, defendant thus losing control of the machine. The woman was sent to the hospital, where she was found to be suffering from an injury to the head. Dr. Noble attended the woman on the spot. Defendant was arrested. Defendant had no questions to ask witness and had nothing to say. He was fined £5.
arrival of a doctor.
dived
COMMERCIAL.
TEA..
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.
1898-9J
1897.98 Iba.
11-87.
Hankow and Shanghai... 5,924,054
Foochow Amoy...... Canton.
7,558,175
4,251,546 44957
4,731,743
37,693,
911,080
1,697,113
11,132,646
14,074,711
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED STA1ES AND CANADA.
1898-99
The N. C. Daily News of the 6th July says:- The river police recovered a body evidently that of a European from the Whangpoo yes- terday and it was at once reported to the Coroner, Inspector Mellowes immediately form- ing the impression that it was the corpse of the unfortunate steward of the Clan Mackenzie, Shanghai.. William Dorance, whose death whilst bathing | Amoy at Pootung occurrel on Sunday. Friends of the deceased from the ship, however, failed to identify the body, which was very much discol- oured and swollen; consequently the Coroner decided to hold no inquest and an order for im- mediate burial was issued. The deceased was wearing a pair of drawers only, and we under- stand that Dorance was similarly olad on enter- ing the water. In any case, however, it is dis- tinctly sad to hear of the body of a foreigner laid to rest without ceremony or religious rite of any kind in an unknown grave,
1897-98 lbs.
lbs. 2,212,406 2,286,825
1,782,100
3,075,428
0,991,505
5,862,253
EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
1898-99
1697-08
Yokohama........................................
Kobe
lus.
lbs.
9,418,012
11,716,105
+,578,945
5,758,740
13,996,,957 17,474,845
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO ODESSA.
1898-09
1897-98 lbs.
lbs. 14,229,694
SILK.
The Straits Times says:-There have been great rejoicings in Sarawak, and the traders of the port of Limbang have saluted the Rajah by Shangbai and Hankow........ 15,891,680 hanging red signs at their doors, and firing off as many crackers as they could get hold of. The reason of the outburst is that on May 28th, the Rajah of Sarawak suddenly arrested and deported to Rajang, in Sarawak, two chiefs known as Tadong and Emang, and a number of their follower. Tadong and Emang, it seems, them the Sultan of Sarawak has earned the are of the Mat Salleh, ilk; and for deporting everlasting gratitude of the traders of the district, who had come to dread these men. Why cannot the Sandakan Government treat Mat Salleh, or "Mud Salay," as he should be styled, in a similar manuer? There are a good many Singapore Chinese traders who would be ready to rejoice quite as heartily as the Lim- bang traders, for Mat Salleh has been respon- sible for the loss of a good quantity of their property in British North Borneo.
SHANGHAI, 9th July.-(From Messrs. A. R. Burkill & sons' Circular).-Latest London ad- vices report a firm market, and Blue Elephants 10/3. The quotation from Lyons for Gold Kilings is Fcs. 27. Raw Silk.-The past week has been somewhat quieter than the preceding ones, but a firm tendency prevails, and a fair amount of business has taken place.-Arrivals, as per Cus- toms Returns, 2nd to 8th July, are: 2,872 bales White, 75 bales Yellow, an 115 bales Will Silks. Re-reels and Filatures. Further large contracts have been made in Hand Fiatures for America, and prices show an advance of Tls. 15/20, total
fully 1,200_bales.
settlements for this market we now estimate at.
A good demand have also existed for Hand Filat ›res for Lyons and bollers have obtained an advance; the market closes very strong. We have not heard of any business in Steam Filatures. Thy Export of Steam Fil atures to date is: 223 bale; to America, 226 bales to the Continent, and 16 biles to England. Wild Silke.-Market quiet, little doing. Waste
Silk.-Contracts have been made for New Season
pcla. Frigonnets on the basis of the following
at Ts. 1,000 Kling Frisozuetts (whole bales) 211/23
do. 50 Compos Frisonnets (
) 221 and a small pare 1 of 25 picals Will Piercǝd Cocoons at Tls. 35.
EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN TO EUROPE.
The Peking and Tientsin Times says:-A new and elaborate system for Chinese telegrama has been invented by a Cantonese gentleman named Whang. In the present system, as our readers probably know, the Chinese use four figures to represent each character, and as not more than three figures are allowed by the telegraph companies to pass as one word, every Chinese character transmitted has be charged as two words, which is naturally very costly. By the new code the 26 letters of the alphabet are introduced instead of figures and each column 26 characters. By this ingenius method A. B. C. would read, folio 1, line 2. character 3; and E. F. folio 2, line 5, character 6. At least that is how we understand the explanation which has been given us, and we are assured that the code if brought into force will effect a saving of two thirds the cost of all Chinese messages transmitted. It will not on the other band affect the telegraph companies' receipts, as the number of messages sent will be doubled or trebled, as is always the case when a reduction
We believe our late Shang' ai of rates takes place. viceroy, Wang Wên-shao, warmly approved of Canton the code, and it will probably receive govern ment sanction.
Shangbai Canton
1898-99
1897-98
bales.
baleg.
..... 6,097
5,138
1,546
2,199
7.618
7,337
EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN 'TO AMERICA.
-1898-99
bales.
1897-99-
balyn.
414'
878
392
369
796
1,247
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