October 21, 1899.]
There were 1,541 visitors to the City Hall; Museum last week, of whom 174 were Europeans. The stamp revenue last month amounted to $31,866, being an increase of $4,807 on the amounted collected in the corresponding month of last year. There were increases under twenty- four headings amounting to $8,307, and de- crosses under thirteen headings amounting to $3,500, of which 82,634 occurred under the head of probate.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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Sir Henry and Lady Blake, accompanied by Viscount Suirdale, a visit to paid Macao last week and stayed at the Boa Vista Hotel. His Excellency, we understand, made arrange monts on two previous occasions to visit the Holy City, but in both cases was prevented at the last moment from carrying out his intention. They went over on Friday and returned on Wednesday. On Sunday forenoon H. E. called on the Governor of Macao. Sir Henry, who is an exceptionally good shot, succeeded in mak- ing a very good bag of snipe on Saturday. Other distinguished visitorsto Macao on Sunday were Prince Kanoye andsuite of three. They also put up at the Boa Vista and left for Canton yesterday."
The P. & O. steamer Rohilla arrived at Naga-
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The Chinese have discovered a bed of excel. lent clay for brickmaking on the banks of the River Hen. Brickmaking machinery has been. erected, and a light tramway for conveying the olay to the machines. Kilns in foreign style for blue or grey bricks are in full operation. The daily output of bricks for the railway is very large. The kilns are on the river bank, and water carriage is convenient.-Mercury.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
A correspondent complains of the large number of native beggars who infest the streets of Hongkong, particularly the Queen's Road, in the evening, and suggests that a little closer Police supervision would remedy this evil. The beggars are mostly children, who persistently poster pedestrians for alms. Our correspondent apparently does not frequently pass through | saki on the 7th October, six days out from Hong | changed hands at Tls. 12% to 22 per picul, For Glenealy or he would not have confined his complaint to Queen's Road.
A telegram from Raub dated 9th inst, states : "The rough cleaning-up of the battery yielded 2,420 ounces amalgam, the estimated quantity of stone crushed being 950 tons. The battery stopped three days and a half, in order to under- go repairs." This works out to two ounces and a little ander eleven pennyweights of amalgam to the ton. At the rough clean-up which fin- ished on the 7th August the amalgam average was one ounce and twelve pennyweights to the ton.-Straits Times.
CANTON, 19th October, 1899. – Macao Congous. the London market, and some 3,600 boxes have -Latterly there has been a sunall enquiry for
Australia and the Continent only a small busi- ness has been passing. There are no available stocks and the market closes firmer. Scented Capers.-Settlements during the past month are 214,000 boxes to date), consisting principally of reported at 31,000 boxes at Tis. 13.22) (making Tens costing Tls. 181-21 per pioul which, at the close, are T. 1 per picul dearer, owing to ad- vance in the price of Scenting flower. Common and medium grades must also be quoted Tl. 1 per picul higher, but with the exception of an occa- sional parcel, there have been none on offer, and the market is practically bare. The season is expected to close unusually early,
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.
1899-1900
lbs.
Hankow and Shanghai... 9,514,030
✔
1808-09
10,608,822 890,250 10,577,774 4,04%,645. 8,770,406
21,001,411 25,302,652
221,484 ..................................................... 11,193,226
kong. On her way up, she encountered very bad weather, traces of which she bore on arri val, among other things her funnel being al- most white. At one time it was feared the fun- nal would be carried away by the seam that swept the vessel, but this calamity was averted by strengthening the funnel with stays. The wheel and two compasses aft were swept over- board during the voyage.-Nagasaki Press.
We take from the N. C. Daily News of the 11th inst the following, which will interest many Hongkong readers:-The Cathedral has seldom looked more charming than yesterday afternoon when it was decorated for the wed. ding of Mr. E. W. Maitland and Miss Wil- cookson. The bride and bridegroom are so well known and popular that a very large number of friends attended. They found the interior of the building daintily attired for their reception. A white carpet stretched up the nave, while overhead delicate green foliage met and cover-
Foochow The ed in the space between the pews. The chancel space was even more effectively decorated in white and green. A green-trimmed trellis-work run upwards from the communion rail, and sus- pended above the beads of the happy pair as they knelt was a wedding bell of white flowers. These decorations were the work of Mrs. Bland, assie- ted by Mrs. Edward White. The service, which was choral, was conducted by the Rev. H. C. Hodges. The bride was given away by her father, and was attended by Miss L. Moore. head, Miss Allen, and Master and Miss Twenty. man, Mr. N. G. Maitland was best man, assist- ed by Messrs E. Gumpert, A. Hide, R. Suther- land, and R. Moorhead. The presents, largely of silver, filled a room. Both Mr. and Mrs. Maitland have been connected with the A.D.C. Mrs. Maitlaud, indeed, is one of our best ama- teur actresses, and accordingly these gifts in- cluded a beautiful bowl of fligree work with two small vases to correspond from that body.
The American barque Adolf Obrig arrived in Hongkong on Tuesday afternoon from New York. On the 3rd October she encountered a typhoon in Ballingtang Channel, and lost her rudder and topsails, two men being also washed overboard, one being lost. The captain fitted out a jury rudder and tried to make Manila, but was caught by a strong wind and driven straight across to Hongkong. original destination of the ship was Amoy,
Freedom (Manila) reporting on the Legaspi's recent voyage from Hongkong to Manila says:-She came without the lighters or launch. The captain reported that they were forced to cut them loose in order to save his own vessel in the awful storm that prevailed. The launch's bow was banging into the stern of the lighter and threatened to demolish it. The launch was then cut loose from the lighter and was soon engulfed in the boiling waters. Soon the violence of the storm increased and it became necessary to cut the lighter loose and leave it to its fate. Relieved of the tow the Legaspi made better progress and though she encountered very tough weather and was taken out of ber course she arrived in Manila without suffering any material damage from her trip.
At the Magistracy on Tuesday afternoon the inquest conceruing the death of Evelyn Govett, midshipman, of H.M.S. Orlando, which occurred on the 3rd September while out with a shooting party at Castle Peak Bay, was concluded. Mr. Lloyd, the chief officer of the steamer Arratoon Apcar, for whose evidence the enquiry was adjourned at the last hearing, stated that he was sitting next to the deceased on his right. Deceased was playing with the re- volver. Witness turned to talk to one of the party on his left, and almost immediately he heard a report. On looking round he saw that deceased had shot himself. Deceased, who had been in very good spirits before the accident. made no exclamation, but fell forward with a moan.-A verdict of accidental death was re- turned.
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We regret to learn of the death of Dr. F. B. C. Ayres, C.M.G., formerly Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong. With his handsome and strik- ng figure, strongly marked individuality, his. humour and good nature, Dr. Ayres was one of the most popular men of his time and also one of the most hardworking of officials. He threw his whole energy into the campaign for im. proving the sanitation of the oity and prognos. ticated, accurately as it unfortunately turned out, that if over a serious epidemic got a bold here the sanitary neglect of years would bring its penalty in heavy mortality and extreme difficulty in getting rid of the disease. Dr. Ayres had his heart in his work and would pro- bably have continued in harness had not con- siderations of health compelled his retirement a couple of years ago after a service in the solony of twenty-four years. He had previously seen service in Mauritius and India. Dr. Ayres was olever with his pencil and was a contributor to the old China Punch,
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At the Magistracy on Monday a shipwright from the Oregon named John Hermann Michael was charged with assaulting a ricksha coolie, and Laurence Hermann, a sailor from the sailing ship St. James was charged with disorderly behav iour and assaulting a Chinese district watchman. The rioksha coolie said that on Sunday after- noon he was on the ground floor of No. 24, Peel Street, where he lived, having his meal with four other men, when first defendant came in and spoke to them. They did not understand him and told him to go out, whereupon he camo and struck complainant in the month. He then went out, but returned with a piece of wood, with which he struck complainant on the head. District watchman No. 45 said that be arrested first defendant, sud second defendant came up and struck him two blows on the back with his fist.-First defendant had nothing to say, and the second said, "I did not know the man was a policeman."-First defendant was fined $15 and ordered to pay $15 compensation, the second being discharged with a caûtion.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Monday was the anniversary of the birth- day of Donna Maria Pia, Dowager Queen of Portugal. A military serenade was played in front of Government House, Macao, and the band paraded the street playing the national hymn.
The Spanish steamer Legaspi, which left Hongkong on the 4th October for Manils, with two launches for the U. S. Government in tow, arrived at her destination, on the 9th, but with out the launches, which were lost on the way.
Canton
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
1899-1900 lbs.
Shanghai.....................................
Amoy Foochow
1898.99.
lbs.
1,222,849
1,182,577
8,330,028
7,253,022
4 414,770
13,977,546
4,969,051
13,354,650
EXPORT OF TEÀ FROM CHINA TO ODESZA 1899-1900 1898-00
lbs.
Shanghai and Hankow... 25,363,948
lbs. 22,676,902
EX PORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED
STATES AND CANADA.
1899-1900 1898-69
lbs.
lbs.. 20,558,065 19,156,167 11,782,517 11,236,261
Yokohama Kobe................................
32,337,582
30,391,428-
SILK.
SHANGHAI, 14th · October.-(From Messrs. A. firm, and Gold Kilings are at Fes 31 in Lyons, B.Burkill & Sons' Circular):-Home markets are
whilst Blue Elephants are quoted at 13/9) in London. Raw Silk.-Market quiet and little doing, about 300 bales of all classes have changed hands. Yellow Silk.-Market quiet, but very strong. Arrivals, as per Customs Returns, Octo- ber 7th to 19th, are: 874 tales White, 343 bales Yellow and 67 bales Wild Silks, Re-Reels and hand filatures.-A very large business has been done for America during the week, some 750 bales having been taken for that market. It is said that the majority of these settlements is for delivery before China New Year. Steam Fila- tures.-Market quieter but strong; nearly all the Filatures are fully engaged up to China New Year. The Export of Steam Filatures to date is: 2,248 bales to America, 1,926 bales to the con- tinent, 40 bales to London, and 6 bales to Jupan. Wild Silk-Nothing doing. Waste Silk-Mar- ket strong, the following transactions are reported:-
piculs
at TIs.
25 White Fine Gum 76 p. c. I, 25 p. c. 127); 75 White Coarse Gaw (whole bales)... 871/90, 60 Hankow Frints. (Cʊmmon, whole bales) 27. 75 Woozie pd. Cocoon (whole bales).........................80. Quotations in Taels per pical-Average Ex- change for the week 4 m./8. 2/84 and Fes. 3.39. Freight Tls. 7.25 per cwt :---
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