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This enormous increase in the import of opium. both foreignTM and native, cannot be universaly welcomed.
In cotton goods there is chiefly to be noticed a large increase in the import of English and American sheetings, with an naimportant de cline in grey shirtings. The comparative figures of cotton yarn for three years were as follows, in piouls:-
1899. 1898.
1897. 3,719 8,370 2,878 375,342 129,006 167,892 157,079 81,354 $1,825
English Indian Japanesa
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
FOOL HOW NOTES.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.] The following little incident is interesting Fokien. In a certain foreign house in Foochow as showing how justice (P) is administered in it is the custom to give the night watobman a basket containing a bottle and a book to hand to one of the coolies employed in the same house to go in the early morning and get milk. One of the coolies is a lazy old dog, not without his | full share of cunning, and finding it more or In woollens there was a decided advance, ex-
less inconvenient to turn ont early these chilly cept in Spanish stripes and Italian cloth, while milk opolies to call for his basket and get his mornings he had generally arranged with other in metals there was a very marked decline, ex-
milk at the same time they got theirs. It was cept in the case of lead, Foreigu sundries were
not the same coolie every time, so the other on the whole well maintained, though there was a marked falling-off during the quarter in kero- asked for the basket, the watchman thought it morning, when, as usual, a stranger came and sene oil, the comparative figures being, in gal-was all right and gave it to him, only to leara lons:--
American Russian..
in bulk Sumatran do
1899. 4,359,050
1898.
12,853,300
7,529.370
5,387,290 1,195,460 3,140,519
1,153,058 1,914,084
Total...14,955,562 22,576,569
In native sundries the only declines to be specially noticed were in black tea and tobacco
leaf.
In exports, it should first be noticed under cotton goods, that 28,840 pieces of Shanghai sheetings were shipped against 1,580 in 1898, and 84,603 piouls of Shanghai cotton yarn against 30,401 piouis last year. In sundries there was a noticeable gain in beahcake, beans and peas, raw cotton, rice, nearly all descriptions of silk, goat skins and rugs, green tea, wheat, and sheep's wool; and a decline in straw and rush hats, hemp, rhubarb, sugar, black tea, tobaren, and camels' wool. Of transit passes 3,0 3 were issued and 3 surrendered, against 7,498 and 19 in 1898. and 1,997 and 168, re. spectively, in 1891. The treasure table shows an import of gold to the value of Hk. Tls. 1,409,901 and silver to the value of Tls. 9,588,316. and an export of the same metals to the value of Tls. 1,100,601 and 7,237,385, re-
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by and bye that he had given it to a thiệf-man, Later on the watchman and the coolie were brought up before the taipan to give an acconut of themselves, but as both would have put Ananias to shame the matter was, seemingly. settled by both of them being fined half-a-day's pay. But about mid-day a ragged gentleman what he thought was English at a most who said he was a packer and who spoke alarming rate and with most blood-curdling thief and in proof handed in the basket, gestures, came and said he had caught the bottle, and book. watchman and coolie was now altered to an on the enforced "umshaw of 10 cents sach to the thief catcher, who thereupon went off to the man- darin and told him he could put his hands upon a man who had that morning stolen things from boy! go and catch him then," and upon being a foreigner's house. The mandarin said “Good dragged before the mandarin the alleged thief worn for an indefinite period, and was taken in was at once awarded the wooden collar, to be triumph, and in the midst of an admiring crowd, to the house from which he had stolen works out like this:-Thief: profit, the pos- the milk bottle, etc. The profit and loss account
Bession of a bottle and basket, value about five
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[December 2, 1899.
MINING QO. CESSIÓNS IN KOREA,
CHARTER GRANTED TO ME PRITCHARD
MORGAN.
Britain demanded from the Korean Government A Seoul dispatch says that last year Great
a concession for the working of the Pingyang coal mine. The Korean Government refused the demand on the ground that the mine was reserved for supplying the Imperial Household, but offered to concede a mine in another part of the country. Recently an Englishman arrived iu Korea for the purpose of inspecting the the British Minister has applied to the Korean various mines, and as a result of the inspection
Government to grant a charter to dr. Pritobard Morgan, M.P.. to work the gold mine at Insan Ping-an-do,—Kobe Chronicle
CANTON NOTES.
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[FROM THE CHUNG NOOI SAN PO."] News has reached Canton from Kwangchan. wan to the effect that the natives a few days ago had another fight with the French soldiers, who were beaten back to some distance with a heavy loss, The French have laid the blame on Marshal Su, who has been detained by them order. They, have also seized three gunboats, on account of his failure to keep the place in
the Fou Po, On Lan and Kwong Yuk,"
The number of robberies increases daily. Some places that fail to obtain protection from the robbers to be their protectors, paying them a mandarins are obliged to ask some well-known
accepted the protection of any place, they will. certain sum every month. If the robbers have
do their best to protectit, so that no other robbers brigands and pirates have accepted the offer of dare to give any trouble to it. The Saichin the junke carrying pine wood from Kwangsi to brigands have promised to protect them to the Sanui district by the West River. end of the Chinese year from molestation by other robbers Another sum must be paid again their protection continued. after expiration of the time stated if they want
The
spectively. As usual, very little was done in cents, for an hour or two; loss, the loss of his Treasurer asking to be allowed to establish
the bonded warehouses; while a fair amount of kerosene oil is bonded, the warehouses them- selves contain only a few towels, lamps. need. las, etc., and some machine oil.--N. Č. Daily Newx.
FIRE AT PORT ARTHUR,
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ability to work for perhaps a month and the discomfort, sto., of the cangue. Thief catcher profit, twenty cents and much kados, loss ail. Justice, profit? loss?? Serious robberies are, as a rule, unpunished because the thief is very seldom caught, and in this part of the world the receiver is not considered as bad as the thief. There is no difficulty in disposing of goods obv ously stolen-for perhaps a hun- dredth part of their value.
Port Arthur, 11th November. Between two and three o'clock this morning a People in Hongkong in speaking of the Foo. fire broke out in a godown belonging to the chow community would not mean those resident Chinese Eastern Railway, situated close to the in Nantai, only but would include those st Sharp Company's wharf.
The godown was anfor- Peak, Pagoda, and Kuliang, although these tunately choke-full of merchandise, the entire places are several miles apart. Permanent re- cargo almost of the steamer Ningoote, which
sidents at Sharp Peak consist of the Telegraph had only arrived the previous day, being stored Co.'s staff and a missionary or two. At Pagoda there waiting to be taken away by the several most of the residents are permanent, and at consignees. The godown-which was a corru- gated iron one--as completely gutted, and by Kuliang everybody almost, if not quite, leaves at the end of the summer. During the hot daylight a few charred posts were all of the
weather most the ladies and children are sent structure that re.niued standing. The origin either to the seaside at Sharp Peak or to the of the fire has not yet been ascertained, but it mountain-top at Kuliang, and both places are at- is thought that it may have been due to the tracting visitors from other ports. Messages can carelessness of the Chinese watohman on duty be sent from Sharp Peak and Pagoda by telegraph The damage is estimated at from $25,000 to
and passage can always be effected by steam. $40,000, none of which is believed to be covered launch, but Kuliang, the most popular resort, by insurance.-N. (!. Daily News, correspondent.is only in communication with the outside world by messenger, taking practically the whole day to go there and back. At Nantai there is a telephone between most of the offices, but as these are for the most part quite close together it is no very great convenience. To run a tele- A clerk on his way to the German Legation phone or telegraph wire to Kuliang would be at Peking, named Hans Lange, who embarked troublesome, if only on account of the river on board the German mail steamer Koenig been discovered by which this difficulty could having to be crossed, but latterly a means has Albert at Genoa, committed suicide by shooting himself on Sunday, 19th November, while the easily be overcome. The Wireless Telegraph Co. could doubtless supply all that is necessary vessel was lying at Woosung. Trouble of a private nature is supposed to have led to the act. the mountain-top across the river. There re- to enable messages to be sent from Nantai to
The Straits Times proposes that the Singa-mains the question of cost, but although Foo- pore Diamond Jubiles Fand—which it is pro- chow is described as a declining port it is to be posed to return to the subscribers, owing to the hoped it s not without a few pounds to invost, impossibility of agreeing upon the form of the Local millionaires and company promoters memorial-should be diverted to the Transvaal might do worse than introduos Marooni's sys- War Patriotic Fand, dissenting subscribers tem into this quiet and out-of-the way corner of being allowed to reclaim their subscriptions. the earth. -
Major A. F. Cooper, 2nd Royal Weloh Fusi- liers, at present attached to the 1st Batt, was to embark for Hongkong early this month to join his unit.
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A merchant has applied to the Provincial waterworks to supply water to the people. The Provincial Treasurer has replied that the ques- tion has been taken into consideration by the Government.
All the bad characters in the districts of Ho. un, Woping, Linping, and Chenugling have joined together for the purpose of raising a rebellion. They invite the local merchants to join them, threatening that if they do not do so they will be plundered, arrested, and tortured. Nearly all the well-to-do citizens have fled to other places for safety. The bad characters propose to raise the flag of rebellion next month.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CÜRPS.
BAND SHOOTING COMPETITION. A shooting competition between the members on the Band for a presented prise took place of the 26th November in very favourable wea ther. The ranges were 200 yds., 400 yıla., and 500 yds. Drummer Burgess carried off the prize with a possible of 105.
The aggregate scores were as follows :-
Drummer Burges
105
90
Sergt. Drummer Browns Bergt. Drummer Mackie, R.W.F. 82 Drummer Ford
Drummer Silas Drummer Warren Drummer Cæsar
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There were 2,203 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 193 were Europeans,
The examination for gun layers' badges in the Field Battery, Hongkong Volunteer corps, has resulted in Gunner W. Watson_securing the first prize and Gunner B. H. Oraig – the second prise.
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At the Magistracy on the 24th November. of the master the Nanchang was fined $50 for neglecting to comply with the quarantine galations on thoarrival of his vessel from New- okwang, an infected port.
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