March 17, 1900.j
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
few stocks, principally Fire Insurance shares, having fallen a liftle.". A telegram from Singa pore says that the January-February clean-up at the Raub Mines yielded 2,050) ounces smelted gold from 2,150 tons of ore crushed.
There were 3,074 visitors to the City Hall Mu- senm last week, of whom 346 were Europeans.
Mr. Kwong Chik has sent us a box of f esh strawberries from his plantation at Happy Valley which he states have been raised from American seeds with chemical fertilisers and It is reported in mandarin circles that the kept clean and fresh by straw beds. The straw- Empress Dowager has decided to close the berries are excellent samples of what might be Peking University on the ground that no pro done in the colony in the way of fruit-grow-gress has been made after a trial of over one ing, if the Chinese gardeners took the task year. A decree is also said to have been issued patiently and considerately in hand. Magui closing all schools and colleges of Western learn- ficent grapes, pears, plums, oherries, apples anding, established since 1893 under Government strawberries are grown in the North, partion- auspices, on the ground that there is no money larly at Chefoo, where the natives have been in the Imperial Exchequer for such a purpose. taught fruit culture, and they supply not only and further because these schools only turn out Shanghai bat Vladivostock with the saide. men hostile to the Conservative policy of the Mr. Kwong Chik deserves great credit for his Government. enterprise, and it is to be trusted his example The Tribune des Colonies tells a wonderful will be followed by other native gardeners when story of the English censorship over telegrams they realise how profitable fruit-growing may at Aden. It states that a telegram was addres- be. Hongkong is already noted for the besty❘sed to Paris, requesting 'that fifteen thousand of the European flowers grown here; there is no climatic reason why it should not be equally noted for its fruit.
MISCELLANEOUS,
There has been published at Peking an Im perial Decree promoting Li Sheng-ta, Chinese Minister at Tokio, to be a Reader of the Grand Secretariat, Li Sheng-tu is eldest son of the philanthropist, Li Ching-yung.
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francs should be sent to a certain M. Crétois in payment for certain property purchased. The English censor read the words “Envoyes 15,000 Cretois" as meaning that the Boers had comman. Į deered 15 thousand Cretsos! The Tribune po- litely concludes that we are as foolish as we are pretentions. The story is a pretty one-but we thought the proverb said it was the Cretans who were liars.
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EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA
1899-1900. 1898-99.
lbe. Shanghai.......
b........................................ 20,283,296 12,843,108 Amoy ............................................................ Foochow
lbs 16;681,574
14,239,409
9 629.601
9,168,280
42,556,010
39,059,263
EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
Yokohama Nobe........
...
1899-1900 1bg. 26,$12.356 26,618,528 14,044,286
1898-09 Ibs.
18,860,471
40,486,691 89,478,994
SILK.
CANTON, 3rd March.-Tsatless and Re-reale,~ No settlementeare reported in these classes, Fi- latures. Prices continued to decline, and Fila- turen of all grades were almost entirely neglected during the first half of the fortnight. Latterly, interest has been arroused by the extremely low laying down cost, and about 850 bales have been bought principally by two firms, probably, to make an average for their previous high pur. chases.
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From prices paid quotations A fire broke out in the Lau-Kung-Mao Cot. $1,130/1,100 for Kwong 8 un Cheong and Miu ton Mill, Shanghai, at about 6 a.m. on the 7th. King Lon 11/18, $100 for Kwong King Yuen iust., doing damage estimated at about 10,0 011/13, 84,080 for Kwang Son On 11/18, Ying Kee, Cheong Kee, Sun Yue Lun and Shing King Lun Ou the 23rd nlt, the Japanese House of Peers taels. The fire originated in the mixing-room 9/11, $1,076 for Kai Sun Cheong 18/15 and Shing by a large majority passed through all its stages and 600 picuis of cotton, placed there the pre-King Wo 9/11. $1,015 for Kong Wa Lun 10/12. Bill sent up from the Lower Honse to imposerious night, were destroyed. The building $1,40 for Quan On Tai 10/12, Mee Kee 10/18, a duty on fish imported from Russia Siberia escaped injury, but the leather belting room Cheong Sing 11/13 and Hing Loong Cheong There was a heated debate, we are told,
below was damaged by water, The business of 10/12, $1,030 for Kwong Wo 10/19, Ying Wo The Bangkok Race Club is considering the mill has not been impeded to any material 10/22 and How King Choong 18/15, full $1,020 whether their races should not be confined to extent by the outbreak. As to the origin of for Kai Cheong Lun 11/13, $97 for Soey Wo natives, or half-bred ponies Opinions are di- the fire, it is considered probable that the cause Cheong 10/12, $910 for Wai King Wo 18/2 vided, but all are agreed that there should he was a match, dropped by one of the Chinese or $920 for King Wo Cheong 18/22, $940/885 for only one cup. as race-horses cannot be kept by one of the hands smoking in the mixing God No. 8 11/13 and 19/15. Short-reels-About 10 bales bare been bought for New York. on cups," as a contemporary puts it.
Good service was done by the Grinnell
Wate. Nothing has been done and prices are. sprinklers, with which the works are fitted, and the hands also worked willingly in preventing very weak. Appended are quotations in Canton, with laying down cost in London and Lyons the spread of the flames, the Fire Brigade not
Ecs. being called out. The insurance on the build- Exchange 4 montus' ight, 1/111, and ing is divided amongst all the principal Shaug. per Dollar:-
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The Siam Frre Preas in an editorial tells its readers that the Japanese since the war, have occupied Wei-hai-wei.
An alliance and joint occupation of Wei-hai-wei by the English and Japanese is spoken of. But the Japanese who are in possession have showu no disposition up to the present to divide their spoil." Some of the mails to Bangkok must surely have miscarried."
A certain Abbal Karim Munshi tells the Advocate of India that Lord Northcote's ar rival in Bombay is especially held auspicious by the Massulmans, as the neme "Lord North- eote" itself is a chronogram bearing the exact current year of the Mabomedan pra.
This method of counting the years of good and bad events is well-known all over the Moslem world by the name of abjad.
The Japan Daily Mail, speaking of Li Hung- chang's order that the hours of Kane Yu-wei's ancestors should be scattered to the four winds. remiude its readers of that " the tomb of the Mahdi in the Soudan was similarly treated by à British General in very recent times." and adds. "We are living in glass houses," he cases, of course, are not on all fours, but there is a certain point in the reminder.
A Peking telegram. says the North China Daily News, states that H. E Sheng has been denounced by a Censor, a partisan of Prince | Ching, on the ground that Sheng himself sent news to King Lien-shap of his proposed arrest and advising him to leave Shanghai The Censor therefore recommends that Sheng be given a month to capture King, failing which Sheng should suffer the sentence destined for King.
Tho surplus revenue of Burma last year amounted to 293 lakhs of rupees, having riseu from 235 lakhs. the surplus of the previous year. Deducting the cost of the parrison of Burma. which amounts to 38 lakhs, wiz, slightly over 13 lakhs for the Rangoon district, 24 lakta for Mandalay district, and about a quarter lakh for the Shan States command, there is a net surplus of 255 lakhs, which represents Barina's contri. bution to the Imperial Exchequer.
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A native Peking correspondent of The North China Daily News says that on the 4th inst.. the Grand Council received reliable information that the Reform Party, being assisted by Chi- nese abroad and secret societies hostile to the Manobu dynasty, uleud to proceed to active re- bellion the moment Kwang Hsu is superseded or if news is received of his Majesty's death The acting Viceroy of the Liangkiang provinces farther confidentially reported that no less than 140,00 Hunanese in his jurisdiation were ripe for rebellion, and were only kept quiet by the in- flaeuce of the ex-Viceroy Liu, a Hunanese. A secret Council was held before the Empress Dowager at once, and Jung Lu, asked as to the Zelity of the Genad Army under him, said that, if a rebellion arose og account of the Emperor's d-position. he could not guarantee the troops from joining their countrymen, the Chinese in the Grand Army numbering nine-tenths. Prins & Ching and Tuan (father of the Heir Appareut) steeringly answered that the Man- | chus of the Peking Field Force and Banner Corps were quite sufficient to fight not only the Chiness but any other probably enemy. is expected that this will farther diminish Jung La's infia-nce with the
mpress Dowager.
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LA FROM CHINA TO UNITED KINGDOM AND CÒNTINENT.
1899-190- Ius.
Hankow and Shanghai... 13,160,074 489,347 Amoy.............................../............
16,174,605
Foochow
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Canton..................................................
6,108,430
2,50
EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN TO EUROPE.
Shanghai
Canton Yokohama
1899-1900
1898-9
bules.
unle
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62.473
$1,722
24,784
24,138
16,866
18,584
104,128
94.444
IXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN
TO AMERICA.
Shan
1899-1900
1899-9
bales.
bales.
ai
15,659
6,928
Canton ............................................
7,645
7.901
Yokohama...............
29,148
26,437
52.452
31.266
CAMPHOR.
Hongkong, 16th March, -There is an improve- ment in the market and the price is advancing. Quotations for Formosa are $91.00 to $91,50; sales 350 piculs.
SUGAR.
H NGKONG. 16th March.-The weakness con- tinues and the decline in prices continues. Quota-
tions are :—
Shekloong, No. 1, Whith.....$8.00 to $8.05 (el. -
do.
2, White... 7.25 to 7.30 Shekloong, No. 1, Brown,.. 5.50 to 5.55.
do.
2, Brown... 6:80 to 5.85 Swatow, No. 1, White... 8.10 to 8.15
do.
1, White... 7.85 to 7.40 Swatow, No. 1, Brown... :0.40 to 5.45
do.
2, Brown..... 5.25 to 6.80 688.318 Foochow Sugar Candy..
..............15,85 to 11.90. 938 to 9,90 12,976,578 | Shekloong
4,913,484
1898.99
18. 12,061,208
36,822,536 30,639,678
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MISCELLANEOUS EXPORTS. Per steamer Laos, sailed on the 12th March. For Marseilles :--65 bales raw silk, 4 cases waste silk. 7 cases silks, 11 cases Chinaware, EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO ODESSA
18:9-1:00
6 cases curios, 20 cases staraniséed. 6 cABOU 71898-00
Ibs. copper coins, and 25 packages ton. For Lyons : 22,783,272 | 492 balos raw silk.
Mr. Erich Georg in his Weekly Share List says "A very fair business has been transacted dut ing the week under review and in most cases at an advance on previous ́rates, especially so China Sugars and China and Manilas, while a ' Shanghai and Hankow... 25,694, 154
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