December 8, 1900.]
MISCELLANEOUS.
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The rat-market in Kobe is booming. Since the price paid by the City authorities has been raised 2 to 5 sen per head, the number of rats purchased has amounted-in three weeks-to 15,327, against 25,020 purchased between the 27th July and the 23rd October.
The Siam Electricity Co. at Bangkok is about to absorb both the tramway companies- the Bangkok Tramways Co. and the Siam Electric Railway Co. All three are Danish companies, and their amalgamation has been talked about for a considerable time.
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha's new sea-going steamer Taizin-maru, which has been under construction at the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Yard, Kobe, has been completed, and the new steamer was to be handed over to her owners on or about the 26th alt. She will be employed between Tamsni and Hongkong, in place of the Maizuru-maru, which is to be transferred to the Corean line.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The first through train on the railway from Bangkok to Korat was to start on the 10th ult. A Japanese contemporary says that the actions of Field-Marshal Waldersee are causing dissatisfaction among the staff-officers of the allied forces. He plans everything_in_concert with his own officers, while the stan-officers of the other Powers are not consulted.
The Japan Mail thinks that the recent execu. tions at Paotingfu will be classed by the Chinese "in the catalogue of dreadful outrages that already stand registered to the eternal disgrace of foreign troops in Chihli." If this is so, a statement in the Peking Gazette is required to avoid such a misconception being perpetuated.
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It is reported from Tokokams that a: Chinese merchant of that port exported Japanese gold coin amounting to 50,000 yen to Hongkong by the German mail steamer Stuttgart, which arrived here on the 27th ult.
The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty:Captain F. 8. Inglefield, to the Glory, to date November 1; Naval In- structor F. M. Broadbent, M.A., to the Glory, to date November 1. The Glory was commis- sioned at Portsmouth on the 1st ult. for service in Chins.
The Chinese Imperial Post announces for this winter a maritime service to the northern ports leaving Shanghai by the first steamer leaving Mr. Alfred Curjel, of the Hongkong and Shanghai for Chefoo after the arrival of mails Shanghai Bank at Bangkok, was recently mar from abroad, and an overland service to the ried at St. Paul's Church, Manningham (Brad-ports, which will leave Chinking for Tientsin ford), to Mabel, daughter of Mrs. J. C. and vice versa three times a week from about the Groveham, of Merlewood, Grassington, York- 11th inst. to the 21st of February. shire.
It is reported from Sasebo that fraudulent transactions have occurred in the Shipbuilding Department of the Japanese Admiralty there, The French cruiser D'Entrecasteaux, from in consequence of which five merchants who Yokohama, arrived at Nagasaki on the 21st have been supplying materials to the Depart- ult. The cruiser has on board three officers ment were arrested on suspicion by the police and 80 men of the transport Caravane, sunk | and handed over to the Naval authorities. It off Ogijima after colliding with the Japanese is reported that the amount of money involved transport Yamaguchi Maru. The comman-is very considerable. der of the cruiser is, understood to be the bearer of an important report for the Home Govern- ment in regard to the collision.
The Planters' Association of Tonkin recently discussed the question of coffee cultivation in that quarter. Enterprise there in that line is still in an experimental stage. The best soil and climate for coffee in that region remain still to be ascertained. The plantations started have met with small success. One main draw- back to enterprise lies in the prevalence of typhoons. The climate of Cochin-China has been found to be too damp for Arabian coffee, but the Liberian kind thrives there. On the other hand the Arabian berry takes readily to the dry climate of Tonkin.
A Kobe telegram to the N.-C. Daily News, dated the 28th ult., announces the death there from typhoid of Mr. A. C. Sim, long one of the most prominent foreign residents in Kobe. A Soot by descent, he was by occupation a chemist, but he was also prominent in athletic exer- cises, and a well-known member of the local fire-brigade. Also, to quote our contemporary, "he built yachts and steam-launches and sailed them in all sorts of weather, he was the right hand of Kobe whenever a typhoon struck it, he took contracts for refloating ships when they were stranded, and he refloated them."
A company floated with a view to developing the petroleum industry of Japan was registered on the 15th ult. The approved capital of the concern is 10,000,000 yen, which is contributed by six gentlemen only. Mr. J. W. Copmann, the agent for the Standard Oil Company at Yokohama, holds 9,780,000 yen; Messrs. J. H. Hartig, N. E. Dun, and Kumamoto each 5,000 yen; Mr. Otani Kahei 150,000 yen; and Mr. Magushi Kyohei 50,000 yen. The Directors of the Company are Messrs. J. W. Copmann, N. Edwin Dun, and Otani Kahei, and the auditors Messrs. Magoshi Kyohei and J. F. Lowder.
The ice season being now about to set in, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha closed its steamship ser vice on the Newchwang line on the 31st Octo- ber, and therefore the steamer which left for that port from Kobe on the 28th ult. will be stopped at Chefoo. The service on the Vladi- vostock line will be closed with the steamer Yamashiro Maru, which is to leave Kobe on the 12th inst.
News was received in Shanghai on the 26th ult, from the North stating that the China Mer- chants' steamer Irene, flying the Chinese and the Red Cross flags, had been seized while en route to Tientsin by the Germans, but that after the search, presumably for contraband of war, she was released and allowed to proceed on her way. The Irene was chartered recently by a Chinese charitable association of local mer- chants and gentry to carry relief to poor and indigent southerners in the North and also to carry back, free of charge, such as desired to
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The steamers arriving at Shanghai last week from the north reported heavy weather outside. At the outer bar, Taku, there was quite a fleet of steamers waiting for lighternge. As there is very little water just now, 'only light-draught vessels can get over the bar. As yet little ico has formed in the river, not enough to interfere with the working of cargo.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.
1900-1
Hankow and Shanghai . Amoy
lbs.
Ma
Foochow ......................................................... Canton
1899-00 lbs.
801,863 379,575 10,897,149 15,487,859
11,259,012 15,888,934
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
1900-1 1890-00
18,851,465 11,811,959 9,887,145 7,652,225
Shanghai Amoy
Foochow
23,718,610 18,964,184
The Singapore Cricket Club is about to com. mence its Christmas tour. The teams to meet Perak and Penang will leave Singapore on Tuesday, the 18th December, arriving at Penang on the 20th. The first match will be against Perak, commencing on the 21st and lasting three days, and on the 24th a football match will be played. The same evening the EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO ODESSA Singapore teams will return to Penang, and on the 24th, 25th, and 28th the Penang C. C. will be met at cricket in a three days match. Shanghai and Hankow... 34,673,042 25,449,878 On the 27th a football match will be played between the Singapore representatives and Penang, bringing nearly a fortnight's tour to a conclusion.
than be.
1899-1900 1898-99
lbs.
lbs.
EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED. STATES AND CANADA.
1900-1
Yokohama
As a mark of respect to the memory of the late Honourable John Sherman, formerly Secre-` tary of State of the United States, who died on the 22nd October, the American flag was hoisted Kobe half-mast on the 3rd inst, at the U.S. Consulate A report from the Japanese Commercial In a proclamation issued by him President Agent at Vladivostock says that the intention McKinley says—“In the fullness of years and of the Russian Government to increase the im- honours John Sherman, lately Secretary of Few among our port duties, in order to make provision for the State, has passed away. expenses of the war, has been known for some citizens have risen to greater or more de time, but steps to put the new rates into opera-served eminence in the national councils tion have only recently been taken. The articles affected are spirituous liquors, cakes and tobacco, on which an extra tax of 50 per cent is imposed. The Consul says that with the exception of small dealings in Japanese sake, the Japanese merchants are very little concerned in these in creases. But if the new tariff contemplated for goods entering the Amur district be put into operation from the beginning of 1901, 80 or 90 per cent of the Japanese manufactured goods imported into that district will be affected. Especially if the revised tariff now in operation in European Russia be increased by from 10 to 50 per cent. and applied to the Amur region, Japanese trade with Russia will feel the change greatly. There is some talk, however, that the new tariff will not be enforced at Vladivostock until next August, which, according to general opinion, would be a wise postponement; but the truth as to this is impossible to ascertain.
The story of his public life and services is as it were the history of the country for half a century. In the Congress of the United States he ranked among the foremost in the house, and later in the Senate. He was twice a member of the Executive Cabinet, first as Secretary of the Treasury, and afterwards as Secretary of State. Whether in debate dur. ing the dark hours of our Civil War or as the director of the country's finances during the period of rehabilitation or as a trusted councillor in framing the nation's laws for over 40 years, or as the exponent of its foreign policy, his coure was ever marked by devotion to the best interests of his beloved land, and by able and conscientious effort to uphold its dignity and honour. His countryman will long revere his memory, and see in him a type of the uprightness and the seal that go to moulding and strengthening - nation."
lbs.
1899-00 lbs.
23,087,720
24,538,687
11,448,067
12,961,640
34,535,787
87,500,277
SILK.
CANTON, 24th November.-Tsatlees and Re- The reala.--- No settlements are reported. quotations given below are purely nominal and $40 to $50 per picul above the idea of buyers. Filatures.➡The fortnight under review may hold the record for the small amount of business transacted. Although demand is practically nil only small concessions are obtainable, and thes prices are about $40 per pical over Lyons rates. From prices paid we quote: 1805 for Min King Lun 11/18, $800 for Kwong Shun Choong 11/13 Kwong Wing Lun 10/12, 8770 for Kwong Wo and 13/15 and Kwong Shun Hang 11/18, $780 for Hing 18/15, $750 for Kwong Ho 18/15, $680 for Wal King Wo 18/52, 9000 for Hop King Wo 18/22. Short-reals.-Almost nothing has been done for America, the only transactions beard being: 10 balos Kwong Shun Tai 14/16 $790,- 10 bales Hip Wo Hing 14/16 #720. Was Quiet, very little doing. Appanded are tations in Canton, with laying down London and Lyons, Exchange 4
Dollar. 2/11†, and Fcs. 2.09
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