May 11, 1901]
The Crown Princess of Japan gave birth to a son on the 29th ult.
A Paris telegram of the 25th ult, quotes General Voyron's report on the French troops in North China. Their health and general condition are excellent, while their behaviour “has not ceased to be irreproachable.” The latter remark will be appreciated in Tientsin.
The first-class armoured Japanese cruiser Iwate, which left Devenport hurriedly for the Far East with only a portion of her ammuni- tion, left Colombo on the 27th ult., and arrived last week. She stayed there only long enough to coal and proceed direct to Japan.
The total value of the trade between New South Wales and Japan last year amounted to £256,030. Of this £122,041 represented imports and £133,987 exports. Compared with the preeding year the imports showed an increase of £17,519 or 17 per cent, and the exports an increase of £12,494 or 10 per cont.
The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty:-Commander: T. W. Kemp, to the Argonaut, to date April 1. Lieutenants: T. E. J. Bigg, to the Bonaventure, temporarily, in lieu of a sub-lieutenant, J. G. P. Ingham to the Bonaventure, W. R. Alexander, to the Isis, temporarily, in lieu of a sub-lieutenant to date April 1; T. E. J. Bigg, to the Talbot, undated.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The Salvo, steam tug, purchased by the Admiralty for service at Weihaiwei, was de- livered at Sheerness Dockyard last month.
The Japanese Consul at Tientsin, Mr. Nagasami Tei, has returned to Japan. He had a great send-off from Tientsin last month.
Mr E. D. H. Fraser, H.B.M.'s Acting Consul-General at Hankow, was expected to arrive at Shanghai on the 5th inst. on sick leave.
M. Kleimenow, the former Russian Consul at Singapore, was a passenger by the Loos on his way to resume his post as Russian Consul. General at Shanghai.
In the railway accident near Lofa on the Tientsin-Peking railway at the end of last month, seventeen (hinese were killed and one American injured.
A scheme now on foot to pay all Govern ment officials in Malays a fixed sterling salary, and everybody now joining the service or get ting promotion will do so subject to this pro- posal.
A second detachment of the 14th Sikhs, some 250 strong, was to leave Shanghai on Sunday last for the North in the hired transport Formosa; and six sections of the Vickers Maxims were to leave for the North on the 7th instant.
The April number of The Indian and Eastern Engineer contains an excellent phototype en- A Mainichi telegram dated Tokyo, 25th graving of the new flagship on the China April, says: It was previously reported that station, the Glory. It also contains a descrip. the Russian marines in Bankumi, near Mation of Hongkong and its trade, illustrated by sampo-fifteen in all, under command of an
a picture of the harbour. officer-would be withdrawn in deference to the representation of the Japanese Govern- ment, but the latest arrangement is that seven men shall stay there as police, it being under- stood that they are not to carry weapons.
We have received the February and March number of the China Review, which contains as usual many articles of interest. Among them is a description of "Macao in the Early Days."
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COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
399
King Yuen 11/13, $600 for Shun Kee 11/18, 3885 for U Hau Cheong 18/18, and Ching Wo Hang 10/12, 8880 for Po Sun Cheong 11/13 and Kwong Ho 18/15, 8685 for Koun King 11/13 and Kwong. Lun Hing 18/15, $660 for Yut Cheong Wo, Kam Lun and Wai Lun King Lee 10/12, for Kwong Mon Tai and Kwong Hing Lun 11/13 and for How King Cheong 18/15, 055 for King Lun Sang 11/19 and Kwong Shing Lun 11/13, $650 for Wong Ynk Kee 11/18 and Koun King 18/22, $645 for Victoria 1842, Yu Ye Lun and Wal King Wo 18/22, $635 for Tung Hing 11/13, $610 for Yee. Lan Cheong 20/24 and 24/28 new Season's Silk, 2007 for. Quan Hing 18/15, $595 for Tung Hing 14/18. Short-reels-Have been in better demand during the last eight days, and a few hundred bales have been settled. The bulk of the Silk on market is composed of rather undesirable parcels of 3rd and 4th crop, which are offered at prices comparatively cheap. Prices are irregular, and quotations are:-$740 for Hau King Lun, $785 for Hau King Sing and Yu King, $695 for Kwong Market dull and very little doing. Prices Wo Hang, 1685 for Chung Sun Hang. Waste. maintained fairly thereon, and quotations given below are merely nominal. - Appended are quota- tions in Canton, with laying down cost in London and Lyons, Exchange 4 months' sight, 2/04, and
per Dollar. Fca. 2.54
CAMPHOR.
HONGKONG, 10th May.-No arrivals.
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SUGAR.
HONGKONG, 10th May. The prices are going upward, market being brisk. Quotations are:--- Shekloong, No. 1, White......$8.85 to $8.10. pol.
2, White. 8.00 to 8.05. 109 Shekloong, No. 1, Brown 8.90 to 5.95 5.89 to 5.85 8.80 to 8.85 7.95 to 8.00
do. Swatow, do.
31
"
2, Brown No. 1, White...... 1. White.
*
No. 1, Brown
5.85 to 5.90
do.
2, Brown Foochow Sugar Candy Shekloong
5.75 to 5.80 18.40 to 18.45 .12.80 to 12.85
505,915
by Mr. C. A. Montalto de Jesus. Mr. L. C. | EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED | Swatow, Arlington writes on "The Ceremony of Dis- interring in China." "Mr. Alabaster's "Illus- trations of Chinese Criminal Practice" continued. The Editor has several noteworthy items in the magazine, the history of the Early Turks reaches its fourth part, and Mr. T. K. Dealey reviews Mr. Parker's China.
A Madras telegram says:-The low state to which racing in the Madras Presidency has fallen may be gauged from the fact that the Wellington races, which were to have com- menced on Tuesday, have been postponed in- definitely owing to the paucity of the entries. Last year it was only the entries from the Jhodpore Stable that enabled the Wellington the and Ooty races to be held. This year Jhodpore Stables have been sold, and numbers of sporting officers have been sent to Africa and China, so there is little hope for sport here in the near future.
KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.
Hankow and Shanghai ... Amoy Foochow
1900-1 iba.
637,355
1899-00
lbs.
Canton
P
697,355 605,915
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
1900-1
Shanghai Amoy Foochow
RICE.
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HONGKONG, 10th May. -The downward tendency continues, market being very dull. Quotations
Saigon, Ordinary.
are:-
53
13
Round, Good quality Long
3.30 to 8.85
3.45 to 3,50
1899-00
16,439,090 14,004,871
Siam, Field mill cleaned, No. 2
2.55 to 60
Garden,
No. 1
*
White.........
Fine Cargo
16,432,090 14,004,371
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SILK.
Lieutenant-Governor Sir Frederick Fryer, speaking in Durban to the chiefs of the Southern Shan States, in March, said:-Much has been
CANTON, 26th April.-Teatlees. No settle- done to settle the country from a political pointments are reported in old Season's Silk, but there since 1895. The boundary between the Shan
have been some small forward contracts in new States and France, and between the Shan States Season's Silk, the prices have not transpired. and China (except around the Wa country) has Re-reels.-A few settlements are reported in new been demarcated, and the danger of frontier Beason's Be-reels on the basis of $550 for No. 1. complications, owing to doubts about the boun- Filatures. There has been done a good business, dary, has been practically removed. Harmoni- especially during the first half of the fortnight; ous relations have been maintained with the the sharp rise in Exchange rendering transactions Siamese border provinces. There has been s more difficult during the last few days. Prices little trouble at one part of the Kengtung are well maintained, and the Chinese are not border, owing to the unsettled state of Keng-likely to give way as the weather prevailing lately hung, the adjoining State on the north, but is unfavourable to the first crop. Quotations are the local quarrels in that State have had no evil consequences in the neighbouring Shan terri- tory. Under the agreement with China, a Consul has been established at Ssemao, and a regular dûk between Kengtang and Szemac has recently been established. Friendly com- munication is also maintained with the French officers stationed on the Mekong These arrangements should promote the trade between Kengtung and foreign countries. There are no outstanding questions regarding the intern 1 frontiers of individual Shan States, and inter-State disputes have all been amicably settled.
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....... 3.20 to 3.45 3.60 to 3.85 ............................. 8.90 to 3.95
MISCELLANEOUS EXPORTS.
Per Imperial German Mail, steamer Prinsess Irene, sailed on the 1st May For Aden :— case curios. For Genoa-795 bales raw silk, 50 rolls matting, 10 cases staraniseed oil. For Marseilles-100-bales waste silk. For New York1 box silkpiecegoods. For Antwerp: 200 bales broken cassís, 121 balas feathers, 10 bales canes, 6 rolls matting, 1 case cigars. For Antwerp and or Hamburg :-50 cases starani. seed. For Antwerp and/or Hamburg and/or London:-185 bales feathers. For Amsterdam: ➡31 cases Chinaware, 12 cases blackwoodware, as follows, taken from prices paid:-$775 to $770 12 rolls matting. For Amsterdam and/or for Kwong Shun Cheong 11/18, $770 for Min Rotterdam:-20 cases preserves. For Botter- King Lôn 11/13, $760 for Kwong Shun Hang and dam:-173 rolls matting, 2 boxes blackwonil. Kun Wo Lun 11/18, and Sun Yue Lun 9/11, $755 ware, 2 cases cigars. For Hamburg-178 balan for Kwong Shun Ching 11/:3, $750 for Kwong feathers, 163 bales Rattancore, 151 bales Shun Hang 11/15, and Cheong Seng and Wing 195 rolls matting, 50 case Hing Lun 11/18, 735 for Han King Lun and Kal Chinaware, 20 cases Chinapaper, 10 cases Sun Cheong 18/15 and Cheng Seng 11/13, $7273 for Wing Wo Lun and Yee Wo Loog 9/11, 1795 woodware, 2 casos silk. For Hamburg
Antwerp:--40 cases bristles. For Copenhag for Kwong Loong Cheong 9/11 and Kum Lun Tai bales canos. For London and/or 10/12, $720 for: Kwong Shun King and Kong chester 162 bales waste silk. For 1 Sun On 11/13, and Kai Loong Cheong and Kong
-934 rolls matting, 3 cases sundri Yuen On 9/11, $715 for King Shing's Gold Lion 16/18, $712] for Cheong Kee 9/11, $710 for Kwong cigars. For Bremen-167 rolla mattin Ho 11/13, $700 for Wing King Lun and Kwong ! cases Blackwood
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