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COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
We
Messrs. Welch, Lewis & Co. in their last Cir- cular states +BLACK TEA.—Since our last advices we have to report an eager demand for good com- mon Congou and such quality has been cleared off the market at Ts. 16-171 per picul. think most of the buying has been for the Russian market. GEEEN TEA.-The small stock of Coun- try Tea remaining when we last wrote has either been sold or "shipped off," and the market for these teas is closed. Some further local packs have been shown, and part have found buyers at easy rates, the quality of the majority of these teas is very low. Pingsuey.-A small business has passed at unchanged prices. Stock amounts to 9,000 half-chests of common teas. Foong Mees and Sou Mees.-The market for Foong Mees has strengthened, but Sou Mecs remain unaltered. The stock is small, consising of 1.500 half chests. Hyson.-The market is quiet and a softening in prices is noticeable; although the stock is large, viz, 15,000 half-chests teamen are not forcing sales.
SILK.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
per piece
fo 1.75
Victoria Lawns-12 yards 0.85 T-Cloths-6lbs. (32 in.), Ord'y. 2.30 to 2.80
7lbs. (32,. ),
2.50 to 3.00 6lbs. (32,, ), Mexs. 2.50 to 3.00
3.10 to 7lbs. (32,, ),
3.30
11
8 to 8.4 oz., (36 in.) 3.30 to Drills, English-40 yds., 13}
4.75 to to 14 lbs.
4.05
7.30
FANCY COTTONS-
Turkey Red Shirtings-14 to
Brocades-Dyed
DAMASKS-
Chintzes-Assorted Velvets-Black, 22 in Velveteens--18 in.
8 lbs.
1.80 to
tu
4.0)
per yard 0.12 to 0.23 0.23 to 0.471 0.19 to 0.23
per dozen
Handkerchiefs-Imitation Silk 0.30 to
WOOLLENS-
to
3.00
per yard
2.25 Spanish Stripes-Sundry chops 0.77} to German Habit, Med., and Broad Cloths 1.25 to 3.50
per pieco
to 9.30 7.10 to 9.45 12.50 to 33.00
12,50
to 22.50
to
Mes-rs.
Long Ells-Scarlet, 7-10 lbs. 6.95 R. Burkill & Sons, in their circular dated 3rd December, state:-The home market is quiet; prices unchanged. Raw Silk.-Since the date of our last issue there has been little business doing. Yellow Silk.-A small business has been transacted in Mienchews at slightly reduced price. Hand Filatures. A small busi- ness has been done in new style Filatures for New York. Steam Filatures.--Nothing doing. Waste Silk.There exists a good demand for Gum Wastejat easier rates.
SUGAR.
per pair 0.60 to 0.80 1.25 to 1.85
Assorted
Camlets-Assorted.. Lastings-30 yds., 31 inches
Assorted
Orleans Plain, 31 in.
10.00
Blankets-8 to 12 lbs.
Fine quality
METALS-
Iron-Nail Rod
per picul 4.20 to
Square, FlatRound Bar(Eng.) 420 Swedish Bar
Small Round Rod
to 4.25 to 4.60 to
$8.60 to $8.65 pcls
Hoop to 11/2 in.
6.50 to
Do.
Do.
,, 2, White...... 7.55 to No. 1, Brown...... 5.95 to
7.60
Wire, 16.25 oz. ......
9.25 to
17
6.00
Wire Rope, Old
3.00 to
Do.
6.90
METALS-
"
"
8.50
Do..
7.45 to
7.50
"
Do.
5.05
Lend, L.B. & Co. and Hole Chop 8.50
Australian
to
8.50
to
"
Do.
21
2, Brown...... 5.65 to 5.70 .......12.85 to 12.90 .........10.75 to 10.80
Yellow M'tal-Muntz 14 20 oz.40.00
to
Vivian's 14/20 oz.40.00
to
"
"J
Elliot's 14,20 oz4.0.00
RICE.
Japan Copper, Slabs.. Tin.
Composition Nails....
to .61.00 to .38.50 to .81.00 to
HONGKONG, 11th December.-The tone of the market has improved and the prices are con- sequently going downward. Shekloong, No. 1, White..
Swatow,
2. White
2, Brown...... 5.85 to No. 1, White...... 8.45 to
1, Brown...... 5.90 to
Foochow Sugar Candy
Shekloong
19
HONGKONG 11th December.-The upward ten- dency continues, holders being firm.
Siam, Field mill cleaned, No. 2
22
$3.10 to $3.15
4.75 to 4.80
5.00 to 5.05 3.75 to 3.80 No. 1 ...... 4.40 to 4.45 4.90 to 4.95 5.35 to 5.40
Saigon, Ordinary
頭
Round, Good quality
Long
Garden,
White,
Fine Cargo
OPIUM.
11th December.--
Quotations are:-Allowance net. to 1 catty.
Persian fine quality....:810
Malwa New.
$960
Malwa Old
$1,000
Malwa Older..
.$1,04)
Malwa V. Old
.$1,080
to $980 per picul, to $1,020 do. to $1,060 do. to $1,100 do. to
Persian extra fine.
$820
to
Patna New
..$1,185
to
Patna Old.
to
do.
Benares New Benares Ol
$1,185
to
to
do. do.
do. do. per chest.
MISCELLANEOUS IMPORT. HONGKONG, 20th Nov.-The prices ruling are as follows:-
COTTON YAEN—
Bombay-Nos. 10 to 20, ...$ 90.00 to $128,00 English-Nos. 16 to 24, 114.00 to 120.00 120.00 to 128.00 136.00 to 142.00 155.00 to 170.00
""
22 to 24,
28 to 32, 38 to 42, Reported sales 1,500 bales.
COTTON PIECE GOODS-
per piece 2.30 to 2.40 Grey Shirtings-6 lbs. .........
7 lbs.
2.50 to 2.80 8.4 lbs.
3.50 to 4.25 9 to 10 lbs. 4.30 to 5.50 3,25 White Shirtings-54 to 56 rd. 2.90 to
58 to 60 3.50 to 4.00 64 to 66 4.25 to 5.75 Fine..... 6.00 to 8.50 Book-folds 5.00 to 8.00
"
19
'Tin-Plates
Steel 1 to
SUNDRIES
Quicksilver
Window Glass
per picul
per box. 7.30 to
per cwt. casS
6.30 to
per picul 164.00
to
wwwwww
per box 4.50 to
[December 14, 1903.
and the price is rapidly advancing, the quotation for Mid-American coming yesterday 6.40d. With such a price so early in the season, when probably not more than two million bales have been marketed, it is little wonder the home markets At the same time Manchester. is are excited. active owing to a sudden revival in the demand for India, that has been held back for so long, which leaves a very poor lookout for buyers for China. Nor can they satisfy their wants in the States, for there the home market has realised the necessity of buying promptly, and the situation is described as excited and active. Supplies here promise to be very light in the Spring, as there is no chance now of any material increase in the home export, the figures for last month being only 12,000,000 yards of Plain Cottons for Hongkong and Shanghai, which makes it certain that the total for the twelve months will be 33 per cent. less than last year. Tientsin is waking up at last, or at least is showing signs of more life, although rather late in the day. It is said the Shensi merchants are buying goods and have put the price of American Sheetings.up two mace per piece, which purchases may account for part of the money recently withdrawn from the port. Clearances hence are
fair improving and quantities are expected to be shipped before the 9th inst., when the last direct steamer will clear. The Port, however, will still be in touch with this via Chingwantao. There is no change apparent in chefoo, the market there being quiet but steady. For Szechuen there is quite a healthy demand now, especially for 8.4-lb. Shirtings, Fast Black Italians and Yarn, and an improvement is also noticeable in the offtake for the markets lower down the River. Hankow is taking White Shirtings more freely, while other makes are receiving rather better attention. Ningpo is buying the heavy makes of Shirtings especially at present. The Corean trade is improving and goods of the favorite chops are going off with some freedom now.
MISCELLANEOUS EXPORTS
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Per Steamer Hamburg, sailed on 25th Novem- ber. For Colombo:-94 bags beans, 15 boxes glassware. For Aden:--750 bags sugar, 90 rolls chinaware, 20 bundles galangal. For Suez:-53 cases preserves, 2 cases essential oil, 4 cases silk. For Port Said:-12 rolls mattings. For Naples:-- 50 half-chests tea, 5 cases staraniseed oil. For Genoa :-400 boxes cassia, 227 bales raw silk, 61 bales waste silk, 25 cases essential oil, 25 boxes staraniseed. For Antwerp :-50 bales feathers. For Antwerp/Hamburg :-35 boxes bristles. For Amsterdam/Rotterdam:-170 rolls matting, 75 cases ginger. For Amsterdam:-350 bales ban- For Bremerhaven : boo scraps, 204 bales canes. -2 rolls matting. For Bremen :-519 half-chests tea, 20 cases preserves, 13 cases private effects. For Hamburg :-528 half-chests tea, 189 bales feathers, 150 boxes cassia, 22 cases bristles, 20 boxes cassia oil, 18 cases blackwoodware, 10 casos aniseed oil, 8 cases feathers, 4 bales rattanshawing, 4 cases sundries, 3 cases chinaware. For London:- For Copen- 173 rolls inatting, 25 boxes cassia oil. hagen :-8 bales feathers.
Per Steamer Polyphemus, sailed on 28th Novem- ber. For London:-24 packages private effects, Tea 2,050 boxes scented caper (43,050 lbs.), 75 cases chinaware, 4,132 bales hemp, 14 casos pitch, G cases nutmegs, 62 cases cigars, 63 cases gum, 113 cases shells, 400 buffalo hides, 10 packages storos, 23 cases bristles, 33cases ginger, 100 casks ginger, 220 bales feathers, 50 casks ginger, 50 casks soy, 30 bales cancs. For London and/or Glasgow:-200 casks ginger, 200 cases ginger. For Glasgow :— 50 cases ginger. For London and/or Hamburg : 20 cases essential oil. For Havro and/or Antwerp: -20 rolls mats. For various ports:-35 packages sundries.
Messrs. Noël, Murray & Co., in their piece goods trade report of 3rd December, state:From the appearance of things there is a decidedly more confident feeling that troubles of a warlike nature are averted at least for the present, but this may only be the lull before the storm. If, according to current reports, there is any truth in the rumours that Japan is willing to let Russia, after all, have a free hand in Manchuria, in return for a like concession on her part with regard to Corea the tension may be relaxed pro. tem.-but what about the stipulation in the United States Treaty with reference to the opening of certain inland citic, misnamed Ports? That may possibly be the contingency Japan is relying on to help her; Per P. & O. Steamer Chusan, sailed on 5th Dec., it is thought, however, the whole complexion of
For London:-1,502 boxes ten, 200 bales waste silks the situation may be changed when the Diet 50 bales raw silk, 10 cases silk P. goods, 20 cases meets in Tokyo on the 6th inst., and until then it
bristles, 5 cases hair, 4 cases feathers, G cases is an open question what may happen. Although cigars, 7 cases suudries. For Manchester:-150 there is a fair demand from the outports general-bales waste silk. For Lyons: -290 bales raw For Marseilles:-330 bales ly, and especially from Tientsin, the dealers find silk, I box feathers. themselves unable to buy, as a rule owing to the waste silk, 134 bales pierced cocoons, 100 bales raw firmness of holders. Some of the latter, however, silk, 4 cases bair, 1 caso feathers. For London are taking advantage of the opportunity of get and/or Maachester: -125 bales wasto silk. ting rid of old stocks that have hung fire for months past, and are obtaining comparatively satisfactory prices. Buyers are also anxious to get hold of goods afloat, but importers refuse to name any prices at present. This of course comes about by the much stronger markets in Manches- ter and New York, and with the exception of a few specialities it is quite impossible tomake any forward contracts. The truth of the reports concerning the probable shortness of the cotton crop in the States is evidently assured now,
Per P. & O. Steamer Formosa, sailed on 11th December. For London:-805 half-chests tea from Amoy, 5,415 boxes tea, 1,430 rolls mats and matting, 100 casks preserves, 25 cases preserves, 113 cases chinaware, 15 cases vermillion, 5 cases feathers, 21 cases rattanware, 2 cases copperware, 21 cases blackwoodware, 3 cases cigars," 12 bales canes.
For Manchester:-200 bales waste silk. For Glasgow:-5 cases woodware, 5 cases cam- phorwood trunks. For Gibraltar:-5 cases cigars.
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