season! Season! Season} Season] 5 Manutstaring Dist 868, 15000 pistes asraraisrera|1St570.[1600-7r} Desription of Goods manufactured, a s. Bales, Bales, Bales, Bales, Bales. Bales, " dus of Sk wand?
Naokin 8,500, 7,000, 8,000) 9,000, 9,000) 9,000 5,000] Best Yuenfas and Hainings or Organzi Sin Zue" Taysaams for Tram j for the, manalatare of Satin Silks for shoe tops. arm an Chinkiang 1,500) 1,500 2,000) 1,000} 2,000, 2,000) 2,000, 2,500, 2,500, 1,500 Chiefly Kashing Taysaams and Lacyangs 2,000} 2,500} 3,000) 4,000) 4,000) 4,000) 4,500, 4,500, 4,500, 3,000 "and "Shan Sau" Tay. soams for piece Goods;—"* Hainings," for Throwns; and Good Kastaag Hoochow 4,000} 6,500) 7,000} 8,000) 9,000, 10,000; 0,000 10, 000 Chiefly "Sin Sue" Taysaams for Chinese Taysaame for Sarcenets, Gauzes, &c. Silk cloth d Hainings for Throwns, Szan Zah, You Quong-ching 2 and. neighbourboo: '8,000, 10,000} 10,500) 10,000, 10,000) 12,000,15,000 14,000 9,000 Chiefly common and inferior Kashing Taysaame, for making common ponines 400 igs for Handker-4,000) 4,500, 5,000, 4,000 4,000, 4,500, 4,500) 6,500, 3,000 Sewhi: Sarcenets, Gauzes, &e, Hangchow or long reel'Taysaams, Hangchow 'Taatlees and 'Taysaams, for the inanu-10 figured. and heavy Silk Piece plain;—Mandaria Silks, and heavy thick' ponjecs for use.
Sewhiog.... 1,000, 1,000 1,000, 2,000, 1,500 Sewhing or long reel Taysaams for 2,500, 3,000
Foochow. 1,000, 1,500} 1,000; 1,000, 1,000)
1,000) 000) 2,000) 1,000, Very inferior Taysaams, "Tong Sag sowing Silks, Braidings, and inferior Teatlee or cooree and common ponjecs.
Total Bales.......1%8,000]28,000135,000 {40,000 45,000150,000 51,500/31,000
N.B.—These figures must be considered merely approximative, as i impossible to obtain the information from offici Résumé of Season 1876 to 1877. k season is drawing to a close and will be remembered as the most extraordinary one on record, " season in which wit ery few excepli be of all.connected with the trade in China, n with what were con ther rise demanded by the Chi oat completely atoppe then came the news of the parti lure of the Burupean crop known (o and believed in to any extent by x few only; the market bevan to got excited, speculation commenced both amongst foreigners and natives, and the only silk talked about, viz., ne Elephant chop, was Ta. 70 per picul dearer at the end of Juno than it was at the beginning. With the telegraphic wires out of order we wore quite in the dark fur a time, and it was only towards the end of July, and on receipt of favourable news us to the reception of the.new crop in London and Lyons that all engaged were once again in a state of fever; exchange went up with a rush nearly ten per cent., but this temporary difficulty lasted only " month, and by the middle of September the rate was down to ds. 14d. again with a corresponding advance in the tael value of sill. Meanwhile nearly 70,000 bales had been hurried down from all parts of the country, speculation still went on, and the top price was reached at the commencement of October, when Blue Elephant is supposed to have been settled at Tls. 712} per picul, or one hundred per than open in London were by no means excessive, and delivery 1ed to be satisfactory, 80 much ao that it was believed had reached the end of its bad times, notwithsta the increased price of the raw material. Political however aros das the first cause of the sudden stoppage of business towards the end of October; holdére became anxious to realise, prices naturally fell and have continued to do ao ever since with the exception of some few attempts at rallying. 7 The forced sales in London of shipnients for the Continent, and the public sales in February, almost gave the finishing stroke; the stoppage of the mills and the unlooked for increase from China completely scared holders although they were aware that an unusual percentage of the export was composed of Yellow Silk and "rubbish," the like of which had never before been coen on the European markets, and that fine sized silks were without doubt in very moderate supply.
Business continued fitful with a gradual decline in prices hero to 'I's. 380 per picul for market No. 4 Taatlee at the end of April, and it is only within the last fortuizht or so that the unfavourable reports of the coming crop has caused a sudden withdrawal of the ohi stock of silk on the market and a refusal to name any price fur the present, The export figures are rather over last season; native consumption has fallen off it is said quite forty per cent., but this will doubtless right itself this season, and dealers will be more cautious in their selections for supplying this market; whatever the consumption or prospects for the article, it is to be hoped we shall be saved this season from the ruinous fluctuation in prices that we have experienced during the past twelve mouths.
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