No less than 211 varieties of tea were sent to the Kobe tea Exhibition by the producers in Kioto Fu, and these attracted much attention, We' hear that seventy contracts have been made on the strength. of the samples shown, and that no other teas are us popular as those grown in the Kioto district.
In some places the ent ton crop was i jured by the recent drought, but 98 0 ru Uke yield will be very satisfactory. Quotations have already declined about 50 sen dale, and as the farmers are anxious to sell a further fall may be expected in prices, The Kobe tea market is overstocked at present, and as- no transactions of portance have taken place lately quotations exhibit a downward tendency.
Bees' wax has been exported in largo ies, and is now scarce in Japan, A tot Osaka ascertained recent: that thi commodity is very abundant i Corea, and he properes buying to th value of 20,000 yeu, refining the wax here in Japan, and than exporting it to Oh dried oysters of the Hokkaido are largely exported to {tnssia and an important provision in tin The natives living near Lake Salmon, which is the chief seat of oyster production, have been industriously catching them, but as they are very poor and are but scantily supp! with proper means for fis contemplate pany for the prosecution of the fishing.
Lately the Nitta Ginko (Bastern Bank) at Kakigara cho, Tokio, entered into a contract with a foreign firm at Yokohama for the purchase of a certain quantity of shirtings and yarns, which were ts be paid for in instalments, paid one-thied of but failed to pay the second i its falling due, K of Koumicho (whoever, or whatever that may be) then, after a conference with the bank, decided to take delivery of the yarns only, and, handing over to the foreign firm $13,000, demanded delivery of the goods. The foreign firm, however, kept th ey, as the bank had failed to wake timely payment, and said it could not deliver the yarus unless th 48 were also taken delivery of. The Knmesoi is rently distressed,—dliojo News Trans.
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