pte ie chpe, Hankow Teas vie WO" Gey a Kiukiang T1033 10435 55
3 606 02 25008 The sales of Hankow tea comprise Shan-tam at Tls. 9.8 to Tai-so-ping at Tls. 18.3, and of Kiukiang tea, Kutoan at Tls. 16 to Ningchow at Tis, 23, The new musters shown to-day comprise about 20,000 half-chests of Hankow and 2,000 half-chests of Kiukiang teas, thus reducing our unsold stock to 317,235 half-chests of all kinds. out the best toss available in the wretched Buyers generally are en in picking, assortment on offer, leaving the muss of rubbishy Oopack teas with which we are deluged, practically untouched; for no one can say at what price cargoes of such stuff' The impending losses to ton men are enor-getting home en masse woud sell in London. mots, and will probably result in greater care being given to the selection of the avcond crop, and a consequently diminished supply. No one, not even the natives themselves, believes that their recent agreement will have any farther effect.
The Glenogle gets on slowly. With the mail taking tea at £3, through rate, there is little inducement to hurry tea home by direct steamer at £4, and it is now not expected that the Glenogle will clear before Tuesday, 24th. The Moyune with 3,100,000 ibs. on' board (whuost equally divided between Hankow and Kiukiang teas), left lust night at 10h. 25m, 20th May.
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