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Pon,—Haxkow—From Messrs, Drysdale, Rin aport of 23rd inst, A viovel feature, and of moment to those interested, gaged the attention of the Trade duri The Crop is admittedly a bad ove and it has been, tore than ueunl, b to market, The re London, having last year's unprecedented home fore them had to stand out and wait, Stock rapidly sccumul tue during the week Leing less than 350,000 }-chaste, The difficulty of effecting anies in the old way, ity to finance and want of Godown accommodation gave the Teamen #0 much cause for anxiety that to the extreme m of suspending business. It Vand they ce thomaelves with on he object in view wae to convene " Mes common protection, and the question ultimately dealt with was king of the it was expected, they passed a resolut ed an agreement uni 8 not to deal in the Second Crop Leaf. What the effect +f ti y be remains to be x It the market for Firat Crop Tea and perhaps it did encourage somewhat more free buying of ecially in the lower ces reported live indicated a lower range of prices, while th S-choate to be d en slmort universal and amount in cas down to what be jon. It is dificult to fo ices the present a must become a of serious trouble to Settlements for same period:—Hankow Toa 113,000 }-chests 88,000 4-
Particulars of Settlements, camps oon Me O/og w/tty Tow-yuen & Oontar. 20,000 5, 13] out 1/6 Cheong-sow-kai ea Ww 10x 1/34 Oonam on 10 Gee Shuntam 2 on 9 0/9 Oopacks won o/9y 15
Keemuns have been in strong demand for the home Market and deservedly a0, as they stand out for quality iv cup and brightness of infusion, The Ningchows have been lees in favour, but all the good ones have been cleared off the market and at the clow 1g rates; the quantity of fine Tea is 20 amall that they and the Keemuns will probably prove the safest i ium kinds may he quoted at one to twodaele lower and lower quality half " Tael to Taol. ut there is a large quality of common ficult to give a quotation. Shuntawa have been settled down to ¥9 per picul, scoond pack Lye-linge at T103 por equal to 74d. and 84d. per Iv, respectively.
Total arrivals &o. to da pared with same time last year 1887. 1886.
443,000 3-cheats against 384,000 j-chest. 000 273,000
657,000 against 309,000 189,000
498,000
390,000 4-chests against 159,000
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.