The Archive · 1889

EXPORT OF TEA TO NOKTHERS PORTS

Yo Russian Manchuria. ToT From Hankow and Shanghai. From Foochow. Total, Black Ten. Brick Tea. Green Tea. Black Tea. Brick Te Dust." Green Tea. Blick. Brick.

1888 x 1889..1,642.631 7,845,369 513 97,798 319,458 2,406,347 2,648913 64 609,244 Ths, 1897 x 1898...1,495.341 5,724,322 '$370, Market IIT at £361

19,236,140 35,236,733 283,954

147,507 2,500,736 7,140,999 69,771,251

Freight.—From Messrs. Wheelock & Co.'s Report:—We have a fair market to report in freights during ti it two weeks, and we hear several sailing -vessels have been chartered in the South for different voyages from the North, There is also " small demand for steamers to load from Wuhu for Whampoa, but at the rate offered no outsider seems disposed to entertain the business, The Nagasaki-Shavghai trade is very dull and depressed, and rates are not high enough to induce atenmers of large size to load Carl; consequently all the Lusiuess la being done by the amaher craft, cee

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