The manufacture of brick tea in Hunan from the dust of the black tea of the. Hukuang provinces is mainly morlop. by Shansi merchants who go into districts personally to buy the material their trade, he brick tea ut this ae ins now been completed and the first instalment for Ruesia—the chief consumer of the article—was shipped at Bist ult, vid Shanghni and Tientsin in some of the China Merchants' steamers, which took 3,532 chests, each chest weight between fifty and sixty ext The seo:
wtalment of 2,136 chest brought by he Kiangyii to this port recently. As each brick of 1ea weighs on an averayo ten catties, nearly 34,000 of them went to Russix Intely, in the two instalments just mentioned, A DISASTROUS FIRE, During a terrific windstorm or cyclone which lusted over eight hours at a place called Nuishau Szechuan, in the carlier part of this mouth, the factory of a sugar merchant from Chungkingaecidentally caught fire, which spreading destroyed over 2,000 houses in the town, causing a total 1oa8 of something likeTls,350,000, Nuishanhsien although a small town of Szechuan province hxs a considerable trade in sugar, the place producing excellent augar-cane, and the manufacturers mostly hailing from the city of Chungking. Such a disastrous h need in the annals of the whole province for many. years, Some lives were naturally lost during the conflagration but no returns have as yet been received.
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