Tae "Board of Trade Journal" for November contains an account of the Trade of India with Turk stan and Tibet ended March Bist 1901, in tie course of which it is stated that the trade in coral which in 1395 amounted to nearly three lakhs, fell rapidly to little over Rs. 93,090 in 1899- 1900, and is now worth under half lak This'decline is attributed to the eompetition of the trate the n territory in the ease of exports to Chinese Tur] tan, and to protective tariffs on the Russi frontier.
'Tue report of the British of Commerce, Livefpool, appea "Board of Trude Journal" for Nov hor 28th 1901, states that a_ memories on the subject of the extension of the Burma-Shan-China railway, Mandal Kunlon line in South-west' and Cental China, approved by the Commi'tee of the East Indian and China Trade section and later by the Courcil, has been duly dispatched to the Secretary of State for India in Council. Copies have also been sent to the Viceroy of India, the Ind and Burma Chambers of Commerce and to all the Chambers of the United Kingdom.
Fro the "London and China Express" of the 28th of November we learn th: the Marquis of Lansdowne, speaking at Darlington on the subject of the negotiations "now in progress at Shanghai, said that their object was to remove the impediments to which our large trade in China was subjected, and added that thi was a matter hich the Government would with all the energy stirs ce John Low, of Aberdeen, who been the Municipal Council, left Aberdeen for inted quarry superintendent to on the 28th of November.—H. 31.53. was commissioned by Comme. on the 26th, and the Ve..al by F. H. Peyton on the 28th ult. hoti the Mutine and Rinaldo, for this s =-Including the Sardinia of and the Moldavia and Morgolia, each of 10,000 tous, which are building, the P.
0. fleet amounts to 330,241 registered tons Tue Paris correspondent of the Economist" says law has been passed to empower French diplom-tie agents er consuls to celebrate marriages abroad between a French subject and a foreigner, that may contribute ty prevent the frequent cases of an English woman who has contracted marriage with a Frenchman, according to English law alone—in a church, chapel, befure a registrar—and finds that the union is not valid in France; that it eonfers no legal rights in this country, and may be repudiated not only by the husband, but also by his family. The wife has no claim to maintenance, and children are simply illegitimate. English solicitors in Frinee ving whether the proper have been performed, or warn men of the consequences, sufficient for the form of thronzh before a in which the new 2 to be designated the President of the The of the Hamburg and steams! ud the ostensi pital them, continue to excite Since last week the fact has been published that farther purchases of Hanburg-Ameri-enn stock for Americnn account have been made by way of Vienna, Also the announcement that a New YorkLifeInsurance company had taken some £250,000 in the Thonds of the company t nuding the new docks of the North Germin Lloyd at Hoboken, was elutracteristically misunderstood by the Press here to mean that the securities in question were the bonds of the Lloyd Company itself, and the transaction was interpreted as another attern American capital to gain fluence over German steamship line:
A conference of the chief directors of the two great Hambarg and Bremen companies.
held here last week, which was atteudel by a representative of the German Government, end it is stated in the papers the subject under deliberation was 2 of ways and means to prevent the Ines from falling into American hands.
er this is true or not is uncertain, y information about the con-been given to the public. proof of how the *Amerienn upon the popular mind anal part of the nalisation-of the lines as the only safe way to protect them from New York expitalists. To allay the apprehensions of the public in this matter, the Lloyd Company has hastened fare in the papers that its needs for whenever it must borrow agai will be met in Germany, and that Amor Feapital will not be asked to part Tie directors of the company have just published a statement of its business for the first_nine months of tite current year, which shows that net receipts were £1,619,000 suainst £1,195,090 last fall in shipments of maize and machinery has been largely equalised by increases in other goods and in passenger traffic.
Tate following notes are from the "New Maritime Register" of the 27th ultimo The launch of the first iron steamer constructed in Chile occurred at Santiago de Chile on the 24th of Novemb 1 great success. 'The entire ship' from keel to truck was constructed in that country.
Ataka (Br. s.s.), from Shanghai, ete., ab New York 25th of November, reported 4th November, had a heavy' gale from N.E. to N.W., blowing with great fury for twelve hours, during which damaged steam steering year, starhuard lifeboat, and smashed ventilators.
Tue following note is from the New York "Nation" of the 5th ult.
The decrease in the bullion value of the rupee. which has caused so much suffering India, seems likely to prove of unexpected advantage to certain American importers. Section 25 of the tariff act of 1804 provides that the pure meta'lice value of foreign coins, as determined by the Director of the Mint, shall be used as the basis for assessing the importing values of goods whose worth is stated in terms of those coins. Secretary Gage, however,
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