March 18.
Occasionally there comes a week when conditions in the piece-goods auction market are such that there (is little to be said, and this is one of those weeks. At the Kungping auction on Tuesday the market wae steady but quiet, with prices unchanged. Things were quiet at the Ewo auction on Wednesday; blacks were slightly down, but greys show-eds tendency toward betterment. There was no special feature at the Yuen-fong auction on Thursday. Blacks were weak, being three-fourths mace down on the average; greys remained steady and practically une j whites were irregular but were a shade stronger. Tone of market: quiet and steady.
Some few orders from Szechuan continue to come in, which fact is looked at hopefully, as when piece-goods orders properly come in from the western province it will mean that the politi is reported that some four to five thousand bales of yarn and piescgoods are awaiting direct shipment to Newchwang. The stock of American piece-goods is low and Practically no business is being done.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.