Messrs J. A. Wattie & Ca. yesterday received the following telegram from Messrs. Barker & Ca., London, dated April 13 Average spot price.standard quality ribbed smoked sheet 103d.
Average spot price standard quality first crepe 11}d.
Market steady.
The following telegram, dealing with Wednesday's auction at Singapore, has been received by Messrs. R. N. Truman & Ca.
Average price realized, No. 1 smoked sheet $0.313 per Ib. equivalent to 9d. ex warehouse Singapore.
No. 1 crepe $0.34} per Ib. cquivalent to 93d. ex warehouse Singapore.
Market weak. Offered 996 tons; sold 324 ton:
Lrevr.-Coroxet Uyeno, attached to the Headquarters of the Japanese garrison in Tientsin, has been appointed Commandant of the Japanese troops in Tientsin.
Ar the request of the Chinese Women's Suffrage Association, Dr. Sun Yat-sen has directed the can-collation of orders from Peking prohibiting the holding of political meetings by women.
A procession of fully 1,000 workmen walked through the streets of Changsha on the morning of March! 2, the demonstration being in opposition to the intention of the authorities to place the Hunan Cotton Mill at the disposal of merchants of other provinces. The demonstrators declared that the mill is the property of Hunanese and that if it be mortgaged outside the province they will fight the an. thorities.
More than 1,000 students the other day called in a body upon the Minister of Education to de~ mand what was to be done in connexion with the teachers' strike. They were met by one of the sec~ retaries who urged them to go home, but the students, who brought with them a large quantity of food, refused to do so until a definite reply to their demand was. given.
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