THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH MAY, 1905.
687
Table A.
Mails despatched and received.
For H. M.
To and from Hongkong.
Ships.
For For- eign Ships of War.
Sent in transit through Hongkong.
Steamers carrying Mails.
Loose
Bags. Packets. Letter
Bags.
Bags.
Bags and
Packets.
Arrivals. Departures.
Boxes.
Received, 1904,
52,070
3,004
1,713
4,536
4,135
10,292
Received, 1903,
43,367
2,716 1.652
3,555
3,955
8,174
Increase,
8.703
288
61
981
180
2,118
Despatched, 1904,
£1.566
4,001
1,261
3,841
3,113
44,102
11,107
Despatched, 1903,
31,940
2,617
1273
1,039
2,880
42,808
8,510
Increase,
9,626 1,384
2,802
233
1,294
:
2,597
Table B.
International and Local.
International and Local Registered Correspondence and Parcels.
Comparison with 1903.
Description of Correspondence,
Total.
1
Despatched. Received.
Total in 1903.
Increase. Decrease.
Insured Letters,
Registered Articles,
Insured Parcels---riá Gibraltar,
Insured Parcels-via Brindisi,
311 237,064 3,026 272
Ordinary Parcels---riá Gibraltar,
13,096
244 -297,391 1,505 87 10,223
4,531 359
555 503 534,455 | 172,260 4,030 486
52
62,195
501
127
23,319
20,609
2,710
Ordinary Parcels --via Brindisi,
119
276
695
712
17
United Kingdom, Ordinary—rid Marseilles,
670
670
-697
27
United Kingdom, Insured—rić Marseilles,
144
144
243
99
German Parcels,
270
1,414
1,684
1,457
227
French Parcels,
American Parcels-San Francisco new Convention, Miscellaneous Parcels.................
481
636
16,437
1,064 14,028
481 1,700 30,465 28.925 1,540
638
157
1,700
599,058 530,560
68,925
427
Table C.
Revenue and Expenditure.
Receipts.
1903.
1904.
Increase.
Decrease.
Expenditure.
1903.
1904. Incrense.
Decrease.
$
Do..
Sale of Stamps. Hong-į | 293,062 59 263,880.46
kong,
at the Agencies. 80.813.14 103,626,14 22.811,00
29.1-2.13
Transit Payment to the
United Kingdom,
63.955.59
56,649.82
Unpaid Postage,
8.432.03 6.633.07
1.798.96
Transit l'ayment to { Other Countries,......
41.500.42
35.262.69
7.805.77
6.237.73
Boxholders' Fees,.
5.272.67 5,880.38
607.71/
Commission on Money i
Orders.
14.729.90 14,246.27
483.63
1
Profit
on Exchange
On Money Order 11,539.69 13.544.96 2,005.27 Transactions,
Gratuities to Ship- masters for the Con- veyance of Mails,
Contribution towards
P. & . Subsidy.
Commission on Money!
Orders,
8.279.28
4,112 53
4,166.75
70,448.05 65,474.59
4,978.46
2,090,87 1,945.05
145.82
Interest OTI Money
Order Fund,
419.06
B38.37
Void Money Orders:
and Postal Notes, ...
596.12
309.27
Totals.
.$414,867.20 408,458.92 25,423.98 | 31,832,26
80.69
Working Expenses,
147.903.19 153,311.88 5.408.69
Balance,
80.689.80
91,702.36 11,012.56
286.85
Totals,
414,867.20 408,458.92 16,421,25 | 22,829.53