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SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1899.
Similarly, the export trade of 1898 was represented by 34,989 vessels, aggregating 8,425,504 tons, carrying 3,006,474 tons of cargo, and shipping 493,651 tons of bunker Coal.
COUNTRY.
CLASS I.
CARGO.
SHIPS.
TONS.
Shipped.
Bunker Coal.
Canada,
Cape of Good Hope,
Continent of Europe,
Great Britain,
101
Mauritius,
South America,.
United States,
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64.759 1,474
18,513 900
900
264,739
74,376
208,336
65,647
19,985 2,840
1,553
900
5,298
5,366
75
148,525
210,470
1,263
280
684,679
376,172
24,988
CLASS II.
Australia and New Zealand,
39
322
58,603
37,700
3,150
Corea,
India and Straits Settlements,
Japan,
Java and Indian Archipelago,.
North and South Pacific,...
Russia in Asia..
1
783
1,300
220
205
370,799
264,639
48,226
511
937,325
551,042
65,484
54
88,073
14,250
17,150
2,342
1,100
160
13
14,350
22,550
1,665
829
1,472,274
892,581
136,055
CLASS III.
North Borneo,
Coast of China,........
Cochin-China,
Formosa,
Kiaochow,
Kwanchauwan,
Philippine Islands, .
Hainan and Gulf of Tonquin,
Siam,
Weihaiwei,
Macao,
21
22,841
3,715
5,750
1,511
1,768,769
490,608
143,344
239
284,392
59,653
48,160
28
24,068
52,663
3,460
8
10,747
2,451
1,700
100
148
36
147
152,395
326
247,707
64,843 108,601
36,336
35,657
138
149,152
47,112
30,141
4
7,012
5,600
1,290
17
23,340
5,920
812
2,440
2,690,523
841,314
306,686
CLASS IV.
River Steamers,-Canton, Macao and West River,
CLASS V.
Junks in Foreign Trade,
TOTAL,...
1,970
1,765,555
131,127
25,922
29,470
1,812,473
765,280
34,989
8,425,504
3,006,474
493,651
Comparing the above with 1897 we get the gratifying result that in 1898 the Import trade of the Colony was increased from all parts of the world, and that this increase amounted in the aggregate to 659,833 tons of cargo discharged. Further, we find that, during the same period and by the same means, others were benefitted also, for the cargo in transit was advanced by 167,860 tons.
In Exports generally there was an increase of 1,205 ships and 229,151 tons of cargo.
9. During the year 11,058 vessels of European construction, aggregating 13,252,733 registered tons, carried 8,143,656 tons of cargo made up as follows:-
Import cargo
Export
Transit
Bunker Coal shipped
..3,388,489
..2,241,194
-
.2,020,322
493,651
8,143,656