THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH APRIL, 1898.
RIVER TRADE.
Imports, Exports and Passengers.
Year.
Imports.
Exports.
Passengers.
1896,..
154,367
107,087
897,843
1897,........
146,603
90,544
988,046
32.
IMPORTS.
Junks.
Foreign trade, 28,989 measuring 1,718,739 tons.
Local trade,
4,750
Total,.....33.739
Imported 671,667 tons as under:--
Tea,
Oil,
Rice,
186,227 ""
1,904,966
})
2,787 tons. 1,761
39,301
Earth and Stones,.
General,........
132,099 "?
.495,719
**
Total,............671,667
EXPORTS.
Junks.
3
Foreign trade, 28,814 measuring 1,722,556 tons.
Local trade,
1,796
Total.......33.610
Exported 684,320 tons as under:
Kerosine,
186,053
ди
1,908,609
Rice and Paddy,
Earth and Stones, General,
Total,...
21,253 tons. .209,197
.453,870
""
....684,320
23
373
33. European-constructed vessels imported 639,846 tons in excess of exports; junks exported an excess of 138,859 tons. The excess of imports is thus reduced to 500,987 tous, from this must be deducted 445.999 tons of bunker coal, exclusive of coal shipped by men-of-war, leaving a balance of 54,988 tons consumed, manufactured, in stock in the Colony, or unaccounted for.
34. Plague and famine in India affected trade from thence, and probably deflected the Siamese rice trade, short though it was, from this Colony.
35. The River Steamers, aggregating 3.384,721 tous, inwards and outwards, imported 146,603 tons of cargo, exported 99,544 tons, shipped 23,7-42 tous of bunker coal, and conveyed 988,046
passengers.
36.
PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
British ships,.
Foreign ships,
River Steamers,
Launches (outside waters of the
Colony),
Junks (Foreign Trade), .
Arrivals.
Departures.
..139,893
150,809 including Emigrants.
66,679
63,575
505,080
482,966
}
88,102
91,415
..114,263
123,455
914,017
912,220