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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH MAY, 1893.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 182.
The following Report of the Harbour Master for 1892, which was laid before the Legislative Council on the 25th instant, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th May, 1893.
G. T. M. O'Brien, Colonial Secretary.
No. 96.
HARBOUR DEPARTMENT,
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HONGKONG, 23rd March,
16th February, 1893. 1893.
SIR,--I have the honour to forward the Annual Returns for this Department for the year ending 31st December, 1892.
I. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels entered.
II. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels cleared.
III. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels of each Nation entered. IV. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels of each Nation cleared.
V. Total Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels entered at each Port. VI. Total Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels cleared at each Port.
VII. Return of Junks entered from Macao.
VIII. Return of Junks cleared for Macao.
IX. Return of Junks entered at each Port from China and Formosa.
X. Return of Junks cleared at each Port for China and Formosa.
XI. Gross Total Number of Junks entered at each Port.
XII. Gross Total Number of Junks cleared at each Port.
XIII. Return of Junks (Local Trade) entered.
XIV. Return of Junks (Local Trade) cleared.
XV. Summary of Arrivals and Departures of all Vessels, and of all Chinese Passengers. XVI. Return of Vessels registered.
XVII. Return of Vessels struck off the Register.
XVIII. Amount of Fees received under Table B of Ordinance 26 of 1891.
XIX. Return of Chinese Passenger Ships cleared by the Emigration Officer.
XX. Return of Vessels bringing Chinese Passengers to Hongkong from places out of
China.
XXI. Return of Marine Cases tried.
XXII. Diagram of Tonnage of Vessels entered.
XXIII. Return of the work performed by the Government Marine Surveyor.
XXIV. Return from Imports and Exports (Opium) Office.
SHIPPING.
2. The total of arrivals and sailings amounted to 14,152,849 tons or an advance on 1891 of 147,151 tons. There were 36,470 arrivals with a tonnage of 7,104,888 tons, and 36,210 departures of 7,047,961 tons. The increase in European constructed vessels numbers 267, aggregating 15,109 tons. There is a decrease in the foreign junk trade of 213 junks representing 71,042 tons, against which may be set an increase in the local junk trade of 6,586 vessels measuring 203,084 tons.