152
7. The following statement shows how this amount of shipping is apportioned:-
Comparative Shipping Return for the Years 1894 and 1895.
1894.
1895.
INCREASE.
DECREASE.
British,.. Foreign,
Junks in Foreign Į
Trade, .......
Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage.
6,022 7,778,396 6,626 8,589,637 604 811,241 2,430 | 2,690,786 2,463 2,935,949 33 245,163 45,861 3,482,124 53,027| 3,683,700| 7,166| 201,576|
54,313 13,951,306 62,116 | 15,209,286 | 7,803 1,257,980
297,364 11,645
Total,
+
Junks in Local
Trade,
8,478
422,827 3,167 125,463|
Grand Total,...62,791 14,248,670 78,761 | 15,632,115 10,970 1,383,443
:
++
:
NET,..
10,970 1,383,443
8. It is an interesting statistical fact that the total tonnage entering and clearing at Hongkong last year (exclusive of local trade) exceeded the 1894 tonnage entering and clearing at London (exclusive of coasting trade) by 775,706 tons, also that, excluding our junk trade altogether, the tonnage entering and clearing in 1895 exceeded the 1894 tonnage at Liverpool (exclusive of coasting trade) by 1,036,008 tons, and at Cardiff by 1,047,195 tons; while at Hongkong in 1895, British tonnage alone exceeded the British and Foreign tonnage (exclusive of coasting trade) at Newcastle (the next port in the United Kingdom) by 3,641,524 tons.
9. The actual number of ships of European construction, exclusive of river steamers, which entered the Port during the year was 586, being 336 British and 250 Foreign. They entered in the aggregate 3,051 times making a total collective tonnage of 4,114,403 tons as under :-
FLAG.
SHIPS.
NO. OF STEAM & SAIL,
TIMES ENTERED.
TOTAL
TONNAGE.
British,
336
1,813
2,639,447
American,
39
51
80,963
Austrian,
24
61,116
Chinese,
98
115,753
Danish,
97
43,623
Dutch,
3
15
12,898
French,
17
123
167,809
German,
91
638
744,811
Italian,
5
14
18,846
Japanese,
18
27
48,884
Norwegian,
33
127
145,369
Russian,
Siamese,
Spanish,
Swedish,
Hawaiian,
TOTAL,..
7
9
21,214
656
4
3,844
1
7,912
2
1,228
586
3,051
4,114,405
10. The 336 British ships, exclusive of river steamers, that entered the Port in 1895, carried 2,410 British Officers and 42 Foreigners as follows:-
British,
American,
German,
Dane,.....
Portuguese,
Chinese,...
Japanese,
Swede,
Norwegian,
Total,.....
2,410
16
8
4
1
182 N
2
2,452 Officers.
The proportion of Foreigners in British ships was therefore 1.8% comprising 8 different nationalities.