341
Table A,
Mails despatched and received.
To and from Hongkong.
For H. M,
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,
41,566
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 Registered Correspondence and Parcels.
International and Local.
Comparison with 1903.
Description of Correspondence.
Total.
Despatched. Received.
Total in 1903.
Increase. Decrease.
Insured Letters,
Registered Articles,
Insured Parcels-viá Gibraltar,
Insured Parcels—viâ Brindisi,
311 237,064 3,026 272
244 297,391 1,505 87
555 534,455 | 472,260
503
52
62,195
4,531 4,030
501
359
486
127
Ordinary Parcels-via Gibraltar,
13,096
10,223
23,319
20,609
2,710
Ordinary Parcels-via Brindisi,
419
276
695
712
17.
United Kingdom, Ordinary-via Marseilles,
670
670
697
27
United Kingdom, Insured-viá Marseilles,
144
144
243
99
German Parcels,
270
1,414
1,684
1,457
227
French Parcels,
481
481
638
.157
American Parcels-San Francisco new Convention,
Miscellaneous Parcels,.....
636
1,064
16,437
14,028
1,700 30,465
14+
1,700
:
28,925 1,540
599,058 530,560 68,925
427
Table C.
Revenue and Expenditure.
Receipts.
1903.
1904. Increase. Decrease.
Expenditure.
1903.
1904. Increase. Decrease.
$
$
Sale of Stamps, Hong-[
kong,
293,062.59 263,880,46
$ 29.182.13
Do., at the Agencies,
Unpaid Postage,
80,815.14 103,626.14 22,811,00
8,432.03 6,633.07
1,798.96
Boxholders' Fees,.
5,272.67 5,830.38 607.71
Commission on Money
Orders,
14,729.90 | 14,246.27
483.63
Profit on Exchange
on Money Order Transactions,
11,539.69 | 13,544.96 2,005.27
Interest on Money |
Order Fund,
419.06
338.37
80.69
Transit Payment to the
United Kingdom,
Transit Payment to Other Countries,......
Gratuities to Ship- masters for the Con- veyance of Mails,
Contribution towards
P. & . Subsidy,
Commission on Money
Orders,
Working Expenses,
$
$
63,955.59 56,649.82
$
7,305.77
41,500.42 35,262.69
6,237.73
8,279.28 4,112.53
4,166.75
70,448.05 65,474.59
4,973.46
2,090.87
1,945.05
145.82
147,903.19 | 153,311.88 |
5,408.69
Void Money Orders and Postal Notes,
596.12
309,27
Balance,
286.85
Totals,....
414,867,20 408,458.92 25,423.98 31,832.26
Totals,
80,689.80 91,702.36 11,012.56
$414,867.20 408,458.92 16,421:25 22,829.53