Stour hong N139 No 12934.
Governor No.
Sunedy
139
(Subject)
412 DESPATCH.
RE
EID
C.O.
31 CFC
1872
.
The Blue Book for 1871.
Date
7872
Im 13.
Last previous Paper.
3 Copies herewith
Put by
#172-1 & 5 5750
For Meade.
(Minutes.)
Some excuse or other always prevents our receiving a proper Blue Book Report from Hongkong.
1870
Revenue - £190,673
Expenditure £183,595.
Tonnage 32,636,
(inwards) 2,836,436.
Tonnage 22,796,676.
(outwards)
Shipping number 27,891.
(inwards)
27,410.
Shipping number 27,410.
(outwards)
1871
£175,962.
£186,675
{3,360,622.
{3,158,519.
number
$50.
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28.
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281
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Population (census of 1870) 124,198.
The Revenue for 1871 shows an apparent decrease of £14,711, as compared with 1870. But the Sale of the mint in 1870, produced...