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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
STATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
Enclosure No. 10.
EXPORT OF TREASURE by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steamers during the Years 1851 and 1852.
1851. 1852. Value in Dollars. Value in Dollars. 7,381,238 6,074,845IMPORTS of OPIUM by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steamers during the Years 1851 and 1852.
1851. 1852. No. of Chests. No. of Half Chests. No. of Cases. No. of Chests. │No. of Half Chests. No. of Cases. 19,061 27 531 15,747 5 1,157Victoria, Hong Kong, 15th February 1853.
(Signed)
WILLIAM PEDDER,
Harbour Master.
Enclosure No. 11.
MEMORANDUM on the JUNK TRADE of VICTORIA during the Year 1852.
Chinese Secretary's Office, Hong Kong,
March 15, 1853.
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ACCORDING to the monthly reports furnished in the manner described in former memorandums, the number of Chinese coasting vessels which visited Hong Kong harbour during 1852 was 492, and of salt junks 310, importing 173,000 piculs. Of stone cargoes exported the monopolist states he kept no account, as had been his custom to do previously.
The cargoes of the coasting junks and boats were of the usual nature, comprising from their respective ports the undermentioned commodities :——
1. From the province of Fuh-kien alum, beans, camphor, camphor-wood, coal, cotton, cloth, crockery, dates, drugs, salt fish, dried fruit, iron ware, paper, rice, skins, ying-te, stone, sugar, tea, vermicelli; in 53 junks.
2. From Formosa, camphor, coal crockery, sulphur, tea; in 6 junks.
3. From Chao-chau (capital of the department of the same name in the N.E. of the province of Kwang-tung, adjoining Fuh-kien), beans, cotton cloth, grass cloth, crockery, dates, drugs, felt caps, dried fruit, oyster shells, paper, potato flour, rice, shoes, moist sugar; in 64 junks.
4. From other places in the same department, beans, beef suet, crockery, dates, felt caps, fruit, fresh and dried, iron ware, Nankin cloth, oyster shells, paper, pigs, salt pork, sweet potatoes, shoes, tea, sheet tin, salt vegetables; in 48 junks.
5. From Namoa (lying partly in Chao-chau-fu, and partly in Tainen-chau-fu, in Fuh-kien), bark, barley, beans, cabbages, cocoa-nuts, cotton, cotton cloth, cowhides, deers' sinews, drugs, salt fish, pears, salt pork, potato flour, rattans, rice, sapan wood, sugar, salt vegetables; in 73 junks.
6. From Hwei-chau-fu (situated between Chao-chau-fu and Kwang-chau-fu), bamboo withs, beans, beef suet, charcoal, ducks, eggs, flour, fowls, fruit, fresh and dried, grain, pigeons, pigs, salt pork, potato flour, salt, sugar, tinsel paper, salt vegetables; in 233 vessels.
7. From Ta-pang (in Kwang-chau-fu, N.E. of Hong Kong), eggs, fowls, pigs, pickled and fresh vegetables; in 7 junks.
8. From Hu-tung, beef suet, fowls, dried fruit, salt meat, pigs, potato flour; in 10 junks.
9. From Hai-nan, bamboo ware, bark, barley, beans, betel-nut, birds' nests, cocoa nuts, cowhides, drugs, dried fish, fowls, grass cloth, hemp, honey, incense sticks, leather trunks, salt meat, oil, pigs, rattans, rice, sapan wood, sheep, timber; in 67 junks.
10. From Singapore, bark, birds' nests, cane mats, red dye, drugs, dried fish, glass, incense, perfumes, rattans, rhinoceros' horns; in 1 junk.