1841-1886
REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT
Population Returns.
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7. The Registrar-General's returns show improvement under every head. The population has increased during the past year by about 8,000, being estimated on the 1st of January last at
Males Females
Total
69,810 25,107
94,917
In bonis In houses
28,559 66,358
Total population 94,917
Bonis Houses
3,925 4,861
Total Tenements 8,786
Of this number 28,559 were found to be living on the water in 3,925 boats, and the remainder 66,358 on shore in 4,861 houses, making a total of 8,786 tenements. The population consists of Chinese and foreigners in the following proportion.
Chinese Other than Chinese
92,441 2,476
94,917
Males. Females. Total.
European and Americans 1,151 441 1,592
Goa, Manila, Indians, and others of mixed blood 710 71 781
Aliens, chiefly seamen and temporary residents 100 100 200
1,961 515 2,476
In these returns the military stationed in the Colony, and the crews of the ships of war and of the merchant ships in the harbour, are not included.
The houses show an increase over the previous year of 600, and are classified as,--
European houses Chinese ditto
1,017 3,844
4,861
The European houses consist of 173 public buildings, and 844 private dwellings, shops, and offices.
The Chinese boat population, of over 28,500, are put down as living in,
Junks Trading boats 12 Wood Coal Salt Passage Water Bumboats Pilot boats 27 16 Stone ** ** 42 Hakow 89 Sampans 11 33 7 32 5 659 166 106 305 2,421 Total boats 3,925Shipping.
8. The Harbour Master's returns show that, exclusive of men-of-war, Canton and Macao river steamers, and Chinese craft, 1,534 vessels, aggregating 875,199 tons, and belonging to 26 different nations, entered the harbour of Hong Kong during the past year; being 376 vessels in excess of the number that entered during 1859. Of the 1,534 that entered last year, 1,262 entered with cargoes, and 272 in ballast.
Emigration.
9. Forty-eight emigrant ships, aggregating 40,789 tons, and carrying 14,390 males and 793 females, cleared from this port for the following places, during 1860:-
Males. Females. Total. 11 for Australia 4,526 4,526 24 for San Francisco 6,799 441 7,240 4 for Demerara 961 359 1,313 1 for Vancouver Island 2,038 2,038 8 for Moulmain 66 66 14,390 793 15,183A large part of this increase went to Vancouver Island, to which port emigration from this took place last year for the first time.
Being an increase of 13 ships and 4,916 emigrants over the numbers of 1859.
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