1841-1886
REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PRESENT STATE
lations it might ultimately be placed, such a school is very much wanted, and it is matter of astonishment that parents have not long ago made a strenuous movement in this direction.
36. I have only, in conclusion, to add that I should be very glad if the state of the village schools were such as to enable me to pay them fewer than monthly visits. As the Central School advances, my time is more and more required in it. As each additional master has been added, more work has been rendered possible, and as long as the possible is not actual, a school is not in the state in which it ought to be.
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The Hon. J. Gardiner Austin,
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I have, &c., (Signed) FREDK. STEWART,
Inspector of Government Schools.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong,
March 6th, 1871.
The following Report of the Harbour Master, with returns annexed for the year 1870, is published for general information.
SIR,
By command,
J. Gardiner AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
Harbour Master's Office, Hong Kong,
February 17, 1871.
I have the honour to forward the following Annual returns from this Department for the year ending 31st of December, 1870, viz. :-
Nos. I. to XXI. not printed.
XXII. Comparative statement of the trade of the Colony from 1859 to 1870, inclusive.
Shipping.
2. In my last Report I was enabled to show an improved state of the trade of the Colony as compared with the preceding year.
3. It is satisfactory to find that the year under review exhibits a still further improvement, although the fortnightly French mail has ceased running; and the Pacific Mail Steam-ship Company have not as yet increased the number of their vessels, but there seems every prospect that such will shortly be the case.
4. The gross increase of ships and tonnage on the year 1869 is 2,433 vessels, with a carrying capacity of 311,028 tons. Of this increase, there are 20,543 tons from Great Britain; 48,349 tons from India; 28,436 tons from Siam; 86,615 tons from Japan; 32,166 tons from Macao; and 109,594 tons from the ports in China and Formosa; whilst from other places there is a decrease.
5. Of the ships of different nations arriving at this port, it will be seen that there is a marked increase in those under the British flag,
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