1. Shipping.
2. Trade.
Appendix E.
REPORT OF THE HARBOUR MASTER,
3. Revenue and Expenditure.
4. Steam-launches.
5. Emigration and Immigration.
6. Registry of Shipping.
7. Marine Magistrate's Court.
8. Marine Court.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
REPORT.
9. Examination of Masters, Mates and Engineers.
10. Examination of Pilots.
11. Sunday Working Cargo.
12. New Territories.
13. Commercial Intelligence, Board of Trade.
TABLES.
I. Number, Tonnage, Crews and Cargoes of vessels entered.
II. Number, Tonnage, Crews and Cargoes of vessels cleared.
III. Number, Tonnage, Crews and Cargoes of vessels entered at each Port.
IV. Number, Tonnage, Crews and Cargoes of vessels cleared at each Port.
V. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels of each Nation entered.
VI. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels of each Nation cleared.
VII. Junks entered from China and Macao.
VIII. Junks cleared for China and Macao.
IX. Summary of arrivals and departures of all vessels.
X. Licensed Steam-launches entered.
XI. Licensed Steam-launches cleared.
XII. Number of Boat Licences issued.
XIII. Statement of Revenue.
XIV. Chinese Passenger Ships cleared by the Emigration Officer (Summary).
XV. Return of Emigration.
XVI. Return of Male and Female Emigrants.
XVII. Vessels bringing Chinese Passengers to Hongkong from places out of China (Summary).
XVIII. Return of Immigration.
XIX. Return of Male and Female Emigrants returned.
XX. Vessels registered.
XXI. Vessels struck off the Register.
XXII. Comparison in Number and Tonnage of vessels in Foreign Trade entered and cleared since 1899.
XXIII. Revenue and Expenditure of the Harbour Department.
XXIV. Diagram of Tonnage of Vessels entered.
APPENDICES.
A. Report on Mercantile Marine Office.
B. Report on Import and Export Office.
C. Report on Marine Surveyor's Office.
D. Report on Gunpowder Depôt.
E. Report on Lighthouses.
1.—Shipping.
1. The total of the Shipping entering and clearing in the Colony during the year 1908 amounted to 532,078 ships of 34,614,335 tons, which, compared with the figures for 1907, show an increase of 24,478 ships, and a decrease of 1,413,069 tons.