SHANGHAI-OFFICIAL.
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The goods for Export brought down under Transit Passes amounted to only Th. 1,125,935, almost all of which was Waste Silk and Cocoons.
The total Shipping, entrances and clearances, for the year 1887 were—
Steamers
Failing Vessels ...
4.636 838
5474
Tonnage Tonnage
4,595,711
231,474
4,827,185
Of which 95 steamers and 21 sailing vessels entered, and 311 steamers and 99 sailing vessels cleared in ballast. The total carrying trade was divided amongst the different flags as under :-
British
Steamers. Tonnage. Sailing. Tonnage. Total. Tonnage.
Duties. Tls. 3.425,668
2.517 2,499.041 11-
65 104 2,634
2,564.145
German... Japanese
508
339.195
13,714
550
352,909
190.743
""
202
1-8,994 47
20.839 249
209,-63
213 887
"
French
80
169,903
189.903
446 385
**
American
1
Other Countries.
51
Chinese...
1,277
84 62 35,294 53 1,363 200 517
31.325 30.498 104 69,964 1,794 1,433,164
63
31.409
34.441
"
65,792
29.683
"
3$8,604
On Opium
602.478
...
...
***
1.
"
The total Customs Revenue for the same year was Haikwan Tls. 5,331,889
consisting of
Import Duties, exclusive of Opium Export Duties
do.
Coast Trade Duties do.
...
On Opium, Import, Export, and Cost Trade
Likin
Do. Tonnage Dues
Transit Dues
...
***
...
***
A
***
Tls. 2,347,295
994,606
225,716
602,478
953,711
149,778
59,305
Hk. Tls. 5,331,889
Of the Imports of foreign goods at all the Treaty ports sixty-one and two-thirds per cent. passed through Shanghai, and of the Exports to foreign countries thirty-nine per cent., besides most of the coasting trade; half of the whole trade thus belonging to "the commercial metropolis of China."
DIRECTORY.
Consulates and Public Offices.
H.B.M.'s SUPREME COURT FOR CHINA
AND JAPAN.
Ta Ying hsing-ch’ien-shih-ssu Ya-mên.
門衙司使錢刑英大
Chief Justice-Sir R. T. Rennie (absent)
Acting Chief Justice-R. A. Mowat
Acting Assistant Judge-J. C. Hall
BRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL. The Bund.
門衙總事領英大
Tu Ying liny-shi-tsung Ya-men.
Consul-General-P. J. Hughes
Vice-Consul-W. R. Carles
Do. in charge of Shipping Dept-
G. Brown
First Assistant--M. F. A. Fraser
Chief Clerk and Private Secretary-T. G. Second do.
Smith
Clerk, Civil Department-M. Jones do. Crimina! Dept.-W. S. Percival
Crown Ady rate--H. S. Wilkinson, barris.
ter-at-w
Acting do. E. H. Fraser
Do. do. A. J. Sundius
Clerk and Linguist-E. T. Rivero
do.
do.
-Liang C. Weng
-Choo Hai Poo