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the Legislative Council on the 4th December, 1893, as bearing on the situation :-
"The Japanese are quite alive to the situation so far as it concerns them, and are not only erecting new Cotton Mills, to the number of 20 it is said, but are about to take the Import Duty off Raw Cotton. It is possible therefore that we may soon see Japan, for a time, supplying China with goods which she formerly obtained from Europe or India. It seems anomalous that whilst England should be striving to extend her commerce and commercial relations in China on the one hand, she should on the other be countenancing measures which apparently have the effect of creating competition against herself and her own productions in the East.
"Under these circumstances the attention of the Community should be directed to the desirability of establishing Cotton Mills in Hong Kong. The Government is in possession of several eligible sites, and if only capitalists, either European or Chinese, will come forward and invest their capital in such enterprises, I will endeavour that, so far as the acquisition of land is concerned, they shall be treated with exceptional liberality. The success which has attended other efforts of this nature in Hong Kong ought, under these favourable circumstances, to lead to the introduction of additional local Industries, such as Cotton Spinning and Weaving, and no more fitting time than the present seems likely to occur. This matter is worthy therefore of the earnest consideration, not only of this Community, but of capitalists in the neighbouring provinces in China."
SHIPPING.
Owing to the epidemic of Plague during the year, quarantine restrictions were enforced from March to the end of July at Singapore, Manila, and the Northern ports against ships arriving from Hong Kong. With the exception, however, of Manila, these restrictions were made as little irksome as possible, and the effect on the shipping returns was inconsiderable.
The total tonnage entered and cleared during the year amounted to 16,515,953, being an increase of 883,840 tons on the returns for 1895. There were 40,244 arrivals, aggregating 8,250,853 tons and 40,219 departures aggregating 8,259,100 tons. Exclusive of River steamers and Chinese-owned vessels which in 1895 appeared under the British and German Flags, there was an increase of 142 British ships aggregating 286,557 tons or 5 per cent., an increase under the German flag of 267 ships aggregating
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the Legislative Council on the 4th December, 1893, as bearing on the situation :-
"The Japanese are quite alive to the situation so far as it concerns them, and are not only erecting new Cotton Mills, to the number of 20 it is said, but are about to take the Import Duty off Raw Cotton. It is possible therefore that we may soon see Japan, for a time, supplying China with goods which she formerly obtained from Europe or India. It seems anomalous that whilst England should be striving to extend her commerce and commercial relations in China on the one hand, she should on the other be countenancing measures which apparently have the effect of creating competition against herself and her own productions in the East.
"Under these circumstances the attention of the Community should be directed to the desirability of establishing Cotton Mills in Hong Kong. The Govern- ment is in possession of several eligible sites, and if only capitalists, either European or Chinese, will come forward and invest their capital in such enterprises, I will en- deavour that, so far as the acquisition of land is concerned, they shall be treated with exceptional liberality. The success which has attended other efforts of this nature in Hong Kong ought, under these favourable circumstances, to lead to the introduction of additional local Industries, such as Cotton Spinning and Weaving, and no more fitting time than the present seems likely to occur. This matter is worthy therefore of the earnest consideration, not only of this Community, but of capitalists in the neighbouring provinces in China. "
SHIPPING.
Owing to the epidemic of Plague during the year, quarantine restrictions were enforced from March to the end of July at Singapore, Manila, and the Northern ports against ships arriving from Hong Kong. With the exception, however, of Manila, these restrictions were made as little irksome as possible, and the effect on the shipping returns was inconsiderable.
The total tonnage entered and cleared during the year amounted to 16,515,953, being an increase of 883,840 tons on the returns for 1895. There were 40,244 arrivals, aggregating 8,250,853 tons and 40,219 departures aggregating 8,259,100 tons. Exclusive of River steamers and Chinese-owned vessels which in 1895 appeared under the British and German Flags, there was an increase of 142 British ships aggregating 286,557 tons or 5 per cent., an increase under the German flag of 267 ships aggregating
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