12
HONG HÙNG.
REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT
Enclosure 12.
MEMORANDUM on the JUNK TRADE of HONG KONG, during the Year 1851.
Victoria, Hong Kong, 20th January 1852,
Chinese Secretary's Office.
It was explained in a Memorandum of the 14th March 1850, upon this subject, that no information, at all reliable, could be obtained respecting the native Junk Trade in any anchorage except that of Victoria.
Monthly returns drawn up in the manner described in the same document show that in 1851 Victoria Harbour was visited by 1,004 Marine Junks, carrying sundry cargoes; an increase of nearly 20 per cent. upon the monthly average of 1850.
The monthly returns of the salt monopoly state an import of 280,300 piculs of that article in 543 junks. The quantity is not above four fifths of the import of 1850, and the far greater number of salt junks can only be accounted for by the fact that much of the salt has been imported by vessels carrying a mixed cargo. These have doubtless been included by the salt monopolist in his total of salt junks.
In the stone trade there is a slight increase; the monthly returns of the stone monopoly showing an export of 565 cargoes from the Colonial quarries,
The subjoined table will give some idea of the monthly progress of the native trade during the year under review. The larger portion of it by far is done by junks from small towns and villages along the coast of the Kwang Tung Province, cast of the Canton River. These send areca nut, betel leaf,
Marine Junks belonging to
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
1851.
Tien-tsin.
Puh-kien
Coast,
Amoy.
Formosa.
888268A26829 Kwang Tung
The ON 100000 10 1
**
Canton.
Jawang Tung
West.
NIICONARDO Hainan.
80 54
28,400 40
104 17
21,500 40
g
113
91 44
24,500
23,800
23,800
21,200
19,700
90 41
60 41
75 46
70
83 47
21,700
41
72
40
24,500
40
76
47
24,300
10
101 46
24,000
70 41
19,900
80
295583333898
Cochin China
Siaan.
Singapore.
Penang.
Monthly total of
Marine Junks.
Monthly total of
Salt Junks.
total of
Imported.
Monthly total of
Stone Cargoes exported.
Monthly tol
November December
Total
7 98
1
1 786
47
40
41
1
&
4
1
1,004 543 280,300 562
charcoal, cotton, cloth, crockery, and ready-made clothes, new and second-hand, drugs, dried fruit, dried meat, eggs, firewood, grass-cloth, hams, hardware, iron, lard, linseed, livestock, nankeen, oil, potato flour, pease, coarse paper, rice, sugar, saltfish, salt, skins, sugar canes, shoes, silk, soy, tobacco leaf, vegetables, fresh and salted, wine and wheat.
The junks from Canton and the coast west of it bring much the same cargoes. The latter more properly speaking, belong to the districts along the west bank of the river.
The Tien-tsin junks brought rugs, cotton cloths, cotton, skins, deers horns, deers sinews, lams, dried fruits, pears, cabbages, pease, beans, wine, and drugs.
Those of the Fuhkien coast and Amoy, alum, camphor, coal, salt, and sulphur, cotton, cotton cloth, grass cloth, nankeen, sheep skins, shoes, bricks, tea, sugar candy, pease, beans, and potato flour.
A single junk from Formosa, coal and sulphur.
Those from Hai-nán, bark, wood, rattans, sandalwood, skins, drugs, soy, salt beef and mutton, salt, barley, beans, rice, oil, cocoa nuts, areca nuts, live stock, dried fish, sharks fins, rock-suckers, and biche-de-mer.
The Cochin Chinese carried cloths, cotton yarns, rice, and drugs.
The three Siamese junks, nutmegs, Brazil wood, peppers, skins, areca nuts, bark, drugs,
glasses, rattans, sandalwood, dried fish, rice, and biche-de-mer.
The four Singaporeans, the same, as also cotton yarns and opium.
The single Penang vessel, drugs, nutmegs, pepper, and sandalwood.
The Tien-tsin junks are said to take away opium in no small quantities, and much is
of course carried in the Kwang Tung coast junks, some of which, belonging to the nearer ports, make as many as six voyages in the year to and from Hong Kong.
There is nothing to account for the great decrease of the salt imported. The stone trade is considerably above what it has been for the last two years, and the marine junk trade, which is of the chief consequence, better than it has been for the last three years; as will be seen by the following table :--
Junks and Cargoes.
1848.
1849.
1850.
1851.
Marine, average per month
80
72
的
83
Salt Junks
524
334
456
5543
Imported, piculs salt
207,050
335,350
345,050
280,300
Stove junks
777
BRE
407
562
(Signed)
THOMAS WADE,
Assistant Chinese Secretary.
:
Enclosure 13.
LIST of WHALERS arrived in HONG KONG. 1851-1852.
STATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
Sailed,
Where bound. Consignees in Hong Kong.
በሕ
Dec.
Feb.
4 Jan. 19
Cruise
Cruise
Rawle, Drinker, & Co.
Kawle, Drinker, & Co.
Rawle, Drinker, & Co.
4,400
74,174
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5
一54557111
Feb. 12
Cruise
Cruise
Cruise
Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co.
- Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co.
Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Kawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co. Rawle, Drinker, & Co.
Rawle, Drinker, & Co.
30
200
244 2194**
Masters.
Where owned,
Agents or Owners,
Months
out.
Sperm Oil,
Whale,
n Barrels of
in Barrels of
Bone.
Arrived.
31 Gallons
314 Gallons
old Measure.
old Measure.
No.
Vessels Names.
-
George and Mary
Metacom
Hibernia
Condor
Stephania
Rhone
Hercules
Mount Wollaston
Morca
Hobomok
Harvest
St. George
Francis
-
-
William Hamilton
General Pike
Friends
Brougham
Washington Roman
Illinois
Charles
Carrol
Adeline
Cossack
Malherbe
Havre
zado T
Taber
Allen
Miller
Phillips -
Graham
- Bailey
- Hammond
Weaver -
Swift
Wing
-
Woodbridge Hathaway
Green -
Havre
-
New Bedford
Jaques Levavascur
- R. Winslow and Co. T. A. Parker
New London - New London - New Bedford - New London
New Bedford - New Bedford Greenpoint
New Bedford -
New Bedford G. Hathaway
New London -
New Bedford -
New Bedford - New Bedford -
Falmouth New Bedford -
New Bedford - New Bedford - Sydney,
-
New Bedford -
New Bedford -
New Bedford - New Bedford -
New Bedford -
New London
-
New Bedford New London - New Bedford -
New Bedford
London --
New Bedford - New Bedford - New Bedford -
B. B. Howard
A. Barker
II. Taber & Co.
William Gifford A. Barker
Elijah Swift
-
Benjamin Brown, Sons
Sons
Boulcott & So
Wood & Nye
A. Barker
J. Howland, jun. & Co. -
Jonathan Bourne, jun.
Charles Hitch J. Howland, jun. & Co. -
Perkins and Smith
123
C 2
09
4,445
13
123
HONG KONG.
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