CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6] — Page 359

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C84460/53

Chinew Secretary's Office,

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:

Hongkong, 15th March, 1853.

Memorandum on the Junk Frade of t

during the year 1852.

in the

of Victoria

According to the monthly Reports furnished

manner described in former Mecmorandums,

the number of Chinees coasting, sessels which visited

Hongkong harbour

during

1852 was 492; and

of Salt Junks 310, importing 173,000 piculs :- Of Stone cargoes exported the Monopolist states he kept no account, as

custom to do

The

previously

had been his

cargoes of the Coasting Junks and were of the usual nature, comprising from their respective Sorts the undermentioned commodities.

boats were

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From the Province of Toh-kien : – Mum, Beans, Camphor, Camphor-wood, Coal, Cotton

cloth, brockery, Dates, Drugs, Lalt Fish, Fried Fruit, Iron-ware, Paper, Rice, Skins, Ying-te

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