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compared with 1909, 30 tuore ships with a tonnage increased by 121,836 tous, entered 86 more times, and gave a collective tonnage greater by 316,609 tons.
Thus:-
Ansarim.
Chinese,.
7962
138
Steamers.
No. of Times entered.
Total Tommage.
Flag.
1999. 1910 1909. 1910.
1909.
1910.
Tritish
Steamers,. : Sailing,
341
360 2,054 2,124 3,851,071
*
4,041,557
German,
108
113 735
Steamers,
98
101
493
722 1,176,822 607
17,683 17,663 1,266,757
1,283,830 1 341,083
Japanese
trailing..
Norwegian..
43
212
223
227,341
236,331
7
24
21
91,288
95,062
21
282
250
290,936
314,879
1
1
Danish,
16
20
Dutch,
105 108
207,190 214,787
French,
148 144
262,459
262,670
Italian,
11
13
28,470
84,496
Portuguese,
94
66
36,927
29,478
Russian,...
9
10
19,584
28,803
Swedish,
35
27
63,726
45,398
U. S. A.,
17
42
No Flag,
37 I
211,827
210,466
299
Totul,
704
7344,198 4,284,7,7 96,376 8,112,985
$
Corean,
31,326 33,165
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if not actually increasing, Cardiff, though only used by Men-of-War, and imported almost solely by the Admiralty, comes third. There have been increased shipments from Hongay: but from Australia and India large decreases appear: while no Labuan coal was import- ed during the year.
I remarked last year upon the fact that, in spite of the large in- crease in coal imported, the shipments of bunker coal in the Colony had fallen off considerably. This year, the opposite occurred. There is a falling off in imports, but an increase of 22,140 tons, or 35 per cent. in the quantity of bunker coal shipped. But, of the total amount of coal imported, little more than half is shipped as bunker coal, the remainder being re-exported.
Kerosene Oil-Uere, enormous increases are reported: in Bulk Oil of 20,559 tons or 577 per cent., and in Case Oil of 13,989 tons or 386 per cent., while Liquid Fuel has increased by 5,089 tons or 1172 per cent. These increases appear to be due to competition between the Asiatic Petroleum Company and the Standard Oil Com- pany, whose business is largely increasing in the interior of China in consequence of their activity in opening up new distributing
centres.
As last year. I add a few remarks about certain other items of import of which I have been able to collect information.
Opium. The imports of Raw Opima show a decrease of 3,990! cheste, or 11'1 per cent., while 1909 shewed a decrease of 0,087 chests or 145 per cent. The exports declined by 7,641 chests, or 212 per cent, in 1909 the decrease was 3,620 chests, or 97 per cent. During the last three years the raw opium trade of the Colony is described by the following figures :---
Stock in hand. 1st January,... 4,509 Imported during the year, 31,743
1010. Chests.
1909. Chests.
1908.
Chests.
5,808
4,707
35,731
41,821
Total,... 36,252
$1,512
40,528
Boiled by Opium Farmer,
782
1,044
864
Spurious Opium destroyed,... 14 Exported during the year, 28,383
Total,... 29,120
51
217
35,938
30,000
37,033
40,720
Stock remaining on 31st Dec., 7,123
4,500 5,808
TRADE.
As pointed out in previous reports, the figures which used
to appear under this heading were, as a whole, so inaccurate as to They have therefore been be in some cases, most misleading. omitted from this, as from my three previous annual reports. However, in certain items of the import trade, fairly accurate details are available, and, as to these, the following remarks may be of interest.
This
Coul.--1,115,120 tons were imported during the year. quantity, compared with the imports for 1909, shows a decrease of 11,716 tous. or 104 per cent. This decrease is so small as to be negligible, but is explained by the dull tone of the market in the Colony throughout the year 1910, and the necessity of adjusting stocks after the somewhat largely increased imports of 1909. Of the various varieties of coal imported, Japanese heads the list. Next comes that from North China and Manchuria, which holds its own,
Of the several varieties of opium imported, Malwa decreased by 315 chests, or 6 per cent., Patna by 3,241 chests, or 166 per cent.. Benares by 1,885 chests, or 225 per cent., and Persian increased by 249 chests. Of Chinese opium 1,222 chests were imported from Shanghai and re-exported to Ilaiphong.
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