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HONGKONG.

tons cleared with cargoes. There also entered in ballast 8,294 vessels, with 738,945 tons, and there cleared 5,979 vessels with 780,633 tons. The total shows an increase as compared with the previous year of 704,587 tons.

The trade chiefly consists in opium, cotton, sugar, salt, flour, oil, cotton and wool- len goods, metals, earthenware, amber, ivory, sandalwood, betel, vegetables, granite, &c., &c. The bulk of the European trade of China and Japan pas-es through this port.

Hongkong possesses unrivalled steam communication. The P. & O. S. N. Co. and the M. M. Co. convey the European mail weekly, the Norddeutscher Lloyd Co. maintain a regular monthly mail service between Bremen and Hongkong, the P. M. S. S. Co. and the O. & O. S. S. Co, maintain a mail service with San Francisco, the Canadian Pacific S. 8. Co. a regular mail 8 rvice with Vancouver, B.C., and the E. & A. S. S. Co., the Gibb Line, and the C. N. Co. keep up a frequent but irregular service with the Australiau Colonies.

In addition to all t ese, several great lines of merchant steamers run between London, Liverpool, and Hongkong, of which the Ocean S. S. Co. and the Glen and Castle lines are the most conspicuous. The Austro-Hungarian Loyd's steamers als ply from Trieste to Hongkong, and the Florio Ruba tino Company's steamers run monthly from Genoa. The N. I. S. N. Co. maintain direct monthly communication between Java and Hongkong. Between the ports on the east coast of China and Hongkong the steamers of the Douglas S. S. Co. ply regularly twice a week, and there is con tant steam communication with Hoihow, Manila, Saigon, Haiphong, Bangkok, &c. With Shanghai and the ports of Japan there is frequent communication in addition to the English and French mail steamers, which leave weekly. Between Hongkong, Macao, and Canion there is a daily steam service. The telegraphic communication of the Colony extends to nearly every part of the world.

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Colonial Government.

DIRECTORY.

Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice- Admiral-His Excellency Sir George William Des Voeux, K.C.M.G. Golonial Secretary-Hon. F. Stewart,

LL.D.

Aide-de-camp to H.E. the Governor-Lt.

J. D. Anderson, R.A.

Private Secretary-Slingsby W. Bethell

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

局政議 IChing Kuk.

His Excellency The Governor

The Senior Military Officer in Command

Hon. Colonial Secretary

Hon. Attorney General

Hon. Colonial Treasurer

Hon. Surveyor-General

The Captain Superintendent of Police

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Ting Lai Kuk.

His Excellency The Governor

Hon. Surveyor General HG. H. G. Thomsett, R.N. Hon. F. D. Sassoon (absent) Hon. Phineas Ryrie

Hon. Wong Shing Hon. . P. Chater Hon. A. P. MacEwen

Hon. J. Bell-Irving

un-official members

Clerk of Councils-Arathoon Seth

Public Offices.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE.

署使政輔 Fu Ching Sz Shi

Colonial Secretary-Hon. F. Stewart,

LL.D.

Assistant Secretary-

Chief Olerk-Arathoon Seth

First Clerk—J. M. S. Alves

Second do. —P. H. do Rozario

Third do. -J. M. Gutierrez

Hon. Chief Justice

Hon. Colonial Secretary

Hon. Attorney General Hon. Colonial Treasurer

Fourth do. -H. G. Rozario

Temporary Clerks J. T. d'Almada e Cas-

tro, A. A. da Costa

Passed Cadets-F, Hi May, T. Seroombe

Smith