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HONGKONG.

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A total of 18,115 vessels, of 5,637,853 tons entered, and 20,870 vessels, of 5,602,531 tons cleared with cargoes. There also entered in ballast 9,484 vessels, of 763,984 tons, and there cleared 6,343 vessels with 725,092 tons. The total arrivals show an increase as compared with the previous year of 77,673 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 passes 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 mouthly 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. S. Co. a regular mail service 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 Australian Colonies. In addition to all these, 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 L'oyd's steamers also ply from Trieste to Hongkong, and the Navigazione Generale Italiana 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 constant 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 Canton there is a daily steam service. The telegraphic communication of the Colony extends to nearly every part of the world.

Colonial Government.

DIRECTORY.

Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice- Admiral-His Excellency Sir George William Des Voeux, K.C.M.G. Colonial Secretary-Hon. F. Stewart LL.D. Aide-dr-camp to H.E. the Governor-

Captain F. H. A. Des Vœux, 6th Dragoon Guards

Private Secretary-Slingsby W. Bethell

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

局政議

I Ching Kuk.

His Excellency The Governor

The Senior Military Officer in Command

Hon. Colonial Secretary

Hon. Attorney General

Hon. Colonial Treasurer

Hon. Survevor-General

Hon. Captain Superintendent of Police

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

局例定 Ting Lai Kuk.

His Excellency The Governor

Hon. Colonial Secretary

Hon. Attorney General

Hon. Colonial Treasurer

Hon. Surveyor General

Hon. Phineas Ryrie Hon. Capt. Superintendent of Police Hon. Wong Shing Hon. C. P. Chater

un-official

Hon A. P. MacEwen (abst) (members Hon. J. Bell-Irving

Hon. B. Layton

Cerk of Councils-Arathoon Seth

Public Offices.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE 署使政輔 Fu Ching Sz Shii.

Albert Road.

Colonial Secretary-Hon. F. Stewart, LL.D.

Chief Clerk--Arathoon Seth

Assistant Secretary-

First Clerk--J. M. S. Alves

Second do. -P. H. do Rozario

Third do. —J. M. Gutierrez

Fourth do. -H. G. Rozario

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

tro, A. A. da Costa

Passed Cadets--F. H. May, T. Sercombe

Smith

Cadets—A. M. Thomson, A. W. Brewin

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