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HONGKONG

A total of 17,324 vessels, of 5,574,647 tons entered, and 19,055 vessels, of 5,487,776, tons cleared with cargoes. There also entered in ballast 9,422 vessels, of 660,889 tons, and there cleared 7,355 vessels with 666,009 tons. The total arrivals show a slight decrease as compared with the previous year.

The trade chiefly consists in opium, cotton, sugar, salt, flour, oil, cotton and woollen goods, metals, earthenware, amber, ivory, sandalwood, betel, vegetables, granite, &c., &c. There is still an extensive Chinese passenger trade, now chiefly restricted, however, to the Straits Settlements, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, Siam, and Indo-China,

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. S. Co. a regular mail service with Vancouver, B.C., a line of steamers to Mexican ports has recently been started, 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, Shire, and Castle lines are the most conspicuous. The Austro-Hungarian Lloyd's steamers also ply from Trieste to Hongkong, and the Navigazione Generale Italiana Company's steamers run monthly from Genoa. There is frequent but irregular steam 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, Borneo, &c. With Shanghai, Tientsin, 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 com- munication of the Colony extends to nearly every part of the world.

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