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HONGKONG
Jan. Feb.
March April May June July Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Mean rain
1.545
2091
2091
Maximum in 24 hours
3.920
2 185
3.580
5.980 13.159 16.496 14.210 13.482 5.210 20.495 12630 13.490 6.555
8.833
5.791
Nov. Dec. Year. 1302
098 › 98,967
5.855
10.190
5 875
01.7.) 20.495
Mean max. in 24 hours 0 688
0.710
1.180
2.256
4.844
Maximum in 1 hour
0.510
0 525
1.570
2 420
3.400
Mean max in 1 hour
0.183
0.249
0.484
1.018
--
1.406
Hours of rain
65
94
87
Wind direction
Wiud velocity mean Maximum
Hours of sunshing
130,7
E15°N E14°N
14.4 15.0
46
53 77.7
E8′′N
88 E2°N
1.389 94 90 E11'S $30 E
10 5 49
14.0 46
79.5 110,7
13.5 12.5 42 43 152.1 155.4
4.438 3.973 3.257 2 550 3.480 2.140 1720
1.333 79 843°F 11.2 108
2.951
2 743
0843
0,522 8.646
1.650
1,620 0 500 3.480
197.6
197.2
EB 200.1
1.187 1.004 0.702 0.235 0.165 73 67 44 26 31 823′′E E15′′N 21°N E29oN E27°N 9.0 12.2 E 14.7 13.8 12.7
63
85
49 63 108 214.5 196.2 189.7 19.7.4
2.116
833
ES°4
13.8
TRADE
Hongkong is a free port, and there is no complete official return of the imports and exports compiled, but the value of its trade is estimated at about £50,000,000 per annum. During the year 1903 the following tonnage entered and cleared :—
CLEARED
Vessels. Tons.
NATIONALITY
ENTERED
CLEARED
NATIONALITY
ENTERED
Vessels. Tons.
Vessels, Tons.
American
114 216.937
115
22,252
Austrian
42
British
4,92.)
100,944 5,631,562
42
107,403
German Italian
Vessels. Tons.
933 1,347,012
936 1,342,256
12
4,22)
5,016,734
Japanese
463
32,732 1,017,383
13 469
33,526 1,021,788
Chinese
345
254,944
843
253,517
Norwegian
319
321,183 313
315,595
Chinese Junks.. 15,803
1,317,0 1
15,963
1,3 1,458
Portuguese
93
17,316
92
17,154
Danish
27
48,076
27
48,476
Russian
19
30,781
19
81,781
Dutch.
21
34,575
22
35,777
Sarawak
4
2,678
3
2.007
French
685
423,560
584
422,571
Swedish.
32
27,304
31
20,660
A total of 24,819 vessels of 10,959,293 tons entered, and 24,966 vessels of 10,944,055 tons cleared with cargoes. There also entered in ballast 5,615 vessels, of 1,221,102 tons, and 5,436 vessels of 1,259,172 tons cleared in ballast.
The trade chiefly consists in opium, cotton, sugar, salt, flour, oil, cotton and woollen goods, cotton yarn, matches, metals, earthenware, amber, ivory, sandalwood, betel, vegetables, granite, &c., &c. There is an extensive Chinese passenger trade, chiefly restricted, however, to the Straits Settlements, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, Siam, and Indo-China, but since the middle of last year considerable numbers of Chinese from the neighbouring districts on the mainland "have emigrated to South Africa, though the number has not come up to expectations.
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 fortnightly mail service between Bremen and Hongkong, the P. M. S. S. Co., O.&O.S. S. Co. and the Toyo Kisen Kaisha maintain a mail service with San Francisco, the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. a regular mail service with Vancouver, B.C., a regular line has been established by the Northern Pacific S. S. Co. to Tacoma, and Portland, Oregon, and the Portland and Asiatic S, N. Co. also run a line of steamers to Port- land; the Eastern and Australian S. S. Co. and the China Navigation Co. keep up a frequent but rather irregular service with the Australian Colonies, and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha maintains services to Europe, India, Australia, and the United States (Seattle). (Since the commencement of the war, the Japanese steamship services have for the most part been suspendel, the Government employing the ships as transports.) In addition to all these, several great lines of merchant steamers run between ports in Great Britain and Hongkong, of which the China Mutual S. S. Co., Ocean S. S. Co. and the Glen, Warrack, Mogul, Ben, Union, and Shell lines are the most conspicuous. The Austrian Lloyd's steamers also ply from Trieste to Hong- kong, those of the Hamburg-Amerika line from Hamburg, and the Navigazione Generale Italiana Company's steamers run monthly from Genoa. Regular steam com- munication between Java and Hongkong has been established by the Java-China Japan Line. The coolic emigration to South Africa has given the Colony direc- steamship communication with Durban and Natal. Between the ports on the east coast of China, Formosa and Hongkong the steamers of the Douglas S. S. Co. ply regularly twice a week, and those of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha weekly, and there is constant steam communication with Hoihow, Manila, Saigon, Haiphong, Tourane, Bangkok, Borneo, &c. With Shanghai, Tientsin, and the ports of Japan there is frequent communication by steamers of the Indo-China S. N. Co., China Navigation, and other lines, in addition to the English and French and German mail steamers, which leave weekly. Between Hongkong, Macao, and Cantou there is a daily steam service, and tri-weekly steamers as far as Wuchow on the West River.
Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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