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HONGKONG

965

NATIONALITY

ENTERED

CLEARED

NATIONALITY

ENTERED

CLEARED

Verscht, Tons.

Vessels.

Tons,

Vessels, Tous,

Vessels. Тола.

American

زان

392.0%]

320,269

French

200

382,204

501

586.012

Austrian

$8,326

84,471

German

653

1,396,448

884

1,39,005

Belgian

1.794

1,704

Italian

543

51,492

51,483

British

5,741

6,616,032

5,742

6,160,314

Japanese

34,573

Chinese

281

288,534

Chinese Junks.. 16,709

1,428,948)

16,766

239,822 1,446,474

Norwegian

317

382,673

340

375.287

Portuguese

147

24,436

145

24,095

Danish

Dutch..

24,206 77,203

13 35

24.200 77,205

Russian Swedish.

1 10

2,903

2,003

20,210

10,212

A total of 19,974 vessels of 10,300,778 tons entered, and 18,416 vessels of 9,958,431 tons cleared with cargoes. There also entered in ballast 5,790 vessels, of 1,027,237 tons, and 7,398 vessels of 1,367,170 tons cleared in ballast. A Parliamentary paper issued in August, 1905, showed Hongkong to be, in respect of tonnage, the largest shipping port in the world.

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, &e., &e. There is an extensive Chinese passenger trade, chiefly restricted, however, to the Straits Settlements, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, Siam, and Indo-China, but in 1904 considerable numbers of Chinese from the neighbouring districts on the mainland emigrated to South Africa.

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. 8, 8. 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 Great Northern Steamship Company maintain a monthly service to Seattle with ships of over 20,000 tons gross register: the Eastern and Australian S. S. Co., the China Navigation Co. and the Norddeutscher Lloyd keep up a frequent but rather irregular service with the Australian Cologies, and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha maintain services to Europe, Australia, and the United States (Seattle). 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, Shire, and Shell lines are the most conspicuous. The Austrian Lloyd's steamers also ply from Trieste to Hongkong, those of the Hamburg-Amerika line from Hamburg, and the Navigazione Generale Italiana Company's steamers run monthly from Genoa. Regular steam communication between Java and Hongkong has been established by the Java-China-Japan Line. The coolie emigration to South Africa has given the Colony direct though very irregular 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 Canton there is a daily steam service, and tri-weekly steamers as far as Wuchow on the West River.

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