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HONGKONG

989

NATIONALITY

EXTERKD

CLEARED

NATIONALITY

ENTERED

CLEARED

Vessels. Tons.

Vessels.

Tons.

Vessels. Tons.

Vessels. Tons.

American

307,412

305,709

German

883

1,368,267

800 1,351,005

Austrian

27

100,929

27

100,929

Italian

12

:British

5,000

6,02 1,840

6,071

6,011,132

Japanese

301

33,012 642,572

13 299

33,568

6:36,782

Chinese

311

274,953

301

273,944

Norwegian

219

289,857 273

282.015

Chinese Junks.. 14,183

1,307,972

13,970

1,311,439

Portuguese

10%

33,260

198

33.377

.Danish

13

Dutch..

04

French

40,734 130,804 484 590,934

17

40,589

61

128,272

Russian Swedish

13

31,129

12

20,824

27

24,300

20

23,811

182

590.115

A total of 16,853 vessels of 10,043,530 tons entered, and 16,301 vessels of 9,813,839 tons -cleared with cargoes. There also entered in ballast 5,555 vessels, of 1,205,703 tons, and 5,841 vessels of 1,390,005 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, &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.

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 Portland; 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 Colonies, 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. 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. 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 steamers run as far as Wuchow on the West River.

With

DIRECTORY

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT

"Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice-Admiral-SIR FREDERICK J. D. LUGARD,

K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.

Private Secretary-A. J. Brackenbury

Aide de Camp--Captain P. H. Mitchell-Taylor, 32nd Lancers, Indian Army Hon. Extra Aide-de-Camp-Capt. W. Armstrong, H.K.V.C.

do. -Jemadar Muhammad Khan, 129th Baluchis

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