HONGKONG
1087
59.7
57.7
62.2 69.9 76.6 80.7
64.1
61.7
66.4
74.5
Mean minimum
56.0
54.5
58.9
66.7
73.5
Maximum
Bar. Mean pressure Maximum
Minimum
Mear temperature Mean maximum
Jan.
May Feb. March April
June July
Oct. Aug. Sept.
Nov. Dec. Year .30.150 30.132 30.055 29.958 29.863 29.764 29.738 29.755 29.824 29.982 30.103 30.181 29.959° .30.367 30.390 $0.308 30.158 30.045 29.881 29-882 29.851 92.984 30.157 30.311 30.444 30 444 .29.686 29.421 29.552 29.576 29.447 29.284 28 762-23, 88 28.876 29.089 29.575 29,757 28.762
81.6 81.0
8.4
76.2 69.2 02.4 71.5
81.2 85.2
80.2
86.0
85,3 80.7
74.3
67.5
76.1
77.4
78.0
77.3
76.6
72.5
65.3
58.3
67.9
70.2
79.0
82.1
88.6
91.5
93.6
94.0
92.9
94.0
93.8
85 6
81.9
94.0
Minimum
32.0
40.3 45.9
55.6
64.1
69.2
721
71 6
65 G
60.8
50.6
40.7 32.0
Mean humidity
Mean daily range
8.1
7.2
7.4
7.7
7.7
7.8
8.2
8.7
8.7
8.3
9.0
9.2
8.2
7+
79
81
85
83
$3
83
83
77
71
65
84
$7
Mean rain
1.545
2091
2.991
5.980 13.159 16.496
14.210
13 182
8.833
5.794
1 302
098 80.807
Maximum in 24 hours
3.920
2185
3.580
5.210 20.495 12 630
13.480
6.555
5.855 10.190
5875
1.70 20.456
Menn max.
in 24 hours
0 688
0.710
1,160
2.230
4.841
4 438
9.973
3.257
2.961
2743
0843 0.522 8.649
Maximum in 1 hour
0.510
0525
1570
24:20
3.400
2.550
3480
2.140
1 720
1.050
1.020 0500 3.480
Mean max. in 1 hour
0.188
0.249
0,484
1.013
1.403
1.309
1.333
1.187
1.004
0.702
0.285 0,105
2.116
Hours of rain
6.5
04
$7
88
04
9H
Wind direction
.E15°N E14°N
E3°N
E2oÑ KI'S
Wind velocity mean Maximum
Hours of sunshine
136.7
11.4 15.0 46 53 77.7
165 49 79.5
14.9
48 110.7
13.5 42 152.1
$30°E 12.5 48 155.4
79 843′′E 11.2
73
57
44 5233oE E15°N 21°oN E29°N E27°N
20
34
839
E3°S
9.6
12.2 E 14.7
13.8
12.7
13.4
108
66
197.6
197.2
F6 200.1
25 49 214.5 196.2 189.7
63
108
19:4
It has been remarked that the meteorological returns indicate a progressive change in the climatic conditions generally of the Colony. The average yearly rainfall for the ten years ended 1904 was 20 inches less than the average for the immediately preceding decade.
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 1909 the following tonnage entered and cleared :---
NATIONALITY
ENTERED Vessels. Tous, Vessels,
CLEARED
NATIONALITY
ESTERED
CLEARED
Tons.
Vessels. Tous,
Vessels. Tons.
American
4+** 211,827
43
225,319
Japanese
193
1,283,33 +
493
1,278.367
Austrian
94,288
24
91.289
No Flag..
3
858
Belgian
Norwegian
212
227,241
211
226,401
British
1,931
Chinese
486
5,722, SI 349,829
Chinese Junks,, 12,544
1,099,106
4,925 431 19,544
5,715,507
Portuguese
228
53.635
227
58,342
318,265
Russian
#
19,. 84
1,584
1,141,264
Swedish
35
53,720
52,737
Corean
790
1
796
Steamshipsun-
Danish
16
31,210
16
31,426
Dutch.
105
207,1:0
105
207,199
to
1,58)
70,243
1,580)
70,242
French
4:6
German
Italian
551,005 1,176,322 740 Il 28,470
442
544,835
11
1,18,400 28,4 0
der 10 tona : trading
ports outside the Colon..)
A total of 16,054 vessels of 10,121,310 tons entered, and 17,989 vessels of 10,171,285 tons cleared with cargoes. There also entered in ballast 5,844 vessels of 1,060,361 tons, and 3,907 vessels of 1,059,139 tons cleared in ballast. A Parliament ry 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, Philippines, Siam, and Indo-China.
the
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 Portland; the Eastern and Australian S. S. Co., the China Naviga- tion Co. and the Norddeutscher Lloyd keep up a regular monthly service with the Australian Colonies, and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha maintain services In addition to all to Europe, Australia, and the United States (Seattle) these, several great lines of merchant steamers run between ports in Great Co. Britain and Hongkong, of which the China Mutual S. S. Co., Ocean S. S. 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
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