Bar. Mean pressure
Maximum
Minimum
Mean maximınm
HONGKONG
Jan. Feb. March April
1075
May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Year .30.159 30.132 30.055 20.958 29.863 29.764 29.738 29.753 29.824 29.992 30,103 30.181 20.983 30.367 30.390 30.308 30.153 30,045 29.831-29-582- 29.851 92.984 30.157 30.311 30.444 30 444 .29.686 20.421 20.552 20.576 29.447 29.234-28.762-29788 28.876 29.089 29.575 29.757 28.762
59.7 57.7 62.2
76.6 80.7 $1.6 $1.0 89.4 76.2 69.2 62.4 71.5 81.2 85.2 86.2 $6.0 85.3 80.7 74.3 67.5 76.1
Mean temperature
69.9
64.1 $1.7 66.4
Mean minimnu
56.0 54.5 58.9
74.5 66.7
73.5
77.4
78.9
77.3 76.6
72.5 05.3
58.3 67.9
Maximum
79.2 79.0
82.1 88.6 91.5
98.6
94.0
92.9
94.0
93.8 $5.0
SL.9 94.0
Minimum
32.0 40.3
45.9
55.6
64.1
69.9
721
71 6
65.6
60.8 50,6
40.7 32.0
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
Mean humidity
74
79
$4
85
୫୫
53
3
83
77
71
035
64
87
Mean rain
1.545
2.001
2.991
3,980 13.159 10.496
14.210
13.482
8.83
5.704
1.302
0985 86.867
Maximum in 24 hours
3.920
2.185 3.559
5.210 29.495 12 630
13.480
6.555
5.855 10.100
Mean max. in 24 hours
0.688
0.710
1.160 2.256
4.844 4.438
3.978
Maximum in 1 hour
0.510
0 525
1.570
2420
3.490 2.550
3.150
Mean max. in 1 hour
0.188
Hours of rain
tä
Wind direction
Wind velocity mean Maximum
14.4 15.0
46
0.249
94
·E15°N E14°N ES°N 105 40
0.484 $7
53
1.018 1.406 88 91 E2°N E11o8 14.9 13.5
46
42
1.360
1.358 O
79 $39′′E S'E 12.5 11.2 48 105
0.843 0.522 8.649 1,620 0 500 8.480 2.116 838 E3°8 13.4
63 109
Hours of sunshine
5.875 01.70 20.456
3.257 2.051 2743 9.140 1720 1.650 1.187 1.004 0.702 0.285 0.165 73 57 44 26 34 N20′′E E15oN 21°N E29°N E27°N 9.6 12.2 E 14.7 13.8 12.7
66
$5 49
136.7 77.7 79.5 110.7 152.1 155.4 197.6 197.2 200.1 214.5 196.2 189.7 190.4 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 1910 the following tonnage entered and cleared :---
ENTERED Vessels. Tous. Vessels, Tons.
37 210,466 24 95,062
CLEARES
NATIONALITY
CLEARED
NATIONALITY
ENTERED
American
Austrian
#0 24
209.265 95,002
Japanese No Flag
Vessels. Tons.
TAIS 1,341,221
Vessels. Tons.
506 1,34,525
1
200
1
Belgian
Norwegian
236,334
219
108 231,814
British
Chinese
5,371 494
Chinese Junks.. 10,736
6,060,180 374,814 1,068,177
6,371 $999 10,434
6,051,880 878,043
Portuguese
145
Russian
1,082,710
Swedish
37
49.242 28,80 45,398
138
49,242
10
28,803
46,387
Corean
Steam-hipsum-
Danish
20
Dutch.
JOS
$33,165 214,787
21 106
85,203
French
445
596,279
*4*
21,276 584,0814
dur 60 tons i #trading to 1,569
68,162 1,284
63,003
German
Italian
*** 1,200,757 13 34,496
727
13
1,207,164 34,406
ports outside i The Colony..!
A total of 15,718 vessels of 10,517,068 tous entered, and 16,851 vessels of 10,282,165 tons cleared with cargoes. There also entered in ballast 4,751 vessels of 1,086,524 tons, and 3,364 vessels of 1,274,499 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., de. There is an extensive Chinese passenger trade, chiefly restricted, however, to the Straits Settlements, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, Siam, and Indo-t'hina.
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. §. 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 to Europe, Australia, and the United States (Seattle). In addition to all these, several great lines of merchant steamers ran 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 Käisha weekly, and there is constant steam communication
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