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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 1, 1907.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 140.-It is hereby notified that information has been received from H.B.M.'s Consul at Bangkok to the effect that vessels arriving from Hongkong will, in consequence of bubonic plague, be required to complete 10 days before arrival at a Siamese port.

1st March, 1907.

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 141.-Shipping and Trade Returns of Hongkong, for the year 1906.

Trade of the Port of Hongkong for the Year 1906.

TONS.

Passengers.

Emi-

No. of Ships.

British Ocean-going. Foreign Ocean-going. British River Steamers. Foreign River Steamers....

Total...

15.519 1.029.177

Dis-

Itt charged.

Transit.

3.697 1.893.231 1.092.842 1.668.276

847.432 4,287 1.851,053

1.210.084 6.464! 222,250 173.483 1.071 62,631 40,587

2163314 2,878,360

Shipped.

Bunker Coal shipped.

Total.

Registered Tonnage.

grants.

Arrived. Departed,

248.5814,902.933

387.030 4.295.500 43.850 139.989 9.806 122,027

G88.767 9.750,648

7. 99,171 7.003.195

4.612,591

607.917

19,798,384

167,889 102,738 L12.8B 88.522

1.553.992

100.701

63,830

100,811 12.895

1.195,514

84.991

1.182,119

76 725

Steam-ships under 60

tons Foreign Trade,

Junks Foreign Trade.

878 23,219 8,253

28,153 141.319 606,844

1.922

33.391

10.282

5.889

6,241

1,048,163 2,619.411

38.725

36.482

Total Foreign Trade,

44,550 4,493,715 2,778,441 2,878.360

690,689 10.841,205 | 22,453,077

1.598.606 1,524,842 76,725

Steam-Launches Local

Trade.

......

Junks, Local Trade,...

Total Local Trade.

*333,560

51,616 315.623

385,176 315.623 73,672

73.672

Grand Total....

429,726 | 4,809,338 || 2,852,113 | 2,878,360

*23.023 *23,023 *8.251.536

389,295 2,042,655

23,023 412.318 10.294.191

713.712 11,253,523 | 32,747,268

56.119

*3.792,605 | *3.076,294

61,004

3.848.724 3,137,298

5.447,330

1,662,140 76,725

*Not including "Star" Ferry Company's Craft.

Comparative Shipping return for the Years 1905 and 1906.

1905.

1906.

Increase.

Decrcase.

British Occan-

going. Foreign Ocean-

going,

British River

Steamers, Foreign River Steamers,. S'ships under 60

Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tounage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage.

3,995 7,672,324 8,697 | 7,189,471

3,845 5,820,785 4,287 7,093,495

7,488 5,554,022 6,464 4,842,501

298 182,853

442 1,272,710!

1,024 711.521

975

659,597 1,071 667,917 96 8,320

tons (Foreign Trade).

1,800

71,448 878 40,292

922 31,166

Total..

!

Junks in Foreign 33,475 2,875,440 |28,153 | 2,619,411

Trade,

Steam launches

5,322 256,029

51,578 22,653,616 14,550 22,453,077

538 1,281,030 7,566 1,481,569

plying in the Colony,

337,913

| 9,169,312 333,560 8,251,536

4,353 917,776

Junks in Local

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63,267 2.362,16351,616|| 2,042,655

11.651 319,508

Trade,

Grand Total.... 452,758 | 34,185,091 | 429,726 | 32,747,268

538 1,281,030,23,570 2,718,853

NETT,

23,032 1,137,823

* Including 32,421 Conservancy and Dust Boats of 1,176,625 tons. Including 23,130 Conservancy and Dust Boats of 858,746 tons.