THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH APRIL, 1882.
EMIGRATION.
389
8. Emigration during the year has been largely on the increase, 20,300 Chinese having left this Port in 1881 in excess of the number leaving Hongkong the previous year.
It is a strange commentary on the recent Convention, entered into between the United States of America and China for the purpose of checking emigration, to find that 14,127 more Chinese have been introduced into those States than landed there in 1880, and Chinese are still going over in large numbers, for the purpose of constructing new Railroads. The Chinese on arrival get high wages and the protection of the law, and their condition in America is far superior to what they experience in their native country.
9. The Australian Governments have adopted a more practical means of putting a stop to the Immigration of Chinese into those Colonies, by laws which in their effect almost completely prohibit a Chinaman from seeking his living on that Continent. How far this prohibition is in accordance with the existing Treaties with China, and the expediency of shutting out the most sober and industrious race in the world from a Continent wanting labourers, are not matters for discussion in this report.
10. The Northern Territory of South Australia still admits Chinese, but the inducement to go there does not seem to be very encouraging, as only 172 left for Port Darwin in 1881, while 2,268 left for that Port in 1880.
There is a large and increasing emigration to the Straits Settlements, there being an excess of 5,400 over the number leaving Hongkong the previous year. Employment is found for them, not alone in the Straits Settlements, but in the Malay States, and in the neighbouring Island of Sumatra. 11. The following tables will show the number of emigrants that have passed through this Office between the years 1872 and 1881, inclusive, together with the Countries to which they proceeded; also the number of Chinese returned to the Colony during the same period:—
NUMBERS IN.
TOTAL
COUNTRIES
PROCEEDED TO.
1872. 1873. 1874.
1875. 1876. 1877. 1878. 1879.
1880. 1881.
IN THE LAST 10
YEARS.
British Columbia,
240
240
British Guiana,
506
506
Calcutta,
15
15
California, U.S.A.
9,147 16,640 15,988 19,168 14,034
9,562
6,340
6,811
6,235
19,339 | 123,264
New South Wales,.
40
507 261
312
775
2,142
793
2,082
3,643
10,555
New Zealand,
178
560
766
478
48
121
345
135
7
Oregon, U.S.A.
Philippine Islands,
Queensland,
2,638
1,215
994
545
580
915
1,083
1,764
2,208
1,021
2,044
12,369
952 2,447
2,658
1,284
2,714
774
277
235
216
11,557
220
532
8,618
6,732 6,530
64
81
84
86
22,947
Sandwich Islands,
111
1,118 1,102
2,331
Siam,
786 344 1,044
2,337
South Australia,.
Straits Settlements,
Sumatra,.
9,790 7,743 9,623 15,158 16,254 15,029 20,630 16,421 31,145 36,545 178,338
156
3,200 4,259 3,089 4,374 6,305 6,635 97 1,812 1,771 2,268 172
33,273
6,120
Vancouver's Island,.
Victoria,
155
West Indies,.......
...
156
203
142
661 265 355 282 435 1,151 206 144 429 418 526 448 322
3,149
2,671
322
TOTAL,.
22,443 28,768 31,866 48,152 46,350 39,741 38,653 33,529 | 50,324 70,625 |410,451
NUMBERS IN.
TOTAL
COUNTRIES ARRIVED FROM
1872. 1873. 1874. 1875.
1870.
California, U.A.S. Cuba,......
3,721
New South Wales,. New Zealand,.
190
Oregon, U.S.A. Peru,
538
231
1877. 1878. 1879. 1880.
5,724 7,454 5,503 6,871 7,130 6,611 6,300 7,135 58 404 557 371 673 190 365 297 903 634
284 322 233 136 145 60
459
394
834
1881.
IN THE LAST 10
YEARS.
7,939 64,388
58
796
5,190
84 182
81
1,717
330
858
514
330
4,488
68
Philippine Islands,. Queensland,
3,236
92 3,438
40
172
151
523
...
Sandwich Islands,
3,694 4,811 4,960 4,487 1,222 2,346
30
5,173
4,937
3,272
27,958
2,667 2,458
111
795
820
688
10,996
101
107
437 835 1,621
Siam,
South Australia,.
Victoria,
Straits Settlements,
719 968 1,244 1,845 1,475
14,547 13,452 19,117 23,386 25,972 30,088 29,775 32,775 33,901 36,950 259,963
292 609 117 340
46 127 345 405 229 314 2,824
TOTAL,...... 23,773 25,355 32,319 38,502 | 42,890 48,746 47,882 50,542 51,011 52,983 413,503
2,802 | 2,537 23
2,977
3,197 4,016 | 21,780 401 690 883 1,997
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