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DROIT

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 22.

No. 60.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 2nd JUNE, 1860.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

VOL. VI.

It is found necessary again to call the attention of Owners, Agents, and Masters of Ships to Govern- ment Notifications No. 104 of 12th November, 1859, and No. 25 of 28th February last, and to repeat, that all Transfers, Endorsements, and other Transactions connected with the Registry of Ships, under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, are now effected at the Harbor Master's Office, in place of the Colonial Secretary's Office, as previously to the date first above-named.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 30th April, 1860.

No. 69.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

The following Returns showing the Shipping and Emigration at the PORT OF VICTORIA. HONGKONG, during the Year 1859, and such portion of its Trade as could, in the absence of a Custom House, be officially ascertained by the Harbour Master's Department, are published for general

information.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 28th May, 1860.

No. 1.-NUMBER and TONNAGE OF VESSELS of each Nation entered at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong in the

year

1859.

ENTERED

COUNTRIES WHENCE ARRIVED,

WITH CARGOES.

VESSELS.

IN BALLAST.

TONS. VESSELS. TONS,

TOTAL.

VESSELS. TONS.

Great Britain,..

Other parts of Europe,

66 10

38,994 5,416

889

66

10

38,994 5,416

Calcutta, Bombay, Rangoon, Singapore, Labuan,

178*

&c., &c.,...

108,150

5

3,090

183

111,246

Australasia,.

18

10,990

38

25,637

56

36,027

United States of America, including California,

24

38,948

18

22,949

42

61,897

South America,..

4

2,928

4

2,928

South Sea Islands,

7

3,928

4

2,226

11

6,154

Siam,..

69

30,091

69

36,091

Manila,.

38

15,894

2

650

40

16,553

Japan,

20

8,878

255

21

9,133

Java and other Islands in the Indian Archipelago,

20

9,122

1

1,098

21

10,220

West Indies,.

1

1,409

1

1,409

Coast of China, Shanghae, Canton, Macao, &c., &c.

468

201,994

106

88,644

634

289,868

TOTAL,..

918

477,041

240

148,805

1,158

626,530

H. G. THOMSETT,

Acting Harbour Master.

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