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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