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3. The following statement shows how this amount of shipping is apportioned :--

1890.

1891.

INCREASE.

DECREASE.

Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage.

British.

Foreign,

Junks in Foreign )

Trade,

5,524 6,994,919 5,719 7,190,589

2,695 | 2,776,822| 2,988| 3,088,454

195 | 195,670

293 311,632

46,686 3,572,079 145,408 3,263,118

1,283 308,961

Total,....54,905 | 13,343,820 54,110 13,542,161

198,341 795

Junks in Local

Trade,

9,082 332,473 11,930

463,537 2,848 | 131,064

:

Grand Total,...163,987 13,676,293 66,040 14,005,698 3,336 638,366 1,283 308,961

NET,...

2,053 329,105

4. Compared with 1890, there has been an increase of British Tonnage amounting to 195,670 tons, and an increase of Foreign tonnage of 311,632 tons. A comparison with the average of the last three years shows an increase in 1891, of 433 British ships representing 533,878 tons, and of vessels under Foreign flags an increase of 478 ships, measuring 495,028.

5. The 1,548 British ships, exclusive of River Steamers, that entered the port in 1891, carried 10,938 officers as follows:-

British,

.10,748

American,

60

Austrian,

1

Belgian,

2

Dane,

21

Dutch,

10

French,

2

German,

57

Japanese,

1

Norwegian,

14

Portuguese, Swedes,

14

8

10,938

95 of the British Officers belonged to the Royal Naval Reserve.

6. The 1,354 Foreign ships, exclusive of River Steamers, that entered in 1891, carried 969 British Officers, all in American, Chinese, and Japanese owned ships.

7. 2,902 European constructed vessels entered the port in the year, of these 442 ships entered 1,529 times, measuring 2,109,366 tons, being twelve times and under, i.e. to make a broad distinction class- ing them as ocean traders or feeders to the Colony. 61 ships entered 1.373 times or 13 times each and upwards, aggregating 1,290,443 tons and may be described as local traders, or distributors of the ocean borne traffic. 149 ships entered once only, one British ship entered thirty eight times, one foreign 37 times and two 36 each.

8. Examination of the following statement shows that the bulk of the ocean traffic is in British bottoms, whilst pro rata very much the largest share of the distributing trade is under foreign flags. The German ships are shown separately to the foreigners, the total of the German tonnage being more than that of all the other foreigners put together, and exceeding one-third of the British:-