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HONGKONG.

REPORT OF THE HARBOUR MASTER FOR 1893.

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No.

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Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, on the 12th April, 1894.

No. 70.

HARBOUR DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, 12th February, 1894.

SIR, I have the honour to forward the Annual Returns for this Department for the year ending 31st December, 1893.

I. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels entered.

II. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels cleared.

III. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels of each Nation entered. IV. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels of each Nation cleared,

V. Total Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels entered at each Port. VI. Total Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels cleared at each Port. VII. Return of Junks entered from Macao.

VIII. Return of Junks cleared for Macao.

IX. Return of Junks entered at each Port from China and Formosa.

X. Return of Junks cleared at each Port for China and Formosa.

XI. Grand Total Number of Junks entered at each Port.

XII. Grand Total Number of Junks cleared at each Port.

XIII. Return of Junks (Local Trade) entered.

XIV. Return of Junks (Local Trade) cleared.

XV. Summary of Arrivals and Departures of all Vessels.

XVI. Return of Vessels registered.

XVII. Return of vessels struck off the Register.

XVIII. Amount of Fees received under Table B of Ordinance 26 of 1891.

XIX. Return of Chinese Passenger Ships cleared by the Emigration Officer.

XX. Return of Vessels bringing Chinese Passengers to Hongkong from places out of

China.

XXI. Return of Marine Cases tried.

XXII. Diagram of Tonnage of Vessels entered.

XXIII. Return of the work performed by the Government Marine Surveyor.

XXIV. Return from Imports and Exports (Opium) Office.

SHIPPING.

2. The total of arrivals and sailings amounted to 14,349,122 tons, or an increase on 1892 of 196,273 tons. There were 32,983 arrivals with a tonnage of 7,177,025 tons and 32,858 departures of 7,172,097 tons.

The increase in tonnage in European constructed vessels is 241,707 tons, the numerical decrease is 216, paradoxical as this appears it is in accordance with the growth of shipping all the world over, the tendency being to increase the size of ships, (and by the aid of labour-saving appliances to decrease the crews, improved machinery also economising fuel).

There is an increase in the Foreign Junk Trade of 2,007 Junks representing 295,931 tons, against which must be set a decrease in the Local Junk Trade of 8,630 vessels aggregating 341,365

tons.