Sessional_Paper_1894 — Page 149

2,717,910 tons made up as follows :--

Beans,

7,070

Bones,

870

Bricks,

100

Coal,

507,993

Cotton,

2,300

Flour,

6,320

Fruit, .

60

Hemp,

600

Iron,

650

Kerosine,

66,939

Lead,

700

Oil,...

240

Rice,..

762,374

Salt,

200

Sandal Wood,

790

Sugar,

168,816

Tea.

988

Timber, General,

26,938

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.1,163,962

2,717,910

Transit,

.1,335,264

Total,

.4.053,174 by arrivals.

EXPORTS (EXCLUDING RIVER TRADE).

,2,922 measuring 3,585,072 tons.

88

78,604

Steamers,

Sailing Ships,

Total, ......3,010

"

3,663,676 exported.

145

1,485,155 tons of general cargo.

These 2,922 steamers also shipped 386,601 tons of Bunker Coal,

15. Junks in Foreign Trade imported 379,326 tons and exported from the Colony 845.177 tons, European constructed vessels imported 1,246,234 tons in excess of exports, Junks exported 465,851 tons in excess of what they imported reducing the total excess of imports to 780,383 tons, from this must be deducted 406,800 tons of bunker coal leaving a balance of 373,583 tons consumed, manufac- tured, and in stock in the Colony or unaccounted for.

RIVER STEAMERS.

16. 2,756 River steamers measuring 3,215,106 tons imported 141,966 tons of cargo exporting 128,487 tons, shipped 20,199 tons of bunker coal and conveyed 1,177,631 passengers.

Junks in local trade discharged in various parts of the Colony 104,400 tons of which 99,777 were earth and stones, clearing from Victoria with 13,730 tons of which 1,757 were earth and stones; they would seem therefore to have transported 11,973 tons of the surplus imports to various parts of the Colony.

PASSENGERS TRAFFIC.

17. The passengers traffic of Hongkong during 1893 deserves notice.

British vessels arriving carried....

154,665

departing (excluding Chinese Passenger ships) carried... 140 Chinese Passenger ships carried

92,118

59,132

305,915

Foreign vessels arriving carried

54,335

departing (excluding Chinese Passenger ships) carried 68 Chinese Passenger ships carried....

34,590

23,204

112,129