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

Comparative Shipping Return for the Years 1894 and 1895.

1894.

1895.

INCREASE.

DECREASE.

British,.. Foreign,

Junks in Foreign Į

Trade, .......

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

6,022 7,778,396 6,626 8,589,637 604 811,241 2,430 | 2,690,786 2,463 2,935,949 33 245,163 45,861 3,482,124 53,027| 3,683,700| 7,166| 201,576|

54,313 13,951,306 62,116 | 15,209,286 | 7,803 1,257,980

297,364 11,645

Total,

+

Junks in Local

Trade,

8,478

422,827 3,167 125,463|

Grand Total,...62,791 14,248,670 78,761 | 15,632,115 10,970 1,383,443

:

++

:

NET,..

10,970 1,383,443

8. It is an interesting statistical fact that the total tonnage entering and clearing at Hongkong last year (exclusive of local trade) exceeded the 1894 tonnage entering and clearing at London (exclusive of coasting trade) by 775,706 tons, also that, excluding our junk trade altogether, the tonnage entering and clearing in 1895 exceeded the 1894 tonnage at Liverpool (exclusive of coasting trade) by 1,036,008 tons, and at Cardiff by 1,047,195 tons; while at Hongkong in 1895, British tonnage alone exceeded the British and Foreign tonnage (exclusive of coasting trade) at Newcastle (the next port in the United Kingdom) by 3,641,524 tons.

9. The actual number of ships of European construction, exclusive of river steamers, which entered the Port during the year was 586, being 336 British and 250 Foreign. They entered in the aggregate 3,051 times making a total collective tonnage of 4,114,403 tons as under :-

FLAG.

SHIPS.

NO. OF STEAM & SAIL,

TIMES ENTERED.

TOTAL

TONNAGE.

British,

336

1,813

2,639,447

American,

39

51

80,963

Austrian,

24

61,116

Chinese,

98

115,753

Danish,

97

43,623

Dutch,

3

15

12,898

French,

17

123

167,809

German,

91

638

744,811

Italian,

5

14

18,846

Japanese,

18

27

48,884

Norwegian,

33

127

145,369

Russian,

Siamese,

Spanish,

Swedish,

Hawaiian,

TOTAL,..

7

9

21,214

656

4

3,844

1

7,912

2

1,228

586

3,051

4,114,405

10. The 336 British ships, exclusive of river steamers, that entered the Port in 1895, carried 2,410 British Officers and 42 Foreigners as follows:-

British,

American,

German,

Dane,.....

Portuguese,

Chinese,...

Japanese,

Swede,

Norwegian,

Total,.....

2,410

16

8

4

1

182 N

2

2,452 Officers.

The proportion of Foreigners in British ships was therefore 1.8% comprising 8 different nationalities.