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IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
Trude of the Port of Hongkong for the Year 1897.
TONS.
No. of Dis- |Ships. charged.
In
Shipped.
Bunker Coal
Passen- gers Register-Carried.
Total.
Transit. Shipped.
ed Tonnage.
British,
Foreign,
River
Steamers (British),
3,095 c116.503 90,544
!
3,688 1,374,965 @1,064,339 1,115,706, 237,500 3,792,510 4,884,045| 290,702
3,161|1,221,493| 3948,332| 736.756, 184,757|3,091,338 3,855,$33 130,554
28,742 260,889] 3,384,721 988,016
Totul,... 9,944 €2,743,001 €2,103,215 1,852,462 445,999 7,144,737 12,124,599 1,409,302
Junks in
Foreign Trade,
}
57,803 1535,249 g674,108
|1,209,357| 3,441,295; 237,718
Total,... 67,747|3,278,310| 2,777,323 1,852,462) 445,999 8,334,094 15,565,894 1,617,020
Junks in
Local
9,546 4136,418
10,212
146,630
372,280 4,996
Trade,
Grand Total,... 77,293|3,414,728 2,787,585 1,852,462 145,999 8,500,724 15,938,1741,652,016
a Kerosine, 21,720 tons and 19 cases.
Kerosine, 29,876 and 20
71
8,870
Bulk.
"
Total,...38,746
e Tea, 4,577 tons.
e Kerosine, 51,508 tous and 11 cases,
8,870 Bulk.
Total....€0,468
Tea, 4,577 tons.
f Includes Tea, 2,787 tons; Vegetable Oil, 1,761 tons; Rice, 39,301 tons.
g Includes Kerosine, 21,253 tons and 3 cases; Rice and Paddy, 209,197 tons.
132,099 tons of Earth and Stones.
IMPORTS.
EUROPEAN-CONSTRUCTED VESSELS.
181
1896.
1897.
Increase.
Decrease.
No.
Tonnage. No. Tonnage. No.
Tonnage.
No.
Toumage.
Steamers,
River Steamers,..
Sailing Vessels,
3,185 4,382,397 3,071 4,262,283
1,393 1,680,985 1,547 1,694,077
100 105,370
356 107,280
114
120,114
154
13,092
256
1,910
Total,.......
4,678 6,168,752 4,974 6,063,640
410
15,002
114
120,114
Nett,......
296
105,112
Imported tous,................
2,791,889
2,743,061
48,828
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