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CHINA.
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS.
1.-STATISTICAL SERIES: Nos. 3 and 4.
RETURNS OF TRADE
AT THE
TREATY PORTS,
AND
TRADE REPORTS,
FOR THE YEAR
1886.
PART IL-REPORTS AND STATISTICS FOR EACH PORT.
With the Reports and Statistics for Corea.
28TH
22ND ISSUE.
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF
The Suspector General of Customs.
SHANGHAI:
PUBLISHED AT THE STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE INSPECTORATE GENERAL OF CUSTOMS,
AND SOLD BY
KELLY & WALSH, LIMITED: SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, AND HONGKONG.
LONDON : P. S. KING & SON, CANADA BUILDING, KING STREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W.
Price $5.7
1887.



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CHINA.
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS.
1.-STATISTICAL SERIES: Nos. 3 and 4.
RETURNS OF TRADE
AT THE
TREATY PORTS,
AND
TRADE REPORTS,
FOR THE YEAR
. 1886.
PART 11.-REPORTS AND STATISTICS FOR EACH PORT.
With the Reports and Statistics for Corea.
20TH ISSUE.
22ND
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF
The Yuspector General of Customs.
SHANGHAI:
PUBLISHED AT THE STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE INSPECTORATE GENERAL OF CUSTOMS,
AND SOLD BY
KELLY & WALSH, LIMITED: SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, AND HONGKONG.
LONDON: P. S. KING & SON, CANADA BUILDING, KING STREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W.
1887.
[Price $5.]


NOTE.
The Haikwan Tael, in which the Customs Revenue and all values are stated, is equivalent
in English money, to
58. ošd.,
„ American , , $ 1.22,
„ French „ „ francs 6.34,
„ German » „ marks 5.11,
„ Mexican dollars, , $ 1.45,
at the average Sight Exchange on London, New York, Paris, Berlin, and Hongkong respectively for 1886.
The Picul, in which weights are generally stated, is equivalent-
to 100 catties,
or 133} pounds avoirdupois,
or 60.453 kilogrammes.
The Catty, in which weights are sometimes stated, is equivalent--
to 16 taels,
or if pounds avoirdupois,
or 0.60453 kilogramme.
The Tael, in which weights are sometimes stated, is equivalent-
to it ounces avoirdupois,
or 0.037783 kilogramme.


CONTENTS.
NEWCHWANG.
Page
TRADE REPORT ... ...
... ... ... ... I
TRADE RETURNS :-
A.--GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping... ..
II.-Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,-
1884 to 1886 ...
III. –Trade in Foreign Goods.--Imports and Re-exports
Summary ...
IV.-Trade in Native Produce.---Imports and Re-exports
Summary ...
V.-Trade in Native Produce.--Exports and Re-exports
Summary ...
- *** .
VI.-Transit Trade
. .
... ... ... ... .
VII.-Duties ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 14
B._SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.—Comparative Table of the Import of Opium,-1877
to 1886 ... ... ... ... ... ... 15
2.-Treasure
3.--Comparative Table of the Export of Beans, Beancake,
and Bean Oil, -1877 to 1886
4.--Comparative Table of the Principal Imports,-1882
to 1886
... ... ... ... ... ... 16
Page
Table No. v.-Trade in Native Produce.-Exports and Re-exports šo
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 51
VI. — Transit Trade ... ... ... ... ... 52
VII.—Duties ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 52
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Treasure ... ... ... ... ... ... 53
2.-Opium
3.--Comparative Table of the Principal Imports,-1887
to 1886
4.-Comparative Table of the Principal Exports,-1882
to 1886 ... ... ... ... ... ...
5.- Passenger Traffic ... ... ... ...
TIENTSIN.
TradE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Trade RETURNS :-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.—Shipping...
11.—Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,-
1884 to 1886 ...
III.-Trade in Foreign Goods.-Imports and Re-exports
Summary ...
IV.-Trade in Native Produce.- Imports and Re-exports
Summary ...
v.-Trade in Native Produce. ---Exports and Re-exports
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ...
VI.-Transit Trade ... ... ... ... ...
VII.--Duties ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
B.--SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.–Treasure... ... ... ... ... ...
2.-Opium ... ... ... ... ... ...
3.—Re-export of Tea ...
4-Comparative Table of the Principal Imports,—18
to 1886 ...
5.-Comparative Table of the Principal Exports,—187
to 1886 ...
6.—Comparative Table of Shipping,—1881 to 1886...
7.--Comparative Table of the Russian Overland Trade, -
1883 to 1886 ... ... ... ...
8.- Passenger Traffic ... ... ... ... ...
ICHANG.
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 57
TRADE RETURNS:-
A.-GENERAL TABLES. ,
Table No. 1.-Shipping...
“II.—Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port, -
1884 to 1886 ...
III.— Trade in Foreign Goods.— Imports and Re-exports 62
Summary ...
... ... ... ... 63
IV.—Trade in Native Produce.--Imports and Re-exports
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ....
v. — Trade in Native Produce. — Exports and Re-expo
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 65
VI.—Transit Trade ... ... ... ... ... 66
VII.-Duties ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 69
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.—Treasure
2.—Comparative Table of the Principal Imports,-
to 1886
3.—Comparative Table of the Principal Exports,
to 1886
4-Comparative Table of the Szechwan Trade,–1883
to 1885
5.-Comparative Table of Passenger Traffic,–1883 to
1886 ... ... ... ... ... ... ***
39
HANKOW.
TradE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
TRADE RETURNS:-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.—Shipping... ...
11.-Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,
1884 to 1886 ...
III.-Trade in Foreign Goods. - Imports and Re-exports
Summary ... ...
IV.-Trade in Native Produce.— Imports and Re-exports
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 84
V.--Trade in Native Produce. — Exports and Re-exports
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 87
VI.— Transit Trade ... ... ... ... ... 88
VII.-Duties ... ... ...
... ... ... 101
B.-SPECIAL Tables.
Table No. 1.-Treasure ... ... ... ... ... ... 102
2.--Opium ... ... ... ... ... ... 102
3.-Export of Tea ..
4-Comparative Table of the Principal
to 1886
5.-Comparative Table of the Principal Esports, 1883
to 1886
CHEFOO.
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 40
TRADE RETURNS:-.
A.-GEXERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping...
.. 43
II.-Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,-
1884 to 1886 ...
11.--Trade in Foreign Goods.— Imports and Re-exports 45
Summary ...
IV.-Trade in Native Produce.--Imports and Re-exports
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 49
| Imports,–1883 103


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Page
YANGTZE STAGES.
a.—Table showing the quantities and Values of the
Goods imported ...
b.—Table showing the Value of the Imports and the
Ports whence imported ... ... ... ... 105
C.-Likin Dues collected
d.–Table showing the Quantities and Values of the
Goods exported. ... ... ... ... ... 106
Page
Table No. v.-Trade in Native Produce.—Exports and Re-exports 156
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 157
VI.-Transit Trade ... ... ... ...
VII.-Duties ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 162
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Treasure
2.-Comparative Table of the Principal Imports and
Esports,-1881 to 1886 ... ... ... ... 163
... 169
...
...
... 114
205
+
KIUKIANG.
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 107
TRADE RETURNS:-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping...
... 110
II.-Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,
1884 to 1886 ...
... ... ... ... III
III. — Trade in Foreign Goods.-Imports and Re-exports 112
Summary ... ...
... ... 113
IV.—Trade in Native Produce.-Imports and Re-exports 114
Summary ... ...
V.— Trade in Native Produce. --Exports and Re-exports 115
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 115
VI.---Transit Trade ... ... ... ... ... 116
VII.-Duties ... ...
... 122
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.- Treasure ... ... ... ... ... ... 123
2.-Opium
... ... ... ... ... ... 123
3.-Export of Tea ...
2.-Comparative Table of the Principal Imports, - 1882">
to 1886
5.—Comparative Table of the Principal Exports, -1882
to 1886
6.—Comparative Table of Shipping,–1882 to 1886... “ 125
WUHU.
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 126
TRADE RETURNS :-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping .
... 130
II.-Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,-
1884 to 1886 ...
III.-Trade in Foreign Goods.-Imports and Re-exports 132
Summary ...
IV.—Trade in Native Produce.--Imports and Re-exports 134
Summary ..
_... ... ... ... 135
v.-Trade in Native Produce.-Exports and Re-exports 136
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 136
VI.-Transit Trade ... ... ... ... ... 137
VII.-Duties ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 139
B._SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.—Treasure - ... ... ... ... ... ... 140
2.-Opium ... ... ... ... ... ... 140
3.- Export of Tea ...
4-Comparative Table of the Principal Imports, —1882 ***
to 1886
5.—Comparative Table of the Principal Exports, -1882
to 1886 ... ... ... ... ... ... 142
SHANGHAI.
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
TRADE RETURNS :-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping
II.-Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,
1884 to 1886 ...
III. — Trade in Foreign Goods. - Imports and Re-exports 171
Summary ...
... 178
IV.— Trade in Native Produce. - Imports and Re-exports 179
Summary ...
V.-Trade in Native Produce. — Exports and Re-exports
Summary ... ... ... ... ...
... 189
VI.-Transit Trade ...
190
VII.—Duties ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 203
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Opium ...
204
2.--Export of Tea ...
3.-Export of Silk . ...
4.- Treasure ., ..
NINGPO.
TRADE REPORT ... ... ...
***
... ... 208
TRADE RETURNS :-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.—Shipping...
... 212
II.-Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,-
1884 to 1886 ...
... ... ... ..... 213
III.-Trade in Foreign Goods.—Imports and Re-exports 214
Summary ...
216
IV.—Trade in Native Produce.--Imports and Re-exports 217
ummary ... ... ... ... ... ... 219
V.—Trade in Native Produce.--Exports and Re-exports 220
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 221:
VI.-Transit Trade
VII. -Duties ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 225
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Treasure
2.-Comparative Table of the Import and Re-export of
Opium, - 1883 to 1886
3.-Comparative Table of the Export of Tea,-1883 to
1886
4-Comparative Table of the Principal Imports,-1879
to 1886
5.—Comparative Table of the Principal Exports, 1879
to 1886
6.—Comparative Table of the Value of the Trade,–1875
to 1886
7.—Comparative Table of Tonnage Outwards,-1879 to
.. ... ... ... 229
8.—Passenger Traffic “ ... ... ... *** ...
wÊNCHOW.
TradE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
TRADE RETURNS :-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping
II.--Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port -
1884 to 1886 ... ...
... ... 235
... 131
... 133
222
... 139
1886
CHINKIANG.
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
TRADE RETURNS :-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping...
... 147
11.—Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port -
1884 to 1886 ...
... ... 150
11.— Trade in Foreign Goods.- Imports and Re-exports 151
Summary ..
... 153
IV.—Trade in Native Produce.--Imports and Re-exports 154
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 155


238
238
*** 285
240
Page
Table No. III.-Trade in Foreign Goods. --Imports and Re-exports 236
Summary ...
237
IV.-Trade in Native Produce.—Imports and Re-exports
Summary ... ...
V.—Trade in Native Produce.- Exports and Re-exports
_ Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 239
VI.—Transit Trade ... ... ... ... ...
VII.—Duties ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 241
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.—Comparative Table of the Import and Export of
Treasure,-1877 to 1886
... ... 242
2.—Comparative Table of the Export of Tea,-1877 to
1886 ... ...
3.- Comparative Table of the Principal Imports, —1883
to 1886
4.-Comparative Table of the Principal Esports, 1883
to 1886
5.—Comparative Table of Passenger Traffic,-1877 to
1886 ...
TAKOW.
Page
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 282
TRADE RETURNS :-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping
II.-Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,
1884 to 1886 ...
... ... 286
III. — Trade in Foreign Goods.— Imports and Re-exports 287
Summary
289
IV.— Trade in Native Produce.— Imports and Re-exports 290
Summary ...
... ... 291
V.—Trade in Native Produce.—Exports and Re-exports 292
•
Summary ... ... ... ...
... ... 293
VI.—Transit Trade ... ... ... ... ... 294
VII.—Duties ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 294
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.—Treasure ... ... ... ... ... ... 295
2.—Opium
... ... 295
3.- Comparative Table of the Export of Brown Sugar,—
1877 to 1886 ...
4-Comparative Table of the Principal Imports, —1879
to 1886
5.-Comparative Table of the Principal Exports,1
to 1886
6.—Comparative Table of the Value of the Trade, etc.,-
1871 to 1886 ...
7.-Comparative Table of Shipping,-1877 to 1886 ...
FOOCHOV
AMOY
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... "
... ...
TRADE RETURNS:-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping...
11.—Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,-
1884 to 1886 ...
... ... 249
III.— Trade in Foreign Goods.—Imports and Re-exports 250
Summary ...
... 253
IV.–Trade in Native Produce.--Imports and Re-exports 254
Summary ...
... 256
V.—Trade in Native Produce.-Exports and Re-exports
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 258
V1.—Transit Trade ...
VII.—Duties ...
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.--Treasure ... ... ... ...
2.-Opium ...
3.-Export of Tea ...
4.- Passenger Traffic
... 308
TAMSUI.
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... ...
... ... 265
TRADE RETURNS :-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping... .
II.—Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,-
1884 to 1886 ...
... ... 269
III. — Trade in Foreign Goods. — Imports and Re-exports 270
Summary ...
IV.—Trade in Native Produce.—Imports and Re-exports 273
Summary ...
V.—Trade in Native Produce.-Exports and Re-esports 276
Summary ... ... ... ... ...
VI.-Transit Trade ... ... ... ... ..
VII. — Duties ...
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.—Comparative Table of the Principal Imports,—1882
to 1886
2.—Comparative Table of the Principal Exports, - 1882
to 1886
3. — Comparative Table of the Value of the Trade, etc., --
1877 to 1886 ...
4-Comparative Table of the Import and Export of
Treasure, -1877 to 1886 ... ... ... ... 279
5.-Opium ... ...
6. -Comparative Table of the Export of Oolong Tea,–
1877 to 1886 ...
7.-Comparative Table of Shipping,-1877 to 1886...
8.—Comparative Table of Passenger Traffic,-1877 to
1886
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 299
TRADE RETURNS :--
4.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.—Shipping... ..
... 303
11.—Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,-
1884 to 1886 ...
. ... ... 304
m-Trade in Foreign Goods.-Imports and Re-esports 305
Summary
IV.—Trade in Native Produce.—Imports and Re-exports 309
Summary
V.—Trade in Native Produce. —Exports and Re-exports 313
Summary ... ... ... ...
... ... 315
VI.-Transit Trade ... ... ...
VII.-Duties ... ... ... ... ...
B._SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.- Treasure... ... ... ... ...
2.--Opium ... ... ... ... ...
3.-Export of Tea ... ... ... ...
4.-Export of Sugar ....
5.—Comparative Table of the Value of the Trade,
1864 to 1886 ...
6.- Comparative Table of the Principal Imports,-1873
to 1886
7.—Comparative Table of the Principal Esports, - 1873
to 1886 . ....
8.—Comparative Table of the Principal Re-exports,
1873 to 1886 ...
9.--Comparative Table of the Transit Trade,—1873
to 1886 ...
10.—Comparative Table of Shipping,–1863 to 1886
11.--Passenger Traffic
...
... 329
SWATOW.
Trade REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 330
TRADE RETURNS :-
A.-GENERAL Tables.
Table No. 1.—Shipping
... 334
11.--Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port.-
1884 to 1886 ..
· ... ... ... ... 335


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Table No. III.— Trade in Foreign Goods. — Imports and Re-exports 336
Summary
... 339
IV.—Trade in Native Produce.—Imports and Re-exports 340
Summary
342
V.—Trade in Native Produce. — Exports and Re-exports
_ Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 345
VI.— Transit Trade ... ... ... ... ... 340
VII.-Duties ... ... ... ... ... ... ..
B.—SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Treasure...
2. --Export of Tea ... ... ... ... ... 347
3.-Opium ...
4.-Comparative Table of the Export of Sugar,-1884
to 1886
5.---Comparative Table of the Import of Beancake, and
Beans and Peas,—1877 to 1886 ... ... ... 349
6.—Passenger Traffic ... ... ... ... ... 349
CANTON.
***
... 385
Table No. 8.-Comparative Table of the Value of the Trade,–1877
to 1886
9.-Comparative Table of Shipping,–1877 to 1886... 373
10.-Comparative Table of Passenger Traffic,-1877 to
1886 ... ... ... ... ... ." *** 373
KIUNGCHOW.
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 374
TRADE RETURNS :-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping...
... ... 378
II.--Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,-
1884 to 1886 ... ...
... ... 379
III.-Trade in Foreign Goods.-Imports and Re-exports 380
Summary ...
IV.–Trade in Native Produce.-Imports and Re-exports 382
Summary
7.-Trade in Native Produce.-Exports and Re-exports 383
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 384
VI.—Transit Trade ... ... ... ... ... 384
VII.-Duties
B. SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Treasure
2.--Opium
3.- Comparative Table of the Export of Sugar -I
to i886
... ... ... ... ... 386
4.- Passenger Traffic ... ... ... ... ... 387
PAKHOI
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 388
TRADE RETURNS :-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping... ..
... 392
II.-Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,-
1884 to 1886 ...
... ... ... 393
III.-Trade in Foreign Goods.--Imports and Re-exports 394
Summary ...
... ... 395
IV.-Trade in Native Produce.— Imports and Re-exports 396
Summary
396
V.-Trade in Native Produce.—Esports and Re-exports 397
Summary ..
VI.— Transit Trade
"
... ...
"
...
"
...
"*
...
"*
398
VII.—Duties ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 398
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Treasure
2.-Opium ... ... ... ... ... ... 399
3.-Passenger Traffic ... ... ... ... ... 399
TRADE REPORT ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 350
TRADE RETURNS :-
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.-Shipping...
... ... 351
II. -Gross and Net Values of the Trade of the Port,-
1884 to 1886 ...
III. — Trade' in Foreign Goods.-Imports and Re-exports 353
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 357
IV.—Trade in Native Produce.--Imports and Re-esports 358
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 361
V.—Trade in Native Produce.--Exports and Re-exports
Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... 366
VI.—Transit Trade
VII.—Duties ...
... ... ... ... ... 367
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
Table No. 1.--Comparative Table of the Import and Export of
Treasure,--1877 to 1886 ... ... ... ...
2.-Export of Tea ...
3.—Comparative Table of the Export of Silk,-1877 to
1886 ...
4.-Comparative Table of the Export of Sugar,-187
1886 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 370
6. Comparative Table of the Principal Imports, -1877
to 1886
7.-Comparative Table of the Principal Exports,
to 1886
... ... ... 372
352
.
399
APPENDIX I.-Index to Annual Trade Reports, 1864-86 ... ... ...
APPENDIX II.—Part I. Report on Trade of Corea and Abstract of Statistics
Part II. Reports and Statistics for Corean Ports ... ..
Page
... ... ... ... ... ... 401
... ... ... ... ... 415
... 431


NEWCHWANG TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
NOTWITHSTANDING adverse circumstances, caused by disastrous floods for two consecutive
years, as well as by a diversion of some portion of the trade in textile fabrics, etc., which
formerly passed through this port overland to Corea, the net value of trade at Newchwang for
1886 is greater than that of any other year (excepting 1878) since the opening of the port to
Foreign trade. It amounts to Hk.Its. 8,601,216, showing an increase over the previous year
of Hk.its. 303,100. To this increase Foreign Imports contributed Hk.Pts. 182,803, and Native
Imports Hk.Pts. 168,173; while Exports show a decline of Hk.Its. 47,876.
SHIPPING.–The returns show a decrease of 50 steamers, 52,988 tons, entered and cleared,
as compared with 1885. Under the British flag the decrease amounted to 14 steamers, 14,866
tons; under the German flag, to 14 steamers, 16,838 tons; and under the American flag, to 46
steamers, 41,730 tons. The decline in the last named is owing to the fact that those vessels
of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company which during the complications between
France and China had been disposed of to an American firm were from July 1885 again sailing
under their original flag. There also entered and cleared 16 steamers—8 French, 4 Danish, and
4 Swedish and Norwegian,-amounting in the aggregate to 11,738 tons. These nationalities were
unrepresented in the returns of shipping for 1885.
In June the Swatow Guild called a meeting, at which it was decreed that no vessel or
steamer should be chartered for the conveyance of Pulse, Beans, or Beancake from Newchwang
or Chefoo for the period of one month, under a penalty of Its. 1,000. This enactment naturally
reduced the tonnage. The object of the Guild was two-fold: firstly, to lower the price of produce
here by the absence of the means of transport; and, secondly, to raise the price of those stocks
which were then lying unsold in Southern godowns.
IMPORTS.—Cotton Goods.—Grey Shirtings have decreased by 79,472 pieces, chiefly owing
to the almost entire cessation of the overland trade to Corea.
Plain Dyed Shirtings have not been imported, the Natives finding it more economical to
purchase White Cotton Cloth and dye it locally.
Figured Dyed Shirtings exhibit an increase of 2,063 pieces; they are in favour owing to
their reasonable price and effective pattern.
T-Cloths have decreased by 28,215 pieces. This diminution is directly traceable to their
inferior quality. Formerly they were much in vogue among the well-to-do classes, and sold for
Tts. I per piece; but their price has fallen to six or seven mace, and they are now only fit, after
dyeing, to be used for lining garments, etc.
The following articles have advanced :-English Drills, 12,055 pieces; American Drills,
72,825 pieces; and American Sheetings, 27,480 pieces. These goods, which are largely consumed
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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
throughout the province and in the districts of Kirin and the Amoor, must continue to advance,
provided they do not disimprove in quality; being of necessary daily use, and not subject
to any great fluctuation in price, they are, when exchange is unfavourable, a favourite medium
of remittance.
Turkey Reds have fallen off some 14,402 pieces; they are being replaced by American
Sheetings, which, when dyed locally, are equal to them in appearance and much more durable
in quality. Cottonades and Lastings, which exhibit a decrease of 7,419 pieces, are giving place
to Woollen Lastings in the manufacture of boots and shoes, etc.
The opening of Jenchuan, Corea, has also unfavourably affected the importation of
Chintzes, Mahomedans, Muslins, and Lawns.
Cotton Handkerchiefs are not in demand, being now woven in the province.
Cotton Yarn shows a large increase, of 17,044 piculs. The importation of this material
is likely to be extended in future, as it is reasonable in price and of superior quality to the
Native-grown Cotton.
Woollen Goods.—The demand for Spanish Stripes has decreased, owing to the departure
of large bodies of troops from this neighbourhood.
Lustres and Orleans continue to decline, on account of their flimsy texture. Small
quantities, however, find their way across the border into Mongolia.
Russian Cloth is arriving by steamer in larger quantities than hitherto, owing to the
greater expense of transport overland.
Metals. A decline is apparent in Bar, Nail-rod, and Old Iron. The dulness in this
branch of the trade is attributable to high prices ruling in the South and to the agricultural
depression reigning in the neighbourhood during the past two years.
Iron Wire shows an improvement of 407 piculs. It is vastly superior to that of Native
manufacture, and is largely used for lantern frames.
Opium.—Contrary to all expectations, the import of Foreign Opium has slightly increased.
Owing to a failure of the poppy crop in 1885, the price of the Native drug rose considerably.
The price of Foreign Opium, being its 15 for 50 ounces, yielding 45 ounces of Prepared
Opium, was lower than that of the Native drug, which cost its 15.50 for 50 ounces and only
yielded 30 ounces of Prepared Opium. The reason that the Native product maintained its
ground so well is that in this province smoking the ash is much indulged in, and Native
Opium may be re-smoked some ten times, while the Foreign article will only bear to be used
three times. Foreign Prepared Opium is frequently mixed with the Native for the sake of
the ash.
Sundries.-Raw Cotton and Nankeens show a considerable increase. These goods
generally find their way here by junk; but when the failure of the local Cotton crop caused
an increased demand in autumn, it was too late to draw supplies by Native craft.
Seaweed has increased 13,114 piculs, with an advance of 50 per cent. over last year's
prices, in consequence of the destruction of the white vegetable crop by the summer floods.


NEWCHWANG.
mosa.
Brown Sugar exhibits a decrease of 3,203 piculs. There was some interruption in the
trade through the imposition of an extra Likin Duty on Sugar in Formosa.
EXPORTS.—In Beans and Beancake, the principal articles of exportation, there is a decrease
of 662,704 piculs and 324,671 piculs respectively,—the result, 1°, of the meagre harvest of 1885,
together with a deficiency in the means of transport from the North (a large number of carts
having been taken up for military service), which had reduced the stocks on hand for shipment
in spring; and, 2°, of the destructive floods in the past summer.
Prices naturally ruled high in the early part of the season, and on the arrival of
shipments at Swatow and Amoy it was found that the market there could be supplied at more
reasonable rates from other producing districts, as Chinkiang and Canton. It was calculated
that Newchwang shippers sustained a loss of about its. 500 on every 1,000 shih (=3,000 piculs),
and in consequence three important hongs became bankrupt.
The harvest, however, was exceptionally promising, and prospects were brightening, when
heavy rains in July and August completely submerged the districts adjacent to the Liao
River, destroyed their crops, and interrupted, temporarily, all communication with the port by
road, river, or telegraph. Beans at once rose to prohibitive prices.
When the floods had subsided it was found that the damage was chiefly confined to
the immediate districts, and that the harvest in the North had remained intact. By October
supplies from the interior began to arrive in abundance, and prices became more reasonable.
But it was already late in the season, and steamers were chiefly occupied in transporting Rice
to Canton. Large stocks remain on hand, and they are daily increased by arrivals from the
North, so that next spring will probably witness active shipment.
Bean Oil shows a decrease of 9,631 piculs. This article is seldom carried by steamers,
unless there be an urgent demand for it in the South.
Corean Ginseng shows an increase of 131 piculs. The Corean Government had lately
ceased to restrict the cultivation of this drug; but with the increase in quantity a decided
deterioration in quality has taken place, and prices, which formerly ruled from its 28 to its. 30
per catty, fell this year to Tts. 1o, and at one time as low as Tts. 4.50. It is said that the
Corean Government will again interfere, and that the production will be limited to 20,000 catties
a year, as formerly.
Wild Raw Silk shows an increase of 3,147 piculs. This comparatively new industry
bids fair to become one of the most important branches of trade at this port. The following
figures show the increased production of Silk in the five districts of Hsiung-yo (f ), Kai-chou
( H), Hai-ch'êng ( hik), Liao-yang ( ), and Hsiu-yen (Hong batu) during the past three
years :-1884, about 3,000 bales; 1885, about 6,000 bales; 1886, about 10,000 bales. One bale is
equal to a picul. It is calculated that the production of 1886 would have amounted to at least
18,000 bales had not the heavy rain in summer destroyed large numbers of the worms, which
were then feeding. Many immigrants from Shantung are annually attracted to the Silk country,
and much waste land has lately been planted with success.
In Ku-shan (PMI), a district east of Fêng-huang-ch'êng (2 m l), the yield from a
country some 200 li in extent amounted, after two years' cultivation, to some 400 bales. There
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rm
is also quite a new district in the west of Fêng-tien prefecture, called Fu-hsi ( ), in which
the cultivation of Silk only commenced in 1886, and is turning out most profitable.
The Silk produced in this province is principally from the oak-leaf fed worm, and is of a
coarser texture than that obtained in the South of China, where the mulberry is cultivated to
a greater extent. Some eight years ago a Foreigner connected with the filature at Chefoo
visited the Silk districts here, and took much pains to instruct some of the Natives in the
art of reeling off the cocoons, instead of spinning as heretofore. Since then Southern experts
have also instructed the Natives from time to time; and gradually but surely the improved
style of reeling and the attention which has been bestowed upon the rearing of the worm
and the healthy preservation of the cocoon have changed the rough-grown floss originally
produced, which could be bought for its, 100 per picul, into a valuable Silk, worth from Tts. 200
to its. 300 per picul. ·
In purchasing Silk brokers are employed, who visit the small growers and bargain with
them for what trifling lots they have to offer, comprising perhaps five, ten, or twenty catties,
worth, say, from Its. 10 to Tts. 40, more or less. This transaction involves the advancing of
sycee before the article is delivered, and great care and judgment must be exercised in order to
avoid loss, either by bad quality or by adulteration. With regard to the latter, there is not
unfrequently introduced into the packages a kind of floss so closely resembling the genuine
article that only experts are able to detect the fraud.
Already in the present month of January several Silk inspectors, including the agents
of some Foreign Silk houses, have gone into the interior with a view of buying up all the
Silk obtainable, and it is expected that several thousand bales will be ready for shipment by
the first steamers in spring.
Dog-skin Rugs and Goat-skin Rugs show an increase of 64,584 pieces, valued at
Hk.fts. 128,659, due to a large demand in America.
Dog-skin Rugs are of two sizes, measuring 62 X 72 inches and 68 x 80 inches. They sold
from its. 3.40 to Tts. 3.80, about 20 per cent. in advance of the prices in the previous year.
Goat-skin Rugs measure 80 X 70 inches. They sold at Tts. 2.25, an advance of 15
per cent.
TREASURE.—It will be observed that scarcely any Gold Bars or Sycee left the port, the
reason being that the trade of Newchwang is essentially one of barter. To complete some
of the later shipments it was necessary to import Sycee for any difference there might be
for expenses of shipping, but the amount was trifling.
GENERAL.—The port opened on the 25th March by the arrival of the s.s. Chefoo. The
last vessel, the s.s. Memling, cleared on the 25th November.
HY. EDGAR,
Commissioner of Customs.
NEWCHWANG, 19th January 1887.


NEWCAWANG.
NEWCHWANG TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND CLEARED.
With Cargo.
|
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo. | In Ballast.
TOTAL.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
| 17
2 1
1,814
182
British
German
French..
Danish.
Swedish & Norwegian
13,344
9,383
470
100
71,227
37,867
1,943
57,883
28,484
1,473
769
2,388
10,724
ã o na
69,413
37,867
1,943
1,538
2,388
12,848
71,227
37,867
1,943
1,538
2,388
12,848
142,454
75,734
3,886
3,076
4,776
25,696
769
1,538
2,388
Chinese
2,124
15
12,848
15 |
30
Total Steamers........
129 101,721
35
26,090
162
125,997 |
2 | 1,814
164
127,811
328
255,622
SAILING VESSELS.
5,233
34
8,224
722
7,984
13,457
722
15,303
241
British ...........
American ..........
German
Danish
Swedish & Norwegian
Italian
13,457
722
15,303
26,914
1,444
30,606
7,319
13,457
722
15,303
241
2,238
542
24T
241
482
2,238
6
1,915
542
2,238
542
4,476
1,084
542
Total Sailing Vessels
48 | 17,494
39
15,009
87
32,503
|
87
32,503
| ...
...
32,503
174
65,006
Grand ToTAL..... 177 119,215
74
41,099
251 160,314
249 158,500
2
1,814
257 160,314
502 320,628


TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 11.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF NEWCHWANG,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk. Tts.
Hk. Its
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts
Hk.Its
Hk. Fits
234,208
231,661
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong.......
Imported from Chinese Ports....
Total Foreign Imports.........
256,375
2,028,799
.........
1,833,693
2,229,177
2,067,901
2,285,174
2,460,838
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong...
...
177
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Chefoo
and Shanghai).
20,884
11,106
13,568
Total Foreign Re-exports .........
11,106
20,884
13,745
Net Total Foreign Imports ...........
2,056,795
2,264,290
2,447,093
1,642,167
1,469,017
1,629,859
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Shanghai, Amoy, Swatow,
and Canton).......
Re-exported to Foreign Countries ...............
Re-exported to Chinese Ports.................
Total Native Re-exports.
8,552
9,662
2,331
8,552
9,662
2,331
Net Total Native Imports............
1,633,615
1,459,355
1,627,528
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries .........
11,625
26,734
117
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports.
4,111,459
4,547,737
4,526,478
Total Exports of local origin ....
4,123,084
4,574,471
4,526,595
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port ......
7,833,152
8,328,662
8,617,292
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native
Exports of local origin
7,813,494
8,298,116
8,601,216


NEWCHWANG.
7
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.—Imports and Re-exports.

NET
IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Tts.
H.Fts.
H
.Tts
HK.fts.
H.Fts.
1,230
OPIUM :-
Malwa ....
Patna............
Benares .........
Piculs
::
246
1560
28 80
103,375
5,710
10,550
243
1560
2880
102,145
5,710
10,550
Pieces
71,058
22,725
80,166
32,340
71,058
22,725
80,166
32,340
ТО
200
188
240
COTTON GOODS
Shirtings, Grey.............
White, Plain ......
,, Dyed, .....
White, Spotted...
Dyed,
T-Cloths .........
Drills, English...
American
Sheetings, English ....
,, American .....
Chintzes and Furnitures...
Turkey Red Cloths..
Velvets ....
Velveteens ..............
Dimities...................
Twills .....................
Muslins and Lawns ...
Lastings, Cotton..
Cloth, Mahomedan .......
Canvas........................
Linen ..................
Cotton Goods, Unclassed..
Handkerchiefs........ Dozens
Yarn ........
Piculs
Thread ............
1,230
2,243
61,995
21,315
174,870
24,458
214,710
6,811
10,784
118
4,0711
400
3,280
1,600
11,662
1,541
2,257
4,874
55,441
40,399
379,589
47,616
458,708
7,629
14,385
501
19,615
1,190
2,243
61,995
21,165
174,870
24,458
214,710
6,751
9,997
2,069
4,874
55,441
40,159
379,589
47,616
458,708
7,575
13,260
:::::::::::::::::::::
1,125
501
118
4,071
465
64
19,615
401
3,683
217
178
342
3,120
1,330
11,148
1,411
544
1,295
286
10
950
3,862
3,900
722
32,055
3,250
100
1,810
5,926
7,872
360,1891
10
950
30,760
2,964
100
1,810
5,711
7,812
360,139
1,337
215
27,184
3,570
26,884)
24,164
5279
24,167
5465
1,410
:
2,140
2,140
10
17,933
16,108
200
108,560
680
16,577
140
160
oo
3,940
17,793
120
3,940
820
2,820
WOOLLEN Goods :
Camlets, English
.........
, Dutch.
Lastings ............
Crape....
Long Ells ..........
Spanish Stripes ....
Lustres and Orleans, Crape,
Plain and Figured.......)
Cloth, Russian .................
Flannels ............
Cloth, Broad, Medium, and
Habit..................
Woollen & Cotton Mixtures
Blankets...........
Woollen Goods, Unclassed...
16,108
200
107,638
380
16,577
5,568
9,433
21,805
820
5,568
IIO
2,930
1,460
9,853
22,260
1,430
ΙΟΙ
782
101
782
12
204
204
280
974
186
788
30
606
110
235
IIO
235
METALS:
Iron Plates and Sheets....... Piculs
Bar ..........
Nail-rod ..........
Hoop .........
Wire.
1,776 35
9,38326
18,260 40
84460
2,12370
112,838 09
4117
2,365 44
333 10
76188
126
250
302
»
4,974
15,068
26,843
1,413
8,862
144,802
241
9,140
6,422
3,614
1,776 35
9,383 261
18,260 40
77460
1,87370
112,670 09
4117
2,36544
33310
Old
4,974
15,068
26,843
1,287
8,612
144,500
241
9,140
6,422
3,614
Ironware...........
Lead, in Pigs ..
Tin, in Slabs....
Tinplates...
761 888


.
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.-Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Ak.The
Hk. Its
Hk. Its
Piculs
H.Tts.
149
11,869
3,677
METALS, continued :-
Quicksilver .........
Yellow Metal and Copper
Sheathing..................
Copper, Japan ............
» Manufactured.
Unmanufactured ..
Steel
Zinc Sheets.............
White Metal...............
Metals, Unclassed ..........
1,453
204
393
96313
36583
45 271
183
2,367 14
2165
56 57
43893
393
96313
31583
43231
183
2,36714
2165
4621
43893
Hk. Its
149
11,869
3,087
1,412
1,460
7,463
108
1,795
4,660
1,460
7,463
108
2,202
do
4,660
:::
3995
41363
79,200
1,40207
39951
086
102
24138
23,590
II123
16 56
2,172
2,563
5,532
1,039
456
767
2,287
9,942
1,449
926
018
620
66 52
993
1,08435
2,974
156 201
190
801
8,149
582 15
SUNDRIES :-
Aniseed, Star........ Piculs
Bags, Gunny.................
Pieces
Betel-nuts
Piculs
Bicho de Mar, Black .......
Birds' Nests, ist Quality ...
» » 2nd 2
Borax............
Buttons, Brass.................
Gross
Camphor ....................
Cardamoms, Superior..
Inferior.......
Chinaware, Japan .........
Clocks ........................
Pieces
Compoy........................
Piculs
Dyes ................... Value
Ginseng, American ....... Piculs
Glass, Window ...... Boxes
Isinglass....................
Piculs
Machinery.....................
Value
Mangrove Bark ............
Piculs
Matches...
Gross
Needles ...........
Mille
Oil, Kerosene..
Value
Paints, Assorted.
Piculs
Pepper, Black..........
Putchuck
Raisins ...
Sandalwood............
Sapanwood.......
Seaweed, ist Quality...
Russian..
Sharks' Fins, White
,,. Prepared
Pieces
Sugar, Brown...................
Tea, Japan......
Umbrellas ..........
Watches ................
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
TOTAL ..........
H. Pts.
8,737
4,918
2,761
56,170
1,021
19,603
9,012
1,335
1,030
74,035
15,811
8,526
937
16,887
1,339 391
111,930
134,500
41363
2,172
76,950 2,495
1,402 07 5,532
1,039
456
767
241 38 2,287
22,190 9,322
III 23 1,449
1656 926
6452 963
1,084 351 8,737
2,892
4,728
156/20 2,761
55,184
7 06 961
8,149
19,603
582151 9,012
...
1,335
1,339 39 1,030
111,680
73,965
131,800 15,528
8,526
937
1,367 86 16,813
42 15
418
40461 1,511
436 55
1,301
797 90 1,306
2,281461 3,220
42,452 79 42,454
160 21 6,475
1924 1,774
26,788 8,692
2,969 72 7,644
796 68
2,110
9,325
2,366
470 1,569
12,495
2,447,864
38
38
418
5199
33,113 24
33,114
1,37386
4215
40461
436 55
797 90
2,333 45
9,339 55
16021
1924
26,788
2,969 72
85788
9,380
470
1,511
1,301
1,306
3,272
9,340
6,475
1,774
8,692
7,644
2,732
2,610
1,569
12,735
:::::::::::
Skins .........
Piculs
Å
622
**** Pieces
244
126
366
13,745
33,240
2,427,598
Excess of Re-export above Import of some articles during the year....
NET TOTAL...
....Hk.fts.
771
..Hk.Tts 2,447,093


NEWCHWANG.
SUMMARY.
IMPORTS from Hongkong ......
..Hk.Fts
198,421
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
,
,
Russian Manchuria...........
33,240
Total from Foreign Countries ........-
-
Hk.fts
231,661
Imports from Chinese Ports ..
..
»
2,229,177
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS ..........
- Hk.fts 2,460,838
RE-EXPORTS to Hongkong .......
......... Hk. Its
177
O
.
.
.
.
Total to Foreign countries............-
-Hk.Tts
177
RE-EXPORTS to Chefoo.........
.........Hk.Tita
6,007
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
,, Shanghai........................................
,
6,955
„Swatow ..........
606
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Total to Chinese Ports ................
Hk.fts.
13,568
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS
-Hk.Tts.
13,745
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS ........
Hk.Fts. 2,447,093


TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE Ports.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Ita
Hk.Tts.
327
2,214
9937
82,934
Bags........
Piculs
Pieces
118
Pieces
Aniseed, Star........
Piculs
........... Pieces
Bamboo Poles........
, Shoots, Dried .........
, Split.............
Bambooware.............
Brass Pipes.
Brassware.
Piculs
Buttons, Brass ........
Carpets ..............
Cassia Lignea ............ Piculs
China-root.......
Chinaware, Fine
Coal.............
Copper, Unmanufactured ...... Piculs
Cotton, Raw ...
Ribbons...
Fans, Paper
Fruit, Dried................... Piculs
Ginger, Green...........
Grasscloth, Coarse............
Fine .........
Gypsum
Indigo, Dried.
Jadestoneware .....
Pieces
Kittysols...
Lead, Red.
218,188
52,950
45394
946.90
10867
22,451
18396
63907
8,762
216 40
503251
432 44
254
3374
31,15325
12348
592,548
39855
3,961 87
Tons
4615
Pieces
Hk. Ils.
1,496
6,722
3,231
3,351
756
4,499
7,801
4,244
19,360
5,055
1,112
2,481
3,780
907
1,562
272,773
8,644
26,575
1,448
4,914
5,229
6,481
4,594
1,572
12,258
1,569
1,676
13,620
5,263
2,962
1,625
1,906
47,830
71,588
2,304
1541551
57
2,167
98251
8,320
1,080
218
2,060
I 40
Piculs
87,422
20,440
26565
»
White
........
95158
Hk.fts.
27983
1,169
135,254
4,508
52,950
3,231
45394
3,351
946 90
756
10867 4,499
22,245 7,406
18796 4,284
64073 19,412
8,762 5,055
18952 761
50325 2,481
440141 3,857
254 1 907
2,052
31,19925) 273,141
123481
8,644
592,548
26,575
- 36514
1,297
3,961 87 4,914
15384 5,172
7381 4,314
8,320 4,594
6930
1,382
86,342 12,040
22,500
1,709
218251
1,367
2,248 92 14,002
80249 5,137
78967 2,962
29324 1,625
40486 1,906
8,12377 44,873
3,11480
71,588
26022 2,304
1,11272
5,928
259 2,210
6,479 83 55,055
8,232 54 32,203
4,646 181 58,995
2,247
506
784
2,23763 11,016
26073 1,910
43,86414
70,625
23555 1,192
11261 2,253
11,254 | 2,224
666
1,218
1,07250
352,666
2501 5,783
1895 4,550
71,380 15,077
78040 4,899
58,620 42 162,460
22,470 10 85,104]
5,572 93 32,135
7294 931
465781
2,746
I 26
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
2,153 34
821 39
78967
29324
40486
71341
1781
" Yellow ...........
Lily Flowers, Dried........
, Seed or Lotus-nuts.....
Lung-ngan Pulp ...
Medicines.
Nankeens ...
Nutgalls ...
Oil, Wood.........
Paints, Assorted....
Paper, ist Quality ...
2nd „ .........
, Joss ...........
Peel, Orange and Pumelo...
Poles, Soft-wood..........
Preserves............
Rhubarb ........
8,77640
3,11480
26022
5,928
551 841
Pieces
Piculs
1,11272
32590
6,478 31
8,232 54
4,64618
58108
506
2,24532
26073
43,88984
235/55
11023
10,454
Rice......
Pieces
2,982
55,026
32,203
58,995
2,398
784
11,070
1,910
70,674
1,192
2,201
2,064
1,318
352,666
5,783
4,550
15,077
4,899
176,436
90,218
32,135
931
IOO
7.17
,, Red ..................
Rouge ...........
Silk Caps.........
, and Cotton Mixtures...... Piculs
,, Piece Goods...........
, Thread................
Ribbons............
Skins .........
Pieces
Steel .....................
Piculs
Sugar, Brown.........
, White..
» Candy ...........
1,072 501
2501
1895)
5,41324
1,047 50
13,976
5,114
71,380
780 40
64,033 66
23,51760
5,572 93
7294
46578
Tea......
Tobacco, Leaf....
2,746


NEWCHWANG.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports-Contd.
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity. / Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Fits
Hk. Aits
Ak.Tits
9,476 22
2,23272
5510
Hk.Tts.
53,354
6,237
2,498
32,053
10,412
20,862
2736
10896
5,032
* Tobacco, Prepared................
Turmeric.
Vermilion........................
Wax, White ....................
Woodware ...................
Sundries, Unenumerated........
TOTAL.............
Hk.fits
::::::
9,503581
2,232 721
16406
767 22
622 40
Hk. Pita
53,764
6,237
7,530
32,053
10,412
22,158
767/22
622 401
...
1,302
1,592,902
36,957
2,331
1,627,528
SUMMARY.
.....................
IMPORTS from Tientsin .......
........... Hk.Ita
» Chefoo.........
....... »
„ Shanghai .............
......... ~
Foochow..............
Takow.........
Amoy .............
„ Swatow...........
» „ Canton
.............. »
Total from Chinese Ports ............
Imports from Hongkong ............
TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS ...........
5,921
6,340
1,176,177
11,811
1,100
196,555
83,503
111,495
- Hk.Ft
.......
1,592,902
36,957
-Hk.Fts 1,629,859
.............
RE-EXPORTS to Tientsin ...........
............. Hk. Its
„Chefoo .............
„ Shanghai ............
„ Swatow............
Total to Chinese Ports ..........
TOTAL NATIVE RE-EXPORTS..........
140
761
1,062
368
- Hk.Tts
2,331
- Hk.Fts
2,331
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS ....
Hk.Fts
1,627,528


TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.
EXPORTS
EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
CHINESE PORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fite
13704
483
39420
1920
73,600
1174
.
412
.
.
.
.
.
.
492
.
2,621
::::::::::::::::
15258)
3353
26,788
518
Hk. Als
Hk.Tits
31801 1,277
1,65640 4,751
11,480,048/60 1,196,077
1,898,873 41 1,937,260
16661 1,300
116271
2,621
1,03672 2,250
4,341 901 4,099
1,493
24884
193,522
41911
1,026
1,67671 77,991
14,008
1,311
1,221 511 9,078
51,814
5242
1,123
35683
1,93270 2,337
1,094241 2,634
314 8,85068 31,926
10,210 42 32,856
2,613
8283
Pairs
Almonds .........
Piculs
Barley, Pearl ............
Beancake ..............
Beans ...........................
Bones, Fish.....
Bristles, Pigs
Fish, Salt ......................
Fruit, Fresh ................
Fungus ........................
Ginseng, Corean, ist Quality
, 2nd „ .
» Native...
W ild ..............
Hair, Horse..............
Hides, Cow...........
Horns, Deer, Young.
, Old......
Piculs
Indigo, Líquid.........
Jadestone ...............
Liquorice............
Medicines...............
Melon Seeds ............
Mushrooms ...........
Musk ..............................
Taels
Nuts, Fir.....
Piculs
Oil, Bean..............
,, Castor ............
Prawns, Dried..........
Samshu...
Sesamum Seed
Silk Cocoons..
,, Refuse .............
Wild Raw............
Sinews.....................
Skins
alue
Tallow, Animal ..................
Tobacco, Leaf....................
Vermicelli..........................
Sundries, Unenumerated........ Va
1,610
Hk.Tts.
Hk.
18097 794
1,161 1 1,262 20 3,590
1,480,029 40 1,196,062
73,457 1,825,27341 1,863,803
888
11627
1,03672 2,250
30 4,311 90 4,069
15258 1,493
21531 166,734
4911 1,026
8,368 1,46685 69,623
3,402
10,606
82 83 1,311
1,221 511 9,078
1,678 1,424 50,136
52 42 1,123
356831 1,610
1,932 701 2,337
1,330 55869) 1,304
10,735 5,891 31 20,760
22,644 3,19399 10,212
1,324
32 39 1,289
334 1,340
2,512
94919
2,406
926 50 2,988
29 1,48485 5,163
3,78499 9,992
205 15,42404
46,624
289171 896
1,044 87
11,699
3,957 55 38,925
7,29201 560,702
16148 2,288
238,385
45367) 2,663
1,175 2,65109
8,510
690
9,670
11682
535 551
2,78177
7,01643
60781
3134
631731
176
1,5161
2,846
725
2,406
2,988
5,192
9,992
46,829
6767
94919
926 50
1,49210
3,78499
15,491711
289171
1,044 87
3,957 55
7,29201
71517
896
:::::::::::::::
11,699
38,925
560,702
7,708
238,443
55369
uculs
118
118
45367
3,01569
598
2,663
36460
9,685
12,377
TOTAL...............
Hk.fi
117
117
............
160,214
............ 4,366,264
.
4,528,926
.
.
2,331
.


NEWCHWANG.
13
SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
To
Hk.Tte
Hk.Fls.
Ak.Its
Hk.Ft
Hk.ft.
Hk.Fte
117
117
Japan..
Total to Foreign Countries ......-
-
117
-
...
-
117
117
Hongkong for Chinese Ports...........
160,214
160,214
Tientsin
2,112
140
2,252
Chefoo ........
.....
82,909
761
83,670
Shanghai ........
...... 1,098,033
1,062
1,099,095
Foochow.........
.........
22,192
22,192
Amoy .........................................
458,605
458,605
Swatow .......
...... 1,775,665
368
1,776,033
Canton...........
.............
926,748
926,748
Total to Chinese Ports ............
4,526,478
-
2,331
4,528,809
GRAND TOTAL .......
10
4,526,595
2,331
4,528,926


14
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
Nil.
TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a.-Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
COAST TRADE.
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
Hk.Tilsm.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
3,816.4.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
5,543.8.6.9
631.7.6.1
11,653.4.2.8
1.8.9.0
nnnnnnnnnnn
OOO.OO..
Hk. Atsm.c.c.
127,080.7.6.4
1,005.4.4.9
76,044.6.7.7
2,348.4.2.0
2,276.5.3.1
5,343.3.6.7
550.8.2.9
16,508.6.9.2
Hk. Itsm.c.c.
25,738.8.7.3
146.2.2.6
6,152.7.4.5
113.5.7.9
939.4.1.7
633.5.7.5
British
American .........
German
French............
Danish..............................
Swedish and Norwegian .......
Italian .........
Chinese...............
On Opium......
3,504.0.0.0
188.0.0.0
Hk.fism.c.c.
162,179.9.0.6
1,783.4.3.6
97,354.8.5.0
2,651.8.8.9
3,215.9.4.8
6,235.3.4.2
767.6.2.9
20,364.3.9.2
8,652.0.0.0
258.4.0.0
216.8.0.0
3,500.7.7.1
354.9.2.9
8,652.0.0.0
TOTAL.........
26,837.8.7.7
231,158.7.2.9
37,225.1.8.6
7,983.6.0.0
303,205.3.9.2*
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total...........
.Hk.ft. Nil.
b.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
EXPORT
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
COAST TRADE
(exclusive of
Opium).
OPIUM
|(Import, Export,
import
and
Coast Trade).
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
Opium).
Hk. Alam.c.c.
1877...........
1878..
1879....
1880...........
1881.
Hk.Fts.m.c.c.
18,900.3.9.0
29,796.9.8.9
22,534.3.8.6
13,499.7.2.5
11,743.5.9.4
13,418.5.2.9
16,784.6.8.4
18,609.7.5.3
18,441.2.6.5
18,185.8.7.7
Hk. Item.c.c.
143,575.1.0.9
234,036.7.4.7
199,995.5.0.0
211,687.4.7.4
227,080.0.2.6
220,542.7.8.4
236,503.4.5.8
233,804.4. 1.0
268,880.3.7.2
231,158.7.2.9
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
29,110.1.4.2
38,091.0.7.7
29,742.6.1.8
29,657.1.2.9
23,335.4.1.0
29,142.8.7.8
27,500.2.0.7
38,258.2.9.0
36,543.2.3.4
37,225.1.8.6
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
33,682.4.5.1
37,191.8.2.5
72,535.9.5.0
39,100.6.7.5
14,644.5.3.8
14,223.4.2.0
11,726.1.0.0
8,054.0.2.5
8,628.2.5.0
8,652.0.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
12,001.3.6.0
14,552.4.0.0
8,924.8.0.0
10,271.5.0.0
9,470.4.0.0
6,904.0.0.0
5,936.0.0.0
7,481.2.0.0
9,111.2.0.0
7,983.6.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
237,269.4.5.2
353,669.0.3.8
333,733.2.5.4
304,216.5.0.3
286,273.9.6.8
284,231.6.1.1
298,450.4.4.9
306,207.6.7.8
341,604.3.2.1
303,205.3.9.2
1882....
1883..........
1884...........
1885........
1886......


NEWCHWANG.
15
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-OPIUM.
Net Import of Opium, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
MALWA.
PATNA.
BENARES.
OTHER KINDS
(including
PREPARED.
Total.
Piculs.
31
1877
1878 .........
1879 .........
1880 .........
1881 .....................
1882
1883 ....................
1884 ....................
1885 .........
1886 .....
Piculs.
998
1,112.25
2,141.34
1,077.34
358.56
385.50
Piculs.
36
57.40
98.40
30.30
39.80
14.40
Piculs.
43.20
27.40
62.40
54.60
44.40
26
151
32.45
10.82
30.61
6.31
Piculs.
1,098.20
1,223.05
2,453.14
1,194.69
453.58
472.51
390.47
266.17
266.30
287.40
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
342.16
12
1.37
212
233
243
22.80
8.40
15.60
0.90
28.80
TABLE No. 2.-TREASURE.
Treasure Imported and Exported during the Year 1886.
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
Sycee .......
Dollars.........
.............Value, Hk. Pts.
......Value, Hk. Its 433,096
.............. 9
19,399
Sycee ..................
Gold Bars ........
Dollars............
59,343
60,500
396
...........
»
»
TOTAL............................ 452,495
......Strings 10,200
TOTAL......
120,239
Copper Cash.....
TABLE No. 3.-EXPORT TRADE.
Total Export of Beans, Beancake, and Bean Oil, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
BEANS.
BEANCAKE.
BEAN OIL.
1877.........
1878...
1879........................
1880....
1881.
1882.................
1883............
1884......
Piculs.
1,439,062
2,156,064
1,853,444.10
2,120,819.40
2,261,067.50
2,069,152.10
2,342,995.17
2,101,690.30
2,561,577.50
1,898,873.41
Piculs.
792,166
1,924,968
1,800,523.09
1,350,918.96
1,443,313.76
1,613,464
1,715,695.92
1,875,999.60
1,804,720.12
1,480,048.60
Piculs.
4,947
3,287.21
11,630.41
26,935.72
22,532.98
20,626.61
17,284.10
20,571.80
10,557.65
926.50
1885....
1886.....


16
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 4.-IMPORT TRADE.
Net Import of Cottons, Woollens, Metals, etc., for the Years 1882 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
COTTO stings, white, noured,
Pieces
96,927
COTTON Goods :-
Shirtings, Grey..........
White, Plain........
9. Figured, etc. ....
Dyed, Plain ...............
117,150
19,471
221
1,473
14,658
71,058
22,725
1,190
T-Cloths
”
Figured, etc......
...........
Drills, English .........
, American ...........
Sheetings, English ....................
, American ....................
Chintzes ............................
Turkey Reds and Cambrics..........
Velvets, Velveteens, and Fustians
Handkerchiefs ....
Cotton Goods, Unclassed ...........
75,643
22,009
90,240
24,739
55,350
1,560
16,131
4,002
20,244
29,847
798
900
100,876
24,868
112,463
15,530
72,205
3,562
16,102
3,324
27,976
24,635
66,531
22,048
602
855
1,090
96,875
6,540
138,075
26,896
153,195
4,055
12,940
2,364
32,164
34,165
150,530
24,888
1,412
1,429
180
90,210
9,110
102,045
20,636
187,230
9,017
24,399
3,342
32,017
34,516
2,243
61,995
21,165
174,870
24,458
214,710
6,751
9,997
4,189
26,884
3,570
Dozens
Pieces
Pieces
2,390
3,430
3,340
2,380
2,140
12
1,430
WOOLLEN Goods :-
Camlets, English
Medium Cloth ........
Russian ,
Spanish Stripes ..................
Lastings ..........
, Crape. .........
Long Ells ............
Lustres and Orleans, Plain and Figured
Woollen Goods, Unclassed .........
820
940
1,032
13,987
1,027
984
12,531
750
2,500
2,417
87
940
942
12,769
1,500
OOOOOO..........
784
732
12,930
341
2,400
3,079
600
830
3,638
17,793
120
3,940
2,820
110
3,700
7,076
815
6,176
282
METALS :-
Iron, Nail-rod.................
, Bar ...........
Old...............................
Piculs
16,917.23
14,829.54
77,861.73
1,451.19
4,389
20,791.30
20,633.07
85,705.02
2,889.43
6,657.93
Steel ..........
Lead, in Pigs ..........
Tin, in Slabs..........
Tinplates .................
Copper Sheathing and Yellow Metal Sheets
Quicksilver ..........
25,511.64
19,393.21
98,202.31
3,782.20
11,266.39
1,017.76
1,142.40
1,309.54
54.15
36,611.88
16,753.53
118,000.91
2,959.60
2,337.05
664.62
2,362.79
1,331.97
107.09
18,260.40
9,383.26
112,670.09
2,367.14
2,365.44
333.10
761.88
963.13
3.93
2,015.66
850.88
44.40
154.44
1,543.97
92.02
Piculs
Gross
Piculs
Boces
Piculs
Gross
SUNDRIES :-
Brass Buttons, Native .......
, Foreign ...........
Cotton, Raw
Glass, Window
Grasscloth, Coarse..
Lead, White, Yellow, Re
Matches......
Medicines.................................
Nankeens
Needles ...............
Paper, ist Quality ...............
, 2nd , ...............
. Joss .........
Rice.........
Sapanwood.............
Seaweed, Russian.............
Silk Piece Goods.....
Sugar, Brown ...........................
, White .............
Candy.............
Tobacco, Prepared...............
Piculs
Mille
Piculs
565.01
10,300
6,897.75
3,950
264.76
3,195.01
89,416
4,572.24
2,819.38
149,653
5,584.70
18,169.88
4,537.98
3,103.58
8,444.47
28,183.79
774.76
49,462.65
726.66
10,100
1,098.22
5,589
134.70
3,642.09
48,363
4,103.16
660.11
113,695
6,222.94
6,948.49
3,730.07
5,247.60
14,528.59
34,330.07
762.91
19,921
12,091.13
4,852
151.50
3,994.47
91,880
6,605.52
775.28
112,556
7,155.21
10,383.98
2,897.47
9,580.50
11,941
17,741.06
1,131.93
130, 179.41
55,306.39
13,739.49
6,488.11
325.14
610.31
26,122
28,615.51
5,184
226.35
2,267.89
95,225
8,408.44
2,240.56
118,650
6,988.69
20,150.30
3,367.79
2,363.17
1,635.40
29,338.16
968.30
67,237.01
20,512.34
3,576.19
7,529.23
801.07
639.07
22,190
31,153.25
8,149
154.55
3,240.38
111,680
8,776.40
3,114.80
131,800
6,478.31
8,232.54
4,646.18
43,889.84
797.90
42,452.79
1,072.50
64,033.66
23,517.60
5,572.93
9,503.58
767.22
713.47
6,249.14
7,881.57
574.16
129,094.17
37,226.28
5,286.66
4,052.92
602.19
Wax ...


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17
TIENTSIN TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
THE busy season was opened by the arrival of the British barque Eden, which was
towed up to the Bund on the 8th March. On the evening of the same day several steamers
arrived at the bar, the El Dorado being the first to reach the Bund on the gth. Up to the
27th March there was sufficient water in the river for all vessels to come up to the Tzŭ-chu-lin
anchorage; after that date the river commenced shoaling, and all but vessels of the lightest
draught were compelled to discharge their cargoes at some distance below the Settlement. This
state of things continued until the middle of September, when the bed of the river again
deepened, and the community had once more the satisfaction of seeing an imposing line of
steamers moored to the Bund. The river was closed by ice at the Nine Forts on the roth
December, and now and then some of the bends were blocked, but, owing to the mild weather,
Taku remained open until the end of the year.
The net total value of the trade of the port shows an increase over 1885 of Hk.Tts. 1,139,682,
distributed as follows :-
Foreign Imports—increase .....:.. Hk.Its. 1,480,438
Native Exports- „ . . . . . . . . . , 353,982
Hk.Pts. 1,834,420
Native Imports—decrease ......... „ 694,738
NET INCREASE ...... Hk.Pts. 1,139,682
A decided falling off appears in the import of some of the leading Cotton Piece Goods,
Grey Shirtings having fallen from 1,340,275 pieces in 1885 to 1,238,167 pieces in 1886, and
T-Cloths from 505,345 pieces in 1885 to 361,081 pieces in 1886. On the other hand, this was
more than counterbalanced by a remarkable increase in Cotton Piece Goods from America,
the import of American Drills having risen from 204,830 pieces in 1885 to 305,427 pieces in 1886,
and of American Sheetings from 734,950 pieces in 1885 to 1,021,539 pieces in 1886.
The import of Cotton Yarn continues to augment steadily, the figures showing an excess
of 7,704 piculs over the preceding year.
Woollen Goods do not present any change worthy of notice.
A noteworthy increase will be found in the importation of Brass Buttons, Window
Glass, and Japan Seaweed, especially the last mentioned, which has almost doubled in quantity.
Matches, Needles, Kerosene Oil, and White Sugar, on the contrary, have decreased.
The import of Opium has once again, after many years of unbroken diminution, slightly
revived, there being an excess of 106.69 piculs over 1885. As, however, the improvement is
attributed to the failure of the crop of Native Opium in Shensi, the revival is not likely to
be continuous
In the Tea trade overland to Russia, Black Tea shows an increase of 40,567 piculs,
or nearly half as much again as the year before, while the quantity of Brick Tea carried by the
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was
same route increased 55,000 piculs. This remarkable growth of the overland Tea trade was due
to the unusual luxuriance of the Mongolian pastures, which, providing as they do the only
sustenance for the enormous herds of dromedaries almost exclusively used as beasts of burden
in those regions, exercise a very great influence on the prosperity of this branch of trade. It
was owing to the failure of the grass crop in the year 1885 that the transport of Tea by that
route fell to so low a figure, great numbers of dromedaries having died from starvation.
The uncertainty of the grass supply, and consequently of the means of transport, has
led some of the leading Russian merchants to form a project to lay a line of the Decauville
portable railway across the plains of Mongolia from Kalgan to Ourga. The motive power would
still be supplied by camels, but whereas some 50,000 camels are now employed in the traffic,
it is calculated that 10,000 only would be required to do the same work on the railway, and that
with these increased facilities the trade would in all probability be doubled. As in case of a
failure of the grass supply a sufficient quantity could easily be brought from Siberia by the
returning trains, the additional advantage would be gained of more certainty in the means of
transport. The carriage of the Tea over the mountainous district between Ourga and Kiakhta
would still be effected on camel back.
An alternative scheme is proposed of a railway from Stretensk to Veringukunsk, on the
Amoor river. A fleet of about 70 steamers is already running on the Amoor as far as Stretensk,
and goods can be conveyed from Veringukunsk to Kiakhta by the affluents of the Selenga
river. Russian steamers would convey the Tea from Hankow to the Amoor. This route would
recommend itself more strongly to the Russian Government, and probably to the merchants of
that country in general, as being entirely under the control of Russia and bringing all the
profits of the trade into Russian coffers, and as offering much greater financial facilities to the
traders themselves.
As the Amoor river is closed by ice in October, the later shipments of Tea would always
be sent via Tientsin. The southern route by steamer to Odessa is far cheaper, but it is found
that the Tea loses in flavour when conveyed in the hold of a ship through the hot southern
seas, while, on the contrary, the unpleasant taste of the firing is removed by transit through
the cold cry climate of Mongolia and Siberia, and at the same time the Tea, which is nightly
unloaded from the camel's back and placed upon the snow-covered steppes, is found to acquire,
from the light moisture it then absorbs, a delicacy of flavour obtainable in no other way, and it
brings, in consequence, a much more lucrative price in the markets of Russia.
In Exports the most notable changes are as follows. The export of Beans and Peas has
dropped from 44,100 piculs in 1885 to 6,430 piculs in 1886, probably owing to the very
disastrous floods which devastated the northern districts during the autumn. Of Goat Skin
Rugs, 546,093 pieces were exported in 1886, against 326,014 pieces during 1885. The export
was stimulated by the large demand, chiefly for shipment to America; but it is said that
heavy stocks are held in Shanghai, and that the outlook for this article of trade in the coming
year is not hopeful. An increase of over 5,000 piculs in the export of Sheep's Wool is attributed
in part to the high prices ruling in the autumn, which diverted considerable quantities from the
manufactories of Woollen and Cotton Mixtures at Hsing-chi (L ). Straw Braid, coloured and
mottled, both show an increase of a little over 1,000 piculs, while a decrease of about 1,700
piculs has taken place in white. The trade in this article has been somewhat dull, shippers
having been tempted only by the low rates of freight to make purchases, which have brought
the export figures to about the same as in 1885. The export of K‘aip'ing Coal, 34,100 tons, is
nearly double that of the preceding year.
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The Revenue again overtops the preceding year, the increase, Hk.its. 9,627.3.0.4,
being accounted for, roughly speaking, by a rise of Hk.Pts. 12,000 in the Export Duties and
Hk.Its. 3,000 in Opium Duties, while the Import and Coast Trade Duties fell, respectively,
Hk.Its. 1,400 and Hk.Tts. 4,200. The total still falls short of the Revenue for 1871.
Shipping shows a gain of 58,317 tons over 1885, chiefly in British and Chinese vessels.
The new Japanese service between Tientsin and Nagasaki has, however, swelled the tonnage
under that flag to 9,195 tons.
The number of Native passengers both to and from the port has increased, which may
be partly accounted for by the reduced rates of passage offered by the German and Japanese
steamers. The fact, however, that the arrivals exceeded the departures by nearly 5,000 may
be an index of the increasing prosperity of this place. The arrivals of Foreign passengers
were also in excess of the departures, to the extent of 183.
A new feature of the trade of the port is the establishment of direct communication
between Tientsin and Nagasaki, við Chemulpo, by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Company, their
steamer, the Tsuruga Maru, having run regularly on this route since the 26th March. The chief
articles imported were, in round numbers,—Tea, 2,100 piculs; Camphor-wood, 2,000 piculs; and
Chinaware, 1,100 piculs; besides Cutlery, Lacquerware, Glassware, and miscellaneous manufactures.
The Exports were insignificant, consisting of Carpets, Jute, Skin Rugs, and Wool, in small
quantities; but the trade shows signs of development, and has induced a number of Japanese
merchants to settle here. It is rumoured that there will be several additions to their number
in the course of this year, and that they even talk of establishing a banking agency of their own.
In reviewing the trade of the port the large importations of merchandise for Government
use should not be overlooked, although, being exempted from duty, they have not been embodied
in the published Returns. Of dutiable articles, among which are comprised a quantity of
materials for use in docks, arsenals, etc., the total value for the year was Hk.Its. 676,348; and
of contraband, such as arms, ammunition, etc., Hk.Its. 302,177. The former includes 1,500 tons
of Steel Rails, imported from Messrs. KRUPP, of Essen, for the K‘aip'ing extension railway
Besides this, several experimental imports of railway material were made during the year.
None of these seem to have been sold, but they may, by presenting to the Chinese in a practical
form the advantages of these appliances, hasten the time which must inevitably come for their
introduction.
A short line of the Decauville portable railway was laid down in an open space near the
Settlement, for exhibition, and was inspected and travelled upon by His Excellency the Viceroy
of Chihli and other high officials. Passenger trains are now running daily, and are much
patronised by Native sightseers and their families.
The New Year was heralded by vague rumours of powerful syndicates formed in Europe
and America for supplying to the Chinese the requisites for the sudden plunge into civilisation,
upon the brink of which they were supposed to stand. The rumours were confirmed by the
appearance in Tientsin of the representatives of these syndicates, German, French, and American ;
of these the French seem to have obtained the most solid advantages, in the acquirement of
contracts for two iron bridges over the Peiho (of one of which the foundations are already laid),
of a contract for the completion of the harbour and docks at the naval station of Lü-shun-k'ou
(or Port Arthur), and of another for two balloons intended for military usage.
Several new banking agencies have been established, the Comptoir d'Escompte de Paris,
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Building is going on apace, and the Settlement wears an appearance of rapidly growing
prosperity and importance.
The emergence from seclusion behind the sight-obstructing walls of Peking of such an
important personage as the PRINCE OF Chun, and his visit to Tientsin, Taku, Port Arthur,
Wei-hai-wei, and Chefoo, last May, gave colour to the hope that the dawn of a new and brighter
era of more rapid progress in the history of China was at hand, and that Tientsin more
especially, as the gate of the capital, would share largely in the golden harvest to be reaped
from the adoption of a policy favouring the opening up of the country, and its industrial and
commercial development. Although the visit of the Imperial Prince was not followed by any
immediate results justifying the glowing expectations at first entertained, there can be no doubt
that its consequences will be far-reaching, and that it practically overthrew the doubts which
the Court of Peking, so far, still entertained respecting official recognition of railways and other
Western institutions which China will have to adopt to hold her own among nations.
The river, the bugbear of the port, has not shown any signs of improvement, and remedies
for the, of late, annual shoaling of the higher reaches during the busy months of summer have
been discussed again and again without any definite result. Dredging has been tried without
success, and there seems to be but one plan by which a solution of the difficulty may be looked
for. The deposit in the river is generally admitted to be caused by the back-flow of the current
forcing its way round the sharp and frequent bends of its course ; by cutting through the
necks of several of these bends, an almost straight channel could be made to the mouth of
the river, and it is estimated that the water, being no longer obstructed in its course by the
bends, would itself keep open a deep and navigable passage to the sea. The navigation of a
straight channel would, besides, be far easier, and the distance from Taku to Tientsin materially
shortened. The expense of this scheme would not be great in proportion to the advantages
that should be derived from it, and the interest on the outlay could be easily covered by a
light toll upon the shipping, which would be amply compensated by lessening the number of
delays and accidents now making navigation on the Peiho so costly.
Though the weather at Tientsin has not been abnormal, the country to the north and
north-west seems to have been visited with unusual rainfall during the latter part of the summer,
resulting in most disastrous floods, and consequent distress among the agricultural population of
the Chihli plains, whose crops were entirely destroyed.
DETRING,
Commissioner of Customs.
TIENTSIN, 13th April 1887.


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TIENTSIN TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
Total.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
215 177,901
22,291
428
44
31
88
British...........
German .......
French ..........
Japanese ..........
Chinese.
470
215 177,901
21,863
470
8,486
157,314
461 366,034
18
709
763
177 147,092 38 30,809
14,387 7,904
470
7,516
1,679
158 131,143 29 26,934
381 300,608 84 67,326
9,195
187 158,077
465 367,934
215 177,901
44 22,291
il 470
18 9,195
187 158,077
465 367,934
186
355,802
44,582
940
18,390
316,154
735,868
- 36 |
374
930
Total Steamers ......
4
1,900
SAILING VESSELS.
14,207
4,896
290
28,414
9,792
580
1,258
290
14,207
4,896
290
629
350
1,132
British
14,207
German .....
4,896
Danish ....
Swedish & Norwegian
629
Belgian
350
Siamese .......
1,132
Total Sailing Vessels 61 21,504
Grand Total... 522 387,538
629
3,782
| 10,425
2,186
2,710
I 290 ...
... 1
629
350
595 | 2 | 537
7,203 | 39 | 14,301
403 297,811 123 81,627
700
350
1,132
|
21
2,264
22 |
122
4
1,900
61 21,504
526 389,438
61 21,504
526 389,438 1,052
43,008
778,876


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RETUI
TRADE ANN
TRADE REPO
RETURNS, 1886.
REPORTS AND TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF TIENTSIN,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
VALUES.
Hk. Its
Hk. Its
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Its
Hk.fi
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong ......
Imported from Chinese Ports .............. .................
Total Foreign Imports...........
1,318,955
9,366,437
1,663,766
10,852,442
1,768,491
12,228,021
10,685,392
12,516,208
13,996,512
5,000
7,529
Re-exported to Foreign countries and Hongkong...
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Shanghai
and Chefoo)...
Total Foreign Re-exports .............
66,870
48,766
46,103
66,870
53,766
53,632
Net Total Foreign Imports .......
10,618,522
12,462,442
13,942,880
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Shanghai, Hankow, Foochow,
and Canton)......
13,455,780
13,478,685
14,294,056
4,948,009
Re-exported to Foreign Countries ......................
Re-exported to Chinese Ports.................
Total Native Re-exports ..............
3,739,667
5,654
3,438,259
5,176
5,535
3,745,321
3,443,435
4,953,544
Net Total Native Imports.
...............
9,710,459
10,035,250
9,340,512
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries .
1,633
73
108,884
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports ...
3,608,443
3,744,998
3,990,169
Total Exports of local origin ...
3,610,076
3,745,071
4,099,053
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port...........
27,751,248
29,739,964
32,389,621
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native
Exports of local origin....
23,939,057
26,242,763
27,382,445


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TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS. - Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG,
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
OPIUM:
H.Fts.
H.Fts.
Piculs
Malwa ...
Patna.....
Persian
1,970 27
10272
31
254
Hk.Fts.
975,284
54,852
12,772
2,516
25
8 40
Noun
Hk.Its.
12,375
4,486
824
1,945 27
9432
H .fts.
962,909
50,366
11,948
2,516
Prepared
Pieces
5,750
1,304
1,753 1,236,993
562,968
4,154
1,858,362
1,125,936
8,308
1,616
808
4,788
3,900
400
oo
75
150
13,685
11,500 1,232,417
2,608 561,744
4,354
808
3,192
5,850 357,181
94,160
34,213 291,742
12,990
75,797
30,532
5,750
720 10,264
86,750 986,839
118,897
104,764
1,848,625
1,123,488
8,708
1,616
4,788
535,771
188,320
729,355
19,485
113,695
61,064
8,625
20,528
2,467,097
356,691
3,192
360,681
94,085
305,427
12,990
75,797
30,532
5,750
100 10,424
150 1,021,479
2,580 118,037
541,021
188,170
763,568
19,485
113,695
61,064
8,625
20,848
| 2,553,697
354,111
260
200
COTTON Goods:-
Shirtings, Grey...........
White, Plain......
Dyed,
White, Figured
and Brocaded )
Dyed, Spotted ..
T-Cioths..
Drills, English...
American .....
Dutch ....
Jeans, English
American...........
Dutch ..............
Sheetings, English .......
American .......
Chintzes, Furnitures, and
Prints ..............
Turkey Red Cloths and
Cambrics.........
Damasks..
Velvets and Velveteens.....
Twills....................
Muslins and Lawns.........
Taffachellas ..........
Lastings, Cotton..
Dimities ...........
Cotton Italians
Cottonades .........
Cotton Flannels...........
Mahomedans.......
Mosquito Netting
Cotton Goods, Unclassed...
Handkerchiefs........ Dozens
Thread ............... Piculs
Yarn...............
Canvas.
Bolts
34,700
209,528
690
104,419
208,838
4,308
144
364
1,064
857
2,531
53,692
13,760
12,000
122,810
1,360
53,294
900
3,817
2,318
3,171
53,835
13,761
12,000
122,811
1,360
53,054
900
4,072
2,318
3,475
15,186
107,384
20,640
1,065
368,430
1,360
159,882
940
7,946
5,283
3,401
3,615
26,842
15,525
954,552
396
19,026
107,670
20,639
1,065
368,553
1,360
159, 162
940
8,351
5,283
3,461
240
720
405
60
SEUS ......
3,461
1,145
504
1,081
7377
3,088
154
1,081
3,507
74,112
862
9,506
26,842
48576
39,77306
27,923 27,923
559 53 19,032
42,67806 1,024,272
188
1,258
4,392
144
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Blankets .......
Camlets English...
Pairs
Pieces
1,753
2,191
319
7,372
333
84,778
2,550
1,662
7,352
150
2
Dutch
150
80
1,250
pe
3,524
95,148
Cloth, Broad and Medium.
Italian ....
an..........
Russian
Union...........
Flannels ............
Lastings, Woollen
Crape ..........
Long Ells .........
Lustres and Orleans.....
Spanish Stripes ........
1,342
24,156
2,000
2,114
84,548
2,550
1,218
6,182
156,528
5,894
34,146
129,461
619
12,024
23,355
80,037
1,523
2,252
884
540
13,477
177
2,672
7,809
8,473
200
6,138
61,930
6,188
9,990
128,031
619
12,024
23,427
80,493
1,525
5,756
842
1,882
3,617
177
2,672
7,785
8,425


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.— Imports and Re-exports—Conta.

NET
IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value. | Quantity. | Value.
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
Hk.fts.
Hk.fis
782
98 50
1,478
METALS:
Brass Pipes and Tubes, Old Piculs
Copper, Japan ..................
, Yellow Metal |
Sheathing....
Yellow Metal, Old....
Iron, Bar.......
» Hoop ...........
51 91
4357
166
3,542
1,135 16
1,352
27,791
7,633
3,497
27,160
7,148
11,349
1,811
40,900
98,419
»
,
Old....
Hk.Its
16520
1,853 24
527 444 45
1,278
43463
7,084 13,580 65
3,406
2,383 46
7,746 19
1,636 71070
1,071 20,450 32
13,721 72,800 32
1,292
2,492 1,75618
7,248
7,25875
1,366
855 7,42484
148 31
5566
2,043 8,68778
61568
5202,924 13
Manufactured, Un-
classed
Nail-rod .............
16520
1,80665
48802
60063
17,122 65
3,51862
7,701 19
1,07492
20,986 20
83,51178
1,29164
2,587
8,16475
36422
53588
10,711 46
1,291 64
83082
»
1,352
27,095
8,160
4,775
34,244
10,554
11,299
3,447
41,971
112,140
1,292
7,760
65,318
12,716
37,133
5,144
2,894
34,427
13,545
12,216
Old...
::::::::::::::::::
906
Value
Pig ............
Sheets and Plates......
Wire
Ironware.........
Lead, in Pigs ......
Piculs
White Metal..
Quicksilver..
Steel
Tin, in Slabs....
Tinplates ..............
90
5,268
58,070
11,350
36,278
5,144
2,894
32,384
13,545
11,696
7,426 74
148 31
5566
51077
9,198 55
61568
3,051 69
127 56
- 3362
369
228 10
7,299
38,055
3,900
2,543
18,791
21,601
1,910
53,895
59,747
31,944
6,583
1 14,271
19,042
8,792
3,938
14,975
32,346
7,632
508 81
849 12
4,698 77
1,992 85
8365
5,989 39
1,639 82
29.04
587 29
87,070
74070
10,335
155,053
65106
3672
12118
2,39265
96335
2,740 84
13,312
2,543
18,791
21,232
1,910
53,895
52,448
31,944
6,583
85,825
11,472
8,792
3,938
14,975
5,508
969
1,789
5,780
52,060
17,935
3,900
62
386
Pkgs.
SUNDRIES:
Acid, Sulphuric................ Piculs
Agar-agar ........
Aniseed, Star.............
Awabi......
Betel-nuts..
Bicho de Mar, Black
Birds' Nests, 2nd Quality
Borax..............
Buttons, Brass .......
Gross
Camphor ...........
Piculs
Candles ..........................
Canes, Malacca................. Pieces
Cardamoms, Inferior.......... Piculs
, Superior .........
Cassia Lignea...............
Cement.........................
Chinaware, Coarse ........
Fine............
Pieces
Coal..........
Tons
Colours and Dyes.......... Piculs
Compoy...........
Cow Bezoar, Indian .....
Crocodile Scales .........
Cuttle-fish ..............
Embroidery............
Feathers, Kingfishers' .... Pieces
.. Peacocks'....
Fish Maws .............. Piculs
, Skins...................
Fungus ........................
Galangal ................
Gamboge............
Ginseng, American, Clarified
849 12
4,698 77
2,026 47
8365
5,989 39
1,86792
2904
58729
121,225
1,245 651
10,335
155,053
65106
3672
121 18
2,392651
4,88922
3,72795
13,770
301
2,989 28
521 91
5,508
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Clocks...
3,925 87
99161
578
301
9324
10398
120
23,555
19,832
2,749
1,956
11,373
2,072
2,932 25
419 88
III
2365
32498
969
1,789
29,335
71,807
20,516
1,956
185,407
8,696
1,354
1,159
7,312
1,020
6,886
68,328
170
98,347
176,178
6,682
1,354
1,159
7,312
1,020
6,886
68,328
5,975
2,022
1,301
2,574
1,875
1,492
7.26
363
401,930
11981
22493
60 55
858 20
3751
373
2365
324.98
170
98,347
401,930
11255
22493
60 55
85820
3751
373
5,612
2,022
1,301
2,574
1,875
1,492


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TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.— Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hl. Fts
Hk. Its
Hk, Ft
Boxes
Piculs
5,923
090
Hl. Pts.
2,013
2,298
43,416
5,211
2,300
31,344
28,887
1,440
3358
9.80l
76
72 55
5,323
25,130
21142
645 50
70
Value
17,769 14,472
2,430
193
287 50
2612
604 1,604 95
1,088
434 10,997
4,435 9,478
1,043 213
5,671
862
14,091
15,139 251,132
240 867 80
13113
734
29,683 505,990
84 36
34,932 460,814
209 472 80
1,386 05
360
507
14
22,160
64 30
*
273,2671 |
734
|
195,280
13,750
1,884
442,8601
1304
10180
23275
:::::::
15,260
...
]
4,20876
81
1,097
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Glass, Plate ........
Value
, , Silvered.
Window.....
Gold Thread, Real...........
Gum Olibanum ..
Horns, Rhinoceros
Isinglass .............
Lacquerware........
Lamp Chimneys...
Dozens
Lamps
Pieces
Lead, White
Piculs
Log-wood Extract.
Machinery............
Matches......................
Gross
Medicines...
Piculs
Mushrooms....
Musical Boxes .......
Pieces
Needles ............
Mille
Nutmegs ............
Piculs
Oil, Kerosene.......
Galls.
Paint, Green...
Piculs
Pepper, Black...
White ..............
Putchuck .......
Railway Materials...
ue
Raisins
Piculs
Rattans, Whole..
Rope, Manila .....
Sandalwood...
Sapanwood..........
Scale-sticks..
Seaweed, Cut....
Japan............
Red...............
Russian.........
Sharks' Fins, Black.
White.
Prepared.
Silver Thread, Real...
Skins, Fox .......
Land-otter......
Marten.
Racoon..........
Sundry ........
Smalt.................
Soap
Pkgs.
Stoves and Grates.
Sugar, Brown .......
Piculs
White...........
Candy ...
,, Refined......
Tea, Japan .............
,, Dust, Japan ...............
Timber, Beams, Hard-wood.. Pieces
Planks, ,, ..
» Soft-wood.. Sq. ft.
Poles, Soft-wood.... Pieces
Planks, Camphor- Piculs
wood ............
2,941
2,604
263
7,111
2,984
167,488
8,001
4,262
1,289
63,683
4,555
45,830
7,411
19,406
2,922
2,327
2,555
2,114
12,626
9,871
7,339
19,328
1,866
4,317
168,547
1,904
2,368
20,397
41,933
4,588
2,565
4,192
2,979
7,231
3,844
3,697
8,729
6,443
1,479
119,172
146,787
951
8,032
Preces
He.Tts
2,013
2,298
19,915 59,745
283 7,641
287 50 2,300
2612 31,344
1,62873 29,315
72 55 1,088
16,320 3,375
34,608 7,039
42442 1,306
1,49390 12,712
16,568
182,613
93210
8,241
131 13 4,262
1,289
687,520 91,482
84136
4,555
903,674 80,762
48584 7,620
1,38605 19,406
10180 2,922
23275 2,327
17,815
24882 2,114
12,626
99240 10,916
81545) 7,339
9,664 501 19,328
19,650
1,80382
5,410
70,97463 179,278
31732 1,904
7,28504) 13,780
56219 20,650
78356 43,095
4665
251
20,038 20,038
2,979
7,231
7,688
3,844
49,543
3,697
301
8,729
10,476 6,443
1,448
45,990 28 137,971
24,464 51 146,787
142 40 996
1,33865 8,032
6,23977 40,246
55927
2,192
556 26,410
6,915 2,766
572,792
1,436 2,872
4,575 45
1,866
24882
4,20876
89736
81545
9,664 50
19,650
1,43916
67,397 67
317 32
1,57904
55534
762 82
4665
171
4,192
993
36466
3,576 96
1,093
10,731
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
5,706
685)
2074
11,412
253
1,162
::::::::
0 80
1,200
15,846
4,588
3,765
15,846
993
2,066
2,066
7,688
49,543
Piculs
301)
153
6,266 38
18,799
10,476
156
39,723 90
24,464 51
13590
1,338651
650
45
6,239 77
55927
40,246
2,192
:::::::::
556
6,915)
222,416
26,410
2,766
3,113
350,376
8,144
1,436
2,806 51
5,031
2,872
1,762
1,76894
3,060
:
4,822


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
477
236
|
236
::::
Value
SUNDRIES, continued: -
Timber, Red-wood.
.........
Piculs
, Poles, Rose-wood... Pieces
Tin-foil ............
Piculs
Towels ........................
Dozens
Toys ............
Ultramarine.................
Piculs
Umbrellas ..........
Dozens
Vermilion............
Piculs
Wall Paper ..........
Rolls
Watches
Pieces
Worm Tablets .........
Zinc, in Sheets ................
Sundries, Unenumerated .... Value
TOTAL........... Hk. It..
1,026
::::::
Hk.Fls.
Hk.Fts.
Hl.Fts.
Hk. Tts.
Hk.Fis
477 2,862
2,862
2,474
2,474
18538 3,893
18538
3,893
8,6071
2,208 46,536 12,7831
53,143 14,493
2,562
5381
3,100
485 2,409
485
2,409
1,026
2,463
2,463
47306
22,7061
480
468 26
22,476
7,349 1,066 7,400
473
14,749
1,539
1,099 5,984 4,619 14,317
5,714
20,10
891 3,433 1,3591 31,371
1,442
34,660
473771 1,8651
47377 1,865
3,010
68,727
253
435
71,049
783,502 ................ 13,213,010............ |---| 7,419
46,213 ............. 13,944,702
Excess of Re-export above Import of some articles during the year......
............. Hk.Its 1,822
NET TOTAL.................................Hk. Pts. 13,942,880
230
200
Pkgs.
Piculs
144
SUMMARY
287,062
984,989
18,999
89,139
202,505
11,412
1,076
159,695
IMPORTS from Great Britain .........
.......Hk.Tts.
Hongkong ............
Singapore and Straits........................
United States of America ..................
Continent of Europe, Russia excepted...
Russian Manchuria ........
Corea ............................................
Japan ...........................................
Siam ...............
Turkey in Asia, Persia, Egypt, and ?
Aden..
Total from Foreign Countries ........-
Imports from Chinese Ports .........
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS
RE-EXPORTS to Hongkong......
..Hk. Its
... Russian Manchuria ........................ 9
„Corea ...........
............................... »
Total to Foreign countries............-
RE-EXPORTS to Newchwang .................................. Hk. Tts.
,, Chefoo ..........
,, Shanghai ........
,, Swatow ...........
Total to Chinese Ports.............
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS ...
13,608
-Hk. Pts. 1,768,491
............ „ 12,228,021
- Hk.Pts. 13,996,512
110
7,197
222
- Hk.Tts. 7,529
1,919
5,326
38,483
375
-Hk.Tts.
46,103
- Hk. Tts. 53,632
...Hk.fts. 13,942,880
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS .......


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TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity
Value.
Hi. Pts.
Hk. Ats
H:.Tis.
60 32
422
16,173
620
173 34
14,203
25,785
8,154
16,173
620
16,490
10,270
41,426
1,153
6,868
29,752
8,159
22,232
9,002
4,184
7,157
87,168
3440
045
2473
II
1,386
741
68
408
42
3,862
11,362 64
3,683 69
418,400
294,046
13,150
3,28443
16,15163
1,18361
10,756
2,309 14
29,751 75
1,168 18
74109
211 80
9,258
28648
1,556 55
085
033
102 071
193
2574
51891
477 841
86135
6,490 90
12,84942
59547
2705
1745
721
114.29
16183
2491
1 35
8 24
1,967 85
34956
7,90551
1,313,052
85,840
494,400
1,282,553
91,052
356 19
861 35
5770
Hk. Its.
Alum, White ..........
11,362 64 14,203
Arsenic ...........
3,623 37 25,363
Bamboo Brooms and Brushes.. Pieces 418,400 8,154
Canes ......................
294,046
Poles ...........
13,150
Shoots ................... Piculs
3,457 77 17,245
Split ...............
16,151 63 10,270
Bambooware ...
1,157 61 40,516
Beads, Sundry ...........
Strings
10,756 1,153
Beancurd .................
Piculs
2,309/14 6,868
Beans and Peas .........
29,751 75 29,752
Betel nuts ......
1,168 18 8,159
Books, Chinese.. .............
76807 23,041
Brass-foil...
21180 9,002
Brass Pipes............
Pieces
9,258
4,184
Brassware ..........................
Piculs
286 03 7,146
Buttons, Brass..............
1,535 57 85,991
Camphor, Baroos, Clean .....
085
, Refuse.
033
Capoor Cutchery ...............
8507 340
Cardamoms, Inferior.........
193
, Superior........
2574
Cassia Lignea.....
51891
4,151
Twigs ...
55661 1,113
China-root..............
2,584
Chinaware, Fine.........
6,49270 113,627
Coarse .......
12,84942 77,096
Chopsticks ....
53777 5,377
Chowchow ....
2705 591
Cinnamon ...................
1074
Clocks.............................
Pieces
4,725
Copper, Old............ .......
Piculs 114291
1,558
, Unmanufactured .....
161 831
6,804
Coral.
249
, Beads.........
135)
Cornelianware...........
4,290
Cotton, Raw ...........
1,967 85 21,645
Ribbons..........
351 26 24,105
Earthenware ....
7,90551 35,577
Eggs, Preserved.
Pieces (1,313,052 11,160
Fans, Palm-leaf, Trimmed ....
85,840
2,403
Untrimmed ..
Paper ................
11,279,503 44,786
Silk, Gauze, and Fancy... 75,052 5,129
Feathers, Fowls'....
Piculs
35619 2,737
Fire-crackers............
5221
261
Fish Maws............
20512 10,257
Flower Plants and Roots ........ Pieces 341,668 6,539
, Seed ..
Piculs 1,011 99 7,515
Flowers, Dried.
1,302 88 2,482
15298 3,365
Furniture .......................... Pieces
7,573
Ginger, Fresh ........... Piculs 18,582 90 18,721
Glassware ........
33705 5,055
Glue, Cow ......
11954 1,560
, Fish...
1,11556
3,458
Gold Thread, Real.........
ooi
Imitation....
2 50 1,250
Grasscloth, Fine......
55889. 22,355
577
849
529
721
44
1,038
821
170
42
3,862
4,151
956
2,584
113,595
77,096
5,954
591
1,378
4,725
1,558
6,804
44
1,038
4,290
21,645
23,986
35,577
11,160
2,403
2,472
44,891
5,609
2,737
261
10,304
6,539
7,515
2,482
3,365
7,544
18,586
5,046
1,820
3,458
27
1,250
22,481
472
494,400
3,050
16,000
52 21
206 07
341,668
1,302 88
Fungus......
1,01199
15298
799
18,447 90
33765
13954
1,11556
060
27
001
2 50
815
200
326
5195
200 |
56109


28
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports—Conta.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity. / Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. / Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Pts.
Hk. Tis.
H
.Fts
29,650
2,000
1915
6,058
6,058
5,856
Value
94 49
138
620
76 27
855
608
1,888
51
1720
98,728
29103
2,961
4,459
6603
353
Hk.fts.
65305
6,530
570 27
7,410
57 12
513
2,992 24
32,912
2,022
. 14720
7,357
033 398
594 15 16,038
69 32
2,415
672
5,856 59 12,7441
1219 3,657
4144 5,659
42,301
2,052 14 2,673
183,547 23,969
8914 1,335
342 30
2,054
2,883691 · 14,415
52760
9,165
2,069
13706
824
76065 9,120
29505 2,358
272 171,633
218,618 6.537
13,145 21 87,952
24,826 2,180
4,890 40 180,945
2,397 07 33,306
1,060 25 10,509
3431 978
3,222 79 25,782
28,61871 186,022
2,289605,724
58,528 2,255
- 36 2,598
2,27613 18,278
10,548 24 11,980
28,47463 341,696
78,102 99 312,412
2,952 94 8,089
6,542 45 52,339
3,346
967 99 1,218
3,19535 27,156
1,85569 3,772
14911 6,710
596,984 35 895,477
839,699 90 1,259,550
482 17 2,646
13468
2,832
96,810
1,093 18
3,302
1335 3,338
8376 4,606
71172,633
2,645 1,322
36206 95,930
952
Grasscloth, Coarse............... Piculs
Hams ..........
Hartall and Orpiment .........
Hemp .......
, Bags ............
Pieces
Horns, Buffalo and Cow......... Piculs
Rhinoceros'....
Indigo, Dried......
Ink, Chinese..
Inkstones .................
Pieces
Ironware..................
Piculs
Ivoryware ................
Jadestone ..............
Jadestoneware.
Lampblack ...........
Piculs
Lamps, Brass and Opium......
Pieces
Lampwick ......
Piculs
Lead, Red..........
, White .........
,, Yellow...........
Leatherware..............
Lichees ...................
Lotus-nuts...............
Lung-ngan Pulp.
Lung-ngans, Dried.
Mats ...............
Pieces
Medicines............
Piculs
Mirrors ............
Pieces
Nankeens ....
Piculs
Nutgalls ....
Oil, Cassia ..........
,, Peppermint .........
Tea ...........
Wood .............
Olives, Fresh.
Opium Bowls and Pipes......... Pieces
, Picks .......
Piculs
Orange Peel ...........
Oranges, Fresh ..
Paper, ist Quality...
2nd 2
, Cuttings.....
Joss...
Pearls, False..
Plums, Black
Preserves and Sweetmeats .......
Resin ......
Rhubarb ................
Rice ........
Tribute
, Red.....................
Rouge ...........................
Satin........
Sea Blubber..
Sea-horse Teeth....
Sharks' Fins, White.
, , Black..........
Shoes ................................ Pairs
Silk and Cotton Mixtures ...... Piculs
352
Hk.Tits
65305 6,530
570 27
7,410
57 12 513
2,992 24 32,912
31,650 2,097
166 35 8,315
033
398
594 15
16,038
69 32 2,415
672
12,744
1219 3,657
41 44
5,659
42,301
2,052 14 2,673
183,547 23,969
8914 1,335
342 30 2,054
2,88369 14,415
1,52760 9,165
94 49
2,069
13706
824
754 45 9,048
235 98
26362 1,582
317,346 9,518
13,370 21
92,058
24,826 2,180
4,89992 181,297
2,397 07 33,306
1,060 25 10,509
978
25,782
186,022
2,28960 5,724
58,528 2,255
2,598
2,390 63 19,194
10,548 24 11,980
28,460 751 341,529
78,102 99 312,412
2,952 94 8,089
6,542 45 52,339
5577 3,346
96799
3,197 99 27,180
1,85569 3,772
149 11 6,710
596,98435 895,477
839,699 90 1,259,550
482 17 2,646
13468
2,832
8803 96,810
1,093 18
3,302
1335 3,338
8376 4,606
7117
2,633
2,645 1,322
22279
343
36
114.50
::::::::::
::::
1388
5577
1,218
264
8803
:::::::::::::
362 06
95,939


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TABLE No. IV.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE. — Imports and Re-exports—Conta.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Its
Hk.Fls.
Hk. Tts.
Hk.Fls.
0 36
306
330
16
16
Pairs
Sugar, Brown
Hl. Pts.
Silk and Cotton Mixtures, Piculs |
Fancy .........
104 37 15,096]
Caps ..............
Pieces 12,193
2,128
Floss ..........
Piculs 3376 13,504
Piece Goods..........
1,16554 1,282,094
Ribbons
320 85 112,297
Strings
355
Thread.
1914 2,871
Wadding................
583 966
Silver Thread, Real.......
ool
Skins, Land-otter ............ Pieces
3,499
10,497
Sundry ................
9,797
2,711
Snuff
Piculs
189 47 246,311
Soap Seed ...............
727151 1,092
Spectacles............
37,074
2,035
Staves and Tub Planks ......... Pieces 137,637
1,251
Steel .........
Piculs
1,919
6,7161
Stoneware ...........
Value
1,046
Piculs 186,58462 559,753
, Candy..............
35,39983 247,798
White ...
119,166 49 655,415)
Tallow, Vegetable...
1,971 20 17,740
Tea, Black
133,072 97 2,994, 150
Brick .............
306,043 25 1,836,259
Dust .............
2,903 85 14,519
Green ....................
25,043 69 425,748
Tablet .............
5,37022 107,404
Timber, Planks, Coffin-wood... Pieces 1,299 1,4561
657
2,218
Soft-wood...... Sg. ft. 11,363,881 19,096
Poles .................... Pieces 273,396 546,176
Tin-foil......
Piculs 14164 3,0441
Tobacco, Leaf...
3,554 17 14,216
,, Prepared...........
9,670 24 125,710
Turmeric ............
4,75096 14,2521
Umbrellas, Oil-cloth ............
Pieces
115,265 19,595
221 62 9,100
Vermilion
4764 2,286
4,501 01 4,9281
Wax, White ................
76513 27,540
Wheat ............ ................
78,37390
78,373
Woodware .........
1,029 22 20,5941
Sundries, Unenumerated......... Value
59,9381
Copper Cash....................... Strings 579,826 36,239
TOTAL...
... Hk.Fts.. ... ... 14,228,933
::::::::::::::::::::::::
TI 201
104 37| 15,096
12,193
2,128
3376 13,504
1,165 18 1,281,698
32085
I 12,297
355 330
1914 2,871
583
966
OOI
3,499 10,497
9,7971
2,711
189 47 246,311
727151 1,092
37,074 2,035
137,637 1,251
1,919 | 6,716
1,046
186,584 62 559,753
35,399 83 247,798
119,166 49 655,415
1,971 20 17,740
133,051 25 2,993,655 1052 243
306,043 25 1,836,259
2,903 851 14,519
682 90 10,691 24,360 79 415,057
5,370 22 107,404
1,299 1,456
657
1,363,881 19,096
273,396
546,176
14164
***
3,044
3,554 171 14,216
12,840 52 166,924
4,750 96 14,252
21,035 2,739
115,265 19,595
22162 9,100
4764
2,286
4,501 OI 4,928
76513
27,540
78,373 90
78,373
1,095 93 21,915
61,III
579,826 36,239
wood....
»
»
Hard-wood....
2
2,218
Poles...
99
3,171 96
41,236
6822
21,035
2,739
Paper.
Varnish
Water Chestnu
7497
826
1,486
1,954
781
65,123
5,535
...... 4,948,009
...........
9,340,512


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
SUMMARY.
IMPORTS from Newchwang...........
........ Hk. Aits 581
„ „ Chefoo ..........
3,249
» Hankow...........
3,971,228
Kiukiang ..........
250,112
Wuhu ............
51,141
» Chinkiang .........
138,169
Shanghai.
5,696,445
Ningpo ......
30,086
, Wênchow
14,828
Foochow ..............
1,612,501
Takow ...................
152,169
Amoy............
356,039
Swatow ............
839,076
, Canton.........
.......................
1,113,309
Total from Chinese Ports..............-
-Hk. Its 14,228,933
Imports from Hongkong ............................................. , 65,123
TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS.........
Hk.fts 14,294,056
654
547
RE-EXPORTS to Newchwang ............ ............ Hk. Its
„Chefoo ...........
............ »
„ Hankow ...........
........ 2
„ Shanghai .
„ Swatow.........
Total to Chinese Ports ...
51
4,183
100
-Hk.Tita
5,535
RE-EXPORTS to Russia and Siberia viâ Kiakhta and
Chang-chia-k'ou ....
Pts 4,948,009
Total to Foreign Countries.........
- Hk.Fte 4,948,009
TOTAL NATIVE RE-EXPORTS... .........
-Hk.Its
4,953,544
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS .....
Hk.Pts 9,340,512


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TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Exports and Re-exports.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Its
Hk.Tts.
Piculs
943 50
22273
Hl. Pts.
50,774
237
2,664
44,946
2,657 84
3,50940
20,739 30
1241
30,205
3,050
Hk. Its
45,183
3,510
8,909
3,410
610
218
3,691
Hk.Ft.
95,957
3,747
11,875
52,047
35,107
3,488
5,644 56
3,746 92
28,402 46
2,217 04
351,084
17,5851
reces
2,98672
23752
6,71966
1,870 31
320,879
14,535)
527
1633
29585
33,677
3,020
32,087
527)
209
035
2,878
209
10,207
795
5,525
134,708
1848
295 851
Tons
311
1,624
v
406
5
** 690
.
.
34,100
40
6273
928
37,080 29
19,577 44
87463
112,739
9472
462
3,529
1,176 35
32 70
115
59.48
Felt........
I 20l
262 951
Almonds
Beans ....
Bones, Refuse ...........
Bristles ..................
Caps, Felt ..............
, Horse Hair ........
Carpets, Large........
Chinaware, Fine................... Piculs
Chowchow..........
Cloisonné and Enamels ........ Value
Coal, K'ai-pʻing ..................
Coke.
Cotton, Raw .....
Piculs
Crystals, Black .........
Dates, Black .........
» Red
Feathers.
Pieces
Glassware ..............
Piculs
Hair, Goats'...
Horse........................
Yaks'...........
Hats, Straw ......
Hides, Ass.............. Piculs
2 Cow ............
Horns, Chamois'.........
Deer, Young.
Pairs
Leather, Black.
Piculs
White ...............
Liquorice...................
Medicines...................
Mushrooms
Musk.
Pears, Fresh .................
Peas ............................
Preserves and Sweetmeats ..
Rhubarb, 2nd Quality .....
3rd
Samshu .........
, Medicated....
Seed, Melon................
117
489
32 09
740
1,708
Pieces
31041
3,100
1,856
184,939
55,105
5,457
11,290
1,420
935
41,706
5,153
14,428
4,145
54,853
33,606
245,465
4,866
7,284
28,431
160,696
38,314
31,917
32,790
1,800
2,136
-
3/21
504
1,870
684
2,67919
16,94895
940
21,434
86,056
460
928
36,987 79
18,36839
81515
112,619
9472
23367
2,00310
7517
143,685
37675
5,485 33
21822
4,463
442 44
728 41
3,55396
30,507 33
78191
394
24,970 50
1,79969
237 311
69
11,901 25
3,289 30
635581
1,831 341
391 50
5691
178,741
22,560
12 03
230
8663
386
3,680
10,600
53
2,586 80
884
4/64
10,457
795
5,836
136,417
280
690
1,856
185,401
58,749
5,873
11,326
1,420
1,052
42,935
6,861
14,428
4,145
57,953
34,1 10
247,335
4,866
7,284
49,881
247,789
38,774
31,917
36,613
2,684
2,178
2,521
3,438
65,830
36,664
3,178
4,967
5,175
3,983
81,152
2,256
13,233
2,563
1,066
1,910
27,275
9,250
223
6,991
1,851
94,026
10,821
2,316
425,065
2,07496
10005
143,68511
376 75
5,795 74
22143
4,497
442 44
72841
6,23520
47,72756
79131
394
27,557 30
2,683 69
241 951
148 80
1,146 22
16,457 69
6,144 52
635 58
1,831 34
516 89
5691
202,880
22,560
1203
2 33
10663
386
3,812
3,823
884
42
2,521
3,231
18,226
17,082
148 80
1,077 22
4,556 44
2,85522
»
Senna.
»
Date.
12539
1,257
Pars
24,139
9,6551
Puculs
33
207
47,604
19,582
3,178
4,967
3,918
3,983
71,497
2,256
13,233
2,530
866
1,910
26,458
9,250
223
6,991
1,772
93,589
10,791
2,316
416,754
200
si Waste
.........
Shoe Binding.
Shoes.....................
, Felt...............
Silk Embroidery .......
Piece Goods .....
Waste .................
Skin Clothing, Cat.............. Pieces
Fox...............
Goat.
Lamb ...........
» Imitation
Rabbit .......
Sheep ..........
Squirrel......
Lamb, Imitation......
33 Rugs, Goat...............
817
10,600
41
41
"853
196
5,291
835
65,281
1,673
7,568
534,306
5,291
65,487
1,677
7,568
546,093
30
,673
638
11,042
7


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports—Contd.

EXPORTS
EXPORTS
TO
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND Kincluding Re-exports).
CHINESE Ports.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
CHINESE PORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
| Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hk.Tts.
Hk. Its
11,803)
7,517
»
Sheep
IOO
1,003
1,003
401
Hk. Tts
39,235 26,150
94,456 14,465
36,818 3,108
72,069 15,890
19960 2,794
27,05395 47,905
88467 266
4,474 27 8,949
10,435 77 250,446
19,557 72 254,251
8,365 01 401,918
14,935 8,156
1730
765 50
29970
78694
2,854 98
2,297 76
230
78285
10350
37,576
4,968
599
18,906
37,114
109,895
Skin Rugs, Sheep........
Pieces
Skins, Goat, Untanned .........
99
5 Sundry.........
Snuff .....................
Piculs
Soap..........................
Soda..........
Steel, Flint.
Straw Braid, Coloured ....
» » Mottled..
White ....
Tails, Yaks.
Pieces
Tea, Black..
Piculs
, Brick .............
,, Green .............
,, Tablet.............
Tobacco, Prepared ...
Turnips, Salted ...
Vegetables, Salted.
Walnuts ...............
Wool, Camels' ...
» Goats'...
, Sheep's .
Woollen and Cotton Mixtures Pieces
Sundries, Unenumerated........ Value
TOTAL.. .... Hk. Its
Hk.Fls.
Hk. Pts.
51,038
33,667
94,456 14,465
36,918
3,173
73,072
16,893
199 60 2,794
27,071 251 47,945
1,650 171
496
4,773 97 9,548
11,222 71 269,352
23,195 55 328,941
10,766 27 516,781
14,935 - 8, 156
133,062 45 2,993,907 133,062 45 2,993,907
306,04325 1,836,259306,043 25 1,836,259
682 90 10,691 682 90 10,691
5,370 22 107,404
5,370 22
107,404
606 16
1,60127
3,202
1,55613 6,195
3,97888
8,489
20,939 30 175,240
4,01665) 36,149
25,189 251,889
65,361 47,879
4,783
57,113
7,880
7,880
3,202
5,986
6,919
209
1,570
60616
1,601 27
1,50386
3,24163
20,716 85
3,038 19
24,260 80
64,606
222 45
5227
73725
978 46
70471
7551
1,209
22349
8,996
7,047
2,234
27,153
242,608
47,369
43,795
510
4,374
4,161
61,185
447,095
3,590,773
4,953,544
9,052,597


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SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
To—
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Pts.
Hk.Tts
Hk. Its.
Hk.Pts.
Hk.Tts
Great Britain ......
56,443
56,443
Russia and Siberia via Kiakhta
and Chang-chia-k'ou...............)
4,948,009
4,948,009
Russian Manchuria ..........
150
150
130
Corea ..........
130
Japan......
4,462
4,462
47,699
47,699
Hongkong for Foreign Countries.....
Total to Foreign Countries ..
S
108,884
.....
4,948,009
I
5,056,893
Hongkong for Chinese Ports..........
399,396
399,396
Newchwang........
........
7,501
8,155
Chefoo ............
10,253
10,800
Hankow .......
.....
13,288
13,339
Wuhu ........................................
323
323
Chinkiang .......
.....
488
488
Shanghai
.... 2,795,620
2,799,803
Ningpo ....................................
28,371
28,371
Wênchow ...........
191
191
Foochow........
53,718
53,718
Takow ........
163
Amoy ...........
.....
163
36,740
126,456
Swatow ..........
....
100
36,740
126,556
517,661
Canton..
vanton...........
517,661
Total to Chinese Ports ..........
3,990, 169
5,535
3,995,704
GRAND TOTAL ........
4,099,053
4,953,544
9,052,597


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34
TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
Nil.
TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a.—Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
T TRADE.
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
Hk. Pts.m.c.c. |
Hk.fts. m.c.c.
44,987.3.1.5
Hk.Its m.c.c.
84,978.2.9.7
Hk. Hts. m.c.c.
76,840.9.1.5
Hk.Tts.m.c.c.
4,801.7.0.0
95.1.0.0
1,118.8.0.0
18,693.7.5.2
13.6.7.5
9,557.3.0.9
958.4.8.7
9.1.7:7
British
American.
German
French...........
Danish ..
Swedish and Norwegian ........
Belgian..........
Japanese ...........
Siamese ...........
Chinese..............
On Opium........
8,824.5.7.5
325.2.2.6
317.3.4.8
376.9.9.1
Hk.Fts m.c.c.
211,608.2.2.7
95.1.0.0
38,194.4.3.6
1,297.3.8.8
326.5.2.5
579.3.6.1
1,119.2.5.6
4,272.4.8.9
449.8.8.2
119,685.7.3.8
63,231.1.0.0
122.4.0.0
140.0.0.0
273.0.0.0
79.9.7.0
979.2.5.6
2,943.5.9.6
70.0.6.0
9,602.3.6.0
63,216.7.0.0
1,049.0.8.5
261.1.7.2
61,814.4.0.4
6.8.0.8
118.6.5.0
47,066.0.7.4
14.4.0.0
1,202.9.0.0
TOTAL....
140,586.6.8.4
158,627.9.3.1
133,890.9.8.7
7,753.9.0.0
440,859.5.0.2*
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total ...
...Hk.Its Nil.
b.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
EXPORT COAST TRADE
OPIUM
(exclusive of | (exclusive of
|(Import, Export,
and
Opium). Opium).
Coast Trade).
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
Hk.Tts. m.c.c.
1877.
1878..
1879.
1880..........
1881...........
1882.........
1883...........
Hk.Its m.c.c.
54,688.2.0.5
40,794.5.8.8
67,063.2.3.7
60,490.2.8.8
60,562.6.0.5
69,279.3.2.6
67,595.1.9.3
68,975.1.6.9
78,764.8.4.2
77,369.9.8.4
Hk.Tts. m.c.c.
72,001.1.8.5
72,873.9.5.2
80,394.9.5.0
97,373.3.2.8
102,191.5.5.4
123,187.1.1.7
120,804.2.8.1
128, 126.7.0.3
146,576.9.9.2
158,627.9.3. I
Hk.Tts. m.C.C.
66,484.7.9.2
72,454.9.1.3
104,173.3.3.3
106,018.2.3.2
103,600.2.9.5
104,534.0.2.4
110,372.0.4.0
114,778.6.9.2
138,093.0.4.9
133,876.5.8.7
Hk.Fts m.c.c.
121,841.7.8.0
124, 162.0.5.0
162,727.5.1.9
109,757.7.7.5
106,569.5.7.5
84,226.7.6.7
76,879.3.0.2
69,585.2.6.8
60,165.3.1.5
63,231.1.0.0
Hk. Tts m.c.c.
7,688.6.0.0
7,415.2.4.4
9,248.6.4.4
9,039.8.4.4
9,616.8.0.0
6,143.0.0.0
5,285.4.4.8
5,113.5.0.0
7,632.0.0.0
7,753.9.0.0
Hk.Fis m.c.c.
322,684.5.6.2
317,700.7.4.7
423,607.6.8.3
382,679.4.6.7
382,540.8.2.9
387,370.2.3.4
380,936.2.6.4
386,579. 3. 3.2
431,232. 1.9.8
440,859.5.0.2
1884..
1885.....
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B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-TREASURE.
Treasure Imported and Exported.
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
Strings.
Strings.
Silver ..
Hk.Tts
1,699,949
Hk. Its
1,875,976
5,319,112
Gold.................................................
Silver.
Copper Cash...
579,826
TOTAL.... ................
579,826
1,699,949
TOTAL..
............
7,195,088
TABLE No. 2.-OPIUM.
Import and Re-export of Opium during the Year 1886.
IMPORTS.
FROM
Malwa.
Patna.
PERSIAN.
OTHER KINDS.
TOTAL.
Quantity.
Value. IQuantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.' Value.
Piculs.
1,970.27
Hk.Its.
975,284
Piculs.
102.72
Hk.Fts.
54,852
Piculs.
31
Hk.Its
12,772
Piculs.
1
Hk. Its Piculs. Hk. Pts.
2,516 | 2,106.53 1,045,424
Shanghai...........
........
TO
RE-EXPORTS.
Shanghai ..........................
Newchwang
8.40
824
4,486
11,385
990
33.40
16,695
990
TOTAL........
12,375
8.40
4,486
824
35.40
17,685
---
------
NET IMPORTS.
For local consumption ..........
1,945.27
962,909
94.32
50,366
29
11,948
2.54
2,516 | 2,071.13 1,027,739
TABLE No. 3.-TEA.
Particulars of the Re-export of Tea during the Year 1886.
DESTINATION.
BLACK.
BRICK AND TABLET.
GREEN.
TOTAL.
Russia and Siberia viâ Kiakhta and Chang-
Piculs.
133,051.25
Piculs.
311,413.47
Piculs.
Piculs.
445,147.62
chia-k'ou ......
Shanghai .........
11.20
682.90
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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 4.-
Comparative Table showing the principal
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
va
......
............
Piculs
4,189.48
373.20
2,760.70
8.40
3,025.03
2,273.50
130.89
174
66
450
222
104
553
64.71
Pieces
975,075
421,881
13,695
1,115,598
536,659
5,775
OPIUM ;-
Malwa
Patna...........
Benares ....
Persian ...
Prepared.
Cotton Goods :-
Shirtings, Grey............
White..........
Dyed and Brocaded.........
White ,
Prints, Chintzes, and Furnitures ....
Turkey Red Cloths and Cambrics..
Drills, English......
Dutch ...
, American ..........
Sheetings, English ...........
American ...........
T-Cloths..............
Damasks, Cotton....
Jeans and Twills ...
Dimities .............
Muslins.............
Velvets and Velveteens..............
Handkerchiefs, Cotton ..
Cotton Yarn ........
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Spanish Stripes ............
Long Ells..........
Camlets, English ...
Dutch .....
Lastings ...................................
, Crape................................
Lustres and Orleans......
Woollen and Cotton Mixtu
Broadcloth
METALS :-
Lead, in Pigs ..................
Quicksilver .........................
Steel, Native and Foreign.......
Iron, Pig ..........
, Nail-rod and Bar.....................
1,218,885
442,067
22,674
2,589
61,957
121,051
145,780
38,890
259,380
36,445
409,042
570,767
2,528
118,118
1,900
58,704
119,011
91,165
49,300
114,780
33,951
355,332
494,130
859
121,979
61,141
156,683
166,788
32,840
190,352
39,375
368,977
513,715
1,512
152,492
1,130
16,587
3,246
30,360
1,510
1,029,173
470,533
5,368
68,516
130,269
88,111
31,050
168,975
36,512
368,465
445,087
1,193
126,252
1,260
19,997
2,392
18,713
4,467
14,868
845
Dozens
Piculs
21,152
372
10,958
2,730
13,752
333
Pieces
6,435
6,632
1,561
6,570
540
12,883
8,172
2,110
8,143
6,377
2,020
6,932
2,260
9,060
130
11,943
210
12,438
549
37,215
14,258
18,390
10,740
160
13,890
618
res.
Piculs
12,049.90
289.85
6,066.73
8,046.86
87.18
12,521.27
7,549.55
12,476.29
189.66
8,257.74
318
8,421.63
189.47
7,066.51
18,339.60
31,550.79
157.05
7,768.04
13,371.80
320.88
4,891.43
8,695.76
16,075.98
1,868.13
9,241.79
Tín......……
15,559.96
975.69
6,380.56
Copper, Native and Foreign..
SUNDRIES :
Cotton, Raw ................
Matches ...................
Needles..................
Paper, ist Quality ...
, 2nd „ ..
Seaweed, Japan...
, Russian ..............
Sugar, Brown ........
White.......
Piculs
Gross
Mille
Piculs
2,972.68
92,050
1,010,234
27,195.20
63,497.29
28,169.53
377.20
181,541
459,780
23,016.95
53,641.41
37,225.63
Candy....
11,736.03
89,460
874,150
28,910.68
88,892.62
30,011.58
12,471.58
176,444.49
99,375.91
15,989.12
1,610.15
924.58
42.76
24.93
57.36
3,769.50
5,326.38
1,193.49
4,831.02
10,804
Silk Piece Goods.........
Ribbons..............
Embroidery ...................
, Thread.........
and Cotton Mixtures.......
Tea, Black ............
. Green................................
» Dust .......
Coarse (Japan) .....
Window Glass .......
205,643.65
153,913.10
30,355.74
1,333.68
635.28
48.77
20.87
38.17
6,498.30
6,967.84
1,965.48
5,018.96
10,831
191,742
561,024
21,045.86
71,317.88
36,171.98
7,611.16
166,426.21
101,252.18
17,734.11
1,077.77
765.94
11.39
15.49
73.98
10,046.38
12,519.77
7,814.93
172,517.37
123,016.02
25,162.65
1,286.71
787.17
26.25
28.85
176.54
11,285.07
5,924.75
1,623.30
4,055.97
8,966
Boxes
13,730


TIENTSIN.
IMPORT TRADE.
Articles of the Import Trade from 1879 to 1886.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Classifier of
Quantity.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods
Piculs
2,332
147.60
2,143.50
91.22
1,883.30
I11.60
2.40
1,970.27
102.72
35.12
0.16
8.64
10.24
31
2.54
Pieces
OPIUM :-
Malwa.
Patna.
Benares.
Persian.
Prepared.
COTTON GOODS :-
Shirtings, Grey.
White.
Dyed and Brocaded.
White , ,
Prints, Chintzes, and Furnitures.
Turkey Red Cloths and Cambrics.
Drills, English.
1,238,167
563,048
3,192
808
1,112,028
486,140
8,925
1,149
97,334
130,582
52,415
55,230
202,295
40,483
396,083
466,513
1,340,275
598,360
5,863
2,413
92,903
128,606
101,901
14,275
204,830
26,073
734,950
505,345
320
143,953
1,150,401
569,285
9,396
1,940
84,560
138,611
55,415
4,110
206,230
26,632
531,545
455,411
692
153,743
NIO
18,652
875
26,654
11,671
»
Dutch.
118,897
104,764
94,160
12,990
305,427
10,624
1,021,539
361,081
977
960
114,189
1,280
18,329
1,560
18,908
8,002
14,375
2,609
32,851
35,157
165,953
1,360
13,766
3,249
27,923
42,861
Dozens
Piculs
Pieces
6,126
2,840
4,243
170
12,417
7,803
3,160
6,514
170
13,544
8,301
2,780
6,770
American.
Sheetings, English.
American.
T-cloths.
Damasks, Cotton.
Jeans and Twills.
Dimities.
Muslins.
Velvets and Velveteens.
Handkerchiefs, Cotton.
Cotton Yarn.
WOOLLEN Goods :-
Spanish Stripes.
Long Ells.
Camlets, English.
Dutch.
Lastings.
Crape.
Lustres and Orleans.
Woollen and Cotton Mixtures.
Broadcloth.
METALS :-
Lead, in Pigs.
Quicksilver.
Steel, Native and Foreign.
Iron, Pig.
Nail-rod and Bar.
8,473
2,672
7,372
150
13,677
177
7,809
| 20
14,100
160
18,625
15,336
130
*** 62
8,556
214
398
***80
146
Piculs
14,684.06
202.35
8,679
1,857.85
26,217.52
3,946.80
1,068.22
5,616.05
81.55
11,029.54
2,940
27,106.75
4,266.38
2,961.27
5,460.71
163.06
10,529.97
984
27,953
4,995.24
4,724.01
7,427
56
6,383
1,292
38,109
3,667
2,669
Tin.
339,885
811,119
35,047
75,503
49,510.49
Piculs
Gross
Mille
Piculs
462.73
206,315
714,890
25,586.39
71,900.34
36,680.36
· 1,490.10
221,606.54
142,150.99
30,402.57
934.01
808.34
4.04
27.43
61.04
1,282.90
17,020.87
5,262.49
1,765.97
20,344
354,530
719,260
24,649.79
98,494.52
30,244.40
21,626.96
281,654.79
140,087.26
25,985.58
916.88
624.08
26.37
25.75
229.70
107.75
15,829.70
3,295.88
3,956.18
5,191
1,968
273,292
701,270
28,474
78,474
72,778
7,285
232,575
143,631
35,542
1,165.54
320.85
217,816.11
155,256.29
28,425.79
1,284.98
519.70
Copper, Native and Foreign.
SUNDRIES :-
Cotton, Raw.
Matches.
Needles.
Paper, ist Quality
, 2nd ,
Seaweed, Japan.
, Russian.
Sugar, Brown.
» White.
, Candy.
Silk Piece Goods.
Ribbons.
6. Embroidery.
Thread.
and Cotton Mixtures.
Tea, Black.
»
20.73
487.98
399.42
23,854.24
1,587.98
3,453.34
11,167
19.14
466.43
10.52
25,043.69
3,463.12
6,239.77
20,395
» Green
Dust.
Coarse (Japan).
Window Glass.
Boxes


TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 5.-EXPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table showing the principal Articles of the Export Trade
from 1879 to 1886.
Classifier
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
of
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Quantity.
Piculs
Beans and Peas .....
Dates, Black ...........
49.72 | ...
II
»
Red
Pairs
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
Horns, Deer, Young ......
Rhubarb .............
Skin Rugs, Goat..............
Straw Braid, Coloured........)
„ Mottled .........}
, White ..........
Tea, Black, for Russia, etc. ....
, Brick, „ „ „ ..
Tobacco .........
Wool, Camels'......
» Sheep?s.....
13,802.26 52,882.60 32,380.77 26,204.11
6,430.61
25,741.83 14,217.64 22,901.89 | 19,756.46 8,241.29 8,994.47 27,568.63 37,080.29
20,200.83 | 22,991.95 28,915.71 21,901.18 24,517.41 37,226.26 32,830.02 | 19,577.44
4,406 5,119 1 3,696 4,052 4,228 | 3,504 3,846 4,497
346.13 700.24 1,094.75 471.22 1,025.35 956.76 | 1,073.22 1,295.02
94,672 125,328 214,545 362,310 344,676 306,955 326,014 546,093
| 9,814.59 11,222.71
10,973.39 19,961.96 17,323.81 19,116.48 26,603.26 42,158.17 | 21,893.01 23,195.55
12,501.98 10,766.27
132,098.09 77,212.34 74,171.49 75,849.16 90,528.82 97,371.75 92,495 133,062.45
269,937.09 219,271.87 220,771.65 198,750.74 199,673.92 217,233.28 251,041.50 306,043.25
693.62 | 531.20 579.59 578.63 | 603.12 L 99.16 | 166.93 606.16
9,802.58 16,442.46 | 9,772.31 14,951.99 | 18,775.97 14,931.85 20,540.38 20,939-30
142.86 703.81 | 1,362.61 2,327.99 | 8,015.72 14,435.86 19,747.53 25,189
TABLE No. 6.-SHIPPING.
Comparative Table of the Number and Tonnage of Vessels Cleared in each Year
from 1881 to 1886.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
FLAG.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons. | No.
Tons.
| No.
Tons. | No.
Tons.
1,958
1,666
52,599
69,025
4
...
350
216
245
264
106
2,281
...
107,209
134,863
864
1,545
16,345
160
124,395
117,453
2,476
1,010
11,817
American .............
5
Belgian ......
British .......
Chinese... .........
Danish
French .........
German .......
Hawaiian..........
Japanese
Russian ...
Siamese .............................
Swedish and Norwegian ......! 3
TOTAL............... 435
162,434
122,264
976
1,102
10,415
195,796
85,588
1,595
185,106
51,292
290
192,108
158,077
290
470
27,187
10,257
w Nai : ânw I
23,988
337
466
1,224
9,195
654
715
...
1,548
1,132
2,031
| 1,001
1,076
267,215 | 448
447
1,149
720
3
1,083
629
260,949
422
301,120
471
348,655
436
331,121 | 526
389,438


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TABLE No. 7.-RUSSIAN OVERLAND TRADE.
Comparative Table of the Russian Overland Trade for the Years 1883 to 1886.
San
ears
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts
Hk.Fts
Hk. Pts
CHINESE PRODUCE (Tea) landed at Tientsin for carriage
thence overland við Kiakhta and Chang-chia-k'ou to
Siberia and Russia..
3,665,397
3,739,667
3,438,259
4,948,009
TABLE No. 8.-PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Passenger Traffic during the Year ended 31st December 1886.
PASSENGERS TO
PASSENGERS FROM
SAILING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
Sailing VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
393
21,368
|
Coast Ports ....
576
24,359


TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
CHEFOO TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
PPING
S an
REFERENCE to the second of the accompanying tables and to the Report for 1885 reveals
the pleasing fact that while the trade of 1885 indicated an increase of over half a million taels
as compared with the value of 1884, and of over a million taels in comparison with the value
of 1883, the year now under review has an increase over 1885 of more than a million of taels.
The crops in the neighbourhood of this port were in quantity plentiful and in quality
good. The Yellow River (“ China's Sorrow”) overflowed, causing inundations in the west and
south-west of this province and in adjoining portions of neighbouring provinces, and direful
disaster resulted; but this misfortune, if it exercised an unfavourable influence on the trade
of this port, was happily insufficient to prevent its prosperity.
t total value of the Import trade, Foreign and Native, was Hk.its. 6,847,157; the
value of the Export trade was Hk.fts. 4,851,700. The gross value of the trade of the port was
Hk.Tts. 11,843,015, which amount represents the merchandise carried in 160 vessels, making
992 trips, aggregating 755,643 tons, inwards, and 160 vessels, making 989 trips, aggregating
753,026 tons, outwards. The dues and duties collected upon this trade reached Hk.Tts. 285,480,
which amount is 2.41 per cent. on the gross value of the trade.
SHIPPING. As compared with the year preceding, the steamer traffic of 1886 shows an
increase of 415 entries and clearances, with an increase in tonnage of 270,981; sailing vessels
show a decrease of 67 trips, with a decrease in tonnage of 24,137: therefore the steamers and
sailing vessels collectively show an increase of 348, with an increase in tonnage of 246,844.
The British flag in steamers has an increase of 132 trips, with a tonnage of 115,067, and
a decrease in sailing vessels of 44 trips and 15,712 tons. The Japanese line of steamers known
as “Nippon Yusen Kaisha” began, with the Tsuruga Maru, on the 22nd March to run regularly
round trips from Nagasaki to Jenchuan, Chefoo, and Tientsin, and back. This line made 64
trips, and increased our tonnage 32,006 tons. Messrs. CORNABÉ & Co. commenced a line of
steamers to run regularly between Tientsin and Hongkong, calling at Chefoo. As a first step
they chartered the German steamers Johann, Gerda, and Activa, but it is rumoured that they
have arranged for the building of vessels adapted to this trade.
FOREIGN IMPORTS.—The net total value of the Foreign Import trade was Hk.its. 4,676,196,
as compared with Hk.its. 4,427,505 in 1885, thus showing an increase of Hk.Its. 248,691. Of
this increase, Opium supplies nearly Hk.fts. 154,000, and Cotton Yarn nearly Hk.Its. 350,000.
But, on the other hand, many articles of Import show a decrease in value. The direct Import
trade from Foreign countries exhibits, as compared with last year, a slight increase.
Cotton Goods. In these goods there is little calling for special remark. Drills show an
increase, Lastings a decrease; while American Sheetings display an increase, English Sheetings
show a decrease; Shirtings, T-Cloths, Turkey Reds, and Twills, which last year exhibited an
increase over the previous year, this year show, as compared with last year, a decrease.


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ORTS
ratio. This might point to the conclusion that either the manufacture of Cotton is increasing
urhood, or the growth of Cotton is decreasing, or that the manufacture is
increasing while the growth is decreasing. However, I am disposed to think that the chief
reason for this increase is that during the war between China and France many junks carrying
Cotton were burnt, and that this caused shipment to be made by steamers, which practice, being
found to be convenient, continues and increases.
NATIVE EXPORTS.—The total value of the Exports of local origin for the year under
review was Hk.Its. 4,851,700, which, as compared with that of 1885, shows an increase of
Hk.Tts. 775,590.
The increasing export of Straw Hats is worthy of note. In 1882, about 9,000 Hats were
exported; in 1883, about 51,000; 1884, 52,000; 1885, 55,000; and in 1886, 56,000. These are
for Hankow and Canton, chiefly to the latter place. In former years, it is said, Hats were
carried overland to Hankow, and thence by land to Canton.
Straw Braid is a very important-in fact, having regard to Foreign trade, it is the most
important-article of Export from this neighbourhood; and it is very satisfactory to note that
the year under review exhibits an increase in the export of this staple over the preceding
year by, say, 12,000 piculs. In the manufacture of fancy Straw Plait-coloured, white, and
mottled, worked exquisitely,—there has been both an extension and an improvement. In
elegance of work and cheapness of production the Shantung Straw Braid excels the Japanese ;
and now that attention is directed here to the necessity of surpassing other countries competing
in this production, there is every probability of still more elaborate and difficult and more
highly ornamented patterns being produced. The Shantung Straw Braid plaiters are fully
equal to the best of those of Italy and Switzerland.
Embroidery, work on cambric, and the like, would find a good field in Shantung.
Here are willing hands; here are nimble fingers ; here are frugal habits and docile ways;
here is the love of peace; and here is the love of order: hence, ere many years, capital will
gravitate to this coast, and the “iron horse" will carry to this sea manufactures for export
to countries in which a less mild spirit prevails.
R. B. MOORHEAD,
Commissioner of Customs.
CHEFOO, 28th January 1887.


CHEFOO.
43
CHEFOO TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
No. | Tons.
No.
Tons. | No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
284
.......
230,487 175 151,939
48,649 46 28,083
...
1,235
470
British ...................
German.
French
Dutch ...
Danish....
Swedish & Norwegian
Russian .............
Japanese .................
Chinese..
1,538
769
5 Nw ni
459 382,426
121 76,732
470
1,235
1,538
5,970
2,129
16,003
277 231,917
| 718,420
3,582 2,388
1,415
714
8,789 151 7,214
104,071 158127,846
399,001
231 203,644 225 176,349
79 51,877 42 24,855
470
1,235
...
769
4,776
1,194
1,427
702
10,005 5,998
123 105,923 153 125,450
461 379,656 436 335,787
379,993 915 762,419
121 76,732 242 153,464
470
940
1 1,235
2,470
1,538
3,076
5,970
11,940
2,129
4,258
32 16,003 64
32,006
276 | 231,373 463,290
897 715,443 1,798 1,433,863
10
32
12
553
119
503
Total Steamers ........
go
SAILING VESSELS.
3,462
9,757
7
2,320
British ...........
9,220 4,375 13,595 10,901 | 10
American ..........
1,515 1,072
2,587
1,614 2 973
German .....
5,041 14,798 11,226 3,164
Danish.
1,160
1,160 1,160 ... ...
Swedish & Norwegian
1,325
1,943
3,268
1,982 1,286
Italian
... 1 542
5421 542 ... ... L
Japanese ...............
441...
441
... ... 11 441
Siamese ..................
589
243
832
537 | 295
Total Sailing Vessels 59 24,007 32 13,216 91 37,223 68 27,962 24 9,621
Grand Total...... 562 423,008 430 332,635 992 755,643 529 407,618 460 345,408
14,363
27,958
2,587
5,174
14,390
29,188
4 1,160
3,268
6,536
1 542
1,084
1 441
832
1,664
92 37,583 183
74,806
989 | 753,026 1,981 1,508,669
...
882
در
بس
* 1 wrecked in harbour, 408 tons.


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
F THE
TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF CHEFOO,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
GROSS
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
|
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk. Tts
Hk.fts
Hk.Fts
Hk.Ats
Hk. Its
Hk. Aits
794,519
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong ......
Imported from Chinese Ports ......... .................
Total Foreign Imports.........
859,816
2,713,147
801,565
3,931,818
3,676,531
3,572,963
4,471,050
4,733,383
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong...
6,707
1,030
13,321
37,161
42,515
43,866
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to New-
chwang, Tientsin, Swatow, and Shanghai........ }
Total Foreign Re-exports.. .........
43,868
43,545
57,187
Net Total Foreign Imports ..........
3,529,095
4,427,505
4,676,196
NATIVE PRODUCE.
2,457,990
2,141,562
2,257,932
Imported (chiefly from Shanghai, Swatow, Takow,
Canton, and Amoy..
Re-exported to Foreign Countries...........
Re-exported to Chinese Ports ............
Total Native Re-exports ....
6,007
13,046
9,076
58,876
48,645
77,895
86,971
64,883
61,691
Net Total Native Imports.............
.......
2,393,107
2,079,871
2,170,961
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign Countries..........
168,227
175,102
364,233
3,970,087
3,901,008
4,487,467
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports
Total Exports of local origin ..
4,138,314
4,076,110
4,851,700
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port ...........
10,169,267
10,688,722
11,843,015
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native
Exports of local origin .....
10,060,516
10,583,486
11,698,857


CHEFOO.
45
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.— Imports and Re-exports.

NET
IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts
012
H.fts.
2,120
55297
18
Hifis.
291,157
8,442
49,368
16,210
549 091
18
100 801
Hl. Pts
289,096
8,442
49,368
15,745
100 80
465
331
004
32
8,500
12,300
200
300 |
258,328
45,909
2,754
2,446
362,763
88,276
5,729
265,678
45,059
2,687
2,446
373,453
86,756
5,562
IOO
5,043
5,043
6,170
13,771
IIO
6,120
13,661
22,400
27,810
236,717
37,185
55,405
13,684
298,396
65,881
140,194
15,711
69
23
69
I 20
160
480
OPIUM:
Malwa....
Piculs
Patna.
Benares .................
Persian ...................
Prepared ................
COTTON GOODS:-
Shirtings, Grey...
White ..............
Dyed ...............
White, Figured,
Brocaded, and
Spotted..
Dyed, Figured,
Brocaded, and
Spotted........
T-Cloths.........
Drills, English ........
,, American....
Chintzes, Furnitures, and
Cotton Prints...........
Damasks ...........
Jeans, English ...
,, American.
Twills, Printed .........
Flannels, Cotton..........
Lastings,
Mahomedans and Jacquards
Muslins and Lawns ..........
Sheetings, English ............
American .........
Turkey Red Cloths and 1
Cambrics....
Canvas............
Bolts
Velvets and Velveteens......
Pieces
Handkerchiefs ................. Dozens
Towels .........
Cotton Yarn ..
, Thread .............
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Camlets, English ..
, Dutch ...
Cloth, Broad and Medium..
, Russian ...
Union............
Flannels ...............
Lastings, Woollen ..
» Старе
Long Ells.
Lustres and Orleans, Plain
and Figured..............
Spanish Stripes ....
Blankets..........
Pairs
METALS:
Brass Wire ...................... Piculs
Copper, Japan .............
Sheathing..........
214,367 270,641
37,435 66,306
55,405 140,194
13,734
15,761
23
9,188 12,723
1,460
2,858
8,862
12,926
1,390 4,414
50,555 137,132
1,053
2,132
4,476
2,703
57,177 103,806
228,654 574,998
72,016 111,868
30
240
2,222 12,413
6,107)
2,114
7,769
55,468 55 1,077,228
48241
2,501
21I
140
252
9,188
12,723
1,460 2,858
8,862
12,926
1,270
4,258
50,385 136,643
959 1,921
4,476 2,703
57,0371 103,554
228,654 574,998
71,431
I10,920
351
245
2,222 12,413
6,085 2,108
7,516 2,096
56,725551,101,679
48 24
2,501
535
873
125
120
2,098
Piculs
20
34,008
489
8,924
Pieces
1,570
10
941
1,570
10
94
1,015
165
590
1,036
590
903
2,858
280
880
7,578
3,170
15,251
190
1,634
17,332
5,015
1,294
27,012
1,680
4,338
20,994
30,740
318
144
464
120
9031
2,808
260
880
7,578
3,170
180
15,251
190
1,634
16,992
5,015
1,309
26,548
1,560
4,338
20,994
30,740
20
174
338
145
1971
39797
2,294 48
15922
636|16||
9,72063
6340
32,632 62
13,546
28,648
2,757
8,052
19,035
129
63,215|
402 82
2,294 48
15922
63813
9,531 23
6340
32,581 42
13,691
28,648
2,757
8,075
18,683
63,118
11464
21
7476
135
Iron, Bar ..............
Hoop .................
» Nail-rod...............
129
5120
1
.


TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.—Imports and Re-exports—Conta.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts
3,690
Hk.Fts
1,154
2,49672
Hk.Its.
331
63374
345
1125
551
II2
221
92,253 81
1,41075
3,06420
1,69378
3428
5,13788
430
27516
3801
1,33923
1,719 22
Hk. Pts.
129,557
4,073
15,293
7,392
1,680
14,587
1,965
7,078
1,349
18,445
7,655
METALS, continued :-
Iron, Old ...........
Piculs
.. Sheets................
, Wire ..........
Lead, in Pigs ...
Quicksilver ....
Steel .........
Tinplates ...........
Tin, in Slabs .......
White Metal.....
Yellow
Zinc Sheets ......
SUNDRIES :-
Aniseed, Star....... Piculs
Bags, Hemp ................ Pieces
Betel-nuts ........
Piculs
Bicho de Mar, Black ...
Birds' Nests, ist Quality ...
93,77179
1,41075
3,06420
1,69378
3991
5,137 88
430
26595
3801
1,342 62
1,71922
Hk.Ft
131,762
4,073
15,293
7,392
1,952
14,587
1,965
6,841
1,349
18,496
7,655
300
1093
242
51
14626
1,678
281
28921
39,560
759791
25171
560/
6082
1,603
2nd
156
0411
5,030
2,023
4,147
654
1,819
1,716
287
2,080
7,440
1,101
3,960
7,648
10,207
OA
200
I20
Gross
Piculs
» 3 3rd ,
Borax .........
Buttons, Brass ..............
Camphor....................
Baroos, Clean ...
Cardamoms, Inferior ......
Superior....
Cement, Portland ........
Chinaware, Fine........
22
41891
39,560
746 191
8483
1071
156
041
202
12,200
9575
099
31897
5103
4,051 251
81156
2260
868
340
203 90
12,400
73751
0991
322 37|
5103
4,051 25
340
3,226
205
18,419
271
5,144
6,427
2,023
4,080
2,226
1,819
1,716
287
2,061
7,320
1,441
3,960
7,568
10,207
3,226
20,113
271
1,534
500
60,920
1,592
916
2,821
66,373
1,365
6,772
622
2,295
1,198
14,415
878
Coarse .......
2260
Clocks...
Pieces
Piculs
10,6241
12,184
868
36 93
1,560
608
2550
60 30
53,120
1,450
1,886
8430
18906
1,534
525
7,800
142
171
2,821
65,684
622
3513
9038
11465)
9991
6030
2,297
743
6,772
643
1390
2,089
46
406 15
063
711
5,551
5548
2607
28613
45504
392 25
2345
701
5,435
161
252
1,198
14,699
905
326
1,393
326
1852
Cloves...
Coal ............
Tons
Compoy ....................... Piculs
Crabs' Flesh, Dried.........
Crocodile Scales............
Dyes and Colours ........ Value
Flour .............
Fungus...........................
Piculs
Galangal .........................
Ginseng ..........
,, American, Clarified
Glass, Window................... Boxes
Gum, Dragon's Blood ........ Piculs
, Myrrh ...............
, Olibanum ......
Horns, Deer, Young. Pairs
. Rhinoceros'........... Piculs
Isinglass ..............
Machinery...........
Value
Mangrove Bark...
Piculs
Matches....
Gross
Medicines.................
. Piculs
Needles .......................
Mille
Nutmegs ...................... Piculs
Oil, Kerosene ...... Galls.
Paint .......................... Piculs
Peel, Orange .........
Pepper, Black.........
Putchuck ..............
Rattans, Whole .........
Rice..
.....
S
255
10,230
6,400
140
26761
11511
2718
877 37
10388
1960
392
1,972
1,100
977
2,8351
2,050
1,324
50
184791
20
587
2,500
3,500
428
2718
8, 154
79309 14,004
2,352
977
186,705 132,109
2390 116
276,457
32,616
124 18 - 2238
117,578 | 11,633
14550 2, 173
176 20 395
1,729 88 26,927
II115 1,259
51770 2,185
1,314
3,830
8,154
15,584
3,452
977
128,893
703
32,008
2,238
11,709
2,314
2,034
26,064
1,127
2,185
5,763
500
00
40
977
181,8701
20869
270,457
124181
118,038
166 19
1,015 86
1,676 48
98 55
51770
3,390
2069
83966
141
1,639
5340
1260
3,390 | 5,763
- 11


CHEFOO.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hl.fts.
Hl.fts.
Hk. Its
63345
3,75372
13,49467
Hl. Its
3,740
7,409
24,331
230
27,057 58
79,311 45
44,541
81,593
92
11,103 53
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Sandalwood ..................... Piculs
Sapanwood...................
Seaweed, ist Quality, and
Agar-agar.....SI
2nd Quality
Sharks' Fins, Black ...
White ....
Sugar, Brown..........
Candy...........
White ..............
Tea, Japan...........
Wine, Beer, and Spirits ......
Wood..
Worm Tablets .................. Dozens
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
11,545
Hk. Its
3,740
7,409
68,642
70,048
223
2,040
6,938
515
3998
1,986 251
:63345
3,75372
40,460 25
68,207 92
515
3863
1,986 25
1270
4,58618
223
2,114
6,938
1 35
125
4,706 48
15310
83
24,857
188
1,268
1,024
808
25,511
16,631
- 65672||
2,452
6,2871
258
I 20
5,995
16,973
6,575
43,297
421
40
140
17,655
808
6,277
59,709
4,677,380
TOTAL.............
Hk.fts.
338,058
.......... 4,395,325
12,572
44,615
........... Hk.Tts.
Excess of Re-export above Import of Japan Tea during the year ..........
NET TOTAL........
1,184
4,676,196
... Hk.fts
SUMMARY.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
..................
IMPORTS from Great Britain
............ Hk.fts
, , Hongkong....................................... 3
, Singapore and Straits........................
,, Australia ...........
United States of America...........
Continent of Europe, Russia excepted ...
, , Russian Manchuria ....
Corea..............................................
» Japan...............
Total from Foreign Countries .........-
Imports from Chinese Ports.
...........
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS ..........
RE-EXPORTS to Hongkong.....
.............. Hk. Ils
Russian Manchuria......................... »
, Corea.......
.................... 2
Total to Foreign Countries............-
RE-EXPORTS to Newchwang................ ..............Hk.fts.
, Tientsin.
» Shanghai ......
» Amoy..........................................
. Swatow..................
.. Canton ...........
Total to Chinese Ports
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS ..
85,655
463,507
35
3,825
1,825
3,468
141,925
7,878
93,447
-Hk.Fts 801,565
............ „ . 3,931,818
-Hk.fts 4,733,383
749
84
12,488
-Hk.fts. 13,321
29,386
.
.
.
.
.
3,360
4,156
532
4,800
1,632
-Hk. Pts
43,866
-Hk. Aits 57,187
....... Hk. Pts. 4,676,196
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS .....
..
.......
................
.......
......


48
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.fts.
963
3,033
Hk.Fts.
220
14978
58,960
3391)
10,000
1620
473
1,500
75
Pieces
Hk.Tts.
15,553
- 3,424
907
2,804
1,142
1,312
28,390
3,683
589
2,480 761
143,1 10
139 36
2,61661
27,580
5493
1783
41013
24591
15340
55461
333 36
12397
43
805
11,721
661
14484
3,501
2,364 891
95,650
15556
2,61661
27,580
5352
17831
40566
245 911
153 40
47314
333 36
11428
800
274031
1435
13,289 83
43 24
0231
52,000
I11,193
252 96
761
5571
1,84572
3,56477
2,857
969
242
Tons
80o
Arsenic ..
Piculs
Bags, Hemp ............
Pieces
Bamboo Shoots .................. Piculs
, Split ..............
Bamboos ....
Brassware.
Piculs
Brass Wire ...........
Buttons, Brass .........
Cake-stuff..
Capoor Cutchery
Cassia Lignea
, Twigs ...........
Chinaware, Fine.....
Coal......
Coir
Piculs
Copper Ore .........
Cotton, Raw ............
Ribbons..........
Cow Bezoar, Native.........
Fans, Palm-leaf, Untrimmed.
,, Paper ..................
Fire-crackers........
Fish Maws ......
Flowers, Dried ..
Fruit, Fresh..
Ginger, .......
Ginseng, Corean, ist Quality..
, Native.........
Glue, Fish..........
Grasscloth, Coarse......
,, Fine......
-
ΙΟΙ
ces
H .Fls.
16,296
5,909
842
2,804
1,142
1,343
589
28,703
3,683
805
13,615
661
3,099
3,479
1,369
807
180,445
3,024
1,112
5,255
5,408
2,531
456
313
1,605
2,934
748
1,514
3,430
20,994
52,624
1,423
3,556
1,802
3,468
550
4,891
960
3,479
1,369
807
180,546
3,024
1,112
364 698,800
4,448 24,000
2,531
269
484
313
1,605
2,952
16,988
2,016
3,363
21,048
52,670
1,423
3,556
1,802
187
27403
1435
13,281 46
4324
023
750,800
135,193
252 96
12 45
5571
1,845 72
3,528 37
064
2517
11065
777 54
757 25
9490
1,922 57
::
1664
a
32 87
7114
214
108 41
77955
75791
Hams ......
98791
Hemp Skin ..............
Indigo, Dried...
Liquid.
3,468
161
4,113
1,454
21
5,446
4,308
207
1,257
8,7851
5,625
54526
99 26
333
15006
Lead, Red.
, White.............
Yellow ............
Leatherware...
Lotus-nuts
Lung-ngan Pulp.....
Mats, Straw ....
Pieces
Medicines...
Piculs
Nankeens
Nutgalls
Oil, Castor.
, Wood .............
Opium, Native .........
Paper, ist Quality .......
, 2nd .......
Joss ..................
, Cuttings .............
Peel, Orange...........
, Pumelo, ist Quality ......
Preserves..
Rice...........
,, Red ..................
Silk and Cotton Mixtures....
» Caps .........
Pieces
, Cocoons
1,922 57
8460
53403
4888
24548
36358
1660
7813
67081
63,440
2,937 481
245811
144 34
583 50
6,625 08
056
5,94709
47,018 24
5,52569
802
26028
5743
2,070 14
45,668 35
11972
12 96
12,525
4713
3891 1945
1,333 753
2,854
18762
5701
060
1,089
3,824
6,9781 130,975 1
21,765
9,831
1,861
2,914
45,357
168
77,269
258,412
97,803
2,564
1,441
1,146
12,419
72,953
627
2,910
2,751
534 03
68 33
998 48
551 20
17 20
7813
463811
194,415
3,23342
245 81
144 34
583 50
6,62508
056
5,953 32
46,94935
5,506 09
8021
26328
57 43
1,832 191
45,668 35
10322
12 96
12,525
013
446
2 36
uus
591
1,089
2,567
15,763
26,173
9,831
1,861
2,914
45,357
168
77,331
257,733
97,751
2,564
1,477
1,146
10,991
72,953
545
2,910
2,751
2697
65 30
17265
1,036
392
82
50
Piculs
1,766
1,758


CHEFOO.
49
TABLE No. IV.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports—Conta.
NET
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS RE-EXPORTS TO
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
CHINESE PORTS. LAND HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts
Hk. Aits
H.Tts
...... Piculs
27555
1,071 40
69705
24,961
3429
:::
22359
11411
337 87
2,071 25
143,766 23
53,23278
25,984
1,528
:
1,030 10
30
39007
1,458
10,698 78
Hk. Als
165,170
35,122
17,245
5,705
34,667
11,797
493,746
72,346
272,163
4,284
4,257
1,324
16,590
14,172
806
1,078
331/59/
3,410
2,187
4,270
808
41435
2,222
Silk Piece Goods
Waste............
Ribbons..........
» Thread..........
• Wild Raw
Steel..............
Sugar, Brown ...........
Candy...
White ...........
Tea ........................
Tin-foil.....................
Tobacco, Leaf ...........
» Prepared..........
Turmeric....
Twine ....................
Varnish ....................
Vermilion...............
Wax, White...
Woodware...
Sundries, Unenumerated........Value
TOTAL....
Hk.Fts
:~:
520
27555
374 35
34291
1141
11428
2,071 25
144,00396
11,017 87
53,626 43
236 56
176 37
18211
1,703 19
3,98429
2691
4750
10516
129 30
3189
Hk.Fts.
165,170
10,161
17,245
5,705
8,683
11,797
494,170
74,450
274,211
3,764
7,222
1,180
19,647
13,499
806
1,027
5,277
6,849
646
26,886
102 251
7412
2,965
3160
1,438 15
26504
3,057
: : :
177 20
673
2691
5006
1680
129 30
30 39
837
10404
5,255
.
.
.
:
6,849
616
26,436
30
2,459
1,341
668
| 2,199,205
58,727
77,895
9,076
2,170,961
SUMMARY.
94,892
7,275
1,911
955,987
1,309
37,266
IMPORTS from Newchwang ..........
............ Hk.Fts
Tientsin...
............
Hankow.
Shanghai.
Ningpo ......
Foochow.....
Takow ..........................................
Amoy ...........................................
Swatow ...
Canton....
Total from Chinese Ports ..............-
Imports from Hongkong......................
TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS
218,848
112,622
623,941
145,154
-Hk.Tis
......... ,
2,199,205
58,727
- Hk.fts.
2,257,932
5,637
285
357
71,616
- Hk.fts
77,895
RE-EXPORTS to Newchwang ............ ............. Hk. Tts.
„ Tientsin...
» Hankow
............
,, Shanghai ......
............. »
Total to Chinese Ports .............
RE-EXPORTS to Hongkong for Foreign Countries......... Hk. Ats
Russian Manchuria ......................... »
,, Corea .......................................... ,
,, Japan ..............
Total to Foreign Countries.
TOTAL NATIVE RE-EXPORTS .......
158
2,527
5,718
673
-Hk.fts
9,076
-Hk. Its
• 86,971
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS.
........ Hk.Its
2,170,961
U
N
I
D
.......
..........
......
..
...........
........


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TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-esports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Fts
Hk.fts.
Piculs
24393
419
55594
5028
140 50
19,96962
13,29665
25,994 26
2,947 22
Hk. Its.
1,911 1,41581
917 22913
3251 10,760 60
... (1,142,140 69
21,311 10,707 98
13,742 15,752 21
26,524 12,522 04
3,208 4,261 60
Hk.fts
6,916
5,121
16,161
948,207
33,971
32,945.
40,662
7,818
1,711
4,544
1,497
5,005
4,204
15,417
948,207
12,660
19,166
14,128
4,610
1,711
4,544
1,200
3696
950
63 86
4,230
297
196
8,705
25138
699
699
4310
517
14.40
551
199 10
684
8,895
607
1,97175
279|41
11,14503
1,142,14069
30,677 60
29,08582
38,52580
7,208 82
6386
19670
12,935
25138
4310
213 50
22237
56 53
20,934 81
24,367 52
3,14423
21 86
9,21477
479 58
44/28
12 12
6248
279
20423
56,637
222 37
4816
176171
88 38
8,895
IOI
529
5,637
8,442 52
117
13,284
18,959
517
739
708
61,345
49,300
25,135
218
28,990
47,532
30,224
25,135
218
2186
940
422 43
2,047
573
65064
1935
091
34
671
91
15,12164
15,836 62
3,14423
8,55473
37 80
4337
442
4518
279
19866
56,637
567 15
502
1,430
26,918
64
1,982
869
51,580
1,116
2,980
6,814
5,504
1,645
16,240
557
Pieces
Almonds, Bitter ...
Sweet...
Apples, Fresh ........
Beancake .....................
Beans, Black........
Green ..........
, White and Yellow....
Various
Bicho de Mar, Black ...
Bristles, Pigs' ..........
Caps, Felt ..........
Pieces
Chestnuts..
Piculs
Chinaware, Coarse....
Clams, Dried ..
Cotton Clothing ...
Raw ...
Dates, Black
,, Red ............
Dyes, Tzů-tsao.........
Fire-crackers .............
Fish, Salt ...........
Flour, Native
Ginseng, Unclassed.
Native ..................
Corean, ist Quality...
2nd . ...
Glassware......
Hats, Straw ........
Hides, Cow ............
Piculs
Horns, Deer, Young ....... Pairs
Ironware..
Piculs
Joss Sticks..
Lily Flowers, Dried ............
Liquorice........................
Mats, Straw ....................
Medicines.................
Piculs
Mules .................
No.
Nankeens...............
Piculs
Oil, Bean..............
Paper, ist Quality .....
, 2nd ,
Pears, Fresh............
Samshu.....
Seed, Hemp
Melon
Mustard
, Senna ..........
, Sesamum ........
Shoes, Cotton ............ Pairs
Shrimp Skins...
Shrimps and Prawns, Dried ...
Silk Cocoons..
Pongees ...............
Waste......
White, Raw..
Wild Raw.....
Yellow ...........
Sinews, Cow ..........
Skins, of all kinds..........
567 15
411
156 50
842
471
2,073
1,371
69,250
1,116
3,063
6,814
5,504
1,805
842
471
2,443
20,440
1,098
64,076
9,000
4,541
850
62 79
104 10
1,131 60
524 50
2,728 20
2,044
9,459
Pieces
10o
7,158
1,087
1,456
6,000
4,541
3,823
11
18,691
2,06785
5,456 40
249 32
1,217
42,712
3,000
30
..
2,168 49
9,870
462 92
120
11358
195 33
33 56
10043
271841
32517
1870
663
5350
187
819
435
552
313
148
502 20
503
5,665
:
1,627
:
251
5,36953
573 80
12325
63203
1,25978
692 40
45
156 50
6279
62860
6,028 29
9,970
8,236 49
· 150
11358
248 83
6308
12740
6,143 57
325 17
598 80
141951
91013
1,259 78
692 40
11,402
328 80
9,481 01
59368
3,108 57
9,251 52
831
2,706 46
1,34685
3184
10,375 1
700
6,481
1,627
610
756
2,237
2,622
1,468
4,158
584
690
1,535
2,622
1,468
278 10
702
10,773
189
Piculs
603
28 25
72
1,758
4848
3,914
99411
12,696
2,96068
69705
24,961
:
328 80
9,45276
54668
8,554 47
831
2,48287
1,346 85
31 84
10,375 1
603
25,829
20,871
491,572
283,489
2,318
275,941
355,150
542
10,284
»
25,901
22,629
508,182
308,450
2,318
301,925
355,150
542
10,284
223 59
25,984
:
:
ces
:


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TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Exports and Re-exports—Contd.
DE 1
D

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES,
HONGKONG, AND
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
(including Re-exports).
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Its.
Straw Braid, Dyed............
Mottled .......
Piculs
38372
1,598 20
2,137 80
Hk.Its
10,5751 10590
42,089 16,64567
52,360 23,393 76
507 24
Hi. Its
2,661
577,219
661,766
13,846
7210
1,074
»
White
Yellow.....
Sugar, Brown.....
2270
84)
2,986
»
Candy..
792 37
12 50
41435
- 6370
328
2,222
48962
18,31597
25,531 56
507 24
81507
12 50
47805
- 1,57303
138
121,346 19
95049
7,528
H.Tts.
13,236
620,382
714,126
13,846
3,070
83
2,550
8,945
1,300
486,504
2,037
10,085
1,317
6,705
25,496
177 10
1,037
White ..........
Tallow, Animal ..........
Tobacco, Prepared....
Vermicelli..
Walnuts .........
W heat .........................
White Nuts .....................
Wool, Sheep's ..............
Sundries, Unenumerated........Value
7,908
283 09
251 21
57,440 02
1,117
493
222,933
205
7320
6450
1,39593
138
1,300
63,623 08
262,454
626 08 1,339
7,528
10,085
49078 1,159
1,37562 6,439
7,897
158
55528
48 401
266
::
1,42402
8,368
109
9,122
TOTAL ............... Hk. Its
56,149
470,315
... 4,325,236
86,971
4,938,671
SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
Hk. Its
Hk. Its
Hk. Its
HK.fts.
2,527
5,718
673
Hk.fts.
34,292
12,319
12,456
6,000
308,242
..................
.........
......
158
364,233
9,076
373,309
To-
Hk. Pts.
Russian Manchuria .........
31,765
Corea .......................................
6,601
Japan ......
11,783
Java ........
............. 6,000
Hongkong for Foreign Countries..... 308,084
Total to Foreign Countries...... -
Hongkong for Chinese Ports..........
162,231
Newchwang .............................. 622
Tientsin ..............................
1,694
Hankow............
9,514
Chinkiang .............
1,311
Shanghai.
3,035,401
Ningpo .............
Foochow .....
Amoy............
446,844
Swatow ......
..... 798,189
Canton ..........
............
22,159
Total to Chinese Ports............
5,637
285
357
162,231
6,259
1,979
9,871
1,311
3,107,017
................
71,616
.........................
5,622
3,880
5,622
3,880
.....
446,844
798,189
22,159
4,487,467
77,895
4,565,362
GRAND TOTAL ........
4,851,700
86,971
4,938,671


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TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
Nil.
TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a.—Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
Coast TRADE.
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
Total.
Hk.Item.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
13,736.7.2.7
577.7.6.8
25,451.6.7.1
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
89,640.2.2.4
786.7.9.4
27,272.1.1.4
Hk.fts.m.c.c.
25,555.0.1.2
112.5.0.0
6,984.2.9.3
216.2.1.4
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
3,948.9.0.0
746.0.0.0
3,692.8.0.0
....
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
494.0.0.0
116.0.0.0
British.
American .........
German ....
French..
Dutch
Danish....
Swedish and Norwegian..
Russian.........
Italian .. .............
Japanese..........
Siamese ......
Chinese......
On Opium......
TOTAL............
869.4.8.3
1.2.0.5
614.1.1.7
732.1.2.3
911.7.1.8
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
132,880.8.6.3
2,223.0.6.2
63,400.8.7.8
216.2.1.4
1,094.0.0.0
3,674.2.6.6
4,018.4.4.4
1,482.7.1.2
201.5.8.5
5,016.8.4.4
885.2.8.0
49,408.9.0.8
20,977.5.0.0
285,480.5.5.6*
600.0.0.0
1,956.6.6.0
3,105.5.2.1
298.1.9.5
201.5.8.5
2,734.2.2.4
863.1.8.0
37,938.2.2.8
570.4.0.0
796.8.0.0
1,485.8.2.0
9.6.0.0
1,773.4.6.7
20,969. 1.0.0
65,488.9.5.8
12.5.0.0
8,426.8.1.3
8.4.0.0
1,270.4.0.0
165,396.7.2.5
42,959.5.7.3
11,635.3.0.0
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total....
..Hk.fts Nil.
6.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
OPIUM
(Import, Export,
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
EXPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
Coast TRADE
(exclusive of
Opium).
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
and
Coast Trade).
Hk. Tls m.c.c.
1877....
1878..
1879...........
1880..
1881...
1882
1883
Hk.Its m.c.c.
25,237.4.9.6
32,391.6.8.9
45,275.7.4.7
40,413.3.5.4
41,755.7.1.3
47,819.5.4.4
43,123.6.0.3
41,192.3.9.2
43,195.6.5.7
44,519.8.5.8
Hk. Its m.c.c.
89,117.9.9.9
119,777.4.2.3
128,597.3.9.3
126,689.6.2.0
129,950.1.3.8
146,764.3.2.3
149,822.6.2.2
148,596.5.8.1
154,186.0.9.5
165,396.7.2.5
Hk.Tts. m.c.c.
24,634.7.4.9
39,058.1.1.8
39,049.8.9.3
38,076.4.1.3
36,183.6.8.6
34,504.8.4.0
39,095.8.7.7
44,597.1.8.5
43,547.8.6.2
42,951.1.7.3
Hk. Its m.c.c.
68,102.5.5.0
110,713.1.2.5
113,638. 1. 1.2
72,027.3.1.1
54,916.1.3.7
34,512.9.2.5
27,140.4.0.0
25,369.2.9.5
12,589.9.1.0
20,977.5.0.0
Hk. Ats, m.c.c.
7,964.0.0.0
11,894.8.0.0
14,469.2.0.0
10,939.6.0.0
12,561.6.6.8
13,951.8.0.0
13,394.8.0.0
13,999.2.0.0
13,877.2.0.0
11,635.3.0.0
Hk. Pts. m.c.c.
215,056.7.9.4
313,835.1.5.5
341,030.3.4.5
288,146.2.9.8
275,367.3.4.2
277,553.4.3.2
272,577.3.0.2
273,754.6.5.3
267,396.7.2.4
285,480.5.5.6
1884....
1885...
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B._SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-TREASURE.
Treasure Imported and Exported during the Year 1886.
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
FROM
Gold.
SILVER.
TOTAL
GOLD.
SILVER.
ToTAL.
Hk.fts.
Hk. Pts.
Hk. Its
15,000
Corea .........
Newchwang.
Tientsin.
Shanghai ................
47,122
89,750
497,996
Hk.Pls.
15,000
47,122
89,750
497,996
Russia.
Japan ..
Newchwang...............
Tientsin.........
Shanghai ..................
Hk. Pts.
5,710
750
32,900
67,955
1,697,818
1,805,133
Hk.fts.
5,710
750
32,900
67,955
1,862,466
164,648
TOTAL....... Hk. Its
15,000
634,868
649,868
TOTAL.....Hk. Its
164,648
1,969,781
TABLE No. 2.-OPIUM.
Opium Imported from and Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Chinese Ports
during the Year 1886.
VALUE
PER
IMPORTED
FROM
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
IMPORTED
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL IMPORTED.
DESCRIPTION.
Picul.
Quantity.
| Quantity
1
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Piculs.
0.12
Hk. Its
Piculs.
552.97
Hk. Pts.
526
471
493
477
Malwa ..
Patna ...
Benares..
Persian .......
Prepared ....
Native ........
18
100.80
Hk. Ata
291,157
8,442
49,368
16,210
168
Piculs.
553.09
18
100.80
34
0.04
0.56
Hk. Its.
291,216
8,442
49,368
16,210
32
168
800
34
0.04
300
0.56
Total....
0.16
91
706.33
|
365,345
706.49
365,436
RE-EXPORTED
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
RE-EXPORTED
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTED.
NET TOTAL IMPORTED.
DESCRIPTION.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Piculs.
Hk.fts.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Hk.Tts
2,120
Hk. The
2,120
Piculs.
549.09
18
Malwa.
Patna .........
Benares.....
Persian
Prepared ...
Native ..........
Hk. Its
289,096
8,442
49,368
15,745
465
100.80
33
0.04
0.56
32
168
TOTAL....
AL..........
.
**
1
5
2,585
2,5855
2,585
2,585
701.49
701.49
362,851


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 3.-IMPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the principal Articles of Import, for the Years 1882 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
549.09
922.58
16.88
184.80
669.78
15.60
195.60
1.89
18
676.0018
18.60
150
7.87
0.0018
278.50
13.20
128.40
100.80
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
33
0.31
0.04
7,885
1,531
9,561
12,461
2,030
11,333
6,120
2,446
13,684
23
822
689
37,185
Pieces
44,681
41,065
2,808
5,076
біо
28,749
821
3,360
20,810
90,795
3,386
8,478
2,728
10,183
1,146
41,335
32,790
4,168
3,590
982
29,333
880
3,031
42,014
42,500
3,280
23,518
47,035
5,445
10,342
2,990
42,838
1,325
3,760
45,133
102,650
2,918
6,806
1,858
11,602
166
28,200
40,325
5,191
11,560
660
59,959
1,212
2,891
76,475
160,697
4,182
OPIUM :-
Malwa .........
Piculs
Patna.......
Benares.........
Persian..
Prepared ....
Cotton Goods:-
Brocades, Dyed .........
Pieces
, White ..........
Chintzes .....
Damasks ............
Drills, English ......
, American....
Handkerchiefs ...........
Dozens
Jeans, English .....
,, American.........
Lastings, Cotton...........
Mahomedans.
Muslins and Lawns.....
Sheetings, English ..............
, American.............
Shirtings, Dyed, Plain .....
» Spotted ........
» Grey, Plain
, White .............
T-Cloths..
Turkey Red Cloths...
Twills
Velvets and Velveteens....
Cotton Yarn .............
Piculs
WOOLLEN Goods:-
Camlets, English ....
Pieces
Lastings, Woollen and Crape ..............
Long Ells..
..............
Lustres and Orleans, Figured and Plain ....
Spanish Stripes ..
METALS:-
Iron, Bar....
Piculs
, Nail-rod ....
» Wire ...
55,405
6,085
9,188
1,460
50,385
959
4,476
57,037
228,654
2,681
.
.
.
.
.
560
363,061
28,396
224,846
97,259
8,662
1,335
11,288
188,933
25,179
359,208
57,096
9,070
1,223
15,900.24
202,769
31,846
300,383
75,198
7,635
828
19,692.83
353,766
47,746
343,430
94,368
13,340
2,788
39,881.65
265,678
45,059
236,717
71,431
8,862
2,222
56,725.55
1,570
1,173
1,880
596
2,123
1,961
1,091
2,080
740
12,143
2,489
1,650
3,264
960
7,787
3,519
3,068
880
903
10,120
2,578
10,660
3,248
7,578
3,170
9,942.30
29,190.56
1,869.22
4,291.23
32,038.71
2,968.90
9,991.64
38,901.82
2,309.47
14,652.41
39,324.32
4,084.80
9,531.23
32,581.42
3,064.20


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Comparative Table of the principal Articles of Import
Conta.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Piculs
4,559.20
40.50
3,661.12
1,755.77
34.58
9,626.92
94.48
6,268.12
1,656.39
244.81
7,674.07
56.22
6,014.79
1,498.55
895.72
1,985.32
30.92
5,246.50
804.55
439.70
1,693.78
39.91
5,137.88
2,071.25
265.95
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Piculs
Gross
Piculs
Tons
Piculs
5,080.72
19,002
730.60
11,755
11,067.37
3,807.11
299,200
Sq. feet
Piculs
842.27
Pieces
Piculs
METALS, continued:-
Lead, in Pigs ....
Quicksilver ...........
Steel, Foreign ........
„ Native.....
Tin, in Slabs.............
SUNDRIES :-
Arsenic ..........
Buttons, Brass, Foreign ......
» Native .......
Coal, Foreign ..........
Cotton, Raw .........
Ginger, Fresh .........
Glass, Window ..........
Grasscloth, Coarse .......
» Fine.....
Hemp Bags ..........
Indigo, Dried ..
Isinglass ............
Matches...
Nankeens ..............
Needles ...................
Oil, Kerosene .....
» Wood.
Paper, ist Quality ...........
» 2nd .........
„ Joss ............
Pepper, Black...
Preserves ...............
Rice ...................
Sapanwood ............
Seaweed, Japan, ist Quality, and Agar-agar
Russian, 2nd Quality .............
Silk Caps............
, and Cotton Mixtures .............
» Piece Goods ...
„ Ribbons ............
Thread.
Sugar, Brown, Native .......
» Candy, ...
„ White, „ ....
Tobacco, Prepared ....
887.18
6,217
787.20
11,793
2,802.80
2,005.90
161,100
1,406.70
316.59
166,191
425.55
212.96
111,722
426.92
211,628
15,050
5,151.29
7,504.76
38,331.35
3,620.25
2,858.09
1,454.54
25,802.87
20,863.70
Gross
Piculs
Mille
Gallons
Piculs
3,870.59
9,805
832.61
20,884
1,028.03
2,061.32
304,700
1,262.53
249.27
409,714
241.II
273.92
106,676
274.28
191,450
17,600
3,565.12
9,030.61
34,040.69
3,882.27
962.92
946.08
40,541.50
23,699.70
8,913.99
29,506.92
12,327
2,931.37
7,670
717.92
18,969
7,208.93
3,102.93
166,500
1,067.47
563.67
129,736
67.20
598.93
182,569
481.33
235,529
27,372
7,195.73
7,690.60
44,579.76
4,629.47
2,401.59
2,884.95
141,481.01
10,439.35
4,400.52
70,645.75
13,102
18.21
265.53
42.06
28.12
194,741.75
9,431.30
71,659.89
1,303.54
757.45
230,430
18.36
750.33
248,037
314.07
332,370
48,710
4,372.44
8,586.62
45,760.98
7,023.80
1,782.44
1,989.40
29,894.75
3,666.87
12,604.48
89,553.69
26,336
32.27
298.17
54.42
36.66
141,117.29
4,736.81
61,812.58
1,707.12
2,480.76
12,200
410.13
12,184
13,281.46
3,528.37
543, 500
777.54
757.25
182,670
84.60
877-37
181,870
245.81
270,457
118,038
6,625.08
5,953.32
46,949.35
5,506.09
1,676.48
1,832.09
45,668.35
3,753.72
40,460.25
68,207.92
12,525
12.96
275.55
34.29
Pieces
Piculs
287.90
56.91
61,956.90
15,091
5.93
259.48
65.35
20.76
119,521.38
5,414.18
39,641.57
910.54
.........
23.44
11.41
156,126.90
9,128.87
70,271.44
1,098.09
144,003.96
11,017.87
53,626.43
1,703.19


56
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 4.-EXPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the principal Articles of Export, for the Years 1882 to 1886.
- DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1882,
1883.
1884,
1885.
1886.
Piculs
2,049.78
1,252,321.14
139,952.81
751.15
1,349,221.74
147,183.41
Pieces
Piculs
1,178.75
1,245,601.70
95,787.88
5,410
19,785.72
44,864.02
6,243.16
10,139.46
24.78
Almonds.....
Beancake...
Beans.
Caps, Felt...
Dates, Black .....
, Red ..........................................
Fish, Salt.....
Fruit, Fresh .............
Ginseng, Corean, ist Quality............
, Native...........
Hats, Straw ..........
Lily Flowers, Dried..
Liquorice................
Medicines.........
Oil, Bean............................
Prawns, Dried .......
Seed, Senna .............
,, Sesamum ...........
Silk Cocoons ....................
, Fine Raw........
,, Pongees...
, Waste..
Pieces
Piculs
13,664.45
27,902.40
6,378.77
11,238.30
13.55
26.27
9,692
1,271.62
9,704.11
6,970.92
6,490.81
15,227.66
1,755.83
7,112.48
72.76
6.63
2,463.67
3,900.74
609.54
1,027.95
33,799.52
256.25
17.29
52,542
944.87
5,484.30
9,686.84
178.71
19,991.97
30,380.11
6,433.01
13,704.86
75.33
40.76
51,134
679.10
6,185.17
9,786.26
2,416.33
6,730.81
990.73
1,453.80
1.32
9.72
3,439.23
2,411.76
1,484.61
1,242.36
29,035.74
43.77
1,022.02
1,263,721.70
169,792.52
5,387
14,348.39
37,992.43
10,087.97
16,071.98
99.18
48.01
55,682
492.03
8,881.85
11,478.54
232.78
6,870.49
2,699.31
2,946.97
13.46
0.21
2,507.65
5,230.92
2,049.53
1,292.80
32,938.37
2,251.16
1,142,140.69
105,498.04
12,935
20,934.81
24,367.52
9,214.77
17,288.60
46.48
4.42
56,637
628.60
6,028.29
8,236.49
248.83
9,481.01
1,259.78
692.40
546.68
8.31
3,108.57
8,554.47
2,482.87
1,346.85
44,772.39
138
7,358.98
»
Wild Raw....
2,675.49
1,632.27
960.02
0.70
1,981.70
6,837.35
* 2,540.29
1,428.27
34,796.36
92.31
1.30
104,217.14
2,218.96
Yellow....................
Straw Braid.............
Tobacco, Prepared.
Leaf
.................
Vermicelli...........
Walnuts ............
118,56.39
1,340.76
111,112.03
763.35
114,547.23
2,054.48
121,346.19
950.49
: TABLE No. 5.-PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Passenger Traffic for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
PASSENGERS TO
PASSENGERS FROM
Sailing VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
SAILING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
|
Natives.
28
12,864
17
106
344
128
11,835
2,343
8,812
1,747
145
1,466
::::::::::
Newchwang ....
Tientsin.....
Shanghai ......
Swatow.......
Hongkong ..........
Amoy .................
Port Arthur .......
Corea .........
Japan
Russian Manchuria
^ : : *


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57
ICHANG TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
DURING the past year the trade of Ichang has made a most marked advance beyond
the record of the best year known previously (1885), and I should have had to report still
greater progress had suitable and sufficient steam carriage been obtainable by shippers on the
Upper Yangtze.
As it is, the total net value of the trade has increased above the largest year on record
by as much as Hk.Tts. 344,500, and the Revenue by Hk.Pts. 30,650.
The chief features to notice are the falling off of Imports, especially of Cotton Goods,
and the large increase of Exports.
FOREIGN IMPORTS.—In Piece Goods, taking Cottons and Woollens together, and comparing
with 1885, we find that the value of the importations has declined to the extent of considerably
over a quarter of a million taels, and that the bulk of this decline is accounted for by short
quantities of Grey Shirtings and T-Cloths, the difference in the former being most remarkable.
Of Cottons generally it may be said that Grey Shirtings, T-Cloths, Handkerchiefs, and
Yarn fell off; that Dyed Figured Shirtings and Drills showed an advance; and that White
Shirtings, White Brocades, Dyed Shirtings, Sheetings, Chintzes, etc., remained about the same
as in 1885.
Voollens, under no heading did any noteworthy advance occur. Under Lastings
and Lustres and Orleans we find the full deficiency accounted for; and all other goods were
stationary.
In Metals there was a remarkable increase in Iron Wire, more than counterbalanced by
a serious diminution in Quicksilver; and the net result is against 1886 as compared with 1885.
The total value of other Imports of Foreign origin is nearly level in the two years, some
important articles showing smaller figures and others larger. But notice must be taken of
White Sugar, which, figuring as an important item in former years, in the year under review
disappeared almost entirely. The reason is, as far as my information goes, that the Sugar
consumed locally comes from Szechwan as a rule, and that last year the supply from that
province was plentiful and cheap enough to drive Sugar from the south of China (i.e., Hongkong)
out of the field, whereas in former years the Southern produce has been able to compete for a
share of the market.
NATIVE IMPORTS have more than doubled their value as compared with 1885, and it
is in Cuttle-fish and Silk Piece Goods that the great increase is discovered. The advance in
Cuttle-fish I take to be due to market causes only; but that larger quantities of Silk Piece
Goods are passing through Ichang now than formerly is due to an arrangement made with the
Likin office by the chief agent for these goods, which enables him to s
way by water, instead of by an overland route as heretofore.
EXPORTS.—I now come to that branch of the trade which accounts for our large advance,
and I find the total advance in the value of Exports over the same goods in 1885 to have been no


58
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less a sum than Hk.Tts. 540,000, a very remarkable figure when it is remembered that the total
net value of the trade of the port in the year under review was no more than Hk.its. 3,422,000.
The exportation of Szechwan Silk has increased enormously, more especially of Yellow
Silk and Refuse Cocoons, and other valuable commodities have not been behindhand, such as
China-root, Leather, Medicines, Musk, Tin, and White Wax; and of these the two last named
have made the greatest progress. Hemp and Rhubarb show no change to speak of, and Buffalo
Horns, Nutgalls, Safflower, and Vegetable Tallow have fallen off.
The increased quantity of Silk leaving the port is no doubt very satisfactory, and it is
probable that it will not decline to any serious extent; but it must not be lost sight of that
Silk from Szechwan–Yellow Silk more particularly—has been cheaper than in previous years,
and that any scarcity will again send its price up and make it not so remunerative an article
in markets east of Ichang as in the past year. And so its exportation after this may not for
some years to come reach quite such high figures as those now recorded.
I would also draw attention to the large exportation of Tin, almost the entire quantity
of which was sent away by the Yünnan Mining Association, whose efforts to develop the mineral
resources of Western China, it is to be hoped, will prosper and be continued. Until, however,
they can get their produce as far as this place, the difficulties they have to contend with are
very considerable.
With our real market so far away from us it is extremely difficult to speak with anything
approaching certitude as to the causes that affect trade; but the diminished importation of
Piece Goods in 1886 must, I think, be attributed partly to the distress that has prevailed in
certain parts of Szechwan during the year, and partly to the anxiety and feeling of uncertainty
produced by the riots at Chungking early in July. Some may think that these riots were
not serious enough to cause anxiety in the minds of traders; but the Chinese mercantile mind
is sensitive, and upon disturbances of any kind follow exaggerated rumours, which alarm traders
and affect business prejudicially. With peaceful times and the increased buying power which
the province will have obtained from its unusual exportations I think we may fairly anticipate
for the coming year very great improvement in our Import business.
GENERAL.—The year 1886 has witnessed a very important extension of telegraphic
communication into Western China—an extension that cannot fail to have a beneficial in-
fluence on the spread of commerce, civilisation, and good order. In January those in charge of
the wire westward of this place reached here and began operations at once; on the 23rd June
Ichang was in communication with Hankow; on the 14th December the line was complete to
Chungking; and Lu-chou and Ch'êng-tu, in Szechwan, were respectively connected with Chung-
king on the 2nd and 3rd of January of this year (1887). Thus, in one year has the wire been
extended westward over 10 degrees of longitude, and across, on one portion of its route, some
of the most difficult country in the world. The achievement is one of which all concerned
may reasonably be proud.
But though Electricity has made such notable progress, her sister force, Steam, has not
followed in her path; and it would almost seem as if the rivalry of the sisters had resulted in
some feelings of jealousy, because when the special agent of a large steamer company had
been safely conveyed as far as Ichang by steam, and was about to start up the rapids for the
purpose of obtaining information that might be authoritative as to the practicability of steamer
traffic to Chungking, electricity intervened and recalled him to his more prosaic duties on the
Lower Yangtze. Up to the time of this sudden change of intention the air had been thick


1885 AND 1886.

SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
SCALE,
TO OF AN INCH
TO
A Foor.
B19 12/15/18/21/24|27|30|3|6| 1215/18/21 24|27|30|31 6 9 12 15 18/21/24 27|39| 3 | 6 9 12 15 18 22 24 27/30
60-
50
BUND.
:556
1885
+ 1885.
TTTTTTTTTTT
1885.
Rainfall, 1885......
, 1886..............
1.20 inches.
2.22 ,
1.37 inches.
6.42
0.25 inch.
0.71 inch.
0.09 »
0.26





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59
PO
a
with rumours of steamers designed, actually being built, or even on their way out, intended
specially for the Chungking trade, and expectancy was on tiptoe, looking in the direction of
the Tiger's Teeth Gorge for the smoke of the pioneer vessel. Towards the end of the year,
however, excitement calmed down, and gradually all have begun to understand that the opening
of Chungking to steamer traffic has been deferred for a season.
Meanwhile, on the line now open there is plenty of scope for energy and enterprise,
and shippers would hail the advent of more suitable vessels. As things are now, when the
time of shallow water comes, the steamers sometimes have to leave the bulk of their cargo
behind, and then take six days to creep up the 400 miles from Hankow to this place. Both
the Kiangtung and Yling continued running last year up to the end of December, but during
that month were quite unable to carry the amount of freight offering, owing to the too great
draught of the larger steamer and the too limited cargo space of the smaller one. As one
instance of my meaning, I may mention that on the 15th December 5,000 piculs of Tribute
Copper arrived at Ichang from Yünnan, and that at the time I am writing this over 4,000 piculs
remain here, because the steamers are only able to take it away in small lots of 200 piculs or
300 piculs at a time. As another instance, there was the case of the Kiangtung on one trip
being obliged to leave behind in Hankow more than twice as much cargo as she could bring
up here, on account of her drawing too much water. She loaded to 6 feet, and then had to
refuse the rest. Both in goods and passengers traffic would be largely increased by the advent
of a couple of fast light-draught vessels on the line. They should not draw more than 51 feet
of water with a full cargo, and should have great speed, so as to make the most of the limited
daylight at those times when running at night is next to impossible. Without the aid of such
the carrying trade on this part of the Yangtze cannot be expected to develop properly.
the commotion caused by the disturbances at Chungking in July, and the
consequent passage through Ichang of a number of missionaries—all of which has been fully
recorded in the newspapers long ago,—the year was uneventful.
VO
ON
F. A. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner of Customs.
ICHANG, 20th January 1887.


60
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
ICHANG TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo.
In Ballast. |
TOTAL.
No. Tons. No. Tons. No. Tons. No.
Tons. No.
Tons. No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
BRITISH :-
Steamers under River !
| 24 |
Steamer Pass.........
3,144
24
3,144
24
3,144
24 | 3,144
48
6,288
CHINESE :-
Steamers under River !
Steamer Pass.........
| 24
8,160 | 24
8,160
24
8,160
16,320
Total Steamers..... 48 | 11,304
i
| 48 | 11,304
| 48
11,304
| 48 | 11,304
I
96
22,608
SAILING VESSELS.-Nil.


62
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.— Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity,
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Its.
OPIUM
Patna .....
Hk. Its
432
Piculs
HK.Tts
432
1 20
:
120
120
180
::::::
COTTON GOODS :-
Shirtings, Grey, Plain....... Pieces
White ..............
»
Brocaded...
, Dyed, Plain .......
Figured.....
T-cſoths........
Sheetings, American ......
, English
Drills, American ............
English ................
Jeans, 22
Chintzes, Furnitures, etc.....
Taffachellas......
Damasks..............
Turkey Red Cloths......
Muslins ...........
Velvets ............
Velveteens.
Cottons, Unclassed.
Handkerchiefs ......
ozens
Towels ......................
Cotton Yarn ................. Piculs
Thread....
262,420
21,941
100
2,330
13,273
9,870
2,800
7,810
5,415
5,380
300
15,770
500
40
3,209
425,120
41,933
7,456
43,801
14,480
5,160
14,700
11,865
12,455
600
28,790
424
160
6,810
262,420
21,941
100
2,330
13,273
9,870
2,800
7,770
5,415
5,380
425,120
41,933
180
7,456
43,801
14,480
5,160
14,620
11,865
12,455
600
28,790
424
160
6,810
310
1,500
10,745
300
15,770
500
40
310
310
::::::::::::
300
2,655
250
4,672
3,972
12185
1002
96
3,209
310
300
2,6551
250
4,672
3,972
12185
10 02
1,500
10,745
96
2,804
1,023
3,046
450
2,804
1,023
3,046
450
Pieces
6,460
64,600
200
200
185,364
:::
420
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Camlets, English .........
Dutch ....
Lastings .........
Imitation.........
Long Ells ................
Lustres and Orleans, Fi-
gured and Plain .........
Spanish Stripes.
Cloth, Broad, Habit, and
Medium ..........
, Italian .........
Russian ......
Flannels ............
Woollen Yarn.........
64,600
185,364
420
49,320
9,484
12,672
23,505
60
8,220
2,371
1,056
192
1,030
4,320
61
1043
6,460
10
23,505
60
8,220
2,371
1,056
192
1,030
4,320
611
1043)
49,320
9,484
12,672
3,456
4,556
108,000
610
520
3,456
4,556
108,000
610
:
520
METALS:
Iron Wire
Piculs
Quicksilver .................***
1,464 7,320
15921
7,960
8820528
:::
1,464
15921
8820
7,320
7,960
Tinplates............
528
Piculs
55/16
:
5516
71374
024
882
21,413
480
7,714
712
3,408
551
SUNDRIES :-
Aniseed, Star.........
Bicho de Mar, Black......
Birds' Nests, ist Quality
1 1 2nd ,
- 3rd
Brass-foil .......................
Brassware............
Buttons, Brass ............
Gross
Cardamoms, Superior ......... Piculs
71374
024
5511
178
11361
30 34
882
21,413
480
7,714
712
3,408
910
3,748
27,408
2,541
178
11361
30 34
6691
24,9171
910
6691
24,917)
3,748
27,408
2,541
2541


ICHANG,
63
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
FROM
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
HONGKONG
TO
AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts
HK.fts
Hk.fts.
H
6733
20315
18778
1,767)
107 69
065
2,85346
294,299
2385
Hk.Its.
1,347
3,250
3,700
1,956
1,682
1,300
34,241
49,063
970
6733
20315
187 78
1,767
10769
065
97 93
3,917
566
6797
19,031
2,600
740
22,924
2,156
5,443
969
1,760
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Cardamoms, Inferior.......... Piculs
Cassia Lignea ...........
Chinaware, Fine.....
Clocks and Watches
Compoy ........................
Piculs
Coral..........
Cuttle-fish .............
Bottles
Dyes and Colours ..........
Piculs
Fish Maws.
, Skins ............
Ginseng, American, Clarified
Glassware ....
Gold Thread, Imitation......
Isinglass .......
Lamps, Oil .....................
» Opium......
Lung-ngans, Dried............
Medicines....
Mirrors and Glasses
Pieces
Needles...........
Mille
Ornaments .........
Pieces
Pearls, False........
Piculs
Peel, Orange ......
Pepper, Black...
Prawns, Dried ..
Rattans, Split ..........
Rouge
Sandalwood
Sapanwood..
Seaweed ....
Sharks Fins, White, Clarified
Shell-fish.......
Spectacles ...............
Tin-foil ..........................
Piculs
Umbrellas...................... Pieces
Worm Tablets .................. Dozens
Sundries, Unenumerated .... Value
TOTAL........... Hl. Its.
2,853 46
294,2991
2385
9793
70 54
67 97
256 99
1291
1,273 59
14,643
33,391
12118
7830
28,945
8,000
70 54
256 99
1291
1,273 591
14,643
33,391
12118
78 30
28,945
8,000
1,579,080
3140
545 671
Pieces
.Ats
1,347
3,250
3,700
1,956
1,682
1,300
34,241
49,063
970
3,917
564
19,031
2,600
740
22,924
2,156
5,443
969
1,760
1,894
873
4,880
1,256
5,456
7,358
2,849
1,115
591
Piculs
..........
1,894
873
4,880
1,256
1,579,080
5,456
490 51
31 40
54567
490 51
284.95
18588
7,358
2,849
1,115
591
3,216
38,704
1129
581
3,216
581
28495
18588
1129
40211
193 80
12,901 381
5821
5971
30,620
4584
2,512
3,420
10 99
5,830
1,133
1,440
1,146
40211
19380
12,890 39
5821
5971
30,620
4584
2,512
3,420
38,682
5,830
1,133
1,440
1,146
837
4,754
16,429
'837
:
4,754
:
16,429
:
1,416,521
102
1,416,419
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
SUMMARY.
IMPORTS from Foreign Countries..
...........Hk.Tits
Imports from Chinese Ports ....................................... ,
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS.......
RE-EXPORTS to Hankow..........
..............Hk. Its 102
Total to Chinese Ports .....
-Hk.Its
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS .............
Nil.
1,416,521
-Hk. Pts.
1,416,521
102
-Hk.Fts
102
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS .......
Hk.Fts
1,416,419


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports.
NET
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value. Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Ita
Hk.Fts
Hk.fts
Hk.ts
Hk.Ats.
2579
774
10 461
628
Brassware........
Buttons, Brass
Coral..............
Cotton, Raw ...................
Cuttle-fish ...............
Fans, Fancy and Silk...
, Paper .........
Fish, Dried and Salt ..........
Isinglass .........................
Jadestoneware .................
Lamps, Opium............
Mats ...........
Medicines ....................
Nankeens ........................
Paper, ist Quality ...........
Sea Blubber .................
25791
1046
0 30
1,229 981
2,037 16
16,349
154,1851
148811
4663
774
628
600
14,759
24,446
1,572
4,625
1,191
840
es
2,328
2,095
503
742
26,029
27081
1647
15877
73861
697
11238
1318
781
1,862
::::::::::::::::::::::::
030
1,229 98
2,037/16
16,3491
154,185
148811
4663
2,328
742
26,029
270811
1647
15513
73861
112 38
::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::::::::::
600
14,759
24,446
1,572
4,625
1,191
840
2,095
503
781
1,862
658,
2,173
2,038
697
56,190
5,272
1,474
936
1,621
1,328
12,988
658
2,223
2,038
697
56,190
5,272
1,474
936
1,621
1,328
12,988
Shoes ............:
S
Silk Piece Goods..................
,, Ribbons....................
and Cotton Mixtures......
697
1318
7 371
7 371
Spectacles .................**
Sugar, White ....................
Tobacco, Prepared .............
Sundries, Unenumerated........ Value
3,333
324151
66 40
3,333
324151
6640
TOTAL..............
140,101
140,051
:
SUMMARY.
IMPORTS from Hankow....
.......... Hk.Tts.
140,101
-Hk.fts
Total from Chinese Ports..............
140,101
Hk.Tts.
TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS ....
140,10I
RE-EXPORTS to Shanghai ............
........................ Hk.Fts.
Total to Chinese Ports ................—
TOTAL NATIVE RE-EXPORTS ..
-Hk. Its
50
- Hk.fts.
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS......
.Hk.Its
140,051


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TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.
EXPORTS
EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO||
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, I TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND Kincluding Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
HONGKONG.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hk.Fls
Hk.Fts
Hk. Its
Hk. Tts
Hk.fts.
SILK Cocoons, Refuse, Sze-Up
chwan .................. )
Piece Goods, Szechwan...
Refuse, Szechwan.........
, Yellow, „ ........
, White, 2 .....
2,247|38 54,618
1974 1,835
1,47263 29,332
4,853 95 892,652||
4411 9,864
2,24738
1974
1,47263
4,85395
54,618
1,835
29,332
892,652
9,864
:::
4411
........
2,882
SUNDRIES :-
Bones, Tigers
Piculs
Cantharides ....
China-root...............
Coal................
Copper, Tribute ..........
Dye-stuff.
Fungus..
Hemp .....................
Hides, Cow .............
Horns, Buffalo .............,
Leather.
Medicines.
Musk .................
Nutgalls ................
Rhubarb .................
Safflower.
Tallow, Vegetable
Tin... "
Tobacco, Prepared .........
Varnish .....
Wax, White...
Tribute....
Sundries," Unenumerated ....
TOTAL... . Hk. Pts.
:::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::::::::::
96351 2,882
4106 1,652
14216 844
8,450 40
1,686
300
3,600
21534 1,555
14573 3,006
1,463|07 10,955
32517) 3,243
219.96 1,I0I
1,38903 20,836
14,83772 191,174
1110 78,664
452 43 4,524
2,402 18 58,223
554 35 33,256
11740 714
4,04503
100,633
186 851 1,686
308 32 3,084
6,85146 340,259
218 10,900
2,417
::::::::::::::::::
96 35
4106
14216
8,450 40
3001
21534
14573
1,46307
325171
219.96
1,38903
14,837 72
1110
452 43
2,402 18
554 35
11740
4,045031
186 85
308 32
6,85146
1,652
844
1,686
3,600
1,555
3,006
10,955
3,243
1,I0I
20,836
191,174
78,664
4,524
58,223
33,256
714
100,633
1,686
3,084
340,259
10,900
2,467
218
Value
....... 1,865,195............
1,865,245
SUMMARY
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Als
Hk. Its
Hk.fts.
1,813,738
To-
Hankow ........
Shanghai ..........
......
Total to Chinese Ports ...........
Hkifte
1,813,738
51,507
51,457
-
50
1,865,195
50
1,865,245
GRAND TOTAL.........
1,865,195
50


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
a.—Table showing Quantity and Value of each Description of Foreign Goods sent Inland under
Transit Pass by each Nationality during the Year 1886.
AMERICAN.
BRITISH.
TOTAL.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Destination.
Classifier
of
Quantity
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Szechwan
Pieces
142,810
COTTON GOODS :-
Shirtings, Grey ..........
'White, Plain....,
, Brocaded......
Dyed, Plain......
12,610
6,693
mcloths .................
T-cloths
·
Figured.........
115,970
8,591
100
950
4,907
6,620
1,380
1,440
1,950
3,810
Hl. Its
189,220
15,159
180
3,760
19,156
9,539
2,540
2,518
4,875
9,405
600
15,102
95
2,360
7,150
3,150
1,300
5,040
3,165
1,870
»
English.
Hk.Fts.
231,080 | 258,780
25,374 21,201
100
3,310
20,551 12,057
4,791 9,770
2,392 2,680
9,594 6,480
6,330
5,115
3,740
5,680
300
13,637 15,745
397 500
40
3,922 2,861
200 300
300
7,661
100
8,084
400
Hk.Fls.
420,300
40,533
180
10,453
39,707
14,330
4,932
12,112
11,205
13,145
600
28,739
492
160
6,072
300
1,050
10,865
93
2,668
973
2,672
424
160
.
.
.
.
Sheetings, American
..............
Drills, American
..............
, English ....................
Jeans,
Chintzes, Furnitures, etc. .........
Taffachellas...
Damasks.......
Turkey Red Cloths .
Muslins .........................
Velvets ..
Velveteens ..
Cottons, Unclassed .
Handkerchiets ................
Towels ............................
Cotton Yarn ...........
, Thread ..............
.
40
900
100
2,150
100
60
300
1,961
200
150
1,770
200
750
210
915
7,130
ed ............
56
Dozens
3,735
854
118
I 22
1,280
3,070
3,350
500
2,685
322
4,350
3,850
106.85
9.77
Piculs
1,814
855
1,922
325
30
76.85
3.03
6.74
Szechwan
Pieces
3,180
32,000
5,550
2,370
10
10,366
10
.
.
.
.
.
.
23,980
200
82,932
420
20,800
12,709
99,032
23,075
60
60
3,440
WOOLLEN Goods :-
Camlets, English ....
Dutch .....................
Lastings ................
, Imitation ...........
Long Ells .............
Lustres and Orleans ..............
Spanish Stripes ...........
Cloth, Broad, Habit, and Medium....
, Italian...........
,, Russian.......................
Flannels ..............................
Woollen Yarn..........
910
3,960
402
41
4,700
1,319
552
145
550
2,760
4,822
1,025
1,889
35,750
100
27,520
4,916
6,733
2,302
2,388
68,500
500
523
55,980
200
181,964
420
48,320
8,876
11,555
3,327
4,277
104,250
600
523
8,140
2,229
954
186
1,030
480
1,430
4,190
60
Ιο
Piculs
10.50
10.50
METALS:-
Iron Wire ..........
Quicksilver ...............
Tinplates ...
Szechwan | Piculs
3,366
838
4,200
673.20
41.60
26.84
2,080
161
117.60
61.32
5,880
1,511.20
159.20
88.16
7,566
7,960
367
528
Szechwan
854
SUNDRIES:-
Aniseed, Star....................
Bicho de Mar, Black .....
Birds' Nests, 2nd Quality .......
Brass-foil.....
53.38
464.63
53.38
679.34
20,270
214.71
1.58
46.83
854
13,831
1,400
2,018
6,439
2,212
1,390
2.58
66.78
113.61
3,612
3,408


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a.—Table showing Quantity and Value of Foreign Goods sent Inland— Conta.
AMERICAN.
BRITISH
TOTAL.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Classifier
Destination. I of
Quantity. Quantity.
|
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts.
Szechwan | Piculs
8.16
875
35.16
Gross
Piculs
644
3,660
25,380
2,389
1,362
3,250
3,739
1,635
1,662
980
32,603
51,344
7,400
IO
35.91
117.41
69.82
597
20.98
0.19
1,242.39
74,846
Pieces
Piculs
308
Bottles
Piculs
17,694
36,968
344
8.51
46
575
3,822
,599
28.69
326
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Brassware.....................
Buttons, Brass ...............
Cardamoms, Superior ..........
, Inferior.
Cassia Lignea .....................
Chinaware, Fine......
Clocks and Watches..
Compoy............
Coral...........
Cuttle-fish ................
Dyes and Colours...........
Fish Maws
Skins .............
Ginseng, American, Clarified
Glassware .....
Gold Thread, Imitation ............
Isinglass ........
Lamps, Oil ...........
Opium ............
Lung-ngans, Dried ............
Medicines...
Mirrors and Glasses
Needles ............
Ornaments .........................
Pearls, False.....
Peel, Orange .......................
Pepper, Black
Prawns, Dried ................
Rouge ..........
Sandalwood....
Sapanwood ... ........
Seaweed ..
Sharks' Fins, White, Clarified.
Shell-fish ........
Spectacles .....
Tin-foil ..............................
Umbrellas ................
Worm Tablets ............
Sundries, Unenumerated......
694
Hk. Fits.
294
20.76
2,093
29.08
7,550 16,300
1,000 13.89
718 32.22
1,878
85.74
1,541 119.71
711 1,070
83.53
380
0.30
14,909 1,474.49
14,376 | 225,526
231 19.98
1,982
203
56.44
8,551
1,120 134.86
8.44
11,096 642.88
3,412
2,537 24,383
60.80
979 40.22
836 14,187
6,000
2,217 998,600
731 13.64
2,122 336.62
2,620 282.56
1,269 148.36
195
11.29
2,025 IIO
469
13,709 7,384.35
2,513 31.58
469 23.65
487 17,130
638
18.23
278 1,320
1,308
2,368
5,558
Pieces
Pičuls
Pieces
Mille
Pieces
Piculs
659
Hk. Its
581 28.92
1,567 64.24
17,830 23,700
1,389 23.89
68.13
1,372 203.15
2,198
189.53
924 1,667
• 1,354
104.51
600
0.49
2,716.88
300,372
28.49
1,840 95.55
396
73.11
8,033 59.23
1,359 239.07
494 13.82
11,572 1,259.45
9,092
3,711
40,342
486 117.91
880 77.68
1,161
27,088
652 8,000
2,514 1,831,970
531
31.85
3,366
548.78
4,238 457.16
1,401 265.84
15.84
926 362.41
173.54
22,153 11,954.08
3,167
56.71
513
50.50
920 27,625
424 43.63
310 1,980
3,522 3,248
10,745
16,584
2,479
820
22,668
1,353
6,248
943
1,859
1,997
457
49.55
16.67
30.54
104.21
5:38
616.57
5,680
15,959
57.11
37.46
12,901
2,000
833,370
18.21
212.16
174.60
117.48
4.55
252.41
156.54
4,569.73
25.13
26.85
10,495
25.40
660
880
221
873
4,731
1,262
5,488
586
6,858
2,670
781
2,951
501
35,862
32
5,680
Pairs
Piculs
Pieces
Dozens
Value
982
1,407
1,062
588
4,830
16,303
TOTAL...
Hk.fts
.
.
.
.
.
583,577
.
784,573
1,368,150
TRANSIT PASSES ISSUED.....
1,792
2,430
4,222


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
6.—Table showing Quantity and Value of each Description of Native Produce brought from the
Interior under Transit Pass by each Nationality during the Year 1886.
AMERICAN.
BRITISH.
Total
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Place Classifier
of
Production. Quantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Silk Cocoons, Refuse
Szechwan
O
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
»
Refuse.
159.55
722.74
1.94
2,400.49
13.27
124.26
Hk.fts
4,150
14,440
417
469,174
531
746
Hk. Pts.
52,992
13,124
2,663
383,599
722
98
White........
Yellow ......
Cantharides....
China-root....
Hemp ..................
Horns, Buffalo.........................
Leather..............................
Medicines................
Musk.
Nutgalls .............................
Rhubarb ...............................
Safflower ..............................
Wax, White ............
Sundries, Unenumerated.
**************
2,092.47
653.82
11.19
2,257.65
17.82
17.88
447.04
90.28
865.31
6,099.28
7.57
134.70
664.26
327.07
4,040.21
2,252.02
1,376.56
13.13
4,658.14
31.09
142.14
447.04
90.28
1,329.24
10,887.97
10.37
222.27
1,018.39
492.09
6,655.53
Hk. Its
57,142
27,564
3,080
852,773
1,253
844
3,355
450
19,939
123,323
72,528
2,223
24,815
29,522
331,776
482
Anh
3,355
450
12,980
70,733
53,684
1,347
15,961
19,621
202,001
345
463.93
4,788.69
2.80
87.57
354.13
165.02
2,615.32
6,959
52,590
18,844
876
8,854
9,901
129,775
137
Value
TOTAL........
Hk. Its
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
717,394
833,675
1,551,069
TRANSIT PASSES SURRENDERED.
No.
264
369
633
C.— Transit Trade Summary.
VALUE.
INCREASE.
DECREASE.
Hk. Pts
Hk. Its
Inward Transit Trade, 1885.....
»
» 1886............
Hk. Its
1,647,870
1,368,150
279,720
.
.
.
.
.
..
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Outward Transit Trade, 1885........
» » 1886...............
1,056,790
1,551,069
494,279
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Total Transit Trade, 1885......
» » » 1886......
2,704,660
2,919,219
TOTAL INCREASE............ Hk.Fis
214,559


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TABLE No. VII.-DUES AND DUTIES.
FLAG.
CoAST TRADE
DUTIES
IMPORT DUTIES. EXPORT DUTIES.
(Balance of
Deposits included).
TONNAGE DUES.
TOTAL.
BRITISH.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk. Tts.m.c.c.
36.3.5.7
Steamers under River Steamer Pass ....
|
23,923.1.1.9
2,019.2.6.6
25,978.7.4.2
CHINESE.
Steamers under River Steamer Pass .....
43.1.2.2
45,276.2.2.2
13,442.0.8.0
58,761.4.2.4
TOTAL....
79.4.7.9
69,199.3.4.1
15,461.3.4.6
84,740. 1.6.6
Transit Dues on Foreign Goods sent to the Interior ....
„ „ „ Native Goods brought from the Interior
..Hk.Tts 31,512.6.3.4
» 28,804.8.9.2
TOTAL TRANSIT DUES ..........
........ Hk. Ata
60,317.5.2.6
TOTAL REVENUE for the year 1886 ............................ Hk.Ale
145,057.6.9.2*
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total...............................Hk.fts
Nil.
FOREIGN FLAGS.
Native Flag.
22,472.6.6.7
Note.—Amount of Half Duties deposited on goods leaving the port
ving the por} Hk. Pts. 11,958.0.9.0
in River Steamers during the year 1886..................... )
Amount of Drawbacks issued to merchants during the year ļ 0028821
............................................ )
1886 .......
9,030.5.8.7
Balance....
Hk.Its 2,019.2.6.6
13,442.0.8.0


70
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-TREASURE.
Treasure Imported and Exported during the Year 1886.
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
Sycee...........
............. Hk. Pts 39,441 |
Sycee.........
....... Hk. Pts. 177,848
TABLE No. 2.-IMPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the principal Articles of Import, for the Years 1884 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Pieces
171,030
11,401
2,266
3,150
17,408
T-Cloths.................
4,600
2,100
435
2,865
4,070
1,710
1,450
1,940
356,317
20,106
2,388
8,029
24,555
4,520
5,460
4,305
11,890
15,393
3,267
4,352
7,690
403:43
262,420
21,941
2,330
13,273
9,870
2,800
7,810
5,415
5,380
15,770
2,655
3,209
4,672
121.85
Dozens
Piculs
75
Pieces
8,550
19,359
5,580
1,290
6,130
27,100
8,020
5,018
1,350
216
998
6,470
23,505
8,220
2,371
1,056
192
1,030
4,320
55
30
3,130
4,430
COTTON Goods :
Shirtings, Grey...........
1 White, Plain........
Dyed,
, and Figured ........................
Sheetings, American
English ...
Drills, American
, English ...........
Chintzes, Furnitures, etc. ..
Velveteens .......
Turkey Red Cloths.
Handkerchiefs ....
Cotton Yarn ...............
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Camlets ...............
Lastings.....................................................
Long Ells ...........
Lustres and Orleans....................
Spanish Stripes .......................
Cloth, Broad, Habit, and Medium ...............
, Italian ....
,, Russian
METALS :-
Iron Wire ...
Quicksilver .............
SUNDRIES :-
Bicho de Mar, Black.
Brass-foil ..
Buttons, Brass
Cardamoms, Superior ..
Cassia Lignea .........
Cotton, Raw ..........
Cuttle-fish ...............
Dyes and Colours..
Fish Maws .............
Ginseng, American, Clarified...........
Glassware...........
Isinglass .........................
Lamps, Opium ..................
Lung-ngans, Dried.....
Peel, Orange ...........
Pepper, Black...........
Prawns, Dried.
Sandalwood.... ..........................................
Seaweed ........
Sharks' Fins, White and Clarified. .........
Silk Piece Goods .........
Sugar, White................ .....................
Piculs
720
324.52
688.80
455.06
1,464
159.21
Piculs
Gross
Piculs
Bottles
Piculs
218.90
41.93
44.33
17,000
18.56
377.81
1,017.50
2,088.17
211,477
105.15
90.09
132.16
965.98
15,155
463.27
447.24
1,695.01
238.46
257.25
6,455.83
76.71
6.56
3,037.29
307.76
83.30
57.43
13,100
30.20
105.19
1,046.56
2,779.65
329,614
188.73
89.16
240.41
783.32
29,789
1,004.23
164.30
1,258.69
352.86
487.22
11,140.48
135.98
7.41
3,515.72
713.74
1 14.06
77.37
24,917
25.46
203.15
1,229.98
4,890.62
294,629
98.10
67.97
262.85
1,320.22
34,133
171.31
545.67
490.51
287.34
402.11
12,904.01
68.33
112.40
324.15
Pieces
Piculs


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TABLE No. 3.-EXPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the principal Articles of Export, for the Years 1884 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Piculs
2,121.35
4.40
736.87
672.21
53.39
856.01
6.20
595.33
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Silk, Yellow, Szechwan .......
„ White, „ ......
» Refuse ................
, Cocoons, Refuse ..........
Fungus......
Hemp ....
Hides, Cow....................
Horns, Buffalo.........
Leather...............
Medicines............
Musk..
Nutgalls
Rhubarb
Safflower ....
Tallow, Vegetable..
Tin................
Varnish
Wax, White...
2,759.34
9.32
1,193.27
538.56
136.37
1,036.37
93.78
676.97
757.29
13,914.08
6.09
780.27
2,386.42
1,374.18
518.01
4,853.95
44.11
1,472.63
2,247.38
145.73
1,463.07
325.17
219.96
1,389.03
14,837.72
11.10
452.43
2,402.18
554.35
117.40
4,045.03
308.32
6,851.46
15,599.47
0.62
792.52
1,595.63
302
276.70
506
1,187.40
35.61
5,609.58
1,858.62
TABLE No. 4.-SZECHWAN TRADE.
a.—Comparative Table showing the Per-centage that some of the principal Piece Goods consumed
in Szechwan bear to the Net Importations in Shanghai.
e
consul
1883.
1884.
1885.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Imported
Imported
Imported
into Shanghai Sent into
into Shanghai Sent into
into Shanghai Sent into
(less Re. Szechwan from Per-centage
(less Re- Szechwan from Per-centage
(less Re- Szechwan from Per-centage
exports to Hankow and sent into
exports to Hankow and
sent into
exports to
sent into
Hankow and
Szechwan.
Foreign
Ichang.
Szechwan.
Foreign
Ichang.
Foreign
Ichang.
Szechwan.
Countries)
Countries).
Countries).
T2.71
Pieces.
364,781
48,505
Pieces.
4,131,283
2,251,891
484,818
81,062
100,992
70,355
Grey Shirtings ......
T-Cloths....
Drills
Camlets ......................
Lastings.
Long Ells ......
Pieces.
525,387
88,550
34,168
20,340
40,583
21,950
6,135
Pieces.
4,015,186
1,655,627
420,590
117,448
82,378
82,218
3.93
7.05
25.09
40.18
31.19
9.09
2.93
1.46
12.16
37.87
12.38
Pieces.
5,734,946
1,994,524
716,126
107,912
127,462
67,731
Pieces.
646,667
58,565
23,610
10,835
42,084
16,108
11.28
2.94
3.30
10.04
33.02
23.93
mgs .........
14,285
31,199
10,182


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
6.—Comparative Table showing the Extent, as indicated by the Per-centages of some repre-
sentative Articles, to which Ichang participates in the Steam Carriage of Goods for the
Szechwan Market.
1882.
1883.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
From
Hankow.
From
From
Ichang.
Per-centage
for
Total.
From
Ichang.
Hankow.
Total.
Per-centage
for
Ichang
Ichang.
41.05
39.51
44.97
49.21
32.91
45.74
28.65
487.88
32.94
459,910 300,361 ||760,271
58,265 | 56,450 | 114,715
1,252.80 1,056 2,308.80
513.80 206.30 720.10
762.76 739.87 1,502.63
4,849.01 1,621.52 || 6,470.53|
37,007 43,900 80,907
33.90
Cotton Goods ....................... Pieces
Woollen Goods.... ........
Iron Wire ...........
Piculs
Quicksilver ..........
Bicho de Mar...........
Cuttle-fish ............
Dyes and Colours..........Value, Hk. Pts.
Fish Maws ......................... Piculs
Ginseng, American, Clarified ...
Isinglass .........
49.24
317,023 220,736 | 537,759
33,813 | 27,635 61,448
763.40 374.40 1,137.80
239.62 727.50
635.07
325.77 | 960.84
2,596.24 882.44 3,478.68
19,717 | 17,163 36,880
130.03 71.84| 201.87
46.26 51.61 97.87
751.44 733.72 1,485.16
40,655.85 6,657.92 47,313.77
25.37
25.05
54.26
46.54
35.59
51.15 /
82.12
61.62
52.73
133.27
74.68 132.91
525.75 2,207.56
8,012.43 | 48,771.48
58.23
1,681.81
40,759.05
49.40
56.19
23.82
16.42
Seaweed ...............................
,
14.07
1884.
1885.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Per-centage
From
Hankow.
From
Ichang.
Total.
Per-centage
From
for
| Hankow.
Ichang
From
Ichang.
Total.
Ichang.
45
52.63
61.17
57.53
67.77
40.58
46.03
67.03
42.80
Cotton Goods................... Pieces
Woollen Goods.................... ,
Iron Wire ...................... Piculs
Quicksilver .....
Bicho de Mar..
Cuttle-fish ..........
»
Dyes and Colours .........Value, Hk. Pts.
Fish Maws .......................... Piculs
Ginseng, American, Clarified ... »
Isinglass .........
Seaweed ...
269,143 220,212 489,355
29,3571 39,765 69,122
422.40 888 1,310.40
475.15 324.47 799.62
342.50 246.02 588.52
2,284.27 963.09 3,247.36
21,831 | 47,787 | 69,618
I11.17 98.66 | 209.83
71.85 76.85|| 148.70
1,401.62 971.21 | 2,372.83
13,777.58 5,965.79 || 19,743.37
41.80
29.66
414,387 460,342 874,729
33,277 52,435 85,712
751.20 640.80
1,392
223.98 455.44 679.42
396.53 296.70
693.23
2,212.79 2,023.03 4,235.82
12,940
67,986
176.35
186.23
362.58
111.30 77.71 189.01
1,071.99 719.19 1,791.18
25,643.89 10,025.54 | 35,669.431
47.76
68.64
80.97
51.36
41.11
47.02
51.68
40.93
30.22
40.15
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
28.11


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TABLE No. 5.-PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Comparative Statement of the Passenger Traffic, for the Years 1883 to 1886.
PASSENGERS TO HANKOW.
PASSENGERS FROM HANKOW.
YEARS.
STEAMERS.
STEAMERS.
AMERS.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
1883....
1,117
1,101
1884.........
1,338
1,852
1885.........
1886..........
1,739
1,992
1,852
1,734
10


4
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
HANKOW TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
The history of Hankow as an open port only records one year better, from a Customs
point of view, than 1886. The two-million tael collection which we ordinarily set before ourselves
as a legitimate object to strive for was this year reached easily, with a few thousands to spare.
We can congratulate ourselves on having had an uneventful year-one during which we had no
need to concern ourselves with the politics of France, of Russia, or of England; one which
gave China and her Foreign residents an opportunity to attend to their own business concerns,
without having to consider the effect of events elsewhere.
What had more influence than anything on the trade of the year was the remarkable
fluctuation of the sterling exchange market. Although the rates on the last days of 1885 and
1886 were practically the same, about 48. 7d. for the Shanghai tael, it was as low as 48. 2d. in the
summer-at the very moment when all past experience would have expected it to be high. Of
course the low rate was due to the low price of bar silver in Europe; but that does not tell us
much unless we know why bar silver fell so low, and for that fall I have never heard any
reason assigned which I could call completely satisfactory.
SHIPPING.—A large increase in the number and tonnage of river steamers is noticeable,
especially under the British flag; this is mainly due to the regular running of two small vessels
not belonging to, but opposing, the river-steamer syndicate. The lorcha entries and clearances
show a large increase compared with previous years; while, judging from figures, the junk-
chartering business must be most flourishing. Several British merchants, who, for reasons which
it is not necessary to go into, were hitherto out of it, are now keen competitors for what is to
be made out of junks.
As to ocean shipping, the Conference had matters all its own way this year. No ocean-
going “outsider” was able to come. Several were reported as coming, but at the last moment
they decided to stay away; I cannot say why.
About the time our Trade Reports reached England last year the Chinese “Conference"
and the Australian “rings” were creating a good deal of attention in London shipping circles.
The “Economist” quoted at length my remarks in last year's Report, and some correspondence
was evoked in that paper. In one letter signed “A. M.O.,” the writer, who evidently wrote in the
interest of small and independent shippers, attributes much of the success of the Conference
to the fact that some at least of the lines composing it employ as agents merchants who are
themselves large shippers; he does not say whether of their own goods or those of others whose
commission agents they are. He seems to argue that when a man is acting for two principals,
a shipowner and a shipper of goods (even allowing that he is shipping his own goods), the
collection of a good commission on a high freight for the former may suit his own self-interest
better than the securing of a low freight for the latter. I do not profess to say how far
such an assumption is true, or if true, how far it acts in the interest of the Conference; but
the argument seems plausible. “A. M. 0.,” whose letter appears in the “Economist” of ith
September 1886, seems to write with authority.
VALUES.—The figure given for the net value of the trade of the port for the year is
somewhat less than last year. There is a falling off of a million and a half taels in Foreign
Imports, of two million and a half in Native Imports, and of nearly half a million in the direct
Export-principally of Tea-abroad. The only marked increase is in Native produce to Chinese


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75
ports—in other words, of Tea to Shanghai. Part of the reduction in value is due to the fact
that the average value of Tea has been placed at a little lower figure than last year, not only
because the prices of all Teas were on an average a little below last year, but mainly because
a far greater proportion than usual of the Tea exported was of the lower grades, produced in
the second and third crops.
IMPORTS.—I need say little about the ordinary Imports; the Comparative Table carefully
studied will tell as much as I can. In all Cotton Goods the average import of previous years
has been fairly well maintained. What falling off there is is in the cheaper and lighter kinds;
heavier goods, as a rule, show an increase on the figures of recent years. Kerosene Oil shows a
slight falling off as compared with last year. This is the first time it has been possible to make
such a remark in an annual Report. It may be partially due to the fact that the Likin on it
has been somewhat increased, and that certain restrictions have been placed on the storage
of large quantities of it in godowns in the Native town.
The Opium import is nowadays about one-half what it was a few years ago. This falling
off I am told—and I believe it—is mainly due to the fixing of a (more or less) uniform and
at the same time higher rate in all the provinces. Up till 1885 the Likin on Opium was
lower here than in any of the provinces that I know of. The result of the lighter Likin was to
cause the supplies of much of Kiangsi and Hunan to be drawn from this port. Now that this
inducement to buyers to come here no longer exists, the Kiangsi demand is being provided for
at Kiukiang; while the wants of Hunan are being supplied from Hongkong, under some system
the inner working of which is not quite clear. How far the new system about to be introduced
will influence our import here it is hard to say. I am inclined to think it will have a tendency
to lowering the import, and making the market here one more purely for the supply of what
is required for consumption of our immediate neighbourhood than it has hitherto been.
EXPORTS.—The Comparative Table shows that, taking all the commodities which go to
form the trade together, the amount of Export business done here during the year was at least
up to the average. Hemp, Hides, Tobacco, Nutgalls, all show figures below those of last year,
though, with the exception of Nutgalls, not below those which the average of the last few years
could give. I should not be surprised to find that the uncertainty of exchange may have
made speculation in goods for the Foreign market somewhat timid. I am told that of the Hides
exported a very considerable quantity was ultimately shipped to America. I have never found
anyone who could tell me why Hides should go to America, or how an importer paying a heavy
duty at the port of entry there can compete with a dealer in American Hides who has no tax
to pay on them.
The Tea business this year was the largest on record. Several circumstances contributed
to this result. The Cantonese teamen had made money in 1885, and were therefore more inclined
to speculate. The growers in the country, for the reasons I gave in my last year's Report, had
sold cheap, and no doubt considered that they had been imposed on by the teamen. They
were not going to fall into the same trap twice; so they held out for prices which would
somewhat recoup their losses of the preceding year. The teamen knew that exchange was low,
and they reasoned that the tael prices which Foreigners would pay would probably be relatively
high, and that they could afford to pay a little more in the country. At the opening of the
season, therefore, the teamen commenced by asking very high prices for which Teas they had
themselves paid pretty well for. Their quality was in the main good; and at the opening of the
market some very high prices were paid for the finest chops. These were bought principally
for Russia. However, before the market had been opened many days, Foreign buyers began
to feel that the price was too stiff, and many stood by for a fall. Before long it came, and the


is 1885 AND 1886.

SCALE,
TO OF AN INCH
TO
A Foor.
SEPTEMBER.
OCTOBER.
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER.
60
LS 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30
50-
BUND.
1886
1885
1856
1885
E
Rainfall, 1885.....
»
1886....
2.48
0.44
1.22 inches.
0.83 2
0.61 inches.
0.46 inch.
0.55 »
1.91 inches.
8.00
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HANKOW TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
a
STEAMERS.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
FLAG.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo. | In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
Tons. No. Tons. No. Tons. No.
... 1340 283,081 338 282,819
1,786 6 3,140 1 1,764 14
22,518 14 23,999 | 14 23,999
680
No. Tons. No.
BRITISH
340 283,081...
Steamers under River Steamer Pass..
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass ... ... 1 1,354 51
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass for
1,481 13
RUSSIAN :-
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass for
3,011 1
Odessa direct.....
CHINESE :-
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass ...... 1 1,782 11
Steamers under River Steamer Pass... / 126|| 137,771 3
262 340 283,081
1,374 5 3,138
141 23,999
DI
566,162
6,278
47,998
Great Britain direct..............
1,813
3
4,824
3
4,824
3
4,824
9,648
942 2
1,622 129
2,724 ...
139,393 126
..
137,771
3
1,693
1,693
1,622 129 139,393
493 456,128
258
4,417
278,786
913,289
Total Steamers ...........
471 428,480
28,681 494 457,161 482 451,177
987
SAILING VESSELS.
15/
2,996
...
5,992
2,996 ...
6,802
2,996
7,098
7,098
BRITISH :-
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass .......
AMERICAN :
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass ....
GERMAN :-
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass .......
SPANISH :
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass .....
CHINESE :
Junks under Special Junk Pass ...... |
1,950
2,996
6,802
1,950
2,226
197
19,388 101
13,900
3,900
4,282
2,226
13/
1,950
2,056
17,650
19,694
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass .....
1,950
2,056
17,650
17,650
19,694 200 39,082
| 51,444
| 551 84,806
4,951 868 507,572 || 1,538| 998,095
19,388
Total Sailing Vessels... 176 33,362
176 33,362 375 51,444
GRAND TOTAL ........ | 647 461,842 23 | 28,681 | 670 490,523 857 502,621 | 11


78
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF HANKOW,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.Fls.
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Its
Hk.fts
Hk.Its
Hk. Its
FOREIGN GOODS.
26,891
Imported from Foreign countries and Hongkong.......
Imported from Chinese Ports ............... ..................
Total Foreign Imports............
24,008
15,596,646
13,607,277
13,732,528
13,607,277
15,620,654
13,759,419
Re-exported to Foreign countries and Hongkong....
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Shanghai
and Ichang)...
Total Foreign Re-exports ............
1,371,885
2,014,121
1,634,560
1,371,885
2,014,121
1,634,560
Net Total Foreign Imports ....
12,235,392
13,606,533
12,124,859
9,110,637
11,700,792
10,519,082
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Shanghai, Kiukiang, and
Ichang)...
Re-exported to Foreign Countries ....................
Re-exported to Chinese Ports.........................
Total Native Re-exports ...........
2,488,860
1,389,286
3,878,146
3,442,575
1,343,652
3,451,048
2,687,376
4,786,227
6,138,424
Net Total Native Imports
5,232,491
6,914,565
4,380,658
Native Produce of local origin Exported to u
Foreign countries..........
3,527,507
4,066,512
3,649,534
12,876,491
13,660,048
14,036,426
Native Produce of local origin Exported to l
Chinese Ports...
Total Exports of local origin ...
16,403,998
17,726,560
17,685,960
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port ......
39,121,912
45,048,006
41,964,461
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native | 33,871,881
Exports of local origin.
38,247,658
34,191,477


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TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.—Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hl. Pts
Hk. Its
H.Its.
1,210 521
198|17
Hk. Its
548,425
95,572
60 251
8 40
27,272
4,025
1,15027
18977
H .fts
521,153
91,547
890
Ostal..........
890
OPIUM:
Malwa .........
..... Piculs
Patna and Benares...
Persian
COTTON GOODS :-
Shirtings, Grey, English..... Pieces
White, English...
Dyed and Figured
T-Cloths..........
1,420,9361
596,352
4,920
150,464
59,780
60,115
102,688
160
263,765)
21,532
492
9,890
4,300
7,440
17,393
519,3781,157,171
45,970 574,820
1,130 4,428
13,506
140,574
11,180
55,480
20,235 52,6751
23,166
2,355,170
1,257,683
10,415
212,963
236,179
158,630
122,961
85,295
160
321
500
100
245
300
2,874,548
1,303,653
11,545
226,469
247,359
178,865
146,127
321
1,242
20,208
1,825
161,818
175,776
213,653
19,430
20,047
4,294
5,335
373,147
32,020
24,211
3,527
306,759
292,751
1,685
40
3,015
3,224
6,807
210
300
750
220
21,791
9,804
32,769
8,070
330
21,943
56,163
44,513
10,990
5,910
1,1851
5,976
I 24,882
10,315
79,632
994
55,773
15,303
1,547
390
960
400
7,7701
2901
18,928
52,939
37,706
10,780
5,610
1,185
5,376
117,952
7,855
74,587
997
19,458
1,605
140,027
165,972
180,884
19,040
19,087
4,294
4,853
352,252
24,686
22,815
3,527
270,104
289,988
1,622
600
6,930
2,460
4,775
7,129
146
207
482
20,895
7,334
1,396
36,655
2,763
994
48,644
15,157
1,340
18,904
143,800
2,679
80
540
Drills, English ...............
,, American .............
Chintzes ................
Mahomedan Cloth ......
Brocades, White.............
, Dyed ..........
Damasks ........................
Velvets and Velveteens....
Turkey Red Cloths ........
Cotton Lastings ...............
Muslins and Lawns ...........
Twills and Jeans, English...
» „ American
Taffachellas..
Sheetings, English ..........
American.
Handkerchiefs ....... Dozens
Balzarines .......
Pieces
Cotton Italians ..
> Yarn
Piculs
Cottons, Unclassed............ Pieces
WOOLLEN GOODS:-
Lustres, Figured. ........ .Pieces
Plain..
Camlets, English
Dutch ...
Cloth, Medium...
Russian ..
Italian.
Lastings, Plain
, Figured
Long Ells ..........
Spanish Stripes ..........
Flannels..
Blankets..........
Pairs
Woollen and Cotton P;
Mixtures.............
METALS:
Copper Sheathing and Up
1 Piculs
Yellow Metal............
Copper, Japan.............
Iron, Old......
, Hoop.....
Nail-rod.
Sheets ............
Wire...........
Lead .......
Spelter...
Steel ...........
20,1071
70,325
80
59,7351
91
2,799
13,410
3,506
70,765
.........
682,131
1,130
79,124
377,172
16,420
797,042
12,600
262,375
159,319
5,493
1,944
3,621
5,960
188
4,140
1,110
21,855
450
13,030
1,026
5,228
114,187
5,550
247,949
6,300
50,015 |
13,3831
612
16,225
53,775
91
2,611
9,270
2,396
48,910
610
30,283
10,761
407
851
1,571
123,693
540
611,806
1,130
73,896
262,985
10,870
549,093
6,300
212,360
145,936
1,060
43,313
11,787
458
8511
1,631
4,881
1,944
295
3,326
9534
2,160
1,850 75
4,084 40
8,91163
1,187 58
37,136 36
497 14
8,696 14
42,027 44
1,152 831
32172
33,675
104,040
9,908
1,817
44,993
993
27,560
244,464
23,057
1,458
1,850 75
3,98906
8,911 63
1,187 58
37,11536
497 14
7,372 94
41,650 041
1,152 83
32172
33,675
101,880
9,908
1,817
44,963
993
23,330
241,904
23,057
1,458
1,323 20
377 40
4,230
2,560


80
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

NET
IMPORTS
FROM
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
HONGKONG
TO
AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
| Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hl. Its
Hk.Its
Hk.Fts.
Piculs
2,89013
METALS, continued :-
Tin, in Slabs.....
Tinplates.................
Quicksilver .............
White Metal............
STRAITS & JAPAN PRODUCE:-
Sugar, Brown ...
Candy....
Hk.fts.
63,778
10,322
26,202
18,049
2,32488
76497
538 94
12
5922
389)
2,89013
2,23676
605751
53894
Hk.fts
63,778
9,933
20,667
18,049
5,535
Piculs
White
7203
2,579 32
45,402 87
4,616 11
6,180 13
10,32821
12,281 59
17492
20,345 52
23,947 27
130,93506
136,655
33,839
25,345
88,103
209,134
3,891
91,798
76,736
427,072
73190
45,40287
394 4,56361
6,252 16
21,672 7,74889
12,194 11,54969
17492
2,479
19,798 73
5551 23,761 971
37,481 119,143 48
136,655
33,445
25,899
66,431
196,940
3,891
89,319
76,181
389,591
54679
18530
11,791 58
Piculs
cli6
730
1,600 12
2,109 46
548 33
9,86936
2,998 39
140 40
873
2453
2,05430
548 33
1,600 12
9,82746
254
23,023
Cuttle-fish
Pepper, Black......
White..
Sandalwood ..
Sapanwood...
Seaweed ............
SUNDRIES :-
Aniseed, Star........
, Broken.........
Betel-nut Husk ............
Betel-nuts................
Bicho de Mar, Black .......
, White........
Birds' Nests, ist Quality ...
»
2nd ,,
» , 3rd ,
Borax......
Braid, Llama ........
Gross
Brass Wire ........... Piculs
Buttons, Brass .............. Gross
Camphor .....................
Piculs
. Baroos, Clean .....
, Refuse......
Cardamoms, Superior ........
, Inferior.
Cassia Lignea ...........
2,27086
139 |
24
25,240
2,385
5,402
61,856
92,652
2,558
20,638
34,447
11,711
3,253
64,141
20,856
112,784
9,920
7,283
win O-V
664
7,696
1,223
1,000
10 50
27,716
207
434
325
17,420
- 46
•
1,186
041
42 99
7313
20317
9,398
1,918
1,514
»
27 26
37606
175,482
813 81
134,554
40952
149
294 82
3,101 94
2,326 57
7675
6,66479
1,11509
739 74
2,56592
5,229
190 46
4,195
442 291
21,565
020
376 06
176,482
824 31
162,270
41159
1491
041
337 83
3,17507
2,52974
7675
6,66479
1,292 44
763491
2,611 99
7,038
202 63
2,002
559 51
27,139
020
Buds......
4,485
285
177 35
2375
46 07
1,809
1217
99
24,510
2,385
5,402
61,602
69,629
2,534
19,974
26,751
10,488
3,253
63,707
20,531
95,364
9,874
7,283
1,186
66,122
81,413
17,223
1,646
20,518
28,978
8,877
19,405
8,185
3,998
15,415
7,408
5,635
1,443
128,394
1,660
18,651
2,202
13,513
1,676
129,527
31,050
2,776
2,975
II,121
38,540
393
Pieces
2,183
282
2,193
1,929
75,520
83,331
18,737
1,646
20,518
33,463
9,162
19,798
10,368
4,280
7,740
9,337
6,978
1,443
177,584
1,660
23,372
4,106
13,633
1,676
155,527
31,050
2,840
2,975
11,121
41,342
, Twigs ..........
Chinaware, Fine....
Coarse ..........
Clams, Dried .............
Clocks and Watches........
Cloves....
Piculs
Coal.......
Tons
Compoy..............
Piculs
Cotton Towels ............
Dozens
Cow Bezoar, Indian........... Piculs
Dyes and Colours........... Value
Feathers, Kingfishers', etc... Pieces
Fish Maws ..................... Piculs
Skins ......................
Galangal .........
Gambier ............
Ginseng, American, Clarified
,, Corean and Japan..
Gum, Dragon's Blood........
,, Myrrh ..............
Olibanum .........
Horns, Rhinoceros'....
11722
5,574
1,343
49,190
83841
»
Skin
4,721
1,904
120
::::::::::::::
142,744
409 41
155 37
2,527191
18783
430 19
5895
112 381
18006
76998
26,000
142,744
325 57
90 31
2,507 19
18783
357 38
II008
18006
76998
5895
72
2,802
2,802
5spool


HANKOW.
81
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.-Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

NET
IMPORTS
FROM
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
HONGKONG
TO
AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. / Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hk. Pts.
Hk. Its.
1,322 49
7,061
697
497
Mille
1,3951
16 591
2351
12,110
1195
343
30
264/34
524
SUNDRIES, continued :
Isinglass ............
Piculs
Lamps............
Pieces
Lucraban Seed...............
Piculs
Machinery............
Value
Matches..........
Gross
Mushrooms...
Piculs
Mussels, Dried.
Needles ................
Nutmegs ....................
Piculs
Oil, Kerosene.
Galls.
Paint, Green ............ Piculs
Prawns, Dried ..
Putchuck ................
Raisins ..........
Rattans, Whole...
» Split
Pieces
Saltpetre........................
Piculs
Sea-shells ..........
29
Sharks' Fins, Black ...
White.
» Prepared
Shell-fish .........
Sulphuric Acid.............
Umbrellas, Cotton ..... Dozens
Vermilion.........
Piculs
Window Glass .................
Boxes
Wood, Laka.................... Piculs
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
060
4/55
Hk.fts.
23,606 3,259981
1,305 29,142
52396
325,677
1,47415
297 9404
1,429 477,102
491
17718
... 3,715,810
197 44
3,398
607 40
72 72546
415
51494
1,843 1,948 73
1,546
2,000
96984)
5770
153731
6,318
240 381
14612
303 2,34503
1,208
50,1741
19224
12,138 1
296 03
Hk.fts.
59,240
3,925
3,560
9,182
94,234
44,832
1,022
70,972
7,677
388,322
2,316
7,583
10,593
3,507
4,189
23,948
2,226
14,000
2,206
2,203
9,589
24,037
3,202
11,833
17,654
6,534
50,565
3,888
37,349
IIO
Hk.fts
4,582 47| 82,846
36,203 5,230
52396
3,560
9,182
327,072 94,931
1,49074 45,329
117 55 1,319
489,212 72,401
18913 8,168
3,715,810 388,322
227 44 2,659
87174 10,981
73070
10,665
41560 3,512
50549 4,115
2,09677
25,791
1,546
2,226
2,000 ! 14,000
90584
2,078
5770 2,203
16324 10,169
30346
30,355
18425
4,060
2,44673 12,136
53,670 18,862
192 24 6,534
12,136 50,552
31703
3,980
42,101)
.... ...... 13,750,888
36
148 04
Rugs .......
:
35
858
10170
3,496
21
92
4,776
TOTAL............. Hk.Tts
8,531
1,634,560
.... 12,124,859
SUMMARY.
26,891
13,732,528
-Hk. Pts. 13,759,419
IMPORTS from Great Britain............ ............. Hk. Its 174
„ „ Hongkong ...................................... , 18,360
,, Russia: Odessa, by sea...................... »
554
, , Japan .....................
................. 2
7,803
Total from Foreign Countries.........-
-Hk.fits.
Imports from Chinese Ports..........
.........
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS ..........
RE-EXPORTS to Ichang....
.............. Hk. fts 1,584,323
» Kiukiang ........................................... »
3,513
.. W uhu.......................................... ,
6,940
,, Shanghai.............
.............
3 9,784
Total to Chinese Ports .............
-Hk.fts
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS........
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS.....
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1,634,560
- Hk.Fts 1,634,560
.Hk.fts 12,124,859
.
.
.
.


82
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE. — Imports and Re-exports.

NET
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
Hk.fts.
118,755 28 3,448,083
HK.fts
1,143 57 107,475.
Hk.Tts
148,221 56 4,301,522
2,201 37 53,473
257 90 162,278
1,537 82 831,749
51 63 15,883
1,309 53 25,824
1828 3,629
4,08417 809,324
2076 4,152
10545 24,629
Hk.fts.
28,322 71 745,964
2,344 89
56,272
505 3,183
12977 70,088
18 58 5,833
1,36011 25,855
2634
5,268
4,73128 892,810
054 121
5,882
450
252 851 159,095
1,407 20 761,211
3305 10,050
::::::
:
8310
4,031
18,747
8 30191
2462 225
2/22 43
26795 6,488
31,856 04 145,508.
6,283
238 45 8,203
22136 4,823
1,488 92 81,187
565/13
3,665
TEA and Tea Dust ............... Piculs
SILK Cocoons...................... Piculs
,, Ribbons ..
,, Piece Goods .....
Pongees..................
Refuse ......................
, White ......
Yellow, Szechwan.........
and Cotton Mixtures .....
» Mixtures, Fancy...........
SUNDRIES :-
Almonds ....
Piculs
Bamboo Shoots..
Bambooware .............
Brass-foil..
Brassware .............
Buttons, Brass...........
Cantharides ..........
Capoor Cutchery
Carpets .........
Pieces
Cassia Buds..
Piculs
, Twigs ................
China-root
Cinnamon
Clams, Dried
Cornelian Beads .......
Cornelianware.......
Cotton, Raw ...
Cuttle-fish ...
Dates, Black ........
Fans, Fancy ........
, Palm-leaf, Trimmed...
» , Untrimmed
26402
5858
3595
1,004
3,189
1,583
156 50
13134
015
1,159
7330
207
8,830
21,772
51
es
043
656
2,52 107
1097
10,927
17,480
16,000
112,075
17530
1097
392
1,174
126
"
Paper
276 251 6,679
31,880 66 145,733|
567 35 6,326
343|37 11,868
5,827
1,547 50 84,376
32 34 1,171
82026 7,009
2,571 1,282
12589
2,809
782841 2,725
1,379
8812 5,890
1,062
1127 3,847
1937 : 8,855
45,794 36 623,908
20,51381 173,373
49555 2,330
163,468] 14,184
3,329,416 24,814
7,578,678 28,282
1,999,296 56,291
1,92827 6,971
160 87 9,027
19499 5,326
897 17
6,401
145 381 2,244
20560 1,073
158 451 8,204
664 931 10,815
1,516 85 13,824
162 84 5,278
94981 28,736
15273 8,717
47184
12,517
331 48 1,432
1,18952 16,037
48,949 6,518
1,487 07 9,770
45,600
3,521
32597 3,867
5624 1,526
77 |
3,450
21921 1,362
2,09419 24,210
1,970
3,357
789
615
114
Fish, Dried and Salt..........
Piculs
, Maws.........
Skins...
Flower Seed .........
Fungus ....................
Galangal....
Ginseng, Native ..........
Glassware
Glue, Cow
... Fish ..........
Gold Thread, Imitation...
Grasscloth, Fine..........
Coarse .........
Hair," Goats'...
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
2,526
14863
... |
703
182 35
3556
3870
21631
82026 7,009
2,5711 1,282
125891
2,809
782 84
2,725
2516 220
87 97
5,880
7330 1,062
11271 3,847
1894
8,648
45,138 36 615,078
17,992 74 151,601
484 58 2,279
152,5411
13,010
3,311,936 24,688
7,562,678
28,223
1,887,221 52,934
1,752 97 6,182
14990 8,412
191071 5,212
897 171 6,401
20560 1,073
15142 7,747
48258 7,850
1,48129 13,356
126451 4,11
5628
17,126
13110 7,365
471 84 12,517
199 33 772
1,16989
15,818
49,949 1 6,518
52 40
386
45,600 3,521
67 30
2984 702
7711
3,450
196 211 1,270
2,07458 23,939
315 1,585
457
2,965
468
1,167
11,610
1,352
36 39
Hams....
132 15
1963
660
219
1,434 67
9,384
Hats, Straw ..................
Pieces
Hemp ................... Piculs
Sacking..................
Hides, Cow.............
Horns, Deer ...............
Young ...........
Pairs
Indigo, Dried and Liquid... Piculs
Iron Nails and Ware.....
Ivoryware
25867
2640
3,259
824
608
92
23
1961
27
3104
0791


HANKOW.
83
TABLE No. IV.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports—Conth.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity. | Value. | Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hk.Tts.
Hk. The
Hk.Its
2,2961
2,013
40,989
3,85866
174,225
231 85
76555
33,794
5,870
38,976
3,85866
140,431
231 85
765551
3,22028
H. Its
7,376
48,404
17,011
2,975
10,484
47,602
21,562
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Jadestoneware.. .............. Piculs
Joss Paper .....................
Lamps .......................
.................
Pieces
Lampwick
Piculs
Lead, White
, Yellow ...........
Leather ................
Lichees, Dried ...........
Lily Flowers, Dried
Lotus-nuts.
Lung-ngan Pulp.....
Lung-ngans, Dried.
Mats .........
Medicines.....
Piculs
Melon Seeds.
Mirrors and Glasses ..........
Mushrooms..........
Piculs
Musk ......................
Nankeens ...........
Nutgalls...........
Oil, Peppermint ...........
Hk.Ft.
9,672
48,404
22,881
2,975
10,484
47,602
18,313
5,892
4,119
2,315
23,609
25,903
41,718
429,0281
119
33
141
11750
588
31/25
1,127 48
1,163 50
91099
31879
2,131 09
4,258 90
1,029,750
61,710 23
602 34
125,346
8676
10 26
12329
459 60
Pieces
174
4,435
159,180
104,3701
12,106 39
1,13952
90427
307 65
2,10332
4,345151
925,380
49,63344
602 34
99,666
7959
2960
5,773
4,086
2,174
23,306
26,317
37,283
270,002
2,793
10,036
2,389
154 1
:::::::::::::::::::::::::
Pieces
: 2,793
:::
25,680 1
7|17|
1050
22 33
452 311
016
2,179
222
105,186
7521
100 96
3,969
128
729
215
Olives..........
12,215
2,611
104,282
4,013
4,177
1,738
4,855
2,121
10,335
54,947
1,532
3,564
24,573
1,105
Pieces
4,535
1,720,692
20370
416
4,092
4,705
Piculs
::::
Opium Trays, etc. ..
Ornaments ...........
Paper, ist Quality
, 2nd
Pearls, False .........
Peel, Orange ...........
Prawns, Dried .........
Preserves.......
Rattans, Split and Ware..
Rhea Fibre ...........
Rhubarb ...
Rice, Red
Rouge............
Safflower ..
1 99
1,03932
49,260
2,678,646
2,25964
45619
3640
2,706 24
7792
89481
76704
3,261
208
1,610
4,855
1,705
6,243
50,242
1,532
1,920
20,228
1,007
8,216
9,269
3045
62301
1,644
4,345
98
304
355
7152
3241
i
8,520
i
2691
1,513 80
2,26560
6,433
591 791
2,515
40,998
4,077
1,384
9,624
8,948
45,075
1,384
2,872
25,560
5,110
9,852
701
33,908
2,171
1,039 32
53,795
4,399,338j
2,463 34
45619
66 85
3,329251
85441
92722
79395
2,105 59
2,149 34
362 39
107 76
426 06
1,64494
6,327 94
1,248 32
13,997
2,227
50,416
175,87588
9,01265
143,17061
4,05503
508 16
12993
9,265 16
650 42
6,976 58
45075
Samshu
5,080
Sea Blubber .........
992
75285
250
2,088
Seaweed
3,796
5,908)
7,764.
3,788
5,108
362 39
9364
1,635 02
5,57509
1,24582
11,212
2,227
27,629
175,87588
9,01265
142,94451
2,785
22,787
1,704
:::::::
Shoes and Boots....... Pairs
Skins, Various ....
Pieces
Spectacles ................ Pairs
Sugar, Brown...
Piculs
» Candy
, White
| Tin, Yunnan..
Tin-foil ..............
Tobacco, Leaf ..........
,, Prepared........
Vermilion.....
Wax, White ..................
Woodware.....................
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
1,173
2,090
529,768
67,725
589,221
930
1,173
3,794
529,768
67,725
590,151
81,101
11,485
1,284
186,699
21,739
262,227
10,815
50,675
:::::::::
22610
4,05503
80
81,480
1,723
61 89
1,242
9,762
1,284
185,457
21,739
...
454 36
12993
9,203 271
650 42
41871
432 12
1
6,557 87 284,177
1863 465
13,103
10,350
37,572
TOTAL.............
Hk.Ita...
............ 10,518,340............ 742 ............... 2,687,376............... 3,451,048 ............... 4,504,137
Excess of Re-export above Import of some articles during the year ........
..... Hk.Its.
123,479
NET TOTAL ..........
.......Hk.Tts 4,380,658


84
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
SUMMARY
1,622,341
8,948
4,255,912
110,017
188,418
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
IMPORTS from Ichang ........
........... Hk.fts
» Yangtze Stages.....
»
, Kiukiang ..........
„Wuhu ........
Chinkiang ...
„ Shanghai .........
» Ningpo ........
Total from Chinese Ports .........
Imports from Hongkong.........
TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS ..........
4,167,355
165,349
Hk.fts 10,518,340
..........
1
7
42
-Hk.Fts 10,519,082
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
RE-EXPORTS to Ichang ..........
.......... Hk. Pts.
194,483
661
3,921
352
„Kiukiang ........................
„ Wuhu..........
„ Chinkiang ........
„ Shanghai.
„ Ningpo.................................. »
Total to Chinese Ports ..........
2,487,902
57
-Hk.Fts
2,687,376
3,250,088
200,960
RE-EXPORTS to Great Britain ......... .......... Hk.fts
„ „ Russia: Odessa, by sea ....................
Total to Foreign countries..........
TOTAL NATIVE RE-EXPORTS
-Hk.As. 3,451,048
-Hk.fts. 6,138,424
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS ....
.
000U1
.
.
.
.
Hk.fts 4,380,658
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.


HANKOW.
85
TABLE No. V.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.-Exports and Re-exports.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hk.Tits
H.Fts.
280,091 92 3,238,396
86595 5,000
204,206 29 710,140
14,077 77 50,366
2,372 30
510,786
14639 33,920
I 24 446
H .fts.
HK.Tts
147,077 99 4,194,047) 676,747 17|11,074,193
86595) 5,000
204,206 29 710,140
14,077 77 50,366
4,731 28 892,810 7,103 58 1,403,596
26 34 5,268 17273 39,188
00616
130
462
8 30
412 06
11,927 82
7,08964
71049
1,05365
5635
3,878
10,122
42,505
2,005
25,675
2462
3,067
328 971
6,274
3,189)
3595
131341
Hk.fts
TEA, Black, and Dust............ Piculs | 249,577 26 3,641,750
Log .................
, Brick, Black .........
» » Green .........
SILK, Szechwan............... Piculs
, White ............
OPIUM, Szechwan ................ Piculs
SUNDRIES :-
Almonds ........
Piculs
Alum, Green...........
Arsenic ...................
Bamboo Shoots .......
Beeswax ................
Bones, Tigers' ...........
Brass-foil..........
Brassware ......
Buttons, Brass ......
Cake-stuff..
Cantharides
Charcoal ..
Chestnuts .............
China-root....
Chowchow.
Cinnabar..
Clothes, Old.
Coal............................
Tons
Coir .............
Piculs
Copper, Old.....
> Unmanufactured ...
Cotton, Raw ....................
, Ribbons ............
Cow-bone Dust..........
Cuttle-fish ....
Dates, Red ..
Dye-stuff..
Earth, Red ..
Fans, Paper.
ieces
» Fancy..
Feathers .....
Piculs
Felt.................
Pieces
Fire-crackers............
Piculs
Fungus .....................
Glassware...
Glue, Fish .
Gold Thread, Imitation...
Grasscloth, Coarse.......
, Fine.......
Gypsum......
Hair, Goats'...
, Pigs ..........
Hats, Straw ............
Pieces
Hemp .......
.......
Piculs
Hides, Buffalo and Cow
Horns, Cow.............
Indigo....................
Iron, Old ..................
,, Unmanufactured .....
Ironware...
:::::::::::::::::::::::::
588 55 8,811
10494 6,177
19,942 11,956
9,683 81 19,155
12,34665 109,270
217173
6,158
18406 10,458
1,94415
8,570
12,966 63,941
5,308 57 10,759
47897
7,760
5,386 90 21,486
73690 8,291
60367 40,803
1,964 59 1,319
...
7,97566 25,044
14,70446 23,197
2,306 34 2,479
50,995 1,183
1,54877 3,742
16,710 1,531
5,569 55 35,463
24,156 95 439,902
656
8,830
:::::::::
2,52107
1911 420 36 4,069
11,927 82 10,122
7,08964 42,505
2251 73511 2,230
1,05365 25,675
1,559 9310 4,626
3,665 10492 3,665
1,004 37163 7,278
3,189
8,811
1,583 140 89 7,760
19,942 11,956
9,68381 19,155
1,1591 12,477 99 110,429
21773 6,158
18406
10,458
1,94415 8,570
12,966
63,941
5,308 57 10,759
47897 7,760
5,386 901 21,486
1,392 90 17,121
60367 40,803
1,964 59 1,319
21, 2,52107 21,772
7,97 566 25,044
14,70446
23,197
2,306 34 2,479
3,357 163,070 4,540
1,174 10,927) 1,174
1,54877 3,742
16,710 1,531
5,569 55 35,463
2,526 24,305 58 442,428
2,965
18235
2,965
1,167 36 39 1,167
11,610
38701
11,610
12746
2,808
1,352
24,100
179,594
54,889
6601 659791 2,885
384/46 2,699
12,94111 1,159
90, 203/05 687,069
3,259 62,064 30 792,744
2,607|46| 17,573
243 77
4,28877 4,870
1,981191 2,963
40,29864
80,595
112,0751
10,927
14863
182 351
3639
551/12
...
13215
127 46 2,808
52949 22,748
179,5941 54,889
52764
2,225
38446 2,699
12,941 1,159
88,762 14 677,645
61,80563 789,485
2,424 17 16,585
22077 973
4,28877 4,870
1,981191 2,963
40,27903 80,324
9,384)
183291
988)
92
1,065
*** 1961


86
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports—Contd.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity. |
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hk. Its
Hk.fts
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Jadestoneware ................
Pieces
Lamps ............
Leather..........................
Piculs
.. Gilt...................
Pieces
Lily Flowers, Dried.......... Piculs
Liquorice...........
Lotus-nuts..
Manure Cake...........
Mats ......................
Pieces
Medicines ............
Piculs
Melon Seeds
Mirrors .............
Pieces
M oss .......................
Musk ........................
Nankeens...
Nutgalls ............
Oil, Sesamum Seed
........
37704
»
Tea..
........
Wood ......................
Ornaments ............
Pieces
Paper, ist and 2nd Quality.. Piculs
Pearls, False.....
Peas..........
Peel, Orange...............
Peppermint Leaf ...
Persimmons, Dried.
Pipes, Brass
Pieces
Planks, Soft-wood
Potash ...........
uculs
Preserves .............
Resin ........
Rhea Fibre
Rhubarb...................
Rice.........................
Safflower .............
Samshu..............
Sea Blubber...........
Seed, Sesamum .......
Silk Cocoons ..........
Piece Goods ......
Pongees ........
3,136
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Hk.Fts.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts
2,296 2,013
2,296
33,794 5,870 33,794 5,870
8027
1,559 1,358 56 21,562 1,43883 23,121
-625,400 7,097
625,400 7,097
2,938 72 13,800 - 6721 33 2,945 441 13,833
745071 4,400
74507 4,400
10,912 89 118,320 1114141 10,92403
118,461
756 43 1,367
75643 1,367
104,370 4,435 104,370
4,435
110,541 08 937,473 12,106 39 159,180 122,647 47) 1,096,653
4,709 41
14,199
4,709411 14,199
25,680 2,179 25,680 2,179
233 67 5,075
23367 5,075
1492
145,760
10 501 105,186 2542| 250,946
4,070 99 170,008 22331 752 4,093 32 170,760
22,570 54 255,986 452 31 3,969 23,399 89 264,555
1,389126,684
1,38912 6,684
6,467 53 40,859
6,467 53 40,859
263,280 30 1,804,383
| 263,280 30 1,804,383
1,720,692 4,092 |1,720,692 4,092
11,298 86 64,509 20370 4,705 11,502 56 69,214
30 45 1,644 30 45 1,644
2,692 50 2,290
2,692 50 2,290
637 19
2,835 62301 4,345 1,26020
7,180
361 74 1,601
361 74 1,601
1,08596 24,001
1,085 961 24,001
39,358 14,993
39,358 14,993
293,008 5,183
293,008 5,183
836 96 3,136
836 96
147 08 1,484
41 304 17949
1,788
2,090 49
4,268
2,090 49
4,268
1,88026 6,522 2,105 59 8,949 4,14685
16,115
5,72315 104,434 2,26560 40,998 8,132 22 147,437
79,092 04
117,473
79,092 04 117,473
390 96 18,820 56521
33,908
95617 52,728
3,19642 15,101
992
3,206 34 15,131
...
75285 2,088 75285 2,088
5,11415 13,066
5,11415 13,066
456 40
9,276
2,344 89 56,272 2,801 29 65,548
496 1,577 13062 70,538 13558 72,115
1,297 1858 5,883
26 251
7,180
5,836 92 143,202 1,360 11 25,855 7,19703
26 53
11,544
3,183
31 58 14,727
143791 7,542
14379 7,524
22 35 5,882 2235 5,882
8,678
39,079
8,6781 39,079
46161 9,403
46161
9,403
227 54 7,870
227 54
7,870
17,243
4,286
17,243
19,545 4,183
19,943 4,309
874 18 1,971
874 181 1,971
77160 12,672
77160 12,672
22,787) 1,704 22,787 1,704
4,701 80 28,600
4,701 80 28,600
22610 930 22610 930
4,16110 21,770
4,161 10 21,770
89,04916 601,037 242 1,452 89,291 16 602,489
44,884 31,923
44,884 31,923
187,807 73,844
187,807 73,844
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
I6I
14347
7671
,, Refuse
169,057
5051
*
Goat....
4,286
398
Ribbons..............
, Wild......
Mixtures, Fancy ......
Skin Clothing............
Pieces
Skins, Ass.
Piculs
„ Prepared.
Pieces
í Various .........
Soap Seed ......
Soot
Spectacles ............
Steel ..........
Sugar, White..............
Tallow, Animal .......
Vegetable .............,
Timber, Coffin-wood.......... Pieces
» Poles ..........
DOO
...........
! ! ! !


HANKOW.
87
TABLE No. V.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports—Contd.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES,
HONGKONG, AND
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
(including Re-exports).
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity,
Value.
Hk. Its
Hk. Its
H.Its.
3,018
9,998)
5380
4,05503
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Timber, Spars .................
Pieces
Tin-foil........................... Piculs
Tin, Yunnan..............
Tobacco, Leaf ..........
Prepared .........
Turmeric...
Umbrellas, Paper......... Pieces
Varnish .......
Piculs
Vegetables, Dried ...........
Vermicelli..
Walnuts ..........
Wax, White......................
White Nuts ..................
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
::::::::::
352 39
44,960 57
72,68195
507 37
306,607
7,089 86
126 97
7,468 16
11,518 56
5,631 45
4,44292
Hk. Its
3,018
1,7231
5380
81,480 4,407 42
44,960 57
1,242 72,74384
507 37
306,607
2,481) 7,20802
126 97
7,468 16
11,518 56
284,177|| 12,189 32
4,44292
12,188
281,548
972,320
1,344)
30,370
222,2841
1,4641
41,5581
50,7951
273,179
10,4381
21,770
Hk.fts.
9,998
1,723
93,668
281,548
973,562
1,344
30,370
224,765
1,464
41,558
50,795
557,356
10,438
36,972
11816
6,557 87
369
14,833
TOTAL........... Hk. Eta
..... 3,649,534
...... 14,036,426
... 6,138,424
....... 23,824,384
SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
Hk.fts
Hk.fts.
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
Hk. Its
Hk.fts.
To-
Great Britain ............................ 2,678,115
Russia: Odessa, by sea ................ 971,419
Total to Foreign Countries......-
3,250,088
200,960
– 3,451,048
194,483
3,649,534
Ichang .......
9,186
40
2,208
Yangtze Stages ........
Kiukiang .............. ..........
Wuhu .................. .................... 171,663
Chinkiang
Shanghai . .......... .................11,174,371
Ningpo .............
..... 546,502
Total to Chinese Ports ...........
-14,036,426
5,928,203
1,172,379
7,100,582
203,669
40
2,869
175,584
2,132,808
13,662,273
546,559
-16,723,802
...........
661
3,921
352
2,487,902
57
– 2,687,376
...... 2,132,456
GRAND TOTAL.........
....17,685,960
6,138,424
23,824,384


88
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. VI.-
a.~Table showing the Destinations of the various Goods forwarded
DESTINATION.
Grey
Shirtings.
White
Shirtings.
Dyed and
Figured
Shirtings.
T-Cloths.
Drills.
Chintzes.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
97,020
16,785
:
15,118
41,071
9,732
: :
180
:
671
880
150
:
...
:
73,919
162
1,100
150
104,957
100
1,610
8,260
24,625
12,240
7,500
28,720
90
100
430
5,175
1,000
740
250
405
900
1,075
1,340
2,120
1,100
22,170
750
350
30,170
14,480
340
210
2,880
.........
50
武襄漢安駐荆荆德宜長道岳靖澧常辰永賽梆衡河許南開浙重西魏城同遵貴思鎮興西漢乾桂
​1,400
38,967
14,990
1,965
1,358
5,460
250
Wu-ch'ang....
Hsiang-yang ......
Han-yang
An-lu..
HUPEH ......
Yün-yang ...
#
1 944 Ching-chou ........
Ching-mên-chou..
Té-an .............
Ichang .............
Ichang
Ch'ang-sha .......
道州 ​Tao-chou
Yüeh-chou .........
the top of Ching-chou ........
SH Li-chou..........
HUNAN.....
Chºang-tê ..........
Ch'ên-chou ........
Yung-chou ........
Pao-chºing
#HBDH Ch'ên-chou
6 I | Hêng-chou.........
Yo Ho-nan.....
ti HH Hsü-chou .....
Honan ...
5 Nan-yang ......
..........
Hsi-ch'uan-t'ing.
E là | Ch&ung-chºing.....
Yu-yang......
K'uei-chou .........
Ch*êng-tu....
Tung-jên...........
Tsun-i
KWEICHOW..
Kuei-yang .........
Ssů-nan..
đi | Chên-yüan......
* Hsing-an.........
Hsi-an.. ........
SAENSI.......
E F | Han-chung.......
Ch‘ien-chou........
KWANGSI .......
Kuei-lin......
SHANSI ......... m JH P'u-chou ...........
TOTAL QUANTITY..............
TOTAL VALUE ............ Hk. Pts.
405
Ħ
I 20
K'ai-fêng.
24,684
3,935
1,467
100
5,665
1,000
5,439
195
1,192
100
20
1,000
15,890
3,041
13,732
DE JI
28,590
50
50
陽封廳慶陽州都仁義
​ECHWAN...
235,061
100
1,620
205
22,351
350
3,365
3,825
1,550
1,255
936
...
132
530
2,290
90
176
50
100
415
150
100
300
21,969
1,557
4,725
SE JE
ICO
4,863
354
435
130
PG
py
.........
1,900
105
180
9,210
30
677,042
202,282
1,312
51,618
65,881
39,753
1,354,084
424,792
2,952
77,427
197,643
59,629


HANKOW.
TRANSIT TRADE.
under Transit Passes to the Interior during the Year 1886.
Brocades.
Damasks.
Turkey
Red
Cloths.
Velvets
and
Velveteens.
Twills
and
Jeans.
Handker-
Sheetings.
Cottons,
Taffachellas. Unclassed.
Cotton
Yarn.
Cotton
Italians.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Piculs.
Pieces.
10
170
657
3,390
14,185
220
497
10,538
:
100
180
:
540
103
4,511
200
244
500
:
850
250
120
420
1,000
900
440
3,350
150
150
90
1,149
179
: : : : : :
1,848
EN
3,135
1,395
465
200
380
122
2,608
825
30
140
50
1,321
7,231
4,449
90
140
1,245
525
2,010
145
854
30
170
1,195
28
4,362
125
24
294
500
820
710
90
8,761
6,206
3,820
49,115
6,210
3,261
3,718
17,499
1,775
495
26,283
46,545
15,280
147,345
1,863
2,824
74,370
87,495
12


90
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
a.—Table showing the Destinations of the various Goods forwarded
DESTINATION.
Muslins
and
Lawns.
Lustres.
Cotton
Lastings.
Camlets.
Cloth,
Medium,
etc.
Lastings.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
| 90
432
6.794
1,291
| 4IO
3,876
: : :
1,340
1,093
2,867
1,028
1,281
| 20
| Io
| 115
360
。
-
299
199
1,222
.
2,207
昌陽陽陸陽 ​州州安昌沙州州州州德州州慶州州南 ​陽封廳 ​慶陽州都仁義陽南遠安安中州
​Wu-ch ang .
HHsiang-yang
Han-yang....
安 ​陸 ​」 An-lu.
湖北​| HP EH...
Yin-yang .………
荆州 ​Ching-chou.…….
Ching-men-chou.
Te-an..
Ichang.…………….
Chang-sha .…….
Tao-chou
Yueh-chou..…….
Ching-chou ........
灣州​」 | Li-chou . ………
湖南 ​HONAN 常 ​德 ​| Chang-te ...
Chen-chou.…….
Yung-chou
Pao-chºing..
Ch'en-chou .……….
衡州
​Heng-chou.………
| Ho-nan .……….
Hsu-chou..…….
河南 ​HONAN..….
南陽 ​陽​」 Nan-yang
K'ai-fêng
浙川廳
​廳​| Hsi-chruan-tring.
慶​| Chiung-chring….
JL SZECHWAN...
Yu-yang .……………
獎州 ​Kruei-chou.……..
城都 ​Chºang-tu .....
Tung-jen .……….
Tsun-i
貴州​」 KWEICHOW..
Kuei-yang....
Ssa-nan .……
Chen-yuan...
Hsing-an .....
Bate Ppt SAENSI ......
Hsi-an..……..
Han-chung ....
Ch'ien-chou.......
廣西
​KWANGSI..………. te # Kuei-lin.......
山西 ​SHANSI.……. 蒲 ​州 ​| Pin-chou...
ToTAL QUANTITY...……..
TOTAL VALUE....
Hk.fts
724
武襄漢安點荆荆德宜長道岳靖遭常辰永實桃衡河許南開浙重西夔城同遵貴思鎮興西漢乾桂浦
​| 205
5
170
3,385
13.660
| 80
| 30
1,680
407
| 139
ASUUlt;
224
45
470
115
334
164
155
290
12.717
I5,885
5,460 22,404
163,800 | 268,848
435
29,239
57,226
| 187,443 |


HANKOW.
91
under Transit Passes to the Interior during the Year 1886–Continued.
Iron,
Long Ells.
Spanish
Stripes.
Blankets.
Iron Wire.
Lead.
Quicksilver.
Tin.
Sugar,
Brown.
Sugar
Candy.
Sugar,
White.
Nail-rod.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pairs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
|
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
164.64
27.70
Piculs.
37.24
6,530.21
.
.
.
2,195
552
1,322.80
302.20
815.65
1,872.87
; : : : :
33.60
51.80
25.40
1,861
17,805.68
. 12
2,353.30
390.82
790.50
11.52
:
2,104.14
139.65
382.84
318.78
:::::::::::::::::
127.15
:
4.80
43
III.IO
201.60
4.80
: :
138.50
63.90
89.30
443.07
39.84
129.10
365.15
144
330.48
10.40
...
63.63
12.54
: :
932
342.25
394.04
31.57
207.23
30
: : :
798.40
159.60
215.20
26.80
481.91
682.96
21,784.78
1,467.31
556.20
647.81
889.82
175.81
11.60
204.10
3,264.85
1,318.46
180.08
385.07
56.25
920
21
612
157.28
27.30
9.
153
50.40
: : : : : : :
115.20
692.68
44.83
5,204.68
815.67
3,306.88
53.58
1,800.61
200.02
36.80
229.17
10,099
157.28
56.42
5,083
66,079
37
85
2,369.00
2,843
| 1,602.60
4,808
22,867-70
125,772
43,639.55
130,918
3,628.27
25,396
11,167.10
45,785
60,594
5,495
1,130


92
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
a.—Table showing the Destinations of the various Goods forwarded
| DESTINATION.
Cuttle-fish.
Pepper. | Sandalwood. | Sapanwood. | Seaweed.
Aniseed,
Star.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
1,224-28
1,597.10
17453
12.75
177.22
Iang
…
...
1,281.50
4,633.73
36.25
126
193. IO
75.55
497.80
….
435
2.88
4.38
82.63
908.66
2,780.32
8,217.40
181.94
2,256.02
4,116.73
275.58
1,176.04
313.90
372.15
296.30
5.12
Piculs. Piculs. Piculs.
| Wu-ch ang……
Hsiang-yang ...... 357.17
345.62
520.12
Han-yang...
An-lu..……….………
湖北​| HUPER .…. B B Yün-yang..........
荆州 ​| Ching-chou..……..
荆州 ​Ching-men-chou..
Te-an.…….
宜昌 ​Ichang.
長沙 ​Chang-sha..………. 349.96 328.49 3,370.34
道 ​州 ​| Tao-chou ..….
岳州 ​Yieh-chou.………. 7.20
靖州 ​Ching-chou.
23.83
13.50
| Li-chou.…….
43.96
湖南​| HUNAN,
Chang-tes .……… 183.50 565.93
664-35
Chen-chou....
56.67 42.50
Yung-chou …………
63.76 65.14
Pao-chring.………… 23.05
5.90
143.30
柳州 ​Ch'en-chou………
73.60
Heng-hou.…………
295.07 1,521.03
Ho-nan.……
15.04
許 ​州 ​| Hsu-chou ..…………….
河南​| HONAN.……… Bu Nan-yang .......... 125.85
491.02
| Kai-feng.……….. 8. IO
186.45
JULIA Hsi-ch'uan-t'ing... 17.50
慶​| Chiung-chring…… 2,783.30 1,608.57 1,447.20
四川
​Yu-yang.…………… 6.15
SZECHWAN...
Kuei-chou.…..
城都 ​Cheng-tu.……….
27.80 I18.79
同仁 ​Tung-jen..………… 2.60 16.72
Tsun-i..
貴州​| KWEICHOW.3
Kuei-yang……….
32.63
| 10.45
| Ssů-nan ....
Chên-yüan....
8.90
Hsing-an.…………. 146.72 139.90
1327.15
Hsi-an.…………….
SHENSI......
35.10
陝西
​2490
Han-chung.…........ 2.65 142.09 272.60
Ch'ien-choul .……
廣西 ​KWANGSI .……….
Kuei-lin...
143.05
山 ​西 ​| SHANSI .…………. 蒲 ​州 ​| Phi-chou.……………
ToTAL QUANTITY.……….
3,965.26 | 4,087.26 | 10,037.95
TOTAL VALUE..…………………. H. The 33.703 | 81,745 | 45,171 |
武襄漢安點荆荆德宜長道岳靖遭常辰永寶 ​郴衡河許南開浙重酉聰城同遵貴思鎮興西漢乾桂浦
​4.64
327.06
15.30
155.06
6.53
5.713.45
1676.25
125.50
| 2,409.07
2,889.81
191.08
| 267.45
131,820.44
73.47
195.72
151.94
24.92
239.30
5.26
| 20.40
138.09
慶陽州都仁義陽南遠安安中州林
​41.30
1,394.65
| 339.10
I, 187.50
169.97
I, III.35
| 151.06
453.60
144-57
..
212.71
II.
653-59
16,230.50 164,332.42
51,937 | 224,825 |
17,189


HANKOW.
93
under Transit Passes to the Interior during the Year 1886—Continued.
Aniseed,
Broken.
Betel-nuts.
Betel-nut
Husk.
Bicho de
Mar.
Brass
Buttons,
Foreign.
Brass
Buttons,
Native.
Brass-foil.
Brassware.
Braid,
Llama.
Camphor.
Capoor
Cutchery.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Gross.
Piculs.
Piculs.
|
Piculs.
Gross.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Me
60.07
143.66
13.77
0.70
3.72
200
7.50
:::::
3.55
2,063.88
113.35
I0O
47,600
14.63
3.09
900
23.60
79.27
5,420
SSSSSSSSSSS:
::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::
800
24.14
1.20
26,100
65.19
11.52
164.92
353.41
6.50
23.07
2,708.50
630.88
2,300
19.68
35.15
42.78
9.09
67.31
1,700
SSSSSSS
:
:::::::::
21.90
90.84
50.15
3.18
13.60
122.45
:
:
:
:
173.78
808.15
720.23
2,400
20.62
81.66
38.87
83,345
81.70
46.19
| 5,873.48
36,710
738
2,424
18,720
1,680
1,092
2,858
894
31,078
1,880
393


-
-
--
94
-
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
-
--
-
a.—Table showing the Destinations of the various Goods forwarded
| DESTINATION.
Cardamoms, Cardamoms, |
Superior. Inferior.
Cassia
Lignea.
| Cassia Twigs. Cinnamon. | Chinaware.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
l ll
ll lii.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
14.09
166.97
90.08
130.45
16.66
-
-
--
-
--
-
-
-
-
-
-
長沙
​16.17
324.99
200.15
322 10
49.47
--
-
-
-
18.28
-
---
3.40
-
18.91
51.95
6.62
7.43
61.66
-
---
---
………..
18.80
3.20
武 ​昌 ​Wu-ch ang ……………
襄陽 ​Hsiang-yang.......
漢陽 ​Han-yang.
安陸 ​An-lu..
EL HUPEH ..
Yin-yang.…………
Ching-chou .......
荆門州 ​Ching-mên-chou..
Te-an.......
宜 ​昌 ​| Ichang ...
Chang-sha .……….
道州 ​Tao-chou..
岳州 ​Yüeh-chou ......
Ching-chou.……….
i-chou..…
湖南 ​HuNAN.…
| Chang-te.…………
Ch'ên-chou .. …..
Yung-chou,
Pao-chºing......
郴州 ​Chen-chou.…….….
衡州
​| Heng-chou .………
河 ​南 ​「Ho-nan .……
Hsu-chou .……….
河南​「HoNAN..….
Nan-yang.………
Kai-feng. ………….
Hsi-ch'uan-t-ing..
重慶 ​Chʻung-ch‘ing.....
西陽 ​Yu-yang......
JIL SZECHWAN...
夔州 ​K'uei-chou
城都 ​Chêng-tu....
Tung-jen..……….
遵義 ​Tsun-i.
KWEICHOW..
| Kuei-yang..….
Ssů-nan ....
遠 ​Chen-yuan.
Hsing-an.…………
Hsi-an..…….
陕西​| SHENSI ...
漢中 ​Han-chung ........
《乾州 ​Ch'ien-chou.....
KWANGSI...
Kuei-lin.....
山西​:
蒲 ​州 ​| Pu-chou...……….
TOTAL QUANTITY.………….
TOTAL VALUE... …….Hh. 张
​| 1.84
52.41
143.83
221.62
120.39
0.50
2.77
60.57
I17.76
2.88
1,223.21
12.39
17.26
817.68
4,449.20
56.56
::::
38.39
137.13
32.27
24.85
::::
16.24
43 14
37.80
12.06
1.26
:::::
31.29
66.33
SHANSI.……
40.86
|
2,055.55
1,434-98
|
5,449.9
186.74
13.15
820
-
56,526
| 10,403
8,990
17,440
4.855


96
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
a.—Table showing the Destinations of the various Goods forwarded
DESTINATION.
Galangal.
Gambier.
Ginseng,
American,
ist Quality.
ware.
Glass,
Window.
Gold Thread,
Imitation.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Boxes.
Piculs.
41.36
:
5.25
0.70
258
:
:
:
:
:
TE
:
:
: :
:
:
:
:
:
27.72
15.64
75.07
11.97
1,717
:
:
:
:
: :
:
3.75
3.10
:
260
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
T Wu-ch‘ang.........
Hsiang-yang ......
9 Han-yang ........
' An-lu....
HUPES .....
Yün-yang .........
#il M Ching-chou ........
Ching-mên-chou..
Stone
Tê-an ................
Ichang ............
Ch‘ang-sha ........
Tao-chou ......
Yüeh-chou ......
Ching-chou ......
Li-chou..........
Hunan.......
Chºang-tê ..........
Ch'ên-chou....
Yung-chou
Pao-chºing.........
Ch'ên-chou..
Heng-chou ....
Ho-nan ........
+ IN Hsü-chou.
Honan..
Nan-yang .........
Kai-fêng .........
Hsi-ch'uan-t'ing..
Chʻung-ch'ing....
SZECHWAN...
Yu-yang ...........
H K'uei-chou.......
Ch*êng-tu.
Tung-jên ..........
Tsun-i...........
KWEICHOW..
Kuei-yang ....
in Ssă-nan.....
Chên-yuan.
Hsing-an ...........
TL Hsi-an ..........
SHENSI.
Han-chung
Ch‘ien-chou......
KWANGSI....... # Kuei-lin..
IN Pʻu-chou............
TOTAL QUANTITY...............
TOTAL VALUE.....................Hk.fits
武襄漢安駐荆荆德宜長道岳靖澧常辰永寶衡河許南開浙重西藥城同遵貴思鎮興西漢乾桂消
​: :
:
:
W
0.10
:
109.20
65.07
35.70
:
:
570.17
46.92
52.53
14.49
by JM
陽封廳慶陽州都仁義陽
​9.76
IN
2.19
69.85
11.44
BLE DE
1.50
SHANSI.
912.87
101.95
139.80
106.20
2,713
14.49
5,020
918
51,726
1,700
11,123
4,347


HANKOW.
97
under Transit Passes to the Interior during the Year 1886—Continued.
| Horns,
Gum
Olibanum. Rhinoceros.
Isinglass.
Lamps.
Lead,
Yellow.
| Lung-ngan Lung-ngans,
Pulp. Dried.
Lichees.
Lucraban
Seed.
Matches.
Medicines.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Pieces.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Gross.
Piculs.
26.11
1.03
154.94
189.77
47.94
74.05
29.40
4.34
11,725
226.42
i
4.75
525
:
:
:
126.52
3.15
44.88
99.15
31.10
2,005
262.59
:
4.50
:
175
:
475
200
59.95
1.58
38.70
7.24
10.80
3.80
:
25
:
43.84
9.04
:
0.95
75
:
:
1.96
:
1:1:::1:1:1:1:::::81: : : : : : : : : : : :
2,975
6,600
:
0.22
145.38
149.87
:
22.64
31,235
750
372.23
514.76
3.14
73.11
18.93
:
12.68
76.81
189.88
7.18 | 1,579.68
25,856
17.82
337.54
103.77
108.65
48,531
2,003.35
28.40
7.90
37.33
50
61.77
1,175
i
i
0.95
:
725
450
:
:
171.66
40.56
113.77
15.10
4.97
129
24.43
20.88
80.40
14.10
53.85
7,175
725
3,000
86.45
4.22
69.64
:
499.31
14.72
2,267.35
26,361
641.37
204.63
700.34
170.52
118,696
3,685.59
133.17
665
6,996
10,304
40,806
3,565
9,620
2,150
4,550
1,108
41,719
26,152
13


98
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
a.—Table showing the Destinations of the various Goods forwarded
DESTINATION.
Needles.
Nutmegs. Oil, Kerosene. Paint, Green. Peel, Orange.
Prawns,
Dried.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
Mille.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
61,000
26.39
85.09
29.66
Gallons.
49,650
44,300
1,650
7,800
I, I00
157, Boo
1,300
1,000
200
863,150
3,700
16.24
46.47
0.40
.
…..
1.18
23.36
8, 100
8oo
1,300
75,300
69,550
38,700
95,350
32, IOo
26,700
31,350
2,100
IO4,300
75,300
500
Wu-ch‘ang ...
襄陽 ​Hsiang-yang ......
漢陽 ​Han-yang.....
|安 ​陸 ​An-la..
湖北​| HUPER .……. 「耶陽 ​Yin-yang ………
荆州 ​Ching-chou ........
荆門州 ​Ching-mén-chou.
德安
​Te-an.…………
宜昌​| Ichang.………………
長沙 ​Ch'ang-sha..
道州 ​| Tao-chou .… …
岳州 ​Yüeh-chou..
靖州
​Ching-chou.….
潭州 ​Li-chou.…….
湖南​| HUNAN.………. 常德 ​Chang-te .…
辰 ​州 ​| Chen-chou...
永 ​州 ​| Yung-chou.…….
寶慶 ​Pao-ch fing.
郴州
​Ch'ên-chou
Heng-chou..…….
河南
​| Ho-nan.…………
許 ​州 ​| Hsiu-chou .….
河南​「HONAN.………
Nan-yang …………
Kai-feng.
浙川廳 ​HHsi-chiuan-tring
Chʻung-ch‘ing.....
Yu-yang ……………
四川 ​| SZECHWAN...
夔州
​Kuei-chou.………..
Chºang-tu..........
T'ung-jên ...
Tsun-i..….
貴州​| | KWEICHOW..
Kuei-yang ....
Ssi-nan..
Chen-yuan .……….
Hsing-an .....
Hsi-an.….………
SHENSI .....
漢中
​Han-chung.........
乾州 ​Ch'ien-chou..…….
KWANGSI.….
Kuei-lin...…….
山 ​西 ​| SHANSI .…………. 州​| Pu-chou......
ToTAL QUANTITY.…………………………
TOTAL VALUTE.…………………. H. Pa
300
23.07
6, 200
2, 100
5,000
30,950
.
1.60
4.03
1,437.53
6,600
16.52
30.05
141,300
500
3,450
8,250
23,900
41.32
1.24
5, 100
慶陽州都仁義 ​陽南遠安安中
​1,500
21,500
::::::::::::
900
6.54
「陝廣山
​| 200
15,550
2,550
1,000
:::::::::::
200
400
| 174,000
60.84
| 1,838,350
| 1,672.01
| 331.95
103
1,236
18,414
| 193, 160
|
2,440
| II,704
3,984


HANKOW.
99
-
under Transit Passes to the Interior during the Year 1886—Continued.
silke Piece
Putchuck.
Rattans.
Sharks' Fins, Silk Piece
Sharks' Fins.
Prepared. 1 Goods.
|
Tin-foil.
Tin fol.
Vermilion. Woodware.
Sundries,
Unenu-
merated.
VALUE.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Hk. Its
Hk. Pts.
13
17.20
83.43
69.77
41.96
3,038
Hk.Fts
6,298
783,338
217
1,183
4,393
20,853
138
107
21
816,548
73.12
11.52
U1.88
14.70
4,071
: : : : : : : : :
202
683
18.73
1.26
884,295
200
26,944
53,792
105,698
143,434
33,142
168,871
35,473
6,231
321,471
93,698
261
:
1,779,551
35
10.53
9.57
29.25
1.09
0.80
6.54
1,150
1,042
414,263
266.36
60.51
12.6
82.76
109.58
22,862
262,976
53,316
4,238
1,498,965
1,929
7,270
7,699
121,924
40
1,515,863
700
: : : : : :
161,449
I.IO
26,842
1,971
10,012
152,103
19,459
43,715
182
28,364
1.45
1.36
co
215,459
28,364
60
60
423.92
155.46
75.18
161.79
3.83
33.02
73.95
143.12
5,936
1,550
3,760
16,179
2,068
760
2,812
3,580
2.580 L
JU
33,695
4,931,557


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
6.- Native Goods brought from the Interior under Transit Passes during the Year 1886.
Nil.
c.—Table showing the Number of Passes issued for, and the Amount of Duties collected on, Foreign
Goods forwarded to the Interior under Transit Passes, as divided between the various
Nationalities, during the Year 1886.
AMERICAN.
BRITISH.
CHINESE.
TOTAL.
QUARTER.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
Hk. Ftem.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.C.C.
Ist quarter.
2,437
10,056
27,927.2.8.7
9,667.4.3.2
6,669.2.1.2
2nd
6
21
......
7,613
10,707
8,700
Hk.Ftsm.c.c.
18,238.0.2.1
17,356.1.6.3
15,917.6.7.2
20,280.6.7.4
2,351
1,788
13,079
21.8.3.4
76.1.4.8
60.9.9.3
59.1.4.0
13
5,169.9.3.2
5,633.0.0.8
10,501
10,138
24,101.5.2.3
21,148.5.9.7
25,972.8.2.2
1,327
8,800
II
-
TOTAL......
7,903
27,139.5.8.
4
35,820
71,792.5.3.0
. 51
218.1.1.5
43,774
99,150.2.2.9


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TABLE No. VII.-DUES AND DUTIES.
OPIUM DUTIES.
FLAG.
TONNAGE
COAST TRADE
EXPORT DUTIES
| DUTIES
(Balance of
(exclusive of
Deposits
Opium).
included).
IMPORT
DUTIES
(exclusive of
Opium).
Total.
DUES.
Import.
Export.
Hk.ftsm.c.c. Hk.ftsm.c.c. Hk.Item.c.c.
Hk.Itsm.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
*
AMERICAN.
Steamers under River Steamer Pass
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass......
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
65.0.7.5
65.0.7.5
Hk.fts.m.c.c.
25,916.8.5.1
25,916.8.5.
1
893.1.1.9
27,191.4.4.5
316.4.0.0
316.4.0.0
TOTAL..............
8 93.1.1.9*
27,191.4.4.5*
7.5.0.0
15.5.2.5
Lorchas
BRITISH
Steamers under River Steamer Pass
» Chinkiang Pass.....
" .....
TOTAL..............
475.7.1.3 757,821.0.0.8
102.5.7.9 | 522,169.3.1.8
35.2.0.1 11,228.9.5.9
27,415.8.1.5
680.8.0.4
28,096.6.1.9
,
785,735.5.6.1
522,272.0.9.7
12,423.2.6.4
0.2.0.0
478.3.0.0
613.4.9.3 1,291,219.2.8.5
7.5.0.0
15.5.2.5
478.5.0.0
1,320,430.9.2.2
DANISH.
Steamers under River Steamer Pass
GERMAN.
Steamers under River Steamer Pass
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass ......
26.0.0.0
2538.90
4,527.4.7.5
103.0.0.0
253.8.9.0
253.8.9.0*
4,910.3.6.5
4,910.3.6.5*
TOTAL.
26.0.0.0
4,527.4.7.5
103.0.0.0
RUSSIAN.'
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass.....!
14.4.0.6
102,229.6.2.5
102,244.0.3.1
SPANISH.
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass......
59.9.9.6
8,246.4.4.9
37.5.9.9
157.7.0.0
8,501.7.4.4
TOTAL FOREIGN .........
778.9.7.0
1,432,139.6.8.5
29,281.2.2.7*
7.5.0.0
15.5.2.5 | 1,055.6.0.0 1,463,278.5.0.7*
21.6.0.0
CHINESE.
Steamers under River Steamer Pass
Lorchas
2 » Chinkiang Pass.....
Junks undeř Special Junk Pass.....
TOTAL CHINESE............
12.3.7.6
123.3.6.5
353,640.0.0.4 | 15,674.0.8.2
12.0.0.0
71,459.7.5.6 4,400.4.4.4
16,482.0.0.3
441,593.7.6.3 20,074.5.2.6
1,367.5.0.0
369,348.0.6.2
12.0.0.0
77,351.0.6.5
16,482.0.0.3
135.7.4.1
21.6.0.0
1,367.5.0.0
463,193.1.3.0
GRAND TOTAL......
914.7.1.1 1,873,733.4.4.8
49:355.7.5.3*
7.5.0.0
37.1.2.5
2,423. 1.0.0
1,926,471.6.3.7*|
Transit Dues on Foreign Goods sent to the Interior. .............. Hk.fts 99,150.2.2.9
„ „ „ Native Goods brought from the Interior .........
TOTAL TRANSIT DUES .........
.............Hk. Pts.
99,150.2.2.9
Total REVENUE for the year 1886.......
........ Hk.fts 2,025,621.8.6.6*
Less Deficit, explained in footnote ....
............ »
7,447-3.9.3*
NET TOTAL REVENUE ............
............ Hk.Fts 12.018.174
2,018, 174.4.7.34
+ No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total ....
........H.fts Nil.
Note.-Amount of Half Duties deposited on goods leaving the port in River 119
Steamers of all Flags, Native and Foreign, during the year 1886)
Amount of all Drawbacks issued to merchants during the year 1886...... 103,796.3.4.6
Balance.......
........Ak.Ats. 35,642.5.0.4
* During the year the refunds of Coast Trade Duty Deposits by Steamers under River Steamer Pass exceeded the receipts, in the case of American vessels by
Hk. Tt: 7,445.8.6.7, of Danish vessels by Ak.The 1.2.4.7, and of German vessels by Hk. Its 0.2.7.9. These amounts have not been deducted from the total receipts
under the respective Flags; but the Total Deficit, Hk. TT& 7,447.3.9.3, has been deducted from the Total Revenue collected during the year, viz., Hk.fta 2,025,621.8.6.6,
leaving a Net Total Revenue of Hk. Tha 2,018,174.4.7. 3.


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-TREASURE.
Treasure and Copper Cash Imported and Exported during the Year 1886.
reasure
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
Port.
COPPER CASH.
SYCEE.
GOLD BARS. ||
TOTAL.
COPPER CASH.
SYCEE.
GOLD BARS.
Total.
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts.
4,900
74,520
Hk. Its
6,130,000
Hk.Its
6,134,900
74,520
Hk.Tts
76,560
105,900
Hk. Its
124,477
18,410
Hk. Its
7,998
830
Shanghai ...........
Chinkiang.........
Wuhu.............
Kiukiang..........
Yangtze Stages.
Ichang .........
Hk. Its
209,035
124,310
830
1,972,200
1,044
34,720
120
I20
1,972,200
1,044
34,720
3,960
3,960
TOTAL.....
83,500
6,130,000
6,213,500
183,290
2,150,851
7,998
2,342,139
TABLE No. 2.-OPIUM.
Gross and Net Importation of Opium during the Year 1886.
OSS
GROSS IMPORT.
RE-EXPORT.
NET IMPORT.
DESCRIPTION.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity
Value.
Hk.Fts
Hk. Its
Piculs.
1,210.52
198.17
Piculs.
60.25
8.40
.
Hk.Fts
27,272
4,025
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Malwa.
Patna.............
Persian ..............
.
.
548,425
95,572
.
Piculs.
1,150.27
189.77
2
521,153
91,547
890
2
890
TOTAL....
1,410.69
644,887
68.65
31,297
1,342.04
613,590


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103
TABLE No. 3.-TEA.
Tea Exported and Re-exported during the Year 1886.
HANKow ΤΕΑ.
KIUKIANG TEA.
| Wuhu TEA.
TEA, SUNDRY.
TOTAL.
DESTINATION.
Quantity.'
Value.
Quantity.
Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. | Value.
To FOREIGN COUNTRIES : Piculs. | Hk.Fts | Piculs. Hk.fts | Piculs. Hk.Fts. Piculs. Hk.Fts Piculs. Hk.Tts
Great Britain .............. 184,566.92 2,670,500 109,969.48 3,202,388 624.07 15,780 1,430.57 29,405) 296,591.04 5,918,073
Odessa ........................... 65,010.34 971,250 6,731.16 200,510
71,741.50 1,171,760
TOTAL.............. 249,577.26 3,641,750 116,700.64 3,402,898 624.07 15,780 1,430.57 29,405 | 368,332.54 7,089,833
To CHINESE Ports :-
Shanghai.
280,091.45| 3,238,386 28,112.53 741,334 205.01 4,535 2.90 40308,411.89 3,984,295
Kiukiang.............
0.47
10
55
... ... ...
2.74 65
TOTAL............. 280,091.92 3,238,396 28,114.80 741,389 205.01 4,535 2.90 40 308,414.63 3,984,360
GRAND TOTAL ............ 529,669.18 0,880,146 144,815.44 4,144,287 829.08 20,315 1,433.47 29,445 676,747.17 11,074,193
84
........
2.27
Brick TEA, BLACK
BRICK TEA, GREEN.
TOTAL.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
To CHINESE PORTS:-
Shanghai ........
Piculs.
204,206.29
Hk.Fts
710,140
Piculs.
14,077.77
Hk. Its
50,366
Piculs.
218,284.06
Hk.Tts
760,506
865.95 piculs of Log Tea, value Hk. Ta 5,000, were also exported to Chinese ports during the year.
TABLE No. 4.-IMPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the Net Import Trade, for the Years 1883 to 1886.
Classifier
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Quantity.
Pieces
O
P
.
.
COTTON Goods :-
Shirtings, Grey.....
White..........
T-Cloths...
Drills.............
Sheetings .............
Chintzes .............
Brocades ........................
Damasks ...
Velvets and Velveteens......
WOOLLEN Goods :-
Lustres................
Camlets ..................
Cloth, Medium, etc. ................
Lastings..............
Long Ells ..........
Spanish Stripes ..........
1,162,294
426,897
128,428
97,425
91,742
45,887
8,277
1,846
13,912
1,053,237
449,719
153,743
81,503
96,569
48,761
6,518
600
11,634
1,321,209
539,957
172,728
102,897
103,151
54,314
3,376
960
18,235
1,157,171
574,820
140,574
108,155
125,807
85,295
8,170
290
18,928
Pieces
37,742
49,155
11,668
36,910
37,792
11,235
30,531
53,731
7,795
40,176
35,379
10,978
20,289
49,785
10,883
42,422
37,096
10,349
16,305
53,866
14,277
49,520
30,283
10,761


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
Comparative Table of the Net Import Trade-Conti.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1883.
1884.
1885.
Piculs
28,270.23
34,345.59
3,238.64
967.14
26,754.26
33,463.89
3,876.99
818.96
40,090.84
28,563.35
3,505.49
490.36
37,115.36
41,650.04
5,126.89
605.75
Piculs
2,781.18
678.52
3,413.82
458.44
9.03
2,111.34
302.41
1,150.27
189.77
25
Piculs
METALS:-
Iron, Nail-rod
Lead .........
Tin, Foreign ..........
Quicksilver ............
OPIUM :-
Malwa ..........................................
Patna and Benares........
Persian ..........
SUNDRIES :-
Cotton, Raw .....................
Cuttle-fish..............
Matches......................
Medicines....................
Oil, Kerosene...
Pepper..
Sandalwood.....
Sapanwood......
Seaweed ......
Silk Piece Goods..
Sugar, Brown
, White..
Tea (imported) ...........
Gross
Piculs
Gallons
Piculs
141,720.40
22,184.55
267,099
41,098.49
1,322,771
13,737.62
16,436.20
28,847.74
108,786.19
1,515.48
201,968.36
139,886.89
262.82
72,953.35
22,017.45
233,392
44,257.30
2,736,910
14,119.74
18,589.49
22,943.64
85,341.94
1,623.76
343,037.89
190,925.11
384.71
106,910.89
21,139.83
348,709
40,524.70
4,156,346
13,598.05
21,693.40
23,440.30
104,753.32
1,538.51
335,055
215,505.01
477.01
45,138.36
25,741.63
325,677
49,633.44
3,715,810
11,724.61
19,798.73
23,761.97
120,389.30
1,407.20
221,278.75
149,196.67
1,143.57
TABLE No. 5.-EXPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the Export Trade, for the Years 1883 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Picuis
Dye-stuff ...........
.......
Fungus .........
Gypsum ..
Hemp...................................................
Hides, Cow .....................................
Lilies, Dried ...........
Medicines....
Musk .........
Nankeens..
Nutgalls.
Oil, Wood...
Opium, Szechwan..........
Paper ............................................
Rhubarb ................................................
Safflower ...........
Silk, Szechwan, Yellow ....
Steel .........................
Tallow, Vegetable ................................
Tea, Black........
„ Kiukiang, re-exported. .........
„ „ Wuhu, re-exported ...
,, Sundry, re-exported
Brick, Black ............
» , Green ...........
Tobacco ........................***
Varnish ....................................
Wax, White ...........
8,560.60
16,232.44
106,409.50
90,336.37
54,116.59
8,112.90
91,465.37
29.05
3,01 5.29
33,984.69
196,875.67
212.35
14,009.91
3,231.28
1,900.05
3,888.72
3,837.49
54,480.28
480,663.26
132,359.31
722.61
235.11
141,570.80
15,821.78
99,334.03
7,267.98
10,848.67
7,953.97
16,663.36
119,785.60
89,195.93
65,149.34
14,187.26
115,572.54
23.57
3,425.27
43,855.91
226,706.07
52.93
14,240.50
5,061.56
1,262
5,386.06
4,412.12
72,836.60
492,636.97
139, 134.06
564.48
2.50
152,979.61
9,313.18
117,330.67
6,261.91
8,333.45
11,037.34
22,412.51
175,094.45
99,540.88
69,310.39
8,233.23
133,566.66
27.32
3,925.44
26,509.27
216,152.17
47.94
15,496.21
7,942.86
2,267.93
5,444.79
4,160.70
77,273.07
471,813.86
150,716.98
351.53
61.58
167,479.20
14,511.49
140,459.92
7,298.63
14,688.84
14,704.46
24,305.58
179,594
90,203.05
62,064.30
2,945.44
122,647.47
25.42
4,093.32
23,399.89
263,280.30
1.30
11,502.56
8,132.22
956.17
7,103.58
4,701.80
89,291.16
529,669.18
144,815.44
829.08
1,433.47
204,206.29
14,077.77
117,704.41
7,208.02
12,189.32


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105
YANGTZE STAGES.
alues
a.—Table showing the Quantities and Values of the Goods imported into the
“Yangtze Stages” during the Year 1886.
Grey
White
STAGE.
Shirtings.
Shirtings.
Dates, Red.
Sheep-skin
Coats.
Sundries.
Total VALUE.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Piculs.
Pieces.
Hk.Tts
Hk.fts
Ta-t'ung ...
2,305
4,953
2,593
4,953
An-k'ing .......
Wu-süeh...
40
Lu-k'i-k'ow ..........
...
Sha-shih ...........
TOTAL VALUE...............Hk. Pts.
268
- 40
7,258
7,586
b.—Table showing the Value of the Imports into the “ Yangtze Stages,” and the
Ports whence imported.
PORTS.
TA-T'UNG.
AN-KʻING.
Wu-SÜEH.
LU-K'l-K'ow.
SHA-SHIH.
TOTAL.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts
Hk.Tts
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts
Hk.fts
4,953
Shanghai..
Wuhu ........
...
2,576
17
4,953
2,576
An-k'ing ...............
Hankow .........
TOTAL.......................
.
.. 3.593
4953 40
2,593
4,953
7,586
11


106
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
C.—Likin Dues collected.
STAGE.
IST QUARTER.
2ND QUARTER.
3RD QUARTER.
4TH QUARTER.
TOTAL.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.item.c.c.
Hk.fism.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.C.C.
8.9.8.7
17.0.3.6
20.5.9.5
13.9.5.4
57.6.3.2
60.5.7.2
181.9.9.0
18.4.3.4
59.9.6.8
45.9.5.6
Ta-t'ung
An-k'ing ........
Wu-süeh
Lu-k‘i-k‘ow
Sha-shih ..........
363.7.8.8
51.4.0.0
00012
415.1.8.8
TOTAL.........
27.4.2.I
122.9.8.6
440.7.9.2
66.5.5.1
657.7.5.0
d.—Table showing the Quantities and Values of the Goods exported from the
“ Yangtze Stages” during the Year 1886.
STAGE.
Rhea Tibre.
TOTAL VALUE.
Piculs.
Hk.Fis
Wu-süeh (to Hankow)...
.
8,948
.
.
2,105.59
.


KIUKIANG.
107
KIUKIANG TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
To the question whether the trade of Kiukiang for 1886 exhibits favourable figures as
compared with recent years, the response is affirmative. As will be seen from the particulars
which follow, the Black Tea export for the season surpasses the preceding one (i.e., 1885) by
16,000 piculs; the manufacture and export of Brick Tea has been much extended; the impor-
tation of Opium was greater than usual; and the duty collection is the largest since the opening
of the port. In spite, however, of these favourable features, the year, from a commercial point
of view, has been a bad one; this is especially true of the Tea trade, where losses throughout
have been unprecedentedly heavy and profits conspicuous by their absence.
The total value of our trade amounted to Hk.its. 11,460,880. Taking the tael to be worth
58., we find this sum to be the equivalent of £2,865,220. The Imports, Foreign and Native, were
valued at Hk.fts. 3,876,538, and the Exports at Hk.Tts. 7,584,342. In the year 1885, Imports
came to Hk.Tts. 3,597,714, and Exports to Hk.Tts. 6,524,350. There was therefore an increase in
the year of Hk.Tts. 1,338,816, or rather more than 12 per cent. of the value of the trade.
FOREIGN IMPORTS.—The value of the Foreign Import trade was Hk.Tts. 3,026,252, showing
an increase of nearly half a million taels over 1885. The immediate cause of this gain is
found in the increased import of Opium and Cotton Yarn. The importation of Yarn, which
has been steadily increasing during the past five years, made a still more important advance
in the year under review. The greatest demand for it comes from Nan-an-fu, where two-thirds
of the year's import (which amounted to 14,890 piculs) was conveyed under Transit pass.
There it is woven into Cloth, most of which finds its way into Kwangtung and the southern
portions of this province. The import of Opium, the chief constituent of our Foreign Import
trade, has risen since 1882 from 1,662 chests to 2,504 chests. There was a steady demand
throughout the year, and the importation which took place was the largest since 1874. The
trade has been on the whole satisfactory, and not marked by any violent fluctuations in prices.
The import was almost exclusively composed of Malwa.
Cotton Goods.-Generally speaking, the Piece Goods trade for the year is said to have
been fairly remunerative. While the quantity of Grey Shirtings imported fell short by 36,000
pieces, on a total import of 192,000 pieces, of that imported during 1885, it yet amounted
to 17,000 pieces more than the quantity which reached here in 1884. In T-Cloths there
was a decrease of 8,000 pieces; the importation of this description of goods has been slowly
but steadily falling off for the past five years. Sheetings, which last year gave signs of an
improving trade, have again advanced, 22,785 pieces forming the twelvemonth's import, as
against 16,813 pieces the previous year. The major portion of these goods were of English
production, which, owing to their greatly improved quality, now meet with a satisfactory
reception. Turkey Red Cloths are gradually rising in the estimation of consumers, not only
on account of the low cost at which they can be purchased, but also by reason of the lasting
qualities of their dye and their durability.


RS 1885 AND 1886.

SCALE,
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
TO OF AN INCH
TO
A Foot
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BUND.
TIT
1956
1885.
1956
A
1885.
Rainfall, 1885....
» 1886....
2.24 inches.
0.74
0.71 inches.
1.57 inches.
2.85 inches.
9.22
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To the Native Tea hongs also the season is reported to have been one of the worst on
record; losses of 10 to 15 per cent. were general, and in the case of fine Teas as much as 30
per cent. is said to have been lost.
Regarding the future, Foreign means and credit have suffered too severe a shock to
recover with sufficient elasticity from the effects of last year's business not to be felt during
the approaching season, and the losses of the Native Tea hongs will strongly assist and confirm
that effect. Thus, anticipating that prices will rule largely below those current here for many
years past, in consequence of an absence of demand for those descriptions of fine Teas for
which this province is noted, the production is likely to be restricted, and the tendency will
be to render the 1887 trade less profitable to the country.
The total export of Green Tea amounted to 45,580 piculs. These figures give a decrease,
compared with 1885, of nearly 5,000 piculs. For this branch of the trade the year has been
a period of caution; if there have been no gains, still a healthier tone has prevailed, and the
heavy losses of the past five years have happily found no repetition. A comparatively small
export took place for the first nine months of the year; subsequently, however, when an
improved demand set in at Shanghai, shipments were on a larger scale, and the export assumed
its average dimensions.
TRANSIT TRADE.—The growth of trade with the interior by means of Transit passes has
been maintained. The value of the goods carried inwards reached Hk.Fts 1,122,687, or nearly
Hk.Fts. 200,000 more than what it was in 1885. The pass system continues to work smoothly,
and no complaints have reached this office during the entire twelvemonth.
REVENUE.—The collection was the largest on record, viz., Hk.Tts. 835,979. Kiukiang
has for some time past taken the fifth place amongst the ports as a Revenue collector, the
ports standing higher being Shanghai, Hankow, Foochow, and Canton.
C. LENOX SIMPSON,
Commissioner of Customs.
KIUKJANG, 15th February 1887.


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
KIUKIANG TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo. ' In Ballast.
Total.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
Total.
| Tons.
No.
Tons. | No. | Tons. (No.||
Tons. No.
Tons. | No.
Tons.
|| No.
Tons.
28
, Up River... 264
BRITISH ....
| Down , ... 48 54,290 215211,183|
, Up River... 100 127,781 I
CHINESE ..
“ | Down „ ...
19,034 88
340
24V
75,727 200 191,748
263 265,473 239 245,683 24 17,254
101 128,121 32,716 79 97,837
103 129,951 99 126,291 2,170
736 | 788,484|431 480,417 306 309,009
269 267,475 | 532,414
263 262,937 526 528,410
103 130,553
258,674
102 128,461 205 258,412
737 | 789,426 1,473 1,577,910
Total Steamers ...........
SAILING VESSELS.
309
BRITISH ...
Up River... ...
Down „ .... |
AMERICAN..
Up River...
3,466
Down ,, ...
...
, Up River...
1
370
GERMAN....
Down , ... "
1,674
Up River...
SPANISH...
*** | Down „ ...
Up River... 49
CHINESE ... ]
SE | Down ,, ...
Junks under Special U
Junk Pass............ I
19,582
56
1,278 ...
1,278 |
56
1,278
12,299
Total Sailing Vessels... 63 12,051 1,131
GRAND TOTAL. ..... 490 474,137 | 311 327,529
65 13,182 56 1,278 64
801 801,666 487 481,695 | 370
120 13,577 185 26,759
857 | 803,003 || 1,658 1,604,669
321,308


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TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF KIUKIANG,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.fts.
Hk.The
Hk. Ats
Hk.Pia
Hk. Its
Hk
. Filter
FOREIGN GOODS.
211
Imported from Foreign countries and Hongkong.......!
Imported from Chinese Ports...
Total Foreign Imports............
2,348
3,029,863
2,084,936
2,531,674
2,085,147
2,531,674
3,032,211
Re-exported to Foreign countries and Hongkong....
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Shang-
hai and Hankow)
6,342
3,200
5,959
Total Foreign Re-exports .............
6,342
3,200
5,959
Net Total Foreign Imports .........
2,078,805
2,528,474
3,026,252
776,895
1,069,925
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
855,121
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Shanghai) .......
Re-exported to Foreign countries .......................
Re-exported to Chinese Ports.................
Total Native Re-exports .......
2,875
685
4,835
2,875
685
4,835
Net Total Native Imports.
774,020
1,069,240
850,286
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign Countries .....
232,119
6,351,800
6,524,350
7,352,223
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports ..
Total Exports of local origin....
6,351,800
6,524,350
7,584,342
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port...........
9,213,842
10,125,949
11,471,674
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native |
Exports of local origin ......
9,204,625
10,122,064
11,460,880


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.— Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
FROM
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
HONGKONG
TO
AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
HK.Tts
Hk. Its
OPIUM :
Malwa
Patna...............
Persian ...............
..... Piculs
Hk. Pts.
2,476 11 1,219,798
16 801 7,434
4,705
9091
4,454
Hk.fts
2,467 02 1,215,344
1680 7,434
3,845
II
860
120
210
COTTON GOODS :-
Shirtings, Grey................. Pieces
White................
Dyed,Figured, etc.
T-cloths....
Chintzes and Cottonades.....
Drills, English, Dutch, and
American ................. S
Sheetings, American ......
2 English..
Jeans and Twills .............
Turkey Reds
Velvets and Velveteens...
Lastings, Cotton..........
Muslins ........
Handkerchiefs ....... Dozens
Cotton Yarn.
Piculs
Umbrellas ....................... Pieces
192,046
35,005
4,245
55,533
5,143
3,425
17,995
4,790
881
6,894
2,738
1,434
826
25,495)
14,88960
13,566
302,214
70,435
11,245
71,432
6,679
6,340
42,840
10,882
9,654
16,026
5,961
826
192,046 302,214
35,005 70,435
4,245 11,245
55,533 71,432
5,143 6,679
3,305
6,130
17,995
42,840
10,882
1,370
6,894
9,654
2,738
16,026
1,434
5,961
826
826
25,495 10,031
14,88960306,912
13,566
4,815
1,370
10,031
306,912
4,815
WOOLLEN Goods :-
Camlets, English and Dutch Pieces
Cloth, Broad, Medium, etc..
Lastings, Plain and Crape...
Long Ells.......
Lustres, Crape, Figured &?
Plain.........................
Spanish Stripes .....
Blankets, Quilts, etc..........
Braid, Llama .............
Gross
108,236
32,085
51,118
57,560
11,622
1,502
6,302
10,520
2,246
5,234
1,816
22,1051
108,236
32,085
51,118
57,560
6,975
57,610
1,489
8,694
11,622
1,502
6,302
10,520
2,246
5,234
1,816
21,905
6,975
57,610
1,489
8,614
200
METALS:
Iron, Nail-rod and Bar....... Piculs
, Wire.....
Old........
Lead, in Pigs...
Tin, in Slabs.......
Tinplates....
Steel..........
6,252 31
839 60
2,06191
19,527 48
3,654 33
22517
226
16,896
3,643
2,351
81,805
76,745
862
904
6,252 31
839 60
2,06191
19,527 48
3,654 33
16,896
3,643
2,351
81,805
76,745
862
904
225171
226
41
SUNDRIES:
Aniseed, Star........
Piculs
Betel-nuts.....
Bicho de Mar, Black & White
Birds' Nests, all kinds........
Buttons, Brass.................... Gross
Cardamoms, Superior and Piculs
Inferior ...........
Clocks ..............
Pieces
Tons
Cuttle-fish ..........
Piculs
Dyes ...........
Bottles
116 42
26474
395 46
631
3,400
211 39
567
97442
84,200
1,142
1,205
13,729
7,410
1,072
3,375
1,054
116 42
26474
394 37
631
3,400
21139
1,142
1,205
13,688
7,410
1,072
3,375
1,054
2,348
6,007
10,032
5671
Coal...
4701
470
97442
6,007
10,045
IOO
84,100


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TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.— Imports and Re-exports-Contà.
IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE Ports. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. / Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
| Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts
Hk.Fts
Hk.fts
17
Hk.fts.
647
1,135
22,553
2,806
8,217
2,073
14,967
1,337
49,952
1,566
45,377
1,255
1,002
:
: : :
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Fans, Palm-leaf, Trimmed... Pieces
, Untrimmed ,
Ginseng, American, Clarified Piculs
Mangrove Bark ................ .
Matches.......................... Gross
Medicines......................... Piculs
Mushrooms ...........
Needles
Mülle
Oil, Kerosene.............
Galls
Paper, ist Quality ......
Piculs
Pepper, Black .......
Putchuck...
Raisins ..........
Rattans, Split ........
Sandalwood.............
Sapanwood .................
Seaweed, Cut and Long....
Sharks' Fins, Black & White
,, Prepared.........
Shell-fish ..............
Shrimps and Prawns, Dried
Skins, Fish....
Sugar, Brown
, White ...................
Vermilion ........................."
Window Glass .................. Boxes
Sundries, Unenumerated.....Value
TOTAL................
Hk. Its)....
71,850
189,180
7839
2,072 52
23,959
2011
45767
11,365
470,190
168 10
2,90387
12333
12338
257 59
4,325881
1,309 79
53,75374
753
12333
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
:::::::::::::::::::::
1,669
Hk. Its
71,850 647
189,180 1,135
7839 22,553
2,072 52 2,806
23,909 8,200
2011 2,073
45767 14,967
11,365 1,337
470,170 49,949
16810 1,566
2,903871 45,377
1,255
12338 1,002
25759 1,669
4,32588
27,307
1,309 791 4,055
53,74301 122,775
753
555
2097 2,109
403 29
5,301
320 251 4,829
1,194
1,975.91 6,861
82370 4,549
1,578
2,101 6,605
25,697
:::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::
72
26/
27,307
4,055
122,798
555
2,210
5,301
4,844
1,194
6,861
4,691
1,578
6,605
25,697
IOI
8504|
40329
32125
8504)
1,97 591
849'10
24.80
2,101
W0....
• 142
2540
2,348
3,029,863
5,959
3,026,252
SUMMARY.
2,348
3,029,863
-Hk. Its
3,032,211
IMPORTs from Japan...
......... Hk.fts 2,348
Total from Foreign countries ......... —
Hk.fts
Imports from Chinese Ports...........
..........,
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS........... ..............-
RE-EXPORTS to Hankow........................................Hk.fts. 23
„Wuhu .............................................'
2,450
„ „ Chinkiang .....
» Chinkiang .................................... 3
1,024
„ „, Shanghai .....
2,462
Total to Chinese Ports.............
Hk.fts
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS ...
5,959
-Hk.fts.
5,959
Net TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS ...
U
N
IO
.........................................
...Hk.fts
3,026,252
15


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports.
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts
Hi.Tts
Hk.Tts
s and Twigstrings
255 62
..
148,535
::
Hk.fts
1,490
1,129
27,570
163,936
148,535
2,754
5,215
1,211
1,330
2,160
4,262
854 34
Birds' Nests..
....... Piculs
Cassia Lignea, Buds and Twigs ,
Copper Cash .....
Cotton, Raw ...................... Piculs
Cuttle-fish.
Dates, Black ............
, Red..
Fish, Dried and Salt ...
Jadestoneware .........
Lead, White ....
Yellow..
Lichees, Dried ................
Lily Flowers .........
Lung-ngans, Dried and Pulp...
Medicines,
Nankeens
Paper, ist and 2nd Quality ...
Peel, Orange and Pumelo....
Samshu .........
Sea Blubber...
Shoes
Silk Piece Goods.............
„ Pongees .............
,, Ribbons....
Sugar, Brown
6,342
Hk.Fts.
1651 1,490
1,129
53,8001 27,570
21,92411 163,936
22,78805
68267 2,754
1,696 5,215
420 55 1,211
2,281 1,330
280 37 2,160
602 89
4,262
6,342
200 1,100
1,47527 9,483
79065 4,386
1,18348 47,342
14996 1,283
529 53 5,492
3,807
1,583
3,652 1,459
5514 27,570
6158 1,974
2237 10,609
22,99912 79,343
2,475 18,006
44,65645 246,368
165
255 62
53,800
21,924111
22,78805
68267
1,696
420 55
2,281
280 37
602 89
85434
1,47017
79065
1,167191
149 15
52953
951 58
53527
· 200
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
::::::::::::::::::::::
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
95158
539 82
::::
1,100
9,450
4,386
46,690
1,276
5,492
3,807
1,570
1,459
27,550
1,974
10,609
79,160
18,006
246,368
3,652
5510
6 58
22 37
22,946 72
2,475
44,656 45
Candy...
White ...........
:::::
"
18648
Tea, Black.................
, Leaf................
Tobacco, Prepared ..........
Vermilion......
Sundries, Unenumerated........ Value
186.48
87 33
15.751
3,730
1,553
992
23,107
::::::
::::
8423
3,730
1,486
992
23,004
15751
854,043
TOTAL............... Hk. Ats ................ 855,121 |..........
....... 4,835
Excess of Re-export above Import of Black Tea during the year.
NET TOTAL....
.Hk. Fte
3,757
850,286
Hk. Pts
SUMMARY
IMPORTS from Hankow .....................
..............Hk.fts
3,136
» » Wuhu .....................
27,322
, Chinkiang.....................
27,013
, Shanghai ...............
729,556
Ningpo ............
68,094
Total from Chinese Ports .......
-Ak.Fts.
TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS
RE-EXPORTS to Hankow...
.............. Hk.fts. - 3,894
» » Shanghai .........
...................... 2
941
Total to Chinese Ports .........
Hk. Tts.
Total NATIVE RE-EXPORTS .................... -
855,121
Hk.fts
855,121
4,835
-Hk. Site
4,835
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS.....
.Hk. Pts
850,286


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TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.

EXPORTS
TO
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
Hk. Pts.
230,656
Piculs
9,56379
14179
TEA, Black....
Brick ..
Dust............
Green .........
Leaf ............
Hk. Pts.
209,39115 4,905,206
34,79268 311,494
7,036 97 52,758
45,579 79 796,956
394 48 6,312
H .fts.
Hl.fts.
3,757 | 219,096 73 5,139,619
34,792 68 311,494
7,231 56 54,216
45,579 79 796,956
394 48 6,312
194 59
:::::
1,458
065
SUNDRIES:
Bamboo Shoots.... ........ Piculs
Beans, Fresh....
China-root..........
Chinaware, Coarse.
, Fine ............
Chestnuts....
Grasscloth, Coarse
» Fine
Hemp ..................
Hides...........
Indigo, Liquid.
Lotus-nuts....
Mats, Bamboo........... Pieces
Medicines......
Piculs
Melon Seeds ...
Paper, ist Quality..
, 2nd ,
Tallow, Vegetable.
Tobacco, Leaf ........
» Prepared............
Stalk .......
Sundries, Unenumerated..... V
:::::::::::::::::::::
58546
84496
4,69628
13,148 23
7,536 62
60950
4,02555
918 16
23,696 01
20561
2,532 52
246 44
99,906
45493
44693
25,530 75
103,106 56
5,766 45
46,565 11
96738
1,697 17
6,858
1,057
33,422
46,019
52,754
1,098
140,413
47,881
188,220
1,520
8,029
3,369
22,242
1,588
2,402
192,776
309,320
38,716
161,739
13,580
2,555
3,939
58546
844 96
4,696 28
13,148 23
7,537 27
609 50
4,025 55
91816
23,696 01
20561
2,532 52
246 44
99,906
45493
446 93
25,531 56
103,106 56
5,766 45
46,56511
97048
1,697 17
6,858
1,057
33,422
46,019
52,759
1,098
140,413
47,881
188,220
1,520
8,029
3,369
22,242
1,588
2,402
192,783
309,320
38,716
161,739
13,647
2,555
4,943
1,004
TOTAL..............
Hk.fts
232,119
7,352,223
4,835
7,589,177
SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
Total EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
Hk. Its
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
Hk.Tts
Hk.fts.
232,119
232,119
232,119
To—
Hk.fts
Great Britain......
232,119
Total to Foreign countries ......-
Hankow........
...................... 3,782,383
Wuhu ......................................... 45,364
Chinkiang ................................ 307,750
Shanghai .......... .............. 3,216,726
Total to Chinese Ports ...........
3,894
3,786,277
45,364
307,750
3,217,667
941
7,352,223
4,835
7,357,058
GRAND TOTAL........
7,584,342
4,835
7,589,177


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TRANSIT TRADE.
under Transit Passes to the Interior during the Year 1886.
Sheetings,
English
Sheetings, Turkey Red
| American. | Cloths.
Velvets
and
Velveteens.
Lastings, i Muslins.
Cotton.
Cotton Yarn.
chiefs.
Camlets,
English and
Dutch.
Umbrellas.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Dozens.
Piculs.
Pieces.
Pieces.
1,140
1,755
80
400
1,000
350
1,610
:
***
:
:
:
:
150
610
:
132
120
:
9,270
:
330
174
400
804
510
:
840
908
7,840
3,429.83
5,185
4,180
100
IOO
60
190
540
200
90
3,050
14,040
1,688
1,080
1,400
9,850
| 14,475.83
5,725
7,546
6,951
33,410
7,925
9,870
4,245
1,510
4,078
295,532
1,840
70,368


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
Table showing the Destinations of the various Goods forwarded
DESTINATION.
Cloth, Broad,
Medium,
and Union.
Lastings,
Lustres,
Plain and | Long Ells. | Figured and |
Crape.
Plain.
Spanish
Llama Braid.
Stripes.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Gross.
148
| 240
1, 200
700
1,100
江西​| KIANGSI.
Kuang-hsin........
14 Jao-chou .........
Nan-krang.…………
Fu-chou....
建 ​昌 ​Chien-bh ang.….
瑞 ​州 ​| Jui-chou..….….….
袁州 ​Yian-chou.……….
Kan-chou.……….
| Nan-an.……………
吉安 ​Chi-an.………
南昌 ​Nan-ch ang.……….
| Lin-chiang.…………
廣饒 ​南城建瑞袁蘋南 ​吉南 ​臨
​信州 ​康州昌州州州安安昌江
​-
108
1,400
220
1,000
42
920
1,600
568
4500
12,875
12
220
600
安
​慶
​安
​徽
​| ANHYPE.…….
| An-ching.…………
Hui-chou.………..
HUPEH .....
安報​、武黄建汀
​慶州昌州
​Wu-chang .……
Huang-chou .......
S
福建
​UKIEN.
Chien-ning........
| Ting-chou..………
汀州​「m
10
40
18
100
ToTAL QUANTITY..………………….
1944
3,980
| 7,100
1,310
3,866
20,575
Tort Jan.………. mina 2014 | 36 ) 38
TOTAL VALUE....
Hk. TR20,748
132,266
138,906
| 4071 | 43619 | 85 |
4,071
42,619
8,045


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under Transit Passes to the Interior during the Year 1886-Continued.
Iron,
Nail-rod
and Bar.
Iron Wire.
Iron, Old. Lead, in Pigs.
Steel.
Tin, in Slabs.
Bicho de
Tinplates. | Mar, Black.
Tinplates.
Buttons,
Brass.
Dyes.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Gross.
Bottles.
Piculs.
3,286.28
488.46
2.40
211.60
3.97
2,550
147
19.20
1,200.97
10
29.10
23.73
200
16.80
14.01
550
:
4,150
:
603.10
504
223.48
14,350
:
28.80
100
4,050
:
4.80
800
:
:
1.40
200
500
114.78
8,873.66
1,474.57
95.38
163.82
46,400
3,599.87
141.96
45.60
4.80
19
200
3,508.12
26.05
100
300
I-
5,018.19
614.40
1,938.65
17,023.87
168.87
187.55
11.36
2,100
74,050
13,581
13,581
2,670
2670
227
308
3002
2,202
71,482
71,482
908
3695750 4066688,853
3,695
750
406
668
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Table showing the Destinations of the various Goods forwarded
DESTINATION.
Oil,
Matches.
Mushrooms.
Needles.
Pepper,
Black.
Kerosene.
Sandalwood.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
Gross.
Piculs.
Mille.
Gallons.
Piculs.
Piculs.
475
2,100
9,900
tē
IH
1,175
41,170
500
15,500
59,640
1,600
DO
600
IPG
5,020
KIANGS...
廣饒 ​南城建瑞袁贛南 ​吉南臨
​Kuang-hsin..
Jao-chou .....
Nan-k'ang.......
Fu-chou .......
Chien-ch‘ang......
Jui-chou .........
Yüan-chou .........
Kan-chou
Nan-an ............
Chi-an .......
Nan-ch‘ang
Lin-chiang ...
1,000
7,900
..........
go
26,470
500
1,000
3,310
91,850
9,094
4,960
425
11,050
Tu
Anuwe......
s
14,160
8.13
4.26
ANHWEI ......
An-ch‘ing .........
Hui-chou
SIH
7,040
27.32
3,990
12.55
tl
Hupen ......
**?
武黄
​H
Wu-ch'ang ........
Huang-chou ......
17.84
11,790
16.60
TE
r
FUKIEN .....
*****? T
SH
Chien-ning ........
Ting-chou .........
Total QUANTITY...
13,894
53.29
9,660
309,790
33:41
31.08
Total VALUE.
...Hk.Tts.
5,351
1,723
1,178
40,273
40,273
525
198
Total Number of PassES ISSUED ................ 2,962.


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under Transit Passes to the Interior during the Year 1886—Continued.
Sapanwood.
Seaweed,
Cut
and Long.
Sugar,
Brown.
Sugar,
White.
Window
Glass.
Sundries,
Unenu-
merated.
VALUE.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Boxes.
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Fle
45.20
12
32
106,820
68,617
65
48.83
4,402
193.30
3.26
103.04
57,053
68
376
178
13,518
54,179
27,005
190,449
49,865
480,074
12,689
14.60
49.20
346.68
42
7,445
1,064,736
4.25
136.90
539.90
477.59
582
11,460
929
18,156
29,616
1.70
3,230.88
1,156.39
337.79
16,482
1,711.70
32.37
7,303
23,785
4,550
4,550
251.715,637.83
1,741.66
815.38
1,805
764
14,562
6,046
4,516
5,715
10,246
1,122,687
TOTAL AMOUNT OF DUTY COLLECTED................ Hk.fts 26,654.3.9.7.
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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. VII.-DUES AND DUTIES.
FLAG.
Coast TRADE
IMPORT DUTIES. EXPORT DUTIES.
DUTIES
(Balance of
| TONNAGE DUES.
Deposits included).
TOTAL.
AMERICAN.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.fism.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.Itsm.c.c.
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass ...
527.8.0.0
14.9.0.0
542.7.0.0
BRITISH.
31.6.2.0
3,294.1.7.2
Steamers under River Steamer Pass .....
Steamers, Lorchas, and Hulk under Chin-
kiang Pass ....
519,977.6.8.5
23,569.2.3.5
523,303.4.7.7
23,592.7.1.0
23.4.7.5
TOTAL .......
55.0.9.5
543, 546.9.2.0
3,294. 1.7.2
546,896.1.8.7
SPANISH.
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass..
177.5.9.4
177.5.9.4
CHINESE
Steamers under River Steamer Pass ....
Lorchas, etc., under Chinkiang Pass..
Junks under Special Junk Pass...........
251,214.5.7.2
19.9.9.0
4.1.3.5
3,950.0.3.5
2,045.8.6.8
744.6.0.0
255,184.5.9.7
2,794.6.0.3
3,729.4.2.7
3,729.4.2.7
TOTAL................
24.1.2.5
254,943.9.9.9
5,995.9.0.3
744.6.0.0
261,708.6.2.7
GRAND TOTAL ...........
79.2.2.0
798,490.9.1.9
9,995.4.6.9
759.5.0.0
809,325.1.0.8
Transit Dues on Foreign Goods sent into the Interior ........................Hk.Tts. 26,654.3.9.7
, , , Native Produce brought from the Interior.................. . ...
TOTAL TRANSIT DUES.
.......Hk. Tts
TOTAL REVENUE for the year 1886....
........Hk.fts.
26,654.3.9.7
835,979.5.0.5*
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total..
.Hk.fts
Nil.
Note. -Amount of Half Duties deposited on goods leaving the port m: A 1812 812
in River Steamers during the year 1886.......
Amount of Drawbacks issued to merchants during the year!
1886 ...........
41,206.5.9.0
Balance......
...........Hk.fts. 7,231.2.2.7


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B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-TREASURE.
Treasure and Copper Cash Imported and Exported during the Year 1886.
IMPORTS.
EXPORTS.
DESCRIPTION.
SHANGHAI. Hankow. Chinkiang. Wuuu.
Total. Shanghai. Hankow. CHINKIANG. Wuhu.
TOTAL.
Hk.Fts.
1,861,816
Hk.fts.
1,341,400
1,321,202
4,800
Treasure...... ............
Copper Cash...
|
Hk. Pts.
71,525
120
Hk. Pts. 1 Hk.Its | Hk.Fts. Hk.Its.
235,814 | 128,234 || 3,547,066 310,452
22,770
27,570
258,584 128,234 3,574,636 | 310,452 |
Hk. Pts.
262,636
...
Hk. Its |
50,859 |
Hk.Ats
695,472
120
TOTAL....Hk.Ms 1,326,002 1,861,816
71,645
262,636 | 50,859 | 695,592
TABLE No. 2.-OPIUM.
Opium Imported and Re-exported during the Year 1886.
DESCRIPTION
IMPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
NET Total.
Piculs.
2,476.11
16.80
II
Malwa ....
Patna...
Persian
Hk.Tts
1,219,798
7,434
4,705
Piculs.
9.09
Hk. Pts.
4,454
860
Piculs.
2,467.02
16.80
Hk. Its
1,215,344
7,434
3,845
TOTAL.....
2,503.91
1,231,937
11.09
5,314
2,492.82
1,226,623
TABLE No. 3.-TEA.
Export of Tea during the Year 1886.
BLACK.
GREEN.
MONTH.
GRAND
TOTAL.
GUN-
Congou.
LEAF. | DUST.
BRICK.
Young
Hyson.
Hyson.
TWAN-
KAY.
IMPERIAL.
|| TOTAL.
POWDER.
Piculs.
72.38
Piculs.
Piculs.
23.35
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
223.73
168.73
Piculs.
101.94
60.38
Piculs.
15.65
7.92
Piculs.
85.84
30.07
Piculs.
427.16
267.10
Piculs.
522.89
267.10
819.69
819.69
January....
February ........
March......
April ......
May
June ................
July ...................
August ................
September...
October....
November. ...........
December ............
3,858.91
3,349.30
394.48
213.87
319.53
146,213.14
24,205.49
31,244.70
7,822.14
4,819.71
3,340.15
1,291.08
87.94
5,674.92
10,091.59
12,970.99
5,235.49
3,626.03
5,804.99
5,233.90
6,041.19
3,549.84
972.52
1,131.15
1,799.66
1,718.93
2,391.70
1,193.22
299.67
16.12
8.28
21.81
45.70
25.06
2.25
150,072.05
27,949.27
37,569.88
23,647.33
24,2 10.75
27,359.87
12,948.69
1,727.72
1,338.01 | 6,325.18
2,217.81 10,150.27
1,995.62 9,299.45
2,247.96 11,048.73
1,407.52 6,422.12
308.11 1,639.78
322.18
246.48
57.23
TOTAL......... 219,096.73 394.48
7,231.56 34,792.68|25,620.93 8,696.65
119.22 1,512.05
9,630.94 45,579.79| 307,095.24


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TABLE No. 4.-IMPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the Import Trade, for the Years 1882 to 1886.
Classifier
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
of
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Quantity.
Piculs
1,597
1,574
1,542
1,866
2,476
Opium, Malwa...........
Patna ...........
, Persian ...............
Іо
Inn
Pieces
Cotton Goods:-
Shirtings, Grey........
White .....
T-Cloths........
Drills (all kinds)
Brocades, Dyed and White....
Chintzes...........
Sheetings, English and American .........
Turkey Red Cloths .......
Velvets and Velveteens
Lastings, Cotton............
Handkerchiefs .......................
Cotton Yarn .......................
216,673
24,009
95,317
8,632
4,141
4,435
8,980
1,073
2,811
179,499
24,927
85,922
5,372
3,192
3,735
9,235
1,593
2,386
210
21,205
175,875
29,701
64,828
2,135
4,020
4,057
6,705
1,592
750
19,643
5,225
228,871
33,267
64,389
3,948
3,062
5,815
16,813
3,647
2,964
1,787
19,824
7,346
192,046
35,005
55,533
3,425
4,245
5,143
22,785
6,894
2,738
1,434
25,495
14,890
2,660
Dozens
Piculs
23,639
4,343
5,708
Pieces
WOOLLEN Goods:-
Camlets, English and Dutch...
Cloth, Broad, Medium, etc. ...
Lastings, Plain and Crape...
Long Ells ...........
Lustres, Crape and Figured .......
Spanish Stripes ...............
Braid, Llama..........
10,590
2,327
4,987
11,247
3,401
4,982
10,790
1,514
4,976
10,544
1,530
13,052
1,081
5,191
10,532
2,204
4,828
800
12,011
1,369
5,929
9,815
2,471
4,948
7,615
11,622
1,502
6,302
10,520
2,246
5,234
22,105
4,146
METALS:-
Iron, Nail-rod and Bar.......
Lead .........
Tin.........
Piculs
3,198
1,848
19,846
2,813
24,674
5,242
1,139
19,368
4,403
4,039
24,850
6,252
19,527
3,880
3,936
Piculs
SUNDRIES :-
Bicho de Mar, Black and White......
Cotton, Raw .....
Cuttle-fish ...
Dates, Red and Black ..
Dyes ..........
Matches .......................
Nankeens ....................
Oil, Kerosene.........
Pepper, Black and White
Sandalwood........
Sapanwood...........
Seaweed, Cut and Long.......
Shell-fish ........
Silk Piece Goods..............
Sugar, Brown ............
, Candy............
White ............
Window Glass ..........
Bottles
Gross
Piculs
Gallons
Piculs
343
33,184
7,238
2,387
47,241
26,810
1,267
48,510
4,827
504
22,137
15,985
4,758
70,506
21,847
1,021
134,740
3,899
4,706
1,251
54,454
123
64
30,878
2,087
32,358
1,629
400
15,300
26,655
3,399
47,000
22,635
872
271,430
3,669
2,825
1,086
335
42,604
20,243
1,939
73,000
26,250
960
557,280
2,656
3,804
395
21,924
23,762
2,379
84,200
23,959
1,183
470,190
2,904
4,326
1,310
53,754
403
4,878
1,688
555
54,743
43,177
204
77
55
22,106
2,303
24,637
1,724
161
84
27,811
2,218
48,246
49,741
172
83
25,151
2,124
49,698
2,135
24,975
2,475
45,506
2,101
Boxes
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TABLE No. 5.-EXPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the Export Trade, for the Years 1882 to 1886.
Classifier
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
of
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Quantity.
Piculs
892
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
585
4,696
20,685
Pieces
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
683
7,918
18,617
135,068
5,293
32,242
478
41,143
643
117,522
7,730
206,847
12,941
11,428
48,240
4,944
23,696
246
99,906
Bamboo Shoots, Dried ....
China-root.....
Chinaware........
Fans, Paper ........
Grasscloth .......
Hemp ................
Lotus-nuts
Mats, Bamboo...
Medicines................
Paper...
Tallow, Vegetable ...
Tea, Black..
» Brick
„Dust
» Green .........
,, Leaf .....
Tobacco, Prepared....
→ Leaf and Stalk......
621
4,929
19,482
118,065
5,709
26,493
272
47,315
1,133
123,109
4,034
213,467
22,320
6,113
35,709
455
• 321
4,869
13,081
54,000
5,430
30,244
320
57,317
740
125,855
4,043
208,079
19,108
7,114
44,238
462
608
31,290
6,103
16,463
48,500
4,529
32,423
449
71,137
583
142,487
6,362
202,900
19,746
12,133
50,516
128,637
5,766
219,097
34,793
7,232
45,580
394
970
48,262
581
324
539
426
493
51,815
1,026
66,704
21,513
TABLE No. 6.-SHIPPING.
Comparative Table of Shipping, for the Years 1882 to 1886.
ENTERED.
CLEARED.
YEARS.
Ships, JUNKS, LORCHAS,
RIVER STEAMERS.
SHIPS, JUnks, LORCHAS,
AND
OCEAN STEAMERS.
RIVER STEAMERS.
AND
OCEAN STEAMERS.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
787
1882.............
1883..........
787
758
758
1884.
779
722,413
694,267
773,215
652,962
780,884
9,515
10,666
6,686
13,065
20,782
779
608
722,413
694,267
773,215
652,020
781,826
10,335
11,478
6,686
16,568
21,177
609
153
1885..........
1886....
728
729
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126
WUHU TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
e
The trade of Wuhu has during the year 1886 made more marked advance than ever,
and has far exceeded the hopes of continued improvement that were ventured upon in the
Report for 1885. Under whatever heading—Imports, Exports, or Transit,our Returns tell the
same flourishing tale of progress, and in every branch of our trade the best previous record
pped. The total net value of the 1886 trade amounted to Hk.Its. 7,989,833,
an increase of 52 per cent. over that of 1885, our best previous year. This prosperity is
mainly to be ascribed to the continued development of our Rice export business, which has
increased enormously, and has infused new life and energy into every department of our
local trade.
SHIPPING.—The total number of vessels entered and cleared-namely, 2,174, with a
tonnage of 1,832,739 tons—shows a considerable advance upon the preceding year. These
figures, however, including as they do all the river steamers calling here on their voyages
up and down the Yangtze, do not convey any accurate idea of our real requirements in the
matter of tonnage; but even if we confine our considerations to the number of vessels which
came specially to load here, we find the same tokens of improvement. 85 ocean steamers
took cargo direct to the South, as against 47 in 1885; and the number of sailing vessels which
cleared also shows an increase. At the end of the year a new hulk, the Madras, belonging
to the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, was moored here, so that each of the four lines
of regular steamers has now its own hulk at this port.
FOREIGN IMPORTS.—The total net value of Foreign Imports for the year amounted to
Hk.Tts. 3,764,837, or 41 per cent. in excess of 1885, which was itself far in advance of any
previous year since the opening of the port. The greater portion of this large increase is
caused by the continued development of our Opium business; but, as will be seen by a detailed
examination of this branch of our trade, a manifest improvement has shown itself in almost
every class of goods that come under this heading in our Returns.
Opium.—The progress which this, the most important of our Imports, has made in
recent years has been well maintained in the year under review. Large as was the importation
in 1885, when certain exceptional circumstances in the matter of taxation gave what was
supposed to be only a temporary fillip to the local trade, the year 1886 has seen the importation
mount to a still higher figure. This rapid development, commenced in 1885 and continued
in 1886, can no longer be attributed to any peculiarities in the Likin taxation. In the former
year much of the Opium escaped the tax, and the ease with which the evasion was accomplished
no doubt stimulated the Wuhu trade, to the detriment of other ports. But in 1886 a different
order of things obtained. In the early part of the year the Likin officials hit upon the remark-
able expedient of buying off by a system of monthly payments the proxies through whose
agency all the evasion was effected. Liberal terms were offered and accepted, and immediately
a change, as if by magic, came over the Opium business of the port. The Native importers,
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CO
us.
without fear or concealment; the proxies retired into lucrative seclusion; and the officials
collected their dues from that time forward systematically and regularly. For nearly a year,
therefore, the business recorded in our Returns has been a legitimate one, and although it is
said that the Wuhu Likin has for some time been slightly lower than that levied at Chinkiang;
I think the real reason for the progress this business. has lately made here must be found in
the general prosperity of the surrounding districts, which the Rice trade has brought about,
money being more plentiful than usual amongst the poorer classes—small farmers, labourers,
etc.,—on whose financial condition the fortune of the Opium merchant, at least in this district,
chiefly depends.
Cotton Goods.—In almost every class of Cottons a very substantial improvement has to
be noted, and in the case of the leading items, Grey and White Shirtings (130,522 pieces),
English Sheetings (18,851 pieces), Handkerchiefs (16,820 dozens), the highest figures ever attained
in any one year at this port have been reached. It is said that about half the cloth worn or
otherwise used by the Natives of this district is still Native; but the Foreign article is gradually
getting into higher esteem, especially that which takes the Chinaman's favourite blue dye
easily, and can, after it has been given a nice glossy surface, most readily adapt itself to the
sizes required for its being put up into those dainty little bundles, tied with silk ribbon and
wrapped in paper bearing graphic descriptions more fanciful than true, which are to be seen
in every Native Cloth establishment. It is probably because English Sheeting lends itself so
readily to these manipulations, as well as because it is cheaper than the American variety, that
it is fast assuming such a prominent position in our Tables. It may, I think, be assumed that
our trade in Piece Goods, as in all other Imports, will keep pace with our Export Rice trade;
for, leaving other matters out of consideration, if country boats come here in great numbers
laden with Rice, there will be no lack of cheap carriage for all kinds of goods into the interior,
the boat-owners naturally preferring a small freight for the return journey rather than go
back empty.
Woollen Goods.—Under this heading a considerable increase has also to be recorded,
though not to such a large extent as in the case of Shirtings. Long Ells reached a total of
5,260 pieces, the highest yet recorded at this port for this class of goods; but the small business
done here in Woollens may be gathered from the fact that the total importation of all kinds
in 1886, an exceptionally good year, amounted only to 11,767 pieces.
Metals.—The Metal trade, never of much consequence at this port, exhibits no signs
of improvement. In fact, the leading item, Nail-rod Iron, shows a falling off, only 4,658 piculs
having been imported, against 6,033 piculs in 1885. The small quantities imported under the
other headings do not call for special mention.
Sundries.—The miscellaneous goods grouped together as Sundries manifest, with one
notable exception, the same flourishing condition which characterised our trade generally during
the past year. Matches, chiefly of the cheapest German kind, which can be retailed at about
4 cash the box, or, say, 4 cents the dozen, have been landed to the extent of 37,304 gross, as
against 29,300 gross in 1885. Window Glass has sprung up from 55,800 square feet in 1885 to
155,000 square feet in 1886. Sugars of all kinds show a very great improvement. Foreign
Soap continues evidently to advance in favour; and in almost all the other items the same
cheering record is to be read. The exception alluded to is Kerosene Oil, the wonderful pro-
gressive importation of which in past years has always been in previous Reports a theme for
admiration, even when a note of regret had to be sounded for the temporary decline of other
important branches of our trade. For the first time a falling off has now to be recorded, and


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although the difference is not great or serious—593,550 gallons, against 608,800 gallons in
1885,-it is sufficiently remarkable to attract attention. Whilst the Oil is as cheap as it has
been, and does not deteriorate in quality, there will always be a market for it here, where
nearly nine out of every ten Native houses use it for such light as they require. It is burned
by the poorer people in common Native lamps, as often as not without chimneys, and is
purchased at a retail price of 40 cash a catty, there being 50 to 52 catties in a case. The small
retail dealer adds to his profits by the sale of the case and tins, for which he obtains 200 cash.
NATIVE IMPORTS.—In this department also an increase has to be noted, the total value
for the year being Hk.Tts. 650,874, as compared with Hk.Tts. 571,177 in 1885. The items which
contribute most to this advancement are Nankeens, Tobacco, and Sugar.
EXPORTS.—The total value of this branch of our trade amounts to Hk.Tts. 3,574,122, or
76 per cent. more than that of the preceding year, which stood the highest then on record. To
the large development of our Rice trade the bulk of this noteworthy increase must of course
be attributed; but several of our other local products have also contributed towards the
satisfactory result.
Rice.—The Rice business of Wuhu, which is the mainspring of our mercantile life,
and the centre round which all our other business revolves, has during the year under review
assumed a more important position than even its former progress-rapid though it was—or
the most favourable estimate of its chances could have justified one in thinking possible. The
year was on the whole a good one for the country, and an “eight-tenths” crop is said to have
been the average yield over most of the Rice-producing districts, though here and there, in the
Ning-kuo and Lü-chou prefectures for instance, a still better outcome was experienced. There
was, then, sufficient grain forthcoming, and the only other needs for a large export trade were
a brisk demand in the Southern markets and enough enterprise and capital in Wuhu to bring
the business here and foster it.
In both respects these requirements were fulfilled. In contrast with the floods which
brought about such disaster in the Kwangtung province during 1885, a period of drought
spread almost as great distress in the same unfortunate locality in 1886; and in a country
where even full harvests are insufficient to meet the wants of the population, the widespread
failure of crops called for a more than ordinary supply from outside of what in China is
undoubtedly the staff of life. From the early part of the year, therefore, it was foreseen
that the wants of Canton would require an almost unlimited supply of Rice, and the prospects
seemed bright enough for the Anhwei produce—heavily handicapped though it promised
to be in some important respects—to give encouragement to the Wuhu exporters. As to
the latter, the success of 1885 not only acted as a stimulus to those who had shared in
the business of that year, but induced five new firms to establish themselves here in the early
part of 1886. A good deal of competition was the result, and, it need hardly be said,
the eagerness to ship was more remarkable at times than the discretion of the shippers. In
the first quarter of the year 16 ocean steamers left the port with Rice for Canton, and the
results were said to have been fairly satisfactory; in the June quarter 26 steamers, some of
them carrying as much as 70,000 piculs, went to the same destination, but the Canton market
soon becoming glutted, profits dwindled away to nothing, and a good deal of depression was
the result. From June until the end of September very little business was transacted, but
with the arrival of the new Rice in October operations again became active, and in spite of the
high prices prevailing here, purchases were made eagerly, and before the end of the year 41
additional steamers were despatched to the South with, as a rule, full cargoes. Many of these



885 AND 1886.
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
SCALE,
OF AN INCH
TO
A Foor.
1 12 15 18 21 24 27/30 3 6 9 12 15/2124/27/30 3 6 9 12 15 18/21/24 27/30 3 1 6 9 12 15 18/21/24/27/30
50
30-
BUND.
1885
186
1886
1885
Rainfall, 1885....
, 1886.....
3.50 inches.
2.90 inches.
7.80 ,
1.13 inches.
0.10 ,-
2.99 inches.
2.24
22





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later shipments have resulted in loss to the exporters, partly, it is said, owing to the merchants
having been misled by the hopes of being able to claim exemption from Export Duty on account
of the distress in Kwangtung. As will be seen, therefore, the year, though an excellent one so
far as our Returns show, was not by any means successful to an important section of our
traders; and it will not be matter for surprise if recent disappointments should be found to
act as a deterrent to business in the coming season. One injurious element, which has long
been felt as a keen annoyance and impediment to business by the Rice merchants, has lately
been removed. The system of paying for the grain in Carolus dollars—a somewhat variable
medium of exchange—has now ceased, and the farmers are in future to be paid in sycee, an
arrangement which will give steadiness and general satisfaction to future transactions.
Tea and Silk. The trade in these commodities continues to be insignificant, and lends
but little help to the hopes sometimes indulged in of an extended business ever springing
up here. 2,261 piculs of Tea and 1,304 piculs of Silk represent our export for last year—a
falling off as compared with 1885.
Sundries.—Beans and Peas are the most important of our smaller Exports, 36,096 piculs
having been shipped during 1886, as compared with 19,732 piculs in 1885. The export of
Feathers, principally for Europe viâ Shanghai, is also becoming of some importance, the figures
for the last three years being 1,287 piculs, 4,073 piculs, and 7,055 piculs
gradually becoming of some note in our Export tables. Coal from the Ch'ih-chou mines shows
a falling off, and Cotton and Paper a slight improvement.
TRANSIT.—This portion of our trade continues to make satisfactory progress. Though the
number of passes issued is slightly less than in 1885, the quantity of goods sent inland under
pass has increased very considerably, the value of goods so sent being Hk.its. 433,647 in 1886,
against Hk.fts. 277,037 in 1885. No Outward Transit passes were issued during the year.
REVENUE.—As might be expected, our collection for the year is the largest ever known
at Wuhu; it amounted to Hk.fts. 252,256, about nine-tenths of which were Export Duties.
GENERAL.—The rising fortunes of this port, sufficiently illustrated in the preceding
paragraphs, are further evidenced by the activity displayed in the erection of new godowns
and other buildings, and by the great influx of Natives, who have come from near and far
o have a share in the prosperity which has recently sprung up. It is estimated that the
suburban population has added several thousands to its number within the last 12 months.
The shipping business still labours under the serious disadvantages of the position taken up
when the port was opened ; but if the time ever come when Foreigners will erect wharves
and adjoining godowns on the “ Concession,” it requires no seer to predict that the bulk
of the trade will gravitate to that quarter, to the benefit of the future wharf-owners, and,
as I also believe, to the great advantage of the port.
T. F. HUGHES,
Commissioner of Customs.
WUHU, 18th January 1887.


130
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WUHU TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo. | In Ballast.
TOTAL.
No. Tons. Nola
No.
Tons.
| No.
Tons. No.
Tons.
No. Tons. | No.
Tons. || No.
Tons.
753
Up River...... 292
BRITISH...... {
| Down , ......
Up River......
292,274
224,568
49,446
51,190
9,123
376 341,720 124 127,501 253 213,291
313 275,758 164 160,092 149
15 15,244 15 15,244 ...
377 340,792
313 277,778||
15 15,244 |
626
682,512
553,536
30,488
6.121
30
GERMAN.....
Down
,
....
3,076
4
3,076
3,076
41 3,076
8.
6,152
Up River......
DANISH ....
1 Down » ......
Up River.... 141,827 5
CHINESE...
| Down ..... 91 115,810 5
Total Steamers ......... 721 780,600 199
3,095
4,668
120,598
116 144,922 81 101,773 28 34,589
96 120,478 87 108,923 16 20,115
920 901,198 475 516,609 446 385,681
109 136,362 | 225/ 281,284
103129,038 199 249,516
921 902,290 1,841 1,803,488
SAILING VESSELS.
268
268
2
268
536
1,750
1,750
3,500
1,496
552
552
552
1,104
580
290
200
van inwi
AMA ::*
***
Up River.........
BRITISH...
| Down „ .........
Up River.......
AMERICAN
| Down „ .........
r Up River....
GERMAN...
| Down „ .........
Up River.......
SPANISH ...
| Down ..........
Up River.........
Down „ .........
CHINESE .. {Ch‘ih-chou Coal-boats :
Up River......
| Down , „ ......
Total Sailing Vessels... 49
GRAND TOTAL.........
Nii
500
250
5,856
1,166
| 6
...
250
6,049
1,166
381 21
... 7
12,286
250
6,430
1,166
27
7
2,332
21
1,159
1,159
3,428
5,165
1,159
7,254
95
3,428 110
208
3,626 3
4,261 47
200 113 3,826
10,271 | 165 14,532
9,554 119
168
14,719 118
333
29,251
| 770 790,154 | 318 125,763|1,088 (915,917 593 520,870 | 493 395,952 |1,086916,827 | 2,174|1,832,739


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TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF WUHU,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.fts
Hk.Fts
Hk. Als
Hk. Aits
Hk.Tts
Hk. Tite
FOREIGN GOODS.
22,184
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong.......
Imported from Chinese Ports ..................
2,025
2,090,215
19,462
2,651,421
3,795,129
Total Foreign Imports.........
2,092,240
2,670,883
3,817,313
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong....
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Shanghai
and Chinkiang)
Total Foreign Re-exports ...........
4,088
10,096
52,476
4,088
10,096
52,476
Net Total Foreign Imports ...........
2,088,152
2,660,787
3,764,837
597,639
573,199
653,919
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Shanghai and Hankow)....
Re-exported to Foreign Countries .......................
Re-exported to Chinese Ports.....................
Total Native Re-exports.......
4,094
2,022
3,045
4,094
2,022
3,045
Net Total Native Imports .
593,545
571,177
650,874
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries .....
675
1,206,793
2,023,396
3,573,447
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports ..
Total Exports of local origin ..
1,206,793
2,023,396
3,574,122
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port .........
3,896,672
5,267,478
8,045,354
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native |
Exports of local origin ......
3,888,490
5,255,360
7,989,833


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.—Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
FROM
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
HONGKONG
AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Fts
Piculs
Hk. Its
47,918
94 50
Hk.Tts.
5,835 16 2,604,047
480 2,090
2,415
340
::::
Hk. Its
5,74066 2,556,129
4801 2,090
1,721
2
694
340
54
96,280
34,242
180
325,944
65,234
:::
309
915
96,250
34,242
180
915
19,470
5,440
1,545
730
120
19,470
5,440
1,545
730
60
18,851
905
210
120
:::::::::
325,890
65,234
309
1,807
22,423
12,344
3,572
1,296
202
IIO
39,953
1,933
279
3,511
6,121
60
1,807
22,423
12,344
3,572
1,296
202
NIO
39,953
1,933
279
3,511
6,121
4,008
1,311
1,373
369
7,385
148
4,751
OPIUM :-
Malwa ..
Patna......
Persian .....
African...
COTTON Goods:-
Shirtings, Grey...
Pieces
White, Plain......
Dutch ..............
Dyed, Figured
and Brocaded)
T-Cloths ..
Drills, English ........
» American...
Jeans, English ....
, Dutch ....
,, American....
Sheetings, English .........
, American ..........
Chintzes and Furnitures.
.....
Turkey Red Cloths or
Cambrics...
Velvets ............
Twills, Printed ..........
Flannels, Cotton....
Lastings,
Muslins, Printed....
Handkerchiefs ...........
ns
Cottonades........
Cotton Goods, Unclassed....
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Camlets, Dutch ....
English .............
Cloth, Broad and Medium...
Russian ......
, Union...
Flannels..............
Lastings.....................
Long Ells..........
Lustres and Orleans, Figured
Spanish Stripes ................
Woollen Goods, Unclassed...
METALS:-
Copper, in Sheets ............
Iron, Nail-rod........
, Wire ........
2,960
1,260
18,851
905)
210
2,960
1,260
2,859
640
4,008
2,859
640
340
340
1,311
1,373
369
7,385
500
::::::::
500
16,820
120
1,339
16,820
120
1,339
Pieces
148
4,751
Pieces
10
3,120
175
27,164
14,655
10
3,120
648
648
175
27,164
14,655
240
532
240
46
532
46
565
43
540
:::::::::::
565
5,260
43
540
5,260
970
1,008
100
4,284
23,833
2,754
8,224
320
970
1,020
100
4,284
23,833
2,754
8,129
320
95
Piculs
9
Old ...
10972
4,65864
552
1,499 47
648 14
55025
272
4464
492 87
1,786
10,966
2,209
2,040
2,524
1,701
1,282
859
1,662
:::::::::
10972
4,65864
547 20
1,499 47
62772
550 25
272
4464
492 871
1,786
10,966
2,189
2,040
2,443
1,701
1,282
859
1,662
Lead, in Pigs ...
Steel .......
Tinplates...
Tin, in Slabs
Metals, Unclassed .........
SUNDRIES :-
Aniseed, Star....
Piculs
Bags, Gunny
Pieces
, Straw..........
Bambooware ..............
Bicho de Mar, Black ........
Birds' Nests, 2nd Quality...
3,234
9,568
26664
169,250
3,308,150
69 27
26481
53,500
3,234
9,568
129,250
1,318
7,897
6,022
127,445
26664
169,250
1,805 3,254,650
6927
438
250 28
Piculs
::::::
1,318
14 53
7,459
6,022
535
5351


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TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.— Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Tts.
Hk.Fls.
Hk.Its
74
3,301
3,304.81
115
II
126
6,724
968
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Birds' Nests, 3rd Quality ... Piculs
Braid, Llama
... Boxes
Cardamoms, Superior ......... Piculs
Chinaware, Fine............
Dyes and Colours.............. Pkgs.
Fans, Palm-leaf, Trimmed... Pieces
Untrimmed ,,
Ginseng, American, Clarified Piculs
Japan, Unclassed...
Lung-ngans, Dried..
Matches, Wood ............... Gross
Medicines........................ Piculs
Mushrooms .......
Mussels, Dried ........
Needles .........
Mülle
Oil, Kerosene..
Galls.
Pepper, Black.......
Piculs
Putchuck.......................
Sandalwood...................
Sapanwood............
Seaweed and Agar-agar.....
Sharks Fins, White.
Soap.............................. Boxes
Sugar, Brown.................... Piculs
White
Candy.
Umbrellas ........................
Pieces
Vermilion........................
Piculs
Window Glass .................. Sq. ft.
Sundries, Unenumerated.... Value
TOTAL.............. Hk.Ft.
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Hk.Fls.
21 381 4,515
1,380
308 324
12814 4,844
169 3,097
211,048 2,462
1,647,540 9,039
1735
6,561
1157 1,110
928 32
9,873
37,304 10,506
148 311 1,147
247 69
7844
11,200 2,645
593,550
82,304
45939
6,277
72 31 826
8,639 30 43,197
1,07265 2,455
1,351 43 3,357
1,878 2,146
7,5891 2,936
27,61865)
85,756
24,93909 105,714
439 50 3,242
31,129 9,990
2,650 1,353
155,000 2,376
21,850
46
28
630
Hk.Its.
2098 4,441
1,380
324
12814 4,844
1691 3,097
211,0481 2,462
1,647,540
9,039
17 35 6,561
1025
995
927 24 9,862
36,879 10,380
148311 1,147
24769
6,724
7444 922
11,110 2,617
587,550 81,674
45855 6,265
72311 826
8,635 30 43,177
1,067 85 2,444
1,351 43 3,357
1,878 2,146
7,56911
2,927
27,61865) 85,756
24,93909 105,714
43950 3,242
31,129 9,990
2,650 1,353
155,000 2,376
21,561
20
II
»
289
3,817,313
52,476
3,764,837
SUMMARY.
22,184
-Ak. Pts.
...........
22,184
3,795,129
-Hk. Its
3,817,313
IMPORTS from Hongkong........
........... Hk. Its
Total from Foreign Countries.........
Imports from Chinese Ports..........
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS....
RE-EXPORTS to Hankow ........................................Hk. Its.
..Kiukiang ...................................... ,
„Chinkiang ..........
..... »
„ „ Shanghai ...........
................. 2
Total to Chinese Ports.............
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS ......
6,863
12,092
15,536
17,985
-Hk.Its
52,476
-Hk.fts
52,476
...............
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS .......
.Hk.Its
3,764,837


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports.
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
Hk. Its
Hk.Tite
9535
35,560
106,850
you
6,000
::::: :
95/35
34,430
100,850
2066
76610
1,346 91
35192
142,340
139291
4051
529 34
2113
82041
107 62
10615
50723
Piculs
: :
e
.....
266
: :
2066
76610
1,34691
35192
142,340
139 29
4131
52934
2113
83197
107 62
106 15
51443
1,09670
191 02
16546
19176
1,82803
3,673|92|
3,23529
1,437 33
36914
1,33960
8,45297
540 401
24082
Hk.Fts
1,721
1,864
4,189
1,546
3,795
4,536
1,094
5,753
1,333
1,728
9,476
2,204
18,244
4,883
1,550
3,289
2,617
2,438
1,201
2,228
15,268
22,140
13,509
52,185
1,687
6,411
50,461
16,913
1,443
1,826
1,429
1,104
2,829
6,843
1,09670
Almonds............
Piculs
Bags, Gunny.....
Pieces
Straw ..............
Buttons, Brass .................. Pículs
Cotton Clothing, Old .....
Dates, Black..
» Red
Fans, Paper ......
Fire-crackers....................
Fish Maws ...,
Fungus..
Ginseng, Native ...........
Grasscloth, Coarse
, Fine...........
Hams ....
Hemp ..............
Iron, Unmanufactured......
Ironware.............
Lead, Yellow ..................
Lily Seed or Lotus-nuts...
Lung-ngans, Dried ....
Medicines.....
Melon Seeds ................
Nankeens .....................
Oil, Bean.................
, Sesamum ..............
, Wood...........
Paper, ist Quality..
Peel, Orange ....
Potash .......
Samshu.....
Sea Blubber.......
Silk Piece Goods.
, Ribbons .....
and Cotton Mixtures..
Soap, Native..........
Sugar, Brown ....
White............
5 Candy
Tallow, Vegetable...
Tin-foil .......
Tobacco, Leaf ......
Prepared
Turmeric .............
Varnish ...........
Walnuts, Shelled .........
, Unshelled ........
Wood, Coffin
Pieces
Sundries, Unenumerated.......
Value
TOTAL............ Hk.Fts
:
439
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Hk.Tts
1,721
1,807
4,009
1,546
3,795
4,536
1,094
5,753
1,333
1,696
9,476
2,204
17,978
4,883
1,550
3,244
2,617
2,403
1,201
2,214
14,829
22,099
13,431
52,185
1,687
6,411
50,461
16,590
1,436
1,826
1,307
1,104
2,829
6,843
1,188
2,221
79,630
212,675
8,579
6,577
188 32
16546
190 52
1,78812
3,67072
3,21696
1,437 33
369 14
1,33960
8,45297
530 32
: :
23954
50528
:
I22
552 34
: : : :
1,188
614
10 50
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
09
2,240
80,092
212,675
8,579
7,117
8,209
: :
1,091 371
25,85985
50,91508
1,172 12
2,054581
222 26
377751
1,53531
397631
3417)
19382
350 32
2,674
50528
50734
35210
657
930
1,080 871
25,70876
50,915 08
1,17212
1,966 58
222 26
37775
1,532 09
39763
3417
19382
34867
2,674
8,209
1,829
1,829
: :
23,923
1,132
1,365
3,541
1,030
1,664
29,598
23,872
1,132
1,365
3,541
1,026
1,664
29,268
:
: :
330
653,919
:
...............
3,045
650,874


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SUMMARY.
IMPORTS from Hankow.......
.......Hk. Pts.
184,229
Kiukiang........
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
41,371
»
Ank‘ing ...........
61
»
Chinkiang ........
17,146
410,585
„
„
„
„
Shanghai.......
Ningpo ............
527
Total from Chinese Ports ...........
-Hk.Fts
653,919
Total NATIVE IMPORTS .
Hk.fts.
653,919
RE-EXPORTS to Hankow .........
Hk. The
.
.....................
....
1,021
„ Kiukiang ...........
23
397
1,604
„Chinkiang ..........
„ Shanghai ............
............
Total to Chinese Ports ...............-
TOTAL NATIVE RE-EXPORTS.
-Hk. Its
3,045
-Hk. Its
3,045
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS...
.Hk.fts.
650,874


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.-Exports and Re-exports.

EXPORTS
EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
• HONGKONG, AND (including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
HONGKONG.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts
Hk.fts
356
445 511
Beans and Peas.......
Piculs
Coal...............
Tons
Cotton, Raw ..........
Piculs
Fans, Paper ............
Pieces
Feathers .......
Piculs
Hemp.....
Hides, Buffalo and Cow....
Medicines.
Nutgalls.....
Paper, ist Quality.
Rice
Silk, Raw ....
Refuse ...
Cocoons..........
Piece Goods ......
Ribbons......
, Velveteens ........
Skins, Goat...............
Tea, Black...................
, Green .................
Tobacco, Prepared............
Wheat ........
Sundries, Unenumerated........ Value
TOTAL.....
Hk. Its
Hk.Its
35,65060 39,476
4,079 20,219
2,13331 34,261
90,926 3,071
7,055 34 34,099
49426 3,067
717 94 5,110
5,048 46
25,830
1,67565
14,208
1,42301 44,225
12,325,841 12 2,732,517
6480 11,889
7972 1,725
6545
1,128
1,082 99 533,869
H .Fts
36,09611 39,832
4,079
20,219
2,13331 34,261
90,926 3,071
7,055 341 34,099
494 26 3,067
717 941 5,110
5,048 46 25,830
1,67565 14,208
1,42301 44,225
2,325,841 12 2,732,517
6480 11,889
7972 1,725
1,128
1,082 991 533,869
5,327
349
1,798
108 42 1,093
1,937 36 25,069
324 30 6,312
1,175411 17,228
2,616 96| 2, 156
13,134
6545
754
5,327
1,798
754
349
108 42
1,937 36
324 30
1,175411
2,616 96
1,093
25,069
6,312
17,228
2, 156
9,770
319
3,045
675
3,573,447
3,045
......
3,577,167
SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
Hk. The
Hk.Fts.
Hk.fts
Hk.fts
Hk.fts
675
675
-
675
To-
Hk.Its
Hongkong for Foreign countries..... 675
Total to Foreign Countries.....
Tientsin..
............. 31,657
Hankow .................................... 89,209
Kiukiang..
17,841
Chinkiang ...
8,531
Shanghai.
994,551
Swatow ......................................... 2
Canton..... .................... 2,406,838
Total to Chinese Ports ...........
1,021
23
397
1,604
31,657
90,230
17,864
8,928
996,155
24,820
2,406,838
24,820
3,573,447
3,045
3,576,492
GRAND TOTAL....
.......................
3,574,122
_3045
3,045
3,577,167


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TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
Foreign Goods Inwards.
DESTINATION.
TOTAL
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier of Quantity.
ANHWEI.
HUPEH.
Hunan.
KIANGSI.
KIANGSU.
Quantity. | Value. Quantity.Value. Quantity.Value. Quantity.Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its.
82,879
9,320
Hk. Its
82,879
9,320
48,046
4,660
lain..
12
48,046
4,660
300
6,760
2,590
664
300
664
Cotton Goods:-
Shirtings, Grey............ Pieces
White, Plain..
Dyed, Bro-
caded and
Spotted....)
T-Cloths......
Drills, English ............
Jeans
Sheetings, American .....
,, English.......
Turkey Red Cambrics ...
Velvets ...
Twills, Printed
Lastings, Cotton.....
Handkerchiefs ........... Dozens
Cotton Yarn .............. Piculs
Cottons, Unclassed ....... Pieces
6,760
2,590
110
1,545
4,835
850
7,051
5,556
190
1,545
4,835
3,388
850
7,051
5,556
190
3,388
10,139
979
1,251
1,575
216
460
75
1,014
258
258
1,133
70
1,100
10,139
979
1,251
1,575
216
.........
1,133
1,100
70
460
75
1,014
369
784
WOOLLEN GOODS:-
Camlets, English ......... Pieces
Cloth, Broad and Me
dium...
Long Ells .........
Lustres and Orleans, L
Figured ............... 5
Spanish Stripes ...
783
233
2,100
230
289
6,742
5,103
9,765
712
2,376
233
2,174
230
289
6,750
5,103
10,109
712
2,376
Piculs
2,353.01
5,059
2,327.81
8.52
8.52
METALS:-
Iron, Nail-rod. ..........
Hoop ..
Nails ..
, Wire ........
, Old ........
Lead, in Pigs .....
Steel .........
Tinplates.........
25
86
428
*285
190.50
106.15
271
10.92
& 850
25
Πο
190.50
106.15
271
10.92
10
252
283
SUNDRIES :-
Aniseed, Star.............. Piculs
Bambooware
Bicho de Mar, Black .....
Cuttle-fish, Dried ..........
Dyes ........
.......
Pkgs.
15.53
42.25
61.93
814
814
1,879
17.33
42.25
63.90
5.24
44
1.9
2.24
1,917
25
41
44
1,134
1,134
18


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
Foreign Goods Inwards—Conta.
DESTINATION.
TOTAL.
Classifier of Quantity.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
ANHWEI.
HUPEH.
UNAN.
KIANGSI.
KIANGSU.
Quantity.
Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity.Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity.Value. Quantity. | Value.
Hk. Pts
2,077
7,113
0.05
18
883.92
2,271
195
8.47
446
9,823
2,326
2,047
102
32,050
3,140
14,040
4,000
SUNDRIES, continued :
Hk.Tts.
Fans, Palm-lear, Irm }|Pieces | 156,203 2,077
med...............
,, Palm-leaf, Un-
trimmed ........
„ 1,076,630 6,697
Hornware................... Piculs
Isinglass ...........
0.98
Lichees, Dried.
81.54
446
Lung-ngans, Dried..
9,812
Matches, Wood........... Gross 6,619 |
Mushrooms ............... Piculs 69.23 1,973
Mussels, Dried......
102
Oil, Kerosene......
244,983 30,227
Pepper, Black.............. Piculs 211.04
3,140
Sandalwood...........
2,635.93
13,180
Sapanwood .............
187 443
Seaweed .............
972.15
2,362
Sharks' Fins, White....
3.66 410
Soap ..............
Boxes 564 254
Sugar, Brown ............. Piculs 25,836.41 85,259
» White ..
24,132.78 104,978
, Candy ...........
3,285
440.50
"
Umbrellas ............
Pieces
240
Window Glass ............. Sq. feet
5,900
Sundries, Unenume-
200
rated.....................
IOO
... 156,203
416 1,083,370
0.05
0.98
81.54
884.92
6,814
72.35
8.47
259,438
211.04
2,807.48
668.40
979.26
3.66
600
25,928.11
24,217.58
442
240
7,000
171.551
481.40
1,139
1,582
7.11
::::::
2,379
410
270
85,563
105,347
3,296
91.70
84.80
1.50
............
82
181
Value
200
TOTAL..............JH. Pts............
427,940
........
.......
433,647
Transit PASSES ISSUED.... No.
2,043


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TABLE No. VII.-DUES AND DUTIES.
FLAG.
IMPORT
DUTIES.
EXPORT
DUTIES.
COAST TRADE
DUTIES
(Balance of
Deposits included).*
OPIUM
DUTIES.
TONNAGE
DUES.
TOTAL
Hk.fts, m.c.c.
BRITISH
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass ........
, , River Steamer Pass ...
Hk. Pts. m.c.c.
1,324.1.0.0
18.2.9.9
Hk. Els m.c.c.
120,388.0.4.9
23,531.6.0.5
Hk.Its m.c.c. | Hk.fts. m.c.c.
381.6.0.0
H. Its m.c.c.
122,093.7.4.9
27,588.2.2.1
4,038.3.1.7
TOTAL.........
1,342.3.9.9
143,919.6.5.4
4,038.3.1.7
381.6.0.0
149,681.9.7.0
14.5.0.0
GERMAN.
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass.........
Steamers,
· · .........
TOTAL.........
540.4.0.0
33,556.7.0.8
14.5.0.0
34,097.1.0.8
540.4.0.0
33,556.7.0.8
14.5.0.0
34,111.6.0.8
DANISH.
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass.......
8,346.3.2.6
8,346.3.2.6
15.0.5.0
15.0.5.0
SPANISH.
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass ........
CHINESE
Lorchas under Chinkiang Pass.........
Steamers » River Steamer Pass....
Ch'ih-chou” Coal-boats and Junks
under Special Pass...........
TOTAL.......
41.0.0.0
229.0.0.0
70.4.8.5
0.1.4.8
1,773.1.5.0
13,954.1.4.8
26,845.7.9.5
400.7.0.0
6,078.8.2.6
1,814.1.5.0
14,183.1.4.8
32,995.1.0.6
753.1.4.8
352.3.0.0
340.6.3.3
42,973.7.9.3
6,078.8.2.6
352.3.0.0
49,745.5.5.2
GRAND TOTAL.... .......
2,223.4.3.2
228,796.4.8.1
10,132.1.9.3
748.4.0.0
241,900.5.0.6
Transit Dues on Foreign Goods sent into the Interior ..................................... Hk.fls. 10,356.1.4.2
„ „ „ Native Goods brought from the Interior..........
.......... »
TOTAL TRANSIT DUES ......
............ Hk. Its
TOTAL REVENUE for the year 1886.......................................... Hk. Its
10,356.1.4.2
252,256.6.4.87
+ No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total .............
............ Hk.Its
Nil.
FOREIGN FLAGS.
Native Flag
Note.- Amount of Half Duties deposited on goods leaving the port in River H. Asseme
Steamers during the year 1886 ..........
Amount of Drawbacks issued to merchants during the year 1886............. „ 4,818.0.2.0
* Balance ....
....Hk.fts 4,010.9.2.5
10,491.5.7.5
4,600.2.3.8
5,891.3.3.7
Note. -10,009.49 piculs Tribute Rice were shipped under Huchao to Shanghai for transhipment to Tientsin, and were exempt from duty.. Hk. Its. 1,000.9.4.9
10,775.43 piculs Rice were shipped under Huchao to Shanghai for transhipment to Canton, on account of Kwangtung province,
and were exempt from duty ..............
1,077.5.4.3
331,634.69 piculs Rice were shipped under Huchao to Canton direct, on account of Kwangtung province, and were exempt from duty , 33,163. 4.6.9
30,735.23 piculs Tribute Rice were shipped under Huchao to Tientsin direct, and were exempt from duty ...
3,073.5.2.3
1, 366 piculs Rice were shipped under Huchao to Shanghai for transhipment to Chefoo, on account of Government troops, and
were exempt from duty .....
136.6.0.0
Total duty remitted ....
......Hk. Tts. 38,452.0.8.4


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-TREASURE.
Import and Export of Treasure during the Year 1886.
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
Strings.
Hk.fts
Strings.
Hk.fts
Copper Cash .......
1,360
Copper Cash ........
Sycee ...........
Sycee.....
1,723,188
2,374,331
TOTAL.............. Hk. Pts.
1,723,188
TOTAL.............. Hk. Pts.
2,374,331
TABLE No. 2.-OPIUM.
Opium Imported and Re-exported during the Year 1886.
IMPORTED.
FROM
MALWA.
TNA.
PERSIAN.
AFRICAN.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
24.16
Piculs.
24.16
Hankow..
Kiukiang....
Chinkiang
Shanghai ...........
4
22
.........
22
5,785
4.80
5,797.80
TOTAL.....
5,835.16
4.80
5,847.96
To
RE-EXPORTED.
.........
Hankow ............
Kiukiang...
Chinkiang ......
Shanghai ....
34
33.50
33.50
TOTAL.....
94.50
96.50
NET IMPORT...........
ORT.........
5,740.66
4.80
5
5,751.46


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TABLE No. 3.-TEA.
Export of Tea, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
DESCRIPTION.
QUANTITY.
DESCRIPTION.
QUANTITY.
Piculs.
Piculs.
136.20
12.97
61.63
113.50
Black, Oolong....
1,937.36
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Green, Young Hyson....
Hyson ......
» Imperial ......
» Gunpowder.........
.
.
.
TOTAL GREEN....
324.30
TABLE No. 4.-IMPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the Import Trade, for the Years 1882 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity
1882.
1883.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Piculs
2,823.41
1.20
3,491.58
3.60
3,659.18
1.20
5,835.16
4,843.90
7.20
1.20
4.80
22
7
Pieces
50,310
45,772
10,945
947
24,755
1,860
3,305
80
1,465
1,780
10,515
41,582
13,000
848
20,659
1,230
3,355
80
990
260
10,625
48,867
20,864
824
21,670
1,095
3,220
23,255
980
18,100
785
3,295
96,280
34,242
915
19,470
1,545
5,440
60
70
509
730
637
340
12,075
459
706
1,010
OPIUM :-
Malwa a.....
.........
Patna.............
Benares
Persian
COTTON Goods :-
Shirtings, Grey..........
.........
» White ...
Dyed, Figured and Brocaded....
T-Cloths......
Drills, American..................
, English ..............
Jeans, American.................
,, English..................
Sheetings, American ...
English.
Lastings, Cotton.........
Twills, Printed .......
Velvets ......................
Handkerchiefs .............
WOOLLEN Goods :-
Camlets, English........
Cloth, Broad and Medium.....
Lastings .....
..............
Long Ells...
Lustres and Orleans, Figured
Spanish Stripes ..........
METALS :-
Iron, Nail-rod.............
. Wire........................
Lead, in Pigs ............
Steel....
Tin, in Slabs.................
Tinplates ............
SUNDRIES :-
Aniseed, Star .......
Bags of all kinds .................
Bicho de Mar, Black ..........
Birds' Nests, 2nd and 3rd Qualities........
395
10,210
120
1,286
1,044
15,208
1,097
1,078
14,632
905
18,851
340
2,859
1,260
16,820
840
1,398
12,837
ens
13,980
Pieces
2,742
2,970
475
3,302
479
2,570
532
325
260
472
3,080
369
3,260
462
3,858
3,120
648
540
5,260
970
1,020
738
951
642
2,800
720
678
1,059
704
702
Piculs
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
5,492.34
240.80
1,082.13
426.67
80.35
336.55
6,619.96
321.20
1,436.26
532.71
100.94
306.58
5,764
285.60
984.04
549.57
6,033.92
481.40
965.09
553.70
66.42
286.48
4,658.64
552
648.14
550.25
44.64
272
93.08
402.68
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
279.43
| 1,012,750
198.39
579,000
263.82
432,750
205.69
41.22
171.81
26.98
191.07
24.31
331.49
1,754,852
187.59
34.96
168.59
3,619,810
264.81
26.73


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
Comparative Table of the Import Trade, for the Years 1882 to 1886—Contd.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity
1882.
1883.
1884
1885.
1886.
Piculs
Pieces
Pičuls
Gross
Val., Hk. Its
Piculs
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Dates......
Fans, Palm-leaf, Trimmed ....
»
Untrimmed ..........
Fungus .................
Ginseng, American, Clarified .
, Japan, Unclassed ..
Grasscloth, Coarse .........
Lung-ngans, Dried....
Matches, Wood ...........
Medicines................
Melon Seeds............
Nankeens ...........
Oil, Bean and Pea .....................
Kerosene...........................
, Sesamum ..................
, Tea ........................
,, Wood..............
Paper, ist Quality .....
Sandalwood........
Sapanwood.
Seaweed and Agar-agar...
Soap, Foreign ............
, Native...............................
Sugar, Brown..........
» White.
..................
Candy............
Talow, Vegetable .........
Tobacco, Prepared ..........
Window Glass..........
Gallons
1,657.98
272,756
1,542,487
557.87
14.26
45.03
1,143.08
2,468.37
22,665
17,774
442.83
1,181.49
2,427.70
110,590
109.90
158.66
5,621.51
529.54
7,441.53
805.65
533.37
3,652
1,001.02
28,046.IO
49,097.20
792.10
1,331.53
19.18
51,100
1,679.26
189,812
1,783,481
368.45
18.10
23.90
714.12
3,195.77
29,300
18,318
3,045.43
944.37
5,339.88
608,800
649.15
Piculs
2,131.08
327,691
2,027,180
427.51
12.90
26.60
886.72
1,814.67
19,840
16,378
4,912.38
693.53
13,521.44
205,940
551.70
76.66
9,479.55
576.89
6,675.39
785.84
520.98
4,242
817.79
35,113.91
53,296.27
825
2,077.87
57.53
67,650
895.15
296,494
1,981,710
426.01
13.90
30.03
623.56
2,667.60
26,775
17,368
2,626.99
920.16
4,051.59
390,980
157.73
290.76
9,924.52
435.33
7,827.26
1,053.99
809.16
3,957
529.91
45,643.70
58,609.62
1,085.50
1,792.76
413.55
50,600
1,698.83
211,958
1,652,140
529.34
17:35
11.57
831.97
2,756.35
37,304
23,287
3,235.29
1,437.33
369.14
593,550
1,339.60
114.30
8,452.97
541
8,639.30
1,072.65
1,620.15
7,589
1,091.37
53,478.50
75,854.17
1,611.62
2,054.58
1,535.31
155,000
350.41
Boxes
Piculs
4,636.79
626.16
8,282.21
339.86
1,159.21
6,772
852.03
46,374.28
60,483.08
878.66
1,166.74
1,130.38
55,800
Są? ft.
TABLE No. 5.-EXPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the Export Trade (including Re-exports), for the Years 1882 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Beans and Peas ......
Piculs
Coal ..............
Tons
721.72
2,091
2,989.86
540.68
1,182.10
451
5,748.36
695.01
399.84
10.93
721.05
15,725
36,096.II
4,079
2,133.31
7,055.34
494.26
717.94
Medicines .....
20,260
Cotton, Raw .......
Piculs
Feathers..........................
Hemp.....
..................
Hides, Buffalo and Cow
:: » » » Refuse.
Val., Hk.Ft
Nutgalls ............
Piculs
Paddy
Paper, ist Quality ............
Rice .................................
Silk, Raw.........................
Piece Goods ...............
Various
Tea, Black..
Green ..........
Tobacco, Prepared ..........
Wheat.......
21,378.09
1,076
4,379.64
1,287.73
813.80
193.70
422.38
26,802
394.58
54,948.32
1,243.29
293,441.73
112.10
1,445.33
4.56
1,849.69
1,528.81
788.73
25,830
1,675.65
12,687.61
1,815.81
652,944.81
147.26
1,099.21
42.09
1,112.41
927.36
1,038.70
19,732.25
6,702
1,057.36
4,073.09
989.01
587.46
161.80
21,614
1,325.72
4,305.95
991.51
1,204,502.41
244.78
1,277.58
104.45
911.18
2,010.08
1,249.33
1,538.78
473,882.02
128.29
1,320.47
36.19
1,396.38
342.54
755.65
1,423.01
2,325,841.12
64.80
1,082.99
156.20
1,937.36
324.30
1,175.41
2,616.96


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CHINKIANG TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
The total value of the trade of this port during 1886 amounted to Hk.Pts. 12,815,581,
which is slightly below the amount shown in the previous year. On looking more closely at
the values under the different heads, it will be found that Foreign Imports, as compared with
1885, show a falling off of Hk.Tts. 691,604; Native Imports, an increase of Hk.fts. 226,894; and
Exports, an increase of Hk.Tts. 399,068.
Though the figures given above do not seem to indicate any improvement in the trade
as compared with 1885, the year just passed must still be considered a fair one. Subsequent to
the uncertainty of the political situation which prevailed in 1884, the Chinese traders regained
confidence in the ensuing year (1885), and great quantities of goods of all kinds reached the
port, in expectation of considerable profits. The market became, however, greatly overstocked,
and the result was a diminished influx of goods in 1886. This diminution would have been
still more serious but for the great demand for Rice during the year, which always gives a
stimulus to the Import trade.
SHIPPING.–The increase in the shipping has been unusually great. During the year
2,126 steamers, representing 2,142,456 tons, entered and cleared, against 1,602 steamers, 1,685,460
tons, in 1885. Of lorchas and, junks, 1,400, representing 185,596 tons, entered and cleared,
against 1,184, 166,010 tons, in 1885. Nearly 100 steamers entered the port to load Rice here
and at Wuhu, of which number 12 loaded here, 50 at Wuhu, and 36 partly at Wuhu and
partly here. The freight obtained on Rice by steamers to Hongkong and Canton was i mace
2 candareens or i mace 3 candareens per picul; by river steamers to Shanghai, 5 candareens
per picul,—a slight improvement on the rates ruling the previous year. Of Tea steamers, there
passed 18 during the season, or one less than in 1885. Of these, 15 were British, clearing for
London, and 3 Russian, for Odessa (2) and London (1).
The increase in the number of lorchas and junks entered and cleared, already referred
to above, amounted to 216, representing 19,586 tons. A good demand for lorchas prevailed
during the months of June and July, when the export of Rice commenced and before the
chartered steamers could arrive. An increase in the duty on Rice, put in force from the 28th
June last—which will be referred to again below,—caused several shipments of Rice to be made
in lorchas to Shanghai for transhipment to the South, so as to avoid the half duty charged
on the produce when shipped by river steamers.
On the 16th March last Mr. McBain's hulk Hieronymus was moored in the berth
assigned to her off the British Settlement, and astern the hulk Cadiz.
IMPORTS.—Cotton Goods. In most of the qualities of Cotton Goods imported there is a
general falling off as compared with 1885. Grey and White Shirtings show a decrease of 73,202
pieces; T-Cloths, 7,738 pieces ; Chintzes, 3,887 pieces; and Turkey Red Cloths, 9,351 pieces.
Sheetings and Drills show an increase of 21,941 pieces, thus counterbalancing, to some extent,
the above diminution. Native-dyed Cloth continues to improve, and is more and more preferred


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to Turkey Red Cloths. The Dyed Cloth appearing in our statistics is imported from Swatow,
but I am told that a supply is also drawn locally, several dyeing establishments having of late
been set up here. The business of the local merchants in the Cotton trade of the port has
of late years been greatly curtailed, on the ground that their principal customers, the Honan and
Shantung merchants, who mainly drew their supplies from this market, now prefer purchasing
direct in Shanghai, and confine themselves to brokers for passing the goods through the Customs
and for conveying them to the interior.
Woollen Goods.—The trade in Woollen Goods does not call for any comment beyond
mentioning that Lastings fell off 4,100 pieces and Figured Lustres increased 4,400 pieces.
Opium.—Opium exhibits a decrease, 6,763 piculs having been imported, or 1,537 piculs
less than during the previous year and 4,136 piculs less than during 1884, the average importa-
tion of Opium at this port previous to the year 1885 fluctuating between 10,000 and 11,000
piculs. The decrease of the year under review falls mainly on Malwa, the quantity imported
of Patna and Benares remaining nearly the same. Persian, which approaches the Native drug
most in cheapness, shows an increase of 75 chests. The steady decrease of the last two years is
easily explained by the fact that previous to that period a low Likin (Its. 32) was charged, while
since May 1885 the local authorities have tried to enforce by every means the payment of the
full Likin (its. 86). Hence an active and clandestine distribution of the drug was carried on
from Shanghai overland, also by passengers in river steamers, by lorchas, etc. Considerable
quantities were also imported in Native boats under Likin passes from Wuhu, where the Likin
was from its. 7 to its. 12 less than here. In consequence of this, the trade was very dull,-par-
ticularly during the earlier part of the year. From September to the end of the year the trade
improved somewhat, owing to the reported failure of the Native crop of Opium, a circumstance
which may affect favourably the trade during the ensuing year, as the new crop cannot be
looked for before October next. About 1,200 chests were imported during the year by Foreigners
without the payment of Likin. The prices of Malwa did not vary greatly during the year;
they ranged between Its. 375 and Its. 390 for new Malwa, and between Its. 390 and its. 415
for old. Patna and Benares, on the other hand, fluctuated more, the prices varying between
Its. 365 and Tts. 415 for the former and Tts. 355 and Tts. 410 for the latter.
Metals.—Metals show an improvement in nearly all branches as regards quantities
imported. Still, merchants complain of losses, especially in Nail-rod and Bar Iron, and great
quantities remain in stock unsold.
Sundries.-Among Sundries, Matches show an improvement upon the previous year of
15,000 gross, 108,000 gross having been imported. Window Glass has increased by 584 boxes ;
Wood Oil, 25,253 piculs; and Prepared Tobacco, 2,704 piculs. Kerosene Oil continues to be an
important article of trade. During the short space of four years this trade has tripled, about
400,000 gallons having been imported in 1883, against 1,200,000 gallons during the year under
review. This flourishing trade may, however, receive a check from the deteriorated consign-
ments with which the market was stocked during the earlier part of the year. Lung-ngans
showed a decrease,—which is due to a scanty crop in Fukien and enhanced prices demanded
there in consequence. The Sugar trade remained much the same as in 1885, with the excep-
tion of a slight decrease in White Sugar and a corresponding increase in Sugar Candy. This
trade suffered to some extent from the difficulties experienced subsequent to the levy of an extra
Likin at some of the Southern ports. Tobacco Leaf has of late years found its way hither in
small chartered junks from Kiukiang, to save the expenses of transhipment entailed if river


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145
steamers were made use of. Quite a large fleet of these boats arrive here just before the
Chinese New Year, are entered and cleared at the Custom House, and at once brought past
the adjoining Likin stations, to benefit by the exemption of duty accorded on that day. The
Viceroy has, however, taken steps to stop this practice in future, so no doubt the shipment
of the cargo by river steamers will be resumed.
EXPORTS.—The value of our Export trade has been greatly increased by the large
shipments during the year of Rice and Wheat, called for by the drought in the Kwangtung
province. 800,000 piculs were exported; this amount included 300,000 piculs which were passed
free under Huchaos and went North. From the 28th June last a Coast Trade Duty of 5
candareens per picul, sanctioned some 20 years ago, but never carried into force till now, was
levied on Rice. This new impost did not materially affect the trade, for most of the Rice
was shipped in ocean-going steamers paying Coast Trade Duty at the port of destination-
Canton,—where, I am told, the extra duty was not insisted upon. On account of this additional
levy, little or no Rice was shipped by river steamer, as in that case, according to practice, the
for transhipment at Shanghai, and made good freights. The prices on clean Rice averaged
between its. 1.5.0.0 and Its. 1.9.0.0 per shih, and on the coarser qualities between Its. 1.2.0.0
and its. 1.4.0.0. Wuhu being open to trade, there is no chance of Chinkiang ever regaining
its old importance in the Rice business so long as the tax-referred to in previous Reports-
continues to be levied on Native Rice boats passing Nanking.
Of other Exports, Lily Flowers show an increase. This is not due to any improvement
in the trade, but simply to the fact that this commodity suffered a good deal during the rainy
season, and had to be disposed of at any price rather than be rendered unfit for use by
remaining too long in store. Considerable quantities of Melon Seeds and Red Dates, about
6,000 piculs of the former and 14,000 piculs of the latter, were sent this season by river
steamers to Shanghai, owing to the increasing shallowness of the Grand Canal. The trade
in Refuse Silk, which has languished for some years, is again reviving, 900 piculs having been
exported of this commodity during the year.
TRANSIT.—The Transit trade, both Inwards and Outwards, still continues to prosper,
the total value of the former during the year being Hk.Its. 3,746,207, and of the latter
Hk.Tts. 374,868, showing an increase as compared with 1885 of Hk.Tts. 251,107. Some complaints
have been made by the merchants of this port regarding the unequal footing on which they are
placed with reference to the issue of Outward passes as compared with merchants at Shanghai.
At the latter port there is no time limited between the issue of the passes and the production
of the goods at the Customs, while at Chinkiang a bond has to be given guaranteeing the
arrival of the goods within six months, or the pass will be cancelled. It is naturally more
advantageous for the merchants to trade under Shanghai passes, so that articles not purchased
at one season can be postponed to another. This state of things obviously hampers the trade
here, and seems to deserve some consideration.
REVENUE.—The total Revenue amounted to Hk.Tts. 254,702.9.4.3, being a gain of
Hk.Tts. 70,406.2.8.3 over that of 1885. There was an appreciable increase under the heading
of Coast Trade of Hk.Pts. 11,462.7.8.0, under Export of Hk.Pts. 53,665.5.7.5, and under Tonnage
Dues of Hk.Pts. 2,852.0.6.3.
GENERAL.—The trade of the present year, as shown in the preceding analysis, is, considered
as a whole, satisfactory. In spite of the unfavourable circumstances already recorded, Native
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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
Imports and Exports exhibit increases, and the small falling off in the value of the Foreign
importation may be mostly imputed to the peculiarities of the Opium trade during the last
two years, which are likely to come to an end soon. Still, all interested in the prosperity
of the port must not, however beneficial to the community, place the municipal interests above
the commercial ones; on the contrary, they must put forth all their energy, and bear in mind
that Wuhu is yearly progressing, and partly so at the expense of Chinkiang. Undoubtedly
the consumers in the interior will come finally to the port where more activity is displayed
and more facilities afforded.
The climate of the year was particularly good; the summer, hotter than usual, was
followed by such a beautiful autumn as is seldom witnessed.
A. NOVION,
Commissioner of Customs.
CHINKIANG, 7th February 1887.


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147
CHINKIANG TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
Total ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo.
| In Ballast.
Total.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
No.
Tons. No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
NO.
10ns.
| No. 1 Tons.
No.
Tons.
622
556,002
234,089 92
220,807 104
43,912 316 278,001 143 169,688 173 108,313
56,844 | 314 277,651 195 212,284 119
316 278,001
314 277,651
555,302
12
12,357 | 48 |
57,059
69,416
31
3,080
57
66,336
69,416
120
138,832
BRITISH :--
Steamers under River Steamer
Pass-Up River...............
Steamers under River Steamer
Pass-Down River ...........
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass
from and to Treaty Ports-
Up River. .............
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass
from Foreign countries and
to Treaty Ports--Up River)
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass
from and to Treaty Ports-
Down River..........
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass
from Treaty Ports and to
Foreign countries--Down
River ...........................
Steamers from and to Treaty /
Ports—Chinkiang only.....
22,777
17
22,777 ...
...
| 17
22,777
17
22,777
45,554
62
65,185
63
66,081 31
33,368
32
32,713
63
66,081
126
132,162
27,117
16
27,117|...
16
27,117
161 27,117|
54,234
3/
5
4,308
5
4,308 ... |
5
4,308
8,616
127,771
2
122,308
6
258,106
1,282
2,772
102 129,052
102 128,595
96
96
129,053
102 128,595
125,823
121,828
6,767
257,190
ESE:
Steamers under River Steamer
Pass --Up River .........
Steamers under River Steamer
Pass--Down River
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass
from and to Treaty Ports-
Up River .........
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass
from and to Treaty Ports-
Down River ..................
Steamers from and to Treaty
Ports-Chinkiang only......
2,422
5,525
7,947
...
8
7,947
7,947
15,894
8,698
8,698
2
2,473
71
6,22
8,698
17,396
920
3,891
4,811
61
4,811 ... 1
4,811
9,622


148 TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS,1886.
Numberand Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared undereach Flag一Con*
STEAMERS,
ENTERED INwARDS. CLEARED OUTwARDS. -
- ToTAL ENTERED
FTAG。 - - - - - - -,- - - AND
WithCargo. In Balast。 ToTAL WithCargo.| In Balast。 ToTAL。 CLEARED.
- - 1
No. Tons,| No.| Tons, No Tons,1No.| Tons,|No.| Tons,| No.| Tons, No. Tons。
GERMAN:一 ​*
SteamersunderChinkiangPass 同
​fromandtoTreaty *} 6 5,671 6 567r|… -- 6 5,671 6 5.671| 12 II,342
Up River…………………
8teamersunderChinkiangPass
from Foreign Countries 部} 9 9389 9 9389|… -- 9 9389 9 9389 18 18778
toTrentyPorts一Up River
8teamersunderChinkiangPass
} 1,146| 14| 13914| 15 15,06o 4 5,157| 11 9.903 15 15.o6o 30 30,120
I
from andtoTreatyPorts一
​Dom River……………
*器器*}|·| … 796| 79 7%|…| … 79 °| 马9°
8teamers from Foreign Coun- -
tries and to Treaty 鲇} T 824|… - I 824 1 824|… -- 1 824 2 1,648|
RussIAN:一
​8teamersunderChinkiangPass
from Foreign Countries 部} 3| 4825 3 48251… - 3 4,825 3 4825 6 965o
toTreatyPorts一Up River
8teamersunderChinkiangPass }
from Treaty Ports and to
Foreign Countries一Dmm
3 4825 3 482引… - - 3| 4825| 3| 4825 6 965o
River………………………
- |
DANIsH:一 ​h
- 构
​8teamersunderChinkiangPass | -
fromand toTreaty Ports一 ​】 769 T 769|… -- I 769 T 769 2 1,538|
Up River……………
8teamersunderChinkiang Pass R *
from Foreign Countriesand 【中 ​769| 2 1,538 3 2,3O7 … - 3 2,307 3 2,3O7 6 46r4
to Treaty Ports一Up River -
8teamersunderChinkiang Pass
fromandtoTreaty Ports一
​Doun River …………….…
3 23o7 3 2,3O7 1 769| 2 T,538 3 2,307| 6 46r41
TotalSteamers…… 6551 * 34o465|ro63|ro71,228|584|681,694|479 拟° 1,o71,228|2,126|2,142,456
艳 ​卜 ​-
SAILINGVESSELS,
AMERICAN:一
​SaingVesselsunderChinkiang -
端 ​and to *} 18 3,128 16 3276 34 64O4 7 1,o71 27 5,333 34 64o4 68 12,8o8
Ports一Up River.…………
浣臀} 34| 625o 2 6oo| 36| 685o 24|,4517 12| 2,333 36| 685o| 72 T3,700
Pass from and to Treaty
Ports一Down River.………
BRITIsH:一
​8aingVesselsunder 呜} 2,267 13 2 623 26 5 246 -
2 》 》 -
2
3
5
6
I
I
Pass from and to Treaty 6 r,o67 7 1,556| 13 2,623
Ports一Up River.…………
SaingVesselsunder 漩}
Pass from and to Treaty 【 131 16 3,2O3 9 1,891 7 1,312 16 3,2O3 32 6406
Ports一Down River.………


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149
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag—Cont'.
SAILING VESSELS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo. 1
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
No.
Tons. No.. Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
Tons.
No.
Tons. No.
Tons.
|| No.
Tons.
7,294 73
14,502
110
21,796
12
2,263
98 19,533) 110
21,796
220
43,592
CHINESE:-
Sailing Vessels under Chinkiang)
Pass from and to Treaty
Ports-Up River ..............)
Sailing Vessels under Chinkiang
Pass from and to Treaty
Ports-Down River..........
Sailing Vessels from and to
Treaty Ports -- Chinkiang
only ......
8
17,676
16
3,165
106
20,841 47
9,824
59 11,017 | 106
20,841| 212 |
41,682
0
540
... |
...
540
12
1,080
6
1,008
0
1,950 2
1,950
2
330
1,620
12
1,950
1,950
24
3,900
GERMAN :-
Sailing Vessels under Chinkiang)
Pass from and to Treaty
Ports-Up River .............
Sailing Vessels under Chinkiang)
Pass from and to Treaty
Ports-Down River.....
Bailing Vessels from and to
Treaty Ports --- Chinkiang
only
942 12
488 11
3
1,7866
II
1,786|
3,572
794|
8 |
794||
16
1,588
2,0774
9
1,429
13
2,077
26
4,154
SPANISH :-
Sailing Vessels under Chinkiang)
Pass from and to Treaty
Ports-Up River .............
Sailing Vessels under Chinkiang
Pass from and to Treaty
Ports--Down River..........
Sailing Vessels from and to
Treaty Ports - Chinkiang
only
1,857)
9
3,714
814) 11
814
1,628
309
21,080 ...
42,160
CHINESE :-
Junks under Special Junk Pass U
--Chinkiang only ............
Junks under Special Junk Pass
from and to Treaty Ports
Down River .......
...
183 ...
... 309 21,080 309
... | 3 1830 31
21,080 618
183|| 6
| 3
1833
366
Total Sailing Vessels.... 572
67,785 128
25,013
700
92,798147
25,445 553 67,353 700
92,798 1,400
185,596
GRAND TOTAL......... 1,227 798,548 536
365,478 1,763 1,164,026731 707,239 1,032 456,887 1,763 1,164,026 3,526
2,328,052


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF CHINKIANG,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
Hk.fts
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts.
FOREIGN GOODS.
13,206
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong......
Imported from Chinese Ports ....
Total Foreign Imports..........
8,315,969
8,457,502
7,734,569
8,315,969
8,457,502
7,747,775
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong...
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Shang-1
hai, Hankow, and Kiukiang) .......................
Total Foreign Re-exports ..........
44,454
79,942
61,819
44,454
79,942
61,819
Net Total Foreign Imports...........
8,271,515
8,377,560
7,685,956
2,847,648
3,067,066
3,322,080
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Shanghai, Hankow, and
Kiukiang).
Re-exported to Foreign Countries...........
Re-exported to Chinese Ports...
Total Native Re-exports ......
10,657
11,243
39,363
10,657
11,243
39,363
Net Total Native Imports ...........
2,836,991
3,055,823
3,282,717
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries ..........
...........
976,425
1,447,840
1,846,908
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports ................
Total Exports of local origin....
976,425
1,447,840
1,846,908
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port ...
12,140,042
12,972,408
12,916,763
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native | 12,084,931
Exports of local origin ......
12,881,223
12,815,581


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TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.-Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fls.
Hk.Fls.
Hk.fts
III
49,506
OPIUM:
Malwa ..........
............. Piculs
Patna
Benares .................
Persian .........................
Hk.fts.
6,10470 2,710,487
322 80 146,874
370 80 166,118
26,730
1,902
538
330
H.As.
5,99320 2,660,981
320 40 145,782
36960 165,580
26,400
480
594
887,965
108,409
2,490
4,478
1,421,224
239,094
5,229
9,404
22,380
80,495
16,537
106,966
192
1,420,744
238,500
5,229
9,404
22,188
80,495
16,537
106,911
o
55
888,265
108,679
2,490
4,478
75,042
29,813
7,190
97,242
39,890
32,470
1,170
59,981
29,142
520
2,802
1,080
1,777
55,846
COTTON GOODS: -
Shirtings, Grey.....
Pieces
White, Plain......
19 Dyed, . ......
» Figured ....
, Native - dyed
(Hongkong).. )
Sheetings, American ........
English...
T-Cloths.
Drills, English .......
, American .........
Jeans and Twills .....
Chintzes and Furnitures ......
Turkey Red Cloths or
Cambrics...
Damasks, Dyed ..........
Velvets .....................
Velveteens.
Lawns and Muslins...
Mahomedans........
Cotton Handkerchiefs Dozens
,, Thread .......... Piculs
Towels .........
Dozens
Yarn...
Piculs
Cottonades or
Cottons,
Cottons, pie
Pieces
Unclassed................
55,846
SC
390
74,402
29,813
7,190
97,192
39,890
32,470
1,170
59,681
28,942
520
2,802)
1,080
1,7771
160
35,503
200
81,175
1,989
77,975
32,056
1,664
15,691
6,372
1,066
220
81,175
1,989
77,585
31,836
1,664
15,691
6,372
1,066
160
312
312
35,703
200
100
62 49
17,852
2,925
3,500
4,761
7,556
6249
13,734
13,734
179
4,705
17,752
2,925
3,500
4,601
7,556
ΙόοΙ
173
4,705
281
674
3,799
931
80
1,953
306
WOOLLEN GOODS:
Blankets.
Pairs
Camlets, English .......
Pieces
Dutch...............
Cloth, Broad and Medium...
,, Russian.
Spanish Stripes.
Lastings.............
39 Cotton ..........
, Crape ...............
Long Ells ...........
Lustres and Orleans, Figured
281
3,780
80
1,941
170
6,396
170
106
6,408
4,810
40,128
674
35,247
1,840
49,802
3,502
57,031
29,341
104,333
220
34,000
59,667
2,280
4,538
1,440
4,810
104
35,154
1,840
49,496
3,502
56,925
29,341
104,229
220
34,000
59,505
2,280
4,538
1,440
40,088
40
8,500
22,039
760
372
8,500
22,099
162
Plain...
760
372
Flannels
Woollen & Cotton Mixtures
240
240
METALS:
Brass Wire ......
Copper, Japan ....
Sheets ...............
3,632
17,921
Wire..
4,988
348
4,988
348
185 29
968 731
24571
1772
39,065 54
3,98178
4,039 40
28,65498
1210
Iron, Nail-rod.
Bar, Flat and Round...
Wire ....................
Old ....................
Manufactured or Ware
76
185293,632
968 73 17,921
24571
1772
39,06554 62,505
3,93978 7,091
4,039 40 15,350
28,38 103) 35,786
1210 144
62,505
7,167
15,350
36,141
144
27395


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.— Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONG KONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hl.Fts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Ats
Hk. Hts.
1,969
Hk. Its
1,969
METALS, continued:-
Iron, in Pigs .... ..........
. Hoop .......
Lead, in Pigs.....
Quicksilver .........
Piculs
380
380
35,708
:
656 40
22384
10,820 74
2063
3,96195
200
10120
33183
242 09
35,708
825
12,282
Steel ....
656 40
22384
10,820 74
2063
3,961 95
200
10120
33183
23167
:
Spelter
860
825
12,282
860
2,500
996
3,873
:
2,500
996
3,706
1042 -
167
Tin, in Slabs
Tinplates .................
Yellow Metal..................
Metals, Manufactured, Un-
classed, as Brass Buttons,
Brassware, Brass-foil,
Tin Compound, Tin-foil,
etc.
Value
6,656
155
6,501
Piculs
1,221 84
5409
103,000
1,213,950
1839
095
8,000
3,000
.........
75884
3074
2,001 35
2586
4/49
043
120
Piculs
3,208
Tons
Piculs
650
SUNDRIES :-
Aniseed, Star.
Awabi or Shell-fish....
Bags, Gunny and Hemp..... Pieces
, Mat and Straw ........
Betel-nuts .............
Bicho de Mar, Black .........
Birds' Nests, 2nd Quality ...
2. 2 3rd , ..
Braid ...........
Boxes
Camphor....
Cardamoms, Inferior.....
Cassia Lignea ...........
Chinaware, Fine...........
Coarse ...........
Clams, Dried .....
Clocks and Watches Pieces
Coal, Foreign .......
Compoy ...........
Cuttle-fish .........
Dye-stuff...
Bottles
Fans, Palin-leaf, Trimmed... Pieces
, Untrimmed
Fish Maws...
.....................
Flints.
Galangal.........
Ginseng, American, Clarified
Indigo, Liquid ..........
Isinglass ...
Lamps and Lanterns Pieces
Lead, White..
Piculs
Yellow ..............
Lichees .......
Lung-ngan Pulp..
Lung-ngans, Dried ...
Mangrove Bark.......
Matches...........
Gross
Mats, Straw and Tea......... Pieces
Medicines.......
Piculs
Mushrooms
Mussels, Dried ....
Needles ..................
Oil, Kerosene.................
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
17,350
1,226
4,644
38,846
2,807
79,053
5,164
21,818
1,335
1,520
3,677
3,258
29,050
4,112
2,708
1,205
7,494
1,520
1,728
37,831
2,757
14,118
1,313
1,084
9,397
1,046
10,452
2,693
22,095
1,508
3,650
4,263
1,233
3,064
7,659
3,241
39,333
12,076
8,704
18,985
23,899
10,711
124,554
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
4,60d
77 92
3,900
7071
18386
24874
1,452 50
41117
406 08
732
1,102
8265
17999
271,789
306,312
2,352,980
3367
108 37
7,831
34861
1802
561
1,207 36
6,859
65177
645 96
22413
24912
765 89
1,62071
108,130
109,780
1,641 76
632 83
1,636 91
80,860
1,204,860
261 1,20345
22 5314
721 95,000
96|1,210,950
I14 72810
1,021 1,975.491
449
7749
3,900
7071
18186
24494
1,443 90
41117
406 08
720
1,102
80 59
177 391
271,139
306,312
2,348,380
3367
106 30
7,831
34861
1802
561
124
1,200 58
6,8591
64982
64596
22413
267
227 45
76589
1,620 71
107,630
109,780
1,63869
63212
1,633881
79,860
1,204,860
17,089
1,204
3,923
38,750
2,693
78,032
5,164
21,698
.1,335
1,520
3,637
28,878
4,112
2,708
1,183
7,494
1,468
1,703
37,777
2,757
14,090
1,313
1,063
9,397
1,046
10,452
2,693
21,971
1,508
3,639
4,263
1,233
2,797
7,659
3,241
39,226
12,076
8,629
18,964
23,853
10,591
124,554
,,
Skins
951
2167
500
3071
071
303
1,000
120


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TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.— Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
TO
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
Hk. Pts
Hk.fts
40842
64
106
79682
1,753
Hk.fts.
3,063
5,914
1,165
38,686
1,286
8,381
50,770
40,685
42,135
1,580
20,256
541,081
61,441
398,016
5,498
2,616
16,600
7145
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Oranges, Preserved ........ Piculs
Paper, ist Quality..
Peel, Orange .........
Pepper, Black........
Raisins ................
Rattans................
Sandalwood ............
Sapanwood....
Seaweed......
Sharks' Fins, Black...
» » White....
Sugar, Brown...........
Candy..
1. White ...........
Sulphuric Acid .........
Timber, Planks, Hard-wood Pieces
Soft-wood Sq. feet
Umbrellas, Alpaca ............ Pieces
% Cotton............
Vermilion........................ Piculs
Window Glass ................... 89. feet
Wood, Laka........................ Piculs
, Red ......................
Sundries, Unenumerated ....
ted .Value
604
:::::::::::::::::::::
3,17098
· 163 36
2,32823
20,30807
19,373 86
19,15247
3763
25008
180,360 51
7,14435
75,097 30
1,892 711
436
132,802
13,020
15,439
18343
310,800
63385
50515
408 42
19077
19816
3,15293
153171
2,29881
20,27918
19,37386
18,35565
3763
24263
180,360 51
7,144 35
75,097 39
1,892 71
436
132,802
13,020
15,439
18343
310,800
63150
505151
HK.fts
3,063
5,914
1,130
38,466
1,222
8,275
50,698
40,685
40,382
1,580
19,652
541,081
61,441
398,016
5,498
2,616
16,600
5,208
4,632
5,319
9,324
2,336
1,061
25,909
5,208
4,632
5,319
9,324
2,345
1,061
26,094
185
TOTAL................ Hk.fts
7,747,775
61,819
7,685,956
SUMMARY.
13,206
7,734,569
-Hk.fts 7,747,775
IMPORTS from Hongkong......
.......... Hk. Pts. 13,206
Total from Foreign Countries ........
Hk.Pt
Imports from Chinese Ports...........
......... „
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS.............
RE-EXPORTS to Hankow....................................... Hk. It's
1,056
„Kiukiang .................................... ,
2,716
„ Wuhu ..........................................
1 1,052
„ Shanghai ............
46,995
Total to Chinese Ports............
-Hk.fts
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS ......
.
.
.
.
.
.
61,819
-Hk.fts
61,819
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS......
Hk.fits
7,685,956
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REPOR
TRADE RETURNS, 1886.
REPORTS AND TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
FROM
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
HONGKONG.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
HK.fts.
Hl.fts
Hl.fts.
Hk. Hts.
480
Piculs
2617
Tons
1,281
474411
1 59
940
3,867
1302
781
1,054
16064
2,402 03
55,498
32,100
1,09905
49 381
18686
19,767 50
60410
1,42573
2,26769
2,371 |
70071
261 18
1,441 41
5,313 57
136 04
236 38
2,679 18
2,41905
1,166
1916
11497
40 20
518 12
2,480 62
90,198
9,261 26
41 |
960 34
30,539 50
· 3,475
52,704
22,695
188 80
31789
32313
1,502 93
245 42
101 58
3,316
7,75546
36,619
7949
035
351 76
155,51865
758 52
852 52
684,546
82773
3,334 43
83
4616
Almonds ........... ............. Piculs
Alum, Green..............
mn
Bags, Gunny and Hemp........
Pieces
, Mat and Straw .....
Bamboo Shoots..
Brass-foil................
Buttons, Brass .............
Charcoal .......
China-root.....
Cloth, Native, and Nankeens...,
Clothing, Old....
Coal, Native....
Dates, Black ...
Piculs
, Preserved
, Red ...........
Dye-stuff...........
Fire-crackers..........
Fish Maws.
Fruit, Fresh ..........
Fungus .................
Furniture .........................
Pieces
Ginseng, Native................ Piculs
Glassware..
Glue, Fish
Grasscloth, Fine.
, Coarse.........
Gypsum..........
Hemp ...........
Horns, Deer, Young ....
Indigo, Liquid ..........
Ironware ..........
Jadestoneware.........
Kittysols or Paper Umbrellas
Lamps and Lanterns ..
Lead, White....
.. Yellow ....................
Lichees ...................
Lily Seed or Lotus-nuts ......
Liquorice.
Lung-ngan Pulp.......
Lung-ngans, Dried .............
Medicines..............
Mirrors and Dressing-cases..... Pieces
Mushrooms
Musk.
Mussels, Dried .........
Oil, Wood..
Olives ...........
Oranges, Preserved ....
Ornaments, Cap .....
Pieces
Paper, ist Quality ...
Piculs
2nd . ..........
, Joss .........
Peel, Orange ...........
Rhubarb..
Rice.......................
Safflower ...............
Sharks' Fins, White .....
Silk Ribbon
194
1,927
1,921
1,608
1,027
4,331
2,024
7,475
12,009
2,719
42,772
10,072
14,700
1,892
2,715
3,892
-5,437
1,660
9,220
2,758
44,993
1,022
1,074
2,241
1,045
31,087
74,418
36,079
38,897
2,050
4,610
62,048
2,088
4,216
2,299
1,057
2,098
1,777
16,532
1,325
1,250
33,160
49,358
2,059
2,384
4,970
5,136
933,III
1,896
6,394
1,778
25,659
13,337
1,070
2,846
1,220
29,147
15,826
1,692
18,452
Hk.fts.
155 84 1,869
2,402 03 1,921
55,498 1,608
32,100 1,027
1,095 33 4,320
4938 2,024
18686 7,475
19,767 50 12,009
60410 2,719
1,399 56
41,987
2,26769 10,072
2,3711 14,700
226 30 611
259 59 2,698
1,432 01
5,313 57 5,437
136 04 1,660
23562 9,190
2,679 18 2,758
2,38419 44,344
1,166 1,022
1916 1,074
11497 2,241
4020 1,045
50510 30,306
2,445 50 73,364
90,198 36,079
9,215 10 38,703
41 2,050
960 34
4,610
29,198 15 59,464
3,475
52,704 4,216
22,695 2,299
18880 1,057
31789 2,098
323 13 1,777
1,497 35 16,471
245 42 1,325
101 58 1,250
3,269 32,690
7,70581 48,941
36,619 2,059
7878 2,363
4,970
34894 5,095
155,498 17 932,988
758 52 1,896
84770
6,358
684,546 1,778
796 76 24,699
3,330 94
13,323
83 1,070
498 53 2,841
153 32
1,073
2,38960
3,107
15,826
2089 1,692
38 26
18,452
1,341 35
2,584
Preces
2,088
470
417
035
- 3097
- 349
960
14
49948
095
:::::::::
21
20,03091
17432
22,420 51
292 04
2089
26,040
38 26


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TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

RE-EXPORTS
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
CHINESE PORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value. | Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Fts
170
829
3780
Silk Piece Goods........... Piculs
and Cotton Mixtures .......
Skin Coats, Sheep............. Pieces
Soap, Native.....
Piculs
Steel, Flint ................
Sugar, Brown............
Candy..........
White ...........
Sulphur...........
Tallow, Animal..
Vegetable...
Timber, Coffin-wood ..........
Pieces
Planks, Soft-wood..... Sq. ft.
Poles ........
Pieces
Spars.....
Tobacco, Leaf ................
,, Prepared ....
Stalk..........
Turmeric................
Varnish ...
Walnuts...........
Wax, White ..................
Sundries, Unenumerated....... Value
TOTAL............. Hk.THE
Hk.Tts
80 99
39,524
13682 18,881
17,316 30,481
2,696 23 4,130
656 59 2,100
81,803 53 245,410
5,512 44 47,406
80,623 84 427,306
8001 4,000
43171 2,072
50,491 02 323,142
45,4481 29,930
151,454
18,931
69,601 90,481
1,481 4,703
44,219 99 132,660
10,41866 164,614
2,75048 3,719
2,130 371 5,752
1,36360 54,271
2,09527 6,630
638 94
29,072
25,005
::::::::::
352
7929
13682
17,316
2,696 23
656 59
81,76573
5,512 44
80,623 84
800
43171
50,487 50
45,448
151,454
69,601
1,481
44,20991
10,337 84
2,75048
2,122 23
1,35804
1,992 57
63894
HK.fts
38,695
18,881
30,481
4,130
2,100
245,297
47,406
427,306
4,000
2,072
323, 120
29,930
18,931
90,481
4,703
132,630
163,337
3,719
5,730
54,050
6,379
29,072
24,211
Piculs
1,277
1008
80 82
8 14
556
10270
22
221
251
794
... 3,322,080
39,363
3,282,717
SUMMARY.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1,931,201
268,844
9,151
1,112,884
– Hk.fts
3,322,080
-Hk.Its
3,322,080
IMPORTS from Hankow......................................... Hk.Its.
» Kiukiang.
, Wuhu ....
...................................
, Shanghai .........
................
Total from Chinese Ports............
TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS...........
RE-EXPORTS to Hankow.....
.....Hk. Its
„ Kiukiang...............
„ Wuhu..
,, Shanghai .................
„ Canton..............
Total to Chinese Ports .................-
TOTAL NATIVE RE-EXPORTS .....
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1,573
341
2,212
21,795
13,442
- Hk.Its.
.
.
.
.
.
.
39,363
-Hk. Tts
39,363
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS..
..Hk.Its
3,282,717


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES,
HONGKONG, AND
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
(including Re-exports).
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Aits.
Hk.fits.
Hk.Fts
1,848
7,435 35
112,628 48
5850
1,281
47441
9|40
251
Pieces
Hk.Fts.
5,205
99,518
1,404
4,856
15,519
3,804
4,120
8,269
1,300
1,309
26,022
51,741
1,683
4067
394
2660
258
1,341 35
2,584
3,282
2,300
Pieces
Beancake.
Piculs
Beans and Peas .............
Copper and Pewter Ware ......
Dates, Black and White......
2, Red ............
Eggs, Preserved .................
Fans, Paper .............
Feathers ...............
Piculs
Flower Plants......
Pieces
Glue, Cow.............. .Piculs
Hams................
Hides, Buffalo and Cow...
Ironware, Old....
Leather Strips .......
Lily Flowers, Dried.......
Mattresses, Skin ..............
Meats, Dried and Preserved... Piculs
Medicines......
Melon Seeds ..........
Nutgalls ............
Paper, ist Quality .....
Prawns, Dried ........
Rice...........................
,,Duty-free ...........
, Tribute ...............
Rugs ........
Pieces
Seed, Sesamum ...........
Piculs
Silk, Raw and Thrown........
, Wild Raw ..........
Cocoons, Refuse...
. Refuse ...............
» Piece Goods ...
Tallow, Animal
Turnips, Salted.
Vegetables, Dried and Salted..
Walnuts ...........................
7,435 35
110,575 52
5850
1,79870
5,747 74
679,310
137,328
1,81619
6,972
192 51
2,682671
4,38484
3,323 48
57907
55,282 69
1,828
29768
13,608 62
14,04606
16806
9176
22381
425,17605
285,87681
18,822 51
2,863
1,604 87
1885
1558
231 47
65869
74331
1,871 01
1,909 36
722 25
1,716 35
75,736 34
4965
2,27311
5,757 14
679,310
137,328
1,816 191
6,972
19251
2,749 94
4,384 84
4,664 83
57907
57,582 69
*1,8281
297 68
13,65827
14,04606
206 83
12273
22381
445,206 96
285,876 81
18,822 51
2,863
1,604 87
Hl.Ita
5,205
101,366
1,404
6,137
15,544
3,804
4,120
8,269
1,300
1,309
26,674
51,741
4,267
3,282
172,748
1,415
2,669
42,925
63,207
1,614
3,804
1,969
578,769
371,640
24,469
2,102
3,851
5,353
1,246
5,670
20,419
242,405
8,980
4,009
5,223
4,627
60,589
22,146
303
960
165,848
1,415
2,669
42,508
63,207
1,311
2,844
1,969
552,729
371,640
24,469
2,102
3,851
5,353
1,246
5,670
20,419
241,576
8,980
4,009
5,223
4,376
60,589
15,731
3877
3097
20,03091
26,040
1885
15.58
23147
65869
74501
1,87101
1,909 36
722 25
1,819 05
75,73634
102 70
Wheat ...........
Sundries, Unenumerated........ Value
6,415
TOTAL ................. Hk. Its
9,142
1,837,766
...........
39,363
1,886,271


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SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
To-
Hk.fts.
Hk. Fita
Hk. Pts.
Hk.Tts
Hk. Tis.
Hk. Aits
Hongkong for Chinese Ports .........
9,142
9,142
Tientsin ..........
138,900
138,900
Hankow ...........
120,385
1,573
121,958
Kiukiang.......
2,538
341
2,879
Wuhu .........
14,274
2,212
16,486
Shanghai .....
.................
.........
818,535
21,795
840,330
Ningpo ........
....
483
483
Canton..
......................
742,651
13,442
756,093
Total to Chinese Ports ..........
-
1,846,908
39,363
1,886,271
GRAND TOTAL....
1,846,908
39,363
1,886,271


158
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
a.—Table showing Quantity and Value of each Description of Foreign Goods sent Inland under
Transit Passes by each Nationality during the Year 1886.
AMERICAN
BRITISH.
CHINESE
TOTAL.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Pieces
58,575
2,942
Hk.Fts
93,720
6,472
683,653
43,835
Hk. Its
32,328
2,807
762,433
48,053
Hk. Fle
1,219,892
105,716
54
92
193
143
130
39
967
Hk. Its
1,093,844 | 20,205
96,437 1,276
80
6,634
19,687
73,686
358
30,689
350
79,679
2,586
71,020 688
41,283 992
1,676
269
2,360
4,543
1,101
8,069
3,076
2,876
170
3,004
872
805
113
565
710
12,266
2,532
8,876
7,690
4,026
289
3,905
959
7,342
20,436
86,919
34,026
91,400
80,4 30
Cotton Goods:-
Shirtings, Grey.......
White, Plain...........
, Figured ....
Dyed, Plain .........
, Figured .....
Native-dyed (Hong-
kong)........
Sheetings, American ...
English .......
T-Cloths .............
Drills, American .....
, English. ....................
Jeans and Twills ........
Chintzes and Furnitures ........
Turkey Red Cloths or Cambrics.
Damasks, Dyed .............
Velvets .........
Velveteens....
Lawns and Muslins ............
Mahomedans....................
Cotton Handkerchiefs............
Thread
» Towels ...........
Yarn...................
Cottons, Unclassed............
2,845
1,720
1,389
46,698
2,006
- 38
3,159
65,556
27,291
13,343
72,436
28,408
29,488
986
33,752
15,561
251
1,331
671
1,649
105
10,073
1.50
3,158
75
1,964
43,878
668
41
868
619
48,651
3,496
68,046
32,192
14,794
83,091
32,172
33,356
1,180
37,424
16,996
253
1,517
804
1,692
108
11,937
12.05
4,193
153
2,043
18,695
809
2
302
17,117
803
7,454
3,959
989
257
5,036
70
132
I20
8,495
4,743
1,015
263
1,102
551
381
5,968
Dozens
Piculs
Dozens
Piculs
Pieces
823
401
218
1,676
564
1,069
4,070
2,600
399
1,995
2,459
Pieces
921
1,905
2,074
14
WOOLLEN Goods:-
Camlets, English ...
, Dutch ....
Cloth, Broad .........
Russian .............
Spanish Stripes ............
..
19,288
322
536
17
.893.
21
То
»
Medium ...
612
618
2,003
1,184
Lastings ...........
976
17,716
322
434
23,689
2,678
25,783
10,089
80,161
3,751
18,796
45,365
1,513
3,730
9,698
929
130
2,897
1,654
30,831
682
4,699
16,802
124
, Cotton .................
, Crape...........
Long Ells .....
Lustres and Orleans, Figured
Flannels ...........
Woollens, Unclassed.............
46
988
160
3,255
1,825
35,885
829
5,177
18,284
131
253
25,194
3,296
28,970
11,132
93,301
4,560
20,708
49,366
1,598
1,324
1ΟΙ
270
353
832
3,442
556
1,080
953
208
1,129
Biogel
24
5
84
0.41
14.20
263
METALS:
Brass Wire............ .... Piculs
Copper, Japan ............
Sheets.....................
Iron, Nail-rod.........
„ Bar, Flat and Round .....
Wire ......................
.. Old...........................
Lead, in Pigs ......
7,318
4,573.98
298.73
222.38
3,772.06
1,976.44
10.28
16.40
5.41
13,233
1,318.08
1,187.57
9,390.70
4,696.20
201
303
IIO
21,173
2,372
4,513
11,295
15,497
4.29
32.72
8.84
13,179.22
1,037.56
1,625.74
8,590.48
1,909.55
605
179
| 21,087
1,868
6,178
10,382
6,302
14.98
63.32
14.25
30,986.20
2,654.37
3,035.69
21,753.24
8,582.19
293
1,171
289
49,579
4,778
11,536
26,187
28,321
4,510
6,522


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a.—Table showing Quantity and Value of each Description of Foreign Goods sent Inland— Contd.
AMERICAN.
BRITISH.
CHINESE.
TOTAL.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Hts.
Hk.fts
Hk.fts
Piculs
112
400.90
METALS, continued :-
Quicksilver ..........
Steel ..........
Tin, in Slabs..........
Tinplates ............
Yellow Metal Sheathing .....
Iron, in Pigs ...........
Metals, Unclassed............
Hk.it
45
1,243
129
59
5,231
66
2,884
193
9,358
5.22
1,687.36
2.67
141.45
14.43
1.12
3,018.76
15.72
171.68
31.30
168
19.71
1.60
930.50
7.83
10.52
15.27
424
26
231
168
504
26.35
504
146
271
3.10
29.45
Piculs
0.80
11,407
485
327.16
8.98
106.65
284.30
344.50
4,645
215
213
1,051
13,608
6,751
270
135
744
18,821
SUNDRIES :-
Aniseed, Star.........
Awabi or Shell-fish............
Betel-nut Husk ............
Betel-nuts ...............
Bicho de Mar, Black .........
, White ........
Birds' Nests, 3rd Quality....
Borax.....
Camphor ......................
Candles .........................
Cardamoms, Inferior..........
Cassia Lignea.
475.41
13.89
67.34
201.10
476.49
5.65
3.79
28.21
348
803.37
22.87
173.99
497.14
828.62
5.65
II.
7.63
1,838
32,730
56
1,062
0.15
3.40
242
4.14
37.56
1,160
324
123
3.20
69
192
0.20
5.95
5.70
0.78
45.32
101.72
88.10
48.61
906
1,333
264
17:38
36.46
52.69
78.87
75.05
236.80
232.23
134
729
690
237
751
440
1,635
2,023
501
751
7,272
2,652
China Twigs
Chinaware, Coarse....
8.90
66.77
81.78
154.41
166.97
75.05
363.58
358.76
85
7.95
Fine....
49.23
126.53
985
4,736
77.55
878
1,774
Pieces
Piculs
30
55
80
128
48
37
es......
6.05
1.90
156
Tons
307
119
2,088
194
263
236
1,792
337
1,605
806
28.93
Piculs
Clams, Dried
Clocks ...........................
Cloves..
Coal, Foreign.................
Compoy.....................
Cutch .......
Cuttle-fish..
Dye, Blue..
Dye-stuff.......
Fans, Palm-leaf, Trimmed....
Untrimmed ..
9.22
0.85
30.24
19.71
10.61
53.18
61
290
28
Bottles
Pieces
Piculs
13,159
21,860
256,257
1,641
196
1,538
510
5.90
73 0.15
14,037 12,339
752 | 64,600
6,062 663,400
917
703
5.45
453.64
5,485
531
66
857
103
17,088
1,529
11,580
1,134
930
3,374
Fish Maws".
5.58
217
,,, Skins..
173
11.46
89.32
9.15
1,410
141,626
581 169,997
3,980 1,929,984
29.08
93.02
2,812.24
72.17
208.65
47.30
0.29
37.69
Flints...."
835
432
134
116,128
83,537
1,010,327
23.50
70.29
1,662.80
16.80
19
44.65
7.86
3.75
5.64
1.42
566
569
17.28
695.80
55.37
189.65
2.65
0.29
2.63
28.75
0.27
1.20
57
18
308
168
27.20
626
326
168
745
221
177
32.50
5.91
85
72
260
::::
157
8.40
4
I 24
77
29
Flower Seed.....................
Galangal ........................
Gambier ..........
Ginseng, American, Clarified.
Glassware .......................
Glue, Cow ......................
Grasscloth, Coarse.............
Fine ........
Gum, Dragon's Blood ..
, Myrrh...
Olibanum.............
Honey ...........
Indigo, Liquid ..............
Isinglass...
Lamps and Lanterns....
Lead, White ...................
Yellow ...................
Lichees, Dried ...........
Lily Seed or Lotus-nuts
Lung-ngan Pulp.......
Lung-ngans, Dried ............
Mangrove Bark ..............
6.40
36.04
29.97
241
249
2.40
30.38
53.41
204
443
384
106
445
692
222
15,513
222
4,862
46.20
10.03
2,657
183
Pieces
Piculs
61
340
265.67
407
200.39
203.47
104.95
698
2.62
12.40
8.80
66.42
83.38
46.20
847.71
5,034
501.94
581.46
224.50
16.92
200.09
1,133.31
499.13
572.01
1,970
301.55
369.31
119.55
13.92
129.18
637.44
317.08
1,122
1,343
577
10,468
297
1,689
2,437
658
153
1,589
2,811
3,837
1,235
186
2,461
11,333
33
70.91
485.70
70.05
872
4,857
140
6,374
10.17
112
102
224
634
998


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
A. Table showing Quantity and Value of each Description of Foreign Goods sent Inland— Conta.
AMERICAN.
BRITISH
CHINESE.
TOTAL.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. It
Gross
Piculs
Hk. The
2,577
2,658
126
3,315
7,103
66,400
799.05
23,008
69.09
Hk.Tits
Hk. Aits
11,380
31,502
9,051
1,574
33
5,366
4.55 137
4,669 25.31
3,944 2,740
279
18,814 589,527 1 63,956
1,216
370
7,197
460.63
54.59
110.49
486.50
3,820
84,050
112.28
6.70
74.98
78.49
687.21
Mille
Galls.
Piculs
567
9,356
842
50
217
0.88
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Matches
Medicines ............................
Mother-of-pearl Shell .......
Mushrooms.....
Mussels, Dried
Needles ........................
Oil, Kerosene ..................
Oranges, Preserved .........
Paint, Green ...
Paper, ist Quality.
Peel, Orange ..................
Pepper, Black............
Prawns, Dried ............
Putchuck ........
Raisins......
Rattans, Split ............
, Whole ....................
Rice, Red ....
Sandalwood...
Sapanwood ............
Seaweed................
Sharks' Fins, Black .........
» » White ..........
Soap, Foreign ....
Sugar, Brown.
2,324
447
8,384
543
38.53
470
122
145
23
392
6.401
31.17
27
27,701
338.42
14.50
178.87
319.81
30,576
168,030
162.16
29
87.42
16.91
1,611.22
23.79
19.70
6O.oi
28.55
232.91
10.81
6,472.84
12,151.62
12,998.34
10.72
69.55
115.70
128,802.64
4,492.70
62,756.19
15.72
257.28
1,200
1,670
24.84
37,500
112
30.43
18.05
5.35
109.02
6.51
2,936.01
4,665.17
4,055.39
4.23
30.60
23.30
60,106.97
2,393.13
26,616.57
24.80
82.70
7,340
9,797
8,922
178
2,479
2,710
96
19,657
209
79
464
123
838
74
16,182
25,518
28,596
450
5,634
237
386,408
38,637
332,608
342.49
117.85
223.77
856
247
492
293.91
831.62
37,136
841,607
274.44
35.70
163.28
95.40
2,336.96
23.79
50.13
78.06
40.30
373.10
17.32
9,751.34
16,934.64
17,277.50
14.95
102.34
1,143.08
189,528.62
6,922.28
89,757.32
40.52
352.48
1,224
2,658
46.68
201,700
66.09
124.90
406.30
278
202.19
4,232
159
8,818
12,142
4,790
92,126
2,058
267
5,061
28,511
209
201
609
173
1,342
116
24,378
35,562
38,010
628
8,290
2,224
568,585
59,531
475,714
105
952
490
797
1,354
6,051
165
475
1,503
278
425
177
52
1,935
2.19
1,004.08
619.01
36.45
384.56
1,857
»
180,320
20,581
141,068
73
223
Candy.
313
2,038
32
34
Pieces
24
10
70
226
Vermilion Cotton
Piculs
234
21.47
10,400
623
White ........
Sulphuric Acid ..............
Turmeric ......
Umbrellas, Alpaca .............
Vermilion ......................
Window Glass .............
Wood, Camagon..
Ebony ....
Laka
Puru
Red ......................
Rose .............
Sundries, Unenumerated........
II
695 12.50
480
501 754
720 0.37
1,125 153,800
49.09
45
977
14.25
312
Piculs
17
42
4,614
123
171
79.90
263.98
304
128.07
870
..................
278
278
3.60
198.59
181.20
417
217
538
181.20
217
Value
222
733
1,493
TOTAL..........
Hk.Tiel...
646,435
2,893,300
206,472
3,746,207
TRANSIT PASSES ISSUED...
1,393
4,622
1,311
7,326


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b.—Table showing Quantity and Value of each Description of Native Produce brought from the Interior under
Transit Passes by each Nationality during the Year 1886.
AMERICAN.
AUSTRIAN.
BRITISH.
GERMAN.
SPANISH.
TOTAL.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
Quantity. Value. Quantity. | Value. Quantity. | Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts
Hk. Its
Piculs
108.21
100
1,200
1,1801
3,600
2,213
1,232.71
11,266
100
Pieces
Piculs
Dates, Red ....
Hides, Cow ......
Lily Flowers, Dried ........
Mats, Bamboo
Medicines .......
Melon Seeds .........
Samshu ..........
Senna Seed ......
Silk, Refuse ....
Soap, Native....
Tallow, Animal
Walnuts ..............
300
1,164.21
143,500
900
2,316
100
3,540
3,493
14,350
1,631
10,422
160
400
400
4,760
Hk.Its.
Hk.Fls.
4,560 12,312
1,2771 1,446.83 17,072
36,218.36 108,655
19,000 1,900
4,653.50 9,861
13,879.45| 62,458
900 1,440
1,550
247.58 7,675
3,806.62 9,134
1,850 8,880
3,250 7,800
850
:::::::
Hk. Pts.
Hk. fta
5,975 6,773 18,287
14,5463,187.75 37,615
33,798 | 49,948.57 149,846
162,500 | 16,250
6561 6,353.50 12,908
21,420 20,955.45 94,300
1,000 1,600
L 1,550
247.58 7,675
5,666.62 13,598
2,649.72 12,719
3,550 L 8,520
850
::::::
1,860
299.72
4,464
1,439
::::::
2,400
720
TOTAL........
Hk.Fls.
39,499
1,577
248,737
8,660
76,395
....
374,868
TRANSIT PASSES SURRENDERED
No.
No.
63
541
19
160
785
c.—Transit Trade Summary.
VALUE.
INCREASE.
DECREASE.
Hk. Pts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Its
3,528,097
3,746,207
218,110
Inward Transit Trade, 1885..
» » 1886....
Outward Transit Trade, 1885.
» » » 1886 .
Total Transit Trade, 1885 .....
» » » 1886 .....
341,871
374,868
32,997
3,869,968
4,121,075
NET INCREASE .......
Hk. Its
251,107
21


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. VII.-DUES AND DUTIES.
OPIUM DUTIES.
IMPORT
DUTIES
FLAG.
COAST TRADE
EXPORT DUTIES DUTIES
(Balance of
Opium). Deposits
included).*
TONNAGE
JES.
(exclusive of
TOTAL.
(exclusive of
Opium).
Import
Export.
AMERICAN.
Lorchas.....
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
25.6.2.5
Ak.Fism.c.c.
2,777.9.3.9
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.Ftsm.c.c. Hk.ftsm.c.c. Hk.Ftsm.c.c. Hk.ftsm.c.c.
7,950.0.6.6
637.8.0.0
Hk.Its m.c.c.
11,391.4.3.0
BRITISH.
Steamers under River Pass .......
„ and Sea-going Vessels....
94.1.7.5
224.6.5.0
23,630.7.9.9
32,225.0.1.5
3,808.5.5.4
3,819.3.8.1
27,533.5.2.8
39,901.3.4.6
3,632.3.0.0
TOTAL......
318.8.2.5
55,855.8.1.4
7,627.9.3.5
3,632.3.0.0
67,434.8.7.4
DANISH.
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass...
239.0.5.6
710.6.8.0
307.6.0.0
1,257.3.3.6
GERMAN.
Steamers and Sea-going Vessels ...
914.2.2.7)
9,924.4.4.6
1,291.6.5.4
1,094.7.0.0
13,225.0.2.7
RUSSIAN.
Steamers under Chinkiang Pass...
1,929.6.0.0
1,929.6.0.0
SPANISH.
Lorchas...
116.5.7.2
2,814.2.3.8
2,434.9.1. I
165.7.0.0
5,531.4.2.1
CHINESE
Steamers under River Steamer Pass
Steamers, Sea-going Vessels, and
Junks under Special Pass.....)
50.9.9.4
272.6.9.3
13,640.3.3.6
8,912.0.3.1
3,361.9.3.9
24,698.8.0.6
17,053.2.6.9
35,791. 1. 3.0
1,907.6.0.0
TOTAL..................
323.6.8.
7
22,552.3.6.
7
28,060.7.4.5
1,907.6.0.0
52,844.3.9.9
Grand TOTAL....
94,635.4.8.4
47,365.3. 1. I
9,675.3.0.0
153,614.0.8.7
Transit Dues on Foreign Goods sent to the Interior............. .......... Hk. Tts. 90,658.8.6.8
„ „ „ Native Goods brought from the Interior.........
10,429.9.8.8
TOTAL TRANSIT DUES...........
....... Hk. Its
TOTAL REVENUE for the year 1886 .......... ........................Hk.Its.
.Hk.Its
101,088.8.5.6
254,702.9.4.37
+ No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total.....
..Hk. Pts. Nil.
NATIVE FLAG
FOREIGN FLAGS.
Note.—Amount of Half Duties deposited on goods leaving the port in River (n. D u rero
Steamers during the year 1886 ......
Amount of Drawbacks issued to merchants during the year 1886............. , 6,622.6.5.0
* Credit Balance of Foreign and Native Deposits carried to account..., 3,803.2.0.2
.............} Ak.Tks. 10,425.8.5.2
6,516.9.2.4
3,159.4.5.8
3,357.4.6.6


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B._SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-TREASURE.
Treasure and Copper Cash Imported and Exported during the Year 1886.
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
|
Treasure ....
.......Hk.Its 1,909,828
Copper Cash......................Strings 131,500 = „ 82,000
Treasure .....
........ Hk.fts 3,966,503
Copper Cash .......................Strings 253,750 = 154,546
TOTAL....................... Hk.fts 1,991,828
TOTAL..................... Hk.Fts 4,121,049
TABLE No. 2.-IMPORT AND EXPORT TRADE.
Table of the principal Imports (Net) and Exports for the Years 1881 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Piculs
10,366.91
11,514.33
IMPORTS:-
Opium ...........
Shirtings, Grey ...........
, White...
Pieces
675,770
10,258.51
732,248
98,400
691,013
10,900.10
719,899
95,710
79,655
8,300.65
958,336
111,240
93,050
72,046
110,956
6,763.20
887,965
108,409
97,192
327,073
89,497
T-Cloths....................
107,071
91,130
104,930
232,104
228,158
61,508
73,444
Cottons, Assorted ...........
Woollen Piece Goods ......
Iron, Nail-rod ...
„ Bar, Flat and Round .........
231,572
51,285
44,843.07
2,389.53
26,986.30
9,567.06
252,096
65,086
39,619.68
3,285.44
307,452
87,656
41,752.36
2,758.14
Piculs
42,039.02
2,959.86
39,065.54
3,939.78
29,210.25
Ironware ...
25,445.12
25,957.40
22,507.74
9,497.68
11,793.07
33,604.21
2,420
22,306.77
11,396.12
1,698.03
1,933.72
4,108.15
10,820.74
1,700.93
Lead, in Pigs ...........
Bicho de Mar, Black .......
Fungus ...........
Hemp............
Lung-ngans, Dried...
1,779.23
10,993.95
1,811.79
1,795.27
6,449.20
6,069.11
1,975.49
2,384.19
1,703.54
1,801.08
5,329.76
5,813.82
1,944.32
2,168.66
8,081.91
9,215.10
6,052.18
4,847.53
5,242.01
5,335.44
4,034.89


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
Table of the principal Imports (Net) and Exports for the Years 1881 to 1886—Contd.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
IMPORTS, continued :-
Matches........
Gross
144,960
71,952
64,585
84,079
107,630
Medicines ...........
Piculs
7,345.79
198,960
6,931.35
257,990
129,380.16
7,035.97
384,080
118,670.19
6,449.69
839,000
Gallons
Piculs
92,764
6,760.66
1,216,910
9,344.50
1,204,860
155,498.17
154,945.43 |
130,245.37 |
126,559.49
38.45
628.66
229.03
64.36
2,285.05
2,111.64
1,666.42
987.53
3,720.79
8,754.98
5,498.34
4,936.61
3,330.94
4,353.20
12,533.51
6,195.37
1,060.58
25,508.76
4,047.49
2,769.77
3,992.13
3,152.93
179.69
292.04
312.50
19,493.36
18,386.51
16,174.57
20,041.10
13,211.21
Oil, Kerosene.....
» Wood ..........
Opium, Native ...........
Paper, ist Quality
» 2nd „ .....
Pepper, Black.........
Safflower ...........
Sandalwood .......
Sapanwood.
Seaweed.
Sugar, Brown, Foreign .......
, White, „ ......
„ Candy, »
Brown, Native
White, „ ...
» Candy, .
Tallow, Vegetable ..........
Tobacco, Leaf .............
„ Prepared.
576.32
23,631.90
28,023.20
14,906.55
126,505.65
81,402.74
3,578.83
60,642.70
54,198.30
14,511.72
129,496.09
81,075.41
3,958.50
52,816.48
11,098.99
180,713.64
20,279.18
19,373.86
18,355.65
180,360.51
75,097.30
87,581.59
7,144.35
.
4,116.34
3,358.05
266.49
19,644.59
12,759.84
20,417.80
175,824.87
108,105.24
4,739.27
75,396.76
90,651.71
3,762.30
57,604.41
48,922.64
7,633.61
1,225.08
696.27
252,400
.
.
.
.
.
14,352.45
147,834.92
73,219.48
4,773.89
73,871.24
79,216.19
4,633.20
40,086.46
33,820.83
5,010.32
1,247.41
81,765.73
80,623.84
60,354.76
4,749.78
5,540.13
60,873.54
75,799.65
5,060.15
36,703.29
36,917.18
4,563.20
5,512.44
59,098.33
40,738.76
50,487.50
44,209.91
29,081.83
3,626.57
1,587.24
652.17
49,344.40
4,673.98
1,208.50
652.27
214,500
5,522.37
1,117.24
10,337.84
1,358.04
Varnish ............
Wax, White....
636.83
638.94
454.22
232,000
Window Glass .................
Sq. feet
178,700
246,800
310,800
EXPORTS:-
Beans and Peas ........
Piculs
19,086.60
51,027.82
1,547,229.73
291,329.30
Grain (Rice, Paddy, and Wheat)
Lily Flowers, Dried.......
Medicines...........
92,797.63
2,773,022.19
35,808.51
8,063.78
131.50
15,836.67
39,565.64
392,266.97
44,197.16
6,607.97
36,922.16
668,977.62
52,684.98
12,969.54
112,628.48
805,685.81
57,582.69
13,608.62
40,667.61
53,066.84
13,192.24
7,400.62
109.03
101.34
91.76
Paper, ist Quality .........
Seed, Sesamum.....
Silk Piece Goods..........
51.72
2,946.38
521.89
84.05
4,032.13
611.56
5,820.70
695.21
2,117.13
1,604.87
554.03
727.33
743.31


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SHANGHAI TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
If the employment of a larger amount of tonnage, with a marked advance in the gross
value of the trade of the port and an increase in the Revenue collection, indicates a prosperous
state of trade, then the past year must be regarded as one of the most flourishing in the
commercial annals of Shanghai, inasmuch as the general statistics of all the chief divisions
of commerce exhibit an improvement over preceding years.
SHIPPING.—An inspection of Table I, appended to this Report, shows that the trade of 1886
employed considerably more vessels than in previous years, as the total entries and clearances
for the period under review exceed those of 1885 by 729 vessels, aggregating 774,198 tons, of
which total increase 644 were steamers, of a capacity of 665,123 tons, and 85 sailing craft,
representing 109,075 tons. The table referred to above shows the nationality and other particulars
of the vessels engaged, and it will be noted as a somewhat extraordinary fact that steamers
under the American flag have now wholly disappeared. American sailing ships, however, in
the shipping return take second place among the Foreign flags.
VALUE OF TRADE.—The augmentation in the entries and clearances has naturally contri-
buted to an increase in the value of trade, Imports and Exports for 1886 being Hk.Tts. 51,648,423,
against Hk.its. 50,262,938 in 1885, or an increase of Hk.Pts. 1,385,485.
Inspection of Table II will prove that Foreign goods imported from abroad and Hongkong
have only increased by Hk.fts. 317,109, and that after deducting the excessive reshipments
of Foreign goods to Native and Foreign ports, the net total value of Foreign Imports credited
to Shanghai shows a decrease of Hk.Pts. 1,414,973. If, however, we take into consideration that
these figures represent but a small per-centage of the total of nearly Hk.Tts. 60,000,000, given
as the value of the Foreign Import trade, and that the statistics for 1885 were abnormally large,
for reasons assigned below, the falling off in this year's Imports cannot be viewed as indicating
anything more than a mere temporary decline, attributable to the excessive consignments of the
previous twelve months.
While the value of Native produce imported has increased by Hk.Tts. 1,064,502, the total
net value of Native Imports from Chinese ports credited to Shanghai exhibits a diminution, in
consequence of the heavy re-exports of produce to both Foreign and coast ports.
Coming to Exports of local origin to Foreign and Native ports, a very satisfactory increase
is noticeable of Hk.Its. 3,353,585. The gross value of the trade, which really represents the
cargoes imported, exported, and re-exported, was Hk.Tts. 4,668,716 over 1885, and no less than
Hk.Tts. 19,456,279 over the figures of 1884, when commerce was paralysed by hostilities on
the coast.
FOREIGN IMPORTS.—Cotton Goods.—The extraordinary increase noted in the importation
of 1885 has been followed by as marked a decline during 1886, the total falling off in staple
Cottons as compared with the previous year amounting to 1,627,758 pieces, made up of the
following varieties :-
Grey Shirtings. Pieces 534,507 English Sheetings Pieces 68,132
White „ . „ 477,500 Cambrics ... „ 194,964
Dyed and Plain /
Velvets . . . . . , 3,755
Unclassed ... „ 33,949
T-Cloths ... 250,046
64,905
Shirtings . .
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It should not, however, be inferred that this decline indicates retrogression, inasmuch
as the figures of 1885 were extraordinarily high, and ought not to be made a basis of comparison,
as that year witnessed the renewal of friendly relations with France, whereupon trade made
good the leeway that had been lost during the hostilities; consequently, 1885 was credited
with more than its average annual share of traffic.
Notwithstanding that, on the whole, the year's importation of Cotton Goods was
characterised by a falling off, there are some noticeable improvements in the figures of certain
commodities, such as Handkerchiefs, American Sheetings, and Cotton Yarn. The aggregate
consignment of Sheetings of all kinds also falls short of those of 1885, but taking the American
variety separately, we notice the significant increase of 22,239 pieces over last year, so that the
decrease falls entirely on the English goods, to the extent enumerated above.
Cotton Yarn shows a general increase of 34,473 piculs, but while that from the English
mills exhibits a decline of 58,456 piculs, the Indian staple shows an increase of 92,627, so that
it would seem that not only is the Indian article gaining favour in the China markets, but
it is doing so at the expense of the British Yarn, which it threatens to displace. Possibly the
enhanced demand for Yarn has had the effect of lessening the consumption of Cotton Cloths.
Woollen Goods.— With the exception of a falling off in Lustres and Unclassed fabrics,
there has been a marked improvement over last year's figures, aggregating 85,992 pieces, which
compensates in value for the decline in the importation of Cotton Goods.
Opium.—There was a total increase in the importation of Opium of all kinds of 714
piculs, with a depreciation in value of Hk.Tts. 133,010. This decline in value with an increase in
the quantity imported is due to the fact of the price of drug being estimated at an average of
Its. 40 per chest lower than in 1885, when Patna was quoted as high as Ils. 440 to Its. 450
a chest, against its. 415 as the highest average for 1886, and Benares Tts. 438 to its. 450 last
year, as compared with its. 405 during the period under review. The prices touched this season
are said to be the lowest known within the last quarter of a century. The supply of Malwa was
1,843 piculs over the importation of the previous year, Patna 225 piculs, and other kinds 376
piculs, making an increase of 2,444 piculs; but the marked falling off in Benares of 1,730 piculs
reduces the net increase to the quantity stated above. From various causes business is said
to have been unprofitable. Foreign merchants attribute the unremunerative state of affairs to
increased Likin, to the keen competition between importers, and to excessive supplies tending to
depress the market. The competition between the P. & 0. S. N. Co. and the Austro-Hungarian
Lloyd's S. N. Co., and the consequent reduction in the rate of freight on Opium from 22 to 3
rupees per chest from Bombay to Shanghai during the latter half of the season, brought about a
further depression in the market, as merchants in India were induced by these low rates of
freight to ship largely in excess of requirements, and but for the failure of the crops of Native
drug in Honan and the Tang-shan (65 ) district of Kiangnan, which helped to maintain the
price of Malwa, the results would have been most disastrous, as there was no knowing to what
low ebb prices might have fallen. Our Returns only record 1.26 piculs as the total importation
of Native Opium by vessels entering at this office.
Metals.—The increase noted in this branch of trade for 1885 has not been maintained,
but the decline is not so marked as to call for special comment. Of the items enumerated in
Table III, those showing a considerable improvement over the high figures of last year are
Unmanufactured Copper, Pig Iron, Lead, Spelter, and Zinc.
Sundries.—On the whole, trade in goods classed under this heading seems to have been
satisfactory. Most commodities exhibit a moderate increase, with the result of a net gain in the
total value of Hk.Tts. 749,693.


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167
ce
The greatest falling off in any single article appears against Matches, which are short
by over half a million gross. On the other hand, Flint Stones, which are presumably used for
the same purpose as Matches, show an increase of 40,000 piculs.
Kerosene Oil continued to be imported in quantities exceeding all previous returns.
During 1886 the increase was 8,417,694 gallons over the year 1885 (or, say, a little more than
one-third higher than the figures of 1885), whereas the importations of the latter year doubled
those of 1884.
The total value of the whole of the Foreign Import trade was Hk.Tts. 59,733,064, being a
slight improvement over the preceding year.
NATIVE IMPORTS, chiefly from Tientsin, the Yangtze Ports, Ningpo, Swatow, Canton,
and Hongkong, yielded Hk.Tts. 42,382,891 to the gross value. Table IV enumerates the various
products which contribute to this important branch of our commerce and its redistribution
between coast ports and Foreign countries. It has already been noted that the bulk of these
Imports are eventually re-shipped, and that but a comparatively small share remains to the
credit of this port after Re-exports have been deducted, as shown in the last column of the
above-named table.
EXPORTS (including Re-exports to Foreign countries).—Tea.—The shipments of Black Tea
show an increase over 1885 of 24,937 piculs. In the opinion of a merchant to whom I am
indebted for remarks on the course of the year's trade, this advance is due to the improved
demand for low-grade Teas both for the English and Russian markets. That in the latter
country was brought about in a measure by an increase in the duty, and as the retail price
could not well be increased, sellers have endeavoured to cover the increase in duty by buying
low-cost leaf. The fall in sterling exchange, which declined as much as 10 per cent., is said to
have stimulated purchases, as buyers were able to give a considerable advance in tael prices upon
rates current at the corresponding period of 1885, without increasing the laying-down cost.
The advance in tael prices here, consequent on the decline in exchange, enabled Native
shippers of Tea from Hankow for sale on this market to make good profits, which induced
further buying for re-sale here, but these purchases meeting a rising exchange, depreciated the
tael value, so that the losses thereon have been heavy, and it is doubtful if this branch of the
business has paid operators. Neither has the result to Foreign buyers been satisfactory. The
losses on medium to finest grades have been considerable, rates in England for such qualities
being unprecedentedly low—so low that medium and finest kinds were selling at almost the same
sterling price, and not a few instances can be quoted of Teas with a difference of nearly Its. 20
in their cost in China selling at about the same price on the London market. This depreciation
in their value in England is partly assignable to a falling off in the Russian demand for fine
Tea, but the want of keeping properties in China leaf, probably owing to hasty and imperfect
preparation, has also a good deal to do with it.
Green Tea falls short of the export of 1885 by 21,461 piculs. There was considerable
delay between the arrival of the first musters and the beginning of business, owing to the very
low prices current upon the American and English markets, their range being so low that
buyers were unable to give within two to three taels of the figures required by teamen in order
to cover their cost. After a time, failing to induce business, two or three of the Native hongs
arranged to ship to America for sale on their own account. This forced the hands of buyers,
who regarded these operations as the equivalent of the opening of the market, and moderate
purchases ensued, in order to have some Teas going forward with the first shipments.
The result of these early ventures on Native account giving a better out-turn than they
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continued to such an extent as to make them an important feature in the business of the
season.
Brick Tea was shipped to the extent of 29,845 piculs over the export of last year, with
a consequent decline in Tea Dust—from which article Brick Tea is made—of 5,793 piculs.
The countries to which Tea was exported and the quantity taken by each are detailed
in Special Table No. 2.
Silk. All the various denominations of Silk shown in the Returns compare very
favourably with the export of the previous year.
The increase over 1885 in the case of Raw Silk is 6,402 piculs ; in Silk Refuse, 11,429
piculs; in Wild Silk, 2,494 piculs; and Cocoons, 2,069 piculs; indicating exceptional purchases
during the past season. According to the report of one of the leading shippers, a large business
was done during January, and prices for Chop No. 4 Tsatlee were then Its. 390 per picul.
Manufacturers at home, having laid in stocks, and not seeing the revival in trade that was
expected to ensue, adopted a hand-to-mouth policy in buying, and in May the proportionate
price had dropped to Tts. 347} for the same Silk. One of those sudden changes in fashion
in Europe as to the goods to be used then began to make itself felt, and notwithstanding
an increase in the European, Japan, and Canton crops, shipments have hardly equalled the
increased rates of consumption, especially in Lyons. The consequence has been a gradual
advance in the value of Silks, and taking Chop No. 4 as the basis, prices are now Its. 405 to
Its. 410. The rise in all sorts has been gradual and progressive, and it looks as though higher
prices would yet be probable if consumption keeps so large.
Sundries.—Among the articles grouped under this heading in which Foreign merchants
invest capital, such as Hides, Hair, Hemp, Rhubarb, etc., there has been a decline in shipments;
but in Skins of all kinds there has been a noteworthy advance of 217,151 pieces.
TRADE UNDER TRANSIT Pass.—Notwithstanding that there were 12,054 more passes
issued this year than in 1885 to cover Foreign Imports inland, the value of this branch of
traffic has declined by Hk.Tts. 78,546, from which fact we may conclude that, allowing for
depreciated prices, the goods are now made up in smaller lots than formerly, and that consumers
and inland retail dealers resort to this market to obtain supplies, instead of transacting business,
as hitherto, through large commission houses.
The Outward Transit traffic has improved in value by Hk.Tts. 241,617, with only an
increase of 66 passes; but reference to the statistics shows that the large consignments of
certificated Silk from the interior accounts for this excess.
REVENUE.—The total collection for the year amounts to Hk.Tts. 4,354,109, which figures
have only once been exceeded, by a sum under Hk.Tts. 20,000, in 1881.
H. ELGAR HOBSON,
Commissioner of Customs.
SHANGHAI, 8th March 1887.


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SHANGHAI TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL
No.
Tons. No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
28
63,955
British ........ 1,254 1,231,213 81
German ......
188 128,069 1
French ..............
65,703
Danish.
2,727
Swedish & Norwegian
2,246
Russian .....
2,841 1
Japanese...............
96,595 1
Chinese........... 598 612,367 24
Total Steamers....... 2,190 2,141,761 118
40,355 1,335 1,271,568) 1,117 1,090,261 146 110,854 1,263 1,201,115 2,598 | 2,472,683
8,501 199 136,570 99 67,029 94 61,945 193 128,974 392 265,544
65,703) 58,630 5,325
129,658
...
2,727
769 4 2,557
3,326
6,053
2,246 1,194 1,031
2,225
4,471
4,998
3,583 1 702
4,285||
9,283
642 113 97,237) 63,998 56 30,209 109 94,207| 222 191,444
23,614 622 635,981 | 614,310 17 15,430 602 629,740 1,224 1,265,721
75,269 2,308 2,217,030 1,884 1,899,774 321 228,053 2,205 2,127,827 4,513 4,344,857
2,157
U12
585 | 6
SAILING VESSELS.
8,833
54
670
496
3,142
II
British ............
54,909 11
American ........
41,417 1
Gerinan .......
7,687 1
French.
670 ...
Danish .........
248 ...
Spanish........
3,369
Swedish & Norwegian
9,472 ...
Austrian
1,418 ...
Italian
........
1,308 ...
Japanese.
9,441 1
Siamese ...........
1,194 1
Chinese............ 247 30,716 12
Total Sailing Vessels 486 161,849 28
GRAND TOTAL... 2,676 2,303,610 146
5,557 93 60,466 13,390 53 50,909 94 64,299 187 124,765
- 73 62
41,490
8,171 27 32,113 40,284
81,774
1,146 28
5,653
5,740
14,573
670
670
1,340
248 ...
248
248
3,470
525
3,667
7,137
9,472
754 10 8,061
8,815
18,287
1,418
1,418 ...
2,836
1,308
1,308
1,185 - 23
10,626
447 241
25 11,514
22,140
51
1,489
1,490 ...
5 1,490
2,979
4,095 259 | 34,811 255 33,559 51 514 260 34,073 519 68,884
12,452 514 174, 301 388 68,024 124 104,194 512 172,218 1,026 346,519
87,721 2,822 2,391,331 2,272 1,967,798 445 332,247 2,717 2,300,045 5,539 4,691,376
1,418
.........
11,067
295
22


170
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF SHANGHAI,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.fts.
Hk.fts
Hk. As
Hk.Fts
Hk.Ita
Hk. Its
46,857,046
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong......
Imported from Chinese Ports ...............................
Total Foreign Imports...........
59,415,955
388,344
59,733,064
321,864
300,967
47,158,013
59,804,299
60,054,928
1,392,883
1,026,315
1,611,703
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong....
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Tientsin,
Yangtze Ports, and Ningpo)..
Total Foreign Re-exports...........
38,297,234
43,006,942
44,087,156
39,690,117
44,033,257
45,698,859
Net Total Foreign Imports ..........................
7,467,896
15,771,042
14,356,069
NATIVE PRODUCE.
39,454,313
41,318,389
42,382,891
Imported (chiefly from Tientsin, Yangtze Ports,
Ningpo, Swatow, and Hongkong) .........
Re-exported to Foreign Countries .......................
Re-exported to Chinese Ports...
Total Native Re-exports ..........
15,261,373
17,314,729
32,576,102
15,961,086
17,745,802
17,139,828
18,184,689
33,706,888
35,324,517
Net Total Native Imports.............
6,878,211
7,611,501
7,058,374
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries ........
14,269,154
11,693,917
14,170,037
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
4
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports .....
12,334,040
15,186,478
16,063,943
Total Exports of local origin ...
26,603,194
26,880,395
30,233,980
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port ........
113,215,520
128,003,083
132,671,799
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native |
Exports of local origin......
40,949,301
50,262,938
51,648,423


SHANGHAI.
171
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.— Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
OPIUM :-
He. Its
Piculs
Malwa....
Patna....
Benares ............
Persian
H.Fts.
28,942 50 11,229,690
7,728 2,472,960
4,416 / 1,395,456
468 148,824
34750
42
2040
78
Hk.fts
134,830
13,440
6,446
24,804
Hk.Fts
25,227 31 9,788,197
1,57101 502,723
1,874 40 592,310
65,190
H.fts.
4,062 69 1,576,323
6,198 99 1,983,677
809,592
108,438
2051
341
788,120
332,837|
144,814
374,432
17,074
6,260,105 606,246
1,723,982 246,546
29,902 72,407
15,653
11,588 6,935
98,186
4,407
486,762 4,682,427
2 3,050 1,485,605
60,933
44,892
992 5,557
474,308
28,202
52,930
2,271
12,732
50
86
640
10,749
8,594
4,672
52,363
95
691
691
101,500
36 12
Printed
300
392,269
209,539
5,075
61,155
48,870
720
85,260 11,181,601
384) 119,201
94,090
38,776 290,717
5,029 597,642
13,410
765,992 466,988
239,050 163,702
II1,384) 4,229
738,283 33,236
1,311,7161 21,720
38,1891
2,3201
177,930
3,717
99,256
15,477
399,011 23,502
2,854,750 48,492
21,074
2,235
6,087,1551 364,852
2,005,567 20,891
121,786 26,425
13,468 7,430
8,613 8,214
102,108
2,396
146
169
1,080
992,545 95,782
152,577 | 230,959
112,908 2,959
534,919 122,686
1,344,695 4,828
25,747
6,480
1,000
169,488 9,539
45,180 30,210
10,765 3,060
493,595
3,233,586
1,306
220,5131 217,257
324,006
1,140
3,236
131,798
16,801
52,072
7,740
135
229
316
102
80,456
295,628
3,551
225,743
10,862
12,442
2,320
13,831
54,076
4,712
5,389
»
Dutch
43,244
108,622
COTTON GOODS :-
Shirtings, Grey..... . Pieces 4,815,465
White, Plain ...... 1,277,024
Dyed, .....
14,951
Gentian ............
52,272
White, Spotted
and Brocaded ]
7,476
Dyed, Spotted
and Brocaded )
50,352
American ........
Oxford.........
169
Dutch.....
T-Cioths, 32 inches
911,895
» 30
186,758
92,820
Drills, English.........
401,241
American ...
582,985
, Dutch
19,890
Indian ...
1,000
Jeans, English.....
122,710
, American ...........
55,450
10,050
Sheetings, English..
216,854
American ......
1,274,442
Indian..............
Chintzes and Furnitures.... 375,865
Turkey Red Cloths or
Cambrics.
259,048
Blue Mottles.
1,140
Damasks, Dyed......
935
Velvets ............
49,366
Velveteens ..........
11,533
Denims, Blue........
Dimities ..............
Domestics, Grey......
102
Ginghams.............
Twills .............
4,164
Printed.......
108,722
Lawns....
68,468
Muslins..
118,410
Taffachellas...........
15,449
Lastings, Cotton.......
216,204
Cloth, Mahomedan...
2,944
Long Cloth ..
Linen, Fine................
Coarse..............
386
Brown Holland...........
Canvas..
Bolts
2,844
Cotton Camlets.
Pieces
Checks, White.......
993
Dyed........
24,793
Duck
913
Flannels ...........
1,396
1,215
116,888
25,240
6,990
2,569 268,258
2,722 1,443,565
710
3,617 | 200,466
7,076
308,578
3,288
238,982
45,146
30,857
49,660
32,400
6,739
413,452
272,000
1,208
2,992
217,210
48,438
1,208
6,307
3,696
8,679
16,263
36,452
6
27,751
311
74
980
29,954
12,398
180
208
73,924
32,507
523
14
14
347
224
22
5,454
62,914
IIO
80
144
575
224
22
7,495
195,700
34,234
59,205
13,678
540,510
6,4241
2691
2,718
1,544
242
5,735
8,935
4,400
436
10,323
4,468
2,200
3,030
34,952
67,692
22,392
33,846
11,196
1,315
79,425
16,662
40,271
11,183
230,434
4,948
2,367
142,965
8,332
20,136
10,064
576,086
9,370
60,147
4,766
30,073
4,104
490
500
5,928
14,820
999
1,432
3,580
478
145
199
199
452
323
56
50
200
269
2,712
1,292
230
13,589
230
• 50
16,2111
747
325
534
108
2,384
1,4891
49,586)
5,4781
630
22,222
3,044
594
945
44,444
661
544
3381
5,480
- 363
2,740
695)
31,138
474
12,893
39,234
46
81,327
1,506|
4461 10,728
2,825
26,105
3,785
67,669


172
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods. — Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
то
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fls.
H
. Its
COTTON Goods, continued :-
Cotton Italians................. Pieces
» Lenos, Dyed ..........
» White..........
Hk.Fts.
11,206
746
4,669
770
1,147
"
Quilts ..............
685
Hk.Fls.
106,873 256,495
3,288
6,412
9,548 14,799
11,108 4,678
11,700
16,114
357,451 125,108
1,12456 33,737
27,441 68 603,717
73,13755 1,609,026
8,827 9,300
42,593 12,713
Cottonades or Cottons,
Unclassed...............
Cotton Handkerchiefs ........ Dozens
Thread ...............
Piculs
→ Yarn, English ........
» » Bombay ......
Mosquito Nets ................. Piece
Cotton Cloth, Japan .........
311
395
740
3,652
498
33,561
57 92
10,272
36,434 90
1,600
1,867
761
11,747
1,738
225,984
801,568
Hk.Fts.
157,593 378,223
1,208 2,356
2,755
4,270
7,080 2,257
1,566 1,722
202,175 70,761
599 2017,976
85,816 52 1,887,963
57,032 55 1,254,716
5,677) 5,649
30,310 9,094
2,150 3,333
239
90 261
3,787
12 571 377
7,716 18 169,756
681 14,982
14)
468
140
2,475
5,383
6,995
10,542
185,050
570 71
1,325
4,826
8,343
4,049
14,892
64,769
17,122
es
51,85890 1,140,896
3,143 3,637
13,415 3,952
473
33
28
...
482
I20
26,230
Pairs
454
120
18,281
7,616
9,368
1,256
3,517
4,525
2,479
6,941
6,529
Bombazet
tte
8
3,656
65
407
260
3,2561
139
104,900
556
722
2,150
17,200
914
116,343
700
24
151,534
1,825
930,744
13,300
380
392
2,888
105,488
6,232
839,200
7,448
13,186
328
24
426
426
28,580
1,360
4,142
...
9,384
450
255,708
388
3,158
915
4,118
73,657
49,270
83,385
17,660
18,238
2,060
1,045,585
8,213
14,590
331,457
423,722
216,801
10,351
175,575
78,721
20
79,470
156,847
5,356
3,268
117,2571
1,639
40
79,020
43,802
63,054
1,949
7,261
10,890
809,073
7,375
185
355,590
376,697
163,940
5,067
181,525
50,880
21
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Alpaca .....
Pieces
Astrakan .......................
Blankets ............
Pieces
Bunting ...........
Camlets, English ....
, Dutch
Cassimeres ................
Lastings .......
Crape ..........
" Imitation.........
Long Ells ..
Spanish Stripes
Lustres and Orleans, Figured
Plain...
Cloth, Habit, Broad, and I
Medium..........
Italian ...............
, Narrow....
Pilot ....
Poncho
Russian
Union ........
Flannels ............
Meltons ................
Merinos.............
Metz Cords .........
Paramattas ..........
Reps ....................
Serges ......................
Silesias ...
Tweeds
Woollen Goods, Unclassed...
Damasks...........
& Cotton Mixtures
Yarn..
37,059
86
3,118
11,382
23,326
22,3831
1,782
9,176
5,893
3,981
250
650
7,023
17,636
9,524
364
238,100
1,636
2,750
6,085
1,217
14,405
51,219
200,604
58,196
4,634
229,400
23,392
20
678
18,780
73,325
42,012
54,999
27,990
866
678
12
12
1,392
8,844
200
10
329
27,840
221,100
65,592
47,394
39,420
866
12,849
731
8,225
1,920
5,466
443
18,431
2,536
1,521
427
321,225
8,772
21,726
2,280
8,860
460,775
30,432
13,689
12,810
939
2,933
3,501
6,111
5,266
1,314
432
900
933
100
531
то
287
287
439
4,277
312
110
1,347
262
14
216
A
90
160
|_738
160
1,107
2,217
641
2,728
738
14,505
8,248
1,110
15,186
17,187
526
332
III
I2
922
1,096
1,321
97
9,221
88
6,003
1,249
212
121
- 544
17,874
1,412
3,972
40 351
11,539
1,334
3569
2,564)
4,66
163
METALS:-
Copper, Bar and Rod.......... Piculs
Sheets
Nails
Ware and Manu->
factured .........
110,641 1
34,463
7052
420
987|
59 1
46 36
649
14,089 07
2,264 31
362
7,902 91
2,46161
5458
66527
197,237
31,701
7,240
155141
...
2,172
19
972
19,958
66 99
66,99
2,010
en
2,010
9434
2,8301
19,138
637192


SHANGHAI
173
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.-Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity.
Value. | Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Tts
Hk.fts
Hk.fts.
Hk.fts
50997
6,120
66 70
800
4,717
1168
- 60
223
4,581
2910
1,9731
METALS, continued :-
Copper Ware and Un- Picals
manufactured... }
Wire..............
Old ...
Iron Plates and Sheets .....
Bar ...........
Nail-rod...........
Hoop.............
Corrugated.........
Galvanized ..........
Nails .....................
Ware or Manufactured
Ore or Unmanufactured
Wire
47168
22907
64830
7,020741
44,91342
192,998 75
5,459 99
2,238 37
89660
2,654 35
3,05966
1,126 30
4,477
5,740
15,445
89,827
347,397
11,992
3780
5,507
1,214
350
825
11,16195 111,620
20676 4,824
93960 7,535
23,871 26 52,517
88,64944 177,299
276,13605 497,045
7,45365 16,398
407 44 1,224
3,737 97 11,165
2,56303 7,808
1,535 58 4,500
9,072 5,850
29,832 64 105,906
394,918 90465,257
51,778 17 51,778
135,20429 513,776
1,073 39 6,440
5,456 39 136,410
4,628 31 16,662
22211 2,137
1,040
11,13354 112,223
303
32040 2,018
15,95692 35,106
43,32004 86,640
80,11544 144,821
87986 3,200
407 44 1,224
2,858
8,445
1,55577
4,842
92541
3,264
9,072 5,850
8,07103 28,652
130,01693 133,532
34,36590 34,366
19,68561 74,805
770 52 4,623
5,616 14 140,404
17274
4591
595771
1,18471
54266
35019
24|14|
1,895
3,547
1,661
792
367
...
1
17,162
»
Old
4,83441
6,10116
1,292 991
13,98840
6,873
1,293
53,156
1,021 93
661
3,292 80
2,98545
62 30
35280
3,928
637 19
3,628 25,57409) 90,788
6701 270,34213 337,928
3,293) 15,41246 15,412
11,345 126,52163 480,782
302 87 1,817
1,557 25,764 43 644,111
1,270 7,48101 26,931
75562
281 86673 43,337
54 1,37779 47,775
1,016 3,26884 13,692
5,165 89 61,990
723
17,203 53 41,288
4,44485 17,779
4,305
1,667
562
» Pig and Kentledge.....
Lead, in Pigs ..........
, ,Sheets ..........
Tin, in Slabs..
Tinplates
Tin Compound
Quicksilver ...............
Metal, White..
Zinc Sheets ..........
Yellow Metal and Nails ......
Steel ..........
Spelter................
Metals, Manufactured,
Unclassed, as Hard-
ware, Brassware, Brass Value
Buttons, Steelware, Tin-
ware, Cutlery, etc. ......
Anchors and Chains ........... Piculs
25,986 48
1,94403
1,17070
90570
4936
582 36
1,79944
3,692 16
311
649,662
6,998
6,096
45,285
1,238
560
6,988
4,319
14,769
33 35
46851
2,110 871
516
1,378 39
5,47926
6,342 92
21,542 88
6,90310
47,107
22,286
76,115
51,703
27,612
12823
22778
8145
977
30143
1,677 941
5,837 36
6,150 41
8,138
20,136
14,011
24,602
224,773
61,911
1,135
198,282
87,267
15,716 01
23,124
50
470 99
6782,899 76
5,060
12,390 26
17,436
es
9,718)
723
1,802
15,317
8,001
2,802
TIMBER :
Beams, Hard-wood. .........
» Soft-wood..
2,802
Masts.................
Planks, Hard-wood....
165,032
> Soft-wood........... .. Sq. ft. 14,827,499
Teak ................
...cub.ft. 50,617
Piles and Poles................... Pieces
44,132
27
82,603
6,875
5,400
165,032
326,205
17,716
22,066
135
2,203
738,800
8,326
- 27
2,203) 162,863
16,253 14,088,699
130,202
44,132
68,009
6,875
5,400
162,964
309,952
45,571
22,066
30,769
2,914
SUNDRIES:
Acid, Carbolic.
Pkgs.
3
Picric..
210
2,390
116
372 50
7,656 37
9080
3,00402
1,124
4,765
23,312
1,634
39,052
385)
5,82782
2342
4,44522
409 45
4,420
17,137
421
57,787
1,433
49
197 50
1,828 55
6738
767
2,735
6,175
1,213
129.90
1,688
, Sulphuric...........
Almonds .........
Aniseed, Star, Whole.......
, Broken..
Artificial Flowers..
Value
Awabi ...................... Piculs
Bags, Gunny...............
Pieces
Bark, Japan ............ Piculs
Beer .................
Betel-nut Husk ................... Piculs
Betel-nuts.........
5,086
44,883
2,000
1,49107
221,939
3,557 87
11,209)
44038
308 44
2,031
32,237 31263
11,172|1,205,524
6,046
39,232 2,171
661 1,186 09
1,542
9,54787
853 45
910,513
2,480 25
8,891
Pkgs.
2,031
15,694
31,966
4,180
31,119
950 251 21,629
98 514,950 23,991
1,07762 1,866
4,5851 3,179 11,127
2,36740 3,551
10,04075150,149
1,310
7,599
1,779
47,740


174
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
FROM
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
HONGKONG
TO
AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts.
8,01965
3,18373
078
2,932 37
1,573 60
1874
12663
146 53
78328
Hk.fts.
87,972
15,736
46,850
177,282
43,959
6,336
Hk.Fts.
240,589
31,837
1,950
17,570
71,109
522
38,304
3,259
5,288
40,800
2,152
25,116
Hk. Its
248,674
11,520
25,925
73,864
40,968
8,585
H.Fts
79,887
36,053
22,875
120,974
74,100
8,28913
1,15195
10 37
5276
13656
878 57
16,703
165
2,662 89
3,605 38
915
8641
247
Pkgs.
60
12 55
23703
63.40
497
117,384
7,735
1,360
3,685
2,09296
498
38,364
3,036
75
130
3,900
29,726
41,617
2,280
1920 230
IOI 1,186
1,225 1,715
364 4656,359
4,0840381,680
14
ΙΟΙ
1,129
1,086
1,85739
071
9,486
286 87
3,86319
8
3,780
13,280
223 100,681
7,781
4,950 1,141
3,685
22,2771 25477
1,054
030
20,689
43,031 77.59
77,264 22084
146
8,640 13,297
85,01866
2,288
10,520 1,76164
283,616 339 97
10,000 636
42,112
45,264 10,933
5,363
34,230
2,152
3,069
132
28,966
13,328
4,416
1,999
39,657
42,509
863
7,046
10,198
63,600
Pieces
Pkgs.
70
540
1,000
9586
140
16,951
85,01866
35007
4,391 55
9,788 48
123
5,796 03
37,714
27.
1,344
1,968
48,168
42,509
3,151
17,566
293,654
12,300
41,474
55,625
1,788
76
646
270
64,600
210
7,903
ITO
3,300
25421
2,629 91
9,453 86
100
5,506 19
31,323
3549
Pieces
4,891
349)
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Bicho de Mar, Black ......... Piculs
White.........
Birds' Nests, ist Quality ... ,
» » 2nd
»
3rd ...
· Borax..............
Braid ............................
Bricks and Tiles..........
Pieces
Brushes and Brooms ...... Dozens
Butter and Cheese ............
Pkgs.
Buttons, Fancy................. Gross
Camphor....................... Piculs
» Baroos, Clean and
Refuse .........
Candles ..................
Pkgs.
Cardamoms, Superior ........
Piculs
Inferior .....
L ?
Carpets ...
Cement.
Charcoal .......................
Piculs
China-root....................
Chinaware, Coarse ..........
„ Fine.
Cigars .........
Pkgs.
Clams, Dried .......
Piculs
Clocks ...........
Cloth, Emery......... Pkgs.
_99 Gunny.......
Yards
Cloves.
Piculs
Coal................
Cockles.....
Piculs
Coffee ...
Coir..
Coke
Tons
Compoy ............
Piculs
Coral ..............
Cotton, Raw........
, Waste......
Covers, Table ....
Cow Bezoar.
Piculs
Crabs, Dried....
Crocodile Seales .....
Crucibles....
Curiosities.
Cuttle-fish.
Dyes and Colours .......... Pkgs.
Elephants Teeth, Whole .... Piculs
Engineers' Tools .............
Pkgs.
Engines
Fans, Paper ..............
Pieces
Feathers, Kingfishers' ........
, Peacocks .........
Felt Sheathing .............
Fish Dried and Salt ....... ..Piculs
, Maws.
" Skins ............
418
27
201,175
41194
5,642
8,768
4,944
Tons
33,852
125,528
31084
4,900
8,833 99
190
1,096
577
255,4291
15,395 89
484
182
6,576
4,679
3,730
32,830
18,201
152
1,226
60
844
52811
1,002 56
9,506
3,008
40863
1,532,574
25,758
87
546
15,474
51,851
1,400
10,509
10,528
2,579
17,846
1,788
4,165
1,191
1,527,020
7,497
9,441
2,328
15,114
19,251
2,175
10,509
5,023
994
60
76,991
9920
255,075
6,55613
52451
77593
2,519
1,53708
087
95539
73847
788"
901
360
86 58
1,938 35
33,839
5,000
2311
3,390 99
056
95539
1,48805
684
1,271
5,775
64
74498
5,470
ruces
884
128
007
2,213
006
338
10312668
1,875
1,106
5,905
16611
14695
120 30
7,864
4581
Pkgs.
28
1,959
2,889
4,000
28
120
10,52371
31,345
2,889
4,317
94,713
424,021
105
Piculs
5338
9,546
63.38)
25
480
136,194
12,676
13,217 82
32,608
118,961
511,129
479
6,664
3,640
107
157
349,892
21,960
1,179
2,610
10,497
2,196
7,804
63 38
107
166
332,922
94,465
42,422
12,676
1,179
6,250
9,988
9,446
16,970
101,280
73,193
28,775
10,128
5,855
509
2,878
10,440
229
7,278
1,334
6,243
5,241
1,050
8,843
89191
1876
34769
68,440 29
10,0301
750
15 28
477 22
612
3,340
2,771
130,500
3,100
1,04311
6928
530 71
10,55302
6,338
20 80
T
Flints........
2,434
34,220
50,150
1,420
Flour ...............
Fungus............
33,059
165,295
3,698
18,490
3,715
5,277
31,690
374
294 20
57,887271
33,053
5809
2,059
28,943
165,265
1,046
Piculs
781891


SHANGHAI.
175
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.-Imports and Re-exports—Conto.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS 1
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
37966
...
131
9 44
value
4,428
369
588
005)
75
98
Ooo
897
301
478
0231
...
099
15068
24355
3252
47681
988
48156
2699
4121"
Rhinoceros...........
Value
Piculs
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Hk.Fts
HK.fts
Gambier .............
Piculs
30808 1,540 15352 768
Gamboge ........
5093 2,037
Gas Fittings..................,
3,077
Ginseng, American, Clarified Piculs
82987 248,961
Crude...
402 3,618
Corean, ist Quality
6,2731
, 2nd ,
152 608
» Unclassed
127 34 10,1871
122
Japan, ist Quality
014
, 2nd ?
78 16 23,448
42
, Unclassed..
369171 22,150
509
Native.
20:55 1,988 ... I
Root and Beard....
344
Wild ..................
026 1,967)
Glassware .....................
769 30
15,386
Glue, Cow...
14674 1,174 6496 520
Gold and Silver Thread.
045
1,350
2,970
Gum, Dragon's Blood
11612
3,484)
4,521
, Myrrh ............
27607
3,313
, Olibanum...........
1,617 10 12,936
Hams
44854 6,2801
138
Hemp Twine.
1,700 3.07 107
Hides, Cow and Buffalo..
2,416 42 28,997
324
Horns, Deer, Young........ Pairs
92 4,600
20,600
Old...........
Piculs
9675 3,870
981)
392
022
6539
58,851
Hose
2,168
India-rubber.
17678 7,555
, Goods Value
423
Indigo, Liquid ................ Piculs
43037 2,152 252 90 1,265
Isinglass ........
21,82488 436,498
32462
6,493
Lacquerware...
212 96 10,648 8231 411
Lamps and Burners............
126,6661 27,7791 6,61911 4,130
Lampwicks .................... Gross 24,842 3,587
7441
180
Lead, Red .......
Piculs
1,024 82 7,174
1176
82
White...
74576 4,474 29528 1,772
Yellow .................. »
420
- 25 21663 1,300
Leather...
297 971
1,202 46 72,147
Log-wood Extract ........
1,449 11,3581 11110 885
Looking-glasses and Mirrors Pieces 332,601 8,193
284
Lucraban Seed.............. Piculs 11279 225) 88877 1,778
Machinery.......
91990,360 801
4,885
Mangrove Bark ..............
Piculs
9,294 508,365) 32,06520 28,859
Matches, Wax ............., Gross
1,014 2,061
. Wood .............
676,973
| 174,2451 138,343) 56,009
Medicines .....................
2,639 44 16,510 10545
Mother-of-pearl Shell .
1,097 69 3,293
1,790
» Shellware...
970 2,4251
Mushrooms .............
5,030 07 150,902 142 66 4,280
Musical Boxes and In-
struments ..........
2,088
| 11,914
741
1,392
Mussels, Dried .......... Piculs 830046,640 3,81529 30,523
Needles
Mille 903,768 137,9781 680,420 83,449
Nutmegs .......................
Piculs
248 84 7,465
Oakum .................
37 50 433)
86 57
496
Oil, Kerosene.................... Galls. 22,879,664 2,144,5801
4,000
533
Linseed ...................
8,831 4,235
Paint .........
16,549 8,202
» Peppermint.
644 1,6101
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Its
40
1,898
7404 370
3822
1,529
377
3,077
175,911
243 50 73,050
4.92
1418 24,106
1 47
20
116
12770 10,234
045 315
5070
15,210
2760 8,280
36983
22,190
535 320
729 964 1326 1,024
10231
563 167
003 220
1,747
267 18
5,344 502121 10,042
7745 620 134 25 1,074
3,930
013
390
620
186
184 5,520
7660
2,299
2,923
390
1,140 29
9,123
3,813
1533 215 431 30 6,004
5163 1,807
1,15328 13,839 1,71525
20,583
3,000
22,200
1054 422
10729
4,292
65 36
58,824
025 225
... 1
2,168
- 2557| 941 151216,614
6,951
14707 735
536 20
2,682
10,37565 207,513 11,766 98 235,341
8168
4,084
13841 6,920
205
61,569
9,349
71,402 22,355
1,050 186 24,536
3,581
23226 1,626
79970 5,612
127
4/20
1,009 54 6,094
168 IO 21915 1,315
- 25/05 1,503 25569 15,341 1,2196973,181
1,077 1,766 54 13,872
37,2071
968 295,926 7,509
86794) 1,736
13362
267
4,584 473 39,577
484
51,084
31,71644 28,545 9,64326 8,679
57,026 32,954
4,280
1,162 661,494 179,955 149,542 49,137
4.96
1,50554 7,294 1,234 39 10,071
10741
1,39979
4,200
28397851
970 2,425
3,356 91 100,708 1,81582 54,474
544 1,365 2,936 11,290
2,894 81 23,158 1,75052 14,005
9,540 928 1,408,836 181,539 165,812 38,960
212 66 6,380 36118 1,085
5110
7297 646
951,040 86,861 8,768,970 904,247 13, 163,654 1,154,005
375 183 285
8,1711 3,850
113 3,710 1,570 12,721 6,574
1,610
6871
110
Pieces
3141
25
17,878
532
Plegs.
Piculs
885
59681
Pieces
283
202
Ι ΙΟΙ
55
.
228
Piculs
"644


176
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM T RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts.
He.Its.
1,879
5,420
30
14
1,280
Hk.fts.
1,200
2,641
7,189
1,055
15,000
4,401 55
71895
75 31
Hk. Its
406
8,862
5,890
14,686
H.fts.
2,659
2,641
50
88624
13,126
149 69
Noun
037
2,024
41
5
19,110
4,401 55
1,312 57
4,530 29
2,74711
180
1381
1,031 25
988
14,949
34,352
69,046
7,797
20,740
18,917
43,454
1,101
44,960
2,884
27,493
54,326
6,825
13,810
12,374
2 57
1420
17,112 33
734 69
82588
70348
319
950
55942
20,435 42
444 88
842
1,006
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Oil, Turpentine ..
Galls.
Oyster Shells ..................
Piculs
Paint, Green .........
Paints, Assorted..........
Paper, ist Quality
, Wall...
Pkgs.
Pearls, False
Piculs
Peel, Orange .................
Pepper, Black................
White ..
Perfumery .............
Pictures and Engravings..... Pieces
Pitch ......
Piculs
Plate Glass .....................[Pieces
Potash ................
Piculs
Potatoes
Prawns and Shrimps, Dried
Pumps, Wooden...............
Putchuck........................ Piculs
Quartz ......................
Raisins...............
Rattans, Whole..
Rope, Europe ........
2,570
170
256,685
13,224
7,480
ΙΙΙΙ7
1,668
1,49486
5,430 55
3,452 29
494
2074
1,576 47
2,896 97
6120
2,248
48,857
44198
2,721
41322
3,92866
2,841 211
3,353
35101
9,500
6,713
306,531
8,008
16,840
Plegs.
374
11,180
817
536
68336
503
419
1,542
14,396
2,726
3,929
28,412
1,005
90113
1,463 31
901
14,633
2,877 25
1,590
1,361 18
Pieces
28,773
722
12,251
6,317
24,420
2,067
1,039
12,854
2,726
4,830
14,231
283
4,049
1,208
4,003
67,159
22,835
22,084
1,221
47,851
1,125 34
2,302
41322
4,82979
1,42320
1,763
449 89
382 44
328 25
22,38667
2,47070
2,208 29
1,81495
382 44
1,134 43
14,880 08
732 54
1,992 08
1,25007
2679
16,335
1,208
8,864
44,640
7,244
19,921
1,647
670
1,517
»
Manila
24 90
1,402 33
165
249
2,040
1,09526
12,759 28
1,31993
41807)
6,25994
3379
3,568
8,970
38,278
12,228
4,180
4,933
845
4,990
Rugs
862
776
1,218
, Wire ...........
Rose Maloes
Pieces
Sand, Red..
Piculs
Sandalwood....
Sapanwood ...
Scale Sticks ..
Scales
Seaweed and Agar-agar......
agar Piculs
Sharks' Fins, Black......
1 840
12,442
1,346
16,79383
8,134 13
17698
4357
1,416
- 87
ces
3,948
46,172 73 369,382
56,88073 113,761
890
124
142 1,297
3,60782 10,164
21111 5,600
1,204 72 72,283
489 58 48,205
51,423 78
53,225 46
20,984"
24
326,364 30
50419
1,25204
386 72
276
289 08
4,109
20,265 871 60,797
3,07460 27,984
65918 6,592
1,900 01
3,480
1540 - 385
15,924 22,157
1,346 1,346
22,221 86 177,775
4,522 43 9,045
24,042 2,385
158 1,392
337,945 23 848,768
932 78 16,790
1,009 35 60,561
125
116
802 4,812
55 50
1,006
23,915
17,936
1,243
5,282
4,226
71,477
7,148
1,048 2,204
7,573 1,515
28,937
2,893
108,819
8,903
53,418
972
459
210
17,466
1,346
134,352
16,268
438
2,149
38,236
13,314
57,722
9,895
411,389
106,451
2,071
540
820,346
9,076
75,122
38,435
I 40
15,048 75
639 70
962 03
106 04
»
White..
318
116
Prepared ....
Silſ, Wild Raw ...........
Piece Goods
Sinews, Deer and Buffalo...
Skins, Fox, Small ...........
Land-otter ..............
802
4,812
veces
62
2,486
Marten
54 50
23,853
1,314
4,550
79,100
646
1,211
30,107
63,153
639
981
17,890
2,628
3,640
7,910
1,306
242
3,009
37,893)
3,834
402
6,362
898
1,273
181,365
1,585
2,362
635
1,418
3,810
951
8,988
22
71,393
44,406
1,498
556
269
3,549
706
44358
2,429
Racoon ...........
Seal ...........
Squirrel.......
Weasel .......
Soap
Spirits
, of Wine.............. Galls.
Sticklac........................... Piculs
Sugar, Brown ..............
» White and Refined...
5. Candy
Tea, Japan, for local con-
sumption ..................
Telescopes and Spy-glasses .. Pieces
Tinder ........................... Piculs
Tin-foil...........
Tortoiseshell, Whole.........
10,002
2,939
139 89
242
10,307 53
1,120
666
68,687
9,336
12,426831
50,950
6903
621
118,989
7,401
1,521
30369
3,397 13
159
58533
2,367
40125
3,63713
71679
159
58533
3,756
577 57
15843
453
1,081
:
2,208
1,263
4,043
5,545
3,171
2,724
1,081
2,208
1,119
2,809
8,547
:
1,389
56542
177 34
38910
175
144
3,958
6,207
938
:
902
6,314
:
12/21


178
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
SUMMARY.
.........
.............
IMPORTS from Great Britain ..................................Hk.fts. 21,563,154
, Hongkong ........................................ 8,172,127
India ......................
» 16,980,035
Singapore and Straits ................ , . 610,876
Australia.
282,102
British America..................
28,187
, United States of America.....
4,556, 369
Continent of Europe, Russia excepted ... 2,216,822
Russian Manchuria
15,787
» Corea.......
20,689
»
Japan...........................................
Japan..
5,230,137
Philippine Islands ...........
12,574
Cochin China, Tungking, and Annam ...
549
Siam ..
31,970
„ Turkey in Asia, Persia, Egypt, and Aden
11,686
Total from Foreign Countries ........-
-Hk.fts 59,733,064
Imports from Chinese Ports ......................................... . 321,864
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS............
- Hk.fts. 60,054,928
RE-EXPORTS to Great Britain ................................ Hk.fts 10,623
„ Hongkong ................................. 354,996
„ Singapore and Straits......................
8,495
„ United States of America ................
7,117
„ Continent of Europe, Russia excepted..
11,529
„ Russian Manchuria ..
153,591
„Corea ...
97,200
Japan.
966,914
,, Philippine Islands ............................ ,
114
„ Cochin China, Tungking, and Annam..
„Siam ...............
.. Java ........................................... .
„ Turkey in Asia, Persia, Egypt, and Aden
72
Total to Foreign Countries ..........
- Hk.Its 1,611,703
RE-EXPORTS to Newchwang ................................. Hk. Its. 2,384,172
, Tientsin .........
........... 10,116,164
„Chefoo..........
3,759,525
„ Hankow...........
9,608,480
„Kiukiang ............
2,576,314
Wuhu ..................
2,905,027
Chinkiang ............
5,893,280
„, Ningpo ..............
5,486,478
„ Wenchow .................
256,153
„ Foochow ...........
830,011
Tamsui..
34,980
„ Takow.....
18,670
„ Amoy.....................
61,645
„ Swatow ....
151,105
„ Canton
5,152
Total to Chinese Ports............
- Hk.fts 44,087,156
Total FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS....
- Hk.Fts 45,698,859
65
649
338
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS....
.... Hk.Fts 14,356,069


SHANGHAI. .
179
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS
RE-EXPORTS TO
| FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
• NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
H.Fls.
Hk. Its
Hi.Ft.
32
1304
2,816
- 240
42118
660
60,650
8
Hk.fts
8,800
1330 2,873
11627 31,974
2,400
6,557 95 944,345
1,08418 292,732
21,50967 967,936
8,62005) 999,925
1,425 98 89,837
81
2,400
51,642
70,064
Hk. Its
8,800
26 34
5,689
7557 20,782
16 4,800
7,337 76 1,056,637
1,34369 362,796
23,23585 1,045,612
9,32501 1,081,701
1,475 56 92,960
109 40 54,700
3130 10,861
2,020
1,716 39 1,029,834
2,659 92 425,587
434 72 86,944
2,4701
SILK, Raw, Ningpo..... Piculs
Chinkiang ..........
Wuhu ........
, Canton .........
Yellow, Szechwan....
» Chefoo .......
Waste .................
W ild ....................
Cocoons ................
Ribbons.
. Embroidered...
Thread and Tassels..
Piece Goods .............
Pongees .....................
and Cotton Mixtures ....
and Cotton Mixtures,
Fancy .................. SI
35863
25951
1,67130
69996
40 341
75,206
580
924
582
3 551
018
90 |
091
1,775
225
24.42
0381
39,375
8,710
152
779
81,196
2,541
17,010
2,376
1,868
115,794
78,556
36,040
505)
4068
24,408
1,460 81 876.486
10327
2,069 32
088
49098
61,962
331,091
176
99.62
256 79
821
15,9401
51,358
1,244
315
19299
180 20
630
91601,224
078
2171
4,07543
127,135 85 2,059,601 173,213 97 2,806,066
1,320 56 29,5811 67,995 07 1,523,085
14,843
742 18
304,42525 4,931,689
69,16573 1,549,312
540 10,800
0 20
4
156 83
2,384
1,634 55 27,134
1,55804 23,682
020
1,24414)
2354
15683
11687
1,941
20,653
358
27354
2,049 29
4,540
31,149
045
045
TEA, Black, Hankow ............ Piculs
Kiukiang ....
Wuhu..........
Chinkiang ........
Ningpo.......
Wênchow.....
Foochow..
Amoy
Swatow ........
Canton ........
Tientsin ....
Green, Hankow....
Kiukiang .....
Wênchow.
Tientsin..
Wuhu...........
Ningpo....
19
103
20
194
4928
221
5078
30714
44,729 56
762
6,143
894,591
2,055
027
1 501
307 14 6,143
60364 12,072| 44,38973 887,795
29572 5,619
0459
796 29) 15,129
7954 1,431 142,67768 2,568,198
225,538 061,240,4591 49,54880 272,517
51613 3,613 045
2,231 06 13,386
0 45
09017
31998 6,080
146,757 26 2,641,631
278,03319 1,529,183
1,902 19 13,315
3,539 85 21,239
Brick
Leaf ...................
Dust...................
4,000 04
2,946 33
1,386 51
1,308 79
72,002
16,207
9,699
7,853
Piculs
123
13
13
998
II
IL
COTTON, Raw, Swatow ........
Wuhu.
Foochow........
Ningpo....
Hankow....
Nankeens......
Rags....
Ribbons .....
Clothing and Stock-
ings ..........
408
079
4,69307
162 86
4,462 94
1,38152
67292
- 4542
2,76974
10672
88714
30,467
1,174
35,486
14 541
123
098
0179
3707
0341
1,25667
1,17108
51,624
1,791
178,517
1,324
47,197
2,300
582
1,886 26
5580
2,33367
21044
618 82
2575
20,749
614
93,346
315
43,840
1,409
5410
50,267
1,009
3,357
2,116
1,237
027
12
4689
............... Piculs
SUNDRIES :
Alum, Green....
8,408 51
White...........
29,622 20
Aniseed, Star................
959
» , Broken.........
248 57
Arsenic ....
7,316 28
Bags, Hemp and Gunny...... Pieces (1,565,416
Straw.
88,000
3,812
10,290117,499 80
17,2581
47,198
10,931
29,622
125 3,630 64
635 30
40,239
38,120 8,750
440 7,362,146
870
2,932 46
10,289 52
1,327 51
2,224 19905
6,356 86
247 87,598
36,811 4,807,705 |
697
5,47605
17,500 1,832 88
2,31272
68482
966 89
40 1,485,568
270 2,624,441
7,119
1,832
30,065
2,397
5,318
35,544
12,943
747
34,962
2,783
24,038
1,000
18,000


18Q
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

NET
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
TOTAL IMPORTS
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
Hk.Its.
360
7160
501,250
2,567 88
46
17,544
15,603
12,349
16
882
1,359
23,672
6,712
65
1,068
6,221
7,547
Piculs
601
580
-
5,162 73
3051
25924
25153
11596
84,087
48401
22 05
71373
814
3,015
1,325
24,200
882
2,854
211
5,395
..............Pieces
2,073
1,057
341
3,038
1,277
600
1904
264
280
1649
199 26
2,989
766
375
930
40,731
25,224
1,290
1,329
22/16
3676
3742
2,671 70
2,196 44
52068
216
2355
0 46
395,52410
3,080 51
591
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Hk. Its.
Hec. Its.
Hk.Fts.
Bamboo Canes ..........
177,270 6,204 365,360 12,788
31,080 1,088 10,
,, Shoots..............
39,91667 170,967 3592 185 37,37711 155,503
Bambooware ...............
20521 2,873 1,73387 24,274 1,055 86 14,782
II
Beancake
123,76551
117,577
158,140 97 150,234
Beancurd.
75170 2,255 78 49 - 265 360 60 1,232 450
Beans and Peas ........
69,249 95 90,025 31370
408
46,19173 60,049 18,20919
Bones, Tigers' ..........
156 55
5,479
12604
4,411
Books ........
639 04 15,336
1986 477 396 96 9,527 2170
Brass-foil..
32429 9,729 18549 5,565 258 25 7,747
Brass Pipes.......... Pieces 28,046 11,857
32,983 13,522 748
Brassware..........
4301451 11,191 7739 2,012 369 55
9,608
22 33
Brooms, Bamboo and Straw Pieces 63,647
21,900 545 1,460
Buttons, Brass .....
Piculs 75362 37,681 13101 6,550 40062 20,031
Cantharides.
15903 6,361
- 84 13487
Capoor Cutchery
1,45903
5,836
46886
1,874
L 1,21416 4,856
Caps, Felt ......
9,811 2,452
1,516
379
8,295
, Silk ..........
4,188 1,760
2,482
1,042 1,114 468 2,518
Carpets and Felt.......
17,052
3,568
17,184 2,627 432
Cassia Buds ..
305
126 45 2,023 129 2,064
•, Lignea...........
19412 2,912 3,035 69 45,535 3,011 92 45,178 1863
, Twigs ...........
306 52
6,594 53 16,486 7,05470 17,637
Charcoal ................
2,67170 1,092
China-root ..............
15,51160 139,604
309
28
8,792 59 79,133
4,52566
Chinaware, Fine..
7,38286 221,486
112 6,025 12 180,753 84081
Coarse..
12,956 75 51,828
12,41842 49,673 32263
Cinnabar ..........
202 98 12,179
2,205 19403 11,642
Cinnamon.............
295
42 87 2,143
Coal ..................
395,52410 94,174
Coir.
4,601 24 13,803
104/28 313
1,62311 4,869 190
Copper, Old.
8,241
47162 6,302 23179
, Unmanufactured.
2,155
285/38
Cornelianware ....
445
1,888
178 981
Cow Bezoar ................... Taels
118
1,905 242 529,
Curiosities
473 16,063
116
Cuttle-fish
Piculs 30,011 24 270,101
24,636 37 221,727
Dressing-cases...................
Pieces
5,327 3,220
596 2,213 1,562 24
Dye-stuff........................ Piculs 12,300 58 36,761
17 3,160 65 14,205
Eggs, Fresh and Preserved.. Pieces (1,110,200 5,309
645,068 4,515 142,280
Fans, Palm-leaf, Trimmed... ,,
64,245
642 5,643,821 56,438 4,622,115 46,221
Untrimmed , 203,660 1,018 18,057,613 90,288 14,212,526 71,062
, Paper .................... 12,123,867) 63,716 28,463 854 2,058,846 61,765 9,700
Silk ................
4,264 - 584 117,193 7,136 124,719
Feathers ......................... Piculs
11,27479 52,112
28 95
- 238 9,39181
Fire-crackers ...
3,451 81
17356 1,736 63324 6,332 87472
Fish, Dried and Salt ...
5,42103 37,947 5857 410 2,056 30 14,394 3,67544
, Maws
78504 31,402 512 46 20,498 1,072 26 42,890 24009
Skins ..........
271 02 1,897 116 56 816 15620 1,093
. Glue .............
88098 22,024
800 77 20,019
5,682 50 9,240 119 263 54598 1,469 22 30
Flower Seed.
1,04273 8,128
1,605
98133
7,682
, Plants...
Pieces
| 513,036 6,970
24,369 1,427
6,640
Flowers, Artificial.......... Piculs
1706 1,024
IOI
177
106
Fruit, Dried....
154,941 92 609,839 1,159 14 6,604 44,510 94 163,583 33,839 98
, Fresh
103,22864 119,268 873 57 2,641 16,53019 23,525 4,26541
Fungus
17,447 99 314,064
6,932 24 124,780 6,138 94
Galangal ...
4,94004 12,350 3,288 83 8,222
Ginseng ..........
391 64 23,478
25576 14,925 2266
Root
233 30 6,730
4214 990
Corean, ist Quality
14693 249,781 |
3963 67,371 3249
1,092
19,768
15,621
866
1,413
23
94,174
9,242
1,871
61691
3,152
21554
2,854
907
1,494
54)
871
Pkgs.
fish
.....
7,39281
07078
I,113
530
683
17,131
66,535
4,203
9,13563
561) 322,852
11,085,951
14,048,747
291 83,784
17
42,971 1,85403
8,747 2,11741
25,728
9,604
231 38
2,246
22,562
233
10,859
20,244
2,514
9,088
8,903
21,175
34,518
8021
Flour ......
791
1,620
2,005
7,955
2,051
203 08
5,512
61
5,23322
26448
311 482,027
16 30
145,295 77,750 14.
6,098 83,30661
110,501 4,376 81
1,651 21
1,341 11322
19116
55,233 7481
979
307,565
92,286
78,783
4,128
7,212
5,740
127,177


SHANGHAI.
181
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

NET
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
TOTAL IMPORTS
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hz.fts.
Hk.fits.
384
Hk.fts.
416
1,876
096
Тол
04
832
2691
3487
976 56
199171
13,718
1,165
5,936
9,162
2,507
145
Hk.Fts
1,076
2,041
19,531
809
7,600
366
49,081
13,354
13,967
4,320
I 22
70116
445 14
27,934)
47993
34,018
525
585
466
228 47
40581
26323
1 84
8,710
26
446
4,966
1,581
2,432
3,685
154,897
13,870
458
Skin ...............**
64174 12,835
17771
356
1,65103 13,208 17597 1,408
2995 8,985
1,09982 76,987
280
1,16072 34,822 18068 5,420
21,510 10,755 19,666 9,833
2266 204 3,277 17 29,494
21 721 2,04447 37,862
33 30
2,09468
52,340
324 9448
5,496
35471
1,063 22 14,885
63,516 4,7289 ,490,878 75,900
56,052 27 392,366 20,955 25 146,687
107 21 182 751 43
334
260
98,550 6,863
275
390 09
4,681
74,561 49 894,739
46 1,031 15710 471
69 47 10,305
4,952
141 7,050
1,950
140 14
5,605
1061 422
83558 5,849 2,192 67 15,349
1461 365
31692 5,070
16,85095 84,254
27179
156
257
322
3264
317
252 42
2,524
3572
91
4,216
Pieces
3,750
|
22,12827
9,373 52
246 74
235,300
11,33987)
68557
10502
3,631
612
27,616
136,077
2,440
16,593
900
104
104
4.
3318
39
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Hk.Its.
Ginseng, Corean, 2nd Quality Piculs 469
» » 3rd ,
3591
2,873
Glassware .........
93493 18,698 68589
Glass, Broken..
37688
Glue, Cow .....
2,03507 16,280 74196
Gold Thread, Imitation ....
063 189 30 54
Grasscloth, Fine..
1,769 16 123,841 35 82
> Coarse......
1,78172 53,451 482
Gypsum .....
69,110 34,550
Hair, Goats'..
3,779 76
Horse..........
1,78579 35,630 1172
Pigs
2,356 45 54,506
Cow, Buffalo, and Yaks'
13972 8,252
Hams......
1,679 32 23,510
Hats, Bamboo and Straw ... Pieces 19,762,389) 74,398
Hemp ...
.. Piculs 99,070 37 693,492 65.42
9,555 73 14,095
, Twine ...................
Sacking .................
337,600 34,754
Hides, Cow and Buffalo...... Piculs 85,988 90 1,031,866
302 55
Strips and Refuse ...
48087 3,330
40780
Horns, Chamois
20663 31,746
Deer, Young...........
Pairs
1981 9,900
,, Old ............. Piculs 10566 4,227 648
Cow and Buffalo ...
2,780 52 19,463
Hornware ....
28 27 707 1174
Indigo, Dried.
72031 11,525 4418
, Liquid
20,306 31 101,531 37,674 13
Iron Nails............
248 87
Old................
7,331 15 6,675
, Pyrites..........
756
3,024
Ironware...........
12,861 95 50,614 1776
Ivoryware .....................
1317 7,902
Jadestone ......
1,794 36 28,404 1405
Jadestoneware ....
63,909 33,733 73
Joss-stick Powder
Piculs
9,431 251 16,591
Joss Sticks
1,16331 5,817 178 43
Lacquerware.......
33 53
1,174 32 18
Lampblack.............
1,452 18 11,915
Lamps ...............
98,7301 10,716
90, 108
Lead, White .....
Piculs 2,29111 13,746 1,196 84
, Yellow ......
2,53818 15,229 2,148 26
Tribute ............
1,004 3,815
Leather............
2,477 70 61,942 425 36
, Gilt, and Parchment Pieces 633,200 8,782 1,205
Leatherware ....... ............ Piculs 30584 15,292 373
Lily Flowers, Dried .........
55,570 74 277,854
, Seed or Lotus-nuts ....
6,71658 87,316
Liquorice..............
5,366 25 26,831
Lung-ngan Pulp.......
1,555 33 12,443
1,425 02
Lung-ngans, Dried......
16,13083 145,177
4,346 01
Marble Slabs ........
450 89 2,705 2092
Mats, Bamboo and Rattan... Pieces 100,895 30,390 1,569
Straw ............
792,372 31,695 268,483
, Tea and Silk
1,767,470
Matting ........................
... Rolls 1,648
5,768
1,133
Medicines......................... Piculs 166,188 58 1,336,670 9,81360
Mirrors with Frames ......... Pieces 326,449 10,205
54,788
Mother-of-pearl Shellware... Piculs
400
259
293
707
188,371
1,268
25 40
447 57
41,129 49
221 08
7,07415
756
4,52455
286
099
594
1351
384
1,780
1,42576
635
7,162
205,648
1,112
6,353
3,024
9,803
8,106
27,008
30,640
16,573
5,585
829
9,774
7,210
9,414
8,382
Pieces
53,862
waer .........
18
780
344
6872
1 30
1920
242
9,416 25
1,11702
2366
1,06558
83,220
1,56903
1,397 08
Pieces
8,355 16 41,097
065 390
38265
10,120
3,102
15
892
156
1,126
4075 1,426
367 40 1,913
10,187 105,376 13,651
7,181 1,918 92 11,513
12,889
3,289 36 19,736
1,004
3,815
10,634 596 73 14,918
121 620,395 7,632
186 30 24 1,512
15,849 19 79,245
5,201 32 67,617
620 62 3,103
I 1,400 3,00375 24,030
39,114 14,713 53 132,422
126 3042 183
1,2551 44,363 13,4151
10,739 328,050 13,122
70,698 535,200 21,408
3,965 111 389
94,204 82,362 94 685,762
2,753 73,242 3,967
1,842 077 162
54,400
1,271
13,878
005
10,564
3,919
19119 3,258 2,11514
14,010
177 88 27756
40,129 83 200,650
70270 9,135 81256
3,961 97 19,810
78371
56 88 455
0151 5,763 16
44139
18,928 5,395 39,173
331,569 13,149| 401,236
... 1,232,270
1,553 5,435 1,117|
59,096 76 430,356 34,542 48
11 307,949 1
»
Straw
51,868
2,648
12,835
16,163
49,290
3,909
314,756
8,980
2,050
46
820


182
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE. --- Imports and Re-exports—Conta.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE Ports.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value. Quantity
Value. Quantity.
Value.
Quantity
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
569 22
14,892 |
47115
Hk.Ats
17,076
111,684
3,769
887 251
13,582
3,897
179,141
153
2,26362
35,828 26
051
325170
7,53438
1,70889
28275
- 6374
2,941811
33477
4821
3,930
51/66
SO10
327
473)
2,435
188 331
1,144171
633
3366
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Mushrooms ..................... Piculs
Musk ...............
Taels
Mussels, Dried .............. Piculs
Nutgalls
Oil, Tea ...
Castor ..................
• Wood .................
Opium, Szechwan....
Paints, Assorted.....
Paper, ist Quality ......
» 2nd ..
, Joss .......
Pearls, False ...........
Peel, Orange ........
» Pumelo .......
Peppermint Leaf ..........
Prawns and Shrimps, Dried
Preserves and Sweetmeats...
Provisions, Dried ...
Quartz
Rattans, Split ...........
Resin, Gum............
Rhubarb ..
Rice.........
,, Red .........
. Tribute..............
Rouge ................
Safflower ...............
Samshu..
Sea Blubber
Sea-shells......
Seaweed and Agar-agar.
Seed, Sesamum ........
Shoes, Satin and Cotton......
Pairs
Silver and Gold Ware
Piculs
Skin Clothing ................
Pieces
,, Rugs.....................
Skins, Goat ..................
Ass............
Ermine..............
Pieces
Land-otter............
Sheep and Lamb......
Tiger and Leopard ...
Squirrel ...........
Sable .............
Dog ..............
Assorted .........
Snuff ........................
..............
, Seed...............
Steel ...........
Stone Slabs...
Pieces
Straw Braid .......
Piculs
Sugar, Brown .......
White....
3,114
188,359
6,836
1,865
6,374
35,301
1,086
195
1,883
8,215
2,230
1,683
1,654
4,363
2,176
1,707
18,017
613
3,686
659 46
109.08
1,20910
27455
10,009 491
14/49
3,161
Hk. Pts.
Hk. Pts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Fts
98015 29,405 32 741 982 34572 10,372 97 95) 2,939
53,473 401,047 176 1,320 6,337 47,531 | 32,420 243,152
441 30 3,530 32835 2,627 298 50 2,388
25,268 83 252,688 22 30 223 2,73474 27,347
238,568
5,394 01 32,364
3,130 39 18,782
3,612 36
285
77,16669 385,833
39,68222 198,411 1,65621 8,281
1 26
378
075 225
361 86 3,864 1399 1405015 890
33,171 17 829,279 252 44 6,311 22,992 92 574,823 2,896 31
72,408
117,28512 469,140 80342 3,214 116,255 89 465,023 12376 495
8,95678 113,259
8,66710 111,307 693 87
5483 5,483
4,821 39 30
2,08541 25,024 5,11932 61,432 4,26292 51,155
430 29
1,591
14718 832
359 07 1,077
13674
410
15767)
2,958
243511
59626
5,963
4556 455
18,035 62141 6,214 2,18958 21,896
470
31,720 16618
1,15885 15,711 52491
8,427
13779
414
602 27 1,816
12271 61 2,774 26
13,871 2,44989
12,249
2,42359 5,028
1,76413 3,374
8,59376 343,750
1,458 49 58,339 7,02619 281,048
443,784 87 798,812
442,57577 796,636
85276 4,871
2612
57409
- 30/24
139
10,009 49 18,017
243 3196 1,219 2386
849
98291 56,000
590 41 33,575 544 40
30,798
6,78163 20,344 8651 260 2,27894 6,837 3,360 46
10,081
4,39302 4,346
4,57309 4,609
9720
3,03095 3,031
47909 1,205
IT115
292
2,544 45 7,633
2,122 19 6,367 163|18|
489
62,679
53,305
2131 15,531 13,610 32,770 24,264
1411 5,547
003
900
77,628 146,432
33,591 43,4431 1,232
731,577 658,152
174
127653,767 607,438
143,039 29,857
8,320
1,013 147,224 22,933
452 351 11,400
24874 7,317
100 1,625
812
908 1,816
275
550
6,3901 2,149
149
227
1471 3,675
125
1,625
10,689 2,138
481
10
4,707
749
4,915
1,147
63,192 32,429
106 21,167 12,998
7,918 1,128
117
31566 7,576
1864 447
27,297 32 48,209
4,02711 6,406 1487
706851,I0I
164 26
322
7,80529 18,733
5,92374 14,2171 30075
18,958 1 2,107
74,862 38 1,871,560
II 051 27674,945 90 1,873,646
516,602 43 1,420,656 370,397 1,018,592 586,45891 1,612,762 58296 1,604
428,38556 1,756,381 168,423 89 690,538 456,102 40 1,870,020 2,067 35 8,476
29,42117) 200,064 16,14009 109,752 35,66405 242,515 42314 2,877
13,433 6,527
6,0591 4,694 1,260
941
5,969 68 35,818
3,054 34 18,326 1,906 43 11,439
11,439
35,91170 251,382
10,679 18 74,754
42
6 39
1,22874
102
37
3,030 95
36794
25908
. 14,722
138
42,805
77,636
3,216
3,031
913
777
15,644
4,647
99,773
50,587
5,911
4,083
813
1,266
1,930
1,925
2,708
Piculs
20361
50
50
633
6,312
65
13,541
:
1,313
2,428
382
941
Piculs
Soap.
40,712
5,396
29720
23,255 34
542 59
1,580 80
18,958
19,325
629
7,133
41,770
779
3,794
2,107
722
Candy......
Swansdown ...........
Tallow, Animal ............
» Vegetable
Pieces
Piculs
299,957 56 824,882
138,63970568,423
9,47407 64,424
6,114
1,008 91 6,053
25,22648 176,586
892
6ld


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TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports—Conta.

IMPORTS
FROM
. CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.'
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Tin..."
1,075 88
3,34158
80
12,106
>
723
875
ulls
771
424
7,631
.
Fresh
........
48
23
63116
2,40528!
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Hk.Fts.
Hk.fts
Hk.fts.
Hk.fts.
HK.fts.
Piculs
4,417 46 110,437
26,897
83,540
Tin-foil..
21629 7,570 17188 6,016 469 70 16,439
Tinware..................
28 471 8541 1 784 235 - 267
3364 1,009
Tobacco, Leaf ..........
43,00892 258,0531
18,38512 110,310 5,514 52 33,087 19,10928 I 14,656
Prepared
88,126 11 1,410,018 79592 12,735 49,169 16 786,706
75661
38,996 26 623,941
Stalk ..
2,72571 3,192 2,119 17 1,390 3,022 83 2,792
1,822 05 1,790
Tortoiseshellware.
281 2,8141 0191190 OIO
100
290 2,904
Turmeric.
12,688 45 32,990
27810
16,357 336 55
6,33864 16,481
Umbrella Frames............. Pieces 112,760
2,2491
112,760 2,249
Umbrellas, Paper ...........
318,636 19,118
132,452 7,947 162,099 9,726 24,085 1,445
Varnish...
6,369 96 350,348
3,07556 169,156
3,302 11 181,616
Vegetables, Dried and Salted
4,00172 18,291 14911 445 1,084 03 4,826 1,436 39
1,630411 6,279
927 80
2,318 32 25
960 05
2,366
Vermicelli .....
64,366 83 257,467 582
3,56845 14,274 65,457 29 261,830
Vermilion ..............
11 5 501 2,051 75 102,587 1,431 59 71,579
31,558
Wax, White.
12,326 46 493,0591
212,945 4,597 56 183,902
96,212
, Yellow
1,01722 18,310
85451 15,381 93 39
69 32 1,248
Wheat ...............
54,92074 82,381!
53,47589 80,213
1,44485 2,168
Wood, Coffin .......
Pieces
1,636 5,009
1,715
1,355
3,270
,, Fire ........... Piculs 10,906 90 3,272
10,906 90 3,272
Planks.........
211,549 4,654)
3,244
71
208,305 4,583
Poles.....
168,689 84,344
106,516
53,258
62,173
31,086
» Hard, Unclassed
1,600
1,020
1,600
1,020
Woodware..........
Piculs
65862 16,466 5986 1,496 24812 6,203 7 55
462 81 11,570
Wool, Camels' ...............
20,315 24 173,316
18,19470 155,220 2,120 54 18,096
Sheep's.............
25,21493 252,149
26,065811 260,658
Yaks' Tails
11,031 5,505
13,262
6,044
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
65,666
17,146
30,840
8,195
43,777
Copper Cash ................... Strings 301,670 196,085
301,670
196,085
TOTAL.............. Hk. Pts................ 39,354,674 ............... 3,028,217.............. 16,360,620 .............. 18,963,897
7,237,837
Excess of Re-export above Import of some articles during the year .......... ............. Hk. Pts. 179,463
NET TOTAL....
..Hk. Its. 7,058,374
280
.Sq. ft.
Pieces
189
Pieces


1184
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
:
:
SUMMARY.
IMPORTS from Newchwang............
..............Hk. Pts. 1,323,058
Tientsin... ............
..............
2,873,405
2 , Chefoo
Chefoo .......................................... 3,288,930
Ichang .......
61,370
Hankow ....
15,327,869
Kiukiang....
4,425,179
Wuhu ...........
1,261,480
Chinkiang ....
1,313,487
Ningpo..........
3,572,397
Wênchow.
90,139
Foochow
640,939
Tamsui...
20,258
Takow.
113,086
Amoy..................
410,166
,, Swatow ..........
3,637,243
Canton............
995,668
Total from Chinese Ports ...........
-Hk.fts 39,354,674
Imports from Hongkong......
........ 2 3,028,217
TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS.........
- Hk.fts 42,382,891
RE-EXPORTS to Newchwang .................. .............. Hk.fts 806,631
„ Tientsin .......................
» 5,071,674
„Chefoo .......................
, 511,486
Hankow.............
2,445,646
Kiukiang ..............
449,555
,, Wuhu .........
584,082
,,Chinkiang..
1,834,658
„Ningpo.....
997,841
,, Wênchow..
76,821
„, Foochow .......
.................
690,296
„Tamsui.....
5,145
Takow..
6,116
Amoy...............................
186,087
Swatow.............
1,047,398
,, Canton...
1,647,184
„ Hongkong for Chinese Ports ............
1,824,069
Total to Chinese Ports...
-Hl.fts 18,184,689
RE-EXPORTS to Hongkong for Foreign Countries......... Hk.fts. 1,241,406
, Great Britain ....................
6,847,182
India................... ..................
431,346
„ Singapore and Straits....
23,985
,, Australia ........
2,256
,, British America.......
10,801
„, United States of America ................ 4,242,604
South America ...........
Continent of Europe, Russia excepted.. 3,057,322
Russia : Odessa, by sea .........
252,099
,, Russian Manchuria ..
513,229
Corea ........................... .............
4,269
Japan..........
315,476
Cochin China, Tungking, and Annam..
49
...........
10,783
,,Java .....
20
Turkey in Asia, Persia, Egypt, and Aden
186,922
Total to Foreign Countries ............
- Hk. Pts. 17,139,828
TOTAL NATIVE RE-EXPORTS.....
-Hk. Its 35,324,517
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS ........
.... Hk.fits. 7,058,374
......
V
8
...........
79
Siam ...............
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TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts.
48,131
Hl.Fts
349151 104,720
16049
Hk. Its
36,90187 11,070,5371
12,807 376,315)
45 42 13,626
1,98410 124,998
4751 9,502
374
168|
4871
SILK, Raw and Yellow..... Piculs
Wild.......
Waste .....................
Re-reeled ..........
Cocoons .......
Reeled from Dupions ...
Bands ........
Pieces
Clothing .........
Piculs
Piece Goods
Pongees ..............
and Cotton Mixtures .....
and Cotton Mixtures,
Fancy..................
and Gold Embroidery...
Thread and Tassels.......
Embroidery, Old ..........
» Ribbons .........
Embroidered ....
099
1,305 90
2,680
528,798
1,898
25
1186
13,131 2,225
618 3,399
4,70373 2,822,238
506
1431 2,862
544
783,540
574
472
3 591
317
2 36
Hl.fts
He. Its.
8,235 28 1,344,434 45,646 79 12,567,822
8,625 05 1,000,505) 8,62505 1,000,505
21,564 55 970,406| 34,37529 1,346,889
4542 13,626
1,435 22 90,419 3,419 32 215,417
47 50
9,502
13,169 2,234
0361 1981 1040 6,821
1,56408 938,448 8,455 04 5,073,024
2,168 94 347,031 2,187 56 350,009
25767 51,534 27446 54,893
- 821| 1,244
1,244
276
1,667
0 38152 12319 49,276
1,050
78 93
39,465) 87184
43,920
24428,7101
2548
4,790 1620,803
373,999 916,489,901| 375,254 29 6,507,964
189,258 393,498,4511 192,022 42 3,543,227
2,231 06 13,386 5,084191 30,505
516 58 3,616 6 1766 4,317
275,086 86 1,512,976 275,086 86 1,512,976
- 8211
2763
1570
6.280
7948
1,667
11,052
1,050
95
31,792
9
1
0191
140
106
9,238
»
Wadding, Old......
002
5
4,777 91
12934
2,22854
19,070
1,862
36,102
6611
4,220
528
1,728
15,161
8,660
17,119
7215
086
1,040
53463
2,853123
94 49
40
:
o 941
27,791
3,812
:::
36,205
88,290
8,250
7,000
20
20,000
050
60,273
435,720
260,500
28857
10,36358
25829
30,09332
2,139 50
123,792 01
2,161 22
962)
135
TEA, Black. ...................... Piculs
Green .........
Dust ............
Leaf............
Brick .........
SUNDRIES:
Alum, White ...
Piculs
» Green ....
Aniseed, Star....
Arsenic ............
Bags, Hemp and Gunny...... Pieces
, Straw...........
Bamboo Canes .....
Brooms ................
Poles..........
Shoots, Dried and
Fresh............
Piculs
Split..............
Bambooware...
Beancake.................
Beancurd....................
Beans and Peas ...........
Bones, Cow and Buffalo ...
» Tigers'.....
, Pigs'.....
Books, Printed ..
Brass-foil...........
Brass Pipes ...............
Pieces
Brassware.........
Buttons, Brass ............
Cantharides..............
Capoor Cutchery.....
. Caps, Silk....
, Felt .............
Carpets..........
Cassia Buds ...............
, Lignea .......
Twigs .................
China-root ...........
Chinaware, Coarse......
128
43 46
644
85308
1,1091
7,025 981
9,314
27,789 32 27,790 27,790 26|
2,932 46 3,812 2,932 46
1,327 51 17,2581 1,32751
6,356 86 34,962 6,356 86
2,2691 88,598 2,823 124,803
41 4,825,705 24,308|4,922,245
2,110
21,380 1,448 88,753
9,267 1,460
341 437,180
4,874
. 280,500
1,693 37,38471 155,549 37,682 80
6,979
10,36358
3,616 1,05697) 14,7981 1,33399
28,589 158,140 97 150,234 188,277 75
6,412 81360 2,5911 2,99074
160,930 64,400 92 83,721 196,071 99
84495
973 3,028171
12604
4,411
12604
1,400
2,800
20,316
9,592 1,303 95
14 258 25 7,747
25870
838 33,731 1 14,1231 35,257
28,787
10,1881 1,800 98
40062 20,0311 40182
13698
5,479 137 49
1,21416 4,856 1,21416
30,125
3,632 1,525 115,205)
9,811
2,4521
13,131
22,539
1,869
1,495) 35,369
1291 2,0641 1291
3,030 55) 45,4581 3,031 02
7,05470 17,637 7,05610
13,31825 119,8641 13,324 54
1,308
2,800
17,258
34,962
5,092
24,964
3,635
9,301
5,294
157,301
6,979
18,677
178,865
9,100
255,074
2,314
4,411
1,400
31,294
7,761
15,686
46,824
20,091
5,500
4,856
48,386
3,284
28,295
2,064
45,465
17,641
119,921
60,626
3151
2626
630
39966
1639
4,7581 11890
725
3,091
846 52
045
887)
1,107 19
1 201
002
18301
391 88
049
201
...
Preces
2,5191
33,850
5,997
1,900
420
14,217
105
1,566
71,726
1,000
28,174
3,369
2,6951
1,957
047
140
064
61
861 591
3,446
544
22
1,548686,195
12,74105
50,963|15,15677
24


186
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports—Conta.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES,
HONGKONG, AND
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
(including Re-exports).
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
11668
8261
1360
97
I 16
35
6,58993
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Hk. Its
Chinaware, Fine.......
Piculs
11997 3,600
Chowchow...................
342 33
Cinnabar..
Cinnamon...............
Coir .....
Copper, Old........
Ore ..........
, Tribute...........
Copperware.....
2087 626
Cotton, Raw and Old .....
47,23965 519,636 |
Clothing .......
42916 27,895
Cord and Thread...
5 Ribbons.
, Quilts .............
Pieces
6,739 5,391
Curiosities.........
2,134
Cuttle-fish............
Piculs
Dressing-cases ...............
Pieces
Dye-stuff......
Piculs
Earthenware ...
8,808 41 26,425
Eggs, Fresh.............
15,293,950 15,704
Preserved .............
5,684
Fans, Palm-leaf, Trimmed...
, Untrimmed
500
2602
3
IOI
61882
154
Pkgs.
1,550 97
16
683
3804
13262
es
40
38,000
Paper ...
Silk ........
Feathers .............
Piculs
665
7,380 04
1171
38,329
1,078
Pieces
Piculs
1,773
1,452
1,51122
384
70310
85
Hk.Fts.
Hk.its.
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
3,500
5497 1,649 6,86593 205,977 7,157 55) 214,726
870 99 49 885 1,345 21 19,598 1,530 73 21,386
816
21619 12,971 229 79 13,787
42 87 2,143 - 42871
2,143
1,62501 4,874 1,625 01 4,874
32792 1,594 70341 9,454 1,037 83 11,145
971 331 28538 2,854 295 09 3,185
4,11468 41,147
4,11468
41,147
1210
363
879 263 42 92 1,287
72,447 | 165,557 94 1,784,947 4,818 52 53,004 224,206 04 2,430,034
1113
1,421 466 31 29,816
119.08
3,360
127 12554 3,517
61882 43,840
43,840
193
80 64 7,012 5,609
1161 17,131 1771 19,265
13,959
55201 4,968 32,029 18 288,262 34,132 16 307,189
28
2,237 1,570 2,265
1,586
114
38 48
3,165 95 14,216||
3,24247 15,013
398 8,537 01
25,610
8509
257 17,563 13 52,690
108,900 327 5,402,850 16,031
266 1,612,685 11,288 678,448 4,749 2,334,817| 16,343
27,589 276 4,622,115 46,221 4,649,704 46,497
... 14,2 12,526 71,062 14,212,526 71,062
53 968,716 29,061 2,068,546 62,056 3,039,035 91,170
156 70,747 7,593 124,722 9,105) 197,586 16,971
7,086 21852
9,420 76 43,209 18,530 54
89,702
15,747 1,473 15,747 1,473
1,141 136 391
520 1,532
1,507 96 15,079 1,517 811 15,177
2,817
2,141 5,731 74 40,122 6,775 13 45,083
518 971
12,975
800 77 20,019 1,31974 32,994
435
1,312 35 52,494 1,322 37 52,895
1263
156 20 1,093 16883 1,182
24 2116
568 28 1,548
600 54
1,668
4,197
663 31,009 1,458 35,556 2,226
98133
7,682
98133 7,682
6,465 688141 1,664 77,890 38 308,231 81,630 90316,461
995 5,01744 5,468 21,265 88 30,564 26,937 54 37,218
674 13,071 18 235,281 13,10860 235,955
3,288 83 8,222 3,288 83 8,222
2,162 35 2,162
2,162 35
2,162
23,78790 23,446
23,80190
23,460
232 278 42 16,266 279 42 16,498
442 7212 122,604 72 42 123,122
11908 2,381 644 26 12,885 763 34 15,266
126 72 1,014 1,827 14,616 1,97142 15,771
975
003
900
060 16,576
079 237
2995 8,985 33 37 10,OIL
094 1,170
383 40 11,502 1,341 40 40,242 1,91315) 57,395
2,591
633 54
1,103 82 77,267 1,81443 127,010
6,96472 4,179
6,964 72 4,179
41,176
20,588
41,236 20,618
108
1,328 58
11,957
3,299 83 29,698 4,735 53 42,619
2,065 47 38,583 2,082 02 38,947
1972
28199 5,014
2,127 98 52,9251 2,35879 57,531
064
9588 5,559 96 52 5,594
79,593 1,945 83 27,242 1,426 93 19,977 9,10562 127,479
3,1031 142 9,554,394 | 80,6289,557,497 80,770
Felt ............
Fiddle-strings.............
Fire-crackers...
Fish, Dried and Salt.
, Glue ............
Maws..............
. Skins .............
Flour
Flower Plants......
33959
971
2701
108
174
ΙΙο
350
Pieces
Piculs
,
Seed.
ΙΟΙ
Fruit, Dried ........
, Fresh..........
4343
10066
3,008 95
553 56
IOI
Fungus ...
37 42
14
003
51
026
-
008
Galangal ..............
Garlic........................
Ginger, Fresh .........
Ginseng, Native .......
, Corean, ist Quality
Glassware ............
Glue, Cow .............
Gold and Silver Ware ...
» Thread, Imitation....
Real ......
Grasscloth, Coarse....
Fine...........
Ground-nut Cakes ..
Gypsum ....
Hair, Goats
Horse...........
, Human ...
,, Pigs'.......
Yaks' ..........
Hams...
Hats, Straw...........
048 14,569
173 519
094 1,170
1601 4,800
4006 2,804
- Слоно
***857
831
44,348
30
9514
856
1198
1655
364
4,955
4,606
59
262 27
23081
- 4767
667
5,685 19


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TABLE No. V.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports—Contoh

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES,
HONGKONG, AND
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
including Re-exports).
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
SUNDRIES, continued :
Hk.Fts.
H.Fts
Hk. Its
Hemp ....
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
4870
500
341
35
6,898
840
02
2,590
> Cloth ................
* Twine ..............
Hides, Cow ...........
3 Refuse.........
Horns, Chamois ..
Cow.........
, Deer, Young
99
16185
662
1,29
25949
1,817
550
»
Old
780
6,170.
401
297
1,780
:
Pieces
Piculs
102 49
:
102 84
1,02786
3,063
1339
52,844 1
4,875
1,358
889
- 250 4.
1,786 840
4871749,755
- 1740 73
220
IO2
2542
Pieces
Piculs
740
30
9,366
Tribute
300
Pieces
Piculs
12 01
2,000
791
40
1,049
4,635
92 69
3201
45
146
13,250
17,824
2,650
1,371 08
356
Hk. Its
H.Fts.
77,007 52 539,053 77,056 22 539,394
98,550 6,863
99,050
- 3832 425 136 54 3,863
74,951 58 899,420 75,026 24 900,316
20775 1,515
41813
2,321
10265
15,257 10265 15,257
3,028 25 21,198 3,63167 25,423
180 9,000 192 9,600
150 75 6,027 17026 6,807
316 92 5,070 32120 5,139
16,850 95 84,254 16,850 95 84,254
667.
14249 8,550
8,355 16
41,097
9,392 02
44,205
382 651
39604 2,077
10,120
3,102
62,964 7,977
8,67403 111,394 8,777 21 112,762
42 05 1,471
7376 2,581
38660 2,141 38910 2,145
105,618 13,6931 107,907 14,689
52474
10,495
1,890 70
9,439
1,918 92 11,513 1,918 92
11,513
3,28936 19,736 3,28936 19,736
1,004 3,815 1,004 3,815
787 92 18,176 | 800 68
18,495
620,395
7,632
622,395 7,672
821 1,094
1,600 17454 8,727
55,97902 279,895 58,632 38 293,162
5,90402 76,752 7,304 29 94,956
4,582 59 22,913 4,59570 22,979
3,06063 24,485 3,060 63 24,485
14,71368 132,4231 14,721 87 132,497
47 2,100
2018,74170 37,484
11,862 1,853
63,078 18,640 63,078 18,640
659,619 26,271 680,928 26,887
535,200
21,408 535,200 21,408
1,664 5,824 1,682 5,887
141,459 70 1,116,118 151,333 26 1,158,242
73,288 3,978 73,616 4,793
44370 13,311 462 88 13,886
38,757 290,683 41,085 308,143
298 50 2,388 300 48
2,404
3,220 81 128,832 27,031 49 1,081,259
26,591 58 265,915 27,417 13 274,171
1 128 471 84
1,888
1,596 14 6,384
333 40 3,333
3,130 39 18,782 3,387 39 20,324
41,338 43 206,692 41,347 15 206,736
25,889 23 647,231 30,21761 755,440
116,37965 465,518 116,734 10 466,936
387 37 1,339
3930 3,930 4385
4,385
51,1551 4,265
51,180
2,700
12 321,310
3,616
1,347 71 4,043
6,418
6,464
- 803
Indigo, Dried.......
Liquid ........
Ink, Chinese..
Ironware ........
Jadestone...
Jadestoneware ......
Joss Paper ............
Lacquerware.....
Lampblack
Lamps..................
Lampwicks ..........
Lard.................
Lead, White..
, Yellow
3
Leather ...
Gilt
Strips.............
Leatherware
Lily Flowers, Dried
,, Seed .............
Liquorice.............
Lung-ngan Pulp ....
Lung-ngans, Dried
Machinery...........
Manure-cake........
Matches..............
Mats, Bamboo ..............
, Straw ........
Tea and Silk
Matting .............
Medicines ..............
Mirrors ...
Mushrooms.
.........
Musk
Mussels, Dried......
Nankeens
Nutgalls..
Oil, Bean.
Castor .............
Flower .............
Tea ................
Wood...
Paper, ist Quality ...
, 2nd ,
,, Cuttings..
Pearls, False.
Peel, Orange .............
Pens, Chinese......
Peppermint Leaf......
Prawns, Dried ................
Pkgs.
17 50
Piculs
Gross
Pieces
18,71430
11,612
72
2,100
37,429
1,813
250
7,066
3,474
10,769
431
114.50
3,568
11,29
Rolls
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
Taels
Piculs
795
1,884
14,130
450
10 35
6,190 9530,149
326
1918 575
384 2,880
198 16
17,994 54 719,782
1275 128
332 14
1,329
16706
33340
3,333
28,360
5,107 13
204,285
709 01
81280
10770
1,42908
8,128
431
5,716
- 321
668
213
1,278
264
872
44
475 01
5325
2090
11,875
3,800 12
95,003
1,334
1,339
455
17
807
3,033
1,331
277,477
2,797
Pieces
Piculs
41,133
1,01092
883
12
in
641182
6,4186 4638
yo


188
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports—Contd.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
204611
15002
Hk.Fts
2,046
241
48093
309
4,810
141
8801
- 560
63,558
352
35,310
604 33
849
407 52
1,223
26
308
10276
36 38
88469
291
5505
13,225
388,208
598
165
1,695
4,448
567
2,180
116
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Preserves and Sweets ......... Piculs
Provisions .....
Rattans, Split..............
Resin ....................
Rhubarb
Rice....
3 Free ..........
, Red.
, Tribute ...........
Rouge .................
Safflower...........
Samshu ....
Sea Blubber ..
Seed, Sesamum..............
Senna ......
Shoes, Silk and Cotton .....
» Straw..
, Leather...
Skin Clothing..............
, Rugs..............
Skins, Ass...
Assorted.
Cat...............
Dog................
Goat...............
Land-otter
Rabbit
Sable....
Sheep and Lamb.
Tiger ...........
Leopard..
Weasel, and Tails...
Piculs
Steel
Straw Braid ...
Sugar Candy.
» Brown......
, White ...........
Swansdown ............
Pieces
Tallow, Animal ............... Piculs
Vegetable
1,079
63
1,090
1,134
2,075
1,729
Pieces
254
4,006
to get est
141
47
II3
Hk.Its.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts.
H.Fts
2,066 67 20,666 2,236 58
22,366
4,988 79
49,888
709 19062
1,496 346 751 4,580 996 39 7,026-
060
3 2,449 89 12,249 2,450 49 12,252
1,76413 3,374 1,764 13 3,374
8,48468 339,387 8,507 48 340,299
2,172,61869 3,910,714 442,57577 796,636 2,650,504 46 4,770,908-
1,093,42921 1,968,173
... 1,093,42921 1,968,173
0481
3,3006 0481 3,304
786,512 20 1,415,722
786,512 20 1,415,722
22 381 995 2386
46241 1,844
1,134 81
64,373
1,134 811
64,373
109 1,27188 3,816 5,639 40 16,918 7,355 18 22,066
2,650 3,39787
10,408
4,670 29 4,702 8,962 61 17,786
873 199 40
2,285 37
6,856
2,878 53 8,635
29356 899 51199 973 86060
2,037
11,902 30,997 27,897 48,301 37,874 94,218
78,752
7,764
28,413
2,347
47 423,416
8,441
2,180 1,090
253 34,823 46,659 34,977. 48,080
653,941 607,565 655,682 609,659
24874
7,317 24874 7,317
687
350
157
1,037
411
11,573 3,173 250
11,823
3,198
22,480 13,104 22,480 13,104
155,544
23,946
155,638 23,971
120
5,509
11,018 275
550 7,847 15,694
144 20,085 3,213 1,970
327 22,955 3,684
4,915 1,147 4,9151
1,147
208
264 222
311
575 136
3,400
47 1,175 129 2,815
40,717 1,909
69,647 3,762
12 54
4,04198
6,439
4,054 52 6,451
6,224 49 14,939 6,232 49 14,958
16,679
74,956 95 1,873,922 76,346 58 1,908,663
36,087 19 245,392 36,087 19 245,392
587,04187 1,614,366 587,042 62 1,614,369
565
458,169 75 1,878,496 458,177 95 1,878,521
7,319 5,635 7,319 5,635
8360g| 5,016 4,960 77 29,765 5,992791 35,956
10,68522 74,796 10,686 12 74,802
1,075 88 26,897 1,075 88 26,897
1886
469 70 16,439 488 56 17,099
23,899 64 143,397 23,910 54 143,463
1822 2921 49,925 77 798,812 49,948 43 799,176
3,022 83
2,792
3,022 83 2,792
Ιο
6,627 91 17,232 6,637 91 17,258
294,551 17,673] 295,119
17,707
4394 2,416 3,075 56 169, 1561 3,11968 171,582
7,405 4,080 67
16,437
2,520 42 12,457 8,46444 36,316
145 25 581 69,02574 276,104 69,18475 276,740
1,431 59 71,579 1,431 59 71,579
9,921 18 396,847 9,922 18 396,887
6.49 117
947 90 17,062 95439) 17,179
112 851,458 71 1,277,188 53,475 89 80,213 905,009 60 1,357,513
120
484 281 1,739 785 2,313
132
106,516 53,2581 106,648
53,324
113,431
24,955
113,4311 24,955
156 555 15 13,880 255 67 6,392 83465 20,868
18,194 70 155,220 18,1947 155,220
23
-
2,825
1,640
1,853
82
28,9301
Soap.....
12
19
72050
18,013
667 17
255
10
.691
11529
8064
090
Tin
.* *660
Tin-foil ........
Tobacco, Leaf ....
190
»
Prepared.
26
250
018
318
19
1704
2 45
1,846 31
1131
45
, Stalk ...........
Turmeric.
Umbrellas, Paper ............. Pieces
Varnish ......
Piculs
Vegetables, Dried and Salted
Vermicelli
Vermilion.
Wax, White......
, Yellow ..........
Wheat .............
Wood, Coffin .........
Poles .........
1 Planks ........
Sq. ft.
Woodware......
Piculs
Wool, Camels'........
Pieces
90
66
1757
440
626


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TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports—Contd.

EXPORTS
EXPORTS
EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
TO
TO
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, 1 TOTAL EXPORTS
(including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
ONGKONG. AND
Classifier of
Quantity.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
HONGKONG.
CHINESE PORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Pieces
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Hl.Fts
H.fts
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
He.Fts.
Wool, Sheep's............. Piculs 1,24289 12,429 ,757 23 17,573 1,006 80 10,068 26,06581 260,658) 30,072 73
300,728
Yaks Tails...
13,262
6,044 13,262 6,044
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
213,130
6,208
46,943)
48,457)
314,738
Copper Cash .................... Strings
579,190 376,473
579,190 376,473
TOTAL........... H.Tts....
............ 13,290,590)............... 1,417,032.
... 1,417,032................ 15,526,358................ 35,324,517 ................ 65,558,497
SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
To-
Hk.fts
Hk.Its.
Hk. Tis.
Hk.fts
1,350,960
99,041
147,224
H.Fts.
8,198,142
530,387
171,209
2,339
10,801
6,372,845
83
2,130,241
H.fts.
6,847,182
431,346
23,985
2,256
10,801
4,242,604
79
3,057,322
252,099
513,229
4,269
315,476
Great Britain ......
India........................
Singapore and Straits ..................
Australia ....
British America ...........
United States of America .............
South America............
Continent of Europe, Russia excepted
Russia : Odessa, by sea .
Russian Manchuria ......................
Corea .......................................
Japan ...........
Philippine Islands..
Cochin China, Tungking, and Annam
Siam.
79
8,798,338
348
73,213
85,372
579,836
84
1,632
22,870
49
10,783
Java .......
879,447
14,170,037
Turkey in Asia, Persia, Egypt, and
Aden...........
Hongkong for Foreign Countries ....
Total to Foreign Countries......
Hongkong for Chinese Ports .........
Newchwang .........
Tientsin ......
Chefoo ......
Hankow..
Kiukiang..............
Wuhu ..
Chinkiang ................................
Ningpo....
Wênchow. ..........
Foochow
Tamsui .........
Takow............
Amoy .......................
Swatow....................................
Canton...........
...........
Total to Chinese Ports ..........
537,585
910,329
4,023,194
357,528
1,130,650
267,177
15,156
67,296
17,234
6,517
508, 106
42,082
20,336
1,135,535
2,829,156
4,196,062
20
186,922
1,241,406
- 17,139,828
1,824,069
806,631
5,071,674
511,486
2,445,646
449,555
584,082
1,834,658
997,841
76,821
690,296
5,145
6,116
186,087
1,047,398
1,647,184
18,184,689
11,855,660
252,447
586,442
89,641
895,312
84
1,681
33,653
20
188,270
2,120,853
31,309,865
2,361,654
1,716,960
9,094,868
869,014
3,576,296
716,732
599,238
1,901,954
1,01 5,075
83,338
1,198,402
47,227
26,452
1,321,622
3,876,554
5,843,246
34,248,632
16,063,943
30,233,980
GRAND TOTAL......
35,324,517
65,558,497


190
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. VI.-
a.—Table showing the Destinations of the various Goods forwarded
DESTINATION.
Shirtings,
White.
Shirtings,
Grey.
T-Cloths,
36 and 39
inches.
T-Cloths, | Brocades,
32 inches. Dyed.
Chintzes and
Furnitures.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
...
620
KIANGSU.....3
Su-chou ..
Hai-chou ........
Chiang-ning
Ch‘u-chou ........
Huai-an ....
T'ai-chou ........
Sung-chiang
T'ai-ts'ang.
Ch'ang.chou .......
Tai-hsing .........
Yang-chou.....
Hsü-chou...........
Chinkiang ........
Tung-chou.........
::::::::::::::
蘇海江滁淮泰松太常太揚徐鎮通紹杭湖衢嘉金處海温安徽泗常池六太盧穎鳳廣
​州州常州安州江倉州興州州江州與州州州興華州常州 ​慶州州國州安平州州陽德
​200
T.
CHÊKIANG...
::::::::
Shao-hsing.
Hang-chou
Hu-chou .........
Ch'ü-chou .
Chia-hsing.........
Chin-hua.
Ch‘u-chou .........
Hai-ning.
Wênchow.
An-ch‘ing ....
Hui-chou.
Ssů-chou...
Ning-kuo ........
Ch‘ih-chou..
Liu-an
T'ai-p'ing.
Lü-chou
Ying-chou .......
Fêng-yang
Kuang-tê.
༦ ༔ ༔ ༔ ：：：༣ ༣༣ ༣༣：：：：་ ༈ ༣ ༔ ：：：： ༔ ：：་
13,455
u
...........
E
ANHWEI....
ANAWEI.
::::::::
1. JUG
| KIANGSI...............
:
HONAN.........
FUKIEN..........
200
400
1 40
Time
H
SHANTUNG....
120
TOTAL QUANTITY
1,610
8,255
13,975
380
TOTAL VALUE....................Hk.fite
2,173
10,731
17,888
2,658
97
418


SHANGHAI.
191
TRANSIT TRADE.
under Transit Passes to the Interior during the Year 1886.
Drills,
Drills,
Camlets,
Jeans,
English.
Jeans,
Dutch.
English.
Sheetings, | Sheetings,
American. English.
Velvets.
Lastings,
Woollen.
Long Ells.
Lustres
and Orleans.
American.
English.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
: : : : : : : : : : : : : :
: : : : : : : : : : : : :
: : : : : : : : : :
: : : : : : : : :
: : : :
: : : : : : :
x2
I 20
: : : : : :
:::
:
:
:
:
100
I 40
:
go
1,000
90
40
1,240
340
405
106
174
6 2
2777
6 07
1,373
496
690
1,530
832


192
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
a.—Table showing the Destinations of the various Goods forwarded
DESTINATION.
Iron
Spanish
Stripes.
Cloth,
Medium.
Handker-
chiefs.
Cotton Yarn.
Copper,
Japan.
Cuttings.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Dozens.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
418
| KIANGSU..
Su-chou ............
| Hai-chou ....
Chiang-ning .....
Ch'u-chou .
Huai-an ............
T'ai-chou ........
Sung-chiang ....
T'ai-ts'ang..
Ch‘ang-chou.
T'ai-hsing .....
Yang-chou.....
Hsü-chou ..
Chinkiang.......
T'ung-chou.......
::::::::::::::
:::::::
:::::::::
20
::
:
蘇海江除淮泰松太常太揚徐鎮通紹杭湖衢嘉金處海温安徽泗常池六太盧穎鳳廣
​州州常州安州江倉州興州州江州奥州州州興華州常州慶州州國州安平州州陽德
​:
H
I
CHẾKIANG...
Shao-hsing ...
Hang-chou.
Hu-chou ..
Ch'ü-chou ........
Chia-hsing.
Chin-hua.
Ch‘u-chou...........
Hai-ning............
Wênchow.
WilldS1ua
.
..
::::
:::::::
24
21
CO
ANHWEI.....
An-ch‘ing ..
Hui-chou ..
Ssx-chou......
Ning-kuo.
Ch‘ih-chou ......
Liu-an .............
T'ai-pʻing ...........
Lü-chou
Ying-chou
Fêng-yang
Kuang-tê ...
: : : : : :
:~:::::::::
:::::::::::
:
XI. PG
Yo
TE
KIANGSI.......
Honan ........
FUKIEN..........
SHANTUNG...
:
NTUNG.
:
TOTAL QUANTITY.....
282
7,420
487
680
TOTAL VALUE..................... Hk.fits
2,425
3,762
5,843
1,500
2,597
1,360


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193
under Transit Passes to the Interior during the Year 1886—Continued.
Bicho de
Iron Wire.
Iron, Old.
Nail-rod.
Lead,
in Pigs.
Tin Com-
Iron, Bar.
Tin,
in Slabs.
Steel.
Aniseed,
Star.
Mar,
pound.
Black.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
773
Piculs.
2,335
Piculs.
251
Piculs.
2,597
Piculs.
187
ho
93
...
275
80
13,765
12,212
I 20
109
50
40
338
82
760
250
574
13
42
4,555
11,475
390
4,145
277
170
114
61
53
589
13
3,995
2,692
25
588
118
392
3,320
4,394
599
15
649
618
4,561
6,294
1,097
165
255
1,732
762
26
90
849
30
1,332
134
80
3,902
4,980
378
273
475
5,190
40,500
1,124
232
190
1,560
88,937
44,086
3,074
5,954
7,723
190
344
5,538
111,171
79,355
6,148
22,623
193,072
1,377
6,559
1
1,024
3,039
10,321
25


SHANGHAI.
195
under Transit Passes to the Interior during the Year 1886—Continued.
Fans,
Fans,
Cardamoms,
Inferior.
Coal.
Dyes
and Colours.
Flints.
Fans,
Palm-leaf, | Palm-leaf,
Trimmed. Untrimmed.
Glass,
Window.
Galangal.
Indigo,
Liquid
Isinglass.
Paper.
Piculs.
Packages.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Tons.
10,319
Piculs.
101
Pieces.
190,592
Pieces.
573,300
Pieces.
2,000
Piculs.
4,787
II2
Boxes.
1,759
369
1,053
II2
2,332
258
39,200
362,000
4,210
2,665
8,800
50
!!!!
2,559
161,000
30,000
6,000
26,000
152,000
659
313
556
237
4,400
13,200
324
977
351
4,031
40,000
!!!!
227
1,562
50
ܩ ܕ ܗ ܟ
356
218,600
386,100
2,000
1,361
396
34,783
ܗ ܢ
220
210,800
502,600
266,000
129,000
33,200
2,200
1,848
239
2,012
2,702
335
8,118
575
70,000
223
ܟ ܩ 6 ܘ ܚ
!!
43
20,000
37,000
155
108
196,400
1,195,800.
!!!!!!!!!!
95
80,000
10,000
7,802
i
2,678
41,421
197
17,657
651,775
4,347,200
4,000
5,266
9,428
1,591
248,526
|
2,654
8,828
6,518
21,736
21,736 |
1,200
|
1,171
11,058
47,140
14,801


196
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
a.—Table showing the Destinations of the various Goods forwarded
LOUIS
DESTINATION.
Lichees,
Lung-ngans,
Dried.
Dried.
| Medicines. |
Matches.
Mussels,
Dried.
| Peel,
Orange.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
| 189
Piculs.
286
Gross.
16,620
Piculs.
22
141
549
9
8
23,875
| 35
22
125
江蘇
​| KIANGSU.……
州州常州
​蘇海江滁淮泰松太常太揚徐鎮通
​安州江倉州典州州江州
​Su-chou.
Hai-chou..
Chiang-ning
Chu-chou..
Huai-an .……………
Tai-chou
Sung-chiang
Tai-ts ang ………
Chang-chou
Tai-hsing....
Yang-chou...
Hsü-chou .....
Chinkiang...
Tung-chou .
:::
| 389
| 50
…
…
| SI
::
::::
6,550
4,650
1,300
::::
:::
I50
23,250
7,000
13,450
500
650
浙江​|
紹興 ​Shao-hsing ....
杭州 ​Hang-chou ......
湖州 ​Hu-chou ....
Chi-chou.
Chia-hsing..........|
Chin-hua...
Ch'u-chou
Hai-ning..… …
Wênchow....
CAÊKIANG...
::::
:::
:::
衢嘉金處海温安徽泗常池六太厲
​:
An-ching …………
Hui-chou
Ssů-chou.. … …
2,325
22,950
Ning-kuo ...
::
::::
950
安徽 ​| ANHWEI.……
ANHWEI....
937
I, 150
1250
:::::::::
Ch‘ih-chou
Liu-an .....
Tai-pºing...
Lü-chou.
Ying-chou
Feng-yang
Kuang-tê
盧州
​額州
​:::
鳳陽
​廣德
​:
100
江西​| KIANGSI.………....….
YJ Honan......
:
275
FURIEN.
….
::::|
事业单单单单单单单
​:
山東
​SHANTUNG......
127
:|
Total QUANTITY...
| 448 |
| 127,957
906
TOTAL VALUE..........
…..HK. 张
​18,196
4.229
2,689
28, 17
|
10,869


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197
under Transit Passes to the Interior during the Year 1886—Continued.
Oil,
Kerosene.
Paper,
Ist Quality.
Sand,
Lead,
Yellow.
Lead,
White.
Rattans,
Pepper,
Black.
Prawns and
Shrimps,
Dried.
Whole.
Soap.
Seaweed.
Sulphuric
Acid.
Japan.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Gallons.
421,900
Piculs.
727
Piculs.
4,442
Piculs.
1,530
Boxes.
11,415
88
384
504,250
8,280
14,150
22,300
89,900
43,850
1,072
76,950
363
223
47,400
193,610
627
4,054
6,180
960
810
1,000
251,600
144,450
544,350
90,600
11,300
7,500
68
3,850
500
13,000
IO
99,600
392,000
12
102,100
48,900
23,900
8,000
7,950
2,900
8,600
750
900
1,700
3,175,410
1,019
561
256
160
277
12,098
1,530
37,146
3,733
567
317,541
317,541 | 20,382
20,382
3,368
3,368
1,536
1,536
2,407
2,407
2,769
2,769
36,295
36,295
1,530
1,530
22,288
22,288
2333
9,333
1,714
1,714


198
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
a.—Table showing the Destinations of the various Goods forwarded
DESTINATION.
Sugar
Candy.
Sugar,
Brown.
Sugar,
White.
Sandalwood. Sapanwood. Wax, White.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
15,215
Piculs.
11,767
Piculs.
1,457
1,143
20
1,063
396
944
26
1,989
5.
106
26
771
118
1,529
3
12
288
277
Su-chou ........
Hai-chou
Chiang-ning .......
Ch‘u-chou.
Huai-an ........
T'ai-chou......
Sung-chiang ....
T'ai-ts'ang.
Ch‘ang-chou.
Tai-hsing
Yang-chou ..
Hsü-chou
Chinkiang.
Tung-chou.......
107
| KIANGSU....
17,363
3,951
1,789
997
1,441
153
3,484
720
19
9,148
310
1,070
2,435
604
279
124
907
IO
82
92
92
140
348
627
1,067
745
438
2,992
蘇海江滁淮泰松太常太揚徐鎮通紹杭湖衢嘉金處海温安徽泗常池六太盧穎鳳廣
​州州常州安州江倉州與州州江州與州州州興華州常州慶州州國州安平州州陽德
​68
CAÊKIANG...
Shao-hsing .....
Hang-chou .......
Hu-chou.
Ch'ü-chou.....
Chia-hsing...
Chin-hua
Ch'u-chou
Hai-ning.
Wênchow....
5
1,514
3,331
257
466
· 75
298
45
37
117
129
98
1,130
13
1,985
1,049
1,113
927
382
39
78
ANHWEI...... 3
An-ch'ing ...........
Hui-chou .........
Ssů-chou............
Ning-kuo .........
Ch‘ih-chou ..
Liu-an ....
T'ai-p'ing
Lü-chou.
Ying-chou
Fêng-yang
Kuang-tê
535
1,136
867
2,491
105
9
2,757
6,328
541
1,147
169
147
: 25
459
"
....
.
IG
Yo
福建
​KIANGSI..
Honan........
5,487
FUKIEN.........
SHANTUNG.......
o
90
TOTAL QUANTITY .........
70,868
37,351
11,316
7,371
Total VALUE..............H.
1
VALUE.............
4,612
194,886
153,140
90,525
14,742
1,072


200
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
b.—Table showing the Places from which Native Goods were
DESTINATION.
SILK.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
Cocoons.
Raw.
Reeled from
Dupions.
Waste.
| Wadding. Piece Goods.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Su-chou.…………
2,229
Huai-an.……
江蘇​「KIANGSU.…….
Sung-chiang .......
Chang-chou.…….
Yang-chou..………
470
蘇淮松常揚徐鎮紹杭湖穎 ​陳濟
​州安江州州州江興州州州州衛
​320
514
浙江​| CHRIANG..
22
Chinkiang.
Shao-hsing ........
Hang-chou .………
Hu-chou .………….
Ying-chou .……….
Ch'ên-chou
1,295
安徽
​河南
​山東
​ANHWEI ...
HonAN.……. 陳州
​SHANTUNG......
| Chi-ning……
TOTAL QUANTITY.
4,861
11,167
2,456
TOTAL VALUE.…………………….HK.
306,215
20I
2,556
1502, 500
9,850
2,226


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201
brought under Transit Passes from the Interior during the Year 1886.
Bristles
and Hair, 1 Feathers.
Pigs'.
Hides, Cow. Lilies, Dried. Medicines. Melon Seeds. Straw Braid.
Walnuts. Wool, Sheep's. VALUE.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Hk.fts
145,629
6TY
3,250
32,548
830
32,317
3,754
2,408
24,159
32,384
5,935
604,613
2,916
500
1,000
1,163
17
13
4,350
2,916
21,750
640
502
29,160
887,240
26


202
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
?
c.—Table showing the Number of Passes issued for, and the Amount of Duties collected on,
Foreign Goods forwarded to the Interior under Transit Passes, as divided between the various
Nationalities, during the Year 1886.
BRITISH.
AMERICAN
GERMAN.
SPANISH.
CHINESE.
TOTAL.
QUARTER.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
No. of
| Transit Dnes | No, of
Passes.
Passes.
Transit Dues.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
Hk. fis, m.c.c.
cer.....
Hk.Ism.C.C.
3,344.9.9.1 2,622
2nd „ ...... 8,751 4,093.1.6.6 3,940
3rd » ......10,182 7,579.6.2.0 2,905
4th , .....6,478 5,826.6.5.11,524
729.0.5.0 574
946.5.3.4
720.1.4.1. 956
226.1.3-4) 815
Hk.Its m.c.c. Hk. Its m.c.c. Hk.ftsm.c.c. Hk.Tism.c.c.
243.4.5.2 1,334 1,258.4.7.4 2,004 1,155.8.0.5 10,815 6,731.7.7.2
688.5.4.8 2,864 3,326.9.6.5 2,542 1,271.1.9.9 19,632 10,326.4. 1.2
484.0.2.9 2,637 2,662.7.7.7 3,227
457.2.1.7| 357 694.1.1.2 5,620 3,842.2.7.5|14,794 11,046.3.8.9
TOTAL....... 29,592 20,844.4.2.8 10,991
2,621.8.5.9 3,880
1,873.2.4.617,192
7,942.3.2.8 |13,393
7,908.2.4.2 65,048 41,190.1.0.3
d.—Table showing the Number of Passes issued for, and the Amount of Duties collected on, Native
Goods brought from the Interior under Transit Passes, as divided between the various
Nationalities, during the Year 1886.
BRITISH.
AMERICAN
GERMAN.
FRENCH.
SPANISH.
TOTAL.
QUARTER.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
No. of
Passes.
Transit Dues.
Hk. Its m.c.c.
Hk.Fts. m.c.c.
Hk.Fts, m.c.c.
Hk.Fts. m.c.c.
Hk.Its m.c.c.
Hk.Fts. m.c.c.
Ist quarter .......
...
I
...
I
13.5.0.0
519.5.2.0
2nd
„
....
22.2.0.0
...
80
481.5.2.0
2,723.1.6.0
4,943.3.6.0
1,041.9.3.1
3,074.8.9.2
95.0.5.3
18.0.0.0
24.5.0.0
170.1.0.0
1,361.8.9.7
94.7.2.5
1
11
2
256.0.9.
5
27.3.3.
0
7
3
135.0.0.0
32.0.0.0
198
72
5,990.3.5.2
6,791.4.0.5
1,213.9.8.6
6
TOTAL.......
296
9,189.9.7.1
24
3,187.9.4.5| 48 | 1,651.2.2.2
14
305.6.2.5
II
180.5.0.0
393 14,515.2.6.3


SHANGHAI.
203
TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a.-Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
Coast TRADE.
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
Hk.Itsm.c.c.
100,004.4.0.0
1,854.6.3.5
5,068.9.2.2
British ....
American ........
German .....
French......
Danish....
Spanish ...
Swedish and Norwegian
Russian .....
Austrian ...........
Japanese
Siamese ...........
Chinese .
On Opium.......
Hk.Ats.m.c.c.
1,732,654.2.4.1
53,086.3.5.0
69,124.0.5.8
100,815.5.0.9
1,100.9.2.6
328.6.1.3
12,394.7.7.4
488.2.2.9
2,801.2.5.0
114,434.5.3.1
1,066.6.0.2
78,617.3.1.4
885,095.3.3.9
Hk.Itsm.c.c.
475,519.2.7.7
1,676.3.3.0
16,330.1.0.2
197,134.9.4.8
24.5.8.3
407.7.5.2
2.0.0.0
357.4.5.0
612.0.9.0
1,355.6.6.2
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
117,482.7.0.0
13,308.8.0.0
11,604.7.8.0
6,065.2.0.0
814.4.0.0
401.6.0.0
4,416.0.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c. Hk. Its m.c.c.
30,034.3.9.9 2,455,695.0.1.7
5,809.8.0.4: 75,735.9.1.9
3,524.4.6.8 105,652.3.3.0
305.6.2.5 304,321.2.8.2
2,551.9.9.9
8,122.8.2.8 10,616.4.5.5
16,812.7.7.4
1,708.4.7.9
3,368.4.5.0
203,794.5.2.6
1,672.6.7.6
7,908.2.4.2 287,034.3.8.7
885,145.5.1.2
862.8.0.0
81,816.3.9.5
318.3.3.6
124, 102.5.0.7
41.3.8.2
567.2.0.0
7,543.6.0.0
238.0.0.0
17,765.7.0.0
49.7.3.8
58,640.6.2.4
8.7.9.1
TOTAL....
3,052,007.7.3.6
897,731.0.6.2
167,594.8.6.2
181,070.7.8.0
55,705.3.6.6
4,354,109.8.0.6*
* 755 Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total ........................... Hk.Fts 22,226.4.9.7
b.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
|
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
EXPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
OPIUM
| Coast TRADE
(exclusive of (Import, Export,
and
Opium).
Coast Trade).
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
1877.
1878...
1879...........
1880.
1881..
1882.
1883
1884..............
Hk. Its m.c.c.
1,491,693.9.3.5
1,455,329.2.5.5
1,719,095.1.3.9
1,748,923.0.7.0
2,068,887.0.5.4
1,948,726.9.9.5
1,610,582.7.5.6
1,571,948.4.9.9
2,268,479.0.7.3
2,166,912.3.9.7
Hk. Ism.c.c. Hk.Itsm.c.c.
628,078.8.1.9 150,467.7.1.8
771,058.0.1.4 178,596.9.1.6
878,987.2.5.8 201,696.7.1.9
1,091,738.7.1.0 244,701.4.4.2
930, 134. 3.9.5| 192,060.7.5.4
879, 368. 3.4.2 208,415.7.6.8
689,446.5.4.8 166,975.6.1.3
790,843.4.2.8 181,365.6.6.5
703,795.8.1.2 207,01 1.1.1.3
897,689.6.8.0
Hk.Itsm.c.c. Hk.Item.C.C.
864,229.2.9.31 101,966.2.7.2
929,401.6.5.2 134,650.6.9.6
1,072,005.8.8.11 116,843. 1.4.0
989,295.7.5.9 115,480.5.0.0
1,010, 172.8.7.5| 139,950.3.0.0
967,371.5.9.0 143,839.7.0.6
1,005, 154.5.7.9 139,713.9.0.0
949,266.2.3.8 136,127.7.9.0
857,898.9.2.5 151,162.0.0.0
885,145.5.1.2 181,070.7.8.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c. Hk.Tts. m.c.c.
33,483.2.9.1 3,269,919.3.2.8
31,574.2.8.8 3,500,610.8.2. I
29,500.0.5.7 4,018,128.1.9.4
30,582.4.7.0 4,220,721.9.5.2
32,734.6.3.9 4,373,940.0.1.7
36,772.5.4.9 4,184,494.9.5.0
39,247.4.6.5 3,651,120.8.6.1
38,143.6.1.5 3,667,695.2.3.5
54,253.9.2.1 4,242,600.8.4.4
55,705.3.6.6 4,354, 109.8.0.6
1885.
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B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-OPIUM.
Return for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
Malwa.
PATNA.
BENARES.
PERSIAN.
TOTAL.
Chests. Piculs. | Chests. Piculs.
3,717£| 3,717.50 1,298 1,557.60
29,290 29,290 | 6,475 | 7,770
Stock on board Receiving Vessels, I
Ist January 1886.......
Imported and stored on board
Receiving Vessels...............
Chests.
774
3,697
Piculs.
928.80
4,436.40
Chests.
773
Piculs.
77.50
546
Piculs.
5,8676,281.40
40,008 42,042.40
1546
TOTAL.....................
33,007% 33,007.50
7,773
9,327.60
4,471
5,365.20 |
6233
623.50
Landed from Receiving Vessels /
for local consumption............. )
45,875 48,323.80
10,627 12,275.80
2,124| 2,124.50
5,740
6,888
2,504
3,004.80
2585
II
28.80
4.80
105.60
578
I
88
3
150
3.60
2.40
13.20
104.40
13.20
180
15.60
9.60
325.20
475.20
9.60
24
.......
4.80
Re-exported from Receiving Vessels
to Newchwang......
245 245
„ Tientsin ......
1,9615 1,961.50
„ Chefoo ............
578
Hankow ............
1,166 1,166
„ Kiukiang ...
2,399 2,399
„Wuhu.
5,8684 5,868.50
„ Chinkiang....
6,103 | 6,103
„Ningpo ...........
6,62636,626.50
„ Wenchow.........
„ Foochow
81 81
„ Amoy....
„ Swatow ......
20 20
„ Hongkong..........
115
TOTAL........ 25,1637 25,163.50
Total Landed and Re-exported
from Receiving Vessels........... S
27,288 27,288
271
312
982
374.40
1,178.40
285 292
2,082} 2,100.70
706
725.80
1,320
1,350.60
2,421 2,424
5,8913; 5,893.90
6,7646,880.60
8,027) 8,303.10
9.60
106
40
312 368.60
181 192.20
396
8
20
102
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
48
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
40
19
15
48
22.80
18
L
316.80
49.20
1,536.00
9
10
115
41
1,280
1,493
1,791.60 1204
204
28,1401 28,695.10
7,020
8,424
3,997 4,796.40
462.50 || 38,7673 40,970.90
Stock on board Receiving Vessels, |
}| 5,7195,719.50
31st December 1886 .............. I
753
903.60 |
474
568.80
161
7,107
7,352.90
Landed direct from
Vessels ..........
Importing
447
536.40
347
416.40
794
952.80
26
26.5618
3
Transhipped to Hankow.......
„ „ Kiukiang.........
„ „ Chinkiang........
304 32.01 -
1
313
4
30.3318
33.0113
4.16
4.16
.
Re-exported from shore .......
1.0673
26
31.24
69
82.80
95
115.1018


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TABLE No. 2.-TEA.
Export of Tea, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
BLACK.
LEAF.
Dust.
BRICK.
Congou.
OTHER
KINDS.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
175,731.03
2,158.86
29.72
Piculs.
2,203.06
2.35
Great Britain...........
Hongkong...........................
India ..........
United States of America .......
France....
Germany .......
15.80
3.69
52.16
7.23
Piculs.
175,731.03
2,158.86
29.72
23,249.35
· 544.II
2,993.69
20.07
4.50
3.14
15,426.03
424.01
23.35
A
491.95
2,986.46
20.07
4.50
3.14
15,426.03
424.01
ustria ..............................
Belgium .............................
Italy ......
.........
Russia: Odessa, by sea ...........
Canada ......
Buenos Ayres...................
Australia ..............
Egypt ............................
Persia.
Russian Manchuria ...........
13.39
139.29
7,757.23
139.29
7,757.23
2.63
4.49
2.30
48,677.17
Corea .................................
14,915.35
3.99
978.63
81.27
14,917.98
3.99
1,059.90
3.61
10.53
Japan................................
Cochin China ......................
Straits Settlements ...
842.44
3.61
10.53
Total to Foreign countries............
» » Chinese Ports...
244,330.06
130,679.14
146.98
98.11
244,477.04
130,777.25
94.94
522.72
2,231.06
2,853.13
49,548.80
225,538.06
GRAND TOTAL............
375,009.29
245.09
375,254.29
617.66
5,084.19
275,086.86
GREEN.
YOUNG
Hyson.
Hyson.
TWANKAY.
IMPERIAL.
GUNPOWDER.
TOTAL
Piculs.
Piculs.
23,703.74
525.25
Piculs.
7,293.55
1,201.46
13,899.65
6,392.29
376.41
Piculs.
3,147.61
124.41
Piculs.
22,679.79
1,069.59
Great Britain ...........
Hongkong ........................
India .....
United States of America .......
France..........
Germany ............................
Austria ...........
Belgium .....
Piculs.
56,824.69
2,920.71
13,899.65
115,120.34
426.17
43,168.45
7.91
15,083.04
49.76
50,468.65
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Italy ........
151.52
0.73
1.72
3.77
0.26
157.74
0.26
Russia: Odessa, by sea ..........
Canada .......
Buenos Ayres......................
Australia..
Egypt ..............
Persia.
Russian Manchuria ...........
Corea .............................
Japan .....
Cochin China ...
Straits Settlements .............
208.56
213.03
213.03
208.56
1.48
0.49
933.41
2.52
1.48
0.49
637.03
2.52
11.59
11.59
71.76
Total to Foreign Countries............
, ,, Chinese Ports.................
67,762.99
1,126.67
7.91
|
18,478.30
29,384.24
353.69
29,737.93
74,863.58
45.04
190,497.02
1,525.40
GRAND TOTAL............
68,889.66
7.91
|
18,478.30
74,908.62
|
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TABLE No. 3.-SILK.
Export of Silk, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
Raw.
YELLOW.
RE-REELED.
REELED
FROM DUPIONS.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
Bales.
Piculs.
Bales.
174
3
2.48
200
202
Piculs.
180.29
307.12
1,252.261
14.54
5,238.90
Bales. Piculs.
3,576 2,962.08
402 467.05
1,206
1,479.573
6,720 6,845.83
37,987 | 31,676.33)
920
14
5,023
45.03
902
60
215
Bales. Piculs.
Great Britain.
3,399 2,779.31
Hongkong ............
159.93
India....
286
227.31
United States of America ........ 6,661 6,785.87
France...
32,915 26,392.40.
Germany ......
842
674.63
Switzerland
250 199.55
Austria ....
Turkey in Asia.........
1
Egypt
Straits Settlements ...........
11.20
Japan.....
0.38
Total to Foreign Countries... 44,568 | 37,2 30.584
„ „ Chinese Ports.......
394
350.67)
GRAND TOTAL...... 44,962 37,581.26
63.45
209.53
738.08
409.08
......
465
270
315.78
270
60
60.91
315.78
60.91
11.20
1.08
11
0.70
45
45.42
47.51
6,939
269
7,208
7,643.481
422.06
8,065.543
51,604 44,967.00
663 772.73)
|
45
45.42
47.51
|| 52,267 | 45,739.73)
TO
Raw, Wild.
WASTE.
Cocoons.
EGYPT.
Bales.
Piculs.
Bales.
Piculs.
Piculs.
761.84
25.38}
Bales.
4,218
Piculs.
1,299.76
745
25
Bales.
512
...
6
153
805
3.74
145.54
34.79
19,041.69
42
62
61.71
7,214.09
10.78
262.09
1,816.19
7,226
5,670
Great Britain.........
Hongkong ............
India.
United States of America .......
France.........
Germany ...........
Italy ................
Switzerland...........
Austria .....
Turkey in Asia..........
Egypt ......................
Straits Settlements ......
0.63
447
219
446.93)
89.73
733.74
12.39
80.12
20.63
28
:
:
Japan......
21
20.35
8,616
Total to Foreign Countries..
„ „ Chinese Ports.......
GRAND TOTAL...
8,620.04
1. 5
10,196
38 |
34,320.411
54.88
1,483
6
3,410.08
9.24
l
8,621
8,625.04
34,375.29
1,489
10,234
3,419.32


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TABLE No. 4.-TREASURE.
Import and Export of Treasure, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
ceasul
ar
A
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
Hk.Tte
Dollars.
Hk.fts
Dollars.
Gold.
31,075
......
.........
1,746,248
40,600
2,295,804
9,602,287
20,020,297
Sycee ...................
Mexican Dollars.........
Copper Cash, Strings 301,670...
Gold..
Sycee.................
Mexican Dollars............
Copper Cash, Strings 579,190......
24,877,728
1,822,931
196,085
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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
NINGPO TRADE REPORT,
• FOR THE YEAR 1886.
I HAVE now the honour to submit my Report on the trade of this port for the year
1886, for the preparation of which I am indebted to Mr. and Assistant YORKE.
The trade of this port during the year 1886 must be considered as very satisfactory.
Foreign Imports and Native Imports both show considerable improvement, and as regards
Exports, although our chief Export, Tea, shows a falling off amounting to nearly Hl. Pts. 610,000
in value, increases under other headings reduce the deficiency by over one-half. The advance
of the trade during the last three years is very well shown by the Value Table, which gives
the net totals in millions of taels as 11.4 for 1884, 12.5 for 1885, and 13.2 for 1886.
SHIPPING.—The total number of steamers entered and cleared during the year was 762,
of 706,540 tons; these figures, of course, show a large increase over those of 1885, when “for
four months the direct steamer traffic of this port was either wholly suspended or disorganised”
(1885 Report), owing to the Franco-Chinese trouble. Compared with 1884, a slight increase
(3,044 tons) is shown, due probably to the placing of a larger steamer on the Wênchow line.
Sailing vessels, 380, of 46,554 tons, are still on the increase, the figures being for 1884 and 1885,
294, 34,912 tons, and 320, 35,866 tons, respectively. The greater part of this increase is due to
the activity of the lorcha traffic (mostly under the Native flag) on the Yangtze and Shanghai
lines. These craft (lorchas and registered junks) bring down large cargoes of such articles as
are either refused altogether by the steamers (e.g., Matches and Kerosene Oil) or, owing to
their bulkiness or want of value (e.g., Gypsum, Mangrove Bark, and the cheaper Native
Medicines), cannot stand the high freight charged by the steamers. Two large lorchas were
built at this port during last year, and the amount of capital invested in them—some $10,000
to $12,000 apiece—tends to show that this branch of the trade is in a flourishing condition.
The excellent work done by the Native shipwrights at this port deserves notice. The two
lorchas just mentioned are of course mainly built as cargo-carriers, without much attention to
speed; but the fine lines and graceful appearance of a light-tender built for the Chinkiang
Customs would have done credit to an experienced Foreign designer.
VALUE OF TRADE.—The net value of the trade of this port is Hk.Tts. 13,248,307. This
shows an increase of three-quarters of a million taels over the 1885 figures, and is, with the
exception of the 1881 value, which exceeds it by some Hk.Tts. 20,000, the largest net value since
1874 (Hk.its. 14,546,310). The net total of Foreign Imports is Hk.Tts. 590,000 above that of
1885, and the net total of Native Imports exceeds the 1885 value by over Hk.Tts. 473,000.
Local Exports are not so satisfactory, having decreased from Hk.Pts. 5,107,028 in 1885 to
Hk.fts. 4,810,377 in the year under review.
The value of our Foreign Imports amounted to Hl.fts. 6,331,929. Goods to the value of
over Hlc.Tts. 6,200,000 reached us viâ Shanghai; of the remainder, about half (value Hk.Tts. 40,000)
came from Hongkong, and, roughly speaking, one-fourth each came from Japan and the
Straits. The value of Foreign goods re-exported during the year was Hk.Its. 86,032, of which
Hk.Tts. 78,253 worth were sent to Shanghai.
As regards Native Imports (Hl.Pts. 2,251,932), Shanghai supplied us with goods to the
value of Hk.Tts. 1,435,933; Hankow (Hk.its. 606,632) and Canton (Hk.Its. 122,874) stand second
and third respectively; and four cargoes of Sugar place Hl.Its. 69,108 against Takow.


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Hk.fits. 39,000 worth of Native Re-exports were sent to Shanghai, and Hk.fts. 17,000
worth to Wênchow, showing increases of Hk.its. 9,000 and Hk.Its. 7,000 respectively..
The deficiency, Hk.fts. 296,651, in the value of Exports is more than explained by the
drop in the value of our Exports to Shanghai; these sank from Hk.fts.
Hk.Tts. 4,523,621 last year. The direct Foreign Export trade (value Hk.Tts. 7,645) is only about
a half of its 1885 value. On the other hand, the trade with Hankow has improved by nearly
Hk.Its. 33,000, and the figures for Swatow (Hk.fts. 24,600) and Amoy (Hk.fts. 15,622) also show
large increases.
FOREIGN IMPORTS.—The large increase (Hk.Fts. 590,043) noted in the value of Foreign
Imports is divided among the chief staples as follows:-Opium has increased by Hk.Pts. 74,664;
Cotton Piece Goods, by Hk.fts. 218,509; Woollen Piece Goods, by Hk.Its. 13,897; Metals, by
Hk.Tts. 67,027; and the balance, Hk.Pts. 215,946, is contributed by increases among Sundries.
Opium.—With regard to Opium, the total import, 8,244 piculs, is (with the exception of
the total in 1881, when 8,628 piculs were imported) the largest net importation during the
past 10 years. Malwa (6,504.24 piculs) shows a decrease of a fraction under 200 piculs, but
this deficit is almost counterbalanced by the increase, 196.23 piculs, in Patna, while Benares
(1,258.20 piculs) and Persian (16 piculs) are 365.40 piculs and 15 piculs above their 1885
figures. I understand that there was a “fair demand” for Malwa during the year, and that the
diminished import in 1886 must be attributed to the large stocks left over from the previous
year. Prices are said to have remained fairly steady during the year. The reasons assigned
for the increase in Bengal Opium are (a) that the Indian Government had placed more
Opium on sale at the monthly auctions than in 1885, and that, consequently, prices had
dropped, and (6) that less Opium than formerly has been smuggled into this province (by
inland routes). In comparing the above figures with those of 1885, it must not be forgotten
that the increase of Likin to its. 86 per picul, which only affected the trade during the
second half of 1885, has been in force during the whole of the year under review, and has
no doubt checked the consumption of Foreign Opium. Moreover, although no trustworthy
statistics can be obtained, it is well known that the cultivation of the poppy has increased
much in the last two or three years (especially in the T'ai-chou prefecture and Hsiang-shan
district), and the competition of the Native Opium must have also had some adverse effect.
Under these circumstances, the vitality shown by the Foreign Opium trade seems surprising.
Cotton Goods (742,569 pieces) show the large increase of 151,881 pieces; of this, Grey
Shirtings, with a total import of 407,233 pieces, claim 82,427 pieces, while the general nature
of the improvement may be easily seen from the fact that of the 17 principal varieties of
Cotton Goods imported last year, only three, viz., American T-Cloths and Dutch and American
Jeans, have decreased, and these only to a small extent. The improvement is said to be in
great measure owing to the plentiful harvest last autumn. I understand that importers are
well satisfied both with the amount of business done and the prices realised, and that the
prospects for the current year are very good.
Woollen Goods (13,626 pieces) have increased by nearly 2,000 pieces. Nearly half of the
total increase is assigned to Spanish Stripes (2,328 pieces), but all the other descriptions of
Woollens, except Union Cloth, show improvement.
Metals.—Nail-rod Iron (33,653 piculs) is some 18 per cent. above the importation in 1885,
and Old Iron has advanced from 8,000 piculs to 10,000 piculs; but Bar Iron has decreased
considerably. Lead in Pigs (7,461 piculs) and Tin in Slabs (18,449 piculs) both show decreases
of 1,600 piculs. In Tin it is said that the lessened business is due to importers holding out
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for higher prices; this may account for the increase (1,700 piculs) in Native (Yünnan) Tin,
which, however, I understand, is not liked.
Sundries.-For Sundries, Gunny Bags and Mangrove Bark exhibit large increases, but
the most noticeable advance is in Kerosene Oil (1,540,100 gallons), the importation of which
is larger by one-third than that of 1885. The large increase (8,649 piculs) in Liquid Indigo
is due to a failure of the local crop. Ornamental Woods, chiefly brought from the Straits,
Borneo, etc., have been in large demand: such Woods are Camagon, which figures in our Returns
with 11,781 piculs for 1886, against 1,688 piculs for the previous year, Ebony, Puru, Red-wood,
and Rose-wood, and the large increases set down against them are very satisfactory as showing
the flourishing condition of the manufacture of ornamental furniture, one of the largest
industries of this place.
Sugars appear under both Foreign and Native Import headings, but as they differ very
little in quality, may be conveniently considered together. Both varieties have increased, Brown
being not quite 16,000 piculs, and White nearly 20,000 piculs, above the 1885 importation.
NATIVE IMPORTS.—Among the remaining Native Imports, Liquid Indigo and Vegetable
Tallow show the most noticeable increase, 13,000 piculs and 8,000 piculs respectively; but
advances, large or small, are shown by almost every article under this heading. Lung-ngans,
which are 4,000 piculs below the 1885 figures, and Lily Flowers are the only items which have
diminished perceptibly.
EXPORTS.—(Respecting the Tea trade of the past year, vide B.—Special Tables, No. 3).
Among Sundry Exports, Cuttle-fish (52,409.84 piculs), Paper Fans (2,925,869 pieces), Rush Hats
(11,580,885 pieces), ist Quality Paper (1,278.93 piculs), and Rice (49,683 piculs) are the most
prominent.
Cuttle-fish shows an increase of 16,000 piculs; the takes are said to have been very
large, and the fishermen have done well in their sales, but the curers have lost on their
shipments to Hankow. The bulk of this “ odorous” cargo goes to the Yangtze ports.
The increase of two and a half million pieces in Paper Fans is stated to be entirely due
to an experiment on the part of the Hangchow producers, who have sent the Fans viâ Ningpo,
instead of viâ Shanghai, the usual route, to try and save on the Likin. The attempt has not
succeeded, and will probably not be repeated this year.
As regards Rush Hats, the increase of 399,000 pieces in 1-braid Hats is more than
counterbalanced by the fall of 400,000 pieces in 2-braid. The demand for cheap goods has,
however, led to the very large increase of 2,639,000 pieces in the 3-braid variety. Rather over
half of the total export is sent to Havre, and the bulk of the remainder to London; this
business is said to have done well last year, but shippers complain a good deal of the quality
of the goods brought in for sale. A further increase in the export of i and 3 braid Hats
is looked for this year.
The increase in the export of Rice is not likely to last; the harvest last autumn was
exceptionally good, but, as a rule, our production is consumed locally.
TRANSIT.-The Inward Transit trade (Hk.its. 715,620) shares in the improvement shown
by Imports, and is Hl.its. 159,850 in advance of its 1885 value. Ch‘ü-chou ( W) and
Ch‘u-chou (
BIH), both in this province, are the chief inland Piece Goods markets supplied
by this port, drawing respectively 85,000 pieces and 54,000 pieces during the past year. The
increase now reported is, however, due, not to Piece Goods but, as a reference to the comparisons
at foot of Table VI, C., will show, to Metals and Sundries (e.g., Matches, Kerosene Oil, and
Sugars), which take advantage of the pass in yearly increasing quantities. Outward Transit


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shows a value of Hk.Tts. 11,500, against nil in 1885. The number of Transit passes issued was
15,301, or 3,342 over that during 1885.
REVENUE.—The total of dues and duties, Hk.fts. 738,888.6.2.3, though Hk.Tts. 8,550.7.3.4
below the 1885 collection, is, with the exception of that and one other year, the largest during
the past 10 years: the fall in the exportation of Tea accounts for the diminished Revenue. It
must also be recollected in examining Table VII that it does not give a fair description of the
state of the trade, inasmuch as our Foreign Imports (Opium excepted) for the most part pay no
duty here, but are forwarded from Shanghai under exemption certificate.
SPECIAL TABLES.—The passenger traffic (Table No. 8) deserves notice. It will be seen
that, in round numbers, 74,000 Natives arrived and 76,000 left by steamers, so that it may be
computed that the “daily” Shanghai steamers have brought, on an average, about 250 Chinese
passengers, and taken away a rather larger number; this part of the traffic is said to be
very lucrative.
An inspection of the Tea Table (No. 3) will show that the decrease in the export, which
has been noticed above, is confined to two descriptions: Gunpowder (148,214 piculs) is no
less than 33,699 piculs below the 1885 figures, and Leaf Tea (911 piculs) is less than half the
export during the previous year. On the other hand, Young Hyson (25,956 piculs) shows an
increase of 5,251 piculs, Hyson (19,357 piculs), of 7,935 piculs, and Imperial (9,613 piculs), of
2,118 piculs.
For the following observations on this branch of the trade I am indebted to Messrs.
Davidson & Co., of this port :-
"At the commencement of the season, owing to reports from the home markets, there was
great delay in opening the market in Shanghai, which caused the holders to grow impatient, so
much so that some of the first chops were sent to the United States on Native account, but did
not prove satisfactory. Pingsueys did not find favour with the Foreign dealers in Shanghai, as
most of the first chops were a very mixed lot, and it was not until advices were received from
home as to the musters sent there that any attempt was made to do business. When the
market did open it was far from strong, as curers were inclined to hold for higher rates. On
the season's working, it is reported, curers have lost, but so far as can be gathered, the latter
part of the season recouped them for part of their losses at the commencement. A few chops
are still going forward and, I hear, are being sent to the States on curers' account, not in the
expectation of better rates, but simply to get them off their hands. The number of curing
establishments opened was 23, against 19 in 1885. In godown at present about 2,500 piculs.
Regarding Fychows there is nothing to add to what has been said above. Reports reached
curers of the intended action of the Foreign dealers not to open the market for some weeks after
the usual time, and caused their purchases of leaf to be limited. Their loss, if any, has not been
great. The signs for the coming season are said to be very hopeful.”
It will be seen from the foregoing that on the whole the trade of the port has been
prosperous, though it offers no very sensational features for comment. It is satisfactory also
to record that on all hands the prospects for 1887 are said to be good.
F. KLEINWÄCHTER,
Commissioner of Customs.
NINGPO, 22nd March 1887.


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NINGPO TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo. | In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo. | In Ballast.
TOTAL.
No.
Tons. No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons. No. Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
149
4,439
156
British
German.
Chinese..............
122,396 7
2,398
196,268 40
2,958
126,835
5,356
221,079
II
50 123, 1976
14,672
178 199,845 36
3,638
684 |
21,234
312
22
156 126,835
|
11 | 5,356
214 221,079 ||
253,670
10,712
442,158
174
24,811
214
428
Total Steamers........
329
32,208
381
353,270
337
327,714 44
25,556
381
353,270 | 762
706,540
SAILING VESSELS.
1,322
5,218
2,609
146
1,242
1,287
291
437
British .........
American .....
German...
Spanish ...........
Chinese-owned Ves-
sels of Foreign
type-Lorchas....
Chinese Native Craft..
2,609
146
1,242
175
2,484
2,609
291
1,242
175
175
175
ão a NN w w
350
| w 11:
8,977
8,785
211
56
8,996
II2
17,973
9,994|
9,903 31
10,098
241
20,092
Total Sailing Vessels
185
22,526
4
617
189
23, 143
182
20,847
91 2,564
191
23,411
380
46,554
GRAND TOTAL.....
514 | 343,588
56
32,825
570
376,413
519 | 348,561 53 | 28,120
572 | 376,681 || 1,142 | 753,094


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TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF NINGPO,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.Fts
Hk.Its.
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Pts.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Tts
64,899
57,032
85,954
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong ......
Imported from Chinese Ports ....
Total Foreign Imports............
5,450,060
5,696,549
6,245,975
5,514,959
5,753,581
6,331,929
203
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong...
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Shang-1
hai and Wênchow)...............................
****...................)
Total Foreign Re-exports
161,475
97,524
86,032
.........
161,475
97,727
86,032
Net Total Foreign Imports ............
5,353,484
5,655,854
6,245,897
NATIVE PRODUCE.
1,344,160
1,761,176
2,251,932
104
1,722
Imported (chiefly from Shanghai, Hankow, and Canton)
Re-exported to Foreign Countries...........
Re-exported to Chinese Ports...
Total Native Re-exports ..
48,423
41,239
59,899
48,527
42,961
59,899
Net Total Native Imports ..........
..........
1,295,633
1,718,215
2,192,033
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries ........... .............
17,742
15,614
7,645
4,755,530
5,091,414
4,802,732
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports .................
Total Exports of local origin ...
......
4,773,272
5,107,028
4,810,377
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port...........
11,632,391
12,621,785
13,394,238
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native | 11,422,389
Exports of local origin....
12,481,097
13,248,307


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.— Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value. Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Tts
Hk. Its
Piculs
14850
Hk.Fls.
6,65274 2,570,822
48543 159,755
1,266 60 403,544
20 6,204
20 40
8.40
Hk.fts.
57,484
6,767
2,635
1,240
Hk.Tts.
6,50424 2,513,338
46503 152,988
1,25820
400,909
16 4,964
OPIUM:-
Malwa
Patna.
.........
Benares.................
Persian ............
COTTON GOODS:-
Shirtings, Grey...
, White, Plain.....
, Dyed .
» Figured.
Brocades, Dyed .....
T-Cloths, 32 inches.........
36 „ .......
Pieces
652
81
108
407,233
61,925)
24,979
4,334
650
80,314
55,035
1,410
4,427
2,751
6,090
15,505
8,820
39
..
407,569
61,970
25,339
4,334
650
80,314
55,0351
1,410
4,427
2,801
6,090
15,505
8,820
2,080
5,970
....
2,080
787,150
122,536
8,408
12,964
1,553
127,781
98,269
2,751
3,407
3,875
11,846
37,111
13,958
3,784
9,876
1,152
32,472
13,449
11,493
8,341
1,056
3,047
1,868
2,168
8,084
1,472
7,760
1,534
2,138
650
5,970
650
13,530
9,054
8,768
1,762
192
1,708
2,864
1,800
2,379
13,530
9,218
8,768
1,762
192
1,868
2,864
1,800
2,379
156
2,000
6,328
340
7,690
58931
786,498
122,455
8,300
12,964
1,553
127,781
98,269
2,751
3,407
3,812
11,846
37,11
13,958
3,784
9,876
1,152
32,472
13,203
11,493
8,341
1,056
2,775
1,868
2,168
8,084
1,472
7,760
1,534
2,138
464
9,620
1,650
720
156
710
American.....
Printed.
Drills, English.......
, American ..............
Jeans, English ..
9
American.....
A
,, Dutch .............
Sheetings, English .........
American
Chintzes ............
Turkey Red Cloths........
Velvets
Velveteens .................
Twills, Printed .........
Muslins ....
Taffachellas..............
Lastings, Cotton....
Canvas.....
Bolts
Cotton Italians ........ Pieces
, Flannels ...........
Cloth, Japanese .........
Cottonades or Cottons,
Unclassed..............
Cotton Handkerchiefs........ Dozens
, Thread .................. Piculs
. Yarn ...................
WOOLLEN GOODS:-
Camlets, English
.............
Pieces
, Dutch ...........
Lastings ........
Long Ells.
Spanish Stripes.
Lustres and Orleans..
Cloth, Habit, Broad, and
Medium .........
Italian........
Melton.
Poncho ........
Russian, Imitation..
, Union .........
Flannels.
METALS:
Brass Wire.....
Piculs
Copper, Japan.
Sheets .....
Wire............
, Old ...........
464
2,000
7101
6,328
340
7,690
5893
9,620
1,650
720
30
30
2,260
22,296
40
680
2,280
40
1,330
1,200
2,328
3,411
744
1,695
22,488
680
10,640
5,464
20,166
11,042
19,350
8,809
1,530
672
5,376
900
1,330
1,200
2,328
3,411
744
1,695
10,640
5,464
20,166
11,042
19,350
8,809
1,530
672
5,376
900
630
90/
90
630
9112
9112
99421
8986
30 37
25958
2,187
21,484
2,016
820
4,015
98824
8566
3037
2,187
21,365
1,932
820
4,015
259581


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TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
FROM
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
HONGKONG
TO
AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS,
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
14,646
101,715
20
660
252
30790
756
Hk. Its
14,626
100,959
2,266
3,811
2,662
396
97
14,038
658
29,387
469,868
6,443
4,881 83
33,905 08
1,657 35
921 42
10,461 52
7,461 74
18,473 84
792 45
21904
102 17
603 52
86762
3,164 86
28003
335
50525
METALS, continued :-
Iron, Bar........................ Piculs
Nail-rod.............
,, Ware or Manufactured
Wire..........
. Old ..............
Lead, in Pigs ..........
Tin, in Slabs....
,, Compound ..........
Tinplates.
Quicksilver ................
Žinc Sheets ..........
Yellow Metal Sheathing ....
Steel .....
White Metal
Spelter.........................
Anchors and Chains
SUNDRIES -
Awabi .....
Piculs
Bags, Gunny.................
Pieces
Betel-nuts ......................
Piculs
Bicho de Mar, Black .........
, White..........
Birds' Nests, ist Quality.....
» 2nd , ....
Camphor, Baroos, Refuse ...
Japan.......
Cardamoms, Superior...
, Inferior .......
Chinaware, Fine.......
Clams, Dried..............
3,811
14,135
29,387
470,526
6,493
1,093
3,950
3,078
12,148
8,703
11,924
1,675
1,742
4,875 23
33,653 08
1,349 450
921 42
10,396 52
7,46174
18,44986
78535
21064
10217
603 52
86762
3,15986
277 39
3351
48375
6653
332,750
28529
1,048
3,950
3,078
12,148
8,689
11,821
1,675
1,701
14
103
...........
50
6653
334,950
2,200
2 73
288 02
82095
82372
2,233
18,907
1,412
24,930
10,060
1,621
1,381
069
0691
Borax.....
1,418
Coal...
13,969
Puculs
1 26
9813
074
6088
57 56
24345
58508
33804
1,239
9,063 81
31979
17072
52 57
3,578 40
1,096 13
7696
653
9110
157,066
246
13, 306 92
9263
0 74
6088
5611
21963)
58508
334 84
3,235
9,063 81
32479
168 23
5257
3,578 40
1,096 13
7536
653
1,046
1,511
6,282
5,002
14,042
3,946
8,673
15,069
7,601
11,357
2,225
2,942
5,481
26,746
12,775
IOO
249)
C
6
2,233
18,793
1,398
24,674
9,935
1,621
1,381
1,340
1,046
1,511
6,122
4,462
14,042
3,908
22,642
15,069
7,701
11,226
2,225
2,942
5,481
26,186
12,775
8,546
7,606
4,797
98,878
6,730
1,050
6,417
50,303
47,893
2,854
11,143
11,277
1,952
171,630
1,764
3,850
6,218
3,637
12,846
3,263
*** 83
8,629
9027
1,101
Cockles..
Compoy.............
Dyes and Colours......
Fish Maws...........
Flints.............
Flour ....
Ginseng, American, Clarified
,, Corean, ist Quality
, Japan, Unclassed...
Gunny Cloth....
Horns, Rhinoceros' ......
Indigo, Liquid.........
Isinglass..............
Jadestone...............
Leather.............
Mangrove Bark ......
Matches, Wood.
Gross
Medicines ...............
Piculs
Mushrooms ..........
Mussels, Dried..
Needles ..
Mülle
Oil, Kerosene..............
. Galls.
Paint, Green ...........
Paper, ist Quality ........
Pepper, Black....
, White....
Prawns, Dried.
Putchuck ...........
314/12
12 28
157,066
13,306 92
31412
1228
356 49
56,868 17
173,341
392 89
36.406
27,16448
250
60173244611
7,606
5,898
98,878
6,730
1,050
7,072
25,855
47,953
2,854
10,985
11,348
2,102
174,380
1,780
3,850
6,565
3,985
13,007
3,290
24,448 29,70369)
173,591
24461
175 38370
63047
7,550
1,565,100
11125
27497
46141
194 37
83221
065
395
500
25,000
17
38805
626 52
1507,050
2,750 1,540,100
16 11025
27497
438 25
culs
25397


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.— Imports and Re-exports-Contu.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Tts.
Hk.Tts.
Hk. Fts.
7455
686
23085
...
593
SUNDRIES, continued :
Rattans........
Piculs
Sandalwood...........
Sapanwood ........
Seaweed, Long.........
,, Cut...............
Sharks' Fins, White.......
»
Clarified.
Soap ...........
Sticklac..........................
Sugar, Brown ...............
, White ...............
Timber, Planks, Hard-wood. Pieces
» Soft-wood... Sq. ft.
Tinder ........................... Piculs
Window Glass ...............
Boxes
Wood, Camagon.............
Piculs
1890
47
1,008
|
2,621
9,000 69
1,05414
6,904 68
6,060 63
1,33343
1750
12 12
. 3,78576
12760
12,955 21
15,245 10
921
70,051
70423
3,747
11,78146
3,601 14
2,275 26
3,01143
1,088 96
1,674
Hk.Ats.
61,267
19,312
14,882
11,269
2,664
1,099
1,422
9,465
1,344
34,341
69,339
1,006
1,700
4,923
12,740
22,946
13,971
3,082
9,898
1,415
2,511
34,800
Hl.fts
8,926 14 60,843
1,047 28
19,189
6,904 681 14,882
5,82978 10,815
1,33343 2,664
11 57 725
12 12 1,422
3,766 86
9,418
12760 1,344
11,947 21 31,720
15,245 10 69,339
1,194
1,212
336,2951 8,356
70423
4,923
3,7171
12,638
11,78146 22,946
3,600 59 13,969
2,27526
3,082
3,007 91
9,886
1,088 96
1,415
1,674 2,511
33,315
273
270,282
206
6,757
4,038
IOI
>
Ebony
Puru
Red .....................
Rose ............
Worm Tablets, in Bottles... Dozens
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
362
1,847
86,032
TOTAL ............
Hk.ft.)..
46,017
6,285,912
6,245,897
SUMMARY.
85,954
6,245,975
-Hk.fts. 6,331,929
IMPORTS from Hongkong ..
............. Hk.fts 39,937
„. „ Singapore and Straits........................
24,448
„ „ Japan....
........... » 21,569
Total from Foreign Countries.........-
-Hk. Pts.
Imports from Chinese Ports .............. ...........................
Total FOREIGN IMPORTS ........
RE-EXPORTS to Hankow.............
.........Hk. fts 1,038
„ Kiukiang .....
„ Shanghai..
.......................... »
78,253
„Wênchow.
„Tamsui..
2,750
Total to Chinese Ports ...........
-Hk.Its
Total FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS............
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
3,988
.........
2
86,032
Hk.fts.
86,032
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS....
Hk.Its
6,245,897


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TABLE No. IV.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Louantity
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts.
H
.fts.
1145
271
5,262
2957
355
27159
1,128
602
385
Pieces
::::
12218
368
240
12 36
16016
1,613
266
108 51
1,191
580
610
565)
5040
T2
1,296
12
120
8230
22
13
13895
2,103
8,400
54,000
152,
912
Fire-crackers
Piculs
SOO
Hk.fts.
Almonds.....
Piculs
311 82
7,011
Alum, Green.........
5,98670
Aniseed, Star.....
242 02 2,905
Bambooware ...........
3,184
Beancake.................
1,128 1,241
Bones, Cow.
6,83337 5,954
, Tigers'.
12725 8,144
Brass-foil...
4158 1,041
Buttons, Brass ...........
198 14 14,662
Canes, Bamboo ...........
663,349 4,053
» Short...........
Piculs
421 95 1,897
Cassia Lignea ..........
13893 2,324
China-root.
2,11464
20,571
Cinnabar .....................
3394 4,072
Cinnamon....
10,311
Citrons, Dried..
5271 1,322
Coal...................
5,191 20
Coir..
2,84397 9,750
Copper, Unmanufactured
4693 2,816
Cotton, Raw ........
24808 2,381
Dates, Black
4,21806 12,630
, Red.
5,54464 12,236
Dye-stuff...
1,30172 17,027
Earth, Red.....
1,71720 3,338
Fans, Palm-leaf, Trimmed...... Pieces 318,000
3,180
Untrimmed...
2,199,400 13,631
986 25 8,986
Fish Maws.
26 85 1,155
Fruit, Dried
790 89 2,133
, Fresh
2,05360 4,046
Fungus ....
3,89935 65,247
3540 3,139
Glassware
59984 11,997
Glue, Cow
48966 4,116
Grasscloth, Fine.......
78 36 3,134
Gypsum..
19,416 24 7,148
Hemp ...........
11,321 83 78,002
» Sacking .............
25,802 2,060
Hides, Ass.....
1,041 47 24,954
Horns, Chamois' ......
1939 3,538
Deer...........
6982 2,319
Indigo, Dried ...
8,916
Liquid.
13,521 91 102,207
Ironware..................
74742 3,190
Ivoryware ................
550 4,400
Lamps .........
10,104 1,540
Lead, White....
Piculs 98110 6,187
Yellow ..
533 33 3,502
Leather
1,16985 21,058
» Green
een
344 1,032
, White, or Parchment.. Pieces 30,480 3,790
Lichees, Dried ....
4,935 151 45,341
Lily Flowers ......................
83429
, Seed or Lotus-nuts ........ , 5,30305 65,404
Liquorice........
680 70 2,707
Lung-ngans........
9,603 90
without the Stone
43093
Mats, Tea.......
Pieces
95,383 3,124
Medicines..............
Piculs
32,763 31 424,558
1148
41 50
I 20
Hk.fts
Hk.Fts
300 37
6,740
5,986 70 5,262
3,260
26533
3,184
1,241
6,833 37 5,954
12123 7,759
41581 1,041
19814| 14,662
663,349 4,053
54475 2,265
129 17 2,136
1,95448 18,958
2624
3,147
10241 9,731
4706 1,209
5,14080 1,284
2,84397 9,750
4693 2,816
12808 1,301
4,13576
12,372
5,531
12,214
1,162771
14,924
1,71720 3,338
309,600 3,096
2,297,400 14,219
986 25 8,986
1537
655
74939
2,013
2,05360 4,046
3,276 531
35.40
3,139
60244) 12,049
485174
4,081
7714 3,085
19,416 24 7,148
11,15863
76,868
25,502 2,030
1,009 47 24,251
1939 3,538
69 82 2,319
56803 8,916
13,521 91 102,207
740 57 3,169
5501 4,400
IO, 1041 1,540
98110 6,187
54770
3,583
1,12366 20,227
244 732
30,4801 3,790
4,92971 45,291
83429 3,558
5,30305 65,404
586 50 2,424
9,054 29 88,186
422 43 3,821
101,383
3,604
1765 211
211 30,92211 402,921
Ginseng
55,060
392
20
Pieces
Piculs
30
56803
21
Pieces
14.40
191
.........
Piculs
3,558
9420
54961
92,968
3,898
850
7,832|55 21,710
28


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts
H
. Its
Hk. Pts.
023
3,817
1,03460
150,995
161
947 841
18,692 54
2196
64691
4340
1,736
Damower...................
8434
Melon Seeds
Piculs
Mirrors with Frames ..........
Pieces
Musk .......
Piculs
Nankeens .........................
Oil, Wood ....
Olives, Fresh and Salted...
Paint, Green ............
Paper, ist Quality
» 2nd ,
Peel, Orange .....
Peppermint Leaf..........
Potash .............
Prawns, Dried....
Preserves..
Rhubarb ..
Safflower.
Seaweed ..........................
Seed, Sesamum .....
Silk and Cotton Mixtures.....
,, Piece Goods ...
,, Ribbons ..............
Skin Clothing......
eces
Skins, Sheep .....
, Assorted ..........
Soapstone Powder......
Sugar, Brown......
3 White .............
Candy .............
Tallow, Vegetable
Tin, Yunnan.
Tobacco, Leaf .....
.. Prepared ....
Stalk............
Turmeric.
Varnish ...
Vermicelli .........................
Vermilion .........................
Wax, White ...............
Sundries, Unenumerated.......
Copper Cash
Strings
Hl.fts.
1,03460 3,742
150,995) 5,885
1 84 30,534
950 11
23,754
18,695 50
101,874
64691
2,224
137 31 2,197
14617) 2,046
215 30 1,292
1,259 250 21,900
31460
1,101
82316
4,086
229 57
3,673
538 89 3,233
427 55
17,103
5825 3,151
2,514
6,075231 16,553
5150 11,796
4684)
29,978
20,265
7,815 9,137
73,5241 14,518
8,370 1,132
1,345 271 2,448
35,77466
94,586
39,08469 170,204
9,31966
67,482
8,483 52 52,002
1,73662 42,001
5,85769 36,933
6,70750 80,489
3,834 32
1,627 24 5,015
1,23109 61,556
472 10 3,211
28005 10,217
947 63 39,179
47,416
400 240
H.fts
3,742
5,885
26,717
23,697
101,858
2,224
2,197
2,046
1,292
21,148
1,101
4,086
3,673
3,233
15,367
3,151
2,514
16,553
11,796
30,058
20,265
7,830
14,518
1,132
2,448
94,586
170,146
67,482
52,002
42,001
36,198
80,372
6,502
5,015
61,501
3,195
14,457
38,604
46,057
240
1,3081
137 31
14617
215 30
1,217 49
31460
82316
229 57
538891
38415
58 25
84 34!
6,07523
5150
4697
28 45
6,507
73,524
8,370
1,345 271
35,77466
39,071 89
9,31966
8,483 52
1,736 62
5,71354
6,697 74
4,59368
1,627 24
1,230 99
469 80
395 25
93393
1.2
Piculs
2 80
14415
976
5,363
75936
1,139
11520
4,240
1370
Value
1,359
400
TOTAL .........
Hk. Pts..........
2,243,623
8,309
59,688
2II
2,192,033


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SUMMARY
IMPORTS from Hankow......
Hk.fts
606,632
„Chinkiang ..
238
, Shanghai.
.
.
.
1,435,933
Wenchow ........
8,838
»
Takow......
69,108
„
Canton .........
122,874
"Dawu
Total from Chinese Ports .............
-Hk.fts 2,243,623
Imports from Hongkong .........
........ „
8,309
Total Native IMPORTS ..
-
Hk. Pts. 2,251,932
RE-EXPORTS to Hankow....
.......Hk.fts
2,012
„Shanghai...........
39,203
„Wênchow........
17,393
„ Tamsui......................................... »
1,080
„ Hongkong for Chinese Ports .............
2II
Total to Chinese Ports..............
-Hk.fts
59,899
Total Native RE-EXPORTS..
- Hk. Pts.
59,899
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS....
Ak.Ts 2,192,033


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.

EXPORTS
то
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
• TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
| HONGKONG, AND (including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
SILK Piece Goods
........
Piculs
»
Raw.
Piculs
Hk.Tts
302 84 193,817
32 9,280
3140 2,115
79,663 1,970,533
68,551 291,536,956
91113 7,624
5,19863 51,332
Hk. Its
302 84 193,817
32 9,280
3140 2,115
79,663 1,970,533
68,559 48 1,537,144
91113 7,624
5,37863 53,102
8119
188
::::
T20
1,080
Pieces
1.o
200
péculs
::::::::::::::::::
58
,, Refuse ..............
TEA, Green, Fychow............. Pi
Pingsuey..........
* Leaf..
COTTON, Raw......
Piculs
SUNDRIES :-
Alum, White................. Piculs
Bamboo Shoots.............
Beancurd, Preserved .......
Brassware.
Caps, Silk ....
Carpets, Red...........
Clams, Dried .................
Copperware ....
Cotton Clothing
Cuttle-fish.
Dates, Black ...........
Fans, Paper.......
Pieces
Feathers ...
Piculs
Fish Glue.
, Maws........
, Salt ...........
, Dried...........
Fruit, ,, ........
Furniture..
Pieces
Ground-nuts .................
Piculs
Hams.....
Hats, Rush, 1 Braid ..........
» 1 2 3 .........
» 3 , ...
Hides, Cow...........
Joss-stick Powder ..........
Kittysols ...............
Lily Seed or Lotus-nuts...... Piculs
Liquorice.
Lung-ngans, Dried.
Mats, Straw ................... Pieces
Matting ....................... Rolls
Medicines.
Piculs
Melon Seeds
Mussels, Dried..........
Nutgalls .............
Paper, ist Quality .........
::::::::::::::
32,725
3,777
I 20
Pieces
18,235
120,600
150,000
627,000
1,568
1,462
3,512
54,611
Pículs
50,922 35
37,746
641 22 3,241
2,78410 8,238
9522 1,904
4,104
820
7,190 1,083
228 16 3,549)
79 22
2,376
37 50
1,425
52,40984 193,845
40775
1,287
2,925,869 81,010
38977 2,681
95764 29,502
75503
2,67180
8,018
1,449 42 14,495
1,754 76
2,154 6,857
836,60 1,457
340 29 4,313
1,723,204 16,667
18,000
180
8,942,081
506 54 5,802
8,168 28 9,800
114,560 6,874
169 44 2,123
1,263
438 48 3,890
995,581
79,636
2,886 | 10,099
40,278 43 217,510
404 381 1,573
426 21 7,671
98 10 1,991
1,278 93 17,905
49,683 35 74,524
8,585 94 12,879
17702 7,172
6043
3,789
5,785
1,756
8,824 2,140
1,588
50 50
5,033
315411 1,482
25,230
6,640 3,970
50,922 35 37,746
64122
3,241
2,78410 8,238
9522 1,904
5,104 1,020
7,190 1,083
22816 3,549
7922 2,376
3750
1,425
52,40984 193,845
49005 1,545
2,925,869 1 81,010
38977 2,681
95764 29,502
766511 33,225
2,671 80 8,018
1,44942 14,495
1,796 26
3,897
42,1691 6,900
83660 1,457
34029 4,313
1,843,804
168,000
1,642
9,569,081
58,123
50654 5,802
8,16828
114,560
17644 2,212
423 47
1,546
98809 8,672
1,047,586 83,797
2,886 10,099
43,351 99 246,527
404 381 1,573
426217,671
9810
1,991
1,27893 17,905
49,683 35 74,524
8,58594
12,879
17702 7,172
6043
3,789
6,517 1,975
8,824 2,140
45623 2,323
1,061
251 651
5,033
540 91 2,542
55,314
6,640 3,970
9,800
Pieces
6,874
32927
9420
54961
283
4,782
52,005
4,161
1,22336
7,096
1,850 20
|::::::::::::::::::::::
21,921
Rice......
Pieces
9.
piculs
31208)
14415
735
Samshu
Seaweed .....................
Sharks' Fins, White.
Snakes, Dried...............
Stone Slabs..
Tobacco, Leaf
Wax, Yellow ........
Woodware.....
Wool ............
Sundries, Unenumerated.....
Value
Copper Cash .................... Strings
TOTAL............
173
91751
888
251651
22550
1,060
30,032
Hk.rts.l..
20,282
.... 4,790,052
59,899
4,879,276


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SUMMARY
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
To,
Hk. Pts.
Hk.Fts
Hk. Its
Hk. Pts
Hk. Fa
Hk. Ta
43
43
Japan .......
Hongkong for Foreign countries ....
Total to Foreign Countries......
7,602
7,602
7,645
-
...
7,645
12,680
2II
12,891
Hongkong for Chinese Ports ........
Hankow .....
.........
152,852
2,012
154,864
Kiukiang .........
.....
33,783
33,783
Wuhu ........
230
230
..... 4,523,621
Shanghai ....
39,203
4,562,824
Wênchow
.........
4,854
17,393
22,247
Tamsui.. .........
5,478
1,080
6,558
Amoy .........
15,622
15,622
24,653
Swatow.....................................
Canton................................
24,653
28,959
28,959
Total to Chinese Ports ...........
4,802,732
59,899
4,862,631
GRAND TOTAL...................
4,810,377
59,899
4,870,276


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
a.—Quantity and Value of each Description of Goods carried Inland under Transit Passes during
the Year ended 31st December 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
ANTITY.
VALUE.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
QUANTITY.VALUE.
Pieces
84,193
13,028
4,552
Hk. Pts.
165,431
25,266
1,433
.
.
.
.
.
.
79
188
Hk. Tis.
151
978
1,366
2,907
757
2,982
208
65
67,478
7,416
Tons
11,807
675
111,435
16,518
28,205
976
136
1,053
426
60.86
100
222
Pieces
586
"
Untrimmed...
Fish M.
42
44
2.68
762
335
8,044
109
186
8,815
1,697
2,495
305
Dozens
Piculs
144
Pieces
1,732
"187
672
COTTON GOODS:-
Shirtings, Grey.....
White
Dyed, Hongkong
Brocades,
T-Cloths ............. ..........
Drills and Jeans...............
Sheetings .........................
Chintzes .........
Turkey Red Cloths .............
Velvets ...........
Dimities and Taffachellas .........
Muslins ............
Lastings, Cotton ..............
Cottonades or Cottons, Unclassed
Handkerchiefs and Towels ........
Cotton Yarn
WOOLLEN GOODS:-
Camlets, English ...
Dutch .....
Lastings...........................*
Long Ells ........
Spanish Stripes .....
Lustres, Figured and Plain .
Cloth, Medium .....
, Italian....
5 Union
Flannels ................
METALS:-
Brass Wire..........
Copper, Japan ....
» Sheathing.
.. W ire ...................
Old ....................
Iron, Bar....
, Nail-rod.
.................
. Wire ....................
,, Old ...............
Lead, in Pigs ...........
Tin Compound ...............
Tinplates..........
Zinc Sheets ................
Steel ...........
Metals, Manufactured, Unclassed
3,514
1,014
1,399
51,224
122
4,503
169
SUNDRIES :-
Aniseed, Star........
Piculs 12.56
Bags, Gunny........
Pieces
| 18,400
Bicho de Mar, Black ......
Piculs
44.74
, White...
238.08
Canes, Bamboo, Short .....
252.30
Coal....
Coir ..........
Piculs
Cuttle-fish. ..............
17.99
Fans, Palm-leaf, Trimmed .........
72,700
984,000
Fish Maws....
Piculs
, Salt ............
57.95
Indigo, Liquid ..............
1,128.74
Isinglass ...................
94.78
Lichees, Dried .............
293.15
Lung-ngans, Dried.
70.20
Matches, Wood
Gross 13,150
Mushrooms .........
Piculs 36.99
Mussels, Dried ...........
77.66
Oil, Kerosene
Gallons 458,930
Paint, Green.
Piculs
7.60
Pepper, Black...........
312.60
2.02
Prawns and Shrimps, Dried ...
316.44
Raisins, Dried ....
24.22
Rattans, Whole..
2,172.02
Sandalwood.................
379.90
Sapanwood ..................
822.10
Seaweed ..............
6,361.60
Sharks' Fins, Clarified ...
6.78
White.
0.69
Shell-fish, "Dried
358.44
Sticklac....
46
Sugar, Brown ....................
9,178.94
s White .............
20,349.57
, Candy..............
64.50
Tinder ...........
126.15
Tobacco, Prepared.
52.13
, Stalk..............
2,519.35
Ultramarine .................
Window Glass ............
Boxes
574
Sundries, Unenumerated .........
TOTAL .............. Hk.fts
1,876
1,004
775
125
540
White
35
Piculs
4,899
194
13,646
6,871
1,783
12,100
659
42
3,206
483
24,391
88,792
11.94
538.54
17.06
287
12,350
427
3.96
452
874
626
103
2,265.60
17,569.79
50.40
6,529.94
1,976.71
201.07
51.24
46.20
1,812
143.23
1,218
6,797
52,709
211
6,995
7,701
1,448
246
203
4,985
36
3,780
182
1,951
1,108
Value
643
715,620
b.—Native Produce brought from the Interior, for the Year 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of Quantity.
QUANTITY.
VALUE.
Piculs
32
Silk, Raw.....
Refuse ..................
Cocoons ........................................................................
- Cocoon Skins............
Hk.fts.
9,280
2,115
::88
31.40
1.95
4.20
17
TOTAL ...........
Hk.fits.
................................
11,500
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.


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C.— Table showing the most important Destinations of the principal Foreign Goods sent
Inland under Transit Passes during the Year 1886.
DESTINATION.
Shirtings, | Shirtings,
Grey.
White.
T-Cloths.
Drills and shootines
Jeans.
Velvets.
Other
Sorts.
TOTAL
COTTONS.
CHẾKIANG PROVINCE :-
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Shao-hsing ..........
2,450
2,830
410
550
104
Chin-hua...........
890
660
833
447
4,322
14,210
1,750
36,420
2,900
21,833
3,186
5,394
3,146
3,640
32,143
2,410
21,675
980
20,554
8,260
84,740
7,255
54,085
Ch'ü-chou .......
Yen-chou..................
Ch'u-chou .............
KIANGSI PROVINCE:-
Kuang-hsin.
395
470
紹金衢嚴處廣
​98
3,246
2,045
3,440
1,818
F
7,080
1,140
4,680
720
1,120
256
|
15,019
TOTAL...
84,193
|
13,028
67,378
222
7,416 | 11,807
Total sent Inland in 1886.
.........
189,913
190,013
140,047
223,230
»
»
»
„
» 1885...........
„ 1884....
DESTINATION.
Cloth,
Medium.
Camlets,
English.
Lastings. | Lustres.
Spanish
| Stripes.
Other
Sorts.
TOTAL
WOOLLENS.
CHÊKIANG PROVINCE :-
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Shao-hsing ...........
Chin-hua ..........
Ch'ü-chou........
21
Yen-chou ...................
紹金衢嚴處廣
​Ch'u-chou ..................
KIANGSI PROVINCE:-
Kuang-hsin ...........
TOTAL......
.....
31
176
311
2
935
Total sent Inland in 1886..........
935
722
»
»
» 1885 .......
» 1884.........
»
1,111


224
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
c.—Table showing the most important Destinations of the principal Foreign Goods—Contd.
Iron,
DESTINATION.
Lead,
in Pigs.
Kerosene
Oil.
Matches.
Nail-rod.
Pepper,
Black.
Bicho de
Mar.
Rattans.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Gross.
5,750
Piculs.
539
584
20
Piculs.
7,295
86
2,048
2,335
76
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
850
1,077
235
CHÊKIANG PROVINCE :-
Shao-hsing....
Hang-chou ...........
Chin-hua ......
Ch'ü-chou.....
Yen-chou .................
Ch'u-chou. ...............
ANAWEI PROVINCE:-
Hui-chou........
KIANGSI PROVINCE:-
Kuang-hsin ................
Gallons.
280,100
5,000
51,300
34,850
2,600
8,000.
400
324
紹杭金衢嚴處徽廣
​183
50
1,365
3,624
5,700
36,430
1,626
300
19,650
TOTAL..........
Total sent Inland in 1886...
» » » 1885...
„ „ „ 1884...
1,977
1,977
3,599
5,575
17,521
17,570
15,061
14,306
13,050
13,150
8,750
6,975
428,930
458,930
351,310
289,030
313
313
424
452
2,168
2,172
2,101
2,393
243
DESTINATION.
Seaweed.
Sugar,
White.
Sugar,
Brown.
Sandalwood.
Sapanwood.
Window
Glass.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
215
Piculs.
· 104
381
54
13
Square Feet.
11,300
2,000
23,000
5,400
2,560
238
1,105
2,523
21
7,564
3,317
153
699
1,325
40
uu..........
紹杭金衢嚴處徽廣
​與州華州州州州信
​358
1,600
CHÊKIANG PROVINCE :-
Shao-hsing
Hang-chou ........
Chin-hua.
Ch'ü-chou..
Yen-chou.................
Ch'u-chou.
ANAWEI PROVINCE:-
Hui-chou..........
Klangsi PROVINCE:-
Kuang-hsin...
TOTAL....
Total sent Inland in 1886......
» 1885.....
„ „ „ 1884.....
983
8,260
5,090
7,900
.................
1,026
336
56
4,500
822
822
6,362
6,362
6,104
5,064
20,350
20,350
8,813
11,044
9,179
9,179
7,548
5,821
380
499
504
55,700
57,400
38,600
21,300
401
441
Number of Transit Passes issued during the year 1886... 15,301 Value of the Total Trade Inwards for the year 1886... Hk.Its 715,620
5 1885... 11,959
» » »
1885... 555,770
„ „ „ „ 1884... 12,260 „ „ „
„ 1884... » 699,245


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TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a.—Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
COAST TRADE.
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
1,861.6.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c. Hk.Ttsm.c.c.
5,927.8.1.7 168,302.6.6.9
0.4.3.0 346.1.2.2
208.5.5.0 3,010.6.0.8
62.1.3.2
5,489.2.5.8 | 252,109. 1.1.0
247,166.0.2.5
British .........
American ..........
German ...
Spanish ............
Chinese
On Opium ..
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
10,847.4.5.4
585.8.0.3
1,060.9.2.9
1.7.3.5
25,710.5.5.7
Hk.Ftem.c.c.
127.8.4.9
2,568.2.8.0
747.2.6.1
Hk. Itsm.c.c.
187,067.3.8.9
3,500.6.3.5
5,027.3.4.8
63.8.6.7
296,063.3.5.9
247,166.0.2.5
1,537.5.0.0
11,216.9.3.4
TOTAL.....
258,792.0.8.0
423,830.6.4.1
38,206.4.7.8
3,399.1.0.0
14,660.3.2.4
| 738,888.6.2.3*
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total.
Hk. Ats
Nil.
6.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
EXPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
OPIUM
| COAST TRADE
(exclusive of
|(Import, Export,
and
Opium).
Coast Trade).
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
1877..
1878.........
1879..........
1880....
1881............
1882.
1883............
1884.............
1885..........
1886.
Hk. Pts.m.c.c. Hk.ftsm.c.c.
11,849.6.0.0 418,244.3.5.2
11,993.8.9.9 314,456.7.1.4
9,470.3.5.3 370,773.9.7.0
6,172.3.6.4 438,957.4.2.6
9,600.9.8.1 450,886.7.3.2
9,593.5.0.5 397,212.2.8.6
9,145.3.3.8 352,491.0.1.4
9,564.5.1.8 438,046.8.4.1
11,090.2.2.1 .458,501.6.2.7
11,626.0.5.5 | 423,830.6.4.1
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
29,083.4.2.6
29,945.3.7.5
25,798.0.1.6
23,529.0.2.4
27,177.3.4.6
28,453.6.5.7
25,603.0.2.1
19,583.4.4.8
27,721.8.5.3
38,206.4.7.8
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
240,549.9.3.6
218,540.8.7.5
230,256.8.1.2
188,982.4.5.0
258,476.6.2.5
260,396.3.5.0
239,381.1.0.0
226,350.4.5.0
236,014.4.2.5
247,166.0.2.5
Hk.Tts.m.c.c.
2,877.7.0.0
2,822.7.3.0
3,561.5.2.3
3,265.1.5.2
3,424.3.4.6
4,055.5.4.9
4,003.9.4.7
3,023.7.0.0
3,134.7.0.0
3,399. 1.0.
Hk.Pem.c.c.
20,695.4.0.8
19,754.8.8.1
17,355.1.3.8
16,493.0.2.6
15,074.7.1.8
14,029.8.7.2
14,589.9.8.3
13,899.9.2.1
10,976.5.3.1
14,660.3.2.4
Hk. Itsm.c.c.
723,300.4.2.2
597,514.4.7.4
657,215.8.1.2
677,399.4.4.2
764,640.7.4.8
691,741.2.1.9
645,214.4.0.3
710,468.8.7.8
747,439-3.5.7
738,888.6.2.3
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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-TREASURE.
Treasure Imported and Exported during the Year 1886.
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
Treasure...................................................... Hk. Tts
910,381 1
Treasure ..............
..... Hk.Fts 1,066, 167
.....
3,970
Copper Cash ...............................................
2
40 | Copper Cash ......................
TABLE No. 2.-OPIUM.
Import and Re-export of Opium, for the Years 1883 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION..
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Piculs.
6,926
Piculs.
7,102
Piculs.
6,873
Piculs.
6,653
485
1,267
419
232
Malwa ..
Patna
.........
Benares .........
Persian ......
308
749
350
590
2
918
20
GROSS IMPORT ..
RE-EXPORT
8,444
7,926
384
8,100
234
8,425
181
481
NET IMPORT..
7,963
7,542
7,866
8,244
TABLE No. 3.-TEA.
Export of Tea, for the Years 1883 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Piculs.
21,540
18,282
Piculs.
26,119
20,422
Piculs.
20,705
11,422
Piculs.
25,956
19,357
I 2
35
121
14
Green, Young Hyson.....
„ Hyson ...........
» » Skin....
» Twankay .....
» Imperial...
„ Gunpowder...
TOTAL GREEN.
Black, Congou ..........
Leaf .............
7,359
79,225
8,098
100,532
7,495
126,973
9,613
93,274
126,441
166,604
148,214
306
155,304
155
1,133
312
1,858
911


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TABLE No. 4.-IMPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the principal Articles of Import, for the Years 1879 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Piculs
8,388
6,759
9,146
8,423
7,926
8,100
8,425
Opium, Foreign ....
„ Native .........
8,444
22
65
10
I
COTTON GOODS.........
Pieces
636,921
536,729
645,587
655,879
650,237
590,688
742,569
641,759
10,602
WOOLLEN GOODS.........
Pieces
17,728
15,503
16,616
16,462
14,445
11,671
13,646
METALS:-
29,086
33,808
Iron, Nail-rod and Bar............ Piculs
Lead, in Pigs .....
*** ******** "
Tin, in Slabs ..........
37,331
9,107
13,839
29,486
9,520
15,052
48,493
9,649
21,089
34,727
10,517
19,401
34,884
9,679
19,071
12,200
18,870
9,077
20,060
38,787
7,462
18,474
»'
SUNDRIES :-
40,142
1,019
1,536
960
1,645
1,759
3,258
223
Beancake ........... ....... Piculs
Bicho de Mar...........
China-root............
Fungus ............
Ginseng............
Gypsum..............
Hemp..
Lung-ngans, Dried...
Mangrove Bark ....
Matches......
Medicines.........
Piculs
Oil, Kerosene.........
Galls.
• „ Wood.
.........
Piculs
Pepper, Black and White.
Rattans..............
Sapanwood ..............
Seaweed, Japan........
Sugar, White and Brown...
„ Candy..........
Tallow, Vegetable ...
Tobacco, Leaf.
„ Prepared...
Varnish ......
Wax, White.
Wood, Ebony..
2,376
218
17,570
5,811
16,489
4,571
119,402
24,865
871,820
19,212
782
Gross
40,567
1,180
1,858
1,759
473
14,967
7,229
12,859
55,045
105,097
30,702
774,128
13,915
1,495
9,197
6,534
6,261
40,283
7,323
2,302
8,271
3,544
1,305
42,102
1,367
2,223
2,488
228
11,830
6,350
12,062
19,653
121,370
30,828
756,191
17,793
1,097
13,111
8,557
7,872
15,596
7,153
1,743
7,307
3,907
........
1,540
1,832
2,348
398
12,420
8,470
11,092
22,448
156,075
26,371
817,000
14,880
14,464
1,305
2,519
2,107
320
13,550
- 6,610
13,972
53,786
173,085
28,868
1,005,470
17,278
775
7,477
8,098
7,888
31 872
7,535
6,934
5,250
4,820
992
1,235
1,466
2,623
269
15,300
7,517
5,384
18,846
154,912
19,950
1,144,700
14,698
830
5,604
4,782
5,720
28,645
7,624
1,907
4,973
6,146
18,450
8,928
12,245
32,314
164,716
32,176
1,135,510
12,927
739
7,689
5,294
7,400
67,967
6,038
1,128
1,645
2,115
3,899
210
19,416
11,322
9,604
56,868
173,591
33,017
1,565,100
18,696
656
9,001
6,905
7,394
103,060
9,320
8,484
5,858
6,708
1,231
942
9,157
7,156
3,350
6,348
88
16,310
7,608
2,951
4,549
3,867
1,044
6,192
6,761
29,103
8,869
3,972
6,544
5,151
1,089
1,341
10,780
2,483
5,937
844
962
1,181
187
662
857
1,026
948
1,073
5,180
565
4,536
18,674
18,195
15,898
3,054
3,601


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 5.-EXPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the principal Articles of Export, for the Years 1879 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
50,922
Piculs
Strings
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
466
575
58,713 49,247
24,803 280,394
935
9,575
30,805 55,876
1,240,246 696,132
416 473
784
2,636,020 6,864,533
1,431,052 1,151,156
36,812
47,707
364
Alum, White ...
Copper Cash.
Cotton, Raw ..........
Cuttle-fish ............
Fans, Paper.......
Fish Glue ..........
» Maws.....
Hats, Straw...........
Mats, ..........
Medicines
Mussels, Dried.......
Samshu
Silk, Raw............
„ Piece Goods ..........
Tea, Green
» Black.
,, Leaf...
- 43,136
3,860 6,640
6,434 5,259
36,397 52,410
455,468 2,925,869
446 958
849 755
8,943,600 11,480,885
1,187,315 1,047,586
40,624 41,502
753
8,586
584
»
Pieces
47,534 47,932 54,572 62,696
40,969 31,435 1,100
12,407 31,111 9,357 3,909
33,973 25,238 46,082 13,458
644,766 980,860 1,321,521 | 1,199,611
367 492 458
502 432
4,053,862 6,653,980 7,661,324 12,221,400
1,023,147 742,061 1,137,110 1,006,222
36,827 34,519 40,319
34,449
584 424
525
13,384 9,145
13,161
15,730
344 392
96 79
98
127,821
147,651 160,796 140,171
3,031
4,017
60
1,164
1,062
»
Piculs
491
531
576
426
4,745
8,463
8,371
217
46
32
87
215
303
106
126,441
. 306
237
166,604
148,214
684
155,304
· 155
1,133
634
3,101
312
1,858
911
TABLE No. 6.-VALUE OF TRADE.
Comparative Table of the Value of the Trade, for the Years 1875 to 1886.
IMPORT TRADE.
EXPORT TRADE.
TRANSIT TRADE.
YEARS.
Imports
(Net).
Re-exports.
Treasure
imported.
Exports | Re-exports
(Net). (Native).
Treasure
exported.
Inwards.
Outwards.
1875..
1876..
1877......
1878.....
1879..
1880..
1881...
1882.
1883.
1884..
1885.
1886...
Hk.Fts.
7,862,383
7,368,524
7,842,445
8,379,584
8,066,397
7,252,401
8,731,797
7,906,856
7,356,622
6,649,117
7,374,069
8,437,930
Hk.fts.
160,016
325,946
341,895
383,574
452,481
357,566
324,044
252,135
220,747
210,002
140,688
145,931
Hk. Pts.
1,045,880
1,389,158
1,421,712
1,267,563
1,372,256
1,301,232
1,397,708
1,700,308
1,116,360
938,525
391,038
910,381
Hk. Pts.
4,983,932
5,035,897
4,609,208
4,271,018
4,869,972
5,131,929
4,537,223
3,763,870
3,560,428
4,773,272
5,107,028
4,810,377
Hl. Pts.
20,822
23,234
36,324 |
40,098
59,635
69,876
39,611
45,417
26,164
48,527
42,961 |
59,899
Hk.Tts
2,348,715
3,784,012
3,171,076
904,407
2,983,034
2,448,114
2,545,101
2,345,565
2,651,421
1,459,247
455,182
1,066,167
Hk.Fis
947,256
796,331
945,597
932,220
782,616
857,369
763,811
743,601
745,411
699,245
555,770
715,620
Hk. Tts.
179,989
606,506
139,936
134,688
113,908
131,214
85,248
19,155
721
7,085
11,500


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TABLE No. 7.-TONNAGE OUTWARDS.
Comparative Table of Tonnage Outwards, for the Years 1879 to 1886.
FLAG.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
American .....
Tons.
2,271
84,828
2,100
3,309
2,978
61,373
291
British.........
86,175
105,448
1,597
110,218
226,431
98,519
118,649
148,762
103,740
215,544
262
98,189
115,309
Chinese ......
129,444
240,173
209,487
195,076
769
224,795
Danish.......
1,193
964
French.
226
300
German .........
13,294
3,099
3,551
3,151
1,151
2,011
6,598
1,872
632
Siamese ............
962
239
630
331
1,041
1,361
Spanish
1,426
- 2,283
2,149
1,200
884
175
Total
L...
298,640
303,016 | 328,058
339,858
342,476
| 369,634
278,097
376,681
TABLE No. 8.–PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Passenger Traffic, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
PASSENGERS TO
PASSENGERS FROM
SAILING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
SAILING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
76,217
Coast Ports...
74,484
Hongkong ........
Japan ......................


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
WÊNCHOW TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
The year 1886 forms the close of the first decade since this port was opened to Foreign
trade, and it is satisfactory to have to write that the net value of the trade is the largest on
record, exceeding that of the previous year—the then largest record—by nearly ninety thousand
taels. That a proportionate increase is not also seen in the Revenue is accounted for by the
fact that about 98 per cent. of this increase is in Imports, of which the Foreign, and by far the
larger, portion has already paid duty in Shanghai. Trade has been uniformly brisk throughout
the year, but more especially during the first six months.
SHIPPING.—There has been uninterrupted communication, about every 10 days, with
Shanghai throughout the year. In February the German steamer Iduna, of 297 tons register,
chartered by a former comprador of the China Merchants? Steam Navigation Company's
s.s. Yungning, arrived here unexpectedly from Hongkong, to load for Shanghai við Ningpo, and
offering rates of freight 10 per cent. less than the Yungning. The rates of the Yungning
were immediately reduced 20 per cent., and this was followed by her rival doing the same,
and competition became so keen that the rates were even reduced 50 per cent. The Iduna
made but three trips, after which the former freight and passenger rates were reverted to by
the Yungning. It is to be much regretted that so spirited an attempt to break through the
monopoly now existing in the carrying trade of this port terminated abruptly and left no
permanent beneficial result.
Altogether, 89 vessels, 43,493 tons, entered and cleared, showing an increase of 26 vessels
and 20,002 tons over the return of 1885. This increase is due to the regular running of the
Shanghai steamer throughout the year, which in the previous year was interrupted; and tonnage
owes its increase also to the fact of the Yungning, 325 tons, being withdrawn in October
from this line and replaced by the larger steamer, Kiangpiau, 942 tons, which has continued
running to the end of the year. Besides steamers, there were visits from three sailing vessels
in the early part of the year, two from Hongkong with general cargo, and one from Penang
with Mangrove Bark. They all cleared in ballast for Native ports. The two sailing vessels
from Hongkong belong to the same Singapore Chinaman who owned the British barque Tekli,
390 tons, which had the misfortune in leaving this port on the 2nd January with a general
cargo, principally Alum, bound for Hongkong, to ground on a sandbank while proceeding to
the Lower Anchorage and become a total wreck. No lives were lost, and part of the cargo
was saved, though damaged; but the Alum was completely lost.
This was the only accident in the port, but two other casualties have to be recorded
as occurring within the district. On the 18th March the Indo-China Company's s.s. Seewo, on
a voyage from Shanghai to Amoy, struck, during a dense fog, on the Shang Rock, about 21
miles north of the T'aichow Islands. She became a total loss, and seven persons were drowned.
On the 15th August the British s.s. Madras, with a full cargo of Coal from Japan to Hongkong,
became a total wreck during a typhoon, on a rock on the west side of the T'aichow Islands,
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FOREIGN IMPORTS.-It has been already mentioned that the increase of trade during the
year is chiefly due to Foreign Imports, which show an advance of Hk.its. 71,895 over the net
total of 1885. This fact is the more encouraging, seeing that it does not seem to have been
due to any great market fluctuations or any other such reason, as the returns of each quarter
throughout the year show a good steady increase in the consumption of the more important
articles of Foreign commerce.
Opium.—The importation of Opium still continues very small. 24 piculs of Patna and
1 picul of Malwa were imported during the year, against 16.18 piculs of Patna, 3.60 piculs of
Benares, and i picul of Malwa the year before. Opium is only imported case by case as
required by the dealers, and when smoked is mixed with the Native drug, to make it cheaper.
From Ningpo small quantities are continually being brought overland to suit the requirements
of the poorer classes and petty dealers. Patna sells here at $6.16 a catty.
Cotton Goods.—In all, 104,071 pieces of Cotton Goods were imported during the year,
being 17,405 pieces over last year's importation. The greatest increases are noticeable in Grey
and White Shirtings, T-Cloths, English Drills, and Turkey Reds, and these goods are year by
year finding greater favour amongst the people in the neighbouring districts. Retail prices in
the majority of the Cotton Goods were about 20 cents per piece cheaper than in 1885.
Woollen Goods. The import of Woollen Goods shows an increase of nearly 2,000 pieces
over 1885, chiefly seen in English Camlets, Figured Lustres, and Spanish Stripes. English
Camlets have risen from 2,070 pieces to 2,980 pieces; Figured Lustres, from 1,130 pieces to 1,440
pieces; and Spanish Stripes, from 842 pieces to 1,044 pieces; and a new article in the shape of
Bombazettes appears. The price of Foreign Woollens is beyond the reach of the greater part of
the people about here, who wear wadded cotton clothing during the winter months.
Metals.-Some most striking advances are to be seen under this heading, and every item
of importance shows a large increase. Old Iron, from 705.40 piculs in 1885, appears now with
3,535.56 piculs. This consists largely of old telegraph wire, which is manufactured into coarse
nails; while the other kinds are made into picks, hoes, hatchets, trowels, sickles, and other
agricultural implements. Should Sheffield and Birmingham eventually send out to China, as has
been suggested, agricultural and other implements such as are in common use in Wenchow, at
a less cost than, and of an equally good quality as, the Native production, there is no doubt
but that they would find a ready market. Iron Wire, which also shows a large advance, is
used principally in making nails of a superior quality, and the finer kind is made into needles.
Nail-rod and Hoop Iron have also been greatly in demand. Japan Copper, used chiefly by
the fishermen in their tackle, advances from 438.72 piculs to 797.33 piculs ; Lead in Pigs, from
226.23 piculs to 390.13 piculs; Steel, from 80.52 piculs to 137.09 piculs; and Tinplates, from
10.92 piculs to 24.36 piculs.
Sundries. The most prominent differences under this heading in comparison with
1885 are the increases of Kerosene Oil, Matches, Untrimmed Palm-leaf Fans, White Sugar,
and Mangrove Bark. There is no decrease worthy of notice amongst any of the items. 67,420
gallons of Kerosene Oil were imported in 1885, and 161,150 gallons in the year under review,--an
increase of nearly 100,000 gallons. It is being used by almost everyone in the city, and larger
quantities are being sent inland each year. Matches and Untrimmed Palm-leaf Fans have
nearly doubled their 1885 importations; the former are chiefly of German origin. The greater
part of the 9,973 piculs of Mangrove Bark was brought here by sailing vessel direct from Hong-
and Penang. The importation of 1886 is about four times that of the year before. It is
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Seaweed, which is greatly appreciated in the Lung-ch'üan district as an edible delicacy, has
increased by nearly 1,000 piculs.
NATIVE IMPORTS.—The increase in the value of Native Imports is Hk.Pts. 15,652, or
only about 18 per cent. of the total increase in the value of the Import trade for the year.
Black Dates have continued to increase, --- from 505.92 piculs in 1885 to 2,000.20 piculs; and
Red Dates, from 561.95 piculs to 2,087.54 piculs. Paper Fans have 87,665 pieces, against
18,832 pieces in 1885; and Sheep Skins have also been largely imported. Nankeens, as was
pointed out last year, have been gradually declining, and for 1886 they continue to show a
falling off—from 112.11 piculs to 53.06 piculs,—and will doubtless eventually disappear.
EXPORTS.—The total value of the Export trade for the year was Hk.its. 103,005, an
increase of only Hk.Tts. 1,515 over the year before. There would have been a much greater
increase but for a large falling off in the export of Unfired Tea. Black Tea, with a total export
of 1,650.69 piculs, shows an increase of 307.62 piculs over the 1885 exportation; but only
968.22 piculs of Unfired Tea were exported, against 1,576.81 piculs in the preceding year.
The Tea season here commences about three weeks before the Hankow market opens, and all
the Pekoe, 88.19 piculs, and Congou, 1,562.50 piculs, exported from here was sent to Hankow,
in time for the market there. Pekoe, which was bought here for $40 a picul, sold in Hankow
for its. 62, but Congou only fetched its. 20, costing $20 a picul here. The growers, however,
made good returns, as the Wênchow prices were high; but the small gain in the price of
Congou was not sufficient to repay the merchant here for his expenses incurred in placing
it on the Hankow market. Most of the Unfired Tea is of a common sort, and is largely
exported to Ningpo and Shanghai by junk; 3,780 piculs of it were passed through the Native
Customs this year, and about 6,500 piculs left P'ing-yang.
It has been a good year for Oranges, and there was a plentiful crop, the result being
a fall of half a dollar in the price per tub of 110 catties. The export is 10,895.70 piculs, as
compared with 8,336.74 piculs in 1885. The greater part goes north to Tientsin and Mongolia,
where the Oranges are used as medicine, and consequently during the months while the
Northern ports are closed the export is greatly diminished, to be revived again in spring,
while the Orange season lasts.
Alum again disappears from our statistics. It is sent to Hongkong by junk, or sailing
vessel when the latter opportunity offers; and as no sailing vessel left here last year for Hong-
kong, it was all sent direct by junk from the district where it is found, near Ping-yang.
Cow Hides show a slight falling off. They have been scarce and dear, but those sent
to Shanghai fetched higher prices than prevailed at Wênchow.
Kittysols and Kittysol Frames have both increased, but the latter in far greater
proportion, as while the bamboo of which the Frames are made is exceedingly plentiful and
cheap, the paper and oil required to finish the article is imported and expensive, so that it is
more profitable to send the Frames to be finished elsewhere.
Tobacco Leaf, which finds a ready market in Formosa, and which is largely exported
thither in junks, has slightly fallen off in steamer exportation to Shanghai.
Owing to the dearth of Rice in Canton, a shipment of between 3,000 and 4,000 piculs
was sent thither by the s.s. Kwanglee in June, and later on, in December, it was contemplated
sending another such shipment, but the people, fearing a scarcity here, created a disturbance
and prevented its leaving, and the authorities peremptorily forbade the export.


234
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
WÊNCHOW TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo. | In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo. | In Ballast.
TOTAL.
Tons. No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons. No.
Tons.
No.
Tons. | No.
Tons.
297
German ...
Chinese.......
3
1
1,782
594
14,9384
891 3
19,47834
891 ...
18,171 2
891
19,803 |
6
71
31
4,540
1,632
36
39,281
Total Steamers........
33
15,532
51 4,837
51
38
20,369
20,369
37
19,062
21 1,632
39
20,694
77
41,063
SAILING VESSELS.
306
306
306
180
180
180
British ...........
American .......
German........
Chinese...........
012
300
244
244
488
485
485
970
ww:
Total Sailing Vessels
1,215) ...
1,215
485
3
730
.6
1,215
|
12
2,430
GRAND TOTAL.....
- 39157475483 21584 * 19:54
39 |
16,747 |
5 |
4,837
44
21,584
40
19,547
5
| 2362 95 1,99
2,362
45
21,909
89
43,493
13493


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ND
THE
TABLE No. 11.—GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF WÊNCHOW,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885,
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.fts
Hk.fts.
Hk. Fs
Hk.Fts
Hk.Ita
Hk. Its
10,553
24,912
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong.......
Imported from Chinese Ports ..
Total Foreign Imports...
292,738
287,064
343,837
292,738
297,617
368,749
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong ...
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Shang-1
hai and Ningpo)..........
Total Foreign Re-exports ..........
394
1,274
511
.........***
394
1,274
Net Total Foreign Imports ...
..........
292,344
296,343
368,238
80,013
90,762
106,092
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Shanghai and Ningpo).
Re-exported to Foreign Countries..........
Re-exported to Chinese Ports.......
Total Native Re-exports ..............
895
698
403
895
725
403
Net Total Native Imports........
79,118
90,037
105,689
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries........
2,791
836
62,929
98,699
102,169
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports.........
Total Exports of local origin...
62,929
101,490
103,005
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port...
435,680
489,869
577,846
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native
Exports of local origin......
434,391
487,870
576,932


236
RETURNS, 1886.
TRADE TRADE AND
REPORTS REPORTS AND TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOOD.-Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
OPIUM:
Hk. Pts.
Hk.Tts
Hk.fts.
Hk.fia
Piculs
Patna.......
Malwa.....
Hk.Fts.
10,093
480
10,093
480
35,125
8,817
59,364
22,358
35,075
8,817
59,265
22,358
450
1,135
450
1,135
COTTON GOODS:
Shirtings, Grey.......
Pieces
White, Plain......
Dyed, Figured,
Spotted, and
Brocaded..... )
T-Cloths.....
Drills, English....
American ............
Chintzes and Prints....
Cloth, Italian.........
, Japanese......
Lastings, Cotton..
Sheetings, English .......
Turkey Red Cloths and
Cambrics ..................
Velvets ..
Handkerchiefs .............
ns
48,120
3,905
465
730
48,120
3,905
76,036
7,629
1,158
1,177
544
465
76,036
7,629
1,158
1,177
544
170
35
730
170
115
626
140
35
2,072
2,072
351
351
115
626
140
5,248
210
1,410
5,248
6,522
1,067
595
210
1,410
6,522
1,067
959
Pieces
40
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Bombazettes........
Camlets, English
Cloth, Broad, Medium, and
Habit.....................
Lastings..................
Long Ells.............
Lustres, Figured...
Spanish Stripes .......
» » Inferior...
2,990
240
620
800
1,440
1,044
I21
27,006
5,243
4,301
3,828
4,614
9,734
121
26,919
5,243
4,301
240
620
800
1,440
1,044
90
3,828
4,614
9,734
90
889
889
METALS:
Copper, Japan.
Sheets ..........
797 33
2145
9,682
351
9,682
351
Wire.
197
40
197
Iron, Nail-rod.
Hoop
7,264
310
4,769
15
40
7,235
310
4,769
15
797 33
2145
4,12608
99.90
3,535 56
6.60
167 251
39013
508
508
4,142 88
9990
3,535 56
660
16725
39013
60
13709
170
24 36
185
1,702
Old
.. Plates.............
Wire .............
Lead, in Pigs ...
Spelter.
Steel ..........
Tin, in Slabs...
Tinplates ..............
White Metal............
1,702
340
60
13709
340
634
634
23
23
261
170
24 36
185
261
56
56
Piculs
734
22345
SUNDRIES:
Agar-agar .........
Aniseed, Star .................
Awabi ..........
Bicho de Mar, Black.....
367
734
367
1,549
1,596
6471
980
980
White........
22345
2672
6658
38 39
164,41
2,500
1,900
8777
366 841
Braid, Llama ...................G
Buttons, Brass, Foreign......
Chinaware, Fine and Coarse Piculs
Clams, Dried ...........
2,375
934
1,016
510
2,803
16441
2,500
1,900
8777
361 31
2,375
934
1,016
510
2,748


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TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.
IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
To CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. / Value.
Hk. Pts.
Hk.Ats
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts
Hk. Tts
2,302
2,812
43,600
239,000
286811
43,600
239,000
286 81
1,554
3,071
811
Piculs
2,302
2,812
1,554
3,071
811
278
: : : :
278
::::::::::f:
448
Mnogo
448
22 651
73741
53.44
5,24396
23,950
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Dye-stuff, Foreign .............
Value
Fans, Palm-leaf, Trimmed... Pieces
, Untrimmed,
Fish, Dried and Salt .........
Ginseng, American, Clarified
, Japan, 2nd Quality
» Unclassed...
Glassware.........................
Isinglass ..............
Lead, White and Yellow...
Mangrove Bark ............
Matches...
Gross
Mats ..............
Pieces
Piculs
Mussels, Dried ............
Oil, Kerosene...................... Gälls.
Pepper, Black and White ... Pie
Prawns, Dried ................
Rattans....
Sandalwood....
Sapanwood ......
Seaweed .......
Sugar, Brown.
White ..........
Umbrellas ................
Dozens
Vermilion .................... .. Piculs
Window Glass ............. Sq. ft.
Sundries, Unenumerated .... Value
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
5,061
362
1,305
421
10,905
5,697
5344
9,97396
23,950
5,200
8582
:::::::::::::
5,200
374
Medicines ................
81 82
5528
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
5528
161,150
:::::::::::::::::::::::::
362
1,305
421
5,844
5,697
374
376
446
16,991
872
1,297
7,479
279
1,377
10,781
3,887
5,423
562
776
1,252
2,972
393
446
16,991
872
1,275
7,429
161,150
49.42
8911
1,19476
103
69189
4,08799
22
.::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::
279
1,097651
905 141
: : : : : : : : :
1,18696
103
691 89
4,08799
1,09765
90514
117
16:43
38,900
::::::::
1,377
10,781
3,887
5,423
562
776
1,252
2,850
1171
1643
38,900
122
TOTAL................ Hk.fts....
5,078
************
363,671
511
368,238
SUMMARY.
...............
IMPORTS from Hongkong ...................................... Hk. Pts.
» Singapore and Straits ..........
„ Japan .......
Total from Foreign Countries......... -
Imports from Chinese Ports ........................
Total FOREIGN IMPORTS...........
19,834
5,061
17
Hk. Hts.
...... ,
24,912
343,837
-Hk.Tits.
368,749
RE-EXPORTS to Shanghai ........................................ Hk. Pts
„ „ Ningpo............................................. ,
Total to Chinese Ports.............
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS .......
476
35
-Hk. Pts.
511
—Hk. fits
511
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS....
..Hk.Its
368,238


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports.
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
| Value.
Quantity. / Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hk.Fls
Hk.Tk
Hk.Tito
23651
12 26
2339
10518
Hk.fts
353
432
521
1,229
1,952
7,975
5,106
2,009
3,174
1,248
20,875
1,117
883
1,031
2365
12 26
23.39
10518
610
2,000 201
2,08054
236 96
87,665
2,000 201
2,08754
Hk.Ft
353
432
521
1,229
1,952
7,975
5,092
1,902
3,11
1,248
20,875
1,117
71
250351
90,815
1339
3,150
63
88 43
:::::::::::
1,046 57
7774
13805
2687
1,046 57
7774
1,600
1,600
883
593
Alum, Green.
Piculs
Brass and Copper Ware.........
Buttons, Brass ..........
China-root................
Cinnamon
Dates, Black
Red .................
Dye-stuff....................
Fans, Paper........
Pieces
Fish, Dried and Salt .......... Piculs
Fungus ............
Glassware..........
Gypsum....................
Hemp..........................
Indigo, Dried...
Lead, White and Yellow....
Lily Flowers, Dried
Lotus-nuts........
Lung-ngans, Dried ..........
Medicines ....
Melon Seeds .....
Nankeens ...........
Peel, Orange ...........
Rhubarb ........
Safflower ..
Sesamum Seed............
Shoes ..............
Pairs
Silk and Cotton Mixtures...... Piculs
Silver Dross .....
Skins, Sheep.
Sugar, Brown and White....... Piculs
Tobacco, Prepared ............
Varnish .....
Vermicelli ..........
Wax, White
Sundries, Unenumerated.......
Value
TOTAL ............ Hk.Ita
27278
::::::::::
5651551
2170
11479
1,646 90
2,250
2,716
307
795
10,506
1,468
2,067
481
566
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
1,031
593
2,250
2,716
307
795
10,445
2,067
481
566
781
331 90
2687
27278
565551
2170
11479
1,639/09
33190
5306
5823
13.55
1603
155.90
5861
1,468
5823
1355
962
:::::::::
962
::::::::::::
16.03
15590
586
13670
6,299
50433
55429
19662
10595
118 59
...
::::::::::::::::::
468
316
1,903
475
1,960
2,943
8,499
8,646
584
5,774
3,908
468
316
1::::::::::::::::::::
Pieces
136 70
6,299
504'33
554 29
19297
105 95
118.591
1,903
475
1,960
2,943
8,499
8,500
584
365
::
5,774
3,896
106,092
:
403
105,689
SUMMARY.
IMPORTS from Shanghai .
.......... Hk. Pts.
» Ningpo ....
..................... »
» » Canton.
..... »
Total from Chinese Ports .............. -
TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS.......
RE-EXPORTS to Shanghai ........
.............Hk.fits
„ Ningpo......
Total to Chinese Ports...................
TOTAL NATIVE RE-EXPORTS............
82,241
23,757
94
=Hk.fts
106,092
Hk.fts
106,092
270
133
- Hk. The
99
403
Hk. Als
403
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS .......
Hk.fts
105,689


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TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hl.fts
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.fts
Piculs
1,65069
Hk. Its
24,081
8,324
TEA, Black..
» Unfired..
Dust............
24,081
96822
1,65069
968 22
0 30
8,324
0 30
SUNDRIES:
Bamboo Shoots.................. Piculs
Charcoal..
2,591
1,078
Coir .......
2,591
1,078
3,926
209
2,070 82
2,731 20
1,278 27
10408
7,397 90
5841
10,89570
724 15
3,926
780
357 26
2,038
13,409
6,614
1,392
284
2,464
2,07082
2,731 20
1,278 271
10408
7,397 90
5841
10,895.70
72415
357 26
213,46
122,870
80,410
6,316 32
210 56
67370
3,62375
209
780
2,038
13,409
6,614
1,392
286
2,464
5,232
9,577
3,013
5,232
9,183
culs
Feathers .........................
Firewood....
Fish Maws...
Fruit, Fresh (Oranges)..
Hides, Cow .........
Indigo, Liquid ...........
Iron, Únmanufactured..
Kittysol Frames...
Pieces
Kittysols ........
Medicines..............
Prawns, Dried .........
Resin, Gum ............
Rice.............
Sea Blubber.
Sharks' Fins, White & Black
Soapstone Ornaments ........
Tallow, Vegetable ........
Timber, Poles, Soft-wood .... Pieces
Tobacco, Leaf ..........
Piculs
Sundries, Unenumerated.....
TOTAL.............. Hk. Pts.
781
212
122,870
80,410
..6,210 51
210 56
67370
3,62375
265 40
3,013
683
683
3,877
265
265 40
253
739
- 6265
164 06
38 70
13,962
1,145 50
1,308
232
3,441
6,172
1,319
22671
3870
13,962
1,145 50
3,877
265
253
1,809
232
3,441
6,172
1,661
342
836
· 102,169
403
103,408
SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
Hk.Tts.
Hk.fts
Hk.fts.
Hk.fts.
Hk. Ata
836
Hk.fts.
836
836
-
836
To-
Hongkong for Foreign countries.....
Total to Foreign countries......—-
Newchwang ......
Shanghai ......
Ningpo.......................................
Canton......
Total to Chinese Ports .......... -
413
270
92,272
5,613
3,871
413
92,542
5,746
3,871
133
102,169
403
102,572
GRAND TOTAL .....
.....
103,005
403
103,408


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
a.—Quantity and Value of each Description of Foreign Goods carried Inland under Transit Passes
during the Year ended 31st December 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Classifier
of QUANTITY.
Quantity.
VALUE.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Classifier
I of QUANTITY.' VALUE.
Quantity.
Hk.fts
Pieces
1,553
Hk. Its
2,467
13,086
Piculs
117
COTTON Goods:
Shirtings, Grey...
T-Cloths.
Drills, English...........
, American ............
Lastings, Cotton...............
Turkey Red Cloths .......
33.10
5.35
2.43
108
NN008 ©
2.85
13
3,108
SUNDRIES :-
Agar-agar ....
Bicho de Mar, Black and White
Clams, Dried ...
Isinglass ........
Mangrove Bark ...........
Oil, Kerosene..
Pepper, Black...
Rattans .......
Sapanwood................
Seaweed ........
Sugar, Brown
White.
Window Glass ..........
Piculs
232
Pieces
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Camlets, English......
Lastings .............
Lustres, Figured.
Spanish Stripes ...........
368
10.80
22,360
0.90
39.73
184
1,108.34
289.84
233.01
200
A COVA
2,919
917
1,295
so:
Feet
Piculs
TOTAL..........
Hk. Pts.
27,220
METALS:-
Iron, Nail-rod ...........
Old .....
Wire ..
Lead, in Pigs ...
Steel ...................
614.46
264.35
57.60
54.89
42
1,090
415
147
249
198
Transit PASSES ISSUED............
No.
1,415
b.-Native Produce brought from the Interior, for the Year 1886.
Nil.
C.—Table showing the Destinations of Foreign Goods sent Inland under Transit Passes during
the Year ended 31st December 1886.
Shirt-
ings,
Wool- | Iron,
Cottons, len
led. Goods. rod.
DESTINATION.
Sugar, Sundries,
w Brown Unenu-
llen
Iron, Metals,
Old. Assorted.
Nail-
TOTAL
VALUE.
ssorted
Kero- Seaweed Brown 1
and
sene.
White.
Grey.
Pieces
Pieces.
Pieces. Pieces. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Gallons. Piculs. Piculs. Hk. Its
Hk. Its
14
14
19.96
104
446
74
1.60
134.25
:ő ::
CHÊKIANG PROVINCE :-
Chin-hua............
Ching-ning .......
Ch‘ing-t'ien.
Ch'ing-yuan..
Ch‘u-chou...
Chu-mên
Hai-iên
Hsuan-pʻing......
Huang-yen ......
Jui-an.........
Kan-mến ..........
Li-shui................
Lung-ch'uan ........
3,510
50
108
金景青慶處楚海宣黄瑞坎麗龍平浦迷松大
​華常田元州門門平徽安門水泉陽門昌陽荆
​14
689
68.82
691.08 180.34
P‘ing-yang..
::::::vi :
120
Pu-mên...
Sui-ch'ang............
Sung-yang..
Ta-ching ....
451
5,432
6,400
250
163
1,505
450
37
6.15
150.47 256.70
790


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C.—Table showing the Destinations of Foreign Goods—Contd.
Sugar, Sundries,|| TOTAL
DESTINATION.
Shirt-
Wool- Iron,
Cottons,
· Iron, Metals,
ings, T-Cloths.
len | Nail- |
Assorted.condol rod.
| Old. Assorted.
Grey.
Leu. Goods. rod.
Oil,
Kero- Seaweed. DI
Brown
Unenu-
and
sene.
White merated.
VALUE.
Pieces.
Pieces. / Pieces.
Pieces. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Gallons. Piculs. Piculs. Hk.fts.
90.30
Hk.ft
838
17.80
CHÊKIANG PROVINCE,
continued :
Tai-chou....
T'ai-shun
Tsin-yün.
Yo-ch‘ing ...
Yü-huan .........
Yün-ho..
FUKIEN PROVINCE:-
Fu-ning ................
Fu-ting...............
Hsing-hua...........
Tfung-shan ...........
110.10
114.66 28.76
台泰籍樂玉雲福福興桐
​1,010
| 36.96 7.11 ...
2.52 2.50
39.06 21.84
18.90 2.52
1,280
614.46 264.35 154.49 22,360 1,108.34 522.85
219
107
107
5,362
TOTAL..........
1,553
8,239
12
33
927
27,220
TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a.—Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
Coast TRADE.
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL
Hk. Its m.c.c.
Hk.fts. m.c.c.
British
American ............
German ..................
Chinese.................................
On Opium.............
Hk.Tts. m.c.c.
141.9.0.0
322.6.0.9
260.5.7.6
216.6.5.4
750.0.0.0
Hk.Fts m.c.c.
122.4.0.0
72.0.0.0
216.4.0.0
733.2.0.0
Hk.Fts m.c.c. | Hk.fts m.c.c.
264.3.0.0
394.6.0.9
858.5.7.2
526.8.7.7 12,616.5.9.6
750.0.0.0
264.2.8.7
9,470.2.6.
117.3.0.9
1,669.5.9.8
TOTAL.
1,691.7.3.9
9,734.5.5.4
1,786.9.0.7
1,144.0.0.0
526.8.7.7
14,884.0.7.7*
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total...
........ Hk.ft. Nil.
6.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
EXPORT
(exclusive of.
Opium).
COAST TRADE
(exclusive of
Opium).
OPIUM
(Import, Export,
and
Coast Trade).
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
2.2.0.0
1877..
1878.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882..
1883
1884.....
1885..........
1886..
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
273.0.2.8
103.0.9.4
79.9.6.9
113.8.7.6
140.7.1.0
74.3.4.5
74.3.8.5
118.5.0.0
511.4.7.4
941.7.3.9
HK.ftsm.c.c.
1,124.8.4.9
1,911.3.2.9
3,794.4.7.6
7,878.1.4.2
5,884.0.0.2
8,385.4.6.9
4,082.2.6.3
4,756.0.7.5
9,462.6.4.8
9,734.5.5.4
Hk.Itsm.c.c.
300.5.2.0
348.0.4.3
935.9.9.5
1,561.9.0.7
1,598.2.8.4
1,344.6.5.7
1,341.9.2.5
1,290.6.7.7
1,410.1.7.2
1,786.9.0.7
Hk.Itsm.c.c.
1,206...0
546.0.0.0
1,835.5.0.0
1,670.5.0.0
5,696.5.0.0
5,841.0.0.0
3,018.0.0.0
2,550.0.0.0
642.0.0.0
750.0.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
251.7.3.1
31.1.9.0
169.9.0.9
266.2.8.7
369.7.7.7
337.2.7.7
409.0.9.3
398.5.9.5
399.8.1.6
526.8.7.7
Hk. Tts.m.c.c.
3,158.3.2.8
2,939.6.5.6
6,815.8.4.9
11,490.7.1.2
13,689.2.7.3
15,982.7.4.8
9,084.0.6.6
9,243.8.4.7
12,972.1.1.0
14,884.0.7.7.
158.4.0.0
130.0.0.0
546.0.0.0
1,144.0.0.0
31


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B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-TREASURE.
Comparative Table of the Import and Export of Treasure, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
IMPORTED
EXPORTED
Treasure.
To
To
To SHANGHAI.
To NINGPO.
Foochow. (HONGKONG. GRAND
YEARS.
TOTAL
From From From
Total
Total
Shanghai Ningpo. Foochow. Copper Cash.
Treasure
Copper Cash
Treasure
Treasure.
Treasure
Treasure.
and Copper
and Cop-
Treasure.
and Cop-1
Cash.
Strings. Value. per Cash. Strings. Value.
per Cash.
Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars.
Dollars. Dollars. | Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars.
2,800
13,003 13,003 3,000 2,500 | 151,600 || 154,100
8,388
175,491
21,440 18,589 151,000 || 169,589 45,376 | 39,682 111,200 || 150,882
5,500
325,971
10,275 8,763 51,290
60,053
5,610 4,881 | 733,601 || 738,482
798,535
1880.
1,200
1,005
42,250 43,255 8,2706,803 714,637 721,440
764,695
1881...
4,276 3,503 79,600 83,103 | 20,010 15,018 649,410 || 664,428
747,531
1882...
1,400
700 74,920 75,620 11,300 6,248 579,298 | 585,546
661,166
1883....
2,583 1,913 | 147,172 149,085 1,230 1,005
285,595
434,680
1884...... 1,500
16,696 14,504 390,980 405,484
2,756 | 288,827 || 291,583
697,067
1885.
4,000
480
375 400,380 400,755 20,738 / 15,652 49,190 || 64,842
6,000 471,597
1886.
1,100
936,150 936,150 ... ... 108,116 108,116
2,112
1,046,378
1877.
1878.
1879...
400
| 284,590
::::::
3,400
TABLE No. 2.-TEA.
Comparative Table of the Export of Tea, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
РЕКОЕ.
CONGOU.
YEARS.
SHANGHAI.
SHANGHAI.
NINGPO.
Foochow.
TOTAL.
Quantity. 1
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. |
Value.
Quantity. / Value.
Piculs. Hk. Its
1877...
Piculs.
88.80
62.37
Hk.Hts.
2,664
1,497
Piculs.
24.51* 1
151.94
Hk. Pts.
535
3,495
1878....
1879.... .............
1880.
1881.
1882..........
1883..........
1884..
1885.....
1886.
Piculs.
165.33
136.12
728.19
1,284.45
699.38
1,418.30
504.68
619.46
1,325.19
1,562.50
Hk. Aits.
4,958
3,266
19,661
28,121
10,942
23,114
10,076
14,247
22,679
21,728
Piculs.
278.64
350.43
728.19
1,284.45
699.38
1,418.30
504.68
619.46
1,325.19
1,562.50
Hk.Tts
8,157
8,258
19,661
28,121
10,942
23,114
10,076
14,247
22,679
21,728
122.58
8.44
3,135
233
::::::
: : : : : :
17.88
88.19
467
2,353
UNFIRED.
DUST.
YEARS.
SHANGHAI.
NINGPO.
SHANGHAI.
TOTAL.
Quantity. Value.
Value.
Quantity
Value.
Quantity
Value.
Quantity.
Piculs.
Hk.As.
Piculs.
Hk. Pts.
Piculs.
Hk.Fts.
Piculs.
Hk.Fts
330.88
4,136
4,136
2,032
OOOOOOOO
0.52
1877....
1878.
1879.......
1880.......
1881....
1882.....
1883.
1884.
1885..
1886.
10,466
3,766
218.68
1,968
250.79
1,054.28
400.74
703.05
241.84
863.94
1,576.81
968.22
7,567
2,841
5,184
19,252
8,324
330.88
250.79
1,054.80
619.42
703.05
241.84
863.94
1,576.81
968.22
2,032
10,468
5,734
7,567
2,841
5,184
19,252
8,324
* Including 13.75 piculs, valued at Hk. Tts. 412, for Great Britain.


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TABLE No. 3.-IMPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the principal Articles of Net Import, for the Years 1883 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
OPIUM:-
Malwa ...
Patna .......
Benares.............................
Piculs
7
3.60
92.40
1.20
66
24
16.80
3.60
91,674
COTTON GOODS .......
Handkerchiefs....
Pieces
Dozens
79,519
1,400
86,666
1,010
104,071
1,410
WOOLLEN GOODS...........
Pieces
5,728
5,388
5,335
7,254
METALS:-
Copper, Japan...
Iron, Nail-rod..
, Wire ...........
Piculs
133.04
2,318.40
76.80
Old..............
313.72
2,343.60
92.26
600.69
329.16
134.65
438.72
3,325.56
109.20
705.40
226.23
80.52
441
797.33
4,126.08
167.25
3,535.56
390.13
137.09
Lead, in Pigs ...................
Steel ........
392.69
I11.80
Piculs
52.50
136.90
121.04
252.30
34.06
94.22
73.21
295.24
38.39
164.41
105.18
2,080.54
2,000.20
2,302
236.96
1,046.57
138.78
alue. Hk. Ata
Piculs
2,336
187.44
HOW.......
Gross
Piculs
SUNDRIES:-
Bicho de Mar, Black ..
White ..........
China-root....
Dates, Red .
,, Black .................
Dyes, Foreign ................
Dye-stuff, Native...
Fungus ...
Lead, White.
, Yellow
Lily Flowers, Dried ............
Mangrove Bark .......
Matches...
Medicines .......
Nankeens ............................
Oil, Kerosene .......................
Pepper, Black.....
Rattans ......................................
Safflower ..........
Sapanwood.
Seaweed ...........
Silk Piece Goods .............
Sugar, Brown ...
, White
Tobacco, Prepared ..........
Varnish .......
Vermicelli ....
Vermilion.
Wax, White...
Window Glass ..........
565.55
9,973.96
23,950
1,724.91
22.25
134.47
115.51
561.95
505.92
2,211
146.95
688.03
147.26
169.93
838.67
2,790.61
13,200
1,564.74
112.11
67,420
35.42
808.98
14.94
171.55
3,160.64
53.06
Gällons
2,103
218.35
384.31
158.37
92.49
1,448.50
506
5,300
1,000.97
377.16
19,930
39.02
698.48
15.51
1,050.56
4,397.08
2.31
85.68
211.05
374.35
141.71
124.56
9.60
119.20
27,800
Piculs
104.41
496.95
114.97
121.51
754.17
103.80
13,350
1,306.74
227.84
69,900
44.69
659.10
14.32
597.15
2,404.22
0.62
30
263.28
349.70
174.96
198.60
15.60
94.52
22,400
161,150
37.27
1,186.96
16.03
691.89
4,087.99
628.47
267.81
383.98
152.09
128.34
12
143.73
37,200
1,155.25
1,351.87
554.29
192.97
105.95
16.43
118.59
38,900
Sq. feet
Hk.fts
355,511
371,462
386,380
473,927
TOTAL NET VALUE OF IMPORTS ..........
Treasure Imported ............
400
4,100
4,000
1,100


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TABLE No. 4.-EXPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the principal Articles of Export, for the Years 1883 to 1886.
Classifier
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
of
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Quantity.
Piculs
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Pieces
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
156.80
850.88
3,153
1,607.82
7,558.90
480.70
61,380
59,160
1,796.10
143.35
1,019.33
62.29
513.12
241.84
15,990
335.19
Piculs
2,855.10
1,163.58
954.64
665.34
8,336.74
1,014.94
95,050
79,320
4,721.19
161.72
426.55
124.52
1,343.07
1,576.81
6,408
1,186.80
vues........
.
2,070.82
2,731.20
1,278.27
10,895.70
724.15
122,870
80,410
6,308.51
210.56
673.70
226.71
1,650.69
968.22
13,962
1,145.50
.
2,174.81
2,115.62
1,297.17
7,113.52
498.45
61,075
37,914
3,037.40
173.32
508.23
106.05
619.46
863.94
1,327
366.06
.
Alum ......
Bamboo Shoots......
Charcoal ............
Coir ...........
Fruit, Fresh (Oranges).
Hides, Cow...
Kittysol Frames ..........
Kittysols ...........
Medicines
Prawns, Dried ..........
Resin, Gum..............
Soapstone Ornaments ..
Tea, Black ............
„ Unfired
Timber, Poles, Soft-wood ......
Tobacco, Leaf ...........
TOTAL VALUE OF EXPORTS ...
Treasure Exported .........
Copper Cash.............
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Pieces
Piculs
Hk.Its
59,883
62,929
101,490
431,762 679,807
455,570
3,813 (=$2,918) 20,096 (=$17,260)21,218 (=$16,027)
103,005
1,046,378
Strings
TABLE No. 5.-PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Comparative Statement of the Passenger Traffic, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
PASSENGERS TO COAST PORTS.
PASSENGERS FROM COAST PORTS.
YEARS.
STEAMERS.
Sailing VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
SAILING VESSELS.
Foreigners.
Natives.
| Foreigners. |
Natives.
Foreigners. | Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
312
297
a
138
1877..
1878.
1879.....
1880.........
1881
.
.
.
.
.
.
1882...
847
1,703
1,425
2,086
1,362
1,835
2,352
: : : : : ww A
136
1,543
1,425
1,357
1,658
1,487
1,595
1,334
1,489
1883.
1884
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1885..
1886...........
On
1,738


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245
FOOCHOW TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
The net value of the trade of the port during 1886 amounted to Hk.Pts. 16,219,108, as
compared with Hk.fts. 15,097,720 in the previous year, showing an increase of Hk.Tts. 1,121,388,
made up principally of the larger quantities of Native produce imported and exported—the
value of Foreign goods imported, including Opium, being only some Hk.Its. 35,000 in excess
of the year before. This improvement in the figures of the trade in articles of Native origin
brought here, and others taken away, shows a sustained condition of prosperity in the province
generally, in regard to which it has, too, to be borne in mind that the figures relating to the
trade in Native produce are not swollen by any large increase in the export of the article of
principal importance—Tea,—which can only claim to contribute to a very limited extent
towards the large balance in favour of the year under review over the year preceding, seeing
that the total increase in the export of that commodity only amounts to about 4,000 piculs,
of an estimated value of some Hk.Fts. 60,000, out of the increase of more than a million taels.
FOREIGN IMPORTS.—Turning to the heading of Foreign goods imported, there is hardly
anything to be found worthy of comment, the quantity of Cotton Piece Goods and Woollens
showing but a trifling decrease in the principal articles, whilst of Metals there is but an
increase in the quantity of Iron imported to which attention need be drawn.
In Sundry articles of Foreign origin imported, Llama Braid and Kerosene Oil are the
only ones the figures relating to which continue to testify to the marked appreciation of the
Native buyer. In the latter case, though the figures were smaller in the years 1884 and 1885
than they are in the year under review, these again are little more than half
earlier years, before the prohibition as to the use of the Oil in question was in force, or, at all
events, before it was given anything like serious effect to, which was the case in 1884 and
1885, since which time it would appear to have lapsed into less strict enforcement.
There has been a larger import of Opium during the year than in 1885 by some
340 piculs, made up of increases in Malwa, Patna, and Persian, the largest of these being in
the case of Patna, and a falling off of some 130 piculs Benares. It may be well to place on
record here, for comparison in the Report for the current year, in which the “Additional
Article” of the Chefoo Convention is to come into force, the precise quantity of Opium
imported under the old régime, viz., 4,747.37 piculs, as it is believed that the operation of this
new system of levy of the Likin will turn to the benefit of the Opium trade at this port; that
is to say, that the portion of the supplies needed for consumption in the province, hitherto
introduced through Amoy, Swatow, Ningpo, and Kiukiang, will henceforth come through this,
the more natural port of entry, except in the case of Opium consumed in the south-western
districts, for the supply of which Amoy might be able to offer some advantages over Foochow.
The trade during the year has not been on the whole satisfactory, as prices have been
unprecedentedly low, owing to the declaration of the Indian Government that they would
place an additional quantity of some 10,000 chests on the market. The crop of Persian
Opium was unusually abundant, and, as a result, the imports were large and the prices low.
NATIVE EXPORTS.—The total export of Black Tea for the year ended 31st December
differs but little from that of the previous year, being only some 4,000 piculs in excess, whilst
that, again, exceeded the export of 1884 by about 42,000 piculs, in regard to which expansion
I was able to record in my Report for last year an unusual and satisfactory feature of the
trade, that its increased volume had not brought with it increased losses. During the past


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year, however, there has been no such ground for congratulation, for the out-turn of the
season's trade, so far as it can be judged at the present time, has been unsatisfactory both
to the teamen and the Foreign buyer, the grower alone reaping advantage. The crops of
Congou gathered were in excess of 1885 by some 59,000 chests, the figures being 725,000 chests,
pared with only 666,000 chests of the year before, for which increased quantity the
growers were able to obtain higher prices by reason of the keener competition amongst the
Native dealers, who had obtained funds with which to operate on easier terms than the year
before; these Native dealers, however, must have suffered severely, as the slightly higher prices
they obtained for the Teas on this market were not sustained beyond the settlements for the
first two or three ships leaving after the opening of the market, after which prices began to
fall, and continued to do so throughout and until the close of the season, by which time the
first small profits must have disappeared and made place for serious losses, amounting, it is
said, to as much as a million and a quarter of dollars. As an illustration of the demoralised
condition of the market here during the past season amongst the Native dealers, it may be
placed on record that for once the low rate of exchange worked to the advantage of the Foreign
buyer, the teamen being so anxious to get rid of their heavy supplies that they failed to stiffen
their prices as exchange weakened, which it has been their invariable practice to do. Another
illustration of the same almost “cornered” position of the teamen was the fact that in the face
of very heavy transactions at one time, say from the 22nd October to the same date in the
following month, the purchase of some 125,000 chests was effected without other influence on
the market than to render it firmer, but not any higher in its prices, the dealers being without
heart to attempt to do more than get out of their stocks as quickly as possible.
For the shipper to the London market the season has been eminently unsatisfactory,
commencing as it did with a loss on first shipments, and continuing, more or less, on the same
lines throughout a monotonous period of depression, unrelieved by any single brief interval of
recovery. This condition of the London market, brought about by the excess of the Indian
supply and the almost universal rule of sales by auction, instead of by private contract, has
been in complete and sustained sympathy with the market here, the cheaper purchasers on the
one only going to feed the cheaper sales on the other.
One feature of the trade has been the neglect of Teas over a shilling a pound on the
London market almost throughout the season, a state of affairs all the more discouraging for
the production of better Teas here, in that the cause assigned is one that is likely to continue
to bring about a similar result in future seasons, as it has done in the past. I refer to the
competition of the Indian Teas, which year by year continue to displace the finer qualities of
the China leaf; in spite of which there are many of experience in the trade who maintain that
if the old quality were again forthcoming from China she would soon recover the position she
seems to be losing in the world's consumption of this article. The neglect of Teas of the
qualities referred to has not been confined to those from Foochow, but has extended to the
same classes of all China Teas.
The picking of Tea for the season 1886–87 commenced in the Pakling (HE ) districts
on the 5th of the 3rd moon (8th April), and about a fortnight and three weeks later in
the lower and up-country districts respectively, the weather not being particularly favourable
except for those from the Kaisow ( ) districts. The Teas were placed on this market on
the roth May, a day or two sooner than in the preceding season, but changed hands just a
month earlier, the market opening on the 24th May 1886, as compared with the 24th June of
the year before, by which time nearly the whole of the first crop had been brought down, a


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condition of things most favourable for buyers, by the presence and pressure on the market of
so heavy a stock (330,000 chests) and so large a variety for selection. The opening prices were,
for common grades, from about the same price as the year before to about its. 3 higher, whilst
fine grades were some its. 6 higher, and even its. 10 for a few of the known chops.
The quality of the Teas may be said to have been better on the whole than in the season
before, though Sayunes (ek het) were inferior and Paklings (HL ) very much so, owing perhaps
to having been picked unusually early, before the leaf had matured. Seumoos (BB 7), too, by
latest advices are described as having deteriorated so considerably on the voyage home that in
some cases those who had bought them here and seen them subsequently, after their arrival on
the London market, could hardly believe they were the same Teas.
To Australia there has been a smaller export during the year by some 16,000 piculs,
whilst the New Zealand figures about correspond with those for the year before. To account for
the decreased export to Australia, the higher prices paid for the Teas and a generally depressed
condition of the Australian market, owing to a severe drought and a low Wool market in
London, have to be taken into consideration. It does not appear that Indian Teas have been
taken to any greater extent than in 1885, say some 1,250,000 lb., against about 20,000,000 lb. of
China Tea.
To the United States there has been a total increase of about 10,000 piculs, made up
of an excess of some 12,000 piculs of Congou and an apparent decrease of about 2,000 piculs of
Oolong. In regard to the former it is satisfactory to note that there appears to be a growing
appreciation in the States for this description, though the increase may no doubt be accounted
for, to some extent, on the supposition that Canada is getting some of her supplies direct from
China, instead of, as heretofore, through England. In regard to Oolongs it is satisfactory to
see that the increased export of the previous year has been maintained, and with a result for
shippers, though bad at the commencement, yet concluding with higher prices and brighter
prospects. It may be useful to note that even the small decrease referred to above is more
apparent than real, when the figures are made to include the first shipments, within a few
days after the date at which our returns close; if these be included, the export of Oolong, so
considerably increased during 1885, is shown to have been sustained during the year under
review, and in regard to the complaints of the undue proportion of dust, to which I had to
refer in my Report for last year, it would appear that there are signs of a tendency towards
improvement.
SHIPPING.—The general features of the shipping return for the year are satisfactory,
inasmuch as the steamer tonnage entered is some 60,000 tons in excess of the previous year,
and that of sailing vessels about 2,000 tons ; beyond this, none of the figures have any special
claim for attention to be directed to them, though the blank under the heading of the American
flag may be noted as confirming my anticipation in that respect.
REVENUE.—The Revenue, for the fifth time since its collection under the Foreign
Inspectorate, has exceeded two million taels, amounting as it has done to Hk.Its. 2,018,491, out
of which over Hk.Pts. 1,600,000 are absorbed by the Export Duty on Tea, and Hk.Tts. 142,980
by Opium, leaving but some Hk.Pts. 200,000 collected on all other produce, Foreign and Native,
imported and exported.
C. HANNEN,
Commissioner of Customs.
FOOCHOW, 12th February 1887.


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TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF FOOCHOW,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Tts
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts
Hk.fts
Hk.Fts.
FOREIGN GOODS.
3,147,686
3,193,379
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong.......
Imported from Chinese Ports ....
Total Foreign Imports.......
2,632,047
909,373
1,190,552
1,204,267
3,541,420
4,338,238
4,397,646
47,694
16,116
Re-exported to Foreign countries and Hongkong....
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Shanghai)
Total Foreign Re-exports ...........
19,121
36,143
25,477
14,836
73,171
30,952
55,264
Net Total Foreign Imports ...
3,468,249
4,307,286
4,342,382
1,623,709
1,536,559
1,779,863
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Shanghai).
Re-exported to Foreign Countries....
Re-exported to Chinese Ports...........
Total Native Re-exports .............
37,942
15,664
33,361
6,080
15,327
2,697
53,269
18,361
39,441
Net Total Native Imports ............
1,570,440
1,518,198
1,740,422
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign Countries .........
7,215,273
7,723,867
8,398,272
1,293,479
1,548,369
1,738,032
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports...
Total Exports of local origin...
8,508,752
9,272,236
10,136,304
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port......
13,673,881
15,147,033
16,313,813
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native | 13,547,441
Exports of local origin........
15,097,720
32


250
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.—Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
H
.fts
H
.Its.
Piculs
OPIUM :-
Malwa ........
Patna...........
Benares...
Persian
Turkey ....
H .Pts.
938,605
572,182
96,801
119,788
2,956
2,470 50
1,745 46
296 40
381 47
926
52
1320
Hk. Its
19,760
4,269
5,118
22,896
H .Fts.
918,845
567,913
91,683
96,892
2,956
2,418 50
1,732 26
280 80
30657
1560
7490
9 26
COTTON GOODS :-
Shirtings, Grey, Plain........ Pieces
White, , ........
. Dyed ,
Dyed, Figured
and Brocaded )
T-Cloths.....................
Drills, English .......
American.....
Twills, Printed ....
Chintzes, Furnitures, and
Cotton Prints ............
Turkey Red Cloths............
Damasks ..........
Velvets ......
Jaconets, Lawns, and Muslins
Lastings, Cotton...............
Canvas................
Cotton Handkerchiefs .......
Dozens
.............
Piculs
Yarn ..................
Bed Covers ......................
Cotton Goods, Unclassed ....
65,042
18,893
2,324
2,540
285,739
1,488
5,689
1,566
7,197
10,169
866
1,183
9,733
1,140
1,192
13,910
3524
92 01
4,044
599
128,505
58,375
10,475
5,779
498,470
3,337
15,562
3,087
9,357
13,056
3,520
7,291
9,277
4,075
9,279
6,242
1,501
2,419
1,932
2,002
65,042
18,893
2,324
2,510
285,730
1,488
5,689
1,566
7,147
10,119
866
1,183
9,733
1,140
1,430
13,910
3374
9201
4,044
599
128,505
58,375
10,475
5,711
498,470
3,337
15,562
3,087
9,292
12,991
3,520
7,291
9,277
4,075
11,058
6,242
1,437
2,419
1,932
2,002
»
Thread
I
?
Pieces
2, 141|
2,141
8,666
245
8,656
681
681
.....
410
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Blankets .........
..... Pairs
Bombazettes.....
Pieces
Camlets, English ....
Cloth, Broad, Medium, and
Habit.
Italian ..
5 Russian
. Union .........
Flannels ..............
Lastings ........
Long Ells.
Lustres and Orleans...........
Spanish Stripes ................
Rugs .........
Woollen Braid (Llama) ...... Boxes
, Goods, Unclassed... Pieces
483
410
70
483
128
3,805
1,666
2,206
3,943
1,132
45,9771
2731
6,232
1,036
81,677
23,017
1,842
1,699
8,867
1,250
30,203
8,125
9,180
47,414
2,251
21,180
2,597
128
3,805)
1,666
2,206
3,943.
1,132
45,977
6,232
1,036
81,583
23,017
1,842
1,452
8,867
1,250
30,203
8,125
9,180
47,414
2,251
21,180
2,597
273
880
28913
METALS:
Copper, Bar and Rod......... Piculs
Sheets and Nails....
Japan
Old .....
Wire..............
Ore...........
28033
12549
3,118 54
17272
5,225
2,014
51,872
1,261
5,385
2,014
51,872
1,261
1,575
6863
1,575
351 1
3,878
3517
3,878


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TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.-Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Pts.
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Ft
5,611 20
18,236
IO
21
1,680
4,98140
109
2,730
8,218
METALs, continued :-
Iron, Bar, Hoop, Plate, and I p;
Sheet...
Nail-rod...
Old ...............
Wire ....................
» in Pigs..
Manufactured, Un-
classed...............
Lead, in Pigs...
, in Sheets.............
Quicksilver ...........
Spelter and Zinc..
Steel..
Tin, in Slabs................
Tinplates .............
Yellow Metal and Nails....
Metals, Manufactured,
Unclassed, as Hardware, I
Brassware, Brass Buttons,
and Steelware ...
2,70475
6,74330
10,249 11
426 93
10,035 31
1,23561
53,726 85
21325
62 80
1,709 581
62876
4,44321
1,405 26
38519
7,491
14,026
16,582
2,230
16,307
4,460
188,063
1,285
2,863
8,488
2,453
94,317
6,395
6,486
8,312 95
6,74330
10,249 11
447 93
11,71531
6,21701
53,726 85
21325
62 80
1,870 92
14,90876
4,44321
1,422 06
452 391
25,717
14,026
16,582
2,339
19,037
12,678
188,063
1,285
2,863
9,327
58,144
94,317
6,471
7,622
22
16550
861
14,28055,691
168076
6720
1,136
193
19,822
17,443
37,265
21
SUNDRIES >
Aniseed, Star.................. Piculs
Bicho de Mar, Black .........
, White..........
Birds' Nests...........
Cardamoms, Superior
217
015
16587
22409
4,33470
702
1915
135891
119 78
2,718
»
Inferior
840
1,092
248856
49106
45
3260
3,00878
582
Pieces
.
.
.
Tons
13,163
70,033
I 20
468
Pairs
Piculs
2,085
3,202
45,594
6,155
1,949
2,644
1,093
3,294
6,683
1,353
28,613
5,015
2,858
1,635
6,359
1,614
2,408
4,946
28,815
2,013
1,129
14,716
7,071
1,090
10,505
23,264
139
16587
22573
4,295 831
687
1915
135 89
11978
3,558
3260
3,006 76
1,677
13,352
82,092
1,106 27
1,024 49
29807
49274
18,802"
8698
4,770 58
1,67358
1,52509
3,16542
66 28
360
8381
5325
Castor Oil .................
Cement ..............
Chinaware, Fine...
Cinnamon.....
Clams, Dried ..........
Clocks.................
Coal...............
Cobblet Shells.......
Cockles, Dried ......
Cotton Rags ...............
, Waste..............
Cuttle-fish .................
Dyes ...................
Feathers, Kingfishers’..
Fish, Dried
3 Salt...........
, Skins ............
Flints ................
Flour, American .......
Ginseng, American ......
Corean ....
Japan.............
Roots............
Glue, Cow ................
524
I21
2,085
3,223
45,438
6,002
1,949
2,644
1,093
4,386
6,717
1,353
28,620
5,015
71,664
1,635
6,359
1,753
2,932
5,067
28,579
2,013
1,129
14,716
7,071
1,090
10,505
23,264
5,036
14,446
2,088
1,129
6,202
3,826
5,958
9,584
27,957
*
1171
236
1,677
369
82,092
1,106 27
945 54
247 671
477 24
153641
18,802
86 98
4,770 58
1,67358
1,52509
3,16542
377
8381
53251
12393
81201
70510
276
2,58967
1,372 95
15247
Pieces
Piculs
6628
5,298
017
262
Hides, .
12393
Horns, Buffalo and Cow.
Rhinoceros'.
Indigo, Liquid.
Isinglass
14,446
2,088
1,129
6,202
3,826
5,958
9,584
26,833
81201
70510
276
2,58967
1,42995


252
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODs.— Imports and Re-exports—Conta.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Hk.Its.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Its.
Hi. Its
18
2,552
25,548
2,564
1,851 39
58,056
428 22
............
712
220
2,900
1095)
1,851 39
60,356
43917
64
276,785
Lamps................ Pieces
Machinery......
Value
Mangrove Bark....
Piculs
Matches.
Gross
Medicines.........
Piculs
Munitions of War..... Value
Mussels, Dried
Piculs
Nankeens
Needles
Mille
Oil, Kerosene..................
Galls.
Opium Husk and Skin ....... Piculs
Paints, Assorted...............
Paper, Japan........
Pepper, Black and White...
Perfumery.......
Prawns and Shrimps, Dried Piculs
Raisins ........
Rattans, Split....
2,192 50
200 22
20,917
161,670
2277
640 55
12417
1,095 06
2,192 50
200 22
20,917
161,670
2277
640 551
125291
1,11902
112
2396
13
317
?
Value
2,579
13,318
1,428
21,888
2,789
53,648
12,637
9,751
3,385
23,360
2,196
4,899
1,425
14,388
1,185
14,906
2,052
12,917
11,941
16,621
13,039
4,846
16,667
2,650
33,824
1,368
8,461
1,206
5,987
8145
165
Whole ...........
Ropes .....
1,071 351
27964
2,160751
2,55926
1,728831
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
1,079 80
27964
2,160 75
2,559 26
1,868 83
3,657 71
2,561
38,866
1,428
22,380
2,853
330,433
12,637
9,751
3,385
23,360
2,196
4,899
1,438
14,705
1,185
15,071
2,052
12,917
11,941
18,211
13,761
6,156
17,057
2,650
34,031
1,368
8,649
1,206
22,086
1,158
3,624
2,752
1,420
1,110
10,882
4,503
1,014
32,861
140
IIIIO
630
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
1,590
722
1,310
390
3,54661
2,85425
200
8,747 14
2,224 25
8,547 14
8552
1,602 42
496
221
080
1,61862
Value !
496
188
18629
18629
Sandalwood...
Sapanwood,
Seaweed and Agar-agar......
Sharks' Fins, Black & White
Shell-fish ...
Silk and Cotton Mixtures...
Soap ............
Sugar, White .....
Piculs
Timber.
Value
Tin-foil .............
Piculs
Umbrellas, Bombazette ...... Pieces
Cotton ............ ?
Silk.....
Watches............
Window Glass ................. Boxes
Wood, Fragrant ............... Piculs
39 Garoo...............
Sundries, Unenumerated .... Value
16,099
1,158
31 441
7,716
9,408
624
172
3,651
9668
547)
3,624
2,752
1,420
1,110
10,882
4,398
1,014
31,517
3144
7,716
9,408
624
172
3,6511
98 96
547
105
1,545
201
TOTAL............ Hk.Ite..........
508,944
3,888,702
54,505
.
4,342,382


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SUMMARY.
IMPORTS from Great Britain .......
..........Hk.fts
98,708
„
„
Hongkong .......................................
„
2,684,435
„
1,283
„
»
Singapore and Straits........................ ,
Continent of Europe, Russia excepted...
326,288
Japan .........
65,256
17,409
»
Siam.............
.........................
-Hk.fts
3,193,379
Total from Foreign Countries.........-
Imports from Chinese Ports ...............
...
»
1,204,267
-Hk.Tts. 4,397,646
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS ........
213
RE-EXPORTS to Great Britain.................................Hk.fts
„ Hongkong........
18,362
„ Australia....
.
........
9
546
-Hk.Fts
Total to Foreign Countries............
19,121
RE-EXPORTS to Tientsin .............
..................... Hk. Ats
364
»
„Chefoo...........
...........
,
234
29,800
2,936
„ Shanghai.........
„Takow......
„ Amoy.......
Total to Chinese Ports ..........
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS ...
2,809
- Hk.fts.
36,143
- Ak.Pts.
......
55,264
NET Total FOREIGN IMPORTS.....
Hk.fts. 4,342,382


254
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hk. Pts.
Hk.Fts.
Hits
H.Fts
Hk. Its
1912
3415
251
24105
69571
12,340 80
1,795 20
9,399 07
3,203
5,064
13,075
2,754
12,219
79
37310
9477
1,020
4,543
16
2356
5449
190 16
93,091
266 40
2,247
9,107
1,271
Pieces
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
3,758
3,758
5,258
Pieces
Tons
Piculs
Almonds ...
Arsenic .......................
Beancake .........................
Beans, Green ............
, Miscellaneous.
Brass-foil .............
Brassware ............
Brushes ...................
Buttons, Brass.........
Carpets and Druggets.
China-root, Cut......
, Whole.
Clothing, Fur .................
Coal..
Cockles, Fresh.
Cotton, Raw ...........
,, Ribbons.......
Dates, Black .... ........
,, Red ...
,, White...........
Dye-stuff ....
Fans, Fancy ..........
,, Palm-leaf ..............
, Paper..
Silk and Gauze.....
Felt ....
,, Caps .............
Fire-crackers............
Fish, Dried..
, Salt ...........
Flour, Potato ..............
Fungus .....................
Ginseng, Corean ...........
,, Native......
2,979
36565
54043
3,271
624
5,45908
1,457 84
68 54
1,01907
94332
218 50
)
5,198
6,997
13,629
2,816
9,289
17,552
4,505
5,825
2,319
3,692
2,556
711
9.90
3770
21850
Pieces
4,469
1068
149,001
185,8391
14,700
4,282
INI
4,125
1,208
1,147
429
143,791
7,138
13,900
20,409
30677
8131
474
2,051 41
1,006 05
11,216
1,018
2,177
981
2,640
1,057
Piculs
1,621
4,261
18866
213
3,31002
12
15
10,231
260 171
3,316
72986
5,315
12,34080 13,075
1,79520 2,754
9,04953
11,837
5449 2,247
28493
13,650
94,111 1,287
266 40 12,172
2,979
36987
54043 6,997
3,272 13,632
624 2,816
5,45908 9,289
1,457 84 17,552
5864
3,812
1,01907 5,825
90562 2,231
3,692
22267
2,667
153,470 4,836
185,839 1,208
158,491 12,363
11,420 1,447
13,900 2,177
20,409
981
495431
82 54 1,073
3,31476 10,246
2,09041
4,662
1,00621 24,181
438 6,267
2077 2,149
350531
7,760
282 76 2,573
17054
23,896
1,300 1,014
3362 1,487
16776
2,955
2,74867
20,783
2,86173 6,366
19389 1,492
1,07490
7,731 55 28,516
29,808
3,743
102 48 799
314/22 2,145
27 23 3,873
2,726 06 20,539
17326
879
4,404 1,731
2,286,148
62,413
9,009 41 102,162
3,21468 14,833
1,778 98 73,191
160
208 701,055
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
39
016
438
Glassware.
750
26556
1327
8497
17293
13811
1,300
716
5,881
999
4,548
10983/
32 43
4,573
24,177
6,267
1,433
1,879
1,574
19,348
1,014
1,487
2,955
20,783
6,366
1,492
5,828
25,480
3362
Hemp skin.
138
5,835
3,036
Pieces
Piculs
Glue, Cow
Grasscloth, Fine.......
Gypsum...........
Hair. Goats'.
Hams
Hemp ...................
Hides, Buffalo and Cow .....
Horns,
Indigo, Liquid......
Lamps ..............
Lead, Red ..............
,, White..................
Leather Strips ...
Lily Flowers, Dried
Liquorice......
Mats, Straw
, Tea.............
Medicines .........
Melon Seeds .....
Nankeens ...
Oil, Bean....
, Wood.........
167176
2,74867
2,86173
19389
1,073 52
6,894 19
10248
1325
27 23
2,72586
17146
837 36
29,808
3,743
799
2,054
Pieces
91 30097
3,873
20,538 020
869
1 80
4,404
... 2,286,148
91,973 907 33
9,162 1,203901
72,343 2991
728
1,055
10
1,731
62,413
10,241
5,671
1,301
Mediea....
Puculs
8,10878
2,01078
1,76567
160
728
20870


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TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports—Conta.
RE-EXPORTS
NET
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
Total IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
CHINESE PORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Its.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fls.
Hk.fts
Hk.fts.
12983
1,828
30 90
16011
2,29374
066
5,385
2,251
25,177
:
224)
lo
2,827 50
3,95378
18,786 39
229
74141
17,750
21,980
1,042
664
50 90
453
1,005
1651
5
Opium Dross and Skin ........... Piculs
Paper, ist Quality ...........
, Tea ........
Pears and Apples............
Peas................:
Peppermint Leaf.............
Preserves............
Rattans, Split............
Rhubarb
Rice.....................
Safflower ...............
Samshu ......
Seed, Senna ............
Shoes, Satin ......
Pairs
Silk, Yellow....
Piculs
Ribbons .....
Thread and Tassels ........ ,
Piece Goods
,, Pongees .............
and Cotton Mixtures ...
Skins ......
Pieces
Snuff
Piculs
Sugar, Brown .........
, Candy.............
White.............
Tallow, Animal ...
415
30 90
28994
2,29150
3,954 44
15,95889
229
12504
168
201871
128,386 98
17721
79869)
29784
3,017
12360
61151
927
9104
2,061
- 5860
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
1,855
1,461
5,385
4,079
25,153
17,760
18,488
1,042
1,117
1,005
2,259
208,331
12,697
3,635
927
2,712
26,137
35,047
1,493
211,214
7,123
18,273
2,357
3,653
11,158
13,529
7,133
4,352
72,005
33,586
::::::::::::::::
: :
329
185 36 2,071
128,38398 208,326
17721 12,697
70765
3,220
297 841
9561
26,137
255
1 64 749
316 96 150,717
7,123
097 267
1,775
2,357
20026 3,648
4,57461 11,075
2,20709 13,529
1,337 77 6,524
54684 4,352
8,48514 72,005
1,97857 27,455
5461 1,625
1,001 13
(6118 92
061
3985
- 744
60,740
18,006
3985)
6524
6621
0271
3308
120131
1,7751
200 53
4,60769
2,20709
1,457 90
54684
8,48514
'Vegetab
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
37 01
2175
5 0 2 E 3 ESE E RE
2,238 80
7660
29,173
2,268
6,954
1,00113
6118
6,954
92
445 54
Tea, Black ..
» Green ..
Leaf.............
, Dust ...............
, Brick..........
Tobacco, Prepared ...
Varnish, ist Quality.
, 2nd , .
Vermilion...............
Wax, White ..............
Wheat ............
Woollen and Cotton Mixtures Pieces
Sundries, Unenumerated........ Value
2,314
14,72428
67724
210,488
23,569
1,105
212,802
23,541
33
59
20044
096
13881!
29134
046
2,601
3,706
10,847
: : :
14,92472
676 44
197 81
291 34
57793
56,70520
5,680
577 47
56,70520
27,947
66,657
5,205
10,847
27,969
66,657
5,205
57,383
5,680
29,389
28,909
501
414
050
........
33,385
TOTAL................ Hk.As................. 1,436,704
343,159
6,056
Excess of Re-export above Import of some articles during the year ........
Net TOTAL..
1,743,021
Hk. Its 2,599
.Hk.fts 1,740,422


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
SUMMARY.
23,203
9,679
1,233,494
3,802
1,594
IMPORTS from Newchwang ....
.... Hk.fts
„ „ Tientsin.....
» Shanghai.....
Tamsui..
Takow....
» Amoy..........
„ Swatow ......
Total from Chinese Ports ............
Imports from Hongkong ...........
TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS .........
44,973
".........
119,959
-Hk.Fts
1,436,704
......
343, 159
H.Tts
1,779,863
693
1,098
4,253
RE-EXPORTS to Chefoo ............
......... Hk. Its
„ „ Shanghai ...........
» Amoy............
.............. 2
„ Swatow...........
„ „ Hongkong for Chinese Ports ............ »
Total to Chinese Ports ................
-
Hk.Fts
6,080
RE-EXPORTS to Hongkong for Foreign Countries ........Hk. Its.
,
•, Great Britain ............
1,700
7,882
19,138
2,230
,
, Australia ......................................
2
New Zealand ...
„ South Africa, including Mauritius ....
59
, United States of America...................
,
2,352
- Hk.Its.
33,361
Total to Foreign countries..........
TOTAL NATIVE RE-EXPORTS ........
-Hk.Fls.
39,441
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS .....
O
I
D
.............................................
Hk. Fts
1,740,422


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TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
le.
Quantity.
Value.
Piculs
TEA, Black.
Green..
3 Brick.
, Dust..........
Hk. Its
606,76325 7,997,788
III 851 3,0591
18 36
1,44396
2,2431
Hk. Its
377,308
3 70
23,713 50
66 20
Hk. Its
538,106
30
365,478
35,01811
105,319 30
Hk.fts.
2,238 80 29,173
7660 2,268
445 54
1,506
»
H.Ft.
667,733 66 8,942,375
189 45) 5,357
105,849 40 367,390
1,44396 2,243
36
442,720
2,877
5,976
437,240
1,26109
12239
2,842
5,420
159
257
153,853
1,305
159,273
1,464
5,118
919,494)
36,938 89
1,12251
7,712 33
1,013 37
13136
460 01
5,118
25311
2,842
469 80
605
5,411
3,345
943
112 20
30963
39,534
35,677 80
1,000 12
7,712 33
290 46
125 31
3818
56291
8570
19126
93504
436 80
780
98
792
5629
11,598
988
1,175
792
1,670
1,973
6,642
1,670
1,973
192
2,859
1,138
11351
45
1,32775
7,596
zol
SUNDRIES:
Bamboo Canes.
Pieces
Shoots, Dried ......
Piculs
Fresh.....
> Split .......
Bambooware .............
Books .................
Chinaware............
Clams, Dried .........
Fish Maws ...........
, Skins.....
Flowers, Dried, and Seed...
Fruit, Fresh, Unclassed ....
Hams .........
Lampblack
Lotus-nuts.....
Lung-ngans, Dried..
Medicines....
Mushrooms ...........
Oil, Tea ........
Olives, Fresh
Oranges, Dried
> Fresh .......
Paper, ist Quality.
» 2nd
Joss........
Peel, Orange ...........
Plants, Flower .............. Value
Plums, Dried and Salted....
Potash.
Potatoes ...........
Preserves.....................
Rice, Red ....
Shoes, Satin ....
Silk, Refuse................
Pic
Snuff .........................
Sulphur .....................
Timber, Planks, Soft-wood.. Sq. ft.
Hard-wood Pieces
, Coffin-wood
, Bucket ......
Poles, Soft-wood....
Tobacco, Prepared ............ Piculs
6,642
874
21
3,944
1,694
22,072
11,508
5,271
1,435
15,211
1,577
43,673
49,984
22,354
179,462
11,856
2,200
36295
8570
191 26
93504
556 25
184 198
3,06310
15203
2,68992
2,906 97
216 54
28392
14,35379
1,54611
54,542 50
6,569 22
9,75367
13,845 86
1,462 18
28205
3,02884
15088
2,68768
1,504 05
215 82
28392
13,990 84
1,54611
50,89903
6,540 35
9,753291
13,845 78
1,462 18
28205
...
|
392
72278653
1129
2,92069
1758
2,499
133
2,880
3,989
1,707
22,091
19,373
5,288
1,435
15,603
1,577
46,825
50,202
22,355
179,463
11,856
2,200
3,333
7,427
10,393
1,401
6,250
9,308
2,440
Pumelo.
3,326
42
312
580
9,501
1,696 57
2,41964
1,57427
34
1,68514
136 30
95087
42018
10934
5,136
901
117
698 35
1,653 86
466
2,373
8,703
662
991
8,255
6,240
5,598
1,464
7,306
2587
7,385
1143
2,208 57
570 75
3,760
26524
1,544 52
1,718 1,988
2587
18143
800
6 906,391
329
1,969| 1,364
156,102
46 212,208
5941
1,3651 2060
991
181 43
968
776
800
907,334
329
2,332
156,102
212,265
6338
56376
1,419
172,767
8,255
6,240
5,604
1,464
2,745
1,419
172,813
528
1,413
31,705
397
487
White Nuts.............
54316
vavel
48
6,019
14,119
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
5,125
TOTAL............. Hk. Its.l... ........... 8,017,752
428,569................ 1,689,983
... 10,175,745
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258
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
Hk. Pts.
Hk. Its
Hk. Pts.
Hk. Pts.
7,882
19,138
2,230
To-
Great Britain
India
......
Singapore and Straits ................
Australia ......
New Zealand ............ ...........
South Africa, including Mauritius...
United States of America .............
South America ...........................
Continent of Europe, Russia excepted
Russia : Odessa, by sea ......
Corea..
Hongkong for Foreign Countries....
Total to Foreign Countries......-
Hk.Tts.
5,220,068
1,214
10,022
1,759,422
278,587
57,566
566,566
5,947
72,744
45,613
3
380,520
—
Hk.Fts.
5,227,950
1,214
10,022
1,778,560
280,817
57,625
568,918
5,947
72,744
45,613
2,352
1,700
382,220
8,398,272
33,361
-
8,431,633
LO
.
.
48,049
7,133
1,039,825
15,867
24,724
.
.
.
.
.
48,073
7,133
1,039,825
16,560
24,724
.
........
.
.
Hongkong for Chinese Ports .........
Newchwang ..........
Tientsin........
Chefoo..........
Hankow .........
Kiukiang.....
Chinkiang .....
Shanghai ........
Ningpo...........
Tamşui ...........
Takow ...........
Amoy ..........
Swatow..........
Canton..........
Total to Chinese Ports .....
534,778
535,876
18
6,370
3,265
48,010
9,980
6,370
3,265
52,263
9,992
4,253
12
9
9
1,738,032
6,080
1,744,112
GRAND TOTAL .......
10,136,304
39,441
10,175,745


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TABLE No. VI.- TRANSIT TRADE.
d.—Quantity and Value of Foreign Goods conveyed to the Interior under Transit Passes
during the Year ended 31st December 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
Quantity.
of
QUANTITY.
VALUE.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
JANTITY.
VALUE.
Hk.Tts
Pieces
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
COTTON Goods:-
Shirtings, Grey........
White .........
T-Cloths.....................
Turkey Red Cloths .........
Velvets .......
Bed Covers .....
Handkerchiefs ....................
Cotton Thread .............
, Yarn ................
5,328
7,098
Hk.Fts
2,124
340
21,074
193
1,075
IIO
12,080
150
890
193
60
370
Dozens
Piculs
39
27
SUNDRIES, continued:-
Cuttle-fish ...............................
Fish Skins ........................
Flints................................
Galangal ..................
Ginseng, American, Clarified..
, Crude........
Corean, ist Quality .....
Japan, Unclassed...
Root...................
Glue, Cow ..
Gum Benjamin
» Dragon's Blood.
, Olibanum ..............
Hartall ...............
Horns, Cow...........
2,299
18,346
124
2,876
1,806
249
2.33
558
Pairs
Pieces
72
210
490
4,618
WOOLLEN Goods:-
Blankets .........
Camlets, English ..........
Long Ells.....
Spanish Stripes ....
Rugs ........
Woollen Braid (Llama)........
, Yarn .........
360
1,756
1,659
138
19
105
449
245
153
162
3,578
227
1,334
»
Deer
90
Boxes
Piculs
0.49
Piculs
434.61
1,679.93
1,245.12
84.89
9.35
49.21
0.09
35.55
47.46
27.41
18.68
4.25
86.41
23.33
28.18
20.46
1.66
77.73
1,730.03
Gross
1,400
Piculs 285.15
19.80
5.72
Gallons 112,950
Piculs 98.90
17.59
90.39
272.45
26.80
279.76
25.45
12.46
813.19
774.31
94.84
3.96
58.50
Value
364
Piculs
METALS:
Copper Wire .........
Iron Wire .....
, Old.....
Lead, in Pigs
Quicksilver .......................
Yellow Metal Sheathing........
» » Old ..........
, Rhinoceros'.
Lucraban Seed .....
Mangrove Bark .............
Matches....
Medicines............
Mussels, Dried .............
Nutmegs .....................
Oil, Kerosene...............
Paints, Sundry
Pepper, White.
Putchuck .........................
Raisins ..........................
Sandalwood....
Seaweed ...........
Sharks' Fins, Black
43.09
275.87
1,454.57
36,623.35
29.19
4.21
48.09
989
1,441
1,774
128,192
1,331
71
1,940
114
135
15,700
1,382
352
878
1,942
100
546
514
767
charfish..........
White
Piculs
Shell-fish "
161.80
111.77
0.20
.
.
.
.
.
SUNDRIES :-
Aniseed, Star...............
Betel-nuts .................
......
Birds' Nests, 2nd Quality .....
» » 3rd . ......
Borax..................................
Camphor ..........
Cardamoms, Inferior
, Superior ...........
Cinnamon ...........
Clams and Cockles, Dried.....
Cloves.......
2,034
430
197
110
192
523
2,298
1,929
1,279
19
34.36
393
19,560
10,807
4,315
734
221
1,142
Shrimps, Dried............
Wood, Fragrant .......
Garoo ............
Laka ..........................
Sundries, Unenumerated..........
TOTAL............
Hk.fts
287,880
18.96
31.45
852.67
19.11
3,894
Transit PASSES ISSUED............
No.
3,380
271


260
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
b.—Table showing the Value of the principal Descriptions of Goods taken by each Inland Mart,
and the Per-centage of the Value of the whole Transit Trade Inwards represented by each
· Amount, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
fish,
Camlets,
English
DESTINATION.
Lead,
in
Pigs.
Cuttle-
fish.
Fish
Skins.
Oil,
Kero-
Ginseng.
Shell-
Awabi, Sundries.!
TOTAL
VALUE.
Shrimps
etc.
PER-
CENTAGE
sene.
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Its | Hk.fts | Hk.Its.
Hk.Its | Hk.Its.
Hk.fi
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Fis.
Hk.fts.
35
801
830
1.16
3,367
1,626
178
0.56
45
519
0.18
221
474
7,314
497
1,268
325
9,532
3.31
0.17
497
1,386
0.48
484
137
137
97
288
2,387
4,671
15,958
0.17
0.05
0.03
0.52
0.85
1.67
6.06
1.90
1.43
13.60
246
5,386
290
3,050
4,043
1,258
8,782
9,427
9,427
Min-hsien..............
Hou-kuan ............
Lo-yüan..................
Ku-t'ien ..........
Ping-nan ..........
Min-ch'ing..
Ch'ang-lo.................
Yung-fu..........
Hsing-hua...
Yen-p'ing. .......
Shun-ch‘ang ..
Chiang-lo ......
Sha-hsien .......
Yu-ch‘i..
Yung-an .....
Chien-ning ..........
Chien-an ......
Ou-ning .............
Chien-yang ...........
Ch'ung-an ..........
Pu-ch*êng ....
Sung-ch'i ..........
Chêng-ho............
Shao-wu............
Kuang-tsê.............
Shang-hang .........
Fu-ning ..............
Fu-ting ..........
Fu-an...
Ning-tê..
Shou-ning..........
Hsia-pʻu
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​991
660
0.57
1.OI
109
4.58
2,894
10,401
22,255
6,762
2,072
7,848
22,495
III
12.14
3.13
1,485
2,449
4,800
17,447
5,461
4,121
39,129
1,651
2,894
13,192
34,943
8,997
2,475
8,456
25,801
4,621
43,037
3,820
8,558
31,438
3,465
1,876
119
125
1,523
2,264
1,428
254
31
1,104
597
17,232
556
140
0.86
2.94
8.96
254
307
483
...
21
1,804
3,488
5,018
159
852
713
118
986
2,599
4,466
12,962
722
1,408
1,422
6,955
619
1.61
14.95
1.33
3.00
10.89
1.20
0.65
0.04
1,003
2,299
2,113
1,178
119
349
........
91
3
698
TOTAL.
....Hk. Dit
21,074
4,618 128,192
5,328
7,098 25,451
15,700
34,261 46,158
287,880
100.00


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TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a.—Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
Coast TRADE.
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
12,167.6.7.8
138.7.5.2
365.9.4.5
169.1.9.1
Hk. Itsm.c.c.
10,272.0.0.0
72.0.0.0
1,612.0.0.0
British .........
American ............
German ..................
Danish..
Swedish and Norwegian....
Japanese ........
Siamese .............
Chinese .............
On Opium................
Hk.ftsm.c.c. Hk.fts. m.c.c.
53,315.8.6.8 1,606,881.5.6.4
2.0.6.0 552.5.6.3
310.4.9.0 32,613.3.0.7
1,460.0.9.7
20,450.0.6.6
111.8.0.0
63.0.0.0 179.4.8.0
1,233.4.5.3 | 113,900.1.5.4
142,781.5.0.0
Hk.Its.m.c.c. Hk.fts m.c.c.
2,058.7.1.4 1,684,695.8.2.4
137.8.0.3 903. 1.7.8
34,901.7.4.2
1,629.2.8.8
20,579.2.6.6
626.2.0.0
574.8.8.0
5,290.5.4.4 | 131,799.8.2.8
142,781.5.0.0
129.2.0.0
514.4.0.0
332.4.0.0
395.4.0.0
10,980.2.7.7
TOTAL.....
197,818.1.7.1 1,776,037.2.3. I
23,821.8.4.3
13,327.4.0.0
7,487.0.6.1 2,018,491.7.0.68
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total.
Hk.fts. Nil.
6.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
OPIUM
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
EXPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
Coast TRADE
(exclusive of
Opium).
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
and
Coast Trade).
1877...
1878......
1879.
1880.
1881..
1882.
1883
1884............
1885............
1886.......
Hk.ftsm.c.c. Hk.fts m.c.c.
62,117.2.3.5 | 1,624,155.2.0.2
74,539.1.8.6 | 1,790,241.2.3.5
61,519.8.6.3 1,716,205.2.1.1
64,413.8.0.6 1,927,420.7.8.7
69,749.6.9.1 1,771,067.9.9.7
61,334.7.8.5 1,778,727.9.9.1
55,521.9.2.9 1,593,769.7.1.4
41,688.5.8.7 1,627,349.7.2.3
65,133.2.4.8 1,756,952.5.4.0
55,036.6.7.1 1,776,037.2.3.1
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
14,885.9.5.1
16,688.0.0.4
21,288.4.6.6
19,121.1.6.5
19,376.5.6.2
19,628.6.4.2
17,747.3.4.4
17,466.6.0.0
18,941.3.8.5
23,821.8.4.3
Hk.ftsm.c.c. |
94,759.3.0.0
109,241.0.0.0
122,591.8.0.0
123,139.3.0.0
138,764.1.0.0
128,000.1.5.0
129,998.1.0.0
124,322.2.0.0
130,087.2.0.0
142,781.5.0.0
Hk.Fts.m.c.c.
8,527.6.0.0
14,650.0.0.0
10,743.5.0.0
11,186.9.0.0
8,436.3.0.0
10,356.8.0.0
9,768.5.0.0
10,691.4.0.0
12,326.5.0.0
13,327.4.0.0
Hk.Itám.c.c. | Hk.Its m.c.c.
17,185.6.7.9 1,821,630.9.6.7
24,150.2.4.1 2,029,509.6.6.6
31,310.3.8.4 1,963,659.2.2.4
22,181.3.6.8 | 2,167,463.3.2.6
15,539.6.1.4 2,022,934.2.6.4
8,427.2.5.2 | 2,006,475.6.2.0
6,136.2.8.8 1,812,941.8.7.5
5,597.4.1.0 1,827,115.9.2.0
7,019.7.0.8 1,990,460.5.8. I
7,487.0.6.1 | 2,018,491.7.0.6


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-TREASURE.
Import and Export of Treasure, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
To-
.......
FROM-
Hongkong......
Shanghai ....................
Amoy ............
Tamsui ........
Takow...........
Swatow..................
Dollars.
6,717,650
.......... 418,302
122,718
..... 6,028
100
50,230
Dollars.
415,160
341,800
1,200
1,877,960
16,700
15,970
.
.
.
.
.
Hongkong ....
Tientsin ...........
Chinkiang.........
Shanghai
Amoy.....
Swatow....
.
........
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
TOTAL ......
...... $ 2,668,790
TOTAL ...................... $ 7,315,028
Shanghai—Copper Cash ......................Strings 12,370
TABLE No. 2.-OPIUM.
Import and Re-export of Opium, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
IMPORTED.
FROM
MalwA.
PATNA.
BENARES.
PERSIAN.
TURKEY.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
2,405.50
Piculs.
1,721.46
Piculs.
285.60
Piculs.
353.80
Piculs.
8.23
1.03
......
- 65
Hongkong .......
Shanghai..
Amoy ..........
Taiwan-fu......
Piculs.
4,774.59
90.03
35.61
2.86
10.80
24.81
2.86
TOTAL.......
2,470.50
1,745.46
296.40
381.47
9.26
4,903.09
TO
RE-EXPORTED.
3.60
7.20
17.37
48.29
Hongkong....
Shanghai...........
Amoy ................
Taiwan-fu...
9.60
52.17
85.89
8.40
9.24
8.40
9.24
TOTAL............
.............
- 52
I
13.20
15.60
74.90
155.70


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TABLE No. 3.-TEA.
Export of Tea, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
EXPORTED.
ORANGE
DESTINATION.
Congou.
FLOWERY
OOLONG. SOUCHONG. POUCHONG.
РЕКОЕ.
SCENTED
CAPER.
MIXED.
PEKOE.
TOTAL
BLACK.
Piculs.
568.73
317.18
Piculs.
1,615.26
691.61
17.76
Piculs.
8,573.16
120.02
Piculs.
949.31
0.16
15.82
0.19
2,038.92
120.02
243.93
11.76
Piculs. | Piculs. | Piculs.
Great Britain ................. 355,526.15| 4,539.96 | 30,329.30
Hongkong ............
9,675.93 6,558.96 6,251.07
India ...........
Singapore and Straits ........
1.33 24.96 1.75
Australia ......
1 24,030.78
18.04
297.48
New Zealand
21,119.22
4.73
South Africa and Mauritius ... 561.06
2,455.44
United States of America ...... 18,085.96 25,756.96 177.30
South America ...........
331.37
135.38
Continent of Europe, Russia
excepted.
2,698.61 ... 1,654.19
Russia: Odessa, by sea........
3,074.86 4.20
Corea ............
0.30
Chinese Ports .................... 10,714.96 1,659.74 134.41
TOTAL........ 545,820.53 38,562.82 | 41,485.05
Piculs.
Piculs.
54.97 || 402,156.84
98.57 23,713.50
17.76
44.05
3.48 126,632.63
21,255.76
1,297.72 4,314.22
1.60 44,127.45
466.81
18.96
4,564.82
0.94 3,182.61
0.30
7.96 35,018.11
12.61
44
4.75 88.27
0.06
193.06
57.32
38.81 21,922.66
| 2,618.63 32,863.24
1.29
18.93
520.64
933.27
1,727.12
1,484.20 | 665,494.86
Dust.
BRICK.
YOUNG
Hyson.
Hyson.
HYSON
SKIN.
TWANKAY. IMPERIAL.
GUN-
POWDER.
TOTAL
GREEN.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
1,321.33
66.20
111.85
111.85
Great Britain ...........
Hongkong .............
Australia ...............
Continent of Europe, Russia
excepted
Russia : Odessa, by sea ..
Chinese Ports ............
18.36
46.88
75.75
105,319.30
TOTAL..........
1,443.96
105,403.86
112.85
112.85
RE-EXPORTED.
DESTINATION.
Congou.
FLOWERY
OOLONG. SOUCHONG. POUCHONG.
PEKOE.
ORANGE
PEKOE.
SCENTED
CAPER.
MIXED.
TOTAL
BLACK.
| Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Great Britain ........
Hongkong.............
Australia ......
New Zealand ..........
United States of America ......
Piculs.
8.25
16.17
1,399.82
113.91
29.88
Piculs.
457.95
0.22
60.92
Piculs.
466.20
16.39
1,471.24
134.91
150.06
120.18
TOTAL............
1,568.03
639.27
1.50
2,238.80
Dust.
ск.
YOUNG
Hyson.
Hyson.
HYSON
SKIN.
TWANKAY. IMPERIAL.
GUN-
POWDER.
TOTAL
GREEN.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
0.51
Piculs.
1.25
Piculs.
1.76
445.54
Great Britain.........
Hongkong ....................
Australia ..........................
New Zealand ..............
South Africa and Mauritius ..
United States of America .....
50.93
13.53
1.98
50.93
13.53
1.98
7.40
::
8.40
TOTAL.........
445.54
7.91
68.69
76.60
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TABLE No. 4.-PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Passenger Traffic, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
PASSENGERS TO
PASSENGERS FROM
SAILING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
SAILING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners. 1
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
11,681*
7,1247
Hongkong and Coast)
Ports....
Formosa .........
107
3
Singapore ......
Japan...........
Australia.....
New York
London ..
L.
306
11,791
Total.......
VOTAL..
...
17
7,274
* Including 2,780 soldiers and 400 students.
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TAMSUL TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
The introduction of the system of Likin taxation into the island is the event of 1886.
Much as a like departure from old custom would affect trade, it did not in this instance, and
as far as this district is concerned, do much harm. Unlike all other commodities, Tea and
Camphor were, almost from the outset, treated as exceptions; that is, they had been charged
Likin dues before, and as the new Tariff simply endorsed the amount which merchants have been
accustomed to pay for years, the proclamation of the new impost did not create any sensation.
The imposition of Likin was only to be applied to Exports, i.e., Native produce of local origin,
while Foreign goods imported were to enjoy absolute immunity. It therefore caused a good
deal of astonishment when the fact became known that the Likin Office collected dues on
Piece Goods and Sundries re-exported to the consuming districts on the coast by Native vessels.
Importers at once stopped business, which they only resumed after receiving assurances that
Foreign goods could thereafter be taken coastwise without paying additional taxes. Apart
from this little incident, which, luckily, was of short duration, commerce on the whole rather
progressed. It is also worthy of notice that the enforcement of Likin Dues, little as it affected
Foreign trade, was quite disastrous to the Native shipping, inasmuch as the latter has through
the new system been despoiled of its free-trading privilege, which led to an important diminu-
tion of the cargo carried through that channel, and an increase in a comparative degree for the
Foreign shipping. The fact that items hitherto unknown appear in the Returns for 1886 may
be put down to this circumstance.
SHIPPING.—The number of steamers entered and cleared, and their carrying capacity, are
the largest on record. Besides the old line of steamers, an opposition was tried during the year,
with no important result. A party of merchants and officials subscribed capital and started
business in the spring under the name of the “ Formosa Trading Company” ( P ).
They had the laudable aim of developing the resources of the island and expanding its trade.
To this end they chartered a steamer carrying the German flag, and employed it between this
port, Amoy, and Hongkong. Notwithstanding the very economical principles on which the
steamer's working was carried on, its earnings during the remunerative season were almost nil;
and it was eventually put off the line in December. It must be remembered, however, that the
company had to contend against a powerful rival, having steamers excellently fitted up, and
whose carrying rates were so low as to make an opposition literally impossible. The “Douglas ”
and the Chinese company employed four vessels, running almost throughout the season. They
made 107 trips, aggregating 50,353 tons. Of sailing vessels, 29 entered, being the highest
number since 1883.
FOREIGN IMPORTS.—Opium.—This article, which had fallen off since 1882, once more
exhibits increasing tendencies. The gain, however, may be put down to the fact that recently
large numbers of troops have been maintained on the island, a great per-centage of whom are
habitual smokers. The demand so created must of course be met by greater supplies than
before. There were in all 1,533 chests imported, of which 47 had to be returned on account of
the drug being badly prepared.
Cotton Goods. The demand for Cotton fabrics during the last two years has remarkably
increased, the excess being not less than 40 per cent. of the average importation of former years.
For certain kinds a marked preference appears to exist, while others are neglected. Among
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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
the latter class T-Cloths take a prominent part: from 22,000 pieces in 1885, they have dropped
to 8,000 pieces in 1886. This Cloth is of course largely supplemented by others. The well-to-
do working classes use almost exclusively Nankeens and some locally made stuff, of which the
imported Cotton Yarn is the main component part. Concerning Japanese Cloth, the past 12
months have again furnished fresh proofs of its increasing popularity; the quantity imported
has exactly doubled since the preceding year. Its advantages are cheapness and comparative
durability.
Woollens. Among Woollen Goods, Lastings deserve to be specially mentioned. This
fabric cuts the most prominent figure in the list of Woollens, amounting as it does to 4,000
pieces, against 2,700 pieces in 1885 and 1,500 pieces in 1884. Nor do the other kinds look
retrogressive, though their growth is much more gradual.
Metals.—Of Metals, the variety imported is somewhat greater than it used to be, Lead
in Sheets and Copper Sheathing appearing for the first time. The main items, however,
continue to be Lead in Pigs and Tin—both used for the lining of tea-boxes.
Sundries.-In Sundries a steady increase is noticeable. Llama Braid, destined to adorn
the cues of the Chinese, is now standing at 18,000 packages, against 7,000 packages in 1885.
Of Indigo, which is extensively grown on the island, over 1,000 piculs found their way to this
port. It is chiefly Indigo produced in the Straits, which, being infinitely superior to the
Native growth, is used in preference for dyeing purposes. Matches and Kerosene Oil have
again increased about 100 per cent. in one year, and they are as yet far from having reached
their limit, so long as no prohibition is put on them in the shape of additional taxes. The
extraordinary development in Cuttle-fish, Flour, Dried Prawns, etc., is probably more of a
temporary than permanent nature. The chief consumers of these eatables are soldiers, who,
as has been said above, at present find employment in exceptionally large numbers on the
island. Should the military forces be reduced later on, a falling off in these articles may be
almost certainly expected.
NATIVE IMPORTS.-Trade in Silk Piece Goods appears to be steadily progressing, the
quantity imported being nearly 100 piculs. The fact that a large number of officials are
employed on the island, and that a still greater number of expectants in search of a position
come here, explains sufficiently the increasing demand for this article of luxury. Of Paper
Fans enormous supplies were imported. Sugar, as an item of Import, is seen in the Returns,
perhaps for the first time. Sugar-cane may be found cultivated on a large scale about the
plains of Twatutia; the annual out-turn, however, is far from sufficing for local needs, and a
good deal is brought up here in junks from South Formosa. In the year under review, owing
to the imposition of taxes on produce imported by Native vessels, the cost of transport by
steamers was found less expensive, and thus it happens that Sugar now swells the list of Native
goods imported. A small lot of Amoy Tea has also found its way to this port, to be mixed with
Formosa Oolongs. The value of Native Imports now exceeds half a million taels.
EXPORTS.—Camphor.—The Camphor trade, which was thought to be doomed to a rapid
extinction, is again showing signs of revival. Some degree of success having attended the
military operations on the hills, densely wooded districts, hitherto dangerous of approach, have
been rendered accessible. Camphor may now be obtained easily, and at a comparatively cheap
cost. The management of this commodity, however, has lately been brought under official
control, and the sale is restricted to Government agents,—thus providing a source of income for
the benefit of the provincial exchequer. The selling price of Camphor by the agents is at
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added. According to the official estimate, some 10,000 piculs of Camphor may be raised
annually, which is about the maximum quantity ever exported before.
Tea.-The total yield of Tea during the year, within a few hundred piculs, equals that
of 1885, the largest crop the island ever produced. The season began about the 20th April,
when great quantities of the new leaf were offered for sale, at prices, however, considered
excessively high. Quality, at first pronounced altogether below the average, gradually improved,
and the late May pickings were said to come up to the best kinds known yet. Shipments to
Amoy were very brisk throughout May, but later they fell off considerably. The absence of
rain and the excessive heat prevented the proper development of the summer leaf, a fact which
curtailed in a great measure the growth for 1886 of the Formosa Tea trade. Autumn pickings
were again abundant and of very fair average quality, so that shipments on an improved
scale were maintained up to the end of the year. Those interested in the matter think that
business in Teas has been ruinous to both Chinese and Foreign speculators, since the prices
paid locally were in excess of rates ruling in America.
Coal.— The destruction of the Government colliery in Kelụng during 1884 almost
became fatal to the Coal trade of this district. Although permission to work private mines
was generally granted, the quantity shipped away in 1885 did not exceed 6,000 tons. In 1886
the production rose to about 17,000 tons, exclusive of what was retained for the use of gunboats.
The prospects for the future are, of course, more encouraging. The authorities have secured the
services of a Foreign expert, under whose superintendence the colliery is being put into working
order again. As soon, therefore, as work is resumed with the aid of Foreign appliances, this
item will regain its former importance among the Exports of North Formosa.
REVENUE.—The Revenue of the port for 1886 is again the highest of the collections
recorded. The amount is now close on Hk.Tts. 400,000. By far the chief share is derived from
Exports,—Opium, Import, Coast Trade, and Tonnage Dues contributing sums quite insignificant.
Transit trade is extinct, and no dues appear under that heading.
GENERAL.--Now that Formosa has been made into a province, with its governing officials
stationed on the island, several excellent schemes, looking to improvements both military
and commercial have been put forward, some of which are already on the way to realisation.
Among this latter is the telegraph. A land line is being erected connecting the city of Taipei-fu
in the north with Taiwan-fu in the south; and two branch lines will run from the former to
Kelung and Tamsui respectively. The submarine cable will be laid from Taiwan-fu (Anping)
viâ the Pescadores to Amoy, and is to be completed in the course of 1887. Speculation is
already rife as to the probable changes which the electric wire will bring about in the present
relations of Formosa with the mainland—a problem soon to be solved. Another, not less
important, of the plans proposed is the construction of an experimental railway from the trading
centre of Twatutia to the port of Kelung. This project as yet only exists on paper, and the
execution of it depends largely on the state of the provincial treasury. Its promoters, however,
expect to work the line profitably by transporting Tea and other goods to and from Kelung,
the spacious harbour of which can accommodate a number of large ocean-going steamers.
EDM. FARAGÓ,
Commissioner of Customs.
Tamsui, 18th January 1887.


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TAMSUI TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
a
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo.
| In Ballast.
TOTAL.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons. | No. |
Tons.
No.
Tons.
75
1
British ..........
German .........
Chinese............
35,379
10,332
3,232
277
1,133
76
23
2
35,656
11,465
3,232
66 | 31,063 10
22 10,909 1
8
...
4,593
556
...
76 35,656 | 152
23 11,465 46
8L 3,232 16
71,312
22,930
6,464
...
3,232 |
Total Steamers .......
104
48,943
3
1,410
107
50,353
45,204 11
5,149
107
50,353
214
100,706
SAILING VESSELS.
o
1,784
1,820
360
1,850
British ...........
American ........
German .......
Danish..
3,604
540
360
a
2
8
3,604
720
4,204
241
3,240
360
4,062
241
7,208
1,260
9,001
15
735
17
2,354
241
4,797
241
482
Total Sailing Vessels
14
4,030
| 15
4,739
29
8,769
26
7,903 | 4 |
1,279
30
9,182
59
17,951
GRAND TOTAL.....
118
52,973 18
6,149
136
59,122
122
53,107
15
6,428
137
59,535
273
118,657


TAMSUI.
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TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF TAMSUI,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Fts
Hk. Aits
Hk.fts.
Hk.fta
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong.......
Imported from Chinese Ports .......... ..........
1,020,801
688,594
321,387
1,202,838
313,776
371,475
Total Foreign Imports.......
1,009,981
1,392,276
1,516,614
10,237
8,901
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong....
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Amoy)....
Total Foreign Re-exports ............
10,114
13,846
10,981
28,510
21,218
37,411
23,960
Net Total Foreign Imports .........
988,763
1,354,865
1,492,654
242,778
403,890
533,944
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Hongkong, Amoy, and
Shanghai)
Re-exported to Foreign Countries.....
Re-exported to Chinese Ports.............
1,819
799
4,080
Total Native Re-exports......
1,819
799
4,080
Net Total Native Imports ...........
240,959
403,091
529,864
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries.........
21,278
22,777
38,513
2,379,379
2,718,522
3,373,432
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports...
Total Exports of local origin....
2,400,657
2,741,299
3,411,945
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port..........
3,653,416
4,537,465
5,462,503
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native
Exports of local origin......
3,630,379
4,499,255
5,434,463


270
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.— TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.—Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG,
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Pts.
Hifits
Hk.Ats.
......... Piculs
720
3,600
OPIUM :-
Benares.................
Patna.........
Persian..
Turkey ...
Hk.Tts.
363 09 182,476
729
3,653
10457 47,007
1,207 84 558,928
H .Fts
178,876
3,653
45,739
541,002
35589
729
101 50
1,168 26
3071
39 58
1,268
17,926
48,510
40,639
1,298
947
8,181
98,260
125,832
4,185
2,414
9,000
1,209
120
1,136
1,108
3,102
48,510
40,639
1,298
947
8,181
502
502
60
COTTON Goods:-
Shirtings, Grey, Plain ....... Pieces
White, . .......
Dyed,
, Dyed, Figured
and Brocaded)
T-Cloths........
Drills, American ..
Sheetings.....................
Chintzes ........................
Turkey Red Cloths..
Damasks, Dyed ...
Dimities
Muslins and Cambrics......
Velvets .................
Velveteens ..............
Cloth, Italian.........
,, Japanese.........
Cotton Handkerchiefs........
Dozens
, Yarn, English ......... Piculs
, Bombay .........?
Mosquito Nets ......
Cotton Goods, Unclassed .... ,
98,260
125,832
4,185
2,414
9,000
1,209
120
1,136
1,108
3,102
105
635
630
8551
954
855
954
369
168
1,154
119
1,154
635
630
144
119
24
144
368
2,132
$22
110
39,437
1,893
27413
10,681
766
24
MIO
41,569
1,893
27413
368
11,203
766
5,148
5,148
72
Calicoes.”
ces
1,728
1,457
1,015
444
424
3151
424
1,728
1,457
1,015
444
315
194
194
710
710
Pieces
2,854
2,854
16
704
704
4,028
4,028
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Blankets
. Pairs
Camlets, English ...
, Dutch.
Bombazettes ..........
Lastings.
Long Ells.
Spanish Stripes .......
. Inferior...
Cloth, Broad and Medium...
Flannels ........................
Woollen & Cotton Mixtures
,, Yarn.
... Piculs
, Goods, Unclassed... Pieces
2,343
24,776
298
2,792
28,648
9,525
7,858
3,285
13,748
1861
8581
5,0731
1,8431
2,056
704
2,343
24,776
298
2,792
28,648
9,525
7,858
3,285
13,748
186
2,056
704
365)
365
491
491
14
14
70
858
2
62 22
113
5,073
1,643
200
8727
1,11930
5063
1,422
2,698
434
METALS:
Copper Sheathing.............. Piculs
Iron, Nail-rod...
,, Nails............
, Wire............
Lead, in Pigs ..........
is , Sheets........
Quicksilver ............
Steel ..........
Tin, in Slabs...........
, Ware or Manufactured
87 27.
1,119 30
5063
96
10,680 60
253 50
96
1,422
2,698
434
1,534
42,964
1,770
313
1,487
3,453
3,941
10,680 60
253 50
674
341 80
163 55
1,534
42,964
1,770
313
1,487
3,453
3,933
34180
163 55
38678
8
38578


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TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODs.— Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Its.
Hk. Its.
Hk. Its
Hk. Pts.
METALS, continued :-
Tinplates...
Metals, Manufactured,
Unclassed............
Piculs
30
Hk.fts.
119
3,735
30
119
3,735
2911
115 92
2911
11592
010
218)
1,348
2,532
180
2,040
1,219
643
8,239
8,389
Biscuits ..................**
Pkgs.
212
18,276
3,347
003
1,348
2,532
180
2,040
1,219
643
8,239
8,389
135
155
941
651
135
012
796
2625
692
669
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::
1,197
2575
3
SUNDRIES :-
Bicho de Mar, Black.......... Piculs
, White.........
Birds' Nests, ist Quality.....
»
2nd ,
3rd , ..
Dozens
Braid, Llama ...................
Buttons, Brass................... Gross
Camphor, Baroos, Clean...... Piculs
Refuse
Candles..........................
Boxes
Cardamoms, Inferior ........ Piculs
Superior ........
Chains, Brass .......
Dozens
Cinnamon
...........
Piculs
Clocks ...............
Pieces
Compasses......................
Dozens
Confectionery ...............
Cotton, Raw, Bombay..... Piculs
, Thread, Waxed......
Gross
Cuttle-fish .........
Piculs
Dye-stuff......
Fish, Salt.....
Flour...
Gambier.
Ginseng, American, Clarified
Corean, ist Quality
» , 2nd ,
Japan, Unclassed...
Horns, Assorted ............
Indigo, Liquid ............
Isinglass ...................
Lacquerware.............
Machinery ...........
Mangrove Bark
Piculs
Matches...........
Gross
Medicines..............
Value
Milk ..................
Dozens
Mushrooms
Piculs
Oil, Castor.
, Kerosene ...............
Pepper, Black............... Piculs
, White .............
18,276
3,347
003
012
796
26 25
692
1,197
27 05
621
2,065
560
1380
1,947
2,870 36
1439
13957
9,599 28
621
2,065
560
13 80
1,947
2,870 36
14.30
139 57
9,59928
5687
155
941
651
669
309
4,231
1,441
503
390
200
2,400
27,969
1,153
965
21,008
427
17,400
12,092
272
626
416
5,003
1,041
490
31,784
2,953
15,428
1,359
2,386
3,434
229
31,575
1,438
109
380
309
4,028
1,441
503
390
200
2,400
27,969
1,143
965
21,008
427
17,400
12,092
272
561
5478
635)
635
815
7151
1689
416
225
1,463
1,046 26
6,466
1,041
82126
61 52
1732
208
2,89415
42,006
490
Pkgs.
6152
17 32
208
2,894151
42,006
1,324
8465
2101
250,750
9417
394
322
2,922 39
3528
141
Gälls.
31,784
2,953
15,428
1,359
2,386
3,434
229
31,575
1,438
380
32,868
1,324
8465
2101
250,750
9417
394
322
2,89342
3528
109
Perfumery........
Dozens
33,187
2897
381
381
141
522
Prawns, Dried. ........... Piculs
Putchuck.
Rice.............
Rugs and Druggets ........... Pieces
, Railway ...............
Sago...........
Piculs
Sandalwood....................
Shell-fish (Awabi) ........
Sinews, Cow .........
284)
..............
282
393
644
927
3,269
6,855
600
282
393
644
927
28869
522
284
28869
537 46
27875
537 46
28065
3,269
2946
29461
6,806
'600


272
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods. - Imports and Re-exports—Conta.
IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value. | Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Tits
692
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Soap, Scented..
Towels .......................
Umbrellas, Alpaca ..........
Cotton.
Boxes
Dozens
Pieces
1,709
1,732
1,709
1,751
5,718
3,198
5,718
3,198
Silk
51
Hk. Pts.
692
631
2,859
1,153
102
150
727
5,443
I 12
862
11,829
:::
44
197
:::::::::::
:::::::::::
662
2,859
1,153
102
150
727
5,459
112
44
197
Watches .............
Window Glass............ Boxes
Wine.........
Wood, Fragrant.
, Garoo ...........
Sundries, Unenumerated .... Value
TOTAL............... Hk. Pts
1:::::::::
Pkgs.
Piculs
DO
5/21
862
11,795
2,046
1,514,568
23,960
1,492,654
SUMMARY
1,202,838
313,776
Hk.Fts
1,516,614
IMPORTS from Hongkong .......
Hk. Its. 1,200,792
„ Singapore and Straits ..........
1,463
» Japan.
553
Philippine Islands ...
30
Total from Foreign Countries ......
-Hk. Pts
Imports from Chinese Ports.............
....... 5
Total FOREIGN IMPORTS ......
RE-EXPORTS to Hongkong ..................................... Hk.Fts 10,114
Total to Foreign Countries......... -- Hk.fts.
RE-EXPORTS to Takow .........
............ Hk. Pts
48
„ „ Amoy............................................ » 13,598
„ „ Swatow........................................... 2
200
Total to Chinese Ports ..........
-Hk. Pts.
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS ...........
10,114
13,846
-Hk. Hts.
23,960
Net Total FOREIGN IMPORTS ..........
Hk.fts
1,492,654


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TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Als
Hk. Its
Hk.Its
Hk.fts.
291
40,404
0 47
HK.Tts.
15,576
4,950
3,675
6729
028
663
1187
2589
12 35
:SILK Piece Goods .............. Piculs
Ribbons .....................
Thread.
Pongees, Shantung........
Embroidery .................
, and Cotton Mixtures ......
112
9271
1263
2125
11871
55,689
5,062
5,708
2,033
2,136
1,260
1462)
1 40
140
2,136
1,260
2,480
025
1296
::
1321
5673
1,417
44
139
5698
2730
1406
526 14
1410
4056
144
3,822 80
8 36
1,423
443
143
910
236
160
230
8,797
230
7,271
1,526
528
528
1441
3,147 94
560
10066
266,3891
400
560
67486
836|
1,895
5673
6137
757
SUNDRIES >
Almonds.....
Piculs
Aniseed, Star...
Arsenic...........
Bamboo, Split.
Bambooware ..
Barley, Pearl .........
Beancake.............
Beans and Peas.
Bone and Horn Ware .....
Bones, Cow ................
Brass Pipes ...................
Pieces
Brassware...........
Piculs
Bricks and Tiles. ........
Buttons, Brass.....
Piculs
Caps, Silk .........
Pieces
China-root...........
Piculs
Cinnabar .............
Clams, Dried.
Cotton Clothing
Cord.....
Quilts....
Raw ....................
Piculs
Stockings.. ..........
Dates, Black
Red ..........
Fancy Ornaments..
Fans, Paper ....
1,8951
2,253
400
757
6,208
1,265
3,955
1,265
Pieces
157 39
266,389
611371
4,568
2,329
504
671
61
472
29192
4,568
IOI
2,785
517
2,922
2,801
298|631
828
8 331
005
3850
1251
I 20
476 53
605
2,846
520
3,042
626
812
43803
865)
626
...
812
Preces
193)
232
232
8,202
585851
1157
12 351
481
701
462
8,202
1,182
511
586
650
1,673
7,855
790
84,401
1,5981
40
15701
497 40
»
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
1,704
12,081
587
Silk
31
4,226
127
17
126
2,493
460
1753
12401
24919
66,718
155,683
4,250
20,8511
1,02272
45451
341 26
196
58489
5,000
193
58585
2910
136 36
265191
67,508
240,0841
5,848
20,891
1,038 42
947 55
34126
340 54
61179
5,000
303
12,670
320
22
2,468
678
12,796
4,939
678
338 58
26901
509
660
Assorted
Fire-crackers....
Fish, Salt.........
Flour, Potato......
Fruit, Assorted.
Fungus ..............
Fur Collars .................
Furniture .......................
Garlic ............................ Piculs
Ginseng, Corean, ist Quality
, Native.
Glassware ..
517
14,352
Pieces
TIO
91143
417
344
1,255
911 43
3,256
732
1316
13641
Glassware ......................
G lue...........................
165
1715
29,531
15,012
419
761
1,255
3,256
1,724
2,627
666
10,290
41,569
1,169
192
1,421
689
242
4,215
991
2,550
595
10,192
12,038
802
723
1,404
Grasscloth, Coarse..........
Fine...........
Hams .....................
Honey ............
Horns, Deer, Old ....
Indigo, Liquid
Ink Stones ........
367
2004
140651
54851
17148
231891
5468
502
1625
14475
2,235
45661
16 58
14475
17
689
Pieces
Iron Nails
» Old.......
2,266
117
2,235)
27109
242
1,949
712
398 30
456871
829
35


274
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Its
Hk.its
HK.Tts.
28 59
16281
H. Pts.
143
1,042
4,788
1,23864
56.50
11,684
Pieces
768
6,813
191 29
1,632
158
2,634
163
Pieces
400
3,938
819
819
SUNDRIES, continued:-
Iron Pans ....................... Piculs
Ironware.................
Jade Ornaments ......
Joss Sticks.
Piculs
Kittysols................
Lamps, Kerosene...........
Opium..............
Lead, Red.
White ...........
Leatherware
Lichees .....
Lily Flowers, Dried .
Liquorice......
Lotus-nuts
Lung-ngans..............
Mats, Bamboo ................ eces
Straw.............
Piculs
21,744
7,290
39
153
2 26
277
902
139
50
604
50
1,88199
5360
84.40
10,859
426
1,094
40
20
436
916
4330
2,350
6,850
2,200
582
>
Tea .......
73
1,399
Piculs
358
358
1,796
3,019
735
96
:::
831
2258
013
17 10
272291
1565
10,612
41,000
1396
56 37
0 37
1124
1,631 82
168 14
48,797
126 07
220
2,075
271
17,662
:::::::::::::
72
706
778
II
19,377
92 36
554
3796
1,704
4,765
241
2,238
707
4,350
749
199
297 54
15247
3199
30
239
743
14,295
3,251
5013
7884
H.IS
1,267 23 4,931
21931 1,810
11,68411 6,813
19129 2,634
2,032
195
21,902 3,954
7,290
39
277
153
902
7051
14853 604
1,881 991 10,859
5994 476
8750 1,134
303
2,350
916
6,850 582
43,200
1,472
1396
7895
4,815
050
28 34 491
1,902 83 19,729
18379
59,409 1,715
632 73 24,142
13032 795
297 54 2,238
159 96 737
52 12 4,589
11083
1,44405 23,386
64469 3,276
076 269
927 314
2,292
38,831
9,970
7,741
1,340
425
1,983 54
3,786
37,41895
26,568
74404
8,805
877 505
1,202
1,107 16 4,430
5821 732
1,289 1,677
724
254
1,5771 1,720
6,278!
414
1,130 80 2,907
1,658 93 12,784
1,51971 8,937
520 69 3,966
2640 185
143 31
3,020
36 68
1,043
209
952
88057
639 57
566 83
9,145
25
922
915
Meat, Preserved....
Medicine Pills .....
, Powder..
Tea...........
Medicines........
Melon Seeds
Mirrors ............
Pieces
Nankeens ...................
Piculs
Oil, Ground-nut....
„ Wood.....
Olives, Salted
Opium Husk
Oysters, Dried.
Paper, ist Quality
» 2nd
Peppermint Oil....
Pewterware....
Planks, Soft-wood.
Pieces
, Tea-wood..
Poles......
Pieces
Preserves.
Piculs
Raisins......
Rice...............
Safflower .............
Salt
Samshu...
Scales ...................
Screens........
Sesamum Seed.................. Piculs
Shell-fish .............
Shoes and Boots, Silk ......... Pairs
, Assorted .........
Skin Clothing, Assorted ..... Pieces
Spectacles .........
"P
Sugar, Brown .................
Candy...
012
764
Pkgs.
2,292
60,00 1
9,970
82 48
311
764
38,831
7,741
1,281
60,001
86 27
379
6595
1,983 54
44 16
37,41895
741/44
3,786
26,568
2,892
8,771
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
2,892
- 260
Pieces
877
:::::::::::::::::::::::::
597
3831
1,2021
1,011 37
5611
901
9579
IO
388
505
597
4,047
722
1,172
215
505
851
39
639
1,5771
1,720
6,278
701
414
1,823
586
82
»
White
3,087
42980
1,576 93
96514
412 44
26 40
143 31
13766
554 57
108 25
1,084
12,198
5,850
3,175
185
3,020
4,073
Tallow, Animal .......
, Vegetable
Tea, Amoy.........
, Formosa...........
791
10098
3,030


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TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports-Contd.
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE Ports.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Its
HK.fts
Hk. Hts.
Hk.Fts.
188
2,687
470
56 44
911
188
3,598
167 98
185711
6317
3,667
3,667
461
69531
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Tin-foil ............ .............. Piculs
Tobacco, Prepared..........
Varnish ........
Vermicelli ...............
Vermilion ............
Wax, White............
Wheat .......
Woodware...
Woollen & Cotton Mixtures Pieces
Copper Cash ...................... Strings
Sundries, Unenumerated .... Value
TOTAL................ Hk. Pts.
4,665
2,159
2,080
::::::::
375
2,504
218
4,075
:::::::::::
:::::::::::
470
22442
18571
75848
5394
3974
2,504
3262
1,500
500
5,126
2,159
2,298
4,075
408
1,305
295
6,548
408
1,500
500
1,305
295
3,069
3,490
306,926
227,018
3,770
310
529,864
SUMMARY.
IMPORTS from Shanghai ............
.........Hk. Pts.
» Ningpo ..........
, , Foochow ....
Takow.........
„ „ Amoy...........
................ »
Swatow..........
, Canton ...........................................
Total from Chinese Ports..............
Imports from Hongkong..............................
TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS..........
58,770
10,054
7,637
29,557
155,709
42,562
2,637
- Hk.fts.
........... -
306,926
227,018
- Hk.Fts
533,944
22
........
3,748
RE-EXPORTS to Shanghai........................................ Hk. Als
» Amoy .........
„ „ Hongkong for Chinese Ports............. ,
Total to Chinese Ports .............
TOTAL NATIVE RE-EXPORTS ........
TOTAL
310
-Hk. Its
4,080
Hk.its.
4,080
NET Total NATIVE IMPORTS .....
Hk.fls.
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TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
Nil.
TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a.—Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
ear
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
COAST TRADE.
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
ToTAL.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
2,499.8.4.6
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
747.6.0.0
Hk. fiam.c.c.
22,170.3.1.5
367.8.9.6
6,623.6.4.4
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
273,693.0.1.8
51.1.9.0
32,006.1.5.5
31.9.0.5
62.0.2.1
British ..........
American.........
German .....
Danish ...........
Chinese
On Opium.......
1,069.4.8.2
437.6.0.0
96.4.0.0
161.6.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
299,110.7.7.9
419.0.8.6
40,136.8.8.1
128.3.0.5
223.6.2.1
42,137.7.1.9
42,137.7.1.9
TOTAL.....
71,299.5.7.4
305,844.2.8.9 1
3,569.3.2.8
1,443.2.0.0
382,156.3.9.1*
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total ....
..Hk.fts. Nil.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
..
6.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
EXPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
Coast TRADE
(exclusive of
Opium).
OPIUM
(Import, Export,
and
Coast Trade).
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
1877.
1878...
1879............
1880...
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
17,182.8.9.3
18,810.8.9.8
21,517.6.6.1
24,233.1.4.9
21,917.2.0.0
18,146.2.7.4
16,629.6.6.6
16,325.8.0.3
26,960.5.2.0
29,161.8.5.5
1881..
1882...........
1883........
H.htm...
187,838..8.8
213,156.1.4.7
224,643.9.3.9
238,743. 1.8.3
254,164.9.9.6
234,552.2.5.9
253,729.4.0.4
250,881.8.9.6
308,893.3.6.0
305,844.2.8.9
Hk.Ptsm.c.c.
990.8.1.2
1,563. 1.0.8
1,535.5.1.7
1,808.8.1.9
2,422.5.2.4
3,066.9.2.5
1,608.7.5.9
1,618.2.9.1
2,539.3.1.1
3,569: 3.2.8
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
25,824.4.5.0
35,454.6.0.0
34,129.4.2.5
38,470.4.0.0
38,545.6.9.5
27,657.0.0.0
22,661.6.7.0
27,091.8.0.0
33,669.9.7.5
42,137.7.1.9
Hk.filem.c.c.
760.0.5.3
278.0.3.3
148.0.7.4
111.3.6.2
21.3.7.5
Hk.Itsm.c.c.
2,908.1.0.0
3,003.7.0.0
2,327.9.0.0
1,765.6.0.0
3,397.8.0.0
1,898.2.0.0
2,283.6.0.0
1,961.7.0.0
657.1.0.0
1,443.2.0.0
Hk.Item.c.c.
235,504.3.9.6
272,266.4.8.6
284,302.5.1.6
305,132.5.1.3
320,469.5.9.0
285,320.6.5.8
296,931.8.4.9
297,879.4.9.0
372,720.2.6.6
382,156.3.9.1
18.7.5.0
1884.
1885..
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TABLE No. 3.-VALUE OF TRADE, ETC.
Comparative Statement of the Value of the Trade, the Import and Export of Treasure, Number
and Tonnage of Vessels Cleared, and Total Revenue, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
VALUE OF THE TRADE.
TREASURE.
SHIPPING.
YEARS.
IMPORTS FROM
EXPORTS TO
VESSELS
CLEARED.
TOTAL
REVENUE.
RE-
TOTAL
IMPORTS
AND
EXPORTS.
IMPORTED. EXPORTED.
EXPORTS.
Foreign
Countries
(Hongkong).
Native
Ports.
| Foreign
Countries.
Native
Ports.
No. Tonnage.
140
148
112
1877..
1878....
1879.........
1880..
1881.........
1882.........
1883.........
1884........
1885.........
Hk.Tts
705,413
819,651
822,816
978,172
1,019,566
794,413
647,385
825,464
1,243,495
1,429,856
Hk.Tts
628,937
601,708
724,660
635,546
739,070
690,897
570,563
427,295
552,671
620,702
Hk.Tts. Hk.fts.
87,011 | 1,345,236
92,760 1,575,190
81,834
",034 2,003,876
115,802 2,197,475
96,637 2,310,607
62,207 2,471,206
42,135 2,301,599
21,278
2,379,379
22,777 | 2,718,522
38,513 3,373,432
Hk.Tts Hk. Its Hk. Ils.
2,766,597 16,842 442,257
3,089,309 | 45,958 545,241
3,633,186
776 735,035
3,926,995 19,559 690,681
4,165,880 25,073 605,477
4,018,723 36,306 707,989
3,561,682 26,661 | 1,113,012
3,653,416 23,037 799,875
4,537,465 38,2101,444,879
5,462,503 28,040 1,646,425
Hk. Pts.
132,562
193,362
180,055
163,575
169,002
195,735
178,242
274,700
100,581
193,973
135
Tons.
43,171
44,795
44,897
43,980
58,281
59,968
60,757
50,534
42,098
59,535
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
235,504. 3.9.6
272,266.4.8.6
284,302.5.1.6
305,132.5.1.3
320,469.5.9.0
285,320.6.5.8
296,931.8.4.9
297,879.4.9.0
372,720.2.6.6
382,156.3.9.1
157
141
116
102
137
1886...
TABLE No. 4.-TREASURE.
Import and Export of Treasure, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
IMPORTED FROM
EXPORTED TO
YEARS.
HONGKONG.
Coast PORTS
(chiefly Amoy).
TOTAL.
HONGKONG.
Coast Ports
(chiefly Amor).
TOTAL.
Hk. Pts.
Hk. Pts.
132,562
193,362
.......
180,055
1877.
1878..
1879.
1880....
1881.....
1882.
1883............
1884.....
1885.
Hk. Its
86,450
68,631
52,065
187,598
115,145
172,294
361,058
193,093
532,032
560,648
Hk. Its
355,807
476,610
682,970
503,083
490,332
535,695
751,954
606,782
912,847
1,085,777
442,257
545,241
735,035
690,681
605,477
707,989
1,113,012
799,875
1,444,879
1,646,425
Hk.Tts.
81,021
89,036
78,247
64,677
77,153
132,481
88,320
160,255
59,009
129,355
Hk. Pts.
51,541
104,326
101,808
98,898
91,849
63,254
89,922
114,445
41,572
64,618
163,575
169,002
195,735
178,242
274,700
100,581
193,973
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TABLE No. 5.-OPIUM.
a.-Import of Opium, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
MONTH.
BENARES.
PATNA.
PERSIAN.
TURKEY.
TOTAL.
Chests.
Chests.
Chests.
Chests.
Piculs.
16.80
Piculs.
0.15
Chests.
ΙΑ
Piculs.
11.69
8.82
16.67}
January
February ..........
March.
April...................
May ..................
42
185
0.06
63
93
Piculs.
78.21
35.23.
170.881
67.431
53.15
134.933
73.27
120.481
0.21
64
I2
36.14
16.80
91.20
38.95
27.60
19.20
June ....
July ......
2.13
8.52
28.55
22.83
ali-::ini:::
68
210
132}
157.
943
Piculs.
106.85
44.05
199.56
103.631
72.29
234.653
146.77
170.914
105.691
84.45
260.145
153.77
II3
787
August ..............
September...
October ...
November..
December.
86.491
12
üwnani Oonião
665
785
2.13
1.03
2.181
58.80
33.60
1862
70.32
199.44
117.984
ΠΟ
2373
140
TOTAL ...............
LESS RE-EXPORT...
302
363.09
7.20
7.29
1,1267
38
1,533
I
47
1,207.83
39.571
1,168.26
| 1,682.781
49.845
104.56
3.06
101.494
NET IMPORT......
2963
355.89
7.29
1,0884
1,486
1,632.931
6.—Comparative Statement of the Import and Re-export of Opium, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
IMPORT.
YEARS.
TOTAL
RE-EXPORT.
NET TOTAL
IMPORT.
BENARES.
PATNA.
PERSIAN. MALWA.
TURKEY.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
72
25
Piculs.
456
514
314
24
IOI
Piculs.
1,408
1,398
1,799
1,745
1,434
883
12
26
1877...
1878..
1879...
...............................
1880..
1881.
1882,
1883.................................
1884.
1885.
320
128
Piculs.
1,913
1,848
2,164
2,149
2,142
1,584
1,266
manner: Ama
447
577
468
Piculs.
1,937
1,949
2,164
2,195
2,190
1,645
1,329
1,312
1,511
1,683
275
185
285
413
830
1,208
572
492
1,270
1,436
376
302
:
1886.........
363
105
1,633
TABLE No. 6.-TEA.
Export of Oolong Tea, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
HONGKONG.
Coast Ports.
TOTAL.
1877...
1878..
1879....
1880.
1881..........
1882..
1883.........
1884....
1885...
1886...
Piculs.
294
582
403
645
732
908
702
753
1,043
1,007
Piculs.
68,936
79,679
84,629
89,830
95,714
89,395
98,348
97,921
121,687
120,280
Piculs.
69,230
80,261
85,032
90,475
96,446
90,303
99,050
98,674
122,730
121,287
.
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TABLE No. 7.–SHIPPING.
Comparative Statement of Shipping, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
SAILING VESSELS.
YEARS.
STEAMERS.
STEAMERS.
TOTAL.
TOTAL.
SAILING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
TOTAL.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
25,278
143
146
70.............
140
146
148
116
112
.
.
.
.
.
.
1877...
1878...
1879...........
1880...........
1881..
1882..
1883......
1884...........
1885.
1886....
135
22,986
25,390
12,983
17,500
15,228
14,446
10,192
3,539
8,769
16,905
22,198
18,541
32,810
41,379
42,339
46,588
40,342
39,152
50,353
42,183
45,184
43,931
45,793
58,879
57,567
61,034
50,534
42,691
59,122
26,543
22,320
26,356
11,170
16,902
17,629
14,446
10,192
2,946
9,182
16,628
22,475
18,541
32,810
41,379
42,339
46,311
40,342
39,152
50,353
43,171
44,795
44,897
43,980
58,281
59,968
60,757
50,534
42,098
59,535
103
157
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
102
116
88
104
102
107
136
107
TABLE No. 8.-PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Comparative Statement of the Passenger Traffic, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
PASSENGERS TO
PASSENGERS FROM
YEARS.
SAILING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
Sailing VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
Foreigners. Natives. Foreigners. Natives.
Foreigners. Natives. Foreigners. Natives.
863
1877.....
1878.....
1879....
1880..
1881....
Hongkong
1,805
3,075
2,204
4,904
6,367
7,738
9,262
4,723
5,235
8,144
and
3,520
2,189
1,655
3,444
6,329
2,877
9,005
5,727
6,519
12,602
1882.
Coast Ports
1883
1884.
1885.....
1886.....
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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TAKOW TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A REFERENCE to the statistics of trade for the year under notice will show a diminution,
in some cases very considerable, of almost all items, whether Import or Export, except Opium
and one or two minor articles. The chief cause for this was no doubt the imposition of Likin,
which the authorities introduced in the early part of May. Its first effect was to stop all
exports of Native produce. The Sugar season had not at that time ceased, and stocks were
kept back rather than submit to the new tax. Junks which might have taken away cargo
preferred to leave in ballast, and Sugar could not always be obtained for Foreign vessels, while
the Native merchants in Taiwan-fu for a time ceased to do business. The heavy rates of Likin
at first proposed, also, was so prejudicial that in the depressed condition of trade no prospect
of profitable business appeared possible. Ultimately the tension was relieved by the adoption
of a more moderate tariff, it being perceived that any rate above a Transit Due, or half Export
Duty, would drive exporters into taking out Transit passes. Towards the close of the year
dealers adjusted their business to the new condition of things, and submitted to the tax. Some
understanding was probably arrived at with the Likin Office, by which a portion of the tax was,
to fall upon the producer. But the mischief to the trade had been done. The large decline in
the export of Sugar and numerous other articles exemplifies this. Opium, which hitherto had
always paid Likin, and indeed was the only article that did so, remained of course unaffected.
It is in fact one of the few items which appear under the head of increase. This disturbed
condition is not likely to affect the current year (1887), as by that time, taxation being an
acknowledged fact, business will have adapted itself accordingly and settled down into fixed
grooves.
The net value of the trade of the port amounts to Hk.its. 2,583,625. Of this sum,
Hk.Tts. 1,318,882 are due to Foreign Imports, Hk.Its. 190,743 to Native Imports, and
Hk.fts. 1,074,000 to Native Exports.
IMPORTS.—Opium.—The net total import amounted to 2,912.67 piculs, against 2,339.06
piculs, which shows a slight increase upon previous recent years. No importation has reached
3,000 piculs since 1882. The average at present seems to be 225 piculs per month. The
qualities in demand are Persian and Turkey. Under the latter designation it is probable that
Persian has occasionally been included. Patna has not been imported this year, and only for
very trilling amounts does it appear in the statistics of previous years. Malwa has not been
imported since 1880. Benares figures for about half the quantity of Persian.
Cotton Goods of all descriptions show a serious decline, being 32,877 pieces, against 66,488
pieces. Of these, the largest diminution is shown in Grey Shirtings, which have fallen from
31,655 pieces to 10,560 pieces. The least decline is in Cambrics and Muslins, which only differ
by 103 pieces from the import of 1885.
Woollen Goods show an increase in Camlets and Lastings, but a decline in other
descriptions. Japanese Cotton Cloth, 20,295 pieces, is a novel item.


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Metals.—Old Iron has fallen from 2,019 piculs to 221 piculs. Lead appears as 265 piculă,
against a nil return.
Sundries.—Bags, both Hemp and Mat, show a considerable falling off, due probably to
the decreased export of Sugar, for the purpose of packing which they are chiefly imported.
Hemp Bags have declined from 208,750 pieces to 163,400 pieces, and Mat and Straw Bags, from
534,640 pieces to 379,710 pieces. Prepared Tobacco has also fallen greatly, and figures for 324
piculs only, against 2,762 piculs. Of other Imports, the following may be mentioned :-Bricks
and Tiles, 361,600 pieces ; Paper Fans, 33,997 pieces, and Silk Fans, 8,236 p
a large increase upon 1885. Dyes, 13,389 bottles, against 16,149 bottles ; Mangrove Bark, 2,042
piculs, against 2,600 piculs ; Matches, 3,045 gross, against 5,460 gross; and Kerosene Oil, 131,880
gallons, against 149,650 gallons,-all show decline. Umbrellas, 3,777 pieces, against 3,216 pieces,
are an increase. Poles, 3,523 pieces, are a decrease upon 4,821 pieces imported the year
before.
EXPORTS.—Sugar being the principal Export and backbone of the trade of South Formosa
is the first item to merit notice. The total quantity of Brown exported amounts to 362,826
piculs, against 500,876 piculs. This great difference can only be explained by attributing it to
the action of Likin, a tax heretofore unknown on this article. Of this total quantity, 139,488
piculs went to coast ports, and 138,160 piculs to Japan,—our best customer for Takow Sugar; the
United States of America took 49,830 piculs, British America 26,300 piculs, and Hongkong
9,048 piculs. None went to Australia, nor has any gone there since 1883. Neither was there
any export to Great Britain. The loss of the Australian market is a serious blow to the trade
here. It may be in part explained by the introduction of Sugar-planting in Queensland, and
perhaps also by protective duties there. Competition, moreover, from other quarters presses on
this industry, which may require to be met by improved processes of manufacture. Crushing
mills and proper machinery, if the people could be brought to adopt them, would be one step.
Another, not less necessary, is the construction of roads. At present the transport over rude
country roads must form a heavy item in the cost of production. All these causes seriously
handicap the Sugar trade, and will continue to do so unless they are removed or ameliorated.
White Sugar has been exported to coast ports to the extent of 22,185 piculs, which is a trilling
decrease upon 1885. Hongkong took 5,299 piculs, against 33,751 piculs, thus sharing in the
general depression of the trade. Sugar is sent to Hongkong to give it, I believe, a Foreign
character; it can then be introduced into coast ports, chiefly Northern, and carried into the
interior under Transit pass privileges.
Ground-nut Cake has fallen from 16,102 piculs to 3,113 piculs, while Ground-nuts have
increased from 41 piculs to 2,304 piculs; Hemp has declined from 1,161 piculs to 883 piculs ;
Lung-ngans have also decreased, being 4,883 piculs, against 8,295 piculs ; Sesamum Seed has
fallen from 5,313 piculs to 1,156 piculs; but Turmeric has increased to 24,511 piculs, against
15,512 piculs. Camphor, which did not appear as an Export in our Returns for 1885, appears
in the year under review to the extent of 370 piculs. It is to be hoped that this valuable
article may receive more attention in the future than it has in the past. Some restrictions
have hindered the development of this branch of trade, owing to the Government considering it
as a monopoly,—the producers not being allowed to dispose of Camphor except to the officials
authorised to receive it, from whom, again, the exporter has been required to purchase it. .
TRANSIT TRADE.— Transit is at present nil, but the introduction of Likin will cause
attention to be turned to it in future. As long as goods could be brought from the interior
free of all taxation there was no necessity to take out a Transit pass. Now that produce is


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taxed, exporters will have to elect between paying Likin or Transit Dues. The authorities
will in their own interest make the former rather lighter than the latter.
DUTIES.—The collection of duties is a moderate one, being Hk.Tts. 154,088. This is a
slight improvement over the year before, when the amount was Hk.Its. 152,375. The principal
item is due to Opium, Hk.Tts. 84,201 ; Export shows for Hk.Tts. 54,389, and Import for
Hk.Pts. 11,713; Tonnage is Hk.Its. 2,415, and Coast Trade Hk.fts. 1,368.
TREASURE.—Treasure to the extent of Hk.Tts. 217,674 was imported, against Hk.fts. 345,466;
and Hk.Tts. 604,447 were exported, against Hk.Pts. 221,851. The large export of Treasure points
to a corresponding diminution in the export of produce. It is needless to point out how much
loss this implies to the farmers in the country, to the shipping engaged in the carrying business,
and to the various industries concerned when trade is brisk and employment is found for the
many engaged, directly and indirectly, in developing that trade.
SHIPPING. — The entries inwards comprise 96 vessels, 51,975 tons, and 94 vessels cleared
outwards, 51,101 tons. The number of vessels inwards is less by ii than in 1885, but the
tonnage is 2,609 tons greater. Those cleared outwards show a decrease in number also of 11,
with an increase of 2,804 in tonnage. This indicates that a larger description of vessel has
been engaged in the trade during the year. The principal flag is the British, after which comes
the German. The Chinese flag is not represented here.
GENERAL.—No typhoons have been experienced, although heavy gales have occurred from
time to time; nor have there been any shipwrecks of Foreign vessels. Some trouble with the
savages near the centre of the island led to a conflict with the troops, but the authorities
ultimately succeeded in restoring order. The prospects of the Sugar season for the current
year are very hopeful; the crops are said to be unusually large, and prices may thus rule low
enough to warrant shipments to markets that have of late years ceased to draw their supplies
from this region.
JAS. MACKEY,
Acting Commissioner of Customs.
Takow, 17th February 1887.


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285
TAKOW TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo. | In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
| No.
Tons.
Tons.
No. Tons.
No.
Tons.
|| No.1
Tons.
| 7
42
26,696
731
30,791
25,071
18
British .......
German
Danish.
82
2
4,095
1,484
768
2,215
768
1,484 1
768 ...
4,971 40
7313
...
30,042
2,215
768
ON
60,833
4,430
1,536
Total Steamers ......
36
27,427
10
6,347
46
33,774
35
27,323 91
5,702
44
33,025
66,799
SAILING VESSELS.
15
5,221
|
4
cool.
British ..................
American ......
German
Danish..............
Swedish & Norwegian
2,945
1,158
2,198
8,166
1,158
7,651
5802
7,729
1,158
7,651
580
8,041
1,158
7,651
7
5,453
580
646
16,207
2,316
15,302
1,160
1,292
580
2
646
646
646
Total Sailing Vessels
38
11,900
12
6,301
18,201
49
17,764
-
312
50
18,076 | 100
36,277
GRAND TOTAL.....
74 |
39,327 22
12,648
96
51,975
84
45,087 106,014
94
51,101 | 190
103,076


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TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF TAKOW,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk. The
Hk. Tita
Hk. Its
Hk. Pts
Hk.Ite
Ak.Pia
839,408
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong......
Imported from Chinese Ports.......................
Total Foreign Imports........
874,584
268,218
1,142,647
218,233
381,926
1,142,802
1,221,334
1,360,880
4,100
13,083
25,050
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong ...
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Amoy
and Swatow).......
Total Foreign Re-exports ..........
4,925
18,529
16,948
9,025
31,612
41,998
Net Total Foreign Imports ..........
1,133,777
1,189,722
1,318,882
188,027
213,014
191, 452
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Amoy and Hongkong) .........
Re-exported to Foreign Countries .......................
Re-exported to Chinese Ports...............
Total Native Re-exports .....
2,393
2,519
709
2,393
2,519
709
Net Total Native Imports..............
185,634
210,495
190,743
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries .......
1,212,215
571,932
539,662
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports..
552,442
506,532
534,338
Total Exports of local origin ...
1,764,657
1,078,464
1,074,000
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port..........
3,095,486
2,512,812
2,626,332
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native
Exports of local origin......
3,084,068
2,478,681
2,583,625


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TABLE No. II.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.--Imports and Re-exports.

NET
IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
HK.fts.
Hk.fts
Hk.fts.
OPIUM
Benares ............. ............. Piculs
Persian ..
Turkey ..........................
53577 200,577
1,013 54 369,258
1,47552 552,888
Hk.fts.
53577 200,577
907160332,096
1,469 30 550,534
37,162
2,354
10,610
8,105
10,560
8,105
530
16,622
18,862
1,550
1,135
16,547
18,862
1,550
1,135
12,305
455
8,787
455
8,137
13,060
322
IOI
592
322
789
130
IOI
499
1,940
659
2,966
2,190
375
3,341
46
COTTON GOODS:-
Shirtings, Grey................. Pieces
White, Plain......
Dyed,
Dyed, Spotted
and Brocaded )
T-Cloths ..
Drills, English.....
American ..
Chintzes.
Turkey Red Cloths
Velvets ............
Velveteens ..............
Cambrics...........
Damasks, Dyed
Twills, Printed
Calicoes, Printed
Lawns, Victoria........
Muslins ..
Taffachellas ..............
Canvas....................
Cotton Gauze ..........
Goods, Unclassed....
Handkerchiefs ...... Dozens
, Thread.
Piculs
92
2,437
2,107
2,437
46
92
2,107
19
715
275
14
333
715
2651
275
331
498
498
124
82
112
529
85
112
1,318
1,056
1,318
529
1,220
16.
769)
942
576
576
45 36
2,464
4536
2,464
1,384
455
455
2,530
1,164
ΙΟ
20
54
540
256
WOOLLEN GOODs:--
Blankets ...
Pairs
Camlets, English ...........
Pieces
Lastings...
Long Ells ...................
Spanish Stripes ............
Lustres...
Cloth, Broad and Medium ...
Italian ................
Union ...................
Flannels..
Merinos ...
Woollen & Cotton Mixtures
Braid
Boxes
» Thread..
............. Piculs
25,938
8,877
2,725
3,162
1,841
684
1,089
1,112
450
2,520
1,144
549
256
475
31
1,384
25,847
8,723
2,725
3,162
1,841
684
1,089
1,112
450
27
27
.............
913
1,889
4510
9,003
1,005
3,998
913
1,889
4510
9,003
1,005
3,998
666
666
METALS:
Copper Sheathing, Old ....... Piculs
Iron, Bar..............
Nail-rod .............
Old...
306
4542
102 401
306
883
.............
221
4542
102 40
300 50
22110
17 18
26542
27171
3879
»
Wire.
Lead, in Pigs ........
» Sheets.......
Tinplates ............
Quicksilver......
395
1ΟΙ
1,063
193
171181
26542
27 171
38 79
497)
883
395
IOI
1,063
193
184
293
4107
293


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Ita
METALS, continued :-
Steel ......
........... Piculs
Yellow Metal Sheathing ..... .
Zinc Sheets.....................
30 34
3034
151
!!
8851
335)
woo
885
152
w
34
513
756
1,336
4273
92951
1,828
!!!!!
1711
118
1,342
119
1,193
364
797
2,685
FERI..
92 95
1171
118
1,342
Gross
752
1,296
1,828
1,193
364
797
2,685
119
1,111
355
2471
26,800
1,111
355
981
368
981
IOO
20,295
6,048
1039
230
2471
26,800
368
15,785
1039
2819
460 10
14,033
2202
47610
1,32623
139 97
36 48
4,890
230
1,121
6,243
1,953
1,121
6,243
1,836
............
251
251
585
3,695
28 19
46010
13,389
22 02
47610
1,326 23
13997
3648
742
8,827
1,793
097
097
824
SUNDRIES :-
Beer and Porter, in Bottles Dozens
Bicho de Mar, Black ......... Piculs
White ........
Birds' Nests...............
Biscuits, in Tins.............
Dozens
Buttons, Brass ................
Camphor, Baroos, Clean! Piculs
and Refuse.
Cardamoms, Inferior and
Superior ...........
Cigars .............
Pieces
Clocks.
Cloth, Cotton, Japanese .....
Cloves ....
Piculs
Compoy....
Cuttle-fish ...................
Dyes
Bottles
Fish, Dried.
Piculs
Flints................
Flour ............................
Gambier .....................
Ginseng, American, Clari-
fied and Crude
» Corean, ist Quality
» » 2nd ,
Hams........
Horns, Deer.
Isinglass..........
Lamps ..........
Pieces
Mangrove Bark ........... Piculs
Matches......
Gross
Medicines...........
Piculs
Milk, Condensed, in Tins ...
Dozens
Mushrooms ..........
Piculs
Mussels, Dried .............
Needles ..........................Mille
Mille
Nutmegs......
Piculs
Oil, Castor ...........
, Kerosene .................. Galls.
,, Paint.................
Paints, Assorted ......
Pepper, Black and White...
Prawns, Dried
Putchuck..
Raisins ...................
Rugs............................
Pieces
Sago..............
Sandalwood......
Seaweed
Shell-fish ..............
Silk and Cotton Mixtures,
Japan .......
Silk Piece Goods, Japan....
288
14
3525
724
2,042 37
4,495
67 34
505
5852
109
117
1,178
587
1,985
1,647
2,773
892
585
3,695
742
8,827
1,793
824
109
117
1,178
602
1,985
1,195
2,773
892
2,256
3525
725
2,042 37
3,045
67 34
505
2,256
5852
est testigos!!!!!!!!!!
326
1,870
399
4039
1,870
422
30
: : ! ! ! ! * * * * * * * *****
Piculs
3 33
88,547
1891
2691
12333
364931
2335
13094
203
3396
11,905
135
210
1,066
4,192
(192
971
333
131,880
189
2691
12333
36493
2335
13094
203
3396
647 42
5324
26862
30
18,405
135
210
1,066
4,192
192
971
500
148
2,778
153
4,906
591
500
Piculs
647 42
148
2,778
53 24
266 27


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TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.
IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
To CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
Total IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
| Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. / Value.
H
.Fts.
Hk.fts
Hk.Ite
Hk. Its
269
Hk. Its
269
490
2,106
27 481
1,595
490
287
3,777
:
27/48
1,5951
3,376
76683
96
533
10 56
1,415
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Soap............
Piculs
Towels, Cotton ...... Dozens
Umbrellas, Alpaca, Cot- Pieces
ton, and Silk ......
Wheat.........................
Piculs
Window Glass ................. Boxes
Wine, in Bottles .............. Dozens
Wood, Fragrant ............... Piculs
... Garoo ..................
Laka ..................
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
TOTAL................... Hk.Ats
:
260
76683
96
533
1056
2,393
1,415
260
2,157
153
2,157
153
3,871
32
5,348
18.991
3,871
32
25
5,298
1,318,882
8,744
$........
............. 1,352,136
........
41,998
.......
SUMMARY
IMPORTS from Hongkong ....
..........Hk.Fts
„ „ Japan ............
.......... „
Total from Foreign countries ........-
Imports from Chinese Ports ..............
1,133,903
8,744
- Hk.fts
1,142,647
.......
218,233
-Hk. Pts. 1,360,880
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS
Re-EXPORTS to Hongkong .................................Hk.Ft
Total to Foreign Countries...........
25,050
- Hk.Ats.
25,050
898
RE-EXPORTS to Foochow ......... ............................Hk.fts
» „Tamsui...
......... 1
„ Amoy ........
......
14,782
„ Swatow .........
.......................
1,264
-Hk.Fts
Total to Chinese Ports ......
16,948
—HK.fts
Total FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS .....
41,998
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS....
F
O
I
I
............
..............................
.Hk. Pts. 1,318,882


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity
Value.
Hk. Pts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.fts.
410
90
3658
Hk. Its.
847
241
960
11,424
Pieces
141,400
11,800
5,489
1945
22,000
367,910
2593)
1,305
328
Piculs
4068)
19 451
163,400
379,710
51271
1,305
7142
361,600
Hk.Its
937
241
6,449
11,752
1,194
547
2,925
1,546
3,059
48678
1,147
47
547
34 46
1,682
3696
361,600"
010
1,947
1,243
1,546
::::::::::::
5051
3,052
41
5061
528
160/1
2,107
569
645
11911
19014
645
2 43
124
631
36 87
556
163
::::::::::::::::::::
19257)
37 47
- 3/04
208]
304
20X
50
645
3387
1,042
IO
1,092
1,466
21
755
566
163
1,042
655
1,092
1,466
199
278
1,177
96
008
974
34
144
225
60
1,171
199
278
1,143
518
2,301
1,820
45
186
1,380
33,023
6,861
182 02
46003
960
707
662
008
1,380
33,997|
8,236
19812
469 98
54999
2,526
1,858
948
3952
1,780
25
1,375
1610
14.45
540 39
32 45
160
087
293
7567
300
4320
246
883781
21151
97/19
127
Almonds ..
Piculs
Aniseed, Star...............
Bags, Hemp....
» Mat and Straw.
Beans and Peas .........
Brass Pipes ............
Pieces
Brassware.......
Piculs
Bricks and Tiles..
Pieces
Buttons, Brass.............
Piculs
Caps, Silk....
Pieces
Cassia Lignea ................. Piculs
China-root.
Chinaware, Fine...........
Cinnabar ............
Coal..............
Tons
Cotton Cord..........
Piculs
,, Clothing ......
,, Raw ..............
Cow Bezoar..............
Fans, Feather...
Pieces
, Paper .......................
, Silk
Fire-crackers.......................
......... Piculs
Fish, Salt ......
Fruit ...............................
Fungus.....
Ginseng, Corean, ist Quality...
Glassware .....
Grasscloth, Coarse............
,, Fine.............
Gypsum.
Hams....
Indigo, Liquid..
Iron Pans..................
Ironware.
Jadestone Bangles...........
Pairs
Jadestoneware ......
Pieces
Joss Sticks ........................
Piculs
Lamps .....
Pieces
Lead, Red, White, and Yellow Piculs
Lily Flowers, Dried ..
,, Seed or Lotus-nuts ......... ,
Liquorice..............
Mats ......................
Pieces
Medicines...........
Piculs
Melon Seeds.
Mirrors with Frames ..........
Nankeens.........................
Piculs
Opium Husk .............
Paper, ist Quality...
Persimmons, Dried..
Preserves....
Rhubarb............
Rice......................
Safflower.
Samshu.
Scales, Money ......
Pieces
Seed, Vegetable ..................
Piculs
Shoes, Cotton and Satin ........ Pairs
160
9806
4306
4013
2,618
1,744
554
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
8,197
404
1,216
1,134
1,780
2,643
1,871
8,751
275
1,300
369
3,341
7971
275
955
369
::::::::::::::
1485
345
3,341
165
582
417
3,038
160
3,038
160
398
398
13
2,846
202
1,796
189
- 42|12|
1,484
1,642
62 23
10,758
27 26
14365
4866
4992
22,360
968 57
15156
2,442
2889
212 30
976
762
4,947
213131
7 50
62
5805
246
88378
6327
1,484
1,642
62 230
10,785
27 26
355 951
5532
57 541
27,307)
1,17938
15906
2,549
22568
4.56
2687
90
27651
51 90
2,833
202
1,213
1,031
363
1,261
13,421
739
527
1,160
3,009
1,158
425
1,555
14,979
775
294
1,586
36
Pieces
II
I8
9,490
8,448
122
340
538
482
360
417
242
19974
1 22
2188
90
2699
33 351
7501
17 941
3369
242
359
:::::::::::::
368
18 55
298
1,500
750
1,122
471
1,500
1,122
142
563
47
2120
17194
3589
758
1044
964
133
....
109
264|
31 141
2070
439 |
525
470
734


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TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports—Contd.
RE-EXPORTS
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
CHINESE PORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Tts
Hk.Ita
Hk.Fts
17,111
36 95
1899
13,000
070
-
343
Hk. Its
9,197
2,981
1,504
4,625
221
2,226
Hk. Its
25,965
2,986
3,730
4,625
562
607
1905
To mtoa
4/83
Silk Piece Goods ............ Piculs
Ribbons ............... Taels
, Thread ...................
Piculs
and Cotton Mixtures....
Stockings, Cotton..................
Sugar, Brown ...................
Tea Seed Cake................
Timber, Poles .................
Tobacco, Prepared............
Piculs
Truffles ...
.......................
Vermicelli .................
Wax, White ..................
Wheat ........................
Sundries, Unenumerated ......
TOTAL............... Hk. Its
5524
13,0241
1414
19.05
10/17
264
1,000 50
3,523
324 38
537
341
537
373
7,707
659
Pieces
1,000 50
3,519
28046
1397
4,174
1,111
62
1497
16989
373
7,727
4,833
1,178
1,090
2,286
8,247
16,378
1,090
1,824
8,247
7,367
665
462
32 51
4,691 20
4,691 20
9,040
96,461
636
.
.
.
73
.
94,991
.
.
.
.....
.....
.
190,743
SUMMARY
..
163
23,220
8,448
1,157
42,895
20,578
-Hk. Aits.
IMPORTS from Tientsin........
............Hk.Tits
Shanghai.............. ..............
„ „ Foochow ............
Tamsui...
Amoy............
Swatow.............
Total from Chinese Ports.........
Imports from Hongkong.........
Total NativE IMPORTS..........
RE-EXPORTS to Tientsin ............ .............. Hk.fts.
„ Shanghai...........
„ Amoy...........
,, Swatow ........
„ Hongkong for Chinese Ports...........
Total to Chinese Ports .........
TOTAL Native RE-EXPORTS .......
96,461
94,991
-Hk.Ft
191,452
10
437
180
73
-Hk.Fts
709
- Hk. Pts.
709
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS...
..Hk.Fts:
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SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
To-
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Its.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.fts.
Hk.fts.
British America....
57,100
57,100
United States of America .............
110,462
110,462
Japan ........................................
309,636
309,636
62,464
62,464
Hongkong for Foreign Countries.....
Total to Foreign Countries.....
539,662
-
-
...
-
539,662
Hongkong for Chinese Ports .........
3,250
3,323
Tientsin.............
.......
122,709
122,719
Chefoo ..........
162,234
162,234
Shanghai
.........
.....
113,288
437
113,725
Ningpo .........
61,117
61,117
Foochow .......
128
128
Tamsui ........
......
33,914
33,914
Amoy ............
24,622
24,631
Swatow.......
13,076
13,256
Total to Chinese Ports ...........
534,338
709
535,047
GRAND TOTAL..
........ 1,074,000
709
1,074,709


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TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
Nil.
TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a. — Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
T
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
COAST TRADE.
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.Item.c.c.
11,648.8.9.9
Hk. Als m.c.c.
1,141.4.3.6
British ..........
American ......
German
Danish...........................
Swedish and Norwegian ..
On Opium ..........
Hk.item.c.c.
28,874.1.3.5
2,426.0.4.0
19,012.4.4.6
2,700.5.1.2
1,376.8.5.0
Hk.fts.m.c.c.
1,381.7.0.0
463.2.0.0
454.4.0.0
116.0.0.0
63.5.8.4
1.3.5.6
187.6.7.9
9.9.0.8
29.1.9.8
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
43,046.1.7.0
2,889.2.4.0
19,718.1.0.9
2,827.7.7.6
1,406.0.4.8
84,201.2.2.5
84,201.2.2.5
TOTAL.........
95,915.0.6.4
54,389.9.8.3
1,368.2.2.1
2,415.3.0.0
154,088.5.6.8*
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total ........
..Hk.fts Nil.
6.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
EXPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
COAST TRADE
(exclusive of
Opium).
OPIUM
(Import, Export,
and
Coast Trade).
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
1877.
1878.
1879...
1880
1881.........
1882...
1883.........
1884....
1885....
1886...
Hk.ftsm.C.C.
10,818.5.3.8
9,128.8.1.3
13,398.0.3.3
17,491.4.3.2
14,285.0.6.9
12,012.0.2.3
14,461.8.0.3
13,440.9.6.6
12,933.2.8.7
11,713.8.3.9
HR.Ftsm.c.c.
- 75,977.3.9.5
55,704.0.1.6
104,064.6.1.9
137,080.5.2.0
96,491.3.6.5
80,950.2.3.5
102,097.1.9.1
127,718.2.9.6
77,779.7.4.2
54,389.9.8.3
Hk. Itsm.c.c.
659.9.7.8
784.8.9.9
1,205.0.4.2
1,353.7.6.6
2,864.6.1.1
2,434.6.3.0
1,390.0.3.9
1,372.3.8.2
2,129.8.2.4
1,368.2.2.1
Hk.Item.c.c.
59,270.0.7.0
65,559.0.7.5
79,925.7.6.7
86,958.0.9.8
101,296.8.0.0
86,496.9.2.5
72,006.8.9.2
62,190.9.5.6
56,984.7.4.8
84,201.2.2.5
Hk.Item.c.c.
3,655.7.0.0
2,694.2.0.0
4,421.6.0.0
6,409.8.0.0
3,457.3.0.0
5,067.7.0.0
4,939.9.0.0
5,491.9.0.0
2,548.3.0.0
2,415.3.0.0
Hk.Fism.c.c.
150,381.6.8.1
133,871.0.0.3
203,01 5.0.6.1
249,293.6.1.6
218,395.1.4.5
186,961.5.1.3
194,895.8.2.5
210,214.5.0.0
152,375.9.0.1
154,088.5.6.8


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B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-TREASURE.
Import and Export of Treasure during the Year 1886.
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
FROM-
Shanghai .........
Tamsui .....
Amoy .................
Hongkong ........
....,
........
Hk. Its
13,091
2,356
122,574
79,653
To—
Foochow..
Tamsui...
Amoy ...........
Swatow
Hongkong ..........
Hk.Fts
655
3,927
318,093
52,875
228,897
.........
........
TOTAL..
..
........
217,674
TOTAL.......
604,447
TABLE No. 2.-OPIUM.
d.—Opium Imported and Re-exported during the Year 1886.
IMPORTED.
FROM
BENARES.
RSIAN.
TURKEY.
Total.
Chests.
Piculs.
Chests.
Piculs.
Chests.
Piculs.
Chests.
Piculs.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Foochow ......
Amoy .............
Hongkong ............
187
76
368
224.40
311.37
79.33
927.21
105
1,2913
109.94
1,365.58
413.67
2,604.16
260
882
2,433)
TOTAL.......
447
535.77
965
1,013.54
1,396
1,475.52
2,8081
3,024.83
RE-EXPORTED.
Foochow ....
Amoy ..............
2.94
39.43
63.57
38
Hongkong .............
6.22
2.94
39.43
69.79
112.16
11
TOTAL....
104
104
|
105.94
|
6
6.22
IIO
110
|


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b.—Comparative Table of the Import and Re-export of Opium, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
IMPORT.
YEARS.
TOTAL
RE-EXPORT.
NET TOTAL
IMPORT.
BENARES.
PATNA.
PERSIAN.
Malwa.
TURKEY.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
Piculs.
1,720.80
1,480.44
1,883.62
1,978.80
1,562.49
1,213.20
804.89
1877.....
1878.
1879....
1880...
1881..
1882..........
1883.........
1884........
1885.........
1886..
Piculs.
176.67
38.40
86.40
49.20
74.40
19.74
70.70
42.29
Piculs.
1,324.87
1,435.08
1,331.66
1,582.82
1,856.37
1,830.50
1,142.56
769.15
536.37
1,013.54
Piculs.
1.98
85.08
137.56
30.85
293.47
209.31
860.57
956.19
1,346.72
1,475.52
Piculs.
3,233.32
3,058.74
3,509.94
3,683.96
3,786.73
3,259.01
2,814.02
2,325.42
2,400.29
3,024.83
Piculs.
65.28
205.94
123.13
36.58
48.01
246.53
61.69
17.70
61.23
I 12.16
Piculs.
3,168.04
2,852.80
3,386.81
3,647.38
3,738.72
3,012.48
2,752.33
2,307.72
2,339.06
2,912.67
550.88
49.20
1.20
516
535.77
:::
TABLE No. 3.-SUGAR.
Comparative Table showing the Export of Brown Sugar, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
NEW-
CHWANG.
TIENTSIN. CHEFOO,
CHIN- SHANGHAI. NINGPO. Foochow.
KIANG.
Amoy.
ATOW.
TOTAL TO
Coast PORTS.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
35,918
1877.....
1878..
1879..
5,561
Piculs.
2,594
3,746
1,947
2,107
4,850
7,486
3,820
1880....
Piculs. | Piculs.
91,442
117,926
159,984
127,167
136,345
73,775
77,594
105,955
63,666
60,017
1,034
5,922
395
1,980
Piculs.
8,586
18,208
62,225
68,909
52,496
45,018
71,627
74,749
52,462
21,761
15,995
35,487
41,025
62,322
33,777
45,797
83,875
85,014
1881.
1882.
1883.....
1884.
186
585
Piculs.
144,101
159,016
270,415
244,995
257,734
159,153
202,652
268,864
205,635
139,488
5,268
323
986
6,143
32
655
1885....
1886......
3,149
3,517
11,259
1,454
161
976
563
45,888
YEARS.
JAPAN.
AUSTRALIA.
GREAT
BRITAIN.
UNITED
STATES OF
AMERICA.
TOTAL TO
BRITISH
HONGKONG. || FOREIGN
AMERICA. ZEALAND.
TRIES.
Grand TOTAL,
Coast PORTS
AND FOREIGN
COUNTRIES.
Piculs.
Piculs.
18,500
11,676
Piculs.
73,077
Piculs.
1877...
1878...
1879..........
1880..........
1881......
1882.
1883..
1884.......
1885........
1886.....
Piculs.
242,421
165,967
284,663
331,894
283,998
198,696
245,550
422,424
267,312
138,160
Piculs.
79,264
49,409
139,799
46,079
45,484
158,850
107,226
130,431
152,220
69,929
Piculs.
10,219
5,786
6,807
92,006
61,440
18,202
12,582
50,816
11,565
9,048
Piculs.
423,481
232,838
431,269
752,630
460,851
413,992
532,001
628,246
295,241
223,338
Piculs.
567,582
391,854
701,684
997,625
718,585
573,145
734,653
897,110
500,876
362,826
92,075
14,000
16,364
19,744
55,166
37,050
49,830
18,500
19,402
95,190
8,766
26,300


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TABLE No. 4.-IMPORT TRADE.
Comparative Statement of the principal Articles of Net Import, for the Years 1879 to 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Piculs
535.77
OPIUM:-
Benares ..
Patna. ......
Persian ...............
Other kinds ......
COTTON Goods:-
Shirtings, Grey...
1,871.62
86.40
1,225.93
202.86
1,978.80 1,560.09 1,198.80
74.406
1,546.24 | 1,814.84) 1,603.66
289.39 204.02
49.20
792.89
6
1,094.90
858.54
550.88
49.20
755.63
952.01
504
1.20
508.06
1,325.80
73.14
Pieces
907.60
1,469 30
10,560
8,105
985
White
14,099
9,567
1,826
21,410
9,646
3,080
7,254
3,876
4,705
28,438
10,591
2,817
9,341
3,749
2,214
3,363
17,263
8,007
1,582
6,844
8,400
1,680
27,424
12,536
2,620
15,038
1,160
2,737
2,446
18,600
13,152
1,441
14,662
420
2,655
2,782
31,655
12,663
2,001
12,039
750
4,230
8,137
360
103
1,940
3,458
2,335
3,340
2,809
2,188
3,150
3,047
5 Dyed, Plain, Brocaded, & Figured
T-Cloths ...........................
Drills, English, Dutch, and American...
Turkey Red Cloths ..
Cambrics and Muslins..
WOOLLEN Goods :-
Camlets, English .......
Lastings .....
Long Ells
Spanish Stripes................
Lustres ........................
Cloth, Habit, Broad, and Medium ......
METALS:-
Iron, Nail-rod
Pieces
3,081
3,008
960
2,533
211
2,242
1,164
1,304
299
771
»
1,817
1,064
626
272
3,256
939
1,030
132
511
402
1,311
981
301
1,297
335
790
177
578
2,148
867
761
466
789
130
2,520
1,144
540
256
475
31
678
159
441
207
45
525
Piculs
478
301
Old..
1,054
1,542
134
»
1,357
1,177
422
343
1,034
870
2,019
398
221
148
66
'669
265
Pieces
107,050
601, 136
Pičuls
Lead, in Pigs................
SUNDRIES :-
Bags, Hemp ...
, Mat and Straw. .........
Beans and Peas ....
Ironware.................
Lily Flowers, Dried ...........
Medicines...
Rice.....
Sandalwood.................
Tobacco, Prepared..
102,065
1,367,915
4,144
2,639
597
1,371
151,340
666,420
5,543
223,051
568,190
| 17,226
1,453
556
1,743
163,267
455
196,320
1,183,000
808
384
1,309
133,250
541,850
2,672
1,285
389
1,755
208,750
534,640
1,604
1,154
473
1,741
163,400
379,710
513
947
1,777
161
997
494
356
1,247
465
1,141
26,548
712
3,024
750
322
491
1,631
773
1,283
592
773
2,762
647
1,803
3,017
1,007
324
TABLE No. 5.-EXPORT TRADE.
Comparative Statement of the principal Articles of Export, for the Years 1879 to 1886.
Classifier
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
of
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Quantity.
Piculs
285
416
333
Bamboo Shoots............
Ground-nut Cake .............
Ground-nuts .....
Hemp ................
Lung-ngans ...............
Sesamum Seed.................
Turmeric ...........
III
10,619
581
1,276
11,767
1,963
14,609
896
1,680
429
5,651
1,120
14,164
1,013
965
907
3,367
423
4,970
2,079
851
6,043
3,035
23,195
1,595
1,039
11,147
600
731
16,102
41
1,161
8,295
5,313
15,512
235
3,113
2,304
883
4,883
1,156
24,511
19,298
656
16,701
18,197
Piculs
Sugar, Brown, to Japan .......
, , , other Foreign Countries
» » Coast Ports ....
284,663
146,606
270,415
701,684
331,894
420,736
244,995
283,998 198,696 1 245,550
176,853 | 215,296 286,451
257,734 159,153 202,652
422,424
205,822
268,864
267,312 | 138,160
27,929 85,178
205,635 139,488
TOTAL.............
Piculs
997,625
897,110
500,876 | 362,826
Piculs
Sugar, White, to Japan.........
"
,
»
, other Foreign countries
» » » Coast Ports.........
TOTAL........
1,171
42,393
20,050
232
37,893
28,396
| 718,585 573,145 | 734,653
1,078
1,282 2,057
15,657
25,622
27,498
19,398 13,405 10,743
IL
56,173
13,734
33,752
23,752
5,299
22,185
Piculs
63,614 |
66,521
36,133
40,309
40,298 |
69,918 | 57,504
27,484
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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 6.-VALUE OF TRADE, ETC.
Comparative Statement of the Value of the Trade, the Import and Export of Treasure, Shipping
Entered and Cleared, and Total Revenue, for the Years 1871 to 1886.
VALUE OF THE TRADE.
TREASURE.
SHIPPING.
YEARS.
TOTAL
REVENUE.
Tonnage
Net
Imports
(deducting
Re-exports).
Exports.
Total
Imports
and
Exports.
Re-exports. Imported. Exported.
Tonnage
Entered.
Cleared.
1871.........
1872...........
1873..........
1874..........
1875.........
1876..
1877...
1878..
1879.
1880
1881
1882..
1883..........
1884...........
Hk.fts Hk.fts.
1,090,408 1,187,553 |
964,464 1,194,816
902,254 927,644
1,098,873 1,204,356
1,195,690 1,083,780
1,282,576 1,415,744
1,512,244
1,325,470
1,372,660 | 1,120,723
1,711,509 2,039,416
1,966,466 2,561,078
2,305,595 1,753,716
1,653,926
1,402,897 1,770,099
1,319,411 1,764,657
1,400,217 1,078,464
1,509,625 | 1,074,000
Hk.Fts 1. Hk.fts
2,277,961 23,873
2,159,280 23,736
1,829,898 34,552
2,303,229 59,571
2,279,470 24,073
2,698,320 19,007
2,837,714 30,914
2,493,383
77,818
3,750,925 56,011
4,527,544
19,876
4,059,311 24,854
3,170,667
97,704
3,172,996 26,657
3,084,068
2,478,681 34,131
2,583,625 42,707
Hk.Tts. Hk.fts
249,929 89,770
312,277 153,449
229,353 153,456
588,840 233,438
273,467 516,359
473,979 437,015
368,427
| 455,316
197,410 547,372
683,177 527,050
914,125 471,746
350,081 762,203
408,596 | 592,323
632,044 431,751
535,509 525,454
345,466 221,851
217,674 604,447
Tons.
42,149
39,987
34,205
41,997
42,644
62,351
42,440
38,012
52,183
59,045
61,861
58,547
62,589
74,648
49,366
51,975
Tons.
43,400
39,928
33,766
43,103
41,691
63,258
42,021
36,897
52,189
60,274
62,016
57,394
62,222
76,306
48,297
51,101
Hk.Fts.m.c.C.
117,297.8.7.3
110,694.8.9. 1
98,630.8.4.8
139, 110.8. 3.8
124,021.4.4.6
167,944.3.6.2
150,381.6.8.1
133,871.0.0.3
203,015.0.6.1
249,293.6.1.6
218,395.1.4.5
186,961.5.1.3
194,895.8.2.5
210,214.5.0.0
152,375.9.0.1
154,088.5.6.8
11,418
1885.
1886......
TABLE No. 7.-SHIPPING.
Comparative Statement of Shipping, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
YEARS.
SAILING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
TOTAL.
Sailing VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
TOTAL.
No.
Tons.
No. | Tons. | No.
To
Tong
Tons.
Tons. No
Tons.
Tons.
| No. 1
Tons.
112
IIO
31
141
143
123
106
10,558
11,977
18,225
18,215
30,918
107
48
154
155
119
155
159
161
115
1877..
1878..........
1879.
1880............
1881..
1882.
1883.
1884....
1885.
1886............
161
61
31,882
26,035
33,958
40,830
30,943
24,953
31,464
32,787
20,209
18,201
42,440
38,012
52,183
59,045
61,861
58,547
62,589
74,648
49,366
51,975
31,463
25,286
33,964
41,693
31,098
23,800
31,120
34,428
19,960
18,076
42,021
36,897
52,189
60,274
62,016
57,394
62,222
10,558
11,611
18,225
18,581
30,918
33,594
31,102
41,878
28,337
33,025
33,594
137
134
146
149
143
107
92
149
31,125
41,861
29,157
33,774
76,306
43
105
48,297
51,101
96
44
94


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AMOY TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
The statistics which follow show a marked falling off in the trade of the port during 1886
as compared with recent years. The Revenue collected has been over Hk.Tts. 103,000 less than
in 1885, and less than in any year since 1880. While, however, the collection has diminished
over 13 per cent. of what it was in 1885, the net value of the trade, that is, of the Exports and
of the Imports which were not subsequently re-exported, fell off not quite 5 per cent. This
apparent discrepancy is explained for the most part by the fact that more Rice and Wheat, to
the value of nearly half a million taels, was imported in 1886 than in 1885, a branch of trade
which increases the Value Tables but does not add to the Revenue or indicate a condition
of prosperity in the district. The greater part of the actual decline is due to a heavy falling off
in the amount of Opium and Piece Goods imported and of Tea exported within the year. The
depression recorded has been felt almost entirely in the direct Foreign trade of the port. The
home trade, to and from Chinese ports, has sensibly increased in value during the year.
The most remarkable falling off shown by the tables is that in Cotton Piece Goods, the
net importation of Grey Shirtings, for example, having been only 7,600 pieces odd, against over
54,000 pieces in 1885. The importations of White Shirtings and T-Cloths have also diminished
considerably, but not to so striking a degree as that of Grey Shirtings. It is pointed out as an
explanation of this phenomenon that the custom which has been growing up for some years
with the Chinese local dealers of obtaining their supplies in dribblets from Hongkong has become
established, and that Foreign firms at the port are now practically out of the business. The
considerable stocks which were formerly held locally have been got rid of and have not been
replenished. It is considered also that the Cloth which presumably must be manufactured out
of the Cotton Yarn that enters this port in yearly increasing quantities has to some extent
taken the place of the commoner kinds of Shirtings formerly imported. Assuming a picul
of Yarn to be the equivalent in quantity of 20 pieces of Shirtings or T-Cloths, the 48,500 piculs
imported in 1886 would represent 970,000 pieces, the value of which, making allowance for the
cost of weaving, would approximate fairly to the value of the amount of Yarn mentioned.
The falling off in the importation of Opium in 1886 has been 1,842 piculs compared with
1885, 2,128 piculs compared with 1884, and 788 piculs compared with 1883. A diminution so
considerable in an article which yields so large a proportion of the Revenue of the port requires
some explanation. It was pointed out in last year's Report that the Opium returns of Amoy
for 1884 and 1885 were unduly swelled by large importations which were reshipped by junk
to Formosa during the French blockade, but which, not having been re-exported through this
office in Foreign vessels, were retained in the Returns as if consumed in the port or district.
On examining the monthly importations during the two years mentioned, it is seen that the
quantity brought in on this account—in the months of November, December, January, and
March-was not less than 2,500 piculs. If this amount be subtracted, the remainder would
give a normal importation of 8,600 piculs for each year, or about the same as the amount
imported in 1883. But even after this correction has been applied, the 1886 figures are still


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some 800 piculs below the average of preceding years. In the month of September 1886 the
Amoy farm for the collection of the Opium Likin passed from a syndicate of local merchants,
who had held it for a year and a half, to the same people who held the farm for the whole
Canton province, and the rivalry which had existed for some years between the Likin collec-
torates at this port and at Swatow at once came to an end, and it became possible, there being
no longer fear of competition or encroachment at the frontier, to adjust the Likin rates for
Kwangtung and the southern circuits of Fukien as for one district. This was apparently done,
and the advantage which this port has for some years had over Swatow in the quantity of
Opium imported, owing to the rival collectorates bidding against each other for the common
markets, at once ceased, and the importations at Amoy naturally fell off, to the benefit of
Swatow.
A competent authority at this port, the manager of the late Opium farm, estimates that
the natural consumption of Opium at and through Amoy, duties and taxes on all sides being
equal, is not likely to exceed 5,000 to 6,000 piculs per annum, that is, about 3,000 piculs
less than the average net importation of the last six years; and he considers that the figures
will fall to that amount as soon as the new Likin arrangement comes into force at all the
ports. If this estimate is correct—and the authority quoted has the best means of forming an
opinion,—the falling off in 1886 from the normal average of preceding years would be about
the amount of the diminution which should take place in three months, with the strain between
this port and Swatow removed by the merging of the two farms.
The increase of late years in the consumption of American Flour, Matches, and Kerosene
Oil is noteworthy.
The quantity of Tea exported in 1886 was 9,000 piculs less than in 1885, and about
2,500 piculs less than in 1884. The diminution in the year's production was not, however, so
great as these figures would indicate. The season of 1885 was closed, and nearly all the
shipments were made before the end of that year; but in 1886 the market was a late one, and
a large amount of Tea stood over for shipment in 1887 which properly belongs to 1886. The
actual decline in the crop was about 5,000 piculs as compared with the previous year.
The course of the Tea market throughout the year has been simple enough. Stimulated,
no doubt, by the extreme rates at which the early Teas were bought in Formosa, the Amoy
dealers also paid high prices for the spring leaf and hurried it forward to the port. But, owing
to the unfavourable news from America, though stocks accumulated, the market did not open
till near the end of June, at a ruling rate of $20 per picul for “good cargo." This high price,
however, was not long maintained. During July and August a considerable business was
done, owing in a great measure to the heavy fall in exchange in those months and to the
comparatively good quality, so far, of the Teas themselves. But from September onwards the
quality of the arrivals began to deteriorate and exchange to rise. Prices declined accordingly
through $16.50, about the end of September, to $14, in December, and at the end of the season
much common Tea was got rid of at about $10 per picul, a price barely sufficient to pay the
cost of packing, Likin and Duty.
It is satisfactory to be able to record that Amoy Teas were this year carefully prepared
and well packed. In this respect they compared very favourably with the importations from
Formosa, which, owing to carelessness in the firing and packing rooms, were barely able to retain
their condition on the short voyage to America.
Purchases of Amoy Teas in 1886 are reported to have paid exporters well, and in some
cases handsomely, and the Native dealers, though they complain of having lost money, have


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in reality not done badly, and it is safe to predict that the coming season's crop will be equal
in quantity to that of the year just ended.
Two dangers threaten the Amoy Tea trade in the future. First, as the north of
Formosa gets opened up and settled, production there cannot fail to increase, and the pressure
of supply may so depress prices as to make the less accessible Amoy plantations not worth
picking. Secondly, though Japan Teas are said to be unable on equal terms to hold their
own in the consuming markets with those of China, yet as the taxation the former have to bear
before shipment is not a third of that imposed in China, they are by so much cheaper, and find
buyers in consequence; and where Japan Teas once get a footing and create a taste for them-
selves, China Teas are not reverted to. On the other hand, the tendency of the home markets
is to buy cheap Teas irrespective of quality, and Amoy Oolongs being, so far, amongst the
lowest priced Teas in China, essentially meet this requirement; and until they lose this ad-
vantage, either through continued excessive taxation or a fall in price of the productions of
other districts, the local trade will continue and probably increase, more especially as Formosa
Oolongs are gradually losing that distinctive character and flavour which originally made them
so popular at the expense of Amoy growths.
The export trade in Sugars of all kinds, which had fallen off about 34 per cent. in 1885
as compared with 1884, has recovered the greater part of its lost ground, though as the market
quotations have been lower than they were two years ago, the recovery in value has not been so
great as in quantity.
The diminution in the Transit trade under Customs pass noted in last year's Report as
having commenced from September 1885, owing to the reduction to just within half-Tariff limits
of the Likin Dues on most Foreign goods, has continued throughout the year under review, and
the use of the Transit pass to cover Cotton Goods going inland has now almost ceased. A few
articles, such as Quicksilver, Lead, Ground-nut Cake, and Sandalwood, still appear to find it
advantageous to travel under certificate. Early in the summer of 1886 the Likin authorities
at and near Chang-chou ( M), acting in conjunction with the Native Custom House at the
port, lowered their tariff of charges on Sugars bound outwards, in the hope of inducing exporters
also to forgo the use of the Transit pass and to ship to the Northern ports by Native craft;
but the inducements held out have not been so far sufficient to tempt the merchants concerned
to alter their previous practice. There has been no appreciable diminution in the quantity of
Sugar brought down under passes, and the number of the latter issued has been considerably
more than in 1885.
Shipping again shows a great increase both in number and tonnage, the excess over any
previous record having been 144 entries and clearances and 216,752 tons, or 8 per cent. and 16
per cent. respectively over the next highest figures in the tables.
Of the tonnage entered and cleared, 79 per cent. was under the British flag (a falling off
of 3 per cent. as compared with the proportion of the previous year), about 10 per cent. under
the German flag, 6 per cent. under the Chinese flag, and the remaining 5 per cent. nearly all
under the Dutch and Spanish flags. The most noteworthy fact in connexion with the shipping
of the year, after its abnormal increase, has been the advance in the number of German steamers
visiting the port. Of these there have been in all 78 entries, aggregating 53,000 tons nearly,
made by a total of 15 individual steamers. This development of German steamer traffic does
not, however, indicate a corresponding increase in German trade generally. Of the 15 steamers
which, as stated, visited the port during the year, only 2, which made each i trip, were consigned
to a German firm. Of the others, 4, which made in all 35 trips, were under charter to the


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AMOY TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo.
|
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
Tons.
No.
Tons. | No.
Tons.
No.
Tons. No.
Tons. | No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
77
British ......
German......
Dutch
Danish.
Spanish .........
...
5111 404,405 164 192,484
49,755 31 2,982
21,057 ... .
... | 1 596
12,189 .
35 35,537 22 17,289
655 522,943 190 213,351
675
78
15
1
19
57
845
596,889
52,737
21,057
596
12,189
52,826
736,294
544 459,786 132 137,029
73 49,907
1,977
16 22,491
... ...
8,259 61 3,930
38 38,147 | 19 14,679
596
676 596,815 1,351 1,193,704
51,884
104,621
16
22,491
31 43,548
I 596
1,192
19 12,189 38 24,378
57 52,826 114 105,652
846 736,801 | 1,691 1,473,095
Chinese.......
Total Steamers .......
684
578,590 162 158,211
SAILING VESSELS.
52
11,380
103
I
.1
85
33
10,956
12
British..
American
German.......
Danish ...........
Swedish & Norwegian
Siamese ..................
Total Sailing Vessels
GRAND TOTAL.....
21,226 24
47311
28,403 54
821
2,238
1,168
19,140 4
2,086
473... ...
26,840 4 1,563
821
2,238 ...
1,168 ...
143 50,680 8 3,649
798 573,623 198 217,000
9,441 27
473 ...
18,248
821
1,646
1,168
20,821 ||
473
29,204
821
2,609
1,168
6
42,047
946
57,607
1,642
4,847
2,336
963
13
8
151 54,329
996 790,623
91 31,797 62 23,299
775 610,387 224 181,510
153
999
55,096||
791,897
304 109,425
1,995 1,582,520


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TRADE REPORTS. AND RETURNS, 1886.
THE
TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF AMOY,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Its
Hk.Its.
Hk.Fts
Hk.fts.
Hk.Tits
7,213,390
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong.......
Imported from Chinese Ports .
Total Foreign Imports.............
7,247,224
94,688
5,984,760
89,807
105,135
7,318,525
7,341,912
6,074,567
80,931
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong ...
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Formosa)...
Total Foreign Re-exports ...........
30,055
598,494
628,549
34,049
428,811
685,734
766,665
462,860
Net Total Foreign Imports ...
6,689,976
6,575,247
5,611,707
4,527,115
5,646,090
5,957,059
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Formosa, Shanghai, Chefoo,
and Newchwang)...........
Re-exported to Foreign Countries ..................
Re-exported to Chinese Ports.....................
Total Native Re-exports ..............
2,786,992
2,392,353
79,677
2,758,171
92,705
66,583
2,472,030
2,853,575
2,850,876
Net Total Native Imports
2,055,085
2,792,515
3,106,183
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries.
1,535,403
1,743,537
1,647,526
Native Produce of local origin Exported to l
Chinese Ports..
983,583
852,941
1,033,130
Total Exports of local origin...
2,518,986
2,596,478
2,680,656
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port.............
14,364,626
15,584,480
14,712,282
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native 11,264,047
Exports of local origin. .......
11,964,240
11,398,546


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TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.-Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM • RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES,
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
HK.fts.
Piculs
309
OPIUM :-
Malwa.
Patna.......
Benares ............
Persian ................
Turkey ...............
H.fts.
2,255 94 916,179
92 40 31,197
4,98984 1,634,281
31478 103,506
83635 303,705
Hk.fts.
1,205
2,000
134,097
33,484
91,292
H .Fts
2,252 851 914,974
86 40 29,197
4,631 04 1,517,462
216 76 70,461
58112 212,413
6
41160
9937
5280
135
17,278
439
40
1,755
1,007
34,271
46,780
634
741
391
59,547
111,844
1,749
26,649
8,144
46,488
19,611
7,644
39,377
1,025
13,099
93,988
2,756
12
3,737
71,798
10
OoWD
34
534
27
398
3,703
71,934
1,408
53,648
127
109
1,421
53,546
500
670
309
139
336
320
»
COTTON GOODS :-
Shirtings, Grey........
White...
Dyed....
White, Spotted...
Dyed,
T-Cloths, English.....
Drills, English....
American.
Dutch
and Jeans..
Sheetings ...................
Chintzes.....
Turkey Red Cloths..
Damasks
Velvets............................
Lawns..........................
Cotton Goods, Unclassed ..
Handkerchiefs..... Dozens
97
Thread.....
Piculs
Yarn ................
Bolts
Linen............................. Pieces
3,566
48V
300
1,712
4,705
200
3,6391
7,278
8
991
208
615
9
1,870
1,170
2,810
1,670 2,533
1,267 2,534
238
999
128
766
7,949
7,162
1,822
2,711
2,667 1,352
2575) 1,295
48,468 37) 1,017,844
1,818
144
821
1,720 3,291
1,150
2,762
245
2,588
402
9,410
236
6 127
760
266 7,654 6,896
264 .. 1,400
2,447
144 2,601
1,174 16 20 817
48,702 37 1,022,756
91 225 2,025
110
600
295
422
276
23 47
1,313
210
1392
105
696
4,912
216
13
234|
Canvas........................
24
2021
34
.
221
...
:
10
626
III
12
1,892
555
632
III
12
2,721
1,913
555
T2
48
48
897
1,802
54
WOOLLEN GOODS :
Blankets..........
. Pairs
Bombazettes................... Pieces
Bunting...........
Camlets, English.
» Dutch.
Cloth, Broad, Habit, and
Medium ...................
Spanish Stripes...
Flannels
Lastings .................
Long Ells ...............
Woollen and Cotton Mix-
tures .............
Goods, Unclassed..
Braid and Yarn .... Piculs
28,937
918
,886
54
265
393
2761 2695
312
378
145
2,285) 1,102
206776
30,696
918
5,986
5,109
1,603
10,806
4,192
4,194
5,146
53,330
4,904
1,676
8,544
231
3,986
129
1,389
816
930
734
556 84
150
78
963
29
.
70
693
1,305....... 54280
420
4,344
4,804
52,025
1404
1,028
223
490
3,956
7,644
2130
865
METALS :-
Yellow Metal Sheathing...... Piculs
Copper Sheathing, Old.......
Iron, Nail-rod............
Bar ...................
Wire ...........
Manufactured....
Old..............
Lead, in Pigs .............
3,548
17205
48548
1,416 35
39312
593831
137 46
4,464141
7,617 37
1,484
3,508
394
5,522
32,488
22398
44927
1,41635
40902
593 831
14586
10,24902
2,872 841
4,494
7,002
3,548
1,524
3,508
419
11,329
14,117
5,827 33
10194
42 45
4,846 471
57
446
18
317
39


306
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Fls.
Hk.Fts
2,055
Scalls
52155
METALS, continued :-
Lead, Old.......
Quicksilver ..............
Steel ........
Tin, in Slabs ...............
Tinplates.........
Metals, Unclassed........
16,254
1,892
25,878
Hk.fts.
521 55
32064
57674
67,52617,10799
34776
321 37495
32064
57674
1,041 24
34776
27087
Hk.Fts
2,055
16,254
1,892
177,783
8,797 20
219,431
1,301
2,730 45
1,908
1,908
138 88
2,052
- 3480
3,032
421
593
2945
2,81973
881"
34 39
1486
5,796 97
556
2,625
590
28,200
IIO
33,942
4,717
4,683
2,31765
57051
3,60590
2,616
10,017
1,141
36,063
3,270
3,267
1,490
473
3,372
2,238
11,849
2,841
1,072
1 96
205)
1,340
1,960
656
497
569 46
4,655
8078
84071
421
2,91065)
8650
6,42563
1,6321
3472
1778
6,366 43
4,1551
8168
7862
1,233
100
1,875
556
12,642
1,731
64,263
2,040
35,249
5,551
5,156
2,922
2,178
10,869
2,792
Picals
500
357
450
286
4471
545
980
.Pieces
1,262
SUNDRIES:
Beans..
Beef, Dried...
Bicho de Mar, Black ...
White .....
Birds? 'Nests, ist Quality .... Taels
» » 2nd ,
3rd
Bones, Cow.........
Buttons, Brass ........... Gross
Cardamoms......
Cinnamon..
Clocks..
Cloth, Japan ...........
Coal ...................
Tons
Coral.
Piculs
Cotton Rags...
Raw ............
Cuttle-fish ................
Dye-stuff.......
Feathers, Kingfishers' ......
Fish, Dried..
, Maws................
Salt ................
Skins..............
Flints.................
Flour, American.........
52
624
30
2,498
594
30
1,776
11,545
12,198
13,061
1 451
2,598
100
145
47 971
9,26063
1,28068
164 44
493
27116 812
10,334251 102,166
1350 165
462
60 60
570
660
13,061
143
90,400
15,301
9,867
896
58,727
2,944
52,870
200
eces
5,710
6,85613
151
47090
85
1,78381
81
:
Gambier
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~::::::
35/60
1,772
2,329
99,209
862
57,137
1,149
6,788
248
:
15469
19,534281
1,294 18
52,670
16,958
16,955 67
52 46
1,801 73
825 56
1,55816
32,946 43
14793
11935)
2581
1,148 98
1,012
3854
336 311
11937
8,011
41862
24874
1,506 57
263.42
819
1,282 17
464 82
1,012
:
91
1,100
323
318
456 11,248
37,059
10,099 54
50 95
7,283 1792
2,195
35466
1,55816
32,95243
11833
5
11983
2581
4,616
685/90
1,263
3680
198 21241
1,390
2888
720 6,782
840
921
52 21
17,492
12980
609 232 97
804
1,28217)
120
10,755 3,066 01
244) 173,996
8,231 1,82448
479
3502
5,032
15,724
148,592
Pieces
191,990
15,466
9,845
1,352
95,786
3,029
7,364
3,967
2,329
99,191
1,062
56,909
1,149
11,387
1,263
1,168
521
1,309
4,879
972
1,116
6,033
4,711
748
20,627
423
13,507
51,362
22,616
1,742
1,150
15,724
20,010
26,653
12390
126 791
1,229
35962
20526
4,370 841
3045
4,159
59
Ginseng, American, Clarified
» Cuttings.........
Glue...
Ground-nut Cake........
Hams ......................
Hide Cuttings..........
Hides, Cow ...........
, Horse
Hoofs, Cow ..............
Piculs
Horns, „ .:
Indigo, Líquid......
Isinglass ..........
Lamps ....
Pieces
Leather.........
Piculs
Locks..............
Pieces
Mangrove Bark ..............
Piculs
Matches...............
Gross
Mussels, Dried .............
Piculs
Nankeens .............
Needles ..............
Oilcake...............
Piculs
Oil, Kerosene ..................
Galls.
Oil-nuts.....
Piculs
132
873
2,99407
11,978
171
501
234
519
4,102
700
20,627
122
2,752
51,270
14,385
1,263
1,157
1,500
200
3,525
10,287 95
975)
1,02879
1328
2,145
*** 375)
200
Mülle
13,353 96
174,396
2,853271
48 30
4,973
13,103
148,592
11,41584
13,103
20,010
9,9016823,120
1,5141631533
DE


AMOY.
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TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.—Imports and Re-exports—Conta.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Hk. Its
Hk.Fls.
HK.fts.
Hk.fts.
Hk.fts.
3,291
3,766
1,01524
2,124
145 73
563 70
3,904
14063
239 82
2,451
1,578 94
3,904
17595
- 36030
10350
5,440 86
alue
Piculs
2,808
138
39,058
1,242
1,150
999
123
840
46,089
6391
1783
3780
6,39906
4084
14064
769 59
553
801
:::::::::::::::::::
3,226
6,113
720
98,056
Oyster Shells.................... Piculs
Paddy ...........
Paints, Assorted ...
Pepper, Black and White.
Perfumery.....................
Pork, Dried ...................
Potash ...
Prawns, Dried ..........
Putchuck
Raisins ...............
Rattans ...............
» Split .........
Rice ........
Rope, Europe ...........
Sandalwood...............
Sapanwood....
Seed, Sesamum........
Sesamum Seed Cake . ........
Sharks' Fins, Black & White
Shell-fish .........
Sinews, Cow ...........
Soap............
Value
Sugar, White ........... Piculs
Tinder.....
Toys..................
Umbrellas, Camlet ............ Pieces
Varnish ..
Piculs
Wheat
Window Glass ...........
Boxes
Wood, Fragrant ............... Piculs
» Garoo ...............
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
45,753
1,412
1,838
1,455 46
80
59,546 33
68965
2,14710
139 51
2,280
8615
10751
28,17713
15423
367 35
548 57
3,448
37813
14130
11,833 53
40 84
140 64
2,22505
80
87,723 46
15423
966 37
2,570 56
202 511
2,280
86 24
4,424 50
2,509 99
8428
13961
9063
12511
'873
189
4,294
419
1,933
1,546
859
5,825 i
1,834
NI
424
1,167
3,766
1,193
3,601
999
2,931
978
85,101
553
801
9,339
720
143,809
1,412
4,832
4,915
608
1,933
1,551
33,309
18,892
4,052
578
628
1,398
1,631
4,187
36,671
5,094
4,925
1,146
15,454
1516
009
4,341 35
1,75453
8579
4544
32,601
13,067
755146
2,218
587
9417
Value
3,261
::::::::::
3,261
3974
22,128
598
33,192
204
1,394
1,631
3,589
3,479
5,115
4,255
239 21
2,324 59
1,705
106 43
27895
24,452 59
1,698
12324)
239
3617
1936
775
2 39
1,445
1,146
6,233
10,597
1,376
TOTAL................ Hk.Tts.
800, 125
5,274,442
335
462,525
5,611,707


308
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
SUMMARY.
Imports from Hongkong ...........
......... Hk.Fts
, Singapore and Straits........
, Australia........
» Japan.
Philippine Islands .............
Cochin China, Tungking, and Annam...
» Siam ....................
» Java ..................
5,184,635
467,099
12,233
42,450
39,820
66,951
127,503
44,069
- Hk.fls. 5,984,760
89,807
- Hk. Pts. 6,074,567
..................
..................
Total from Foreign countries.........-
Imports from Chinese Ports ..........
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS...
33,714
102
RE-EXPORTS to Hongkong ........... .............. Hk. Tts.
„ „ Singapore and Straits .......
„ Philippine Islands..
Total to Foreign Countries.........
233
- Hk.fts.
34,049
.......... Hk.fts
67
22,814
4,326
RE-EXPORTS to Newchwang .........
„ „ Shanghai .........
„ Ningpo ..........
Foochow.....
Tamsui .........
Takow ........
Swatow........
79,449
...........
...............
..
...
...
197,973
122,977
1,205
Hk.Fls.
Total to Chinese Ports.............
-
428,811
—Hk.Hts.
Total FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS...
462,860
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS ....
„Hk.its. 5,611,707


AMOY.
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TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE. - Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value. | Quantity. / Value.
Quantity.
Value. Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
H
.Fts.
139 76
25,760
SILK Piece Goods .......... Piculs
, Shantung... »
Ribbons”.
Thread .....
, and Cotton Mixtures ....
7077
078
1930
238
Hk.Fts.
69,901
16,984
351
6,769
- 464
28 86
009
15
9191
1576
14,434
22
6,748
Hk.fts.
5152
1362 3,269
0291 131
2,870
015 30
Hl. Pts.
58,575
13,737
6,968
7,152
3,582
3,253
11710
5724
1549
20 30
17 99
482
4,314187
9 29
3,148
Piculs
TEA, Congou ...
» Oolong ...
Souchong...............
» Black ...
2,098 571 29,380
120,846 47 2,799,955
12291
1,229
450 108
14 54
234
50141
2,093751 29,313
11,623) 116,04473 2,695,583
67
92,983
929
300
4150
108
COTTON, Raw ....
Piculs
29,44383 363,883
...
280 301
3,553
...
...
29,16353
360,330
150 34
3,768
5036
34060
1,698
L
...
394
95
SUNDRIES:
Almonds.......
Piculs
Aniseed, Star ..................
Arsenic...........
Bags, Mat and Straw ......... Pieces
Bambooware.
Piculs
Beancake.............
Beans....................
Bones ..........
5,401
2,209
1,401
349
8,792
2,290
1 02
4,008
18346
2,936
19676
340 60
40166
108,535
8783
440,48165
456,712 39
6,654 22
1621
5,371
5,401
2,209
1,502
1,404
504,046
594,995
3,064
552
554
2,28328
2,976
10,29810
13,336
Brass
552
1,2171
480
541
4382
1,271
3,331
138
4,638
1,435
:::::::
14107
3180
3,100
Pieces
2,147|
601
17,027
547
*** 80
311
2407)
3,311
499 931
50397
Το
48360
1888
1,867
35/98
366
2866
1,950
4875
020
* 320
2 501
30
100
, Pipes...............
Brassware ...................
Buttons, Brass ............
Caps, Felt.
... Silk.
Cassia Twigs ................... Piculs
Chestnuts.....
China-root....
Chinaware, Coarse ..........
Fine....
Clothing and Stockings,
Cotton ........
, Silk..............
Tons
Copper Wire ..
Piculs
Cuttle-fish, Mu-yü
Dates, Black...
,, Red ............
Dressing-cases ......
Pieces
Dye-stuff.
Piculs
Eggs, Preserved .......... Pieces
Fans, Fancy ....................
Palm-leaf, Trimmed...
Untrimmed
Paper...
Fire-crackers......
Picul.
Fish, Dried...
Coal. Wire
40166
5,695 1861 105,130
250 49
2182
440,481 65 504,046
462,632 42 602,515 6,661 35
6,568 48 2,995
8574
1621
74
1,445 10141
3180
3,100
1,054
19,174
5,366
18808
42004 1,435
103 96
21663 1,899
387 34)
49096 1,958
808 11 56
4875 1,950 320
1,251
006
5,842 22,569
5956
51892) 3,564
... 948 51
3,968 204.39
2,45420
326 68
7945 610 7303
52,310 1,101
3,685 467 7,820
37,140
1,346,750
856 L. 351 127,715
106 831
84 91 723 93906
2,859 46 11,225 20,748 29
22939
670 402
242511
675
3385
8,147 811 7,387 45 77
48445 10,928
324 27
272 1,141 1,130
... 764 10. 764
... 1644 27,704
. 2/361
5,842
1,101
1,435
1,054
4,765
547
1,666
5,210
ΙΟΙ
713
123
1,181
22,569
1,101
3,380
4,887
6,245
646
1,332
1,101
933
519
6,659
4,598
1,389
13,026
2632
184
5,427
919
818
646
736
733
480
534
519
6,659
4,575
1,389
12,388
84,341
5956
49260
1,152 90
2,780 88
733
150 72
52,310
11,025
37,140
1,346,750
128,261
106831
1,017 571
23,583 25
23341
276 36
8,017 62
80242
1,248
76410
310
401
->
Salt.....
- 2450
95,468
4
41461
39
134 50
110
96
7,301
1,746
Flour, Potato, etc...........
Fruit, Dried..
> Fresh....................
Fungus............................
Furniture .........
Garlic .......
Ginseng, Corean, ist Quality
95
674
785
7,349
18,078
Pieces
154
551
2,336
Piculs
764
4,127
* 272! 4,504
080
1,000
1155126,327
11/04


310
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports—Conta.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Tts.
Hk.Fts.
1,036
3980
37324
83991
Hk.fts.
9,743
834
41094
20
81951
003
1474
3,441
1330
003
2314
3,11320
720 50
1,2171
1,300
2,955
3,750
1,441
1,441
1,469
2,090
388
,!13/20
19420
418
70570
1,2171
122 49
- 352
21523
42
80/
10321
23975
2,398
45498
14/26
Hl. Its
10,724
814
1,300
1,604
3,750
1,411
1,441
1,237
4,550
3,473
1,400
6,790
2,844
3,766
2,343
1,303
766
46,516
4,513
airs
2,152
3,473
1,400
6,790
2,777
3,766
2,343
Pieces
Piculs
81
697
12
8129
272
4,11422
231941
462691
30
14425
25,266
1,705
50,467
15,508
39445
33553
1,303
2417
21,550 3,913 44
2,891
3,925
7068
2 7,801
4,659
4,439
6,449
36,530
1,113,125
15
20,844 1,56308
1,537
14276
35
50,467.
15,550
394 45
335 53
8129
26 45
7,97766
36970
531 02
7,801
1,731
9,993)
42,953
11,110,925)
8871
665
4,578
Pieces
NN
II
547
1,731
9,993
71,600
: ***** *****
61,800
3,293
28,083
504
857)
3,377|
2,200
5808
548
10,784
547
4,659
4,439
2,867
28,027
519
30,914
5,938
816
12,569
4,920
4579
5,53818
SUNDRIES, continued:-
Glassware ......... ... Piculs
Glue.......
Goldware ..........
Grasscloth, Fine........
Ground-nut Cake .....
Ground-nuts ......
Gypsum.....
Hams.......................
Hemp .......................
Horns, Deer, Old.
, Young .........
Jadestoneware ..........
Lamps and Lanterns
Lead, Red ...........
, White.........
Leather...........
Leatherware .....
Lily Flowers, Dried ......
, Seed or Lotus-nuts.
Liquorice............
Looking-glasses ....
Manure-cake
Piculs
Mats, Bamboo.............
Pieces
, Straw ...........
Tea...........
Medicine Pills .
Medicines......
Mushrooms...........
Musk ...................
Nankeens ..
Oil, Bean...
, Castor...........
Tea ...........
,, Wood ...........
Opium Husk ...........
Ornaments ..........
Preces
Paper, ist Quality ..........
Piculs
Potash
Pottery, Earthenware
Prawns, Dried..
Rattans, Split.
Rhubarb ............
Rice............
Red .............
Safflower .................
Samshu ..........
, Medicated....
Pieces
Seed, Indigo ............... Piculs
Melon ...............
, Sesamum ............
3 Vegetable .........
Sesamum Seed Cake
Sheep Skin Clothing ......
Pieces
Shell-fish ..........
Piculs
Shoes, Cotton ........ Pairs
, Silk .........
Straw.........
Silverware...........
18562
96
008
4,564
720
4,513
009
12512
0 30
4,078971
48 34
oo
426 11
820
8111
28392
68073
511
580
20307
567
15,349
4,920
567
2,174
4,885
568
175
1,215
9,601
3,247
8,132
46375
003
39,006
51824
101
2,174
254
1,111
6,900
5,220
1,002
6,142
II
37 02
16671
******
34816
820
8111
28392
1,144471
193
39,359
581 32
1,32326
15017
14,70423
12858
83511
254,869 37
15849
0901
91717
539 50
2,40714
654 59
14,63023
4,048
432
533
35/08
152
104,155
74
13193
6169
21821
835
518
1,187
236
1,461
104,673
1,157
825
414,421
491
589
412,960
920
1,300
37,736
1,993
429
2370
I02
95991
1983
081
393
10
13920
Scales ....................
688
2
Melon
2,061
254,034 37
232 23
2370
7,122 86
31010
25166
1,26281
73978
184151
78 14
1,029
24928
718
4,020
9,820
638152
47218
6,582
161311
393
25166
1,901 33
1,21196
26020
7694
1,031 |
1,416
1,258
4,092
2,219
350
1,240
1,379
831
577
201
34,890
1,007
688
1,258
6,153
3,635
536
1,221
1,400
824
1,669
5,171
628
120
21
24618)
1,399
2,8091
2,117
6,422
3,160
o
221
1,092
2,232
7581
628
9,820
019
758


AMOY.
311
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports— Conta

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hk.Fts
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
Hk.fts
H. Its.
538
366
4873
2,000
1,623
7117
3,399
82727
72915
166 40
2,872
1,655
3,354
2244
1,399
82727
697 35
15520
2,000
5521
172
1,249
1,655
3,209
787
832
2907
146
672
6,592
3180
4027
4,592
1,453
1282
145
191
619
989
744
2,005
1,171
Nw
Piculs
1282
2,000
744
774
2,000
::::::::::::::::
A
568
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Sinews, Cow
Piculs
Skins, Sheep.......... Pieces
Sugar, Brown ..................
Piculs
White.............
Tallow, Animal ................
Teapots with Baskets ......... Pieces
Timber, Planks, Hard-wood
Tin-foil .......................
Tinplateware.............
Pieces
Tobacco, Leaf ............... Piculs
Prepared....
Toys ...........
Turmeric...
Piculs
Turnips, Salted .
Varnish ...
Vermicelli
Vermilion.
Wax, White
Wheat ...........................
Woodware.....................
9
Woollen and Cotton Mix-
Pieces
P;
tures.
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
TOTAL........... Hk.Tts
97
1,846
1,070
19
1,764
146 341
47,530
Pieces
20515
203 541
47,538
2,481
224
1,846
3,454
227
426
58786
1,764
I 20
800841
U11 83
11320
61291
1,602
1,677
679
3,075
2,284
1,304
56,196
|
2,335
295,116|
807 39
19061
9,64468
6129
11279
005)
440
4271
IO2
9,644 27
0105
4361
239,770 10
003
8,564
8442
2,489 20
2,939
1,615
2,861
56,435
3,075
4,517
292,177
864
6,644
15,518
4304
237,280 90
4307
8,564
863
6,644
9,705
7,901
1,464
624
5,608,204
348,855
92,037
2,758,839
3,106,183


312
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
SUMMARY.
........
IMPORTS from Newchwang.
........... Hk. Its.
, ., Tientsin ........
» Chefoo ...........
» Shanghai ................
» Ningpo.............................
Foochow...........
Tamsui ..........
Takow.............
Swatow ..........
.......................
Total from Chinese Ports ............
Imports from Hongkong.......
· TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS.
623,734
11,300
608,750
1,434,034
25,002
60,228
2,812,004
14,741
18,411
Hk. Pts. 5,608,204
............ - 348,855
-Hk. Pts. 5,957,059
2,900
...
»
583
2,128
1,571
RE-EXPORTS to Newchwang............ ............ Hk. Als
„Tientsin ........
„ Chefoo .............
„ „ Shanghai ...
„ Foochow .........
„Tamsui.
„ „ Takow...........
„ Swatow
„ Hongkong for Chinese Ports............
Total to Chinese Ports............
8,927
54,484
19,280
2,164
.............
wwalow .........
668
Hk.its.
92,705
RE-EXPORTS to Hongkong for Foreign Countries........ Hk.Fts.
„Great Britain..... ....................
„, Singapore and Straits ...........
„ United States of America..............
„. „Philippine Islands .
.............
„ Cochin China, Tungking, and Annam...
„ Siam ............. ......................
» Java ........
Total to Foreign Countries ............-
TOTAL NATIVE RE-EXPORTS.....
277,067
98,919
63,370
2,244,611
1,475
4,390
3,858
64,481
“ Hk. Its. 2,758,171
-Hk.fts. 2,850,876
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS.
.Hk.fts 3,106,183


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TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND Kincluding Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
Hk.The
Hk. Its
Hk.fts
Hk. Its
2 54
220
5
1,313
...
SILK Piece Goods.
Piculs
Shantung....
Rſſbons”.
Thread .......................
> and Cotton Mixtures .....
25,860
3,269
131
2,898
30
27,663
3,269
131
9 453,292
015) 30
387
Oolomon.
TEA, Congou....................... Piculs
Oolong .................
Souchong .............
Black...........
35,882 15! 573,160
8055 8,055
4,17462 67,316
57632
0 30
9,221
30
2,09375 29,313
116,546 14 2,707,206
300
2,09384 29,314
157,179 23 3,356,903
8,429
450 108
0441
441
84 29
108
2138
054
103,050
203,720
3,962
6,697 |
2,250
6,080
122
Piculs
70
28 50
5,062
Pieces
1,711
7,683
1,641
522
207
373
2,253
1,684
161
1,108
462
2947
4,84447
56,770
054
3,943
9
18448
2,958
35
16,312
19
235,500
62809
11549
15162
8,313
14124
49606
124
3711
95,350
64660
7946
23,255 95
22 171
99
12,581 38
12,72586
1131
170,764
138
371
1,011
201481
13931
399,000
360 |
28
460
1,428
IOI
601
Piculs
2,531 32
1,496
1,765
664
46,504
288
26 26
- 6211
066
1,867
48360
1888
360
1,760 29
54318
2,348
1,658
1,658
280 30
SUNDRIES:
Artificial Flowers .............. Piculs
Bags, Gunny...
Pieces
, Hemp.
Bamboo Leaf ................
» Shoots ............
5, Split
Bamboos ..........
Bambooware ..................
...Piculs
Beancurd............
Beans ..............
Brassware..............
Bricks.
Pieces
Caps, Silk
Chalk, Prepared ...........
Charcoal ......
China-root.................
Chinaware, Coarse .......
Fine
Cockles, Fresh
Cotton Rags............
, Raw ..........
, Stockings
Cuttle-fish ...
Feathers, Fowls'.
Fire-crackers ..........
Fish, Salt..............
Fishing Nets..
Flour ......
Flower Roots
Pieces
Fruit, Dried...
Piculs
, Fresh ..........
Furniture .......
Garlic ........
Piculs
Ginseng, Corean, ist Quality
Gold Leaf, Real .... Pieces
Thread, Imitation ...... Piculs
Grasscloth, Fine.
Hair, Human ...
Hemp Cloth.....
Fibre ..........
Sacking.........
Piculs
Iron Nails
Pans ...........
Ironware..........
723
4875)
3,553
1,950
184
2803)
26 32
001
1330
22 37
1,790
103,050
3,962
447,550 14,547
62809 1,641
144.96592
5,024 591 5,307
65,083
4,316
326 26 5,215
51272
1,719
16,501
66 51 2,077
665,114 2,901
2,507) 702
64660 1,765
2,531 32 1,496
8567) 714
23,766 47 48,432
41051
648
1,760 29 2,348
54318
280 30
3,553
5598 2,253
54 36 819
242 42
532 25
6,918
63761
2,568
118 44 3,578
2,308 51 5,993
1,721,045 7,077
727 12 1,787
11,287 33 14,660
2,389
4,137 43 4,592
3751 5,785
7,488,300 5,687
118331 8,285
179 37 25,147
137 96
3,543
37 43 629
6,776 82
14,591
337,1001 24,722
528 82 10,578
188 21 1,939
8,581 50 34,294
1,38993 10,556
22812
456
738
6,918
485
2450
98
532 251
11926
118 44
32795
440
547 38
4,429 02
303
269
1,985
3,876
2,693
426
6,941
652
493 85
1,97446
654,515
17974
6,675 18
17596
Valve
134
551
3867
39
3,578
2,064
11,066,090
1,361
7,572
1,176
4,528
281
5,687
7,874
20,003
3,499
629
13,375
4,073 52
023
7,488,300
112471
14263
136 86
37431
6,21911
5,504
036
1216
1,703
24 581
3,441
123
Pieces
... 11
1,093
24,722
Twine...
46499
1,208
496 30
337,100
344
188 21
86150
9,301
30,818
7,534
1,939
3,446
7,712 60
1992 51
30
32109
2,170
76133
852
40


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.—TRADE IN Native PRODUCE. Exports and Re-exports—Contd.
EXPORTS
EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
CHINESE PORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Hk.fts.
Hk.Pts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Tts.
Hk.Fts.
6,849
596
72
1080
130
70360
8,143
24,200
1,210
1,092
150
1,277
172
8
8,241
8,249
1,51792
26,465
Pieces
65,177
6,875
7,308
1447
4314
407
128 53
9178
3,000
12850
1,274 99
3,416 27
22 12
65278
7194
7883
1,82969
68170
1,76542
780
1,308
10387
20307
714
7,293
1
36
283
3,333
286
629
21,947
4,233
5,193
...
Jual
1,094651
13,146
37 92
457
8560|
512
7171
32
1,083 88
4,381
3,788
23401
4440
54047
3,816
415801
3,25667
398,809 19,606
128 50 1,277
1,27671
4,934 19 37,112
69,984
7973 863
1,66985
8,749
21201 7,615
1,25410 9,984
15,70413 186,699
29,230 55 174,427
1,76542 5,193
454 12 1,253
1,794 22 5,092
1,091 05 4,413
3,378 35
2,21384 1,860
4,55539
36,449
2370 1,301
769 96 4,131
5,24858 39,019
9847 1,969
84007 6,406
1,270
89020
2,286
27,573 14,294
12,994
1,216
8,396,000 1,073
1,399 1,249
34,543 5,551
17,370 1,058
134,403 33 271,343
4,32
26,051
539 50
2370
132
560 69
432
II
1,301
2,948
34,7561
248831
14960
603
9372
723
76 40
98471
631 871
2543
16.06
126
709
1,969
5,065
1,270
309
Joss Sticks..................... Piculs 59506
Kittysols ......................... Pieces 371,609 18,246
Lead, Red ........... ........... Piculs
Lichées, Dried ............
Lung-ngans, Dried .......
10,647
Mats, Straw .....
4,807 433
Medicine Tea ................. Piculs
173
Medicines...................
78467
3,394
Nankeens .......
Oysters, Dried ............
1,17527 9,355
Paper, ist Quality .......
12,74187 151,149
, 2nd „ ......
28,46325 169,680
,, Cuttings ..........
Persimmons, Dried .
446 32 1,232
Pickles, Salted...
1,780 10 5,045
Potash ..........
Potatoes, Dried ...........
3,35495
Pottery, Earthenware .....
1,21414. 1,054
Preserves...
75693 6,062
Safflower .......
Samshu...........
20427 1,158
, Medicated...
4,77375
Seaweed ...........
Seed, Vegetable...........
111 39
Sharks' Fins, White ......
Shell-fish ...........
87104 2,225
Shoes, Cotton and Silk.
24,116 12,548
, Straw .............
12,760 1,200
Silver Leaf ................... 8,396,000 1,073
Skins, Sheep...............
Stone, Granite...
34,3071
5,435
, Mortars .........
17,014 1,032
Sugar, Brown.............
Candy...
3,468 49
White ..
Tallow, Animal .......
Tea-wood Planks...
Tiles, Flooring ......
5,185,625 33,405
Tinplateware.......
17
Tobacco, Leaf..
Piculs
3049 274
, Prepared
5,821 18 98,863
Turmeric ..........
Turnips, Salted .......
5,18245 10,407
Varnish .......
7020 1,054
Vermicelli ....
17,133311 51,377
Vermilion.............
480 240
Wheat ........................
Wood, Poles ...................
Pieces
Woodware....................... Piculs
273 66 5,483
Woollen and Cotton Mix-)
} Pieces
tures, Native .............
Yeast............................. Piculs
58751
733
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
9,263
2543
1 310
2,924
234
1,462
16
4071
1,399
1,249
234
IO
356
106
26
269,688
435,518
53,018
827 27
18,749
17,40960
133,576 06
80,973 90
11,48302]
93,761
697 35
15520
1,655
3,209
785
Preces
100,000
3,601,689
533 307,877
Value
36,014
1,156
94
108
19,013
774
12
24679)
201 281
2,223
3,420
1,118 84
568
587 86
97
1,764
20
8
1
120
10
130 54
7820
875
12,180 37
15520
3,601,689
5,593,502
28928
7,146 98
58786
5,192 45
20874
17,357 39
1360
2,489 20
1,7961
27378
1,400
5875
1,960
234
439
56,227
787
36,014
35,094
885
2,605
121,393
1,764
10,427
3,134
52,150
682
2,939
5,485
1,017
733
20,844
330999
11279
440
005
2,489,20
2,939
2789%
1,796
OI2
1,400
1,017
1,544
5,924
4,113
TOTAL............... He. Its ................ 1,453,970
206,938
.......
1,019,748
**.........
2,850,876
5,531,532
D


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SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
TOM
Hk. Pts.
Hk.fts.
Hk. Pts.
Hk. Hts.
Hk.Fts
Hk. Its
3,818
102,737
98,919
63,370
408,442
471,812
2,633,466
388,855
2,244,611
Great Britain.. ...............
Singapore and Straits .................
United States of America ............
Japan.
Philippine Islands ..........
Cochin China, Tungking, and Annam
10
10
203,381
1,475
204,856
57,592
61,982
Siam ..........
42,313
4,390
3,858
64,481
46,171
Java..........
.........
349,559
414,040
193,556
277,067
Hongkong for Foreign countries ....
Total to Foreign Countries.....,
470,623
-
-
1,647,526
-
2,758,171
4,405,697
13,382
668
14,050
Hongkong for Chinese Ports .......
Newchwang .........
.......
Tientsin.
143,217
2,900
146,117
583
218,518
217,935
71,538
2,128
73,666
Chefoo..
Shanghai ............
415,788
1,571
417,359
Ningpo ...........
30,998
30,998
Foochow .....
36,305
85,456
8,927
54,484
Tamsui ..
45,232
139,940
31,601
Takow .........
19,280
12,321
6,190
Swatow.......
2,164
8,354
Total to Chinese Ports ......
1,033,1 30
92,705
1,125,835
GRAND TOTAL......
2,680,656
2,850,876
5,531,532


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TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a.—Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
COAST TRADE.
ONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL
-
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
74,947.2.0.4
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
17,258.4.7.7
Hk. Asm.c.c.
8,985.4.0.3
50.3.3.3
15.8.4.0
call
Hk.Fts.m.c.c.
33,165.3.0.0
189.2.0.0
5,845.2.0.0
2,859.2.0.0
.......
14,307.7.6.1
British.
American
German
Dutch .....
Danish...
Spanish
Swedish and Norwegian
Siamese ..........
Chinese ..
On Opium.......
331.5.0.0
Hk.Ftsm.c.c.
129,997.8.6.6
4,732.2.5.0
31,006.6.3.4
34,304.1.7.8
8.3.3.4
2,284.4.3.2
954.3.5.7
934.0.4.2
6,744.7.1.8
34,299.4.3.3
7,850.1.3.8
26.7.0.0
1,060.9.4.1
12.3.0.7
516.3.3.6
1,123.8.7.8
243,534-3.0.0
Hk. Tism.c.c.
264,354.2.5.0
4,971.7.8.3
85,474.8.6.8
45,013.5.1.6
366.5.3.4
12,647.4.0.9
2,774.8.9.1
1,935.8.4.2
12,932.8.4.6
243,534.3.0.0
8,305.2.3.6
1,685.8.2.7
233.0.6.4
3,699.8.5.0
...
996.8.0.0
122.4.0.0
252.4.0.0
1,364.4.0.0
TOTAL...............
363,371.2.3.7
210,966.8.1. I
37,516.4.7.9
44,794.9.0.0
17,356.8.1.2
674,006.2.3.9*
* 22 Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total.....
..Hk.Its 1,834.6.0.1
6.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
| Coast TRADE Import, Export,
OPIUM
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
EXPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
(exclusive of
Opium).
and
Coast Trade).
1877...
1878.
1879....
1880.
1881
Hk.Ftsm.c.c.
109,525.4.5.6
114,560.1.4.1
98,575.4.3.2
109,639.2.9.1
125,702.9.5.5
120,004.2.6.9
120,093.4.6.0
131,848.8.1.8
134,599.2.2.5
119,836.9.3.7
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
334,844.4.7.0
287,870.8.7.5
259,419.9.1.2
230,631.9.4.3
274,997.0.1.4
221,684.6.9.3
194,521.9.6.2
213,688.5.5.5
219,693.5.9.3
210,966.8.1.1
Hk. Plsm.c.c.
27,888.4.8.2
31,057.4.6.4
36,797.0.0.8
33,021.9.8.2
41,231.4.1.5
37,868.4.2.8
37,578.9.8.6
32,929.0.0.0
39,930.1.1.0
37,516.4.7.9
Hk.Item.c.c.
192,937.5.5.4
161,226.6.9.4
201,798.4.5.1
226,708.3.2.4
298,636.6.3.1
297,241.1.8.1
301,947.5.1.9
307,592.6.2.0
319,292.9.0.0
243,534.3.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
24,512.8.0.0
22,947.2.0.0
35,255.2.0.0
38,475.3.0.0
36,735.1.0.0
38,244.6.0.0
45,243.4.0.0
38,744.8.0.0
37,628.4.0.0
44,794.9.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
22,736.8.3.6
5,319.3.1.6
7,229.8.5.6
9,719.5.4.9
9,176.0.5.4
13,274.6.7.5
20,352.4.4.4
33,260.8.0.6
26,461.1.4.3
17,356.8.1.2
Hk. Itsm.c.c.
712,445.5.9.8
622,981.6.9.0
639,075.8.5.9
648,196.3.8.9
786,479.1.6.9
728,317.8.4.6
719,737.7.7.1
758,064.5.9.9
777,605.3.7.1
674,006.2.3.9
1882..
1883..
1884.
1885
1886........


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
B.–SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-TREASURE.
Import and Export of Treasure and Copper Cash, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
FROM
Dollars.
Copper
Cash.
Dollars.
Copper
Cash.
Strings.
Strings.
Straits.
Hongkong ::
Foochow.
Shanghai ................
Takow .............
Tamsui ....
Swatow.....
3,600
1,037,395
11,700
42,400
456,290
104,840
155,300
1,040
Manila.
Hongkong
Foochow ........................
Ningpo ..............................
Shanghai.............
Newchwang
Takow
Tamsui ................
Swatow..........
1,500
240,960
128,209
550
138,250
2,300
185,255
1,436,375
7,450
TOTAL....
1,811,525
1,040
TOTAL...
2,140,849
500
TABLE No. 2.-OPIUM.
a.-Import and Re-export of Opium, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
IMPORTED.
FROM
PATNA.
BENARES.
PERSIAN.
Malwa.
TURKEY.
TOTAL.
Quantity: Value. Quantity. Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. Value.
Quantity. Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Piculs.
Piculs.
1.35
275.82
Hk.fts. Piculs. | Hk.fts.
52.80 17,278
31,197 4,926.24 1,611,913
8.40 2,728
17,360
Hk.Fts Piculs. Hk.fts
439
90,455 2,255.94 916,179
92.40
Straits .....
Hongkong
Foochow ....
Shanghai.
Takow ..................
Tamsui .........
Piculs. Hk. Its Piculs. Hk.Fts
54.15 17,717
826.89 | 300,267 || 8,377.29 2,950,011
8.40 2,728
48 17,360
31.47 10,677
9.46 3,438 24.15 8,092
836.35 303,705 8,543.46 3,006,585
7.20
2,280
31.47
7.49
10,677
2,374
TOTAL.
92.40
31,197 5,042.64 1,651,559
316.13 103,945 2,255.94 916,179
To
RE-EXPORTED.
2,000
17.07
6,236
57.08
32.18
8.40
12
Hongkong........
Foochow ...
Shanghai ........
Takow ...........
Tamsui .......
Swatow ........
2,660
4,100
54,588
72,749
34.01
23.78
18.95
16.24
6.39
11,235
8,242
6,357
5,528
2,122
164.40
226.80
125.97
112.19
45,711
39,345
19,471
10,902
30.951 10,457
306.61 105,827
345.38 114,216
3.09|| - 1,205
3.09
1,205
Total.
.....
2,000
411.60 134,097
99.37
33,484
3.09
1,205
255.23
91,292
775.29 262,078


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b.—Comparative Statement of the Import and Re-export of Opium, for the Years 1863 to 1886.
IMPORTED.
YEARS.
TOTAL
RE-EXPORT.
NET TOTAL
IMPORT.
MalwA.
BENARES.
PATNA.
PERSIAN.
TURKEY.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
1863...
2,452.80
273.95
7.57
3,932.83
181.08
3,751.75
74.64
24.80
1864......
1,123.87
1,131.60
686.40
14.86
704.10
20.82
3,277.47
4,213.26
4,703.96
16.39
1,321.77
1865...
1866.
1867...
325.91
219.18
69.69
148.83
12
645.60
652.80
957.84
35.44
8.84
4,774.64
5,156.05
5,466.69
4,932.25
4,807.51
1,460.56
1,196.87
4,070.54
3,834.28
4,006.13
3,735.38
3,716.39
4,113.78
1868.....
14.66
3,376.29
5.60
1,091.12
1869............
3,182.40
1,314
453.12
612.93
603.81
5,109.33
1,388.14
3,721.19
2,943.57
1,442.40
4,994.78
1,896.37
3,098.41
1870..........
1871...
1872..........
1,833.60
720.74
20.82
4,805.81
1,753.82
1,868.29
3,051.99
3,124.46
1.0I
2,072.40
4,992.75
2,230.65
2,061.60
2,199.60
2,070
49.05
2,137.20
1,597.96
1873...........
1874..........
2,527.20
2,040.55
1875....
8.99
2,719.20
¡
.
5.45
4,976.90
5,410.64
6,018.02
5,891.66
6,942.42
2,512.80
2,694
2,146.57
1876...
58.81
2,442
1.86
2,737.90
2,898.62
Ιο
3,673.20
2,185.20
3.35
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1877..
1878..
1879...........
1.03
3,092.40
2,113.20
74.75
6,247.15
2,661.21
3,378.94
3,370.09
3,871.45
3,153.76
4,043.80
3,585.94
4,630.28
5,756.93
8,176.67
8,761.68
8,556.09
9,896.32
4,563.60
857.74
591.05
813.44
771.58
694.99
1,070.67
965.77
743.84
849.77
1,968.04
2,187.91
1,804.11
885.60
753-34
316.13
2,095.20
22.45
2,794.81
7,425.09
8,369.55
1880..........
6.13
4,986
2,509.20
18.45
288.09
6,120
52.75
1881.
1882........
2,138.55
897.60
1,415.62
5,779.20
354.92
10,567.43
10,635.25
10,621.55
10.931.98
2,612.62
2,390.76
1,873.57
2,065.46
1,035.66
1883............
5,316
920.48
2,091.33
2,859.99
2,821.81
489.63
366
1884...........
1,109.59
1885.
5,710.80
5,857.20
5,042.64
239.85
1,317.12
10,989.32
1,379.41
9,609.91
836.35
8,543.46
1886.....
2,255.94
92.40
775.29
7,768.17


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 3.-TEA.
Export of Tea, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
EXPORTED.
DESTINATION.
Congou.
OOLONG.
SOUCHONG.
TEA, BLACK.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
...
0.44
Great Britain ...................
Hongkong ..........
United States of America ......
Singapore and Straits .........
Java............................
Siam ..........
Philippine Islands ........
Cochin China ....
:::::::
Piculs.
236.92
4,174.62
24,370.23
2,028.42
6,873.75
642.62
550.49
1,179.92
41.59
26.76
0.60
Piculs.
236.92
4,175.06
24,370.23
2,070.01
6,900.51
643.22
556.39
1,185.42
5.90
5.70
Total to Foreign Countries .....
„ „ Chinese Ports .....
0.09
40,056.77
576.32
80.99
0.30
40,137.76
576.71
· GRAND TOTAL .....
0.09
40,633.09
81.29
40,714.47
RE-EXPORTED.
21.75
2,072
4.50
Great Britain ............
Hongkong ............
United States of America ...
Singapore and Straits.
Java....................................
Siam ..............................
Philippine Islands...........
Cochin China..
4,247.19
11,344.32
95,365.87
2,475.20
2,401.65
29.10
0.40
181
::::::w:
1:::::
4,247.19
11,373.57
97,437.87
2,475.20
2,401.65
29.10
0.40
181
2,093.75
116,044.73
501.41
4.50
Total to Foreign Countries .......
„ „Chinese Ports ....
GRAND TOTAL ....
118,145.98
501.41
w
2,093.75
116,546.14
4.50
118,647.39
w
DESCRIPTION.
To
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
To
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
0.09
Congou..
Oolong
Souchong................**
Tea, Black........
Piculs.
2,093.75
156,101.50
83.99
4.50
Piculs.
2,093.84
156,101.50
84.29
0.30
4.50
Grand TOTAL...........
.....
158,283.74
0.39
158,284.13
TABLE No. 4.-SUGAR.
Export of Sugar, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
DESCRIPTION.
HONGKONG
SINGAPORE
& STRAITS.
JAVA.
SLAM.
PHILIPPINE Cochin
| ISLANDS. 1 CHINA.
JAPAN.
TOTAL
|
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
17,409.60
Candy ..........
Piculs.
3,398.80
Piculs.
0.09
Piculs.
Piculs.
69.60
Piculs.
20,878.09
DESCRIPTION.
Foochow. Ningpo. SHANGHAI.
CHEFOO.
TIENTSIN.
N'CHWANG. Takow.
Tamsui.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
Brown .......................**
Candy .........................
White ..............
Piculs.
| Piculs. | Piculs.
4,014.41 1,493.63 | 51,408.17 |
2,394.59 4,520.50 32,493.46
103.79 2,349.40
Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. |
7,210.42 | 21,440.64 | 47,585.13
8,086.66 26,729.22 5,172.79
521.36 4,122.18 4,356.70
Piculs.
423.66
1,576.68
24.70
Piculs.
133,576.06
80,973.90
11,483.02
4.89
TOTAL............
6,409.00
6,117.92 | 86,251.03
15,818.44
52,292.04
57,114.62
4.89
2,025.04 | 226,032.98


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321
TABLE No. 5.-VALUE OF TRADE, ETC.
Comparative Statement of the Value of the Trade, the Import and Export of Treasure, Number
and Tonnage of Vessels Cleared, and Total Revenue, for the Years 1864 to 1886.
VALUE OF THE TRADE.
TREASURE.
SHIPPING.
IMPORTS FROM
EXPORTS TO
VESSELS
CLEARED.
YEARS.
TOTAL
REVENUE.
RE-
TOTAL
IMPORTS
AND
EXPORTS.
IMPORTED. EXPORTED.
Foreign
EXPORTS.
| Countries
(including
Hongkong).
Native
Ports.
Foreign
| Countries
(including
Hongkong).
Native
Ports.
No. Tonnage.
Tons.
Hk.fts. m.c.c.
655
647
1869.....
Hk.fts Hk. Its Hk. Its Hk.fts. Hk.Fls. Hk.Fts HK.fts Hk. Pts.
1864..... 3,788,753 2,553,006 1,223,616 1,317,102 8,882,477 521,686 708,775 709,675
1865.... 6,012,800 2,722,427 1,081,807 735,486 10,552,520 825,159 797,801 3,122,176
1866..... 5,075,918 3,006,038 1,496,070 1,190,090 10,768,116 842,429 905,498 2,201,524
1867..... 5,151,451 | 2,142,021 1,562,256 | 857,666 9,713,394 686,103 768,042 1,814,541
1868..... 4,277,833 1,380,618 1,012,786 1,159,169 7,830,406 684,935 819,220 1,596,273
4,510,373 1,641,042 1,966,890 825,678 8,943,983 786,520 625,515 806,207
1870..... 4,379,656 1,351,723 1,539,377 756,882 8,027,638 1,126,978 903,597 508,557
1871..... 4,1 10,027 1,620,051 | 2,202,884 883,006 8,815,968 1,153,872 1,410,713 455,159
1872..... 4,368,093 2,218,871 2,614,622 680,066 9,881,652 1,363,039 1,530,870 648,255
1873..... 4,665,469 2,234,264 2,106,905 923,599 9,930,237 1,171,264 979,077 877,757
1874..... | 4,170,138 2,669,301 2,722,235 912,770 10,474,444 1,715,936 1,655,653 554,048
4,864,131 3,107,890 2,274,364 1,047,496 11,293,881 2,261,195 1,149,309 639,849
1876..... 5,024,991 3,685,832 2,132,255 838,449 11,681,527 2,616, 326 1,103,479 897,353
5,816,200 3,681,544 3,003,948 744,950 || 13,249,642 3,111,545 1,958,009 836,178
5,184,159 | 3,610,432 2,086,052 855,205 || 11,735,848 2,661,732 1,074,188 875,691
4,962,776 4,903,233 1,710,060 1,141,470 | 12,717,539 | 3,688,390 1,245,345 | 1,168,704
1880... 5,772,026 | 4,645,936 | 1,634,695 1,227,834 || 13,280,491 | 3,246,907 | 1,259,401 | 1,304,274
1881...... 6,962,680 5,548,968
1,077,426 15,295,928 3,356,553 863,519 1,667,448
1882..... 6,854,318 5,135,554 1,448,023 | 1,046,501 || 14,484,396 3,233,361 612,456 | 1,848,153
1883..... | 7,013,021 | 4,567,927 | 1,393,466 947,753 | 13,922,167 | 3,589,875 1,013,013 1,547,007
1884..... | 7,485,106 | 4,360,534 1,546,691 | 972,295 14,364,626 | 3,100,579 | 1,064,283 | 1,461,469
1885..... | 7,552,250 5,435,752 | 1,756,776 839,702 || 15,584,480 3,620,240 1,328,975 2,362,127
1886..... 6,333,615 5,698,011 | 1,660,908 1,019,748 14,712,282 3,313,736 | 1,207,683 1,427,233
209,290 474,909.4.0.4
471,978.2.9.6
230,782
533,149.4.0.8
218,304 | 503,327.8.0.1
154,477 426,044.7.8.8
205,837 556,404.1.1.2
225,608 498,675.0.2.8
219,038 524,260.4.9.2
245,467 544,474.6.6.2
254,402 500,783.5.4.5
263,657 582,841.1.1.9
322,031 590,584.9.2.I
363,779 573,872.2.9.5
361,723 712,445.5.9.8
408,345 622,981.6.9.0
450,297 639,075.8.5.9
462,568 648,196.3.8.9
524,353 786,479.1.6.9
555,343 728,317.8.4.6
651,865 719,737.7.7.1
626,394758,064.5.9.9
681,183 777,605.3.7.1
791,897 674,006.2.3.9
999


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 6.-
Comparative Statement of the principal Articles
Classifier
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1879.
Quantity.
.......
Pieces
32,938
Cotton Goods:-
Shirtings, Grey........
White ..........
i Dyed, Plain and Figured...
T-Cloths..........
Turkey Red Cloths ..........
Drills, English and American..........
Lawns....
Cotton Yarn ..........
24,262
16,632
2,948
32,577
3,697
4,826
558
14,659
43,068
20,074
6,10I
36,090
43,282
28,496
6,267
55,903
29,542
21,759
3,691
52,280
6,478
6,230
43,874
30, 120
4,264
53,526
4,199
6,405
981
32,610
.
28,018
36,137
4,015
58,940
2,300
6,051
1,282
23,869
.
.
.
.
7,888
5,068
.
.
34,428
5,536
52,036
12,864
5,597
2,227
23,060
4,258
7,223
1,460
25,979
'885
914
19,635
Piculs
24,279
Pieces
1,758
243
911
134
405
648
1,518
460
2,627
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Camlets, English ...
Cloth, Broad and Medium ....
Spanish Stripes ...........
Lastings ...........................
Long Ells ..............
Woollen and Cotton Mixtures..........
, Braid and Yarn.......
1,289
222
156
673
154
1,473
1,641
248
266
736
348
2,535
352
492
866
430
318
342
831
692
1,028
174
384
630
598
825
931
1,104
1,299
1,219
1,454
1,248
1,173
Piculs
Piculs
2,900
METALS :-
Iron, Nail-rod and Bar......
„ Old .....
Lead, in Pigs
Quicksilver ...................
Tin, in Slabs ..............
4,608
562
1,390
3,146
214
8,574
2,710
3,589
9,996
562
3,291
4,046
3,021
2,647
14,233
1,026
2,602
8,589
213
9,163
figs .............
u,
3,795
3,910
8,177
508
6,387
12,739
468
10,253
103
10,193
8,873
515
6,226
Piculs
4,142
4,266
5,844
26,208
FOREIGN SUNDRIES :-
Bicho de Mar, White and Black .........
Cotton, Raw .........
Fish, Dried ........
Flour, American.....
Matches ..
Oil-cake.........................
Oil, Kerosene.......
Prawns, Dried ............
Rice
Wheat
4,899
10,367
20,955
1,081
8,184
93,305
1,520
4,598
883,188
"603
12,847
435
12,232
66,962
10
Gross
Piculs
Gallons
Piculs
4,615
3,047
17,736
511
14,059
126,923
7,680
5,525
48,616
3,781
16,540
26,143
2,500
23,073
74,688
1,535
5,776
171,273
1,913
31,911
60,370
7,795
585,585
28,885
5,254
3,497
37,051
3,115
49,470
86,290
12,680
6,922
127,528
180,687
4,313
15,192
18,839
5,919
47,148
76,037
17,580
8,729
92,194
51,981
3,538
7,008
Piculs
Pieces
NATIVE SUNDRIES :-
Beancake
Beans...........
Cotton, Raw ..................
Fish, Salt .........
Lily Flowers, Dried ..........
Mats, Tea..
Medicines
Oil, Bean .........
Prawns, Dried ............
Rice.......
Samshu .............
Silk Piece Goods...
Vermicelli.
Wheat ..............
284,326
232,450
42,041
5,601
1,883
577,914
31,734
17,445
10,997
47,119
4,029
60
8,607
68,582
231,071
277,144
65,502
3,688
1,710
580,476
31,968
24,539
17,214
2,265
2,782
67
5,279
46,702
403,126
268,928
34,766
6,929
2,945
1,132,482
40,836
3,995
9,877
17,848
3,821
Val.,Hk.ft
Piculs
335,760
241,085
23,458
5,311
2,638
748,670
32,233
3,292
8,998
318,837
1,331
60
6,611
82,696
212,251
260,918
39,394
8,601
5,210
915,990
27,708
3,132
16,688
119,806
2,196
400,932
337,085
33,347
18,293
4,194
946,670
24,209
1,530
13,114
61,623
3,233
591,766
372,146
29,204
20,972
8,044
929,248
39,973
6,814
11,069
268,122
6,788
104
7,748
118,071
'89
79
93
7,069
47,248
7,201
70,680
7,868
20,395


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323
IMPORT TRADE.
of Net Import, for the Years 1873 to 1886.
Classifier
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
of
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
34,088
Pieces
37,372
41,373
3,956
73,500
4,101
5,019
1,227
31,158
36,408
40,459
4,664
126,683
9,408
5,104
2,124
27,858
51,865
47,675
3,876
90,957
3,098
2,063
3,195
29,309
14,207
40,987
4,024
60,902
5,599
2,072
5,739
29,502
47,316
5,194
64,795
8,903
1,871
5,549
39,369
54,449
61,110
6,646
65,431
12,833
328
6,058
45,898
7,644
39,377
1,426
53,546
1,267
Cotton GOODS :-
Shirtings, Grey.
White.
Dyed, Plain and Figured.
T-cloths.
Turkey Red Cloths.
Drills, English and American.
Lawns.
Cotton Yarn.
347
7,949
48,468
Pículs
3,824
2,721
Pieces
1,451
293
280
269
2,452
352
397
1,214
2,744
320
396
962
527
1,637
463
596
378
2,619
304
375
779
646
1,323
236
2,640
263
359
939
783
1,352
460
WOOLLEN Goods:-
Camlets, English.
Cloth, Broad and Medium.
Spanish Stripes.
Lastings.
Long Ells.
Woollen and Cotton Mixtures.
, Braid and Yarn.
1,102
876
776
1,221
179
1,222
920
1,072
543
623
990
314
963
543
Piculs
METALS:-
Iron, Nail-rod and Bar.
4,415
2,759
Piculs
5,741
»
Old
2,972
6,123
10,724
412
6,981
1,595
9,775
6,960
361
8,132
6,064
6,988
367
8,715
1,981
4,537
1,273
432
9,275
2,787
2,961
8,110
395
9,156
1,825
10,249
2,873
321
Lead, in Pigs.
6,993
336
8,270
Quicksilver.
Tin, in Slabs.
7,108
4,255
Piculs
4,635
12,382
43,511
6,468
22,460
4,138
77,885
119,004
1,720
8,543
1,374
4,528
119,981
5,436
27,172
27,967
1,374
129,337
6,432
21,740
12,751
126,519
5,963
31,842
34,741
3,249
116,642
15,982
35,598
11,638
167,140
164,904
5,200
48,777
27,359
8,481
119,452
18,883
68,470
17,257
68,536
29,597
23,162
19,832
15,319
84,261
4,695
16,239
22,498
14,943
174,902
34,046
125,280
14,331
79,598
45,615
6,512
19,534
16,956
32,946
174,396
13,103
148,592
11,834
87,723
24,453
FOREIGN SUNDRIES :-
Bicho de Mar, White and Black.
Cotton, Raw.
Fish, Dried.
Flour, American.
Matches.
Oil-cake.
Oil, Kerosene.
Prawns, Dried.
Rice.
Wheat.
Gross
Piculs
Gallons
Piculs
573,198
Piculs
440,482
456,712
29,164
23,583
639,901
417,699
32,332
25,302
7,244
1,185,385
42,344
21,022
11,798
582,749
442,043
32,249
21,327
8,358
1,289,205
430,518
340,963
30,794
23,105
10,567
1,085,240
44,995
12,529
11,165
206,890
3,310
106
9,844
181,955
658,584
385,207
19,926
28,912
7,934
684,404
34,870
3,303
13,883
154,457
7,978
708,392
313,227
16,941
20,421
7,527
| 1,060,444
37,144
13,820
17,791
474,942
7,670
112
8,190
117,083
528,816
342,647
22,608
17,915
7,949
878,200
29,761
3,562
11,693
102,404
2,965
101
6,859
86,417
Pieces
Val., Hk. Its
Piculs
34,060
NATIVE SUNDRIES:
Beancake.
Beans.
Cotton, Raw.
Fish, Salt.
Lily Flowers, Dried.
Mats, Tea.
Medicines.
Oil, Bean.
Prawns, Dried.
Rice.
Samshu.
Silk Piece Goods.
Vermicelli.
Wheat.
1,110,925
30,914
820
14,704
254,869
6,582
4,701
6,005
11,704
104,489
5,370
130
7,135
74,227
7,018
89
117.
8,350
129,859
82
10,582
62,028
9,645
237,280


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TABLE No. 7.-
Comparative Statement of the principal Articles
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier
of
Quantity
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1879.
Piculs
22,792
68,553
11,201
53,247
Tea, Congou .....
Oolong.......
Souchong ...
Bricks and Tiles.....
Chinaware, Coarse....
Hemp Bags .....
59
77
Pieces
Fibre ....
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
, Sacking ..........
Iron Ware and Pans.........
Kittysols ...............
Lung-ngans, Dried .
Paper, ist Quality
, 2nd „ ..........
Preserves............................
Sugar, Brown........
Candy.....
» White ...
Tobacco, Prepared.........
Vermicelli,
14,724
50,774
312
3,633,510
26,134
1,414,008
2,695
281,750
8,709
410,431
10,058
8,806
14,661
2,624
69,984
74,505
16,899
3,982
7,242
11,845
71,560
124
| 2,158,530
42,195
717,706
1,138
163,308
• 11,882
467,997
9,202
10,436
21,954
3,186
78,084
90,350
12,766
2,082
6,274
28,293
41,921
112
5,196,297
31,634
591,820
2,062
370,833
8,708
499,337
12,611
9,367
20,167
2,393
126,786
105,779
16,635
3,849
8,722
24,646
39,795
96
3,682,830
27,444
989,070
3,459
545,697
9,514
393,874
15,220
9,220
19,691
3,281
I11,582
69,399
16,328
3,567
7,361
3,272,487
34,178
834,870
1,818
594,122
10,251
516,303
10,586
10,180
21,819
2,568
161,485
66,033
64,442
2,573
9,127
13,668
56,208
91
4,181,580
36,261
869,320
1,695
222,200
9,260
593,740
14,341
12,120
23,738
4,477
78,153
74,466
15,800
3,994
10,636
4,434,436
26,434
329,140
2,119
367,600
9,270
490,002
7,453
11,710
17,835
4,614
138,828
89,846
18,568
4,853
10,920
TABLE No. 8.-
Comparative Statement of the principal Articles
Classifier
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
of
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1879.
Quantity.
-
-
Pieces
Cotton Goods :-
Shirtings, Grey ........
White..............
T-Cloths ................
Cotton Yarn .................
38,347
18,201
3,950
1,948
36,250
2,101
731
93
49,901
3,848
2,898
8,250
51,945
6,488
12,850
614
21,650
9,507
4,350
222
4,750
129
34,793
1,653
5,701
401
Piculs
221
504
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Camlets, English.
Pieces
210
381
410
590
310
320
METALS :-
Lead, in Pigs ..........
Tin, in Slabs ....
Piculs
429
3,862
91
5,819
322
7,978
2,686
7,813
1,704
149
Piculs
52
1,933
1,669
45,687
8,029
44,951
3,317
77,554
2,373
76,602
23,066
NATIVE SUNDRIES :-
Tea, Congou ..........
, Oolong ...........
,, Black...........
Beancake ........
Beans.......
Mats, Straw ........
Sugar, Brown.....
2,757
97,372
1,911
15,572
40,205
76,650
19,242
17,274
12,108
19,348
52,295
47,550
5,262
Pieces
Piculs
16,155
16,822
56,400
6,457
16,415
21,254
13,796
19,386
16,363
27,200
11,242
2,849
46,650
1,721
5,882


AMOY.
325
EXPORT TRADE.
of Export, for the Years 1873 to 1886.
Classifier
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
of
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Piculs
66,444
84
622
47,365
49,521
40,633
98
67
27,061
103
6,682,480
20,228
916,200
4,765
Pieces
54,600
9,010
4,415
39,692
94
3,082,600 | 4,060,174
24,942 19,753
595,355 ' 1,130,450
2,327
3,907
435,550 1657,050
11,879 12,141
353,580 275,118
12,146 9,967
10,100 10,854
20,474
27,144
3,393 4,369
167,890 100,645
101,965
87,095
30,208 22,836
5,216
4,634
12,280
11,710
6,435,785
16,030
1,257,900
- 3,613
257,550
9,623
365,008
7,806
11,902
29,336
3,592
144,951
88,156
23,744
6,196
11,892
22
42,923
97
3,650,215
17,224
445,356
4,168
180,000
8,487
277,540
4,590
14,742
23,549
4,149
161,465
115,784
20,389
4,744
14,710
8,930
292,945
7,694
13,104
29,501
3,623
114,249
94,098
19,406
5,472
14,958
117
4,001,186
17,170
607,680
6,607
234,600
8,826
342,360
6,743
15,786
28,333
3,191
108,193
80,978
8,961
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
Pieces
Piculs
81
665,114
23,283
441,470
6,777
337,100
9,971
398,809
4,934
15,666
29,231
4,554
133,576
101,852
11,483
7,141
17,245
Tea, Congou.
„ Oolong.
Souchong
Bricks and Tiles.
Chinaware, Coarse.
Hemp Bags.
» Fibre.
Sacking.
Iron Ware and Pans.
Kittysols.
Lung-ngans, Dried.
Paper, ist Quality.
» 2nd ,
Preserves.
Sugar, Brown.
» Candy.
» White.
Tobacco, Prepared.
Vermicelli.
7,981
15,718
RE-EXPORT TRADE.
of Re-export, for the Years 1873 to 1886.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
23,649
24,600
Pieces
44,370
17,109
16,530
26,640
4,349
6,225
258
26,355
15,548
4,205
'White.
5,149
132
Cotton Goods :-
Shirtings, Grey
T-cloths
Cotton Yarn.
28,500
13,895
37,550
195
7,350
405
26,649
8,144
500
234
1,126
644
Pičuls
WOOLLEN GOODS :-
Camlets, English.
IO
390
720
445
180
Pieces
5,784
1,675
3,810
|
Piculs
9,106
1,475
Uls
4,754
2,842
6,537
3,411
METALS:-
Lead, in Pigs.
Tin, in Slabs.
3,874
3,096
4,846
2,730
3,511
1,124
86,613
Piculs
670
92,457
426
1,015
108,173
3,229
2,940
104,691
2,094
116,546
93,750
1,842
NATIVE SUNDRIES :-
Tea, Congou.
Oolong.
, Black.
Beancake.
Beans.
Mats, Straw.
Sugar, Brown.
23,238
71,462
13,600
129
16,929
85,082
49,375
1,971
14
120,782
4,056
36,887
92,350
956
53,327
64,242
5,400
22,844
63,450
33,682
83,300
12,581
65,177
161
Pieces
Piculs
827


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TRANSIT TRADE.
carried Inland, for the Years 1873 to 1886.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Classifier
of
Quantity.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
-
18,680
19,542
17,100
12,440
300
Pieces
21,261
7,870
26,417
16,806
7,163
COTTON GOODS :-
Shirtings, Grey.
, White.
T-Cloths.
6,635
7,973
9,019
6,106
195
24,465
23,310
24,597
20,090
1,020
2,610
2,235
24,410
1,640
11,567
1,454
128
»
2,220
2,781
Drills.
597
896
21,959
24,476
Piculs
Cotton Yarn.
WOOLLEN Goods :-
752
805
748
438
394
Pieces
Camlets, English.
244
168
147
Lastings.
302
346
190
Long Ells.
METALS :-
Quicksilver.
356
381
332
Piculs
SUNDRIES :-
2,424
3,574
5,247
9,177
18,460
Piculs
Cotton, Raw.
Sandalwood.
490
569
349
451
754
156
274
132
75
146
Varnish.
1,032
1,071
1,362
2,022
3,186
2,716
TRANSIT PASSES ISSUED.
brought from the Interior, for the Years 1873 to 1886.
Classifier
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
of
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity
686,850
300,050
594,450
439,350
105,050
446,850
468,500
662,150
733,900
266,489
29,600
179,500
234,600
337,100
5,170
6,904
5,150
5,210
4,294
4,229
Pieces | Hemp Bags.
„ Sacking.
Piculs Iron Pans.
Sugar, Brown.
» Candy.
» White.
9,711
31,804
87,753
5,226
61,265
75,650
26,805
16,026
6,528
13,679
62,734
92,494
25,834
34,656
7,648
289
67,969
71,387
7,851
403
6,354
17,011
7,912
453
301
311
298
457
No. 1
TRANSIT PASSES ISSUED.


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
SWATOW TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 18 8 6.
SHIPPING.—The history of the tonnage of this port seems to disclose a gradually increasing
volume of business. Since 1876 the total annual tonnage, inwards and outwards together, has
been each year :-
1877.
1878.
1879.
1880.
1881.
Tons.
Tons.
640,807
1882.
Tons.
687,297
Tons.
701,229
Tons.
880,235
794,736
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Tons. Tons. Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
1,149,832 1,173,411 1,282,936 1,279,885 1,425,186
Thus, as a reference to the detailed statistics of the past year will show, the trade of the
port drew here a larger carrying capacity than in any of the years gone by; and this fact
either shows that a larger general tonnage the world over, in the average of its distribution,
sought this port in the hope of employment, or that there was actually a larger employment
offering here, which drew a larger tonnage to it. I conclude that there was more carrying to do
in and out of this port than in past years, the port's work gradually growing in volume.
TRADE.—The volume of trade at Swatow is larger than at many ports which have a
greater gross value. Opium and Piece Goods excepted, the articles which enter into the trade
of Swatow are inexpensive things, and it follows that a far larger quantity has to be manipulated
to get an equal value or an equal duty than with the goods of some other ports, e.g., Tea at
Foochow. The gross value trade here has been :-
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Hk.Tts. HK.Tts. Hk.Tts. Hk.Tts. Hk.Fts. Hk.its.
19,442,301 19,671,417 20,428,570 20,039,204 19,522,782 21,329,627
It will thus be seen that in the past year there is some evidence, e.g., that of value, of
improvement in general trade. I believe that this evidence is delusive, since the improvement
comes principally from Opium, the increase in which is due to a cause on the whole vicious to
trade, and from Rice, the increase in which is owing to a sorrowful cause, unusually bad harvests.
IMPORTS.—Opium.-In 1886, 6,713 piculs of Opium entered this port. Comparing 1886
with some previous years, the statistics of Opium are as follows :-
1884.
1885.
1886.
1883.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
4,376
4,397
3,887
6,713
Opium has in the past been coming here in larger or smaller quantities in response to the
relative weight of inland taxation on it compared with that at the port of Amoy principally.


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331
In recent years the Likin at Amoy was lighter than that here, and Opium went there. In the
past year the Opium farmers here reduced their rates, and Opium flowed in here instead of at
Amoy. Since September the farmer at Amoy and that here amalgamated, and the rates were
equalised, to the advantage, as far as local trade is concerned, of this port.
Piece Goods.—I am greatly indebted to a gentleman familiar with this business for
the following review :-
“Great depression and an abnormal absence of demand have been the prevailing features
of the trade in 1886. The complaints of importers are fully borne out by statistics, which show
a large falling off in White Shirtings, Grey Shirtings, and T-Cloths. The quantity imported
was less by about 130,000 pieces than in 1885, equal to a diminution of 30 per cent. The
diminished import was no doubt due in part to the heavy stocks of goods carried over from
1885, which went into consumption in 1886; but there was a noticeable falling off in the demand
from nearly all the consuming districts. This is attributed to the enhanced price of Rice,
which diminished the purchasing power of the people; and Chinese also state that the licensing
of the Weising (N *) Lottery by the provincial authorities has had a bad effect upon trade,
large sums of money having been invested in this and kindred gambling speculations. The
demand for Dyed Shirtings from Shanghai and the river ports has been smaller than usual.
“Cotton Yarn has shared in the general depression, and the figures here show a falling
off of 16,489 piculs as compared with 1885. English Yarn is being almost entirely supplanted
by the cheaper thread from Bombay, but no reliable figures are accessible showing the exact
proportions of each kind.”
Food Products. The cause of the bad trade is not far to seek,—two seasons of farming
distress. The autumn of 1885 brought floods on the farmers, and the spring of 1886 afflicted
them with drought, and so not only had the constituents of the Import trade of this region no
surplus out of their year's toil with which to buy Foreign materials, but their store was called
on to find means of buying food. In the last quarter of 1885, in Rice alone of food materials
the abnormal importation rose from an average of 45,000 piculs in 1884 to 292,000 piculs in
1885, and this heavy drain on the money fund of this region went on till July 1886. No
wonder, then, that the import clothing trade should be bad, since in these latitudes clothing
is of very minor importance. Almost every commodity the use of which could be economised
without suffering shows a falling off. In cereal food products, however, the statistics are as
follows:
1883. 1884. 1885.
1886.
m an a
1,756
Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs.
Flour, Foreign .. 806 3,204 2,288 29,728
Wheat, „ ... 19,725
5,494
1,400
„ Native . .. 46,941 65,129 25,517 214,571
Rice, Foreign ... 70,254 77,934 72,958 81,957
» Native ... 214,112 158,782 432,726 1,142,682
The telling cause of the diminished Import trade of 1886 was scarcity of food: the floods of the
autumn of 1885 and the drought of 1886 bereft the population of its means of subsistence in
great part. It had not the wherewithal to buy much otherwise indispensable.
Of all articles of Import as regards quantity and the employment of shipping, none is
comparable to the Beans and Beancake trade. In this business scarcity here at first, and later
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1883.
Thus, in Beancake, Beans, and Peas the quantities imported are as follows:-
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs.
Beancake . . . 2,374,292 2,539,695 2,266,224 2,176,737
Beans and Peas. 723,096 739,400 865,885 606,766
EXPORTS.—The staple of the Export trade here is Sugar. The last four years' data con-
cerning it are :
1884.
1885.
1886.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs. Piculs.
1,483,034 1,822,768 1,501,330 1,313,688
valued at-
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Hk.its. Hk.Tts.
Hk.Its.
Hk.Tts.
5,978,608 5,531,173 4,067,527 4,234,407
Mr. Allum, whose knowledge of the Sugar business is comprehensive, has been kind enough to
write for me this review :-
“The crop of the season 1885-86, the year under review, may be considered as smaller
by one-third than the production of the preceding year, owing—not to a less favourable yield
for acres planted, but—to the fact that in many districts areas previously devoted to the
cultivation of the cane had been planted with Ground-nuts, the oil expressed from which had
in previous years sold at very profitable prices. The result has not been satisfactory, and the
experiment is unlikely to be repeated for some time to come.
"A smaller production as a rule leads to enhanced prices, and this was the case during
the first portion of the year, when the advance was sufficiently marked to influence the value
of the whole year's export, although during the later months prices had fallen to the level of
the previous year. The decline was caused by the competition of Java and other Sugars,
which were then being imported into Hongkong, and thence to the Northern ports of China,
at exceptionally low prices.
“To this cause also, viz., the competition of Javas, etc., the decline of nearly 200,000 piculs
in the quantity exported may be directly traced. This is very clearly shown by a comparison
of the export to Hongkong during the two years 1885 and 1886, the export being respectively
169,238 piculs and 72,531 piculs, and the difference representing one-half of the total deficiency
in the year's export.
“ About the same quantity of Raw Sugar was passed through the refinery here as during
1885, but in this case also the influence of the competition was strongly felt, the demand for
refined Sugars during the first half year being good, while early in August work had to be
altogether stopped, owing to the cheap raw Sugars then obtainable by the Hongkong refineries
enabling them to sell their productions very considerably under the prices at which similar
qualities could be produced from Swatow Raw Sugars.
“About 200,000 piculs remained in first hands at the end of the year, which should tend
to swell the export of 1887.
“The prospects for 1887 are satisfactory; the area planted is about one-third in excess
of the previous season, and as the weather throughout has been favourable, the production is
expected to be 30 or 35 per cent. greater than last year.”
W


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333
Swatow is the great mart of the Orange trade in China. The export of Oranges from it
during the past five years has been :-
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs.
106,104 134,535 138,040 120,673 105,136
The statistics of this port seem to show that the Orange trade is not so flourishing as it was.
There is perhaps in it, as in most things, a temporary lull.
EMIGRATION.—The emigration from Swatow is directed mainly to the Straits, but to
Bangkok there is also a considerable flow of passengers, Chinese passengers only being reckoned.
On the whole, there left in Foreign vessels in each of the past five years :-
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
65,118
71,311
71,258 76,995 68,246
and there returned to Swatow in the same years :-
1882.
1883. 1884.
1885.
1886.
39,903 44.753 44,586 54,147 48,499
These data include the ordinary travellers who go and come from coast ports and Hongkong as
passengers travelling for business or pleasure, whose numbers cannot be ascertained. Hence it
is not possible to tell in what proportions bona fide emigrants who go to distant places return.
But this can be safely predicated, that in five years 121,740 more individuals went than came,
and it is therefore a fair conclusion that about 24,000 people have annually gone away not to
return, this number representing the net annual drain on the population of this locality.
E. McKEAN,
Commissioner of Customs.
Swatow, 12th February 1887.


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
SWATOW TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.—GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
FLAG.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
Total.
No.
Tons. No. Tons.
| No.
Tons. | No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
621
548
621
71
4
British.
German
French
Danish
Swedish & Norwegian
Japanese ...........
Chinese.......
485,618 73
56,464 25
2,006 3
1,538 2
80,277
21,994
1,473
1,538
14
8
506 443,620 115 122,152
61,791 19 16,667
3,009
470
4/ 3,076 ... ...
2,388
1,284 ...
50,759 3 3,735
647 565,927 138 143,024
MANN
565,772
78,458
3,479
3,076
2,388
1,284
54,494
708,951
2,388
565,895 1,242 1,131,667
78,458 192 156,916
3,479
6,958
3,076
6,152
2,388
1,284
2,568
54,494 106 108,988
709,074 | 1,570 1,418,025
4
4776
51
2
51,478 2
599,492 107
53
785
1,284
3,016
109,582
53
Total Steamers .......
678
785
SAILING VESSELS.
775
958
958
775
530
1,312
1,733
530
2,604
424
868
1,292
British
American ..........
German
Danish.
.................
Swedish & Norwegian
Total Sailing Vessels
530
1,312
290
1,002
290
290
1,002
1,002
2
2,004
8
... | 8| 3,909| 4| 2,384 21 868_6 3,252 14 7,161
655 | 569,836|138 143,024 793 712,360 682 601,876.109 110450 791 712,326 1584 1,425,186
1,002
3,909
IND TOTA
Pora.


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TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF SWATOW,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.fts
Hk. Ats.
Hk.Ats
Hk. Its
Hk.fts
Hk.Fts.
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong....... 6,327,667
Imported from Chinese Ports...
62,250
Total Foreign Imports............
6,433,463
111,549
6,767,056
202,601
6,389,917
6,545,012
6,969,657
39,607
12,253
47,692
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong....
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Tientsin,
Shanghai, and Takow).......
Total Foreign Re-exports ............
37,533
53,702
24,077
77,140
65,955
71,769
Net Total Foreign Imports ..........
6,312,777
6,479,057
6,897,888
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Newchwang, Tientsin,
Chefoo, Shanghai, and Hongkong) .........
6,262,938
6,992,216
7,801,591
161,932
165,554
Re-exported to Foreign Countries............
Re-exported to Chinese Ports......................
Total Native Re-exports ...........
78,071
67,362
27,814
23,127
189,746
188,681
145,433
Net Total Native Imports
6,073,192
6,803,535
7,656,158
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries.......
2,571,288
1,535,700
1,389,695
4,815,061
4,449,864
5,168,684
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports ..
Total Exports of local origin ...
7,386,349
5,985,564
6,558,379
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port...........
20,039,204
19,522,792
21,329,627
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native {| 19,772,318
Exports of local origin........
19,268,156
21,112,425


336
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.—Imports and Re-exports.
DE

NET
IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Tts
Hk.its
OPIUM:-
Malwa.
............
Piculs
Patna ....
Benares ..
Persian ............
Turkey .................
Hk.Its
3,699 56 1,471,207
2,07427 821,546
892 91 338,811
4601 16,914
095 406
H.Fts
3,69956 1,471,207
2,07427 821,546
89291 338,811
46 01 16,914
095 406
Pieces
2,748
6,128
4,086
14,313
17
1,350
1,349
450
300
1,875
2,577
772
12
595
COTTON Goods:-
Shirtings, Grey.....
White.
Dyed..
Dyed, Figured
and Brocaded
T-Cloths, 32 inches........
2 36 „ .......
Drills, American.
, English .........
Jeans, American .....
English .........
7,7251
10,037
719
5,854
5,428
522
400
950
144
: 533
I OO
835
90,482 160,004
147,956 332,906
4,334 9,964
1,748
4,136
57,774 70,285
31,6711 48,554
1,224 2,614
976
1,630 3,213
324
851
1,528 1,517
8,001 13,541
1,771 7,947
5,548
1,004
2,601
2,169 4,025
96,643 46 1,799,846
4,369
1,639
126
383
91,880 162,215
152,735) 344,642
3,896 9,209
1,448 3,541
59,645 74,894
32,193 49,273
824 1,664
434
1,630 3,213
324
851
769
7,642 14,046
1,771 7,947
7,272
4,994
954
2,481
1,830 3,574
96,644 26 1,799,860
3,830 1,410
129
401
Chintzes......
568
5311
1,101
1,460
1,606
8,248
9241
502
+
Turkey Red Cloths.
Velvets .......
Muslins, Cambrics, and
Lawns........
Twills, Printed .....
Cotton Goods, Unclassed ...
, Yarn and Thread ..... Piculs
Handkerchiefs ........ Dozens
Linens ........... .......... Pieces
50
I 20
457
341
3170
539
136
!!!!
Ett titta !!!!
**
229
20
III
225
120
230
461
925
389
397
60
100
5,511
WOOLLEN GOODS:-
Blankets............
..............
Pairs
Camlets, English .............
Pieces
, Dutch ...........
Lastings...
Long Ells...
Merinos ...........
Cloth, Broad, Medium, and
Habit........
Cloth, Union .......
Spanish Stripes .....
Flannels .....................
Lustres ..............
Woollen & Cotton Mixtures
Goods, Unclassed...
» Thread and Yarn... Piculs
244
192
2,778
28
1,350
4,736
120
2,596
357)
1,577
276
2,149
65
1,367
1,008
201
4,222
45,606
1,894
17,928
25,848
3,550
26,788
3,251
23,238
724
4,581
4,075
1,082
1,017
1,083
4,646
120
2,536
5,451
535
1,578
196
* 3,670
44,911
1,894
17,539
25,643
5,788
26,816
2,416
22,888
724
4,463
2,944
1,082
1,017
10
2,102
65
TI
1,608
2,739
1,317)
874
2011
12 25
12 25
33168
3,009
255
1581
3,009
255
088
24
088
Il21
24
METALS:
Copper, Old ...................... Piculs
Sheets and Nails ...
Manufactured and
Ware ............
Japan .....
Iron, Bar...................
Nail-rod...
Manufactured
Wire .............
Old ...........
Galvanized ..........
Ironware ...
33168
1581
121
1035
3,093 77
12,957 80
37023
446 461
15,680 67
5,496
5,496
23,080
748
10 35
3,093 771
12,928 40
37023
44646
16,94442
8851
396 97
23,036
748
2,034
23,280
47
1,316 25
2,034
21,832
1,527
28
318
385
19
34351
1,403
1,696


SWATOW.
337
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOOD.-Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Ft.
Hk.fts.
225
..........
68 30
3/10/
74
Hk.fts.
9,456
12
290
194,069
15,502
1,818
461 59
97 78
11,152
4554
989
509
2,437 72
8992
7,67848
2,555 331
38873
208 991
2437)
97597
32273
24/21
METALS, continued :-
Lead, in Pigs ....... Piculs
, ,, Sheets ............
Dust..................
Tin, in Slabs ..............
, Dust and Refuse....
Tinplates ...
Old ..........
Quicksilver ............
Steel ............
Yellow Metal...........
Zinc Sheets.........
Metals, Manufactured, )
Unclassed, as Hardware,
Brassware, Brass But- Value
tons, Tinware, Cutlery,
2,506 02
310
11337
8,094 53
2,65311
38873
208 99
2437
97597
322 73
9559
Hk.fts.
9,681
12
364
204,232
16,011
1,818
423
1,143
3,118
4,055
549
423
1,143
3,118
4,055
7138
397
152
1,097
1,537
2,634
etc......
53
و
259
1,18518
6,567 42
249)
38467
453781
2,100 25
دیا
1,700
20,862
9,033
1,824
941
11,6791
19,903
2,286
2,683
811
200
571
259
1,17065
6,626 02
246
41165
446 50
2,11227)
571
5,034
2,800
99 72
2064)
103,1171
42418
.......
5,034
45,950
834
562
1,352
46,850
9972
2064
7,104
42418
1,684
1,035
364
Pieces
96,013
6,438
1,937
1,054
1,723
407)
856
17,3091
58,770
SUNDRIES:
Aërated Waters................ Casks
Awabi.............
Piculs
Beans and Peas .....
Beer and Porter ..... Casks
Betel-nuts .....................
Piculs
Bicho de Mar, Black .....
White.....
Birds? Nests
Braid, Llama.
Boxes
Butter and Cheese ..........
Value
Canes, Malacca.........
Pieces
Cardamoms, Inferior..... Piculs
Superior......
Carrying Sticks
Charcoal, Animal
Piculs
Cigars..........................
Boxes
Clocks....
Pieces
Coal....
Tons
Compoy....
Piculs
Cotton, Raw ........
,, with Seed.
Cuttle-fish .........
Dye-stuff...
Dyes and Colours.
Bottles
Fish, Dried and Salt .... Piculs
, Maws...........
Skins..................
Flints...
Flour ......
Ginseng, American, Clarified
>
Corean, ist Quality
» Japan, Unclassed..
Glue, Cow......
Ground-nut Cake ...........
Ground-nuts .................
Guano .....................
Hemp ..............
Horns, Deer, Young ..... Pairs
Cochin China.. Piculs
Rhinoceros.......
880
108 58
IOO
1,700
20,413
9,115
1,783
1,018
11,482
20,103
2,286
2,683
811
44
1,684
1,035
6,802
1,937
1,061
1,723
58,770
1,113
189,986
51,626
139,597
8,024
7,740
45,263
4,042
1,319
1,521
63,249
33,599
15,407
4,138
2,839
14,446
59,222
13,092
302
8331
18,44707
14,62111
14,598 951
5,320 32
49,727
12,44593
27285
446 43
2,26275
29,72875
140 341
6804)
329
3409
1,69258
31,987 74
7,175 281
336 84
1,09701
226
6198
7295
112
1,113
189,886
51,246
140,150
8,024
7,753
45,201
4,083
1,120
1,521
63,249
33,599
15,407
4,228
2,839
11,709
44,914
13,026
1,433
28,825
8,572
856
17,309
8331
18,455 87
14,72969
14,540 08
5,320 32
49,627
12,47460
26952
55934
2,26275
29,72875
140 34
3/22
3409
2,054 86
44,42530
7,23828
·
Crude ...
6804
362 28
12,437 56
2,7371
14,308
66
1,680
3,360
1,09701
2011
1,000
206
28,825
7,572
6198
1,066
1,066
7,286
72/951
7,286
43


338
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODs.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

1
IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hl.fts.
610
2044
213
684
82
5,532
8,858
Value
Paddy ......
9,573
300
141
10 07
249
864
.......
1,332
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Isinglass ...................... Piculs
Lamps .........................
Pieces
Leather......................... Piculs
Mangrove Bark ............
Matches ..........
Gross
Medicines, Foreign ..........
Milk, Condensed, in Tins.... Dozens
Mushrooms...
Piculs
Mussels, Dried
Oil, Kerosene...
Galls.
Piculs
Pepper, Black......
White ...
Perfumery.
Dozens
Pork Skins
Piculs
Prawns, Dried .......
Putchuck ...........
Rattans ..............
Rice..........
Rose Maloes .
Sago............
Sandalwood.................
Sapanwood..
Seaweed and Agar-agar....
Seed, Sesamum
Sharks Fins, Black
, White .......
Shell-fish.”..
Silk, Yellow....
Snuff ......................
Soap...........................
Spirituous Liquors ...........
Stationery .......
Tallow, Animal ............ Piculs
Timber, Beams, Hard-wood Pieces
Cub. ft.
» Planks, Teak-wood
Towels, Cotton ..........
Ultramarine ....
Umbrellas.............
Pieces
Wheat ........................
Window Glass .............
Boxes
Wood, Fragrant ............ Piculs
3 Garoo..........
, Kranjee.. ............
Pieces
Worm Tablets ....
Dozens
Wreck Materials ...............
Stores, Unenumerated........
Sundries,
:::::::::::
::::::::::::
He.Fts.
55344
7,857
2,8701 2,771
95570 13,248
9,097 51 6,715
176,046 57,274
2,382
1,247 2,052
49094 13,608
81007 4,627
120,590 15,927
20,666 01 24,163
71660 9,540
128 90 2,705
953
864
1,114 55
6,852
1,06597 9,913
22994 2,244
6,67003 16,947
81,957 77 153,513
6462 1,279
427 30 1,309
3,257 85 11,001
3,58802
6,401
1,464 26 3,312
5,85625 16,430
5,299
2,955
38561 4,162
7474
10,755
733 1,468
1,756
4,189
1,169
18188
1,199
223 1,450
3,112
1,089
1,709 1,396
16281 5,879
78 29 1,060
7,864 3,039
1,400 12 2,345
823
1,895
23679 4,142
770 1,082
94
1,539
698
893
16
Hl.fts.
Hk.fts
Hk. Pts.
559 54 7,949
2,870 2,771
94210 13,117
7,776 89
1,32062 1,183
3,122 168,138 54,437
2,382
1,247 2,052
49094 13,608
817 62 4,665
120,590 15,927
18,264 20,702 2,402 01
3,461
24 30 267 71304
2074
505
13909 2,896
953
22366
890 891 5,520
1,07177 9,972
25 23084 2,246
2,436 10
7,156
4,23393 9,791
15,60076 25,513 66,35701 128,000
6462 1,279
2640 54
400 901
1,255
3223
3,225 62
10,906
50911
1,051 3,09781 5,389
1890
1,420 261 3,322
5,856 25 16,430
5,249
8520 2,927
90
4,091
11,497
1,468
397
1,359
4,200
1,169
6970
112 18 646
1,424
26
3,112 1,089
3,679 2,890
2,470
1,994
4,440
16103 5,823
7829 1,060
7,827 3,024
1,400 12 2,345
823 1,895
8130
15549 2,994
770 1,082
64
1,080
893
14,289
IIO
6,078
2,239
22,800
257
210,868
... 6,758,789
****
Excess of Re-export above Import of some articles during the year ....
NET TOTAL....
37482
378 37
8581
106
553
4
»
Logs,
3,488
:::::::::::::::::
Piculs
1,148
Value
5,876
18,658
6,188
1,399
TOTAL...........
H. Ha
20,581
51,188
23,383
6,926,936
......Hl. Its 29,048
Hk.Pts 6,897,888


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339
SUMMARY.
IMPORTS from Hongkong ....
...Hk.fts 6,556,188
, Singapore and Straits ............
97,232
» » Japan .......
59,470
» Cochin China, Tungking, and Annam...
39,242
u Siam ....
.............
14,924
Total from Foreign countries ........-
-Hk.Its 6,767,056
Imports from Chinese Ports ........
....... 202,601
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS .........
Hk.Fts. 6,969,657
RE-EXPORTS to Great Britain ........... .............. Hk.fts
„ Hongkong ..............
„ Singapore and Straits ............
„ Continent of Europe, Russia excepted..
„Siam..
Total to Foreign Countries............ —
12,645
27,111
5,632
1,580
724
-Hk.fts.
.........
47,692
39
.
.
.
.
.
.
RE-EXPORTS to Newchwang.................................... Hk.fts.
„Tientsin ..................
„ Chefoo ............
„ Shanghai .........
„ Tamsui......
„ Takow...........
„ Amoy ............
, Canton ......
„ Kiungchow .............
Total to Chinese Ports..........
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS...
2,127
688
7,073
144
13,431
191
73
311
-Hk.Fts
24,077
- Hk.Fts
71,769
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS...
..Hk.fts 6,897,888


340
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports.

RE-EXPORTS
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
TO
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
CHINESE PORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Its
Hk.Fls.
Hk.fts
BEANCAKE
Piculs 2,176,930 41 2,361,904
28721
279
480
.....
Piculs
BEANS, Black.
> Green.....
White.............
, Yellow............
19,03505
63,398 81
47,564 42
445,746 01
31,638
97,183
73,189
652,017
47394
20408
40151
6,707 28
4552,176,73762 2,361,728
715118,561 11
319) 63,19473 96,864
69647,162 91 72,493
9,655 424,451 23 621,380
882 53,398 57 85,539
14,587150
20,
PEAS ............
53,934 47
86,421
53590
Piculs
53635
3,742
380
30
28339
15875
3,209
2,119
...
10713
Pieces
1,05552
1,902
16751
3,905
1,632
1,058
Piculs
314
8768
1067
107
2,780
1,090
es
8,520
SUNDRIES:
Almonds....
Aniseed, Star
Barley, Pearl
Brass Pipes ..........
Brassware ...........
Buttons, Brass ...........
Caps, Felt.
, Horse-hair..........
Silk................
Cassia Lignea ..
Twigs ................
China-root.
Cinnabar ...................
Coir .................
Copper, Broken, Old ..
Cotton Cords
133,387
14,025
17,010
22,584
2,803
3,430
165
33
83
2 23
16423
60731
13403
1,432
1,035
1,87471
722
24
6582
6.92
64695)
6920
270
260
181
10
166
1749
1326
18,157
876
2,603
1,485
2,741
3,754
1,289
201,566
6,671
15,655
313
„
Old.
9163
2,090 36
54402
Raw..
19,72496
858 92
5,055991
2,728 36
75,820
300,180
46 57
6,012
235
156
5/114
78594
15875
948 39
2,216
10443
1067
124,8671
14,190
17,000
15841
607131
1,92768
2230
66597
11554
10489
2,090 36
54402
19,72373
85171
5,001 62
2,67787
75,820
300, 180
648,000
25,343
18,543
3,591 071
32675
3,57378
3,697 82
3929
18769
5344
351 34
1,457 36
21941
11,66857
3,400
607 941
34754
48,92322
202 20
1,783
2,443
6,776
2,119
3,584
1,739
3,838
1,090
20,995
2,836
3,450
1,373
1,035
18,109
1,146
2,701
1,651
3,054
3,754
1,289
201,554
6,610
15,423
5,857
1,783
2,443
1,214
1,040
1,629
14,082
3,824
4,264
73,192
32,668
11,032
1,417
6,568
10,848
21,158
15,076
2,205
3,965
5,302
474,389
2,581
5,558
28,763
1,248
3,379
4,000
652,000
16,099
14,671
1,221
412
956
9,244
3,872
3,666 77
28871
3,58398
73
33278
3820
, Rags ............
Cuttle-fish ....
Dates, Black.
Red..
Dunnage Mats and Bags..... Pieces
Eggs, Preserved .......
Fans, Palm-leaf, Untrimmed
, Paper.....
Silk.
Fish, Dried and Salt .........
Flat-fish, Dried ...........
Fruit, Fresh ........
Fungus ......................
Ginseng, Corean, ist Quality
» Native.
» , Beard ......
Glassware....
Glue, Cow ...............
Grasscloth, Fine......
Ground-nut Cake.
Gypsum.....
Hair, Goats'................
Hams...
Hemp..
» Pineapple....
Horns, Chamois'.......
, Deer, Young...... Pairs
Iron Pans...........
Piculs
Lamps..
4,015
70
3,69782
51
628
673
14,395
267
4,299
73,192
38,858
12,011
1,040
- 30
10,848
17,051
15,076
2,205
3,957
5,154
487,064
2,581
3,735
116
1948
347 19
46 24
19891
3396
415)
1,457 36
21758
11,668 57
3,400
60774
33941
50,31882
377
6,538
58191
8,335
54 54
47901
916 59
202 20
2430
1078
1,823
::
852
34,348
3508
25188
671
25013
Pieces
... |
... | 20,726 1
1,245
3,379
20,726


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TABLE No. IV.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports—Contl.

NET
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
SUNDRIES, continued :-
H
.Fts
Hk.fts.
H
.Fts.
Hi, Its
Hk. Its
158
81
4,250
2,053
242
87
6371
1738
447 92
672
6,400
140
1,01169
280 82
4612
3790
23,896
9082
5,167 48
36,990
1358
303950
5,575
871271
1031
32
276
27,300
225 79
32 80
1,74765
1,469
432
1,357
2067
760
65177
6577
62 59
1,237
1,041
16770
2690
226
312
3.90
...
1036
915101
3335
13,399 881
205811
26
22,923
1,017
40643
2,748
28651
Leather............. ............... Piculs 758 41 11,024
Lily Flowers, Dried ...........
7,30610
35,755
Seed or Lotus-nuts......!
1,012 55 7,292
Liquorice ........
1,07871 3,662
Manure-cake
15,890 40 31,447
Mats, Straw...............
Pieces
4,7201 650
Medicine Pills ................ Piculs
... Samshu .........
5,884
Medicines ............
17,68513120,468
Mirrors ..
Pieces
72
Mushrooms ..........
Piculs
1,266
Nankeens ............
1,77492
70,556
Nuts, White ...........
742 34 1,890
Oil, Wood..
2,188 17 15,006
Paint, Green
Paper, ist Quality.
222 85 3,353
Rattans......
1,64461
3,783
Rhubarb ..
54880
4,619
Rice.....
1,156,082 08 1,971,995
Samshu.
22,424 40 128,75!
Seeds, Melon
1,812 45 8,276
Senna ..........
4,693011 13,059
, Sesamum .......
2,972 42 9,011
Shoes and Boots..........
4,449
2,138
Silk and Cotton Mixtures ...
168
Piece Goods ...........
510961 254,338
Pongees, Shantung......
14939
13,596
,, Raw .........
Yellow ..
10757
18,129
Skin Clothing
2,669 1,379
Snuff ..........
Piculs
Steel, Flint ..........
1,755
Tallow, Animal .....
4,284 10 29,825
Tea, Black ...........
504171 20,493
Tobacco, Leaf
31711 179
» Prepared .........
Varnish ......
49803 12,057
Vegetables, Dried and Salted
1,27670 5,590
Vermicelli
22,286 59 102,937
Vermilion..
Wax, White............
62483 30,810
Wheat ........................
214,802 92 308,360
Woodware..................
20
Woollen & Cotton Mixtures Pieces 41,807 31,403
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
17,752
274)
205174
un
747 90 10,866
314 8,231 42 39,610
1,27599 9,229
1,665
67691 2,239
15,928 30 31,534
22,216 1,182
9082 5,575
839 50
5,640
8,878 20,879171 137,421
37,422 1 1,429
20671 1,266
1,788 50 71,067
1,04629 2,650
2,188 171 15,006
1,237
1,485 117174 2,909
1,644/611 3,783
39 538 451 4,494
1,142,682 20 1,949,072
2,473) 21,822 52 125,337
2,727 55 11,024
4,66162 13,001
2,76668 8,511
28 11,186 7,227
984 2,077
2,365 51026 253,551
769
141 700 12,827
2,126
11851
19,946
1,404
21874) 4,361
433 48
1,642
4,28410 29,825
3,207
45305 18,948
1,397 27 10,173
21806 4,119
1,749 391 24,570
Soo 1,05810 4,790
15,324
18,547 76 86,671
102
607139 29,918
214,57192
307,829
1,281
37,150 28,036
2,173
37,199
500
6,777
376
5,117
1,701
2,403
vo con
2,126
1,817
Pieces
2,676517
21874)
4,361
528
79
4304|
1,36706
22543
1,32772
1,662
10,006
4,203
14,763
II2
1,687
563
48541
2501
5,018
22958
1,192
3,55779
TO2
5,018
190
2311
531
161
"67171
1,261
3
22,850
4,480
80l
180
3,190
1,230
TOTAL............
Hk.fts......
7,632,991
168,600
67,362.........
78,071
7,656,158


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
SUMMARY.
............
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
HOW........
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
!
!
!
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
!
51
IMPORTS from Newchwang .......
.....Hk.fts. 2,380,248
Tientsin ...........
132,901
» Chefoo .............
999,008
» Hankow ...
9,850
» Wuhu..............
32,843
Chinkiang..........
2,923
Shanghai
3,925,753
» Ningpo..............
30,482
Foochow.
20,525
Tamsui ..........
5,515
Takow..........
14,016
» Amoy...............
3,996
• „ Kiungchow...........
74,931
Total from Chinese Ports...........
- Hk.Ps. 7,632,991
Imports from Hongkong ..........
.................. , 168,600
Total NATIVE IMPORTS
-Hk. Pts. 7,801,591
RE-EXPORTS to Newchwang.................................. Hk.As.
„, Tientsin ..........................
Chefoo..........
2,214
Hankow...
167
Shanghai
2,193
„ Foochow.
127
Tamsui..
1,850
„ Takow ............
7,956
„ Amoy ...........
2,875
„ Canton..
40,340
„ Kiungchow......................
Total to Chinese Ports....
-Hk.fts. 67,362
RE-EXPORTS to Hongkong for Foreign Countries ........ Hk.Tts. 62,798
,, Singapore and Straits .......................
5,489
„ Cochin China, Tungking, and Annam.. » 291
„Siam.
9,493
Total to Foreign countries...........
Hk.Fts. 78,071
TOTAL Native Re-EXPORTS......................-
-Hk. Pts. 145,433
...........
706
waaghal..........
......
8,883
NET Total NATIVE IMPORTS.....
I
I
.
...........
................
..
..
.........Hk. Hts. 7,656,158
.
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SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
: AND
RE-EXPORTS.
AND
To-
Hk.Fts
Hk. Its
Hk. Pts.
Hk.fts.
Hk. Pts
Hk. Fle
100
5,489
291
9,493
62,798
280,486
73,503
232,164
........
881,513
1,389,695
78,071
1,467,766
706
2,214
167
Great Britain..
Singapore and Straits ...........
Cochin China, Tungking, and Annam
Siam..
Hongkong for Foreign Countries....
Total to Foreign countries......
Newchwang ...........
.....
Tientsin ................
...............
Chefoo ......................................
Hankow ............ ...........
Kiukiang ..........
.....
Wuhu
.......
Chinkiang .......
Shanghai.
Ningpo..........
.....
Foochow .....
Tamsui...
Takow .........
Amoy ...........
Canton ..........
Kiungchow ..........
Total to Chinese Ports ..........
100
274,997
73,212
222,671
818,715
-
108,061
632,764
461,382
1,334,481
2,279
38,278
512,460
1,935,409
1,907
104,816
19,654
12,705
2,551
1,066
871
-
108,112
633,470
463,596
1,334,648
2,279
38,278
512,460
1,937,602
1,907
.....
2,193
104,943
127
1,850
7,956
2,875
40,340
8,883
21,504
20,661
5,426
41,406
9,754
5,168,684
67,362
5,236,046
The
apoy&?
6,558,379
GRAND TOTAL ........
145,433
6,703,812


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
Nil.
TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a.—Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
Coast TRADE.
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL
Hk.Ftsm.c.c.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
155,817.4.1.1
10,236.6.3.1
56.3.5.4
95.1.4.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
268,880.7.5.1
22,838.7.1.7
1,485.1.7.6
2,304.2.9.6
1,784.6.5.8
British...
German .......
French...
Danish
Swedish and Norwegian..........
Japanese.......
Chinese
On Opium .........
Hk.As.m.c.c.
63,305.1.2.0
11,939.0.1.9
1,651.0.8.2
1,396.8.1.2
1,609.5.9.5
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
16,444.0.0.0
2,303.6.0.0
213.2.0.0
307.6.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
504,447.2.8.2
47,317.9.6.7
3,405.8.1.2
4,103.8.4.8
3,394.2.5.3
22.1.8.5
43,567.6.5.6
201,318.1.5.1
22.1.8.5
1,058.9.9.8
201,318.1.5.1
29,868.8.9.9
11,917.3.5.9
722.4.0.0
TOTAL......
368,604.8.7.0
327,162.4.9.7
19,990.8.0.0
807,577.1.5.4*
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total...........
.Hk.Fts. Nil.
6.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
EXPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
OPIUM
COAST TRADE ,
(exclusive of
|(Import, Export,
and
Opium).
Coast Trade).
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
Hk. Item.c.c.
1877....
1878.
1879......
1880.....
1881...........
1882.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
122,815.6.1.9
114,268.1.1.5
140,031.7.5.3
142,831.7.5.2
136,460.4.0.7
152,818.1.5.7
172,914.6.9.9
184,665.1.6.4
193,839.0.1.1
167,286.7.1.9
Hk. Its.m.c.c.
230,226.4.6.3
231,056.9.7.0
249,006.4.9.1
270,834.8.9.7
267,629.5.0.9
295,524.6.8.0
328,354.3.0.3
392,457.1.6.4
346,133.4.1.8
327,162.4.9.7 |
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
60,796.7.4.4
89,758.7.9.1
73,945.1.3.8
86,033.0.4.0
82,701.0.1.4
93,469.3.3.8
96,037.2.9.4
103,252.0.1.9
107,805.0.5.1
91,818.9.8.7
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
348,644.4.0.0
287,864.4.7.5
301,516.7.7.9
262,844.0.0.7
140,398.5.0.1
110,798.5.0.7
130,886.6.7.5
131,922.5.3.8
116,598.3.3.6
201,318.1.5.1
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
20,451.2.0.0
17,722.8.0.0
14,826.7.8.0
12,905.4.0.0
16,599.5.0.0
22,428.8.0.0
25,788.8.0.0
20,911.2.0.0
27,504.2.0.0
19,990.8.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
782,934.4.2.6
740,671.1.5.1
779,326.9.4.1
775,449.0.9.6
643,788.9.3.1
675,049.9.8.2
753,981.7.7.1
833,208.0.8.5
791,880.0.1.6
807,577.1.5.4
10.5.0.0
1883....
1884..........
1885.....
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B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-TREASURE.
Import and Export of Treasure, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
eas
Ir
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
FROM-
Shanghai .....
Foochow ..........
Taiwan-fu ..
Amoy........
Hongkong ..........
Singapore .....
Dollars.
79,312
18,485
52,034
11,610
191,785
2,025
To-
Newchwang.
Shanghai
Foochow ......
Tamsui
Amoy ...........
Canton ...........
Hongkong ..........
Dollars.
1,160
449,111
41,530
.....
3,500
........ 87,000
........ 1,082,624
......... 1,437,218
.......
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
TOTAL
................
$ 355,251
TOTAL ........................$ 3,102,143
TABLE No. 2.-TEA.
Export of Tea, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
BLACK.
GREEN.
DESTINATION.
DUST.
Congou.
OOLONG.
TOTAL.
Hyson.
Piculs.
Piculs.
198.01
Piculs.
2,025.71
256.08
38.32
Hongkong
Cochin China ...
Siam .................
Singapore..............
Piculs.
4,698.55
1,470.27
300.23
Piculs.
6,724.26
1,726.35
338.55
375.65
10.92
108.98
558.72
375.65
2,320.11
6,844.70
9,164.81
Total to Foreign Countries ........
„ „ Chinese Ports ............
10.92
865.71
1.02
GRAND TOTAL.......
6,844.70
9,164.81
866.73
2,320.11
10.92


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 3.-OPIUM.
Import of Opium, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FROM
MALWA.
PATNA.
BENARES.
PERSIAN.
TURKEY.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
21.73
Hk.fts Piculs. Hk.fts
10,330317.85 136,092
Piculs.
13.93
Hk.fts
6,069
Piculs.
9.02
Hk. Pts. Piculs. Hk.Tits
3,435 0.95 406
Shanghai....
Amoy
Hongkong ...........
Piculs. Hk.fts
363.48 156,332
3.091 1,449
6,347.13 2,491, 103
3.09
3,674.74 1,459,428 1,756.42 685,454
878.98
332,742
36.99
13,479
TOTAL............
3,699.56 1,471,207 2,074.27 821,546 892.91
338,811
46.01
16,914
0.95
406
6,713.70 2,648,884
TABLE No. 4.-SUGAR.
. Export of Sugar, for the Years 1884 to 1886.
BROWN SUGAR.
WHITE SUGAR.
DESTINATION.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Piculs.
24,446
78,291
90,115
184,962
Piculs.
6,087
60,670
51,155
224,132
Piculs.
9,677
66,543
68,822
154,441
Piculs.
38,148
99,439
57,675
149,579
Piculs.
14,584
103,365
57,640
157,511
II2
Piculs.
16,210
108,702
48,950
133,302
40
3,372
74,249
218,571
195
1,534
531
649
321
49,078
2,485
67,272
254,515
222
1,600
65,790
263,342
Newchwang ....
Tientsin.
Chefoo .........
Hankow............
Kiukiang .......
Wuhu .............
Chinkiang .............
Shanghai ........
Ningpo ...........
Foochow ..........
Tamsui ............
Amoy .............
Hongkong ...........
Cochin China ..........
Siam
Singapore
Great Britain...........
2,880
79,883
244,851
78,753
249,402
304
278,544
261
273
40
10
21
33
105,641
66,883
22,199
320,191
102,355
50,332
100
76
67
.
.
491
43
.
49
354
1,480
1,473
103
282
2,376
7,759
TOTAL.........
821,961
652,973
995,937
763,543
656,512


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TABLE No. 5.-BEANCAKE, BEANS AND PEAS.
Import of Beancake, and Beans and Peas, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
BEANCAKE.
BEANS AND PEAS.
YEARS.
NEW-
CHWANG.
CHEFOO. SHANGHAI.
OTHER
Ports.
TOTAL.
NEW-
CHWANG.
Cheroo. SHANGHAI.
OTHER
PORTS.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
277,494
...
36,051
85,510
12,320
446,676
130,123
4,663
864
3,080
Piculs.
1,193,689
2,069,668
1,825,453
1,891,297
1,829,941
37,407
18,966
57,296
110,810
779,183
487,397
7,583
22,944
74,990
683,641
1877.......
559,443 356,752
1878...
1,374,712 563,969
1879....... 1,014,934 549,124
1880........
953,303 545,380
1881............ 1,111,486 480,045
1882........... 1,418,033 678,748
1,465,446 847,683
1884......... 1,686,118 802,202
1885*... 1,384,884 / 776,716
1886.................. 1,286,895 729,938
258,315
369,670
238,410
118,816
75,282
312,795
679,817
350,038
566,636
564,126
694,357
673,826
682,361
808,485
544,886
3,946
8,495
27,870
2,215,597
55,027
38,069
41,308
36,972
26,126
19,510
46,735
1883....
59,921
1,264
7,405
51,392
689,211
814,226
740,135
777,428
897,729
2,374,314
2,539,712
2,266,224
2,177,218
7,050
32,778
68,507
38,586
57,051
104,624
3,923
159,774
26,345
1,397
629,679
* In the volume of Reports and Returns for the year 1885, page 332, owing to a clerical error the quantity of Beans and Peas imported into Swatow from
Newchwang during 1885 was entered in the Chefoo column, that imported from Chefoo in the Shanghai coluinn, and that imported from Shanghai in the Newchwang
column. In the present table the entries for 1885 have been made correct.
TABLE No. 6.-PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Passenger Traffic, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
PASSENGERS TO
PASSENGERS FROM
Sailing VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
Sailing VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Coast Ports .......
3,582
44,587
3,125
13,777
1,366
6,333
46,710
Hongkong .........
Cochin China....
Siam ............
Straits
.........
300
...
201
|
71,311
71,311
Total...........
...
...
194
|
48,499


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CANTON TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 18 86.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.–SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo. | In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
No.
Tons. No.
Tons.
No. | Tons.
No.
Tons.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
i
British ......... 1,159 1,032,938 112 50,213 1,271 1,083,151 1,163 1,009,918 108
German
61 46,643 6 2,663 67 49,306 27 15,824 40
Danish............
2,307 ... |
2,307
Swedish & Norwegian
1,194 ...
1 1,194) ..
Chinese ................ 210 145,501 6
1,973
147,474 | 214 146,688 2
74,706 1,271 1,084,624
33,482
167 49,306
2,307
2,307
1,194
1,194
786 216 147,474
2,542 2,167,775
I 98,612
4,614
2,388
432 294,948
216
Total Steamers ...... 1,434 1,228,583 124 54,849 1,558 1,283,432 1,4041,172,430 154
112,475 1,558 1,284,905
3,116
2,568,337
SAILING VESSELS.
3,483
2,647
2
3
British .....................
German
Italian ...........
Siamese ...............
4,178
3,675
1,677 7
1,1996
3,110
2,711
4,787
3,910
8,965
7,585
1,084
718
542
...
542
1
1
542
359
359
...
... |
542
359
...
1
359
Total Sailing Vessels
15
6,672 6
2,082
21
8,754
7
2,876
15
6,722
22
9,598
43
18,352
GRAND TOTAL ... 1,449 1,235,255 130
56,931 1,579 1,292,186 1,4111,175,306 169 119,197
1,580 1,294,503 | 3,159
2,586,689


352
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF CANTON,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.fts
Hk. Pts
Hk.Fts
Hk. Tts
Hk.fts
Hk.Ita
5,706,148
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong.......
Imported from Chinese Ports...
Total Foreign Imports...........
5,353,844
10,219
5,071,901
6,553
...............
4,775
5,364,063
5,710,923
5,078,454
33,858
40,909
60,663
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong....
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to New-
chwang, Tientsin, Chefoo, Hankow, and Shanghai) SI
Total Foreign Re-exports .............
114,432
169,963
203,714
148,290
210,872
264,377
Net Total Foreign Imports ...........
5,215,773
5,500,051
4,814,077
NATIVE PRODUCE.
6,673,798
10,284,325
12,993,307
Imported (chiefly from Newchwang, Tientsin, Che-1
foo, Hankow, Wuhu, Chinkiang, and Shanghai) )
Re-exported to Foreign countries.............
Re-exported to Chinese Ports ...............
Total Native Re-exports ...
2,677
6,266
4,030
113
1,081
2,054
2,790
7,347
6,084
Net Total Native Imports....
6,671,008
10,276,978
12,987,223
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries ........
11,354,009
10,494,192
17,120,682
2,499,234
2,533,007
2,671,423
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports .......
Total Exports of local origin ...
13,853,243
13,027,199
19,792,105
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port........
25,891,104
29,022,447
37,863,866
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native | 25,740,024
Exports of local origin......
28,804,228
37,593,405


354
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.—Imports and Re-exports-Conta.

NET
IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS,
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
H.Fts.
Hk. Pts.
Hk.fts.
METALS, continued:
Copper, Unmanufactured .... Piculs
Yellow Metal Sheathing ..... »
H .Fts.
13,708
65,317
158
Old
Cuttings.....
888
689
11,521
8,773
700
3,159
473
Hk.fts
1,36498 13,708
5,8887465,317
1579 158
82 38 888
36286 689
4,43155 11,521
3,37435 8,773
318 41 700
68436 3,159
20396
473
1,786
1,36498
5,888741
1579
8238
362 86
4,431 55
3,374,35
31841
68436
20396
38818
11671
87274
28,801 83
4359
30777
2,30798
499 52
1,550 04
84081
1,786
38818
::::::::::::::::::::
Iron, Nail-rod......
Bar ................
Rod ..................
Hoop ...............
Manufactured ........
Old..........
Plates and Sheets....
Unmanufactured ..
Wire ..............
Lead, in Pigs .............
, Pipes.
Tin, in Slabs........
Tinplates ....
Quicksilver..
Steel,
Spelter....................
Zinc Sheets...................
,, Pipes ............
Metals, Manufactured,
Unclassed............
6378
::::::::::::::::::::::
***872174
186
4,014
123,076
28,801 831
358
43591
1,21695)
26,300
7,216
8,562
24,918
5,735
7,231
2,30798
49952
1,550 04
84081
4,014
123,076
358
8,562
24,918
5,735
7,231
3564
65
35/64
65
63
63
405
405
Value
2,444
2,444
875/
416
716
2,673
12,536
2,386
Pkgs.
2,673
13,252
2,386
4,836
62,502
25,521
31,923
308 23
562 76
1,263
12,01969
77693
2,30988
875)
30407
56276
1,263
6,14511
62407
2,24414
5,874 58
30,493
5,017
4,836
32,009
20,504
31,003
SUNDRIES :-
Aërated Waters........... Pkgs.
Amber ..........
Piculs
Barley, Pearl..........
Beer ....................
Betel-nuts ......................
Piculs
Bicho de Mar, Black .........
White ....
Birds' Nests, ist Quality ...
3
2nd ,
... » 3rd ,
Biscuits ......
Borax.......
Braid, Llama ......
Butter and Cheese .......... Valnie
Camphor, Baroos, Clean ..... Piculs
920
671
4,401
4,034
3,696
3870
11 09
7569
3870
267 72
3594
- 501
27172
3594
::::::::::::::::::::::::::
18,901
36,020
1,035
2,340
2,166
1,415
17,651
7,952
1,837
42,873
2,646
1,852
112
14,867
32,324
1,035
2,290
2,166
1,415
3,783
5,402
1,837
16,657
1,418
1,852
2,080
3,700
,
Refuse.
1601
355
Candies
13,868
2,550
26,216
29189
12392
187 99
61
89 37
2,080
24,638
22
Cardamoms, Superior ....
, Inferior.
Cement..........
Chlorate of Potash.......
Cigars
Boxes
Cinnamon..
Piculs
Clams, Dried .........
Clocks .................
Cloves
Piculs
, Mother .............
Coal.....
Tons
Cochineal .....................
Piculs
Compoy
Confectionery, in Bottles..... Dozens
Coral.
Piculs
,, Beads.............
Preces
12392
47988
1,79861
118 32
2,816
566 47
257 65
8701
69 34)
1498
365
5075
1,04947
3,179
054
3,787
24,638
4,240
1,912
1,016
73
2,669
2,509
20,825
3,157
2,944
337
1,79861
11832
2,814
566 47
257 251
859
67 97
1320
1,079
50751
1,047 46
4,230
1,882
994
64
7,881
5,212
3,168
20,795
3,153
7801
42,373
037
263
2,403


CANTON.
355
TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods. - Imports and Re-exports-Conti.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
H.Its.
13,643
2,092
25,377
3,540
279,095
39 99
:::::::
581
581
Rags.....
50446
оог
5,065
471
2,474
871
403,268
32 53
366)
339)
337
989
98,572
31,906
989
114
4,871
es
220
8,605
- 3,710
401,497
19,556
8526
7,834
6,126
2,958
235,910
5,182
33,441
620
H.Fts.
148 82
437 784,661
4,304
32 35
36,276 55
5023
26689
083
594
38,658 42
1,64891
9399
686 14671
114 48 87
146,795
1,725
1,150
132,707
4,5381
116 07
89597
91,40914
1,900 83
1151 1,89205
16,750
-243 07
503
6221
2,18150
2854
8,753 34 39
19,999
33,333 4,819 35
14479
1,006
1,238
62 53
48,519
Hk.Fts.
14882
2,092
798,304 25,814
7234 7,844
36,276 55 279,095
5023
504 46 5,065
26689 471
084
2,513
594
871
38,690 95 403,634
- 1,652 30 98,909
9399
14994 32,592
5001 4,985
150,505
8,825
32,100 877
152,263 8,984
201 33 10,664
89597 2,958
91,409 14 235,910
1,900 83
5,182
1,898 25 33,556
26 84
7,135
243 091 48,523
503
7081
4,216
2,18150 26,253
28 54 756
3813 110,814
19,9991 10,246
5,141 01 207,296
14479
4,978
1,006
734
1,2381 962
439
120,083 27,110
6,706
42530 1,485
6,925 10,238
4051 535
2,010 08 62,298
5,97989
37,569
603 734
1,710
855
100 72 700
1,3171
161
978
296 47
4,258
7966 757
193 48 1,086
IO103 902
158
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Coral Fragments .............. Piculs
Cornelian Stones...
Pieces
, Beads .............
Piculs
Cotton, Raw, Indian........
- Japanese..
Tungking .......
Cow Bezoar, Indian
Cutlery...............
Dozens
Cuttle-fish.............
Piculs
Dyes..........................
Elephants' Bones...
: , Teeth, Whole ....
, Broken....
Feathers, Kingfishers' ........
Broken
» Peacocks'........
Fish Maws .....................
Piculs
» Salt ........
Flour, Wheat ..........
Fruit, Fresh.................
Fungus........
Ginseng, American, Clarified
, Crude...
Refuse ..
, Japan, Unclassed...
Glassware ...........
Hams............
Horns, Rhinoceros
Hosiery .........
Dozens
Jadestone..........
Piculs
Lacquerware ..
Lamps...........
Looking-glasses and Mirrors
Machinery............
Matches.
Gross
Medicines
Value
, Japanese.......... Piculs
Milk, Condensed, in Tins ... Dozens
Mother-of-pearl Shell......... Piculs
Mushrooms ........
Mussels, Dried
Mustard, in Bottles. Dozens
Needles................
Mille
Oil, Castor ....
Piculs
,, Kerosene
Galls.
Oils, Assorted
Value
Oysters, Dried....
Piculs
Paints.................
Paper...............
Paraffin Wax
Pepper, Black.
, White.............
Perfumery, in Bottles .....
Dozens
Phosphorus................
Piculs
Provisions .....
Value
Putchuck ..........
Piculs
, Refuse ........
Quartz (or Corundum Sand)
158
604
32166
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Pieces
Plegs.
3,612
26,253
756
102,061
10,246
173,963
4,978
734
962
439
27,110
6,552
1,485
10,232
535
62,298
37,569
734
33/
33
120,083
425 30
6,919
4051
2,01008
5,979891
603
1,710
10072
1,317
855
29647
7966
19348
101 03
640 59
50548
10,790
700
161
474
4,258
757
1,086
902
9,608
12,997
11,015
841
1,671
640 59
9,608
44
505 481
10,837
12,997
11,037
841
1,671
813
805
803
12113
5740
201
12093
5740
3,682 88
201
10,969
3,760
11,284


356
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN Goods.—Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value,
Quantity. | Value.
| Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Pts.
Hk.Its.
Hk.Its.
Hk.fts.
4,467
12,020
4,574
661
1408
42
726
620
706 34
4,006 37
3,02988
2068
43
1,022 83
2,557 16
1,529 10
7668
2,561 06
1,00153
17498
217
Hk.Its.
4,426
11,978
4,574
509
444
3,114
19,961
2,752
69973
3,992 29
3,02988
1448
43
1,022 83
2,51258
1,52910
*** 4458
353
056
2,434
1,119
68
528
7,128
16775
444
3,114
20,314
2,752
194
6,088
5,649
15,987
7,405
416
36,946
200
678
12,876
1,858
14,453
1,800
10,464
123,570
1,154
6267
2,530 11
96864)
723
4.50
2,029 55
070
4,969
5,581
15,459
277
416
36,945
200
005!
285
285
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Raisins .......................... Piculs
Rattans......
Rice..........
Rose Maloes ........
Safes, Iron ..........
Pieces
Sago.........
Piculs
Sandalwood..........
Sapanwood.
Sapphirine Stone .............
Sea-horse Teeth.............
Seaweed and Agar-agar.
Sharks' Fins, Black..
, White..........
, Re-clarified ...
Shell-fish .....................
Silk Piece Goods, Japanese
, and Cotton Mixtures,
Japanese ............
, Yellow, Tungking...,
Skins, Rabbit .......
Soap...............
Piculs
Stationery ...........
Value
Stock-fish ...........
Piculs
Sugar, White .......
Towels, Foreign ...... Dozens
, Japanese ............
Piculs
Ultramarine ............
Wax, Japan .............
Wheat ..
Window Glass ........ Boxes
Wine ....
Pkgs.
Wood, Fragrant ............... Piculs
Garoo ................
Unclassed .........
Worm Tablets, in Bottles ... Dozens
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
TOTAL........... Hk.Fts...
678
62 95
Pieces
3,984 1
2,949 35
I20
6295
3,984
2,949 35
2,636 99
14,648 40
3,443
921
214,90
19374
57,028 76
4,5451
2,640
10731
2,636 99
14,648 40
3,443
921
214.90
19374
57,028 76
4,545
2,652
2161
12,876
1,858
14,453
1,680
10,464
123,570
1,154
396
1,383
2,202
84,657
10,908
15,483
657
396
12
1,383
2,202
84,657
10,908
15,551
805
3,103
1,114
6,506
42,588
1088
148
I11
18 55
Value
5,415
340
3,548
5481 |
774
6,506
37,947
4,641
264,377
5,212
5,073,242
Excess of Re-export above Import of some articles during the year...
NET TOTAL....
4,893,508
..Hk. Its 79,431
Hl. Pts 4,814,077


358
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Value.
Quantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts.
1581
20370
178 99
Hk.fts.
59,181
58,915
48,307
1,275
349
19377
395
4/21
0941
245 47
316
15,427
340
270
312
SILK, Fine Raw................... Piculs
Thrown ...................
Yellow, Szechwan.........
. Shantung..
Wild Raw.
Refuse.............
Cocoons............
Ribbons...........
Thread .........
,, Sashes ..
Embroidery .............
Satins ....................
Piece Goods...............
» Szechwan...
, Shantung....
and Cotton Mixtures ..
Tassels...........
Fish-lines.............
Caps............
Pieces
Hk.fts
21951 63,310
179 99 59,264
19772
49,238
1,275
253
15,427
340
1,625
349
1,146
1,549
10 211 11,019
179 43 135,160
1,77768 1,265,332
7,441
2066 3,893
1,368
076
245
19
3,888
650
458
458
1,355
834
1,549
952 10,272
17943 135,160
1,752 77 1,247,680
18 39 7,441
2,681
747
18,145
493
1,212
363
857
585
245
008
404
3,484
6178
II 801
585
654
1,234
...............
TEA, Black...
Piculs
,, Green..
, Dust .........................
1,521 66
15,323
040
1,583 4415,977
98 34 1,093
245
245
Piculs
COTTON, Raw......................
Nankeens and Native Cloth
9,61089
6,907 37
114,769
374,063
2,071 61
377 51
24,137
20,311
11,682 501
7,27869
138,906
394,027
34
16,11147)
1,87901
19479
431
34,024
3,921
70
124
**********!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1,207
1,949
813
1,72853
66,736 62
229,78491
3,65479
499,96971
49,781
99021
19567.
89661
2,669
15,521
43543
030
131
1,096
6,576
SUNDRIES :-
Alum ................. Piculs
Apricot Seed or Almonds...
Bamboo Shoots, Dried......
Beancake..........
Beancurd, Preserved.....
Beans, Black,
Green...
, White ..........
. Yellow............
Miscellaneous...
Beeswax, Yellow ..
Books, Printed
Brassware...............
Canes....................
Carpets ........................
*****
Chestnuts
Piculs
Chinaware, Fine......
Coarse.......
Cinnabar..
Cinnamon.
Clothing, Silk.......
Copperware...........
Crystal ..................
Cuttle-fish.
Dates, Black
,, Red..........
Eggs, Fresh.
... Pieces
,, Preserved ...............
Fans, Paper ......................
, Palm-leaf, Decorated..
Feathers, Ducks' and Fowls' Piculs
427
16,36475
3,22892
92160
7021
1,70777
67,54172
231,012 82
4,197 02
500,051 861
50,506 75
1,22518
22374
98066
221,569
15,5211
1,657 53
251 761
Pieces
27,390 25328
47,747 1,34991
1,710 72681
7021
5,921
100,083 80510
365,366 1,22791
5,779 542 23
786,916 82 15
75,828 72575
27,469 23497
2,977
2807
18,519
8405
25
218,900
20,561
1,848 1,22210
4 251 46
4572
3,802
2,639 99
3665
3,032
020
2,272
1,227
3,179 4,59374
5,816 1,68098
4,239 3,692 59
1,054,506
2,393 4,010
5,558
934
1,758
2,031
27,821
81,771
5,631
70
5,859
101,290
367,315
6,592
787,047
76,924
34,045
3,404
20,277
2,056
20,561
7,297
3,461
362
102,660
1,536
3,191
2,368
523
44,535
12,611
13,258
5,340
2,420
5,762
938
"
Coarse
5,449
3,457
362
98,990
1,536
2,736 22
9983
379
6523
328 33
1,40571
1,18891
503
41,356
6,795
9,019
5,340
889, Tresn...........
356,914
153,414
6,485
4,922 07
3,086691
4,881 50
1,054,506
360,924)
159,074
6,492
8138
5,660
204
2691
5/86
287


CANTON.
359
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.-Imports and Re-exports—Contd.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Quantity. Value.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity. | Value.
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts.
H
.Its.
SUNDRIES, continued :
Feathers, Goose ...............
Felt ..
» Caps............
1,621
Piculs
Pieces
907
135,280
215,338
H.Its.
140
19,043
50,444
52
5,109
Hk.Tts
1,481
25
1,316
364
19,068
51,760
Fish, Dried .......
Piculs
4443
250
5,650
8490
916 841
275 17
122
1181
»
Salt ..
1,52768
3,070
1,266
8291
1,099
990
150
298
,, Skins...
Bones...
Flint Steel ....
Flour, Potato.........
Flower Plants.......
Pieces
Fruit, Dried....................
, Fresh .........
Fungus ............
Ginseng, Corean, ist Quality
808 80/
62,000
416
8,179
1,266
1,249
990
2,100
6,427
1,064
16,153
11,169
115,241
38098
17420
12,064
8041
1,342 91
55195
72 22
Piculs
3,767
362
3,949
9,956
108,655
146771
6,511651
67 61
IIO
1,980
Native..
53393
506
016
3158
496
1,802
2,660
702
12,204
1,213
8,566
191
3,151
196
1,604
7,270
1,352
3,539
1,254
20
191
56,597
53,602
2,563
896
156
6929
53 50
135,530
220,988
96 71
2,44452
275 17
951
380 98
983
74,064
22718
7,854 56
619156
76 181
016
56207
7425
13437
845 28
2345
009
5359
1595
3,400
703 36
9301
3084
164
60646
3266
25613
5,313
54151
,, Beard..
Glass or Vitrified Ware....
Glue............
Gold Thread, Imitation...
Goldware.......
Grasscloth, Fine........
» Coarse...
Gypsum.......
Hair, Goats
Horse..............
, Pigs ..
, Rabbits.
272
93 94
84528
23451
009
388
4971
1571
3,400
58402
62 52
2912
024
2,759
2,228
7,270
1,352
3,539
17,378
1,373
2,858
3,552
4,836
597
16,124
1,353
2,858
2,955
3,191
370
327
8,093
5,164
11934
30 49
»
Horse
1,645
172
378
Hams...
164
552 13
3251
788
327
8,881
24
5,188
Paul's
292,606
15,765
090
5,025
65 98
2208
5,016
eculs
2,016
16,765
4,888
2,929
5433
0151
25523
288
2057
434 071
0271
520
1,58108
25905
86 55
15
1,223
4,043
114
179
5,034
3,185
635
577
Horns, Chamois'...........
,,, Buffalo ...
» Deer, Young
, Old... ............
Indigo, Liquid ...............
Ink, Indian ..........
Jadestoneware
Pieces
Joss-stick Powder
..........
Piculs
Leather ..........
in Strips ..........
Gilt ..........
Pieces
Lily Flowers, Dried .. Piculs
Seed ..
Liquorice......................
Manure ......................
Mats, Bamboo .............
Pieces
Straw....
Medicated Samshu.......... Piculs
Medicine, Fu-ling .........
Medicines...............
Melon Seeds ..............
Mushrooms, Mo-ku.
Musk
Nuts, White.............
Paper, ist Quality..
Peas...............
Peppermint Oil..
, Ice
Persimmons, Dried..........
Plums, Dried ...........
24,403
3,992
2,291
243
14
6,160
12,258
5,098
3,323
14,5821
4,596
5,5051
28,330
10,095
31,546
345,440
1,347
4,850
11,801
1,172
33,819
43,448
5646
699,893
1,163 28
252 20
2,72531
6,96472
21,006
294,614
1,141 37
2,97976
36,097 62
34005
7917
297
31406
2,91369
28,96523
3,626
348
2,023
309,371
20,653
2,929
1,238
4,222
5,034
3,199
6,795
12,258
29,501
7,315
16,873
4,839
5,505
29,743
11,015
32,131
407,708
9,158
5,785
11,826
3,392
33,989
44,165
5,698
1,216
51,470
1,266
5,51709
30073
42325
332 96
18,226
8946
11815
10,697 35
1,993 49
1587
019
606 91
1463
47825
2789
5691
434 071
22 35
5,536
1,58108
26019
62/23
699,893
6,680 37
55293
3,148 56
7,297 68
21,006
309,214
1,23083
3,097 91
46,768 58
2,33354
9504
297
920 97
2,928 32
29,443 48
2789
569
14,032 50
24166
1,761
920
585
62,792
7,811
935
2601
800
2,220
170
717
5,698
1,216
14,906
1,266
10,222 29
36,564
3,810 21
24166


360
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.— Imports and Re-exports—Conta.

IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value. Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk. Its
Hk.fts.
ried ...............
6,62383
2843
1,611 751
264.46
Hk.fts.
83,832
415
1,784
3,097
115
4494
142 20
1,52441
386
419
839
6,158
28,940
1, 302
8,807 97
192
TUSKS .............
3,036
782
2,097 70
127
135881
75
2,293
2,110
1,905
949
veces
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Hk.Fts.
Prawns, Dried..
Piculs
2704 287
Preserves...
299 71 4,362
Rattan Pith ............
Rattans, Split .......
099
Rice.........
, 4,078,995 79 6,359,315
Safflower .............
5577
3,528
Samshu ........
2,499 19 14,744
Sea Blubber...........
9632
Sesamum Seed .........
1,294 55 4,470
Shoes and Boots.....
irs 174,236 76,040
, Straw...........
9,605
2,420
Shrimp Husks
Silverware ................
Sinews. Deer
- 6780 947
Skin Clothing ...............
14,322
65,973
Skins, Cat..
10,024 4,4491
, Fox, Small......
166
521
Land-otter
88
95
Rabbit.....
20,120 6,0261
Assorted.
16,776 2,341
Straw Braid.
Piculs
2599 438
Hats .........
Pieces
131,795 18,954!
Sugar, Rose ...
Piculs 9371 1,120
Tails, Weasels'.....
Pieces 24,635 1,947
Yaks'..........
Piculs 1622 1,385
Tallow, Animal.
7180 445
Tin-foil
Tobacco, Prepared.
5,25728 70,817
, Leaf ............
14,05703 87,617
Turnips, Salted ...
4,460
15,744
Varnish....
942 172
Vegetables, Dried ..
17723
1,395
Vermicelli.
3,38151 17,773
Walnuts.........
942 071 3,715
Wax, White ..........
44,294
Wheat.
360,871 80 539,563
Wool...
988 81 6,340
Woollen and Cotton Cloth... Pieces
2,489
2,493
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
29,717)
Theatrical and Proces-
sional Effects ............
.
::::::::::::::::
449
1,514
6,120
8811
4291
1,437
1,649
1,224
251
707
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
H .fts
6,650 87 84,119
32814 4,777
1,61175 1,784
26545 3,109
4,078,995 79 6,359,315
10071 3,947
2,641 39 15,583
1,62073 6,544
10,102 52 33,410
177,272 77,342
10,387 2,612
2,097 70 2,293
I 271 2,110
20368
2,852
14,397 66,922
10,024 4,449
6151 1,958
1,602
1,744
26,240 7,250
17,657
2,592
6890
1,145
131,795 18,954
13838 1,605
24,635 1,947
17 291
1,449
43770
2,714
13850 3,725
79,162
14,569 851 90,821
4,48429 15,817
166 396 2,983
42310
5,472
8,52972
45,040
2,250 87 9,305
1,26379 57,148
360,871 80 539,563
98881
6,340
2,589 2,617
57,451
7,752
44671
485
- 64
2,269
3,725
*
138 50
8,345
5,866 46
107
36590
609 18
51282
2429
15697
24587
5,14821
1,308 80
283661
3,204
73
2,811
4,077
27,267
5,590
12,854
98013
OO
124
27,812
7,752
:
TOTAL............ Hk. Its.l................ 12,192,718]
800,589
2,054
4,030
...... 12,987,223


362
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, 1 TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-eeports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts
Hk.Ft.
058
Hk. Fts.
19,327 80 5,437,693
78 34 28,579
11,220 501 727,577
3,77813 272,905
1,977 55 135,647
11514
30,205
68 54 27,635
2,692
4370 21,199
Hk.fts
19,328 38 5,437,845
7834 28,579
11,220 50 727,577
3,77907 272,968
1,977 55 135,647
11514 30,205
68 72 27,707
4030
17,353
57718 277,466
6/29
018
3401 14,661
533 48 256,267
21384 109,127
118 386
510 1,728
44577 215,003
217 70
386 1,943
328 56 107,825
4865) 16,332
7,72171 4,824,868
11 1,070
32974 108,211
5375 18,060
8,168 40 5,040,509
153 449
449
135
053
158
0891
293
SILK, Fine Raw.................. Piculs
Thrown ...................
Refuse ........
Wild Raw, or Punjum...
Cocoons.............
Yellow, Szechwan.........
Floss, Canton ............
,, other Provinces...
Ribbons ...........
Ribbons interwoven
with Imitation Gold
and Silver Thread...
Thread ...........
, Sashes.............
Piece Goods...............
Piece Goods, Shantung
and Szechwan........
Piece Goods embroid-
ered with Imitation
Gold and Silver
Thread ...
Piece Goods interwo-
ven with Gilt Paper
Handkerchiefs and
Shawls, Embroidered
Handkerchiefs em-
broidered with Imi-
tation Gold Thread..
Tassels..........
Fish-lines.......
and Cotton Mixtures...
and Cotton Mixtures
interwoven with
Imitation Gold and
Silver Thread ..........
and Cotton Mixtures
interwoven with
Gilt Paper.............)
and Hemp Mixtures....
Refuse, Cord of ....
1 54
1903
5,643
428
198,538
2057
22873
6,071
198,538
22873
236
036
- 236
56
132435
850
774
52,205
388
581
99560
1,285
774
226,460
2371431
758 17 174,255
725
361
543
1046
1,268
142 16
21,625
14707
22,572
86
0 40
0401
8159
740
8591
740
»
Caps.
5,301
|
854
...
Piculs
349)
TEA, Black..
Green ...
19
Dust..
> Stalk ...........
102,20616 1,009,903
682390 7,543
078
34 47
13 86
5,301 854
102,20965 1,009,938
69625 7,689
078
34 47 240
240
799
2,116
3107
27341
9,760
10,339
3906
2761
0271
65
1533
223
SUNDRIES :-
Amber Beads......
Piculs
Amberware....
Aniseed, Star.....
, Broken ............
Arsenic ....................
Artificial Flowers ..........
Cloth or
Preces
Decorated
Bags, Hemp and Gunny .....
» Straw .........
Bambooware ............
421
1,153
3,236
4428
57639
37 30
8161
5,673
172
2,162
1,150
7,217
2,417
45,680
269,796
81,205
1,44338
57639
69474
22 56
780,311
43,652
39,000
1,207 92
11,876
10,404
644
1,153
3,408
7,835
7,851
8,599
3,587
11,542
732 04
3117
825,991
313,448
120,205
2,66689
6,701
1,382
1,170
5,194
1559
144
144
6,204


CANTON.
363
TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports—Contd.

EXPORTS
TO
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND T(including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Quantity.
Value.
| Quantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Its
481
1372
784)
8,734
74251
8 37
SUNDRIES, continued :- .
Bangles or Glass Armlets.... Piculs
Beads.
.. Strings
Boneware.
Piculs
Books, Printed
Buttons, Brass..........
Brass-foil...
Brassware.........
Brass Wire ..
Brushes ...
Canes ......
, Decorated ...........
Cantharides
Cap Buttons..
Pieces
Cassia Buds ............... Piculs
, Lignea...........
, Broken.........
Twigs........
Bark of.......
Leces
3,408
643
Piculs
:::::::
Chalk, Prepared
3392
361
China-root .................
Chinaware, Fine.............
,, Coarse.......
Cinnamon...
Citrons, Fresh .........
Clocks ............
Clothing, Cotton .............
Pieces
Piculs
79
9961
»
Silk
002
.?
Pieces
829
Hk.its.
Hk.fts
12,43874 247,544
95
2,847 143 27,740 6,240
6059 6,008
778
27970 4,239 39968 6,078
38569 10,686 4,851 94 136,683
307 99
20,894
2,49407 51,984 382 67 7,927
135
2037
329
79,030 1,928 184,066 2,094
11,659,151 107,393 370,000
18,173 643
1271781 5,083
54,000
108 140,632 3,763
3,161 76 20,039
17170
1,140
14,273 |
60,899
1,45144 5,628
13,91821 30,315
6,89091 5,652 2,325/30 1,861
651 94 1,408
1,240
1,092 78 2,114
31317
315
3,898 81 9,160 1064) 27
2,146 32 29,710
1103
153
2,833 10 19,906
21
6525
2,736 220 21
9,187
587 48 2,287
10 |
986
5,650
59601 47,451
90001 717,320
16
829 834
74,142 1,166 42,785.1 690
174
23 40 11,776
549 1,594
91,931 13,813 5,470 1,249
2,823 1,713 12,890 7,541
16,489 1,515
8,289,920
57,966
14,448 17,326 1,096 576
849
1,203
87,131
7,011 30,361 | 2,772
8,334 2,753
405
6,324 1,390 137
2,938,393 41,614 92,431
1,348
11,538,450 23,077
145,502 3,671 42,519 1,762
19,328
700 137,1781 4,991
25,222
1,318
654
37,188
80,302
874 84 4,191 892 243
65,336 87 604,997 - 24/24
1,I0I 11 2,872 335
52180
1,345
527 97 2,130 92105 6,122
12,611 1,311 120,240
8,607
: 1,20911 2,752
4,13674 8,983 31352 669
5,8761 14,631
8351
15,92963 12,897
13,972 23 13,951
082 1,178
1,169
869
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Hk.Fts
Hk. Its
272 12,457 27 247,911
30,5871 6,383
68 43 6,786
679 38 10,317
5,237 63 147,369
1,050 50 29,628
2,876 741
59,911
28 741
464
263,096 4,022
12,029,151 110,801
18,173.
127781
5,083
194,632 3,871
3,333 46 21,179
15,724 44 66,527
13,91821 30,315
9,216 21 7,513
1,31461 2,648
1,40595 2,429
3,943 37 9,265
2,157 358 29,863
2,836 71 19,927
285 46 11,923
587 482,287
5,729
596 01 47,451
90003 717,336
834
116,9271
1,856
2514 12,645
549 1,594
97,401
15,062
15,713 9,254
16,489 1,515
8,289,920
57,966
15,544 17,902
18 50 2,052
117,492 9,783
3,158
6,461 1,468
3,030,824) 42,962
11,538,450 23,077
188,021 5,433
156,506
5,691
40,549 1,972
117,490 1,805
88376 4,434
65,36111 605,222
1,104 46
2,882
521 80 1,345
1,449 02 8,252
132,851 9,918
1,209 11 2,752
4,450 26 9,652
6,711
17,362
15,92963 12,897
13,972 23 13,95
1,980|
1 94 3,185
... 1352 4035
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Piculs
6
Theatrical
Combs, Toilet...
Cornelianware................ Piculs
Curiosities...................... Pieces
Cushions and Pillows..
Dressing-cases ...........
Drums ...........
Eggs, Fresh...........
Embroidered Goods........,
Enamelware..........
Fans, Gauze.....................
Feather ..................
, Decorated
Palm-leaf, Trimmed...
Untrimmed
, Decorated ...
Paper ......................
, Decorated .......
Feather Busters .......
Feathers, Ducks' and Fowls' Piculs
Fire-crackers ...................
Flour, Rice .....................
, Wheat..........
Flower Blossoms, Dried .......
........
...... Pieces
Flowers, Dried (Jasmine).... Piculs
Fruit, Fresh ...........
Furniture ......................
Garlic..........
Piculs
Ginger, Green.......
Ginseng, Corean, ist Quality
Reclarified .........
1250
Preces
1,226
9,560
»
15,3271
859
946
225
»
Plants
29
Pieces
ΙΙΟ
3911


364
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports—Contoh

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND |(including Re-exports).
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.Fts
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Its
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Glass Beads ........................ Piculs
, or Vitrified Ware......
450 55
1,26190
29350
54 34
Glue....
5,971
21,125
2,528
3,136
97,311
51,150
2,318
Hk.fts.
538
28,649
21,502
3,756
4073
1,724 49
2,46979
6553
17971
350 55
58,435
30,392
377 59
80156
Gold Thread, Imitation ......
Goldware...
Grasscloth, Fine............
, Coarse......
Ground-nut Pulp.......
Hair, Human ..
» Pigs', or Bristles .
Hartall..................
Hats, Summer, Unfinished Pieces
Horns, Buffalo..........
Piculs
Deer, Young ..
Pairs
Hornware.
Piculs
801 56
48493
3,076
387 371
24/56
13,288
10,430
343
11802
8,559
1,655
1,558
1,502 811
447
II
|
644
3653
Indigo, Dried.
197 33
10177
81154
Pieces
4,364
27602
1684
30,164
501,383
5,494 55
32,362
11,067
26,016
3,299
3,1131
674
4,501
433
1,959
7,774
7,527
1,824
17,672
3,115
5140 4,711
3,600 171 55,300
15,92341 106,201
1 26 71
20,4131
2,170
32 03 415
28 08 13,012
241,205 94,472
488,075 2,292
821 341 2,710
1. Hk.Fts
491 28 6,509
2,986 39 49,774
2,763 291 24,030
11987 6,892
315 97,311
337 58 109,585
32,710
3,076
484 93
13,288
387 37 10,430
14258
1,998
8,559 1,558
1,502 81 11,067
458 26,660
8793
8,010
3,797 50 58,413
16,025 18 106,875
8280 4,572
24,777 2,603
308 05 2,374
4492 20,786
271,369 101,999
989,458 4,116
6,315 891 20,382
32,3621 3,115
57,224
1,444
673 57 17,740
477,7401 57,425
4,01535 24,146
62375
3,338
9,14820 44,732
9,393 55 51,522
46122 5,590
2,983
10,79633 45,808
28778
29,928 1,669
1,011789,752
20,184 14 67,219
69468 3,677
12,255 11,855
231,155118,447
255,903 7,806
137,852 469,693
427 48 9,211
46401 5,748
157 35
1,613
27285) 27,913
57,224
2466
400,606
Liquid ................
Ink, Indian............
Inkstones, in Cases....
Ironware....................
Piculs
Ivoryware .......................
Jadestoneware, 2.e., Ban- Pieces
gles, Rings, Charms, etc. } |
Joss Ornaments.....
, Sticks ..........
Piculs
Kittysols or Paper Umbrellas Pieces
Knives..........
Lacquerware..................... Piculs
Lamps .........................
Pieces
Lard ...........
Piculs
Lead, Red ..........
, White..........
Yellow .........
Leather.......
Leatherware ....
Lichees, Dried..............
Lily Seed or Lotus-nuts....
Lizards, Dried..
Pairs
Lung-ngan Pulp....
Piculs
Lung-ngans, Dried.
Marble Slabs.............
Mats, Rattan .................
Pieces
, Straw..........
, Packing.
1,444
653
46,048
.......
2,343
436 86
8,683 33
7,688 87
416
3,691
328
648 91 17,087
77,134
11,377
4,01535) 24,146
18689 995
46487 2,313
1,70468 9,322
45706
5,539
1088
285
2,032 86 8,521
22978
2,972
4,765) |
62 56 594
3,806 57 12,486
15549
11,839 11,470
89,647 7,119
32,243
1,031
137,754 469,360
42737
9,209
7476
995
15304 1,559
6,142
102 23
8,76347
58
25,163 1
94922
16,377 57
53919
42,419
42,200
51
2,698
37,287
719
1,341
9,158
54,733
2,858
385
10,980
6,775
........
416
48
137,882
223,660
16
Matting ......"
III
389251
7568
281
19717
231
4,753
21,771
234
4,171
1,687
75,013
512
318
581
Meats, Dried ................. Piculs
Medicated Samshu.....
Medicine, Fu-ling.
Pills
Plaster.
Powder .....
Tea ...........
Medicines ...
Melon Seed Pulp..........
Seeds..................
Mirrors with Frames.........
Pieces
without Frames...... Piculs
Mother-of-pearl Shellware...
Mushrooms, Tsao-ku.........
585
182 99
7,88822
39
949
26275
13,471 74
334 84
1,346 17
185,681
1,617
61,505
3,968
5,541
6,389
928
596,597
230 431
569
1534 4,752
44574 3,304
21,38635 137,042
334 84 3,968
1,35545 5,580
782,278 27,931
230143
4,181
1641 6,046
2,241
21,542
4,181
2,105
1072
3,941
2,231
4465
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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports—Contd.

EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES,
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
HONGKONG.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND Kincluding Re-exports)-
CHINESE PORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts
2,854 36
071
156 99
1,241 90
2,12310
221 24
1,887 76
341
336 25
Hk.Ft.
1,510
3,631
11,593
SUNDRIES, continued :
Tobacco, Stalk...
Piculs
Tortoiseshellware .....
Trunks, Leather ......
Vegetables, Dried
» Fresh
Vermicelli ....
Vermilion ...........
Woodware......
Sundries, Unenumerated.....Va
Theatrical and Proces- |
sional Effects ............. | »
TOTAL............ Hk.its.
Hk.fts.
2,318
746
5,352
1,825)
2,874
1,1081
1931
6,449
72,600
10,511
4,742 12
412
493 24
1,241 90
2,12310
222 71
7672
2,86566
::::::
Hk.Its
3,828
4,377
16,945
1,825
2,874
1,116
2,922
19,863
103,990
10,511
8
1 47
7162
1,93731
510
92835
2,729
13,423
30,332
1,058
568
17,120,114....
2,671,423
6,084
19,798,189
SUMMARY
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
Hk. Pts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Pts.
Hk. Fils
568
.
.
.
.
.
4,030
4,030
17,124,144
17,124,712
115,808
915,990
107,303
..................
.....
860
To-
Hk. Pts. Hk. Its
Australia.
568
Hongkong for Foreign Countries.... 17,120,114
Total to Foreign countries ...... - - 17,120,682
Newchwang ......
................... 115,808
Tientsin...
.... 915,990
Chefoo ...........
107,303
Ichang .......
860
Hankow ...........
468,228
Kiukiang...
10,065
Wuhu ............
3,953
Chinkiang ........
1,295
Shanghai
859,814
Ningpo...........
187,604
Wênchow ..........
Pakhoi ..........
68
Total to Chinese Ports.
2,671,423
468,228
10,065
3,953
1,295
861,868
187,604
435
68
2,054
435
2,054
-
2,673,477
GRAND TOTAL ......
19,792,105
6,084
.
19,798,189


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TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
a.-Foreign Goods conveyed to the Interior during the Year 1886.
Nil.
6.—Table showing the Places from which Native Goods were brought under Transit Passes from
the Interior during the Year 1886.
PROVINCE.
PREFECTURE.
DISTRICT.
Bamboo
Canes.
Bamboo-
ware.
Cassia
Lignea.
Medicines.
VALUE.
Pieces.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Nan-hai ..
Piculs.
27.42
13,200
168
WANGTUNG
i
.
Kwang-chou...
Lo-ting-chou..
Wu-chou ......
IHHsün-chou ....
廣羅梧潛
​KWANGSI....
Hk.Fts
883
32,340
8,000
15,854
7,623
1,886
3,738
Yung-hsien ...
Ping-nan....
Total QUANTITY...
13,200
168
13,247
27.42
....................
.Hk. Ats
TOTAL VALUE .......
123
504
56,194
256
57,077
TRANSIT PASSES SURRENDERED..............
..... No.
12
TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a.—Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
Coast TRADE.
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
...........
HK.ftsm.c.c.
183,913.2.7.3
Hk. Itsm.c.c.
830,414.3.6.9
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
44,522.7.3.0
Hk. Atsm.c.c.
14,252.8.0.0
0.3.0.0
2,116.8.0.0
2,61 1.2.7.4
15,545.1.3.6
4,171.3.5.0
British
American ....................
German ............................
Danish ...........
Swedish and Norwegian........
Italian ..
Chinese .............
On Opium......
TOTAL.................
17,301.2.4.2
13.3.6.0
601.8.9.8
308.0.4.6
16,103.0.1.5
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
1,073,103.1.7.2
0.3.0.0
41,745.8.0.2
13.3.6.0
601.8.9.8
325.9.3.7
49,799.6.3.7
32,122.8.7.9
17.8.9.1
707.9.7.0
32,088.1.9.9
31,429.3.5.2
34.6.8.0
1,559.3.0.0
219,338.6.0.7
| 877,423.5.3.7
78,850.2.9.1
17,929.2.0.0
4,171.3.5.0
1,197,712.9.8.5*
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total ............
........ Hk.Fts
Nil.
b.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
EXPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
Coast TRADE
(exclusive of
Opium).
OPIUM
(Import, Export,
and
Coast Trade).
TONNAGE.
Transit.
TOTAL.
1877.....
1878....
1879...
1880.
1881.
1882........
1883............
1884.....
1885....
1886.......
Hk. Pts.m.c.c.
154,718.6.0.1
138,596.6.8.0
154,932.9.3.4
109,857.6.7.0
158,247.8.9.7
165,142.2.1.6
156,874.0.5.6
145,564.5.2.7
157,030.7.6.1
187,250.4.0.8
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
778,572.5.8.6
776,766.8.0.3
843,080.1.0.3
739,983.2.0.1
816,880.2.3.2
871,850.1.2.7
883,731.0.6.7
726,896.4.0.9
749,380.5.8.7
877,388.8.5.7
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
49,011.5.9.5
39,804.1.6.8
44,475.5.9.9
53,082.8.4.9
51,828.5.7.6
52,168.5.2.2
65,744.0.8.4
75,655.1.2.7
83,322.1.8.0
78,850.2.9. 1
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
10,261.4.0.6
23,874.2.9.5
36,822.5.5.0
19,304.4.5.7
6,653.2.5.4
1,170.9.0.8
16,465.7.1.6
90,432.3.2.6
83,565.8.7.4
32,122.8.7.9
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
12,142.8.0.0
9,923.7.2.0
13,832.8.6.0
14,554.8.0.0
16,972.5.6.6
14,243.7.7.0
14,255.4.0.0
12,503.1.0.0
16,185.5.0.0
17,929.2.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c. | Hk.fts m.c.c.
1,004,706.9.8.8
988,965.6.6.6
1,093,144.0.4.6
936,782.9.7.7
1,050,582.5.2.5
1,104,575.5.4.3
2.4.3.0 1,137,072.7.5.3
1,051,051.4.8.9
1,089,484.9.0.2
4,171.3.5.0 1,197,712.9.8.5


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-TREASURE.
Comparative Statement of the Import and Export of Treasure, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
IMPORTED FROM
HONGKONG.
Coast Ports.
YEARS.
COPPER CASH.
COPPER CASH.
Treasure.
Total of
Treasure
and Copper
Cash.
Treasure.
Total of
Treasure
and Copper
Cash.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Piculs.
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
Hk.Fts.
1877..
Piculs.
3,683
1,055
709
Strings.
Hk. Pts.
32,344
8,943
5,817
Hk.fts
1,988,843
2,019,247
1,960,527
Hk.fts.
2,021,187
2,028,190
1,966,344
.
.
.
.
.
.
1878... .......
1879..........
.
1,075
132,292
1,075
132,497
205
1880...........
1881.. .......
1882..........
1883..
1884..
1885.
1886.
40,574
27,742
4,701
50
300
24,311
16,657
2,830
1,647,492
1,355,941
1,386,476
1,676,917
1,518,513
1,098,214
939,378
1,647,492
1,380,252
1,403,133
1,679,747
1,518,543
1,098,406
939,437
Strings.
308,540
443,540
215,480
53,100
123,820
218,289
194,718
265,613
129,395
32,195
75,752
138,565
17,645
· 25,933
56,272
114,087
268,597
97,089
212,363
291,546
185,667
146,282
344,349
235,654
192
89
59
EXPORTED TO
HONGKONG.
Coast PORTS.
YEARS.
COPPER Cash.
COPPER CASH.
Treasure.
Total of
Treasure
and Copper
Cash.
Total of
Treasure
Treasure. |
and Copper
Cash.
Quantity.
|
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Piculs.
Hk.Fits
Piculs.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.Tts
1877...
1878..
Hk.fts
1,497,187
2,783,231
907,760
Hk.Pts
1,497,187
2,783,231
907,760
765
6,269
1879......
287,874
1,383,987
294,143
1,383,987
Strings.
140
82
1880....
1881..........
1882.............
1883.
1884..
1,768,100
1,007,241
1,592,058
784,253
321,267
729,197
2,105,205
1,768,100
1,007,241
1,592,058
784,253
321,267
729,197
2,105,205
504,904
605,258
1,270,943
422,733
449,273
504,904
605,340
1,270,943
422,733
449,273
1885.....
1886..
113,467
113,467


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TABLE No. 2.-TEA.
a.-Export of Tea, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
DESTINATION.
Congou. SOUCHONG.
ORANGESCENTED
CAPER.
PEKOE.
OOLONG. POUCHONG.
PEKOE.
Total
BLACK.
Dust.
Piculs.
8,706.34
Piculs.
75,948.31
Piculs.
9.62
Piculs.
2,385.50
Piculs. Piculs.
207.88 | 102,206.16
1.66
Piculs.
0.78
Piculs. | Piculs.
12,534.52 2,413.99
0.34
0.02
0.64 0.30
Hongkong .........
Tientsin.
Hankow....
Shanghai.....
1.32
0.02
0.87
1.81
TOTAL...
12,535.18
2,414.63
8,708.53 75,948.31
9.62
2,385.50
207.88
102,209.65
0.78
DESTINATION.
Hyson.
IMPERIAL.
GUNPOWDER.
TOTAL
GREEN.
BLACK.
GREEN.
Dust.
Piculs.
111.70
Piculs.
404.10
Piculs.
180.45
Piculs.
696.25
Lb.
13,627,507
221
Lb.
92,833
Hongkong.......
Tientsin ....
Hankow..
Shanghai ......
222
TOTAL..
111.70
404.10
180.45
696.25
| 13,627,953
92,833
b.—Export of Tea, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
ea
YEARS.
Sou | ORANGESCENTED
1OOL
CHONG. PEKOE.
CONGOU.
Pou-
CHONG.
PEKOE. MIXED.
TOTAL
BLACK.
YOUNG
Hyson.
In- GUN-
TOTAL
Hyson. PERIAL, POWDER. | GREEN.
DUST.
BRICK.
Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs.
1877............ 12,497 5,396 26,166 75,353 170 5,403 100
1878........ .. 17,642 6,590 16,988 75,505 114
1879.......... 16,377 4,831 19,438 68,486 436 2,702
1880.......... 15,133 8,908 14,372 64,952 4,025
1881............
15,010 3,513 16,339 75,162 1,586
1882........... 18,181 1,755 19,055 80,401 | 2,385
1883..........
12,330
2,254 14,466 78,377
1884.......... 7,370 2,487 8,306 82,443 3
1885.......... 12,286 3,245 13,027 | 99,876
1886............ 12,535 2,415 8,709 75,948 10 2,385
Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs. Piculs.
125,085 8 272 348 1,080 || 1,708
119,823
288 1,043 || 1,441
112,313
559 2,928 | 3,878
107,596
1,909 3,393 5,786
111,635
1,001 1,030 2,261
121,933
690 | 1,491
110,349
104,244
130,571
141
102,210
404
574
1,144
2,915
3,531
2,098
282
2
...
180


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 3.-SILK.
Comparative Statement of the Export of Silk to Hongkong and Foreign Countries,
for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
Fine Raw.
THROWN.
TOTAL.
REFUSE.
Wild Raw.
Cocoons.
Piculs.
Piculs.
145
1877.....
14,618
134
1878.
1879.
1880..........
1881..
1882..
1883.
Piculs.
14,473
12,547
16,232
10,312
15,032
16,232
17,786
11,866
11,349
19,328
128
230
303
273
12,681
16,360
10,542
15,335
16,505
18,105
12,111
11,491
19,406
Piculs.
4,244
5,891
7,660
7,136
7,888
7,805
11,390
8,715
8,016
11,221
Piculs.
2,364
3,200
3,531
1,852
2,963
2,347
3,461
Piculs.
758
1,145
2,001
604
2,234
970
319
702
1884.......
1885.....
245
1,516
1,695
3,779
1886.
1,978
TABLE No. 4.-SUGAR.
Comparative Statement of the Export of Sugar (Brown, White, and Candy), for the
Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
NEW
CHWANG.
TIENTSIN. CHEFOO.
HANKOW.
CHIN-
KIANG.
SHANGHAI. NINGPO.
HONGKONG
TOTAL
AND
To COAST ||
FOREIGN
PORTS.
|| COUNTRIES.
GRAND
TOTAL.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
176
2,820
760
Piculs.
1,298
3,950
390
569
1,458
750
1,258
29
Piculs.
45,802
62,825
52,451
81,216
64,051
57,536
94,350
61,478
25,413
53,317
1877.....
1878..
1879..........
1880.
1881.....
1882.....
1883.
1884.....
1885.....
1886......
996
741
543
Piculs.
42,572
77,230
58,250
90,097
75,018
66,993
68,426
87,024
32,286
15,465
Piculs.
9,179
18,542
9,431
25,943
4,795
13,585
17,814
16,210
3,478
2,089
Piculs.
99,027
165,757
122,919
200,260
145,177
138,456
183,541
165,364
61,240
72,656
Piculs.
39,277
29,388
31,114
41,680
73,655
107,999
136,517
114,830
64,676
85,971
Piculs.
138,304
195,145
154,033
241,940
218,832
246,455
320,058
280,194
125,916
158,627
167
175
273
397
2,281
205
348
99
63
6
1,720
59


KIUNGCHOW.
375
The trade in Cotton Piece Goods is at best so small that a decrease of 15,000 pieces
is a heavy one. It is not at all likely that the import of Foreign Piece Goods will ever be
large. Their place is supplied by Japanese Cotton Cloth of short length (the importation
of which in 1886 was nearly four times that of 1885) and by Native manufactures from Bombay
Cotton Yarn and Foreign and Native Cotton. Nearly 900 piculs more Yarn, but some 8,000 piculs
less Cotton, were imported than the year before. The Natives reckon that 100 catties of Cotton
make 80 catties of Yarn. Accepting this as a basis of calculation, it would appear that about
6,000 piculs less of material for making Cloth were imported. While perhaps not to the full
extent, yet to a considerable extent, the restricted purchasing power of the people is shown
in this; and if in this rather than in Opium, it need not excite much wonder. Opium may
not be a necessary of life, but the smoker whose means are small is likely to consider it
more important to him than a good coat or good trousers.
One can hardly speak of the possibility of supplying the demand for Native Cloth with
that of Foreign manufacture without thinking of the controversy which springs up from time
to time, and which has been prominent again recently, about the value of official advice to
merchants. If no advice is tendered here, it is not from fear of adverse criticism or of being
made the object of sarcasm in market reports, but rather because it does not seem called for.
The merchant must be able to judge best whether it is worth his while, considering the risk
and the difficulty of introduction, to make the attempt to supplant Native-made Cloth. His
profits are not so large that he is likely to neglect a good chance; and if he does not make
the attempt, he doubtless has his reasons—one of which may be that he has tried once and
failed. Hainan trade is not much by itself, but the same Cloth might suit Hainan and Formosa
and elsewhere; at any rate, it is a matter for the merchant's judgment.
Piece Goods are sold in such small lots that it is not possible to ascertain the place
of consumption. About half the Yarn imported goes to Wên-ch‘ang district.
As mentioned before, Flour, Rice, and Wheat were largely imported, the increase in Rice
alone being 150,000 piculs. A part of this was required for the support of the troops. Other
Imports do not need mention, except Kerosene Oil. The importation rose suddenly from 9,800
gallons in 1883 to 22,800 gallons in the next year, and since then gradually to 26,900 gallons
in 1886. It is believed that none comes here now by junk, and if this represents the total
consumption, it is very much less than that of the Formosan ports, with which it has been
usual to compare Kiungchow. A project of farming the local taxes on Kerosene Oil and
Matches did something to check the trade, yet it seems to be slowly increasing.
Sugar has been hitherto the most valuable Export. In the year under review it was
passed by Pigs, of which no less than 67,500 were shipped an increase of 50 per cent. over
1885. Pigs require so little attention, and so much of that which is required can be given
by the weaker members of the farmer's family, that there seems no limit to the supply as long
as the demand lasts.
The export of Sugar was less by 32,000 piculs than in 1885, and that was 38,000 piculs
short of the 1884 shipment. Drought affected the crop very largely, and one Native assigns
as an additional reason that the cane was in the second year of growth, and therefore of inferior
quality. The cane, it appears, is renewed every other year (the Louisiana planters get three
crops from one planting), and the second year's growth is not so rich in Sugar as that of
the first. A Native estimate of the 1886 crop is—Hai-an Sugar, 100,000 piculs; Hoihow Sugar,
120,000 piculs,-about two-thirds of the crop of 1885.
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The Sugar trade throughout the world has been so disorganised by the systems of
encouragement to home industries adopted in various countries that it is difficult to know what
competition Hai-an and Hoihow Sugar will have to meet. Hongkong newspapers quoted from
Batavia papers in October that Sugar was bought there for China at higher rates than could
be procured for shipments to Europe. If the Straits plantations and Formosa, shut out from
Europe, together with the Amoy and Swatow districts, all seek their market in China, the
outlook for the Sugar of this region will not be encouraging, especially as it is not well suited
to refining by the machinery in use in Hongkong. It is possible that the opening of Haian
as a subsidiary port to Kiungchow, which has been suggested, might give the trade an impetus
by improving communication with markets; but more to be desired than that is the use of
better methods of extraction and preparation. How much may be done in this direction can
be seen from recent experiments in the United States, which have shown that by a new process
the quantity of saccharine matter extracted from sorghum cane can be increased 50 per cent.
It is not to be expected, of course, that Chinese farmers will use such processes as that, but
the room for improvement in their methods is great, and it is a pity that some of the capital
which is directed, and not very successfully, to exploiting mines is not employed in working
up in better shape the products of agriculture. If the Formosa Trading Company develops
that island with the aid of Foreign appliances, or modifications of them adapted to local needs,
other places may have to follow the example.
The quantity of Sugar brought here under Transit pass is considerably greater than
in 1885
Both Betel-nuts and Ground-nut Cake, which are of importance here, fell off sadly.
But one crop, Sesamum Seed, profited by dry weather, and held its own. The remaining items.
of the Export trade do not need special mention.
The shipping in which the trade was carried was, to say the least, fully equal to the
requirements. The number of entries and clearances was larger by 146 than in 1885, and the
tonnage by 66,000 tons. Steamers called in more frequently than before on their return from
Haiphong and from Touron to Hongkong; they have brought very little cargo, but have come
here to pick up what they could. There has been an increase of entries and tonnage under
each of the flags represented except the British. Two regular traders under that flag were laid
up through accident towards the close of the year, and their places were filled by German
vessels.
There is no attempt at agreement between steamer agents on rates of freight, and
accordingly they vary greatly. A single instance will suffice. A few days ago $1.58 per head
was obtained for the carriage of Pigs to Hongkong ; two days later, when a couple of vessels
were competing, the rate fell to $0.35.
Passenger traffic by steamer between this port and Bangkok and Singapore has improved,
somewhat, 2,000 more passengers having gone thither by direct steamer than in 1885. The
features of the business were fully noted by Mr. TWINEM in his Report of that year.
By the courtesy of the Acting Registrar of Imports and Exports at Singapore and of
the Harbour Master at Macao, I am able to say that the value of Imports and Exports at
those ports by junks from Hainan during the year ist October 1885 to 30th September 1886
was $358,000 and $240,000 respectively. Hongkong statistics are wanting, but from Haiphong
M. ROCHER is good enough to inform me that there have been no arrivals there of junks
coming direct from Hainan since he took charge of the Customs Department last summer.
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He considers that they come viâ Pakhoi. The data available are obviously insufficient to
support a decided opinion, but they tend to confirm a belief, drawn partly from the size of
the Native Customs collection here, that steamers are not likely to win much more trade from
junks, and that Kiungchow trade will not expand much more under present conditions.
Owing to the strength of the north-east monsoon in 1886, a number of vessels have
put into bays on the south-east coast of Hainan, and have with difficulty sent word overland
to Hoihow. It may be of service, therefore, to shipowners and masters to know that the
telegraph line has been extended from Hoihow to Manchow ( N -a district city between
30 and 40 miles north-east of Leongsoy Bay. Its further extension to Leongsoy is doubtful.
The efforts to open up the copper mines between Tam-chou and Ch'ang-hua, mentioned
in the Reports for 1884 and 1885, have not been abandoned. The malarial surroundings have
hitherto proved fatal. An attempt has been made to get better access by constructing
roads and, if the plan has been carried out, some rough form of drainage. The result is not
yet known.
C. C. CLARKE,
Assistant-in-Charge.
KIUNGCHOW, 20th January 1887.


378
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
KIUNGCHOW TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
-
----
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG.
Total ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.!
Total.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
Total."
No.
Tons. No. Tons. 'No.
Tons.
No.
Tons. No. Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
British
262
372
German ...
22,397 57
48,681 76
2,681 5
6,944 10
25,496
34,290
1,728
3,462
131 47,893
186 82,971
u 4,409
30 10,406
93 33,462 38
139 61,86547
9 3,440 2
28 | 9,718 2
14,431
21,106
969
688
131
186
11
30
47,893
82,971
4,409
95,786
165,942
8,818
French
Danish..........
10,406.
60
20,812
Total Steamers .......
210
80,703 148
64,976
358
145,679
269
108,485
89
37,194
358
145,679
716
291,358
SAILING VESSELS.-Nil.


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TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF KIUNGCHOW,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.Fts
Hk.Fts
Hk.Fts
Hk. Pts
Hk.Ft.
Hk. Fits
FOREIGN GOODS.
1,121,786
1,533,145
Imported from Foreign countries and Hongkong.......
Imported from Chinese Ports .
Total Foreign Imports...........
1,234,206
758
675
1,121,786
1,234,964
1,533,820
2,789
1,275
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong ...!
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Pakhoi) ..
Total Foreign Re-exports .............
2,042
665
231
419
3,020
2,707
1,694
Net Total Foreign Imports .........
1,118,766
1,232,257
1,532,126
208,487
237,409
224,584
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Hongkong) ...
..........
Re-exported to Foreign Countries ...........
Re-exported to Chinese Ports.................
Total Native Re-exports.
754
397
1,910
754
397
1,910
Net Total Native Imports
207,733
237,012
222,674
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries.
683,020
627,461
609,344
436,662
628,296
653,732
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports.
Total Exports of local origin ...
1,119,682
1,255,757
1,263,076
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port ...........
2,449,955
2,728,130
3,021,480
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign)
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native | 2,446,181
Exports of local origin....
2,725,026
3,017,876


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. III.—TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.— Imports and Re-exports.

IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Quantity.
| Quantity.
Value.
Value.
Quantity.
Valųe.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fts.
Hk.fts.
2382
1,636 18
256
Hk.Fts.
9,892
583,984
90,587
2382
1,63618
Hk. Its
9,892
583,984
90,587
256
II 3
276
173
619
7,491
26,702
1,151
12,238
58,865
2,703
7,641
26,815
1,411
370
LIO
22
61
22
31,339
1,839
26,844
917
127
190
1,098
337
375
27,366
920
127
190
1,098
1,205
84
12,514
59,038
3,155
61
31,984
1,844
337
375
1,205
463
1,760
134
1,653
5,537
24
796
1,739
246,254
841
2,658
47
9,437
1,343
463
1,760
134
1,653
5,537
2,658
47
9,437
1,343
24
796
1,910
47 38
14,935 80
1,739
246,254
1,910
47 38
14,93580
614
662
1,938
6,013
633
652
241
54)
13
543
2,916
132
2,916
131
OPIUM:-
Malwa
Piculs
Patna
Benares....................
COTTON GOODS:-
Shirtings, Grey............ Pieces
,, White, Plain.....
Dyed,
. Figured ...
T-Cloths .............
Drills, English ..
, American ..........
Chintzes and Furnitures.
Turkey Red Cloths.........
Velvets and Velveteens....
Muslins...
Twills, Printed ...
Blue Mottles ................
Cotton Italians ............
Cottons, Unclassed ........
Cotton Handkerchiefs ....... Dozens
, Thread ................. Piculs
. Yarn..................
WOOLLEN GOODS:-
Blankets .........
Pairs
Camlets, English ..... Pieces
Dutch...
Lastings ......................
Long Ells......
Spanish Stripes ...........
cloth, Broad, Medium, 1
and Habit .......
.. Union.....................
Merinos .............
Lustres, Plain and Figured...
Woollen Goods, Unclassed...
METALS
Yellow Metal Sheathing U
Piculs
and Nails ...............
Iron, Bar...
, Nail-rod..
Ware or Manufac-
tured
, Wire............
, Old............
Lead, in Pigs .........
Tinplates.....
Quicksilver .....................
Steel ...........
Metals, Unclassed .....
SUNDRIES :-
Beer ............................... Dozens
Betel-nuts ...................... Piculs
Birds' Nests, ist Quality ...
2nd
, 3rd ,
Braid,"Llama .........?
Cinnamon ...........
Piculs
Cloth, Cotton, Japanese ...
Coal .........
Tons
Cotton, Indian ................
Piculs
1,989
5,916
241
4,527
13,733
1,516
4,724
1,048
238
783
350
4,527
13,733
1,523
4,724
1,048
238
783
171
171
81
15
248
248
152
332
169
1,186
396
93 83
21567
1,127 70
12361
16750
1,048
2475
9383
21567
1,12770
24179
6485
58571
97 40
240
1,778
679
243
917
403
143
781
587
197
1,186
396
1,778
1,424
234
917
403
143
781
587
142
58571
9740
3355
1526
19680
33/55
1526
19680
1,125
647
20323
851
1,125
1,307
93
56401
009
085
93
804
804
6471
360781
009
085
416
21,963
2390
7,901
691
4/16
Boxes
64,06
2,495
Pieces
11,500
1,042
3,421
1,637
21,963
8796
7,901
2451
8590
691
11,500
3,537
3,421
1,637
903
2451
**7106
743
7484
1484
160


382
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. IV.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Imports and Re-exports.
IMPORTS
FROM
CHINESE PORTS.
IMPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG.
Classifier of
Quantity.
RE-EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND HONGKONG.
NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. / Value.
Hk.fts.
Hk. Its
Hk. Pts.
Piculs
938
1,352
- 85
Hk.fts
881
8,172
39,327
1,335
395
1,051
163
80 351
25484
060
*60005
4951
7,372 32
3,16005
51970
24722
1341
2593
2,490 491
2,82676
11743
4,33164
:::::::
'658
43981
Hk.Fts
881
9,439
39,327
1,498
666
I,III
658
24,496
13,284
1,279
37,235
17,602
850
4,086
1180
20,930
13,229
200
3597
320
Almonds
Beans...
Cotton, Raw ..........
Dates, Red............
Fruit, Fresh............
Grasscloth, Fine.
Hams........
Hemp .........
Lily Flowers, Dried ......
Liquorice...
Medicines.
Mushrooms ..............
Nankeens ...................
Oil, Wood..............
Paper, ist Quality ......
» 2nd „ ..
,, Joss .............
Persimmons, Dried .......
Rice ....
Shoes .....
** ...........
Silk Thread.
„ Piece Goods...........
4951
8,249 32
3,16005
50206
1401
2593
2,88253
2,843 12
177 14
4,307 98
2242
35125
14485
62 90
16 36
7.96
29
37,469
3162
263
735
17,602
351 25
14485
5777
513
634
:::::
670
108
250
358
47311
22332
47311
7360
240 88
1,132
972
I16
230
:::::::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::
Pairs
2,192
150
2,192
140
Piculs
2565
1,132
1,044
230
1,193
414
12,903
1,113
1,837
31,289
688
Tea.....
:::::::
1,193
414
12,903
1,113
1,837
30,065
688
6,091
4830
11606
22490
1,224
5,698 291
1410
Tobacco, Prepared ...........
Vermicelli
Vermilion..
Wax, White .................
Woollen and Cotton Cloth.....
Pieces
Sundries, Unenumerated.........Value
TOTAL.
Hk.ft......
5,47339
1410
130 59
578
5,991
I 28
1,158
So
460
555
1,015
13,736
1,783
12,850
839
:
9,973
214,611
1,652
222,674
SUMMARY
9,432
9,973
214,611
- Hk.Fts
224,584
IMPORTS from Swatow..
........... Hk. Tts
» » Pakhoi......
........... ,
541
Total from Chinese Ports .............-
- Hk.Its
Imports from Hongkong .............
............
TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS .........
RE-EXPORTS to Swatow..........
............. Hk.Fts. 243
„Pakhoi..
............. »
15
„Hongkong for Chinese Ports .............. ,
1,652
Total to Chinese Ports ..............
- Hk.Tts.
Total Native RE-EXPORTS..........
1,910
-Hk.fts
.Hk. Its.
1,910
222,674
NET TOTAL NATIVE IMPORTS ...........


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
Hk.fts.
Hk.Fls.
Hk.Tits
Hk.Tits
Hk. Its.
Hk.Fls.
To-
Singapore and Straits ........
Cochin China, Tungking, and Annam
Siam.
Hongkong for Foreign Countries....
Total to Foreign Countries......
3,531
2,753
426
602,634
3,531
2,753
426
602,634
609,344
609,344
1,652
Hongkong for Chinese Ports .........
Swatow ...................................
Pakhoi ..
Total to Chinese Ports ...........
555,980
65,471
32,281
243
557,632
65,714
32,296
653,732
1,910
655,642
GRAND TOTAL ........
.... 1,263,076
1,910
1,264,986
TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
Quantity and Value of each Description of Native Goods brought from the Interior under
Transit Passes during the Year ended 31st December 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Classifier of
Quantity
QUANTITY.
VALUE.
Piculs
Galangal..........
Sugar, Brown .......
„ White...............
13,630
9,896
4,927
Hk.fts.
129,867
23,107
17,451
TOTAL.........
Hk.Fts.
A
L
........................................
170,425
TRANSIT PASSES SURRENDERED..
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TABLE No. 4.-PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Passenger Traffic, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
PASSENGERS TO
PASSENGERS FROM
SarLING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
SAILING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
16
Swatow......................
Canton...........
80
5,062
7,248
Hongkong .......
Pakhoi............
331
1,300
Haiphong.........
Touron.....
Saigon .........
Bangkok...
Singapore ........
906
3,461
849
2,708
9,879
TOTAL.....
12,488


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
PAKHOI TRADE REPORT,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
My Report for 1885 chronicled the disastrous floods which had taken place during the
summer of that year, and which had caused such widespread distress throughout Kwangtung
and Kwangsi: my present Report would be incomplete were it not to mention that during the
summer months of 1886 the rainfall was so insignificant that great drought prevailed throughout
the country. The Rice crops were a failure, and a severe famine was the result. Though the
distress may not have been so keen as it was in 1885, still it was very severely felt. Rice was
in even greater demand than in 1885, and though the quantity imported was valued at
Hk.Tts. 314,600—a sum 184 per cent. in excess of the 1885 importation,—this valuable cereal
was dearer than it had been known to be for more than 30 years.
During the first half of the year under review trade was by no means good, and the
outlook did not seem promising for our Revenue; but the second half of the year brought
much activity with it, and the result has been very successful so far as the Foreign Inspectorate
is concerned.
A singular absence of junks would seem to indicate that steamers have engrossed all the
trade, and that whilst our Revenue receipts have been good, those of the Native Custom House
must have fallen off. If our Revenue be taken as an index to the state of trade, we are bound
to come to the conclusion that trade has been good, for we collected Hk.fts. 134,406 last year,
a figure which is 19 per cent. over that of 1885, and no less than 61 per cent. better than the
collection for 1884. When we take into consideration the fact that 168,000 piculs of Rice were
imported on which no duty was charged, the collection is all the more remarkable.
The extraordinary strides which Pakhoi has made will be readily seen when I mention
that the collection during the first year of its existence as an open port was Hk.Tts. 699, during
the second nil, and during the third year Hk.Tts. 20,515. Our collection under Imports, Opium,
and Coast Trade last year was less than it was in 1885; but our Exports exceeded the figures
of 1885 by 43 per cent. On Cassia alone we collected Hk.Pts. 13,854, against Hk.Tts. 3,715 in
1885, showing a gain of 273 per cent., and this in spite of the drought up-country, which for
a time prevented Cassia from reaching the port, and in spite, moreover, of Canton entering into
competition with us for a share of this trade.
The net value of the trade of the port last year was Ak.its. 2,978,800, which is 15 per
cent. higher than that for 1885 and 75 per cent. more than the 1884 figures show. Foreign
Imports have advanced ii per cent. Native Imports show very little change, their value
having increased but Hk.Pts. 846. Cotton Goods were valued at Hk.Tts. 896,550, showing a loss
of more than Hk.Fts. 41,000. Woollen Goods, however, made up for this loss, the increase on
them being Hk.Pts. 47,500.
Cottons formed 52} per cent., and Woollens 8 per cent., of the Import trade. Of the
Cotton Goods imported, 45 per cent. consisted of Cotton Yarn, which towards the close of the
year was in great demand in Kwangsi, where it was bartered against Yünnan Opium. Vendors


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of Yünnan Opium obtained such a high price for their drug that they were able to make
extensive purchases of Cotton Yarn.
The value of our Exports was Hk.Tts. 1,061,700, which figures exhibit an improvement
of 27 per cent. over those of 1885. The decrease in the demand for Cottons is attributed to the
absence of soldiers, but this cannot wholly account for it. The famine which prevailed up
country must have prevented many from spending money on Foreign goods, and must have
tended in no small degree to lessen the demand for Piece Goods. Amongst Cottons, Shirtings
show a decline of 68 per cent., and T-Cloths of 48 per cent.
In Woollens, Camlets and Lastings have found a good market; but the most remark-
able increase to be noted in Woollens is that of Broadcloth, which has risen in value from
Hk.Tts. 15,470 to Hk.Fts. 50,110, showing a gain of nearly 224 per cent. England by no means
enjoys a monopoly in this article, for during the latter part of the year Broadcloth from Vienna
was introduced here, and was possibly able to compete successfully with the English stuff. The
Vienna Cloth bears on it in large letters "Superfine Broadcloth,” but to it is attached a small
ticket with the word “Wien" on it, which is significant of the place of manufacture.
Needles find a ready market here; but few of them are English. They are mostly of
German manufacture, but they are all labelled in English, with a view, presumably, of their
being passed off as English. Possibly the Natives who buy them believe that they are investing
their money on an English article. The same remark applies to Foreign Dyes, all of which,
though labelled in English letters, come from Germany.
The Matches imported last year amounted to 78,021 gross. The quantity was double
that of 1885, but in our Returns it will be noticed that they figure at a less value than the
1885 importation. This is owing to a degeneration in the quality of the Match imported.
Towards the latter part of the year Japanese Matches sought to compete with the “Tänd-
stickors" usually imported here. Some of the new Matches were honestly labelled “Japan;"
others, however, were not, the object, no doubt, being in the latter case to pass them off as
genuine “ Tändstickors,” and thus to realise as high a price for them as the real “ Tändstickors”
usually command.
Over 12,000 Alpaca Umbrellas were imported. They bore on them the name of an
English hong and were marked“ Registered." They were valued at about 70 cents each, which
is not a high figure for a registered article. They were evidently not cheap enough, however,
for the Native pocket, for in addition to them were imported 5,100 Umbrella Frames. These
were sent into the interior to be covered by the Chinese themselves, and when covered will no
doubt be sold at 40 or 50 cents apiece, or, if elaborately covered, probably at a dollar.
Our Opium trade has been insignificant, and would have been still more so had there not
been a temporary cessation of the junk trade in July, owing to the imposition of some new
taxes by the Native authorities. It is not usual for Opium to reach the port by Foreign
steamers; generally speaking, it comes in by junk, and pays both Likin and Duty at Ma-liu-
chou (the Native tax station near Macao), being exempted from further impost on its arrival.
The Likin authorities here decided during the latter part of the year to make a reduction in
their charges on Opium coming by steamer, so as to bring both Duty and Likin to about the
figure levied at Ma-liu-chou, and thus to divert a portion of the trade. The move is said to
have swollen our receipts, but the effect was very transitory, as we have latterly received very
little Opium indeed. The freight on the drug by junk is $4; by steamer it is $6
Amongst our Imports figures an article which seems to command a ready sale: this
is “Worm Tablets.” The consumption of these lozenges last year was 37,248 bottles—by no


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means an insignificant quantity to get rid of. It would almost seem as if they formed an article
of diet rather than a medicine. Possibly mothers serve them out to their children with the
same regularity that they serve out the daily rice. The retail price per bottle is about 17 cents.
The bottles have English labels on them, but come from Hamburg and Frankfort-on-the-Main.
The well-known English vendor of this class of medicine would, I am afraid, find it difficult
to enter the arena with any chance of making a profit.
Turning to our Esports, I am glad to be able to record a very healthy progress, Sugar
having increased 22 per cent.; Indigo, 72 per cent.; and Tin, no less than 142 per cent. Ground-
nut Cake has decreased, and Star Aniseed likewise; but, on the other hand, Cassia shows a
remarkable increase, the quantity exported last year having been 23,089 piculs, against 6,192
piculs in 1885. During a portion of 1885 floods stood in the way of Cassia coming down from
the country, as the boats were unable to pass under the bridges : last year the rainfall was so
small and the summer so 'unusually hot that there was insufficient water in many places to
float the boats. The Cassia trade largely owes its present development to a British merchant
here—the one who was the pioneer of Foreign commerce at this port. He has done much
to foster it, and, after encountering many difficulties, has at length succeeded in establishing
the business on a firm basis, as the statistics for last year sufficiently testify. The officials at
the barriers invariably, I may say, respect our Transit passes, the detention of Cassia being
quite exceptional.
The shipping engaged in the carrying trade last year was 325 vessels, the tonnage of
which was 119,349 tons. Of the tonnage employed, 62 per cent. was German and 31 per cent.
British. One steamer trading here carries the British flag, has a German captain, and yet
is wholly owned by Chinese..
An attempt was made to establish a line of steamers between Hongkong, Haiphong, and
Pakhoi, but it did not last long. At first the steamers called here en route to Haiphong, and
came in a second time on their return voyage; afterwards they called in only on the return
trip, and finally abandoned the venture altogether.
It is quite an unusual circumstance for a steamer to be consigned to a Foreign merchant.
The Chinese have absorbed all the trade, not only in Imports and Exports, but in the carriage
of merchandise, as well. Vessels consigned to Foreigners have great difficulty in securing
cargo; indeed, it amounts almost to an impossibility to secure any. There is little or no hope,
unless some ụnforeseen eventuality should arise directing it otherwise, that Foreigners will
· regain their lost ground.
From the few remarks which I have made on trade, it will be seen that Pakhoi has
advanced commercially. Whilst it has progressed in this line, it has also advanced politically.
It is no longer a small fishing village under the divisional command of the General of Kao-chou :
it has its own General, though at the present moment he is non-resident. This needed change
. must lead before long to another which will effect much good, and that is the appointment
of a resident Taot'ai. Already the importance of Kao-chou is secondary to Pakhoi, and the day
may therefore not be far distant when the Taot'ai of Kao-chou and Lien-chou will be stationed
here, instead of at Kao-chou. What the future of Pakhoi will be must depend mainly on
the amount of attention it receives and the efforts which are made to promote its progress.
Every endeavour should be exerted to facilitate the conveyance of merchandise to and from
the interior, with a view to strengthening the connexion between the port and Kwangsi and
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diverted, Pakhoi will sink into insignificance, and again become a fishing village. This fate
has been predicted for it by a few pessimists; but it is not likely to occur just yet.
In November last the Chinese portion of the Frontier Delimitation Commission, with
His Excellency TÊNG CH'ÊNG-HSIU at its head, passed through here on its way to Tung-hsing
( N), on the Kwangsi-Annam frontier, where it was expected to meet the French portion
of the Commission and to begin its labours without delay. Owing, however, to the turbulent
state of the country, it was detained at a place called Na-so (B er ) for some days, but
eventually reached its destination in safety. Following on the heels of the Imperial Commis-
sioner was the Foreign telegraph engineer, who laid the wires down step by step along the
line of route, and by the end of December placed Tung-hsing in telegraphic communication
with both Canton and Peking.
WALTER LAY,
Commissioner of Customs.
Pakhoi, 31st January 1887.


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
PAKHOI TRADE RETURNS,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
A.-GENERAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-SHIPPING.
Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared under each Flag,
for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
STEAMERS.
ENTERED INWARDS.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
FLAG
TOTAL ENTERED
AND
CLEARED.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
TOTAL
No.
Tons. No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons. No.
Tons.
No.
Tons. || No.
Tons.
British..
17,252
4
55 /
3,422
German ....
i
428
5,450
173
36,917
2,397 11
1,536 65 18,788
15,366 | 10 |
| 87 | 37,345 74 31,510
533 8 2,9305 2,147
1804 31
18,788
36,960
2,930
804
37,576
74,305
5,860
783
French.....
Danish............
804
804
1,608
Total Steamers .....
157
57,370
61 2,497 | 163
59,867 | 137
49,827
9,655
162
59,482
325
119,349
SAILING VESSELS.-Nil.


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TABLE No. II.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF PAKHOI,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Hk.Ale
Hk.Ite
Hk.fts
Hk. Its
Hk. Pts.
Hk.it
781,210
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries and Hongkong.......
Imported from Chinese Ports ..
Total Foreign Imports...........
1,536,277
265
1,704,478
293
781,210
1,536,542
1,704,771
1,594
Re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong...
Re-exported to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Kiungchow)
Total Foreign Re-exports............
1,594
132
517
Net Total Foreign Imports
779,616
1,536,410
1,704,254
113,613
212,544
212,864
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (chiefly from Hongkong and Kiungchow)...
Re-exported to Foreign countries ........
Re-exported to Chinese Ports.....................
232
568
Total Native Re-exports..........
232
568
48
Net Total Native Imports ..
113,381
211,976
212,816
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries.
468,391
474,311
507,200
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Chinese Ports ......
341,901
361,706
554,489
Total Exports of local origin ...
810,292
836,017
1,061,689
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port ............
1,705,115
2,585,103
2,979,324
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native | 1,703,289
Exports of local origin.
2,584,403
2,978,759
50


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TABLE No. III.-TRADE IN FOREIGN GOODS.--Imports and Re-exports-Contd.
IMPORTS
IMPORTS FROM
RE-EXPORTS
FROM
HONGKONG
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. AND CHINESE PORTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES
RE-EXPORTS
TO CHINESE PORTS
AND HONGKONG.
.NET
TOTAL IMPORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Quantity.
Value. Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Hk.fts
Hk.Tits
Hk. Aits
260!
HK.fts
520
477
1,141
260
am O
520
477
1,141
065
293
:
228
SUNDRIES, continued :-
Ginseng, American, Clarified Piculs
» Crude...
, Corean and Japan,
Ist Quality.....
, Corean and Japan,
2nd Quality.... S
Corean and Japan,
Unclassed.......
Isinglass ......................
Matches.....................
Gross
Needles .......................
Mille
Oil, Kerosene......
Galls.
Paddy.
Piculs
Pepper, Black.
211
211
410
21206
78,021
178
34,081
99,990
3,357
30,520
12,131
15,983
3,357
30,342
12,131
15,983
1,386
8,612
1,17620
1,386
8,612
White ..
526
26911
526
9,614159
17,366
Raisins ....
Rice.....
Sandalwood.....
Sharks' Fins, Clarified ..
Umbrella Frames ........... veces
Umbrellas, Alpaca ...........
Cotton...
Silk...
Wheat .................
Piculs
Value
Worm Tablets ................ Dozens
Sundries, Unenumerated..... Value
TOTAL............ Hk. Tilsl.
67053
26911
16227
158,272 49
69658
1733
5,100
12,268
958
34
3,15078
21206
77,5711
34,081
99,990
1,17620
67053
162 27
167,88708
696 58
17133
5,100
12,268
958
1,080
297,275
2,706
1,864
1,020
7,359
479
68
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
:::::::::
1,080
314,641
2,706
1,864
1,020
7,359
479
::::
34
68
3,151
3,15078
W
ine.............................
· 3,104
1,246
4,633
16,873
3,104
3,151
1,246
4,633
17,592
924
205
23,102
... 1,681,669
517
1,704,254
SUMMARY
IMPORTS from Hongkong......... ................Hk.fts
, Cochin China, Tungking, and Annam... ,
Total from Foreign Countries ........-
Imports from Chinese Ports..........................
TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS..........
1,681,376
23,102
- Hk. Als
......... »
1,704,478
. 293
-Hk.fts.
1,704,771
RE-EXPORTS to Hongkong ...... ......................... Hk. Its
Total to Foreign Countries ............ -
463
--- Hk. Its
463
RE-EXPORTS to Kiungchow............. ............... Hk.fts
Total to Chinese Ports..............
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS .......
-Hk.fts.
-Hk.Tits
517
NET Total FOREIGN IMPORTS .....
...Hk.Fts 1,704,254
.
.


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TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.
EXPORTS
EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity.
EXPORTS
TO
CHINESE PORTS.
TO
HONGKONG.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TOTAL EXPORTS
HONGKONG, AND (including Re-eeports).
CHINESE PORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. | Value.
Hk.Tts.
Hk.Ft
Hk.Its
Hk.fts.
Piculs
HK.fts
102,010
1,009
67,862
20,413
5,821
Aniseed, Star......
Cassia Buds ......
, Lignea...........
Cuttle-fish ....................
Fish, Dried ....................
Glue............................
Ground-nut Cake .
Hide Cuttings, Buffalo and Cow
Hides, Buffalo and Cow .......
Horns,
Indigo, Liquid ........
Iron Pans ...,
Leather .............
Lung-ngan Pulp........
Medicines....
:::::::
8,500 96
19781
23,08917
1,77873
1,164!51
28662
72,57571
597851
10,142631
75247
57,96778
8,50096
197811
23,08917
1,778731
1,164 51
300 39
72,57571
597 85
10,14263
1377
: : : : : : : : : : : : :
1440
76687
377 08
1,917
57,96778
388 28
'1120
1,18444
10194
::::::::::::
102,010
1,009
67,862
20,413
5,821
2,007
72,574
2,349
81,139
3,761
202,888
78
11,845
1,119
9,732
5,156
35,591
15,300
46,120
12,325
6,058
2,905
1,316
45,831
143,885
2,384
152,524
4,700
:::::::
Nutgalls ...,
:::::
Oil, Aniseed
, Cassia-leaf.
Paper, 2nd Quality ......,
::
25422
40
2,103
72,574
2,349
81,139
3,833
202,888
1,995
11,845
1,119
9,732
5,156
35,591
15,300
46,279
12,325
6,058
2,905
1,316
-45,831
143,885
2,549
152,524
5,326
Pigs .....
1,184 44
10194
98961
64493
25422
283311
5,92590
2,900
35649
2,413 31
329.04
26,19006
37,86536
34426
7,263111
98961
64493
28331
5,905 95
2,900
356 49
2,41331
32904
26, 190 06
37,865 36
32191
7,26311
::
::::
Prawns, Dried..
Rushes..............
Seed, Sesamum ..........
Sugar, Brown............
.. White..............
Tallow, Animal ............
- 22 35
Tin, in Slabs ...........
Sundries, Unenumerated........ Value
TOTAL................ Hk.fts.].. .............
:::::::::
165
320
:
2,542
........... 1,058,702
445
1,061,737
SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
Total EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS
Hk.Fts.
Hk. Its.
Hk.fts
Hk.Fts.
2,542
504,658
Tor
Singapore and Straits ...........
Hongkong for Foreign countries....
Total to Foreign Countries......-
Hongkong for Chinese Ports .........
Kiungchow ...............................
Total to Chinese Ports ...........
507,200
Hk.fts. Hk. Its
2,542
504,658
507,200
554,044
445
554,489
.. 1,061,689
554,044
493
554,537
1,061,737
GRAND TOTAL.


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. VI.-TRANSIT TRADE.
a.--Foreign Goods conveyed to the Interior during the Year 1886.
Nil.
6.-Native Goods brought from the Interior during the Year 1886.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Classifier of
Quantity.
QUANTITY.
VALUE.
Piculs
Cassia Buds .......
Lignea ..........
Oil, Cassia-leaf .......
TOTAL .....
197.81
23,167.97
19.83
Hk.Pls
1,009
68,114
1,071
Hk. Pts
70,194
TRANSIT PASSES SURRENDERED
No.
233
TABLE No. VII.-DUTIES.
a.—Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT.
EXPORT.
Coast TradE.
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
Total.
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
20,077.2.0.2
38,156. 1.9.1
102.5.2.5
2.4.4.7
4,015.8.3.8
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
20,328.4.0.6
40,523.3.5.0
1,664.0.9.6
574.5.7.4
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
148.4.9.9
204.5.0.8
British,
German .....
French ..........
Danish.............
On Opium.....
Hk.Ttsm.c.c.
636.0.0.0
289.6.0.0
518.9.0.0
107.2.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
3,012.9.3.0
4,043.3.5.7
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
44,203.0.3.7
83,217.0.0.6
2,285.5.2.1
684.2.2, I
4,015.8.3.8
TOTAL.........
62,354.2.0.3
63,090.4.2.6
353.0.0.7
1,551.7.0.0
7,056.2.8.7 | 134,405.6.2.3*
* No Drawbacks marked for cash payment during the year, to be deducted from this total...
Hk.Fts Nil.
b.—Comparative Table of Duties collected, for the Years 1877 to 1886.
YEARS.
IMPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
EXPORT
(exclusive of
Opium).
Coast TRADE
(exclusive of
Opium).
OPIUM
(Import, Export,
and
Coast Trade).
TONNAGE.
TRANSIT.
TOTAL
· Hk. Atom.c.c.
269.8.1.6
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
Hk.Iism.c.c.
Hl. Itsm.c.c.
Hk. Fam.c.c.
176.4.0.0
Hk. Ham.c.c.
698.6.5.2
309.9.0.0
Hk.ftsm.c.c.
252.4.3.6
1,468.8.8.6
24,835.6.2.0
26,401.2.3.1
25,720.1.0.0
25,262.9.4.3
35,924.1.8.0
60,695.3.3.8
58,338.3.6.5
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1877........
1878..........
1879...............
1880....
1881...
1882..............,
1883....
1884...........
1885......
1886.........
.
5,845.1.7.8
18,778.8.8.8
24,817.6.8.6
28,385.1.8.7
32,025.2.3.7
42,416.4.3.0
44,046.4.6.0
63,090.4.2.6
95.9.0.8
143.4.9.5
85.1.0.9
173.5.8.6
154.2.5.5
445.4.7.4
353.0.0.7
12,366.9.0.0
40,472.9.9.2
29,119.6.1.3
1,501.7.2.6
464.4.0.0
2,252.5.3.2
4,442.7.0.0
4,015.8.3.8
680.4.0.0
427.6.0.0
1,489.6.0.0
1,173.8.0.0
1,551.7.0.0
834.0.0.0
51.7.4.1
817.5.6.6
657.3.6.8
1,362.5.8.7
704.3.5.7
1,748.9.4. I
7,056.2.8.7
20,514.9.6.4
84,545.0.4.9
81,299.5.9.1
57,029.8.9.0
59,716.3.5.3
82,941.3.5.4
112,552.7.1.3
134,405.6.2.3


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B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. 1.-TREASURE.
Import and Export of Treasure, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
Imported..
.......Hk. Its 52,245
Exported...
Hk. Its. 601,992
TABLE No. 2.-OPIUM.
Import of Opium, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
IMPORTED FROM
Malwa.
Patna.
BENARES.
TOTAL.
Piculs.
0.44
Piculs.
1.97
Piculs.
131.45
Hongkong ....
Piculs.
133.86
.
.
.
.
.
TABLE No. 3.-PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Passenger Traffic, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
PASSENGERS TO
PASSENGERS FROM
SAILING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
SAILING VESSELS.
STEAMERS.
Foreigners.
Natives. | Foreigners. ||
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
Foreigners.
Natives.
...
1,198
368
23
Hongkong .........
Kiungchow ........
Haiphong...........
1,541
423
CICI
1,589
TOTAL...
2,022


APPENDIX I.
INDEX TO ANNUAL TRADE REPORTS, 1864-86.
51


INDEX TO ANNUAL TRADE REPORTS, 1864-86.
Albumen : Co. '71 and '72, 51.
Alum: No. '68, 58; No. '69, 64; No. '79, 122; Ww. '85,
226; Ww. '86, 232.
Amoor, affluents open to trade by Treaty of Aigunt: Ng.
- 67, 9.
Amoor, trade on: Ng. '75, 58; Tn. '86, 18.
Amoy, currency at: Ay. '70, 84.
Amoy dock: Ay. '67, 71; Ay. '68, 73.
Amoy pilotage service: Ay. '67, 71.
Amoy, topography: Ay. '80, 212 and 237.
Analysis of commerce: Ca. 65, 95; Ca. '66, 109.
Anhwei, topographical and historical sketch, etc. : Wu. '77,
50.
Aniseed: Pi. '78, 299; Pi. '79, 250; Pi. '82, 371.
Aniseed Oil. See Oil, Aniseed.
Annam, envoys from: Hw. '71 and '72, 55.
Annam Frontier Delimitation Commission: Pi. '86, 391.
Annam, trade with: Pi. '78, 300; Pi. '84, 372; Cn. '85, 386;
Pi. '85, 373.
Arsenals: Fw. 68, 67; Tn. '68, 17; Fw. '69, 80.
Arsenic: Cn. '66, 61; Co. '79, 16.
Balance of trade; Imports exceeding Exports: Ay. '84, 291.
Bamboo Shoots : Fw. '78, 193.
Banditti. See Robbers, highway.
Banking and money. See Money and banking.
Banks, Foreign, new agencies: Tn. '86, 19.
Banks, Native: Si. '66, 14; Tn. '81, 6.
Barter: Co. '75, 77; Ng. '86, 3; Pi. '86, 388.
Barter with Corea: Ng. '65, 21; Ng. '74, 5.
Beancake: Ng. '65, 15; Sw. '84, 313; Sw. '85, 314; Sw.
'86, 331.
Beancake, adulteration of: Co. '80, 33.
Beancake manufacture: Co. '64, 1; Ng. '81, 12; Sw. '81, 7.
Beancake manufacture by steam: Ng. '69, 10; Sw. '69, 86;
Ng. '70, 8; Sw. '79, 215.
Beancake to Ceylon: Ng. '80, 10.
Bean Oil. See Oil, Bean.
Beans: Ng. 65, 15; Ig. '78, 30; Wu. '84, 125; Sw. '84,
313; Sw. '85, 314; Ng. '86, 1; Sw. '86, 331.
Beet-root: Ca. '76, 79; Ca. '77, 57.
Bicho de Mar: Ay. '73, 119.
Birds' Nests, where and how obtained, etc.: Ay. '73, 119.
Blockade of Formosa. See Formosa.
Blockade (so called) of Hongkong: Cn. '74, 190.
Boat people: Kw. '76, 197.
Bonded warehouses: Si. '66, 9; T. and Tr. R. ²69, 23; Cn.
'71 and '72, 209.
Bonding system: Kg. '69, 147.
Brass Buttons (Native] : Cn. '75, 286.
Brokers (Native]: Ng. 65, 17.
Bund for Swatow: Sw. '81, 14.
Business, methods of conducting: Ng. '65, 17; Ay. '70, 103 ;
Ng. '71 and '72, 4; Ng '73, 5; Co. '75, 77 and 91;
Pi. '78, 302; Ng. '79, 2; Ng. '81, 6; Wu. '84, 126;
Si. '85, 161.
Camels: Ng. 65, 29; Tn. 284, I7; Tp. 85, 18; Tn. 86, 18.
Camels' Wool. See Wool, Camels'.
Camphor: Ti. '68, 164 of '69 Reports; Ti. '69-'72, 156;
Ca. '77, 69; Ti. '77, 165; Ti. '78, 210; Ti. '79, 179;
Ti. '80, 194; Ti. '84, 259; Ti. '85, 260; Ti. '86, 266;
Tw. '86, 283.
Camphor adulteration: Ti. '80, 195.
Camphor, monopoly. See Monopolies, Camphor.
Camphor, reckless cutting of trees: Ti. '69-'72, 160; Ti. ’84,
259.
Camphor stills : Ti '68, 165 of '69 Reports.
Camphor, Tamsui transport: Ti. '80, 196.
Canton tornado: Cn. '78, 279.
Carbonate of Soda : Tn. '70-'72, 41.
Cash: Hw. '64, 3; No. '78, 149.
Cassia : Cn. 176, 176; Ca. '77, 66; Pi. '78, 301; Pi. '79, 252 ;
Pi. '80, 277; Cn. '82, 331; Cn. '83, 335; Cn. '84, 333;
Cn. '85, 336; Pi. '85, 375; Pi. '86, 388 and 390.
Cassia-leaf Oil. See Oil, Cassia-leaf.
Cassia, monopoly. See Monopolies, Cassia.
Cassia, transit passes for: Pi. 79, 247 and 255.
Castor Oil. See Oil, Castor.
Cattle-plague: No. °78, 155.
Chao-chou-fu, British Consul at: Sw. '70, 132.
Chao-chou-fu, Foreign Imports for: Sw. '69, 92.
Chefoo, topography, etc.: Co. '66, 80.
Ch‘êng-tu, in Szechwan, visited by Foreign merchants : Ig.
'84, 55.
China, Imports: Ca. '79, 71.
China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company's. fleet. See
Shipping.
China, products of: Ca. '75, 44; Ca. '76, 83; Ca. '79, 71.
Chinaware: Kg. '69, 119; Ay. '75, 245; Cn. '76, 176; Ca.
°77, 70; Kg. '77, 42 ; Kg. '78, 80; Pi. '84, 372.
Chinaware factories at King-tê-chên partly destroyed by
inundation: Kg. '84, 110.
Chinaware manufacture : Sw. '68, 91; Kg. '78, 81.
Chinaware not to be examined: Kg. '80, 75.
Chinchew should be open to Foreign trade: Ay. '68, 73.
Chinese Customs should be at Hongkong: T. and Tr. R.
'69, 6; Cn. '74, 191.
Chinese shipping, growth of: Ca. "75, 54; Tn. °75, 73; Tn.
'76, 12.
Chinkiang, ancient importance of: Cg. '66, 69.
Chinkiang hulk stations: Cg. '79, 86.
Chinkiang to Tientsin, itinerary: Cg. '81, 49.
Cholera : No. '78, 153; Ww. '78, 174.
Chun, PRINCE OF, his visit to Northern ports: Tn. '86, 20.
Chungking: Ig. '82, 59; Ig. '84, 55 and 57.
Chusan, Japanese trade with: No. 69, 70.
Cinchona: Pi. '81, 9.
Cloisonné manufacture: Tn. '80, 22.
Cloth, Japanese: Ti. '84, 257; Kw. '84, 358; Kw. '85, 361;
Ti. '86, 266; Kw. '86, 375.
Cloth, Native. See Nankeens and Native Cloth.
Cloth, Palm-leaf: Tw. '73, 109.
Cloth, Pineapple. See Pineapple Cloth and Hemp.
Cloth, Savage. See Savage Cloth.
Coal: Hw. ^64, 7; Ng. 67, 5; Ti. 67, 75; Tn. ^68, 18; Ti.
'68, 161 of '69 Reports; Ng. '69, 10; Kg. '69, 120; Ng.
'71 and '72, 23; Ti. '69-'72, 160 ; Tn. '76, 13; Ca.
*77, 42; Hw. '77, 22; Ca. '78, 41 and 58; Ca. '79, 42;
Ca. '80, 34; Ti. '84, 260; Wu. '85, 126; Cg. '85, 142 ;
Ti. '85, 260.
Coal, area of, in North China : Si. ²66, 4.
Coal, assay: Hw. '65, 39.
Coal, Japanese: Si. '65, 126.
Coal, Kaipʻing mines : Tn. '79, 271; Tn. '82, 17; Tn. '84,
16 and 18; Tn. '85, 19; Tn. '86, 18.
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APPENDIX I.-INDEX TO TRADE REPORTS, 1864–86.
405
Earthquake: Ti. '81, 14.
| Fur trade : Ng. '71 and '72, 25; Ng. °78, 12; Ng. '80, 12;
Ebony: No. '77, 122.
Ng. '81, 1o.
Education of Chinese in Foreign languages and sciences : '66, Fur, varieties obtained : Ng. '71 and '72, 25.
App. 158.
Furniture, Ningpo: No. '86, 210.
Emigration and sub-headings. See Passenger traffic.
Exchange: Fw. '67, 45; Ca. '76, 119; Fw. '76, 83; Ca. '79,
105; Ca. '85, 2; Ca. '86, 1 and 2; Hw. '86, 74; Kg.
'86, 108.
Galangal: Kw. '79, 242.
Exhibition, Vienna, collection sent to, from Newchwang: Ginseng: Ng. '65, 18; No. :69, 59; Ng. '71 and '72, 17;
Ng. '71 and '72, 27.
Ng. '75, 66; Ca. '77, 43 ; Ca. '80, 35.
Exports of China : Ca. °75, 44; Ca. '76, 83.
Ginseng, Bastard : Wu. '78, 99.
Ginseng, Black: No. ²69, 66.
Ginseng, bulk of, is smuggled: Co. '79, 18.
Famine ; Ca. '77, 86; Hw. '77, 21; Tn. '79, 269.
Ginseng, monopoly. See Monopolies, Ginseng.
Feathers, for Europe: Wu. '86, 129.
Ginseng, searching for, a Government monopoly: Ng. '71
Feathers, Kingfishers’: See Kingfishers' Feathers.
and '72, 17.
Fire-crackers : Cn. '84, 334.
Glass, Window. See Window Glass.
Fish Glue: No. '69, 56.
Goat-skin Rugs. See Rugs, Goat-skin.
Fishing, modes of: Sw. '79, 208; Tw. '80, 206.
Gold: Ng. '71 and '72, 24.
Fish Skins: Fw. '80, 175.
Gold extracted from Silver; process: Cg. '81, 16.
Flints and Tinder: No. '69, 58; Fw.'78, 189; Si. '86, 167. Government Imports: Tn. '86, 19.
Floods: Hw. '70, 23; Hw. '78, 50; Kg. '78, 86; Co. '81, 1; Grain export: Ng. '78, 1.
Co. '84, 37; Kg. '84, 110; Cg. '84, 144; Ca. '85, 2; Grain ; Japanese Wheat. See Wheat, Japanese.
Kg. '85, 108 and 110; Sw. '85, 315; Cn. ²85, 333; Ng. Grain; Rice. See Rice.
'86, 3; Tn. '86, 20; Co. '86, 40.
Grain trade: T. and Tr. R. ²69, 23; Cg. 75, 141.
Flour: Ay. '66, 34; Pi. '81, 5.
Grain, Tribute : Tn. '67, 15; Ng71 and '72, 26.
Flour, Potato: Sw. '78, 252.
Grain, Tribute, abuses in connexion with: Tn. '67, 16; Ng.
Foochow, origin of name: Fw. '67, 65.
71 and '72, 26.
Foochow, topography: Fw. '65, 62.
Grain, Tribute, carriage of: Tn. '66, 102; Tn. '67, 16
Foodstuffs: Ng. '78, 1.
and 20.
Foodstuffs; Beans. See Beans.
Grasscloth: Kg. '69, 117; Sw. °74, 214; Sw. '76, 142; Sw.
Foodstuffs; Japanese Wheat. See Wheat, Japanese.
'79, 218; Sw. '80, 246; Kw. '81, 7; Co. '84, 39.
Foodstuffs ; Rice. See Rice.
Grasscloth, testing quality of: Sw. '80, 246.
Foreign Customs, proper work of: T. and Tr. R. '69, 9. Ground-nut Oil and Cake: Tw. '76, 103; Kw. '76, 191; Kw.
Foreign merchants' share in trade. See Trade, Foreign mer °77, 233; Pi. '78, 298; Pi. '79, 254; Sw. '85, 314.
chants share in.
Guano: Ay. '67, 69; Ay. °73, 120; Sw. '75, 277; Sw. 76,
Foreign residents: Hw. '64, 13; Si. '65, 133; Si. '66, 15.
138; Sw. '78, 246; Sw. '80, 242.
Formosa, blockade by the French: Ti. '84, 257; Tw. '84, Guild, Swatow: Sw. '81, 11; Ng. '86, 1.
273; Ay. '84, 289; Sw. '84, 312; Ca. '85, I and 2; Guilds: Si. '66, 14; No. '73, 77; No. '77, 112; No. '81, 5.
Ay. '85, 291.
Guilds, Ningpo, arrangement with, for payment of likin, etc.:
Formosa, commercial development of: Tw. '85, 276; Ay. No. '73, 77; No. '77, 110 and 119.
'85, 294; Ti. '86, 265 and 267; Tw. '86, 283.
Gypsum: Hw. '79, 30.
Formosa, crops of South: Tw. '78. 227.
Formosa; Japanese troubles. See Japanese in Formosa.
Formosa, likin. See Likin in Formosa.
Formosa, North, flora, fauna, geography, agriculture, etc.: Haifang and Defence taxes: T. and Tr. R. '69, 20; Sw. '79,
Ti. '81, II.
209; Kw. '79, 238; Pi. °79, 247 ; Sw. '80, 240; Kw.
Formosa, prosperity of: Ca. '75, 17; Ti. '76, 85; Tw. '76, '80, 267; Sw. '81, 3; Sw. 83, 315; Sw. '84, 313; Sw.
96 and 106; Ti. '82, 260.
'85, 314.
Formosa, Rice export: Tw. '83, 277; Tw. '84, 275; Tw. '85, Hainan, geographical sketch of: ’67, App. II.
276.
Hainan, topography. See Kiungchow, topography.
Formosa, Tai-pei-fu: Ti. '79, 181; Ti. '86, 267.
Haiphong as a centre of trade: Pi. '78, 296; Pi. 84, 372.
Formosa, topography, east coast : Ti. '75, 213.
Hair, Human : Ng. '67, 7; Sw. *75, 279; Sw. '78, 251; Sw.
Formosa, topography, etc., South: Tw. '73, 103; Tw. '75, '79, 217; Sw. '80, 248.
227.
Hats, Straw or Rush. See Straw Hats.
Formosa, trees of North : Ti. '80, 197.
Hemp: Kg. '68, 29; Kg. '69, 115 and 118; No. '69, 62;
Fortifications: No. '75, 181; Kg. 75, 120; Tw. '75. 229; Kw. '83, 361; Tw. '84, 275; Sw. '84, 313; Hw. '85, 76.
Kg. '76, 35; Sw. 176, 148; Cn. '76, 183; Ti. :79, 183; Hemp, Pineapple. See Pineapple Cloth and Hemp.
Tw. '80, 208.
Hides: Ca. '77, 64; Hw. '77, 13; Hw. '78, 44; Ca. '79, 61;
Forwarding hongs: Sw. °74, 207.
Kw. '81, 7; Hw. '82, 75; Hw. '83, 78; Tn. '84, 18;
French war in 1884, effects of: Ca. '84, I; Ng. '84, I; Hw. '84, 75; Kw. '84, 360; Hw. '85, 75; Hw. '86, 75.
Hw. '84, 73; Cg. '84, 141; Ww. 84, 221; Fw. '84, 239; Hongkong and Native Customs : Cn. '74, 180; Cn. '76, 157.
Ti. '84, 260; Tw. '84, 273; Ay. '84, 289; Sw. '84, 311; Hongkong a soi-disant bonded warehouse: Cn. 71 and '72,
Cn. '84, 331; Ca. '85, 1; Tn. '85, 19; Hw. '85, 74; 209; Ca. '76, 7.
No. '85, 201 and 202; Ww. '85, 223; Ay. '85, 291; Hongkong, branch of Foreign Inspectorate at, desirable: T.
Cn. '85, 333; Pi. '85, 373.
and Tr. R. '69, 6; Cn. "74, 191.
Fungus : No. 69, 61; Ng. '73, 8.
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Lily Flowers: Cg. '86, 145.
Lime, shells for making: Sw. '79, 207.
Liquor fermented from masticated grain: Ti. '74, 135.
Llama Braid : Kw. '84, 359; Kw. '85, 361; Ti. '86, 266.
Locusts : Kg. '74, 56.
Loochoos, tribute from; Fw. '67, 62.
Lorchas. See Shipping, lorchas, etc.
Macao: Cn. '71 and '72, 217; Cn. '74, 180; Pi. '78, 302;
Cn. '84, 333; Pi. '85, 375.
Macao junks : Pi. '84, 373.
Macao, loss to revenue by: T. and Tr. R. '69, 6.
Mahomedan rebellion. See Rebellions.
Mail service: Si. '66, 11.
Manchuria, Russian: Co. °66, 78; Tn. '86, 18.
Mangrove Bark: No. 69, 57; Ww. '86, 231.
Maps, Amoy and country round: Ay. '79, 202.
Maps, Anhwei, centre and south: Wu. '77, 72.
Maps, Canton, Hoppo's stations about : Cn. '74 [a series
published separately).
Maps, Chao-chou-fu, trade routes: Sw. '71 and '72, 205.
Maps, Chêkiang, transit trade: No. '81, 12; No. '82, 202;
No. '83, 204.
Maps, China coast, lights on : Ca. '79, 108.
Maps, China, transit trade for 1874–76: Ca. '76, 126 [3
maps).
Maps, Chinchew and district: Ay. '68, 74.
Maps, Foochow, trade routes : Fw. '69, 74.
Maps, Formosa, east coast: Ti. '75, 220.
Maps, Formosa, North: Ti. '81, 10.
Maps, Formosa, North, junk traffic: Ti. '73, 102.
Maps, Formosa, South, Sugar districts: Tw. '80, 210.
Maps, Fukien, South, trade routes: Ay. '80, 230.
Maps, Hongkong and Hainan, coast between : (Hainan) '67,
App. 22.
Maps, Kiangnan, transit trade: Cg. '79, 92; Cg. '80, 114.
Maps, Kiangsi, transit trade: Kg. 74, 62 [key to Roman
numerals on map published separately).
Maps, Kiukiang, barrier stations round : Kg. '69, 150.
Maps, Kiungchow: Kw. '81, 8.
Maps, Kwangsi: Pi. '77, 246.
Maps, Manchuria: Ng. 75, 70.
Maps, Swatow, trade routes : Sw. '80, 250.
Maps, Takow: Tw. '80, 210; Tw. '81, 6.
Maps, telegraphic route, Shanghai to Tientsin: Cg. '81, 24.
Maps, Wênchow city: Ww. '77, 144.
Maps, Wênchow port: Ww. '77, 144.
Maps, Wênehow river: No. '68, 54.
Maps, Wênchow, watercourses about: Ww. '77, 142.
Matches : Ca. '77, 43; No. '79, 119; Ca. '80, 35; Hw. '80,
49; Kw. '82, 356; Pi. '82, 370; Kw. '83, 360; Kw. '84,
359; Kw. '85, 361; Wu. '86, 127; Ww. '86, 231; Pi.
86, 389.
Matches, special tax on: Sw. '84, 313.
Matting: Ca. 77, 65; Fw. 78, 191; Ca. '79, 62; Cn. '81,
II; Cn. *84, 334.
Medicines: No. 68, 51; Hw. '69, 32 ; No. '69, 59 and 65;
Kw. '77, 234; Wu. '78, 99; No. '78, 147 and 162; Ng.
779, 6; Hw. '79, 31; No. '79, 134; Wu. '80, 89; No.
'80, 140 and 149; Ti. '80, 189; Wu. '81, 5; Cg. '81,
51; No. '84, 202.
Medicines, anti-Opium: Ti. '79, 175.
Merino in Siberia. See Wool, Merino.
Metals: No. '68, 46; Kg. '74, 55; Ca. '75, 24; Ca. '76, 22;
Ca. '77, 36; Ca. 78, 35; Ca. '79, 36; Ca. '80, 29; Ca.
'81, 5 and 12; Ng. '81, 14; Ca. '84, 2.
Metals, Copper. See Yünnan Copper.
Metals, Gold: Ng. '71, and '72, 24.
Metals, Gold from Silver. See Gold extracted from Silver;
process.
Metals, Iron: Ng. '67, 5; Ng. '71 and '72, 24; Hw. '77, 24;
Ng. ²81, 7; Ww. '84, 223; Ng. '85, 1.
Metals, Iron, contraband: Ay. '67, 72; T. and Tr. R. '69, 24.
Metals, Iron, Old, its uses : Ng. '81, 7; Ww. '84, 223; Ww.
'86, 231.
Metals, Iron Wire, its uses: Ng. '86, 2; Ww. '86, 231.
Metals, Iron Pans. See Iron Pans.
Metals, Lead, for bullets : Tw. '84, 273.
Metals, Lead, importation stopped owing to war: Hw. '85,
75; Ti. '85, 259.
Metals, Pewterware. See Pewterware.
Metals, Quicksilver: No. '69, 55; Cn. '71 and '72, 210.
Metals, Silver and Sycee. See Silver and Sycee.
Metals, Silverware. See Silverware.
Metals, Tin (see also Yünnan Tin]: No. '68, 46; Ay. '72,
176; Sw. °74, 211.
Milk, Preserved : Ti. '84, 258.
Mining: Tn. '79, 271; Tn. '80, 24; Kw. '84, 360; Ig. '85,
59; Hw. '85, 76; Cn. '85, 336; Kw. '85, 362.
Mining, possible evils of: No. 68, 47.
Money and banking: Hw. '64, 3; No. 64, 4; Fw. '67, 62 ;
No. '78, 151; Ng. ’81, 6; Hw. '84, 73; Ww. ’84, 221.
Money, paper: Ng. '81, 6.
Mongolia, life in, etc.: Tn. '65, 29.
Monopolies, Camphor: Ti. '67, 77; Tw. ²68, 81; Ti. '68, 164
of ’69, Reports.
Monopolies, Cassia: Pi. '79, 251.
Monopolies, Ginseng: Ng. '71 and '72, 17; Ng. '86, 3.
Monopolies, Indigo: Ti. "82, 260.
Monopolies, Iron Pans: Ay. '83, 293.
Monopolies, Opium: Ca. '75, 27.
Monopolies, Salt: Cg. '65, 48; Si. '66, 6; Tn. '66, 104;
Hw. '69, 33; No. 69, 72; Kg. '69, 154; Ng. '71 and
*72, 22.
Mulberry Trees : Kg. '80, 78; Kg. '82, 108.
Musk : Cn. '74, 172; Ca. 77, 68; Ca. 79, 63.
Nankeens and Native Cloth: Hw. '64, 5; Fw. '68, 64; Ay.
'70, 92; Wu. '80, 88; Sw. ’84, 312; Pi. 84, 377; Ww.
'85, 225.
Nankeens v. Cotton Piece Goods. See Cotton Piece Goods
v. Native Cloth.
Nationalities, Foreign, in China: Hw. '64, 13; Si. '65, 88
and 133; Si. '66, 15.
Native Cloth. See Nankeens and Native Cloth.
Native Customs. See Customs, Native.
Needles : Tn. '69, 101; Pi. '86, 389.
Needles, inferior quality of: Ng. '81, 6.
Newchwang, banditti. See Robbers, highway.
Newchwang, first junk to enter, cargo free of duty : Ng.
*74, 1.
Newchwang, opening of river: Ng. 80, 2; Ng. '84, 1; Ng.
'85, 4.
Newchwang, police: Ng. '80, 16.
Newchwang, topography, etc. : Ng. '65, 13; Ng. '67, 7;
. Ng. *75, S6; Ng. *76, 8.
Newspapers, Foreign : Si. '66, 15.
Nienfei rebels : Tn. '67, 21; Co. 67, 27; Tn. '68, 9.
Ningpo, commuting taxes at: No. '73, 77; No. '77, 110 and
119.
Ningpo, decadence of: No. '77, 103.
Ningpo, shipping: No. 77, 105; No. '78, 130.


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TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
Ningpo, topography, etc.; No. '68, 43.
Nippon Yusen Kaisha Steamship Co. See Shipping, Japanese.
Nutgalls: Ca. '77, 66; Ca. '79, 63; Hw. '85, 75.
Oil, Aniseed: Pi. '79, 251.
Oil, Bean : Ng. '78, 10; Ca. '81, 8.
Oil, Bean; mode of packing: Ng. '65, 15.
Oil, Cassia-leaf : Pi. '79, 251.
Oil, Castor: Tw. '75, 225; Ng. '78, 12.
Oil, Ground-nut. See Ground-nut Oil and Cake.
Oil, Kerosene, and Petroleum. See Kerosene Oil.
Oil, Tea: Hw. '69, 24.
Oil, Tea, manufacture: Fw. '67, 59.
Oil, Wood: Hw. '69, 24; Hw. '79, 33.
Opium: Si. '65, 125; Ca. '65, 116; Ca. '66, 143; Tn. '68,
12; No. '68, 47; Hw. '69, 29; Fw. '69, 75; Ay. '70,
87; Ng. '71 and '72, 11; Cn. '71 and '72, 210; Ng. '73,
6; Ca. 75, 24; Ca. '76, 24; Cn. '76, 160; Ca. '77, 14;
No. '77, 108; Ca. '78, 20; Ca. '79, 18: Ca. '80, 8; Ca.
'81, 4 and 7; Kg. 81, 1; Ca. '82, 1; Ca. ’83, 1; Ww.
'83, 224; Fw. 84, 237; Sw. '84, 312; Ca. '85, 3;
Si. '85, 161; No. ²85, 203; Fw. '85, 238; Ti. '85, 258;
Tw. '85, 274; Ay. '85, 291 ; Sw. '85, 314; Cn. '85, 334;
Kw. '85, 360; Wu. '86, 126; Si. '86, 166; No. '86,
209; Ay. '86, 299 and 300; Kw. '86, 374.
Opium, adulteration : Kg. 69, 125; Hw. '70, 20; Ng. '71
and '72, 22; Co. '75, 86; Ca. '76, HI; No. '77, 115;
Co. So 27; Ng. 81, 9; Tw. ^8I, 2; Tn. *82, I5; Tw. |
'84, 273.
Opium, amount imported into Kwangtung: Cn. ²85, 334.
Opium, analysis: Hw. '69, 23; Hw. '70, 20; Ca. 76, 110;
Ww. '82, 222.
Opium ashes: Ca. '76, 115; Ng. '86, 2.
Opium business, methods of conducting : Ng. '71 and '72,
12; Co. '74, 20; Kg. '84, 107; Ay, '84, 290; Cn. '85,
Opium carried by junks: Cn. '74, 187; Ww. '82, 224; Pi.
'83, 376; Pi. '84, 371; Pi. 85, 374; Kw. '86, 374.
Opium, daily consumption : Tn. '66, 91; Ay. '70, 87; Ng.
71 and '72, 11; Ww. '81, 13; Ay. '81, 6; Ti. :82, 257.
Opium discussion in House of Commons: T. and Tr. R. 69,
33.
Opium Duties : T. and Tr. R. '69, 28 and 32.
Opium, effects of, v. effects of alcohol: Ay. '72, 176.
Opium, Foreign and Native, mixed : Ay. '77, 182; Tn. '82,
15; Ng. '86, 2; Ww. '86, 231.
Opium, Foreign, demand for, declining: Ca. '81, 7; Ww.
'81, 14.
Opium, Formosa market, how affected by French blockade:
Ti. '84, 257; Tw. '84, 273; Ay. '84, 290.
Opium from Mozambique : Ca. '77, 25; Si. '84, 163; Si.
'85, 162.
Opium, Hongkong statistics : Cn. '76, 167.
Opium, Hoppo's stations: Cn. '74, 188.
Opium, Hoppo's taxes: Cn. '74, 187; Cn. '76, 164.
Opium Husk : Kw. '79, 240.
Opium imported by junk from Singapore: Kg. '86, 374.
Opium imported into Hongkong but not accounted for as
consumed: Cn. '71 and '72, 210; Cn. °74, 188; Ca. '76,
25; Cn. '76, 160.
Opium, Indian monopoly tends to stimulate cultivation in
China: Ca. '75, 27.
Opium, likin, etc. : Cn. '64, 3; Si. :66, 3; Fw. '69, 74 and
76; T. and Tr. R. '69, 4 and 14; Ay. '70, 95 and 96;
Sw. '73, 132; Cn. '74, 187; Sw. '76, 136; Cn. '76, 164;
No. 77, 109 and 116; Sw. '77, 190; Kg. '78, 67 and
68; Sw. '79, 209; No. '80, 130; Sw. '80, 240; Pi. '80,
282; Kg. '81, 1; Sw. '81, 3; Ww. '81, 11; Kw. '81, 3;
Pi. '81, 4; Ww. '82, 222; Sw. '82, 311; Kw. '82, 355;
Ww. '83, 125; Sw. '83, 314; Tn. '84, 16; Ti. '84, 257;
Sw. '84, 312; Kw. '84, 358; Ca. '85, 3; Ng. '85, 2;
Hw. '85, 75 and 76; Wu. '85, 123; Cg. 185, 141;
Si. '85, 161; Ww. '85, 224; Ay. '85, 291; Cn. '85, 334;
Kw. '85, 360; Hw. '86, 75; Wu. '86, 126; Cg. '86, 144;
Si. '86, 166; Fw. ’86, 245; Ay. '86, 300; Sw. '86, 330;
Kw. '86, 374; Pi. '86, 389.
Opium, likin, varying rates at Swatow: Sw. '77, 190; Sw.
'78, 243: Sw. '79, 209; Sw. '80, 240; Sw. '81, 3; Sw.
'82, 311 ; Sw. '83, 314; Sw. '84, 312; Sw. '85, 314;
Ay. '86, 300; Sw. ’86, 330.
Opium, likin, varying rates; one uniform rate should obtain :
T. and Tr. R. '69, 16; Ca. '81, 11.
Opium medicine, anti: Ti. '78, 206; Ti. '79, 175.
Opium monopoly. See Monopolies, Opium.
Opium, morphia in: Ww. '82, 222.
Opium, Native: Tn. '66, 91; Ng. '67, 6; No. 68, 48; Hw.
'69, 22 and 29; Ng. '71 and '72, 19; Ng. '73, 6; No.
*73, 72 ; Tn. 74, I5; Co. 74, 20; Ay. 74, I49; Ca. 75,
25; Ng. '75, 59 and 63; Ca. '76, 108; Cg. '76, 43; Cn.
976, 169; Ca. '77, 20; No. '77, 113; Ti. '79, 174; Ay.
79, 195; No. '80, 132; Ca. '81, 7; Tn. '83, 15; Ig. '83,
60; Ww. '83, 224; Ca. '84, 1; Ig. '84, 57; Cg. '84,
143; Si. '84, 163; Ca. 85, 3; Ig. '85, 59; Ww. '85,
224; Ay. '85, 292; Sw. '85, 314; No. '86, 209.
Opium, Native, consumed, compared with Foreign : Ca. '81,
7; Ww. '81, 14; Cg. ’84, 143; Cg. '85, 141; No. '85,
203; Ng. '86, 2.
Opium, Native, cultivation : Hw. '69, 30; Ay. °74, 149 ;
No. '77, 117.
Opium, Native, cultivation; an uncertain crop: Ca. '76, 170.
Opium, Native, cultivation lessens production of cereals: Ca.
'77, 25.
Opium, Native, cultivation ; profits of: No. '68, 48; Hw.
'69, 30; Cn. '76, 170; No. '77, 118.
Opium, Native, cultivation; yield per acre: Ng. 67, 6; Co.
174, 20; Cn. '76, 170.
Opium, Native, districts : Hw. '69, 29; Co. '74, 20; Ay. '74,
149; Kg. '76, 26; Ca. °77, 21; No. '77, 114; Ay. '79,
195; Tn. '79, 262; Ti. '83, 260; Ay. '85, 292.
Opium, Native; habitual use causes eruptions : Ng. '71 and
*72, 20.
Opium, Native, less injurious than Foreign : Ng. '80, 5; Ng.
'81, 9.
Opium, Native, mixed with Foreign : Ay. *77, 182; Tn. :82,
15; Ng. '86, 2.
Opium, Native; none cultivated in Hainan: Kw. '84, 358.
Opium, Native, not in Chinese tariff: Ww. '82, 224.
Opium, Native, origin of, in China: Hw. 69, 22; Ng. '76, 5.
Opium, Native; Poppy stalks as manure: Co. '74, 20.
Opium, Native, Szechwan and Yunnan: Hw. '69, 22 and 29;
Ca. 75, 26; Ca. '77, 21; Ig. '83, 60; Ig. '84, 57; Pi.
'84, 372; Pi. '86, 386.
Opium, Native, Tartars rarely smoke: Tn. '71 and '72, 36.
Opium not being carried by American steamers interferes
with importation: Ww. '84, 221 and 222; No. '85, 202 ;
Ww. '85, 224.
Opium passed through Foreign Customs heavily taxed: Ca.
.:76, 24; Cn. '76, 164.
Opium, Persian, flavour approximating that of Native Opium:
Tn. '84, 16.
Opium, preparation of: Ay. '70, 102; Ca. '76, 115.
Opium, proportion of smokers : Hw. '69, 31; Ay. '70, 87;
Ng. 71 and '72, 11; Ca. '76, 109; Ay. '81, 5; Ti. '82,
257.
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APPENDIX I.-INDEX TO TRADE REPORTS, 1864-86.
409
'84, 3.
Opium revenue, India and China: T. and Tr. R. '69, 32. Passenger traffic and/or emigration, voluntary: Cn. '80, 263.
Opium revenue is being transferred from India to China: T. Passenger traffic and/or emigration, Yangtze: Cg. '68, 37;
and Tr. R. '69, 28.
Cg. '69, 41; Cg. '70, 48.
Opium, Russia, prohibited in: Ng. '75, 60.
Passenger traffic and/or emigration, Yangtze, rates of pas-
Opium shops closed : Kg. '80, 73.
sage: Kg. '73, 33; Cg. '81, 43.
Opium shops licensed: Cn. '78, 268; Cn. '79, 231.
Pearl fisheries: Pi. '78, 294.
Opium-smokers, medical treatment of: Ww. '81, 13.
Pearls, False: No. '79, 122.
Opium-smuggling: Sw. '68, 86; Fw. '75, 191; Cn. '76, 163; | Peas. See Beans.
Cn. '77, 207 and 209; Sw. '81, 4.
Peiho iron bridges: Tn. '86, 19.
Opium-smuggling, precautions against: Sw. '79, 210.
Peiho, navigation on: Tn. '86, 20.
Opium, Tamsui supplied by Taiwan-fu: Ti. '83, 259.
Peking College: '66, App. 158.
Opium, total imported: Ca. '80, 8; Ca. '81, 11; Ca. '84, 2. Pepper: No. 69, 57.
Opium, Turkey and Persian, preference for: Tw. '83, 276; Per-centage, share of chief articles in Export trade: Ca.
Fw. '84, 237 ; Tw. '84, 273; Tw. '85, 274.
Oranges: Ww. '77, 133; Ww. '78, 170; Sw. '80, 247 ; Ww. Petroleum. See Kerosene Oil and Petroleum.
'86, 232; Sw. '86, 333.
Pewterware: Tw. '73, 108.
Oyster culture: No. 69, 71; Tw. '80, 204.
Pigs, trade in: Ng. 67, 9; Kw. '82, 357 ; Kw. '83, 361;
Kw. '86, 375.
Pineapple Cloth and Hemp: Tw. '76, 98; Kw. '83, 361.
Pakhoi as a centre of trade: Pi. '77, 243; Pi. '86, 390.
Piracy: Ti. '69, 160; T. and Tr. R. '69, 18; Ny. 74, II;
Pakhoi, Exports: Pi. '77, 240.
Cn. °74, 192; Ww. '81, 23; Ti. '81, 30; Ay. '81, 2;
Pakhoi, junks and steamers: Pi. '80, 273.
Pi. '84, 371; Pi. '85, 374.
Pakhoi, topography, etc. : Pi. '77, 244; Pi. '78, 293..
Poles, Wood." See Timber, Poles.
Palm-leaf Cloth. See Cloth, Palm-leaf,
Pootoo, trips to: No. '75, 180.
Palm-leaf Fans: Ww. '84, 223.
“Pootung" confiscated: Ay. '65, 63.
Paper: Kg. '68, 30; Sw. '68, 90; Kg. '69, 116; Kg. '71 and Population of China: Ww. '81, 26.
'72, 64; Ca. '77, 71; Wu. '78, 100; Pi. '78, 300; Fw. Population of Treaty Port provinces: Ca. '79, III; Wu. '86,
81, 9; Kw. '85, 361.
129.
Paper, Joss : Fw. '81, 10; Ng. '85, 2.
Port Arthur, harbour and docks, completion handed over to
Paper manufacture: Sw. '68, 91; Wu. '78, 100.
French syndicate: Tn. '86, 19.
Paper, Pith: Ti. '67, 79; Ti. '68, 166 of '69 Reports; Ti.
Port dues on Native shipping: Ti. '67, 80.
'81, 5.
Ports, Exports at all: Ca. '75, 44; Ca. '76, 83; Ca. '79, 71;
Paper, Wall: Kg. '71 and '72, 65.
Ca. '85, 3.
Passenger traffic, an index of prosperity of trade: Tn. '86, 19.
Ports, Imports at all: Ca. '79, 71; Ca. '85, 2.
Passenger traffic and/or emigration : Sw. '64, 2; Sw. '70, 132; Ports, relative value of trade: Ca. '76, 121.
Sw. '71 and '72, 191; Ay. '74, 162; Cn. '74, 177; Ay. Post, Customs: Tn. '79, 273; Cg. '80, 106; Cg. '81, 24
75, 248; Ay. '76, 112; Sw. 76, 146; Cn. '76, 180;
and 48.
Kw. ’76, 193; Tw. °77, 178; Sw. '78, 253; Cn. '78, 274;
Potato Flour. See Flour, Potato.
Co. '79, 23; Ww. '79, 138; Sw. '79, 219; Tn. '79, 259;
Pottery manufacture: Sw. '68, 91.
Co. '80, 39; Sw. '80, 248 and 255; Co. '81, 13; Ay. Poyang Lake, steam on: Kg. '69, 128.
'81, 12; Sw. '81, 10; Ay. '82, 292; Sw. '82, 314; Ay.
Preventive service : Cn. '74, 189; Cn. '78, 283.
²83, 294; Sw. '83, 315; Kw. '83, 362; Ay. '84, 291 and
Prices of produce influenced by guilds : Ng. '86, 1.
292; Sw. '84, 314; Ay. '85, 293; Sw. '85, 316; Kw.
Provincial authorities not to be ignored : T. and Tr. R.
85, 359; No. '86, 211; Ay. '86, 302 ; Sw. '86, 333.
'69, 14.
Passenger traffic and/or emigration by junks : Kw. '76, 193. Provisions, export of: Kw. '83, 361.
Passenger traffic and/or emigration causes dear labour: Ay. Putchuck: No. ²67, 42; No. '68, 51.
'83, 292.
Passenger traffic and/or emigration, districts supplying: Sw.
Quicksilver. See Metals, Quicksilver.
'79, 220; Sw. '80, 248.
Quicksilver, Vegetable: No. '69, 55.
Passenger traffic and/or emigration laws, British and Ameri-
can: Sw. '64, 2.
Passenger traffic and/or emigration, OLYPHANT & Co. and Railway, Decauville portable: Tn. '86, 19.
Chinese authorities : Cn. 78, 274.
Railway material imported: Tn. '86, 19.
Passenger traffic and/or emigration, ordinances evaded : Cn.
Railways: Tn. '86, 19; Ti. '86, 267.
'77, 220.
Railways, possible effect of introduction of: Hw. '84, 76;
Passenger traffic and/or emigration, rates of passage : Ay. Ay. '85, 294; Tn. '86, 18.
'81, 13; Ay. '83, 294.
Rebellions see also Disturbances): Tn. '67, 21; Co. '67, 27;
Passenger traffic and/or emigration to Bangkok: Sw. '82, Tn. '68, 9; Tn. '70-'72, 33; Cn. '78, 281: Kw. ’79, 291;
Kw. '79, 244.
Passenger traffic and/or emigration to Brazil: Sw. '79, 220. Receiving ships. See Hulks.
Passenger traffic and/or emigration to Honolulu : Cn. '79, Reforms, commercial, possibility of: T. and Tr. R. '69, 29.
235; Cn. '81, 3.
Residence in the interior: Hw. '69, 21; T. and Tr. R. '69.
Passenger traffic and/or emigration to Peru: Cn. '78, 274.
12 and 29.
Passenger traffic and/or emigration to Sandwich Islands : | Revenue: '65, 6; Ca. '65, 111; Ca. '66, 138 and 148; T. and
Cn. 78, 275; Cn. '79, 236; Cn. '80, 263.
Tr. R. '69, 3; Ca. '75, 15; Ca. •76, 102; Ca. '77, 81;
Passenger traffic and/or emigration to West Indies : Cn. '74, Ca. 78, 72; Ca. '79, 100; Ca. '80, 57; Ca. '81, 19; Ca.
177.
°82, 5; Ca. '83, 5; Ca. '84, 4; Ca. '85, 4.
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APPENDIX I.-INDEX TO TRADE REPORTS, 1864–86.
411
Silk.
'85, 125
Silk adulteration : Kw. '81, 7.
Sugar, Beet-root : Ca. '76, 79; Ca. '77, 57; Tw. '84, 275;
Silk, Condition House for testing, etc. : Cn. '81, 7; Cn. '82, Sw. '84, 313; Tw. '85, 275.
330; Cn. '84, 332.
Sugar business, how conducted: Co. '74, 26.
Silk duties, likin, etc.: T. and Tr. R. ²69, 13; No. '77, 128 ; Sugar districts; Hw. '69, 25; Sw. '69, 87; Cn. '78, 271;
Wu. '78, 101.
Kw. 78, 289; Tw. '80, 203; Ti. '86, 266.
Silk Filanda: Co. '81, 9; ('o. '84, 39.
Sugar duties : T. and Tr. R. '69, 22.
Silk, Formosa : Ti. '80, 199.
Sugar, duties on, high in America : Tw. '75, 225.
Silk, Japanese worms and Silk: No. 69, 63; Ca. '82, 4.. Sugar, in Szechwan: Ig. '84, 57 ; Sw. '85, 315; Ig. '86, 57.
Silk, monopolisiny market: Si. '84, 162.
Sugar known to the ancients : Ay. '73, 128.
Silk, mulberry trees, cultivation stimulated by officials : Fw. Sugar, likin, etc. : Ng. '86, 3; Cg. '86, 144; Tw. '86, 282
'67, 63; Cg. '69, 44; Cg. '71 and '72, 83; Kg. 80, 78;
and 283.
Kg. '82, 108
Sugar manufacture: Sw. '68, 90; No. '69, 59; Sw. '69, 87;
Silk, mulberry trees destroyed by rebels : Si. '66, 7.
Tw. '73, 111; Tw. '76, 101; Sw. '80, 245; Tw. '82, 274.
Silk Piece Goods v. Woollen. See Woollen Piece Goods v. Sugar manufacture, refineries: Sw. '69, 88; Cn. 76, 176;
Sw. '77, 193; Sw. '80, 245; Sw. '81, 9; Sw. '82, 313;
Silk Pongee: Co. '80, 33; Co. '85, 41.
Sw. '84, 313.
Silk, quantity sent to France direct increasing : Ca. '76, 32. Sugar, Native, from Hongkong as Foreign : Cg. '71 and '72,
Silk, Refuse; Ca. '86, 3.
81; Cg: '75, 139; Cg. '84, 144; Cg. '85, 142.
Silk shipped wet: Cn. '80, 260.
Sugar, South Formosa : Tw. '73, MI; Tw. '75, 224; Tw.
Silk-smuggling: No. '78, 149.
'76, 100; Tw. '83, 276; Tw. '84, 274; Tw. '85, 274 and
Silk, Soochow : Cn. '64, 3.
277; Tw. '86, 283.
Silk, Szechwan: Ig. 81, 11; Ig. '84, 57 ; Iy. '85, 59 ; Ig. Sugar trade in hands of Swatow men: Hw. '84, 75.
'86, 58.
Sugar, uses : Tw. '75, 224.
Silk trade dispute: Cn. '76, 184.
Sulphur and Sulphur springs: Co. '66, 80; Ti. '67, 79; Ti.
Silk weaving: Ca. '79, 58; Co. '79, 18; Co. '81, 9; Wu. '68, 166 of '69 Reports; Ti. '78, 219; Ti. '81, 13.
Sulphur manufacture: Ti. '68, 166 of '69 Reports.
Silk, Wild Raw: Ng. '85, 2; Co. '85, 41; Ng. '86, 3 and 4. Sulphuric Acid: Cg. '81, 16.
Silver and Sycee: Hw. '64, 3; Ny. '71 and '72, 24; Ng. Swatow, bund for, on reclaimed land: Sw. '80, 250; Sw.
°77, 7.
1 81, 14.
Silver, Gold from. See Gold extracted from Silver; process. Swatow Guild case. See Guild case at Swatow.
Silver mining: Cn. '85, 336.
Swatow, topography: Sw. '71 and '72, 191; Sw. '73, 131.
Silverware: Tw. '73, 108; Kw. '83, 361.
Sycee." See Silver and Sycee.
Skins: Ng. '71 and '72, 25; Ng. '78, 12; Ng. '80, 12; Ng. Syndicates for the supply of public works: Tn. '86, 19.
'81, 10; Ng. '85, 3.
Szech wan as a market: Ig. 183, 67; Co. '84, 55; Hw. '84,
Skins, Dog. See Dog Skins.
73 and 75; Ig. '85, 58; Hw. ’86, 76.
Skins, Fish. See Fish Skins.
Skins, Goat (Rugs): Tn. '82, 17; Tn. '84, 17; Ng. '85, 3.
Smuggling: Sw. '68, 86; T. and Tr. R. '69, 6; Ng. '70, 9; Takow Harbour: Tw. '68, 81; Tw. '70, 82; Tw. '85, 277.
Ng. '71 and '72, 10; Fw. '75, 191; Cn. 76, 163; Cn. Taku Bar: Tn. '66, 97; In. '67, 20.
'77, 207 and 209; No. '78, 149; Cn. '78, 283; Sw. '79, Ta-ku-t'ang, desirability of opening, to Foreign trade: Kg.
210; Sw. '81, 4.
69, 129.
Smuggling, Salt. See Salt-smuggling.
Tallow, Vegetable: No. '68, 49; Fw. '78, 192 ; Ig. 81, 12.
Soap, Foreign : Wu. '82, 123; Wu. '86, 127.
Soap, Native, soda carbonate: Tn. '65, 29; Tn. '70-'72, 41. | Tariff, difference in Foreign and Native Customs rates: T.
Sponges: Kw. '83, 361.
and Tr. R. '69, 18 and 19.
Statistics, Foreign Customs deals with small portion of Tariff for Foreign trade misapplied to coast trade: T. and
trade: Ca. '76, 1.
Tr. R. 69, 9.
Statistics, how to make use of: Ca. '76, 2.
Tariff, rates too high in Foreign : T. and Tr. R. '69, 27.
Steamers. See Shipping, steamers, etc.
Tariff, revision of Foreign: T. and Tr. R. '69, 3.
Straw Braid : Co. '74, 28; Ca. 75, 45; Ca. '76, 81; Ca. '77, Tea: Ca. '65, 115; Si. '65, 129; Ca. '66, 142; Fw. '69, 78;
61; Co. '77, 254; Ca. '79, 64; Co. '79, 19; Cg. '79, 84; Kg. '69, 113; Hw. '71 and '72, 56; No. '71 and '72,
Tn. '79, 265; Co. '80, 32; Co. '81, 7; Ca. '84, 4; Tn. 139; Ti. '69-'72, 159; Ay. '72, 179; No. 73, 75; Kg.
'84, 17; Co. '84, 39; Tn. '85, 18; Co. '85, 41; Tn. '86, *74, 48; Ti. '74, 125; Cn. '74, 171; Sw. '74, 215; Ca.
18; Co. '86, 42.
?75, 30; Ca. '76, 29 and 33; Ca. '77, 48; No. 77, 124;
Straw Hats: No. 174, III; No. '77, 127; No. '85, 204; Co. Sw. 77, 193; Ca. 78, 43; Ti. '78, 211; Sw. '78, 252;
'86, 42; No. '86, 210.
Ca. '79, 47 ; Ca. '80, 38; Sw. '80, 248; Ca. 81, 6 and
Sugar: Sw. '68, 89; Sw. '69, 87; Sw. '71 and '72, 187; Tw. 14; Ww. '81, 17; Ca. '82, 4; Tw. '82, 275; Ca. '83, 3;
°73, 111; Sw. '73, 143; Sw. '74, 213; Ca. '75, 33; Tw. Ww. '83, 225; Ca. '84, 4; Hw. '84, 75; Kg. '84, 108;
375, 224; Ca. '76, 79; Tw. °76, 100; Sw. '76, 140; Ca. Fw. '84, 238; Ti. '84, 258; Ay. '84, 291; Cn. '84, 333;
°77, 56; Hw. '77, II; Ca. '78, 56; Ca. '79, 59; Ca. Kg. '85, rog; Si. '85, 163; Ww. '85, 225 and 226; Fw.
'80, 49; Ca. '81, 7 and 15; Kw. '81, 7; Sw. '82, 313; '85, 239; Ti. ²85, 260; Ay. '85, 292-294; Cn. '85, 335;
Kw. '82, 357; Ca. '83, 4; Tw. ’83, 276; Sw. '83, 315; Ca. '86, 2; Hw. '86, 75; Kg. '86, 108; Si. '86, 167;
Kw. '83, 360; Ca. '84, 4; Tw. '84, 274; Sw. '84, 313; No. '86, 211; Fw. '86, 245; Ti. '86, 267; Ay. '86, 300.
Kw. '84, 359; Tw. '85, 274 and 277; Sw. '85, 315; Tea adulteration, American Act against : Ca. '83, 3.
Kw. '85, 362; Ca. '86, 3; Ti. ’86, 266; Tw. '86, 283; | Tea adulteration and deterioration: Fw. '66, 28; Fw. '75.
Sw. '86, 332; Kw. '86, 375 and 376.
198; Ti. 78, 213; Kw. '79, 242; Kw. ’82, 357 ; Si. ’83,
Sugar, as ballast: Ng. '81, 9.
165; Fw. '83, 241; Cn. ’84, 333.


APPENDIX I.-INDEX TO TRADE REPORTS, 1864-86.
413
413
Ca. '80, 53; Pi. '80, 279; Hw. '81, 9; Cg. '81, 19; | Varnish: No. 78, 142.
Ww. '81, 20; Pi. '81, 7; Hw. '82, 75; Íg. '84, 58; Hw. | Vermicelli: Ca. '75, 45; Co. '80, 34; Pi. '81, 5.
84, 75; No. ’84, 202; Kw. '84, 360; Ig. :85, 59; Hw.
'85, 76; Cg. '85, 142; No. '85, 204; Hw. '86, 76; Cg.
'86, 145; Si. '86, 168; No. ²86, 210; Ay. '86, 300; Cn. Wall Paper: Ky. '71 and '72, 65.
'86, 350.
Wax, White: Hw. '64, 7; No. '69, 61; No. '78, 143; Ig.
Transit, abuse of system: No. '66, 18; No. '67, 43; Cg. '71
'84, 58; Ig. '85, 58.
and '72, 89; Cg. '74, 74; Cg. '75, 141 and 143; Cg. Weising Lottery affecting trade: Sw. '86, 331.
'81, 21; No. '81, 12.
Wênchow, Exports: Ww. '78, 169.
Transit, Cassia : Pi. '79, 247 and 255.
Wênchow, failure as a trade centre: Ww. '81, 1.
Transit, commuting taxes : No. '73, 77 ; No. '77, 110 and Wênchow, topography, etc. : No. '68, 57 ; Ww. '77, 136.
119.
Wharfage dues : Kg. '78, 86.
Transit Dues: T. and Tr. R. '69, 5 and 11.
Wheat, Japanese : Ay. '83, 291.
Transit Dues levied in excess of Treaties : Co. '75, 79.
Window Glass : No. 71 and '72, 135; Ca. '77, 44; Co. '86,
Transit, illegal charges; T. and Tr. R. '69. 12.
41.
Transit, likin competition: Cn. '74, 189; Ca. 75, 37; Fw. Wine, Chinese. See Samshu.
*75, 200 and 205; Ca. 76, 89; Ww. '78, 172; No. '84, Wood. See Timber.
202; Kw. '84, 360; Ay. '85, 294; Kw. '85, 362; Ay. Wool and Sheep: Tn. '66, 100; Tn. '73, 14; Ca. *77, 66;
'86, 301.
Tn. 84, 17; Tn. *86, 18.
Transit, likin paid in preference to taking out passes: Kg. Wool, Camels': Tn. '73, 14; Tn. '75, 71; Tn. '79, 263; Tn.
71 and '72, 67 ; Ky. ’75, 108 and 117; Cn. 176, 178. | 82, I7; Tn. ^84, 17; Tn. ^85, 18.
Transit, Native officials' hostility to pass system: Hw. '75, Wool, Camels', uses: Tn. '74, 16; Tn. '79, 264.
101 ; Cn. '77, 218; Cn. '86, 350.
Wool, Goats': Tn. '84, 17.
Transit outwards: Cg. '71 and '72, 88; Cg. '74, 74; Cg. '75.
Wool, Merino, the: Tn. '66, 101.
141; Cg. '77, 84; Cg. '78, 109; Cg. ?79, 88; Cg. '81, Woollen and Cotton Mixtures, Native manufactories of: Tn.
21 and 45.
'86, 18.
Transit, per-centage of Foreign Imports sent under passes : Woolleń Piece Goods: Ca. ’75, 21; Ca. '76, 19; Ca. '77, 35;
Ca. 75, 39.
Ca. '78, 30; Ca. 79, 31; Ca. '80, 25; Ca. '81, 5 and 12;
Transit, position of, in Kwangtung: Cn. '74, 189; Cn. '76, Ca. '84, 2; Si. '84, 161.
177; Cn. '77, 218; Cn. °78, 272; Pi. °79 247 and 255; Woollen Piece Goods used for army clothing: Kg. '84, 108;
Pi. '81,7; Cn. '86, 350; Pi. '86, 390.
Ng. '86, 2.
Transit, removal of distinction between Foreign and Native Woollen Piece Goods, mills : Hw. '79, 40; Ca. '80, 7.
ownership: T. and Tr. R. '69, 11; Kg. '71 and '72, 67; Woollen Piece Goods, Austrian: Pi, '86, 389.
No. '73, 77.
Woollen Piece Goods, Russian : Tn. '66, 91.
Transit, stamping goods as having passed Customs: Kg. '75, Woollen Piece Goods, use of, restricted : Sw. '74, 210.
118.
Woollen Piece Goods v. Silk: Ca. '75, 21; Kg. '76, 24; No.
Transit, Treaties on : Ca. '75, 35: Co. '75, 79.
'84, 201.
Transport: No. '64, 5; To. 65, 31; Ng. 67, 10; Ti. '67, 82 ; Woosung bar; its being blocked for defence purposes con-
Kg. 67, App. 7; (Hainan) '67, App. 19; Tn. '68, 14; templated: Ca. '85, 1.
Ky. '68, 31; Kg. '69, 121; Ny. '71 and '72, 28; Wu. Worm Tablets: Pi. '86, 389.
*77, 58; Co. '79, 12; Ww. '80, 161; Ti. '80, 196; Ay. Wuhu topography, etc. : Wu. '77, 50.
'80, 213; Co. '82, 39.
Treasure: Co. '85, 41; Ig. '85, 57; Ww. '85, 226; Tw. '86,
284.
Yangtze, navigation. See Shipping, Yangtze.
Tribute Rice. See Grain, Tribute.
Yangtze, navigation on the Upper: Ig. '84, 55 and 56; Ig.
Tso TSUNG-T'ANG as Governor-General of Fukien: Fw. '67,
185, 56; Ig. '86, 58.
63.
Yangtze ports, duties at: Kg. '69, 129.
Tung-wễn Kuan: 66, App. I58.
Yangtze, rise and fall of: Hw. '69, 34; Hw. '81, 10; Ig. '84,
Turmeric: Tw. '76, 103; Tw. '77, 176; Tw. '84, 275.
56; Hw. '84, 73; Kg. '84, 110; Ca. '85, 2; Ig. '85, 56;
Typhoons: Ww. '81, 22; Ti. '81, 29.
Kg. '85, 110.
Yangtze, stations and ports on : Cg. '81, 2; Hw. '85, 76.
Umbrella Frames : Pi. '86, 389.
Yarn, Cotton. See Cotton Yarn.
Umbrellas : Kw. '84, 359; Pi. '86, 389.
Yünnan Copper and Tribute Copper: Ig. '84, 56; Ig. '85, 59;
Hw. '85, 76.
Yünnan Opium. See Opium, Native, Szechwan and Yüinnan.
Values, totals of all: Ca. '65, 93; Ca. '66, 109; Ca. '76 App. Yünnan supplied with Cotton from Hupeh, Shanghai, and
G.; Ca. '78, 16; Ca. '79, 6; Ca. '82, 21; Ca. '83, 21;
Burma : Iy, '85, 58.
Ca. '84, 1.
Yüpnan Tin: Pi. 184, 372; Ig. '85, 59; Hw. '85, 76; Pi.
Values, totals with each country: Ca. '65, 95, 102, and 108; '85, 375.
Ca. '66, 111, 123, and 132; Ca. '75, 6; Ca. '76, 6; Ca.
'83, 6.


APPENDIX II.
PART I.
REPORT ON TRADE OF COREA
AND
ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS.


NOTE.
All values are stated in Mexican dollars.
The Picul, in which weights are generally stated, is equivalent-
to 100 catties,
or 133 pounds avoirdupois,
or 60.453 kilogrammes.
The Catty, in which weights are sometimes stated, is equivalent-
to 16 taels,
or i} pounds avoirdupois,
or 0.60453 kilogramme.
The Tael, in which weights are sometimes stated, is equivalent-
to i} ounces avoirdupois,
or 0.037783 kilogramme.


418
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.,
REPORT
ON THE
FOREIGN TRADE OF COREA
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
The outlook for trade at the beginning of the year seemed exceedingly gloomy. The
scanty Rice crop of 1885 must evidently be supplemented by large importations of Foreign
food supplies, and it seemed probable that a large part of the available resources of the country
would be absorbed in paying for the food absolutely necessary to support life, leaving but slight
market for the ordinary staple articles of Foreign import. Very early in the year the scarcity
of Rice began to be felt, and the price rose rapidly to nearly three times the figures of years
following good harvests. In February the Government prohibited the export of Grain, and
removed the duty on its importation. During the next three or four months the importation
of Rice became the principal business, and trade in the usual staples was barely kept alive.
When, towards the end of June, the ripening of excellent crops of Wheat and Barley began to
relieve the pressure in the food market, the duty on Foreign Grain was re-imposed, the demand
for it quickly diminished, and importations soon ceased, but not until they had reached a
total of 246,000 piculs, which drew upon the resources of the country to the extent of $586,000.
When the scarcity of food was at an end and a revival in business seemed to have
begun, cholera made its appearance, and by the ravages it made and the anxiety it caused
amongst all classes, as well as through the restrictions placed on Japanese shipping and merchants
at the Corean ports, by quarantine and sanitary regulations issued by their own Government,
it proved another serious drawback to trade. It was about the ist June that cholera first
broke out in the south of Corea, and the epidemic appeared in the vicinity of Seoul early
in July. In the city and its suburbs the disease spread with great rapidity until the 26th
July, on which day the number of deaths within the city walls was 460—the bighest number
reached. From this time the death rate rapidly diminished, and by the ist September the
disease had disappeared from this vicinity. But it travelled like a wave toward the north,
and ran the same short but destructive course at all the places in its route. The total number
of deaths in Seoul from 15th July to ist September was 7,092, of which probably about 6,500
were due to cholera.
But the Returns show that famine and cholera combined did not prevent a large increase
in the business of the year as compared with the year 1885, for, apart from the visit of the
epidemic, the summer season was a most favourable one, and crops of all kinds were excellent,
so that towards the end of the summer trade revived at once, and business continued brisk
until the close of the year, showing unexpectedly large totals.
IMPORTS.—The total value of the Foreign Import trade exceeds that of 1885 by over
$800,000, but of this increase $484,000 is in the importation of Rice. This large item in the
Returns is rather to be lamented than made a subject of congratulation; it did not even
contribute to the Customs Revenue, since the duty on Grain was remitted, and while it gave
good freight to Foreign shipping and brought profit to the Foreign merchants and Native


420
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
Vih.
Fusan suffered more than the other ports both from the short food supply and from
the sanitary regulations enforced in the Japanese Settlement, which for a time stopped business
almost entirely.
At Jenchuan the importations of Rice, together with the Arms and Machinery imported
by Government, more than account for the increase in the value of the Imports; and the resul
of the year at that port, as far as regards the Import trade, cannot be said to show an improve-
ment over 1885.
EXPORTS.—The value of our Exports to Foreign countries increased from $388,023 in
1885 to $504,225 in 1886. To this increase of $116,000, Jenchuan contributed $66,000; Yuensan,
$30,000; and Fusan, $20,000. The export of Hides increased from 20,159 piculs, $282,357, to
25,491 piculs, $382,066. Beans were shipped to the extent of 46,967 piculs, valued at $51,773,
against 28,013 piculs, $28,884, in 1885. The increase in these two articles, which are our only
staple Exports, more than accounts for the total gain in the Foreign Export trade, the remaining
items showing in the aggregate a slight falling off.
No new articles appear in our list of Exports with any promise of materially increasing
the trade. Mats, Fans, Baskets, Screens, and Blinds, which are made in several varieties and of
excellent quality, cannot as yet be obtained in sufficient quantity to make respectable consign-
ments. They can only be picked up, a few at a time, at different shops; but a good return
would almost certainly follow the manufacture of some of these articles on a large scale, for
exportation, if only the enterprise for such an undertaking could be instilled into a few Native
capitalists.
Coal has been brought from Ping-an province in small quantities during the year, and
considerable interest in the subject of Coal-mining has been awakened amongst influential
officials, who have been induced to look upon the Coal deposits, which hitherto have been utterly
disregarded, as a possible source of revenue to the country. It is probable that some attempt
will be made during the present year to bring this Coal to market; and though it will be mined
only in primitive fashion at first, there are strong reasons for the hope that it will soon add
a very important item to our list of Exports. The samples shown in Seoul are of a brittle,
anthracite Coal, which burns with a blue flame and without smoke, and this latter quality
makes it especially valuable as a fuel for heating houses.
TRADE WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES.—The total value of Imports from Foreign countries
during the year appears as $2,474,185, while the Exports to Foreign countries reach only
$504,225. The apparent difference is $1,970,000. It must, however, be remembered that the
chief of all the Exports of Corea does not appear in our Export Tables, but, so far as it appears
at all, is given only in the Treasure Tables. The export of Gold Dust and Bullion goes very far
towards bridging the gulf between the values of Exports and Imports, even if we regard only
the amounts shown in the Treasure Tables; and if we could ascertain approximately the value
of the precious metals taken out of the country without the cognizance of the Customs, we
should probably find that very little difference remained to be accounted for. The quantity
of Gold Dust carried on their persons by passengers (merely to avoid payment of freight, for
there is no duty) is supposed to amount to several hundreds of thousand dollars annually.
If any difference in favour of Imports still remains, we may easily account for it by the
illicit export of Ginseng, which is undoubtedly very considerable; and partly, perhaps, by the
legitimate carriage of Ginseng overland, which is probably not all paid for by goods brought
back by the same route.
The division of the trade according to countries in the Summaries of the Trade Returns is
of little value as showing the origin or ultimate destination of goods, for the very large import


APPENDIX 11.-COREA.
421
from and export to Japan consists chiefly of goods transhipped there from and to other countries.
The same is true, but to a less extent, of the trade assigned in the Summaries to China. It is
evident from the extent to which Piece Goods and Metals figure in the Returns that Great
Britain is chiefly interested in the Import trade. Japan takes the second place, on account of
its Rice, Silk, Coal, and a large number of miscellaneous goods. The United States, China, and
Germany probably follow in the order named. The first with Kerosene Oil, some Piece Goods,
Flour, Arms and Ammunition, and Machinery; the second with Rice, Silk, Sugar, and miscel-
laneous food products; the third with Dyes, Needles, Matches, Machinery, and miscellaneous
manufactures. In the Export trade Japan easily holds first place, since nearly all the Gold
is consumed in that country, and the greater part of the Beans have their market there. Hides
find their ultimate destination chiefly in Great Britain, making her interest in the Export trade
second only to that of Japan. Exports to other countries, except China, are as yet trivial.
But whatever may be the origin of the goods imported or the ultimate destination of
Exports, the Japanese are the principal handlers of both Imports and Exports, having indeed
almost no competition at Fusan and Yuensan, although they find others taking a respectable
share in the business at Jenchuan.
SHIPPING.—The tonnage employed during the year is more than double that of 1885.
The great increase is due to the substitution of large steamers for those employed in 1885,
and to the establishment of a new line from Nagasaki to Tientsin, the steamers on which
line touch at Jechuan on both the upward and downward trips. The shipping business is
almost entirely in the hands of the Japanese company-Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The acquisition
during the year of two steamers which were put under the Corean flag, and the unsuccessful
venture of an American pearl-fishing schooner, are mentioned in the Jenchuan Report.
REVENUE.—The increase in the total collection, $17,228.98, is evidently not in due propor-
tion to the increase in the value of trade; but if extraordinary circumstances had not compelled
the Coreans to expend the large amount of $586,000 in duty-free Rice, instead of devoting an
equal sum to the purchase of dutiable goods, on which an average duty of 74 per cent. would
have been collected, our Revenue would have been swelled by the considerable sum of $43,950,
and we should have had an increase of above $60,000 over the year 1885.
GENERAL.—The result of the year's trade is satisfactory beyond what could have been
expected at the outset, showing as it does an improvement in the Import and Export trade,
Shipping, and Revenue. Where we find a falling off, it is almost entirely in such minor articles
of import as the pressure of poverty would naturally first cause the relinquishment of; while,
fortunately, that pressure was relieved before it had affected the demand for staple articles
of trade.
The unusually good harvests of 1886 lead one to prophesy the prosperity of trade during
the year just begun.
H. F. MERRILL,
Chief Commissioner of Customs.
SEOUL, 16th February 1887.


422
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
IMPORT (NET) OF FOREIGN GOODS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES,
1885 AND 1886.
Classifier
1885.
1886.
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
of
Quantity.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Pieces
318,335
593
1,144
1,420
Dollars.
906,880
1,652
2,903
3,803
Cotton Goods :-
Shirtings, Grey, Plain .......
White, , .....
5. Figured, Brocaded, Spotted, etc...
Dyed, Plain ...
Red ..........
T-Cloths...
Drills, English, Dutch, and American.......
Jeans and Twills ............
Chintzes, Furnitures, and Cotton Prints.....
Turkey Red Cloths
Lawns, Muslins, etc.............
Sheetings, English and American ...........
Lastings, Cotton........
Cotton Goods, Unclassed (chiefly Japanese)..
, Yarn and Thread
389,178
1,211
3,001
483
2,566
200
2,822
Dollars.
1,107,670
2,593
6,735
430
2,636
335
9,758
1,050
538
660
525
169
344
192
8,568
162,367
354
464
258
II,III
117,515
189,729
442
861
666
520
128,387
1,400
2,309
19,627
17,547
Value
Piculs
489
43,709
13,343
636
Cotton Goods, Total .......
Value
1,103,518
1,300,613
501
Pieces
Pairs
Pieces
1,184
2,385
WOOLLEN Goods:-
Alpaca......
Blankets........................
Bunting ...................
Camlets.
Russian Cloth.......
Flannels ...........................................
Lastings .................
Lustres and Orleans, Plain and Figured ......
Cloth, Broad, Habit, etc.
bit, etc. .........................
Woollen Goods, Unclassed .
1,300
1,562
2,639
2,106
797
320
482
2,303
4,717
36
99
629
550
448
290
3,864
1,930
582
1,225
555
837
Woollen Goods, Total.
Value
15,382
12,307
MISCELLANEOUS PIECE GOODs:-
Woollen and Cotton Mixtures . ........
Cotton and Silk Mixtures............
Pieces
.
160
321
169
55
Miscellaneous Piece Goods, Total....!
Value
481
634
METALS:--
Copper, Pigs and Slabs.
» Sheets, Nails, Muntz Metal, and I
Olas
...........................
Piculs
5,415
”
Wire.....
544
74
1,172
115
292
8,299
1,314
18,606
1,587
273
143
821
,, Japan ..
Ore and Unmanufactured ...........
Iron, Nail-rod...............
„ Bar, Hoop, Wire, Sheets, and Anchors
Nails ...
Old .....................................
Quicksilver ..............
Spelter and Zinc ...........
78
342
112
207
1,520
3,660
1,892
1,015
867
1,241
2,874
1,312
2,484
91
1,052
510
2,283
409
6,207
984
356


APPENDIX II.-COREA.
423
IMPORT (NET) OF FOREIGN GOODS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES,
. 1885 AND 1886-Contd.
1886.
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Classifier
1885.
of
Quantity. | Quantity. Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Dollars.
Piculs
26
496
METALS, continued :-
Steel...
Tin, in Slabs .........
,, Compound .......
Tinplates....
White Metal.
Metals, Manufactured, Unclassed, as Hard-
ware, Copperware, Brassware, Brass
Buttons, Ironware, Steelware, Tinware,
Cutlery
Dollars.
114
7,606
4,875
177
13,155
15,885
****!
10
50
199
11,213
Value
9,678
16,810
Value
75,719
64,718
Metals, Total....
.......
Excess of Re-export of Lead above Import U
during the year ...
Value
3,630
3,257
Net Total Value of Metals........
Value
72,089
51,461
Catties
486
Value
Pieces
Piculs
Value
Tons
::::
159,908
4,442
Piculs
314
1,099
631
...
1,407
18,841
41,508
S
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Pieces
SUNDRIES :-
Amber.............
Arins and Ammunition ...........
Bags and Ropes, Straw...
Charcoal ....
Clothing ...........
Coal and Coke........
Cotton, Raw ..........
Dyes and Colours.
Earthenware ............
Flour .................
Grain and Pulse.......
Machinery .............
Malt Liquors, Wines, and Spirits.
Matches.
Medicines ..........................
Needles ........................................
Oil, Kerosene............
,, other kinds .....
Pepper, Black and White ..............
Porcelain......
Provisions, Table.......................
Rice..........
..........................
Saké and Samshu..............
2,718
387
627
117,229
836
8,860
Tiour........................................
Barrels
Piculs
Value
4,496
7,555
14,924
7,303
11,067
Gross
Value
Mille
Gallons
Piculs
18,879
187,240
246
143
4,441
32,964
1,224
2,875
8,090
101,207
287
262
2,399
50,447
4,024
1,224
12,536
19,077
5,118
38,660
1,106
5,440
15,629
60,207
19,577
6,571
13,100
1,301
20,159
1,531
4,826
13,048
24,963
586,343
10,533
21,598
250
25,318
11,693
604
7,781
1,523
Value
Piculs
46,731
2,269
102,612
11,201
Salt..............
884
272
15,803
1,070
Pieces
Piculs
246,202
2,154
56,749
44
7,360
1,736
25
Sapanwood.............
Silk, Manufactured ......................
Sugar ........
Теа.
Timber of all kinds.......
Window Glass .........
Wood, Unclassed ........
Sundries, Unenumerated...
Value
Roces
Value
57,390
6,995
731
2,791
1,589
513
177,268
411
380
9
112,584
Sundries, Total....
Value
480,092
1,099,170
GRAND TOTAL ...........................
Value
1,671,562
2,474,185
I


428
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
D
NUMBER AND TONNAGE OF VESSELS ENTERED AND CLEARED,
1885 AND 1886.
a.--According to Ports.
1885.
1886.
PORT.
TOTAL.
TOTAL.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
152
JENCHUAN...
Steamers ...........
Sailing Vessels of
Foreign type.....
(Junks....
22,989
3,610
2,049
81,807
4,817
2,216
100
96
202
28,648
88,840
Steamers ..
154
Sailing Vessels of
Foreign type..... )
| Junks
FUSAN .....
140
113
72,892
10,051
4,624
127
140,490
8,434
9,697
5151
618
87,567
768
| 158,621
76,874
Steamers ..............
| Sailing Vessels of
Foreign type..... S
| Junks...
39,252
2,000
YUENSAN.....
90
41,252
76,874
352
TOTAL ....
Steamers .......
Sailing Vessels of
Foreign type.....
Junks .......
198
135,133
15,661
6,673
154
299,171
13,251
11,913
437
611
910
157,467
I,117
324,335
b.—According to Flags.
1885.
1886,
FLAG.
TOTAL
TOTAL.
NO.
Tons.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
|
Tons.
498
AMERICAN........Sailing Vessels .........
BRITISH........... Steamers .
498
3,236
3,236
CHINESE...... {Steamers .............
| Junks....
1,522
1,094
716
2,616
Steamers ..
*** Sailing Vessels
14,956
GERMAN.....
11,888
922
14,956
12,810
ITALIAN .......... Sailing Vessels .........
10
JO
306
ANESE
Steamers ................
Sailing Vessels of
Foreign type..... I
| Junks ......
229
196
378
115,419
15,651
5,579
141
566
284,635
11,380
11,197
803
136,649
1,013
307,212
COREAN......
Steamers ............
Sailing Vessels of
| Foreign type....)
2,648
451
-
19
3,099
GRAND TOTAL ..........
910
157,467
1,117
324,335


PART II.
REPORTS AND STATISTICS
FOR
COREAN PORTS.





APPENDIX II.—JENCHUAN.
435
Treaty ports of Mokpo (A ), Pu'an (# ), and Popsung ( h), in Chullado ( 1), and
from Miyang ( 9), Ungshou ( Jil, and Masanpo (EU ), in Kengsando ( 1 ). The
value of these two commodities amounts to five times that of the total Native Imports
from Yuensan and Fusan. The Grain on arrival here is discharged into Native boats and
carried up to Mapʻuh, and thence by coolies to Seoul. Large godowns for the safe storage of
Government Grain and Pulse are now in course of construction at Pupiong ( #), not far
from this port.
The only other Native Import which requires notice is the Sang Cloth ( Hi), imported
from Yuensan. This is a strong Cloth, woven from the tough, harsh, and rather coarse fibre
obtained from a wild vine or creeper which grows plentifully in the land. The principal use of
the Cloth is for the summer garments of the poorer classes and for mourning robes.
EXPORT TRADE.—The Export trade is gradually expanding; but the only noteworthy
feature is the increased export of Cow Hides, which have advanced from 8,836 piculs in 1885
to 12,632 piculs in 1886. The Hides find their way to Japan, whence, after being cured and
repacked, they are reshipped, chiefly to Europe. There is little doubt that, owing to the steady
and considerable consumption of beef as a leading article of the Native diet, this commodity
will maintain its position as an important Export; and it seems strange that no means are
taken to cure the Hides here, and so, by direct shipment to the eventual seat of consumption,
save the expenses of landing, repacking, and reshipping in Japan.
The Exports show for the first, and, I am afraid, also for the last time for some years to
come, a shipment of 60 gross of Matches, valued at $60. These Matches were manufactured at
Yang-hwa-chên, near Seoul, under European supervision. The enterprise, owing to a combina-
tion of unpropitious circumstances, was not sufficiently successful to warrant its continuance,
and the entire plant was purchased and transferred to Tientsin, where, I understand, it will be
worked under Chinese auspices.
Although the exportation of Red Ginseng is by Treaty prohibited, the Government relaxed
this restriction, as far as Red Ginseng Beard was concerned, for a limited time during the year
1886, and, as the Returns show, 124 piculs of this commodity were shipped from this port for
China and Japan. It is almost superfluous to remark that if the prohibition of its export
could be permanently removed, both trade and Revenue would be largely benefited. As matters
stand at present, smuggling in Red Ginseng is rampant, and the Government, not possessing
a revenue cruiser, has no efficient means of combating the evil.
REVENUE.—The net Revenue for 1886 is about $260 less than that of 1885, but had it
not been for the remission of $11,453.94 duty on imported Grain, the return would have shown
more encouraging figures. It is also noteworthy that over $2,000 duty on the Foreign Imports
sent to this centre by Fusan and Yuensan figures in the Revenue of those ports.
TREASURE.— The export of Treasure from Jenchuan is of interest as showing a steady
export of the precious metals, in the shape of Sycee and Silver Ornaments, as well as Dust
and Nugget Gold. The net export of Treasure declared at the Customs amount
to $634,839, of which no less than $499,989 was in the shape of Native Gold. In all probability
the real export from this port is considerably in excess of the above quantity, as from the
disinclination of shippers to state the correct amount, and the facility with which such a
valuable article can be carried, it is notoriously difficult for the Customs to supervise or check
the movements of Treasure with any great degree of accuracy.
GENERAL.—Ever since the opening of the port the Import and Export trade has been
almost entirely in the hands of Chinese, Europeans, and Japanese, the Native merchant not
REVER
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438
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 11.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF JENCHUAN,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
969,610
1,348,406
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries ........
Imported from Corean Ports...
Total Foreign Imports.....
464,567
36,547
25,929
36,500
501,114
995,539
1,384,906
6,896
56,598
Re-exported to Foreign Countries.........
Re-exported to Corean Ports (Fusan and Yuensan)
Total Foreign Re-exports ............
827
2,877
48,632
7,723
59,475
Net Total Foreign Imports ..
452,482
987,816
1,325,431
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (from Fusan, Yuensan, and non-Treaty
Ports)..
7,811
16,649
218,637
Re-exported to Foreign Countries..........
Re-exported to Corean Ports ........
Total Native Re-exports ........
Net Total Native Imports...
7,811
16,608
218,637
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries
124,656
149,724
215,959
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Corean Ports.
1,011
5,174
805
Total Exports of local origin...
125,667
154,898
216,764
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port ..........
634,592
1,167,086
1,820,307
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native
Exports of local origin ....
585,960
1,159,322
1,760,832
* Records destroyed by fire in July 1885.


APPENDIX II. -JENCHUAN.
· 443
TABLE No. V.—TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.—Exports and Re-exports.
EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Classifier of
Quantity
EXPORTS
TO
COREAN PORTS.
TOTAL RE-EXPORTS
TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND COREAN PORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
(including Re-exports).
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
1 Quantity.
Value.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Piculs
200
231
46
Beans ......
Beeswax ......
Bicho de Mar..
Bones, Cow ............
Bristles, Pigs' .............
283
2,937
951
: : : : : :
2,937
Copper.
13
13
125
270
Eggs...........
193
125
193
15
557
70
70
557
2,490
5,325
194,822
2,490
5,325
194,822
93
124
: : : : : : : : : :
12,632
124
12,632
103)
suya, Ming*83*, ******
****** FERIT *7 * 2382998 ******
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Cotton Piece Goods
Pieces
Mille
Feathers .....................
Catties
Fish Maws .............
Piculs
Game (Live Stock)......
No.
Ginseng, White ..
Piculs
Beard, Red...........
Hides, Cow ...............
Hoofs, , ..............
Lead ..........
Matches...........
Gross
Matting .......
Pieces
Medicines..................
Piculs
Metalware ......
Value
Musk ...............................
Taels
Nutgalls..
Piculs
Paper, Mulberry ..........
» Oiled................
Rice..........
Silk Piece Goods...................
Pieces
,, Raw .........
Piculs
Silver Ore ........
Skins, Leopard, Tiger, etc........ Pieces
Tallow .......
........ Piculs
Sundries (mostly Curios)...........Value
TOTAL................... Dolls.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
124
8
60
: : : : :
253
1,088
833
600
600
232
72
838
72
4,398
54
4,398
: : : : : :
358
358
141
2,186
141
2,254
215,959
805
216,764
SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
Total EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
• To-
Dollars.
Japan.......
202,817
China..... ............................... 13,142
Total to Foreign Countries ......- -
Dollars.
202,817
13,142
215,959
215,959
Fusan ..............
Yuensan .......
Total to Corean Ports.........
.............
....................
680
125
680
125
805
805
GRAND TOTAL .......
....................
216,764
216,764


444
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. VI.-DUES AND DUTIES.
d.—Dues and Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT DUTIES.
EXPORT DUTIES.
TONNAGE DUES.
TOTAL.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Japanese .
59,462.14
9,946.23
69,707.28
Chinese ..........
1,255.50
95.73
1,397.21
298.91
45.98
102.57
25.60
German.........
9,001.30
641.83
9,745.70
Corean ..........
56.63
...
82.23
TOTAL.........................
69,775.57
10,683.79
473.06
80,932.42*
* 66 Drawbacks cashed during the year, to be deducted from this total...
Dollars 1,988.18
b.—Comparative Table of Dues and Duties collected, for the Years 1884 to 1886.
YEARS.
IMPORT DUTIES.
EXPORT DUTIES.
TONNAGE DUES.
TOTAL.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
1884.......
42,831.19
1,355.19
50,117-76
5,931.38
7,362.28
1885.........
71,080.44
762.36
79,205.08
1886.
69,775.57
10,683.79
473.06
80,932.42


446
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 3.-EXPORT TRADE.
Comparative Statement of the principal Articles of Export, for the Years 1885 and 1886.
Classifier
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
1885.
1886.
Quantity.
Piculs
4,446
Bones, Cow ...........
Ginseng, White.....
.............
Beard, Red................
93
2,937
81
124
Hides, Cow ..................**
: :
12,632
Musk ...........
Nutgalls ..............
Silk, Raw..........
Taels
Piculs
TABLE No. 4.–POPULATION, ETC.
Table showing the Population, etc., of Jenchuan.
NATIONALITY.
NUMBER OF FIRMS.
NUMBER OF Shops.
NUMBER OF RESIDENTS.
2
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
!
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Austrian........
American ...
British..
Chinese
Danish.
French...........................
German ..........................
Italian .................
Japanese .......
Russian....
Spanish ....
IO
706
TOTAL......
976
Native population estimated at..........
..............2,000
TABLE No. 5.-PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Passenger Traffic, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
INWARD.
OUTWARD.
FROM OR TO
Coreans.
Chinese.
Japanese.
Other
Foreigners.
Coreans.
Chinese.
Japanese.
Other
Foreigners.
25
40
648
26
721
174
41
102
China....
Japan .........
Fusan ........
117
960
243
657
243
3
23
1
936
333
1,228
145
TOTAL......
IT
225
788
867
113


APPENDIX II. —FUSAN.
449
Rice as an article of export only appeared late in the year, when 12,046 piculs were
taken to Japan and Yuensan. Of late years the crops have been bad, but under favourable
circumstances it is not unlikely that Rice would exceed in importance all other Exports.
During the civil war in Japan, 1877–78, it was shipped in enormous quantities. It still leaves
for Osaka and Shimonoseki, but there will scarcely be again a large demand for Corean Rice
in Japan, except in the island of Tsushima-nearer to Corea than to its mother-country,—which
in years of abundance finds it cheaper to draw its supply from this place. A legion of Japanese
coolies will shortly be employed on the island in erecting forts, and, in consequence, there may
be temporarily a partial revival of this important trade. On the east coast the numerous
gold-miners about Yuensan also call for Fusan Rice.
Hides have been stationary since 1884 at slightly above 7,000 piculs a year. Much waste
in this item is probable, numerous taxations making it difficult for these goods to reach the
market. They are shipped to Japan, whence the best quality is re-exported to Europe. In
his Trade Report for 1885 the British Consul at Nagasaki writes as follows on Hides :—“A
considerable trade has been done in this article at fairly remunerative prices. These Cow and
Buffalo Hides come principally from Corea, and as a Customs system of drawbacks does not
exist here, it is not improbable that this branch of business will find its way to the more
favoured China ports." This remark, which is applicable to several other items of note, may
deserve attention.
Seaweed finds its way in no small proportions to China viâ the Japanese markets. The
Funori and Tenso qualities are said to be found on the coasts of Quelpaert.
Though appearing only in the Coast trade, Native Cotton Goods are worthy of special
mention, as they reveal a local industry-industries are so few in Corea—of no mean importance.
37,506 pieces left for the two other ports, but mostly for Yuensan.
The export of Sharks' Fins increases steadily. The southern coasts of this peninsula
abound with a small species of shark, which the Natives catch for food.
A new branch of trade, and one likely to develop rapidly, is the export to Canton of
Dried and Salt Fish, started this autumn by a Cantonese firm. These waters are so rich in
various kinds of fish—the tai (a variety of bass), the salmon, and shoals of herring and cod-fish
in the winter months—that this business ought to pay well.
For Saké-Fusan-made—the figures will recede, a heavy tax recently placed in Japan
on Foreign-made Wines having defeated the object of the Japanese manufacturers here.
Vladivostock and Yuensan may, however, continue to demand a small quantity.
Silk, from its petty figures, should hardly deserve notice. It is stated that formerly
large supplies went to Japan, whereas now but little interest is taken in this trade, Corean Silk
being no longer esteemed on the Japanese markets. The small quantities still leaving the
port are used in the manufacture of cheap Crapes.
Nutgalls are obtained in the northern part of this province. One quality is said to
be superior to the Japanese Nutgall and to find a good market in London.
REVENUE.—The net collection for 1886 was $35,665.73, against $38,736.31 in 1885; but
it is fair to state that $2,964.30 of duty were remitted on Rice imported, which sum would have
made the Revenue for each year nearly equal.
GENERAL.—On the whole, the above review points to a probable increase in the future
REVENUE
57


450
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
to be expected. One must not forget that Fusan, opened to Japanese settlers in 1876, is already
an old port, and that the impulse to trade generally felt at newly-opened places has long since
subsided here. In fact, Fusan has yet to recover from the blow struck at its former importance
on the opening of the junior ports—principally Jenchuan—in 1883. It then lost the privilege
of being the only gate to Foreign commerce; its zone was abruptly circumscribed, and a good
many—the best-of its mercantile community deserted it. From $2,000,000, which represented
the gross value of the trade in 1882, and $1,700,000, in 1883, it suddenly sank in 1884 to
$734,167 ; a particularly bad year for crops brought it lower still in 1885, viz., $639,102. But
this is no doubt its lowest possible level; hence a gradual and steady rise should be looked for
with confidence.
The commercial area left to this port is large, and resources only awaiting development
and enterprise are not wanting. Fusan commands the whole of the Kengsan province ( taji),
through which a watercourse, the Naktung River, falling some 10 miles from here into the
sea, and navigable as far as Antung ( #) in the North, offers ready communication with the
principal cities. Of the adjoining province of Chullado (
A 1 ), on the West, reputed the chief
Rice-producing district of Corea, an important portion spoken of as the Chili Valley (
H u ),
of which Namman (it ) is the chief mart, sends Rice and Hides, partly overland and partly
by a sea route viâ the small ports of Toyung, Kosen, Kinai, and Masanpo. Traders speak of
the inland tracks past this last place as smoother than those in the immediate vicinity, and were
the practice of taxing each load at every village en route given up, closer commercial relations
would soon spring up between this port and the Chullado province.
The mineral resources are but imperfectly developed as yet. A Native company or guild,
the I-sin-shang-hui ( 9), is said to have the monopoly of the working of all mines in
this province, and it rather restricts than otherwise the output thereof. Four Gold-mines are
known and worked in an imperfect and irregular manner with the help of some Japanese : three
near Masanpo, about 50 miles distant, at the places called Ch'awon, Ch‘iwon, and Haman, and
a fourth one, 9 miles from Taiku, the provincial capital of the Kengsando. Copper-mines
exist at Atchilinsan, also in the vicinity of Masanpo; and Coal-beds are found at Changgui,
120 miles north of Tungnai. What results these mines will yield, when freely worked with
Foreign methods and implements, it is impossible to foretell; but the fields are there, and will
no doubt at some future time help substantially to a further development of the trade of
this port.
T. PIRY,
Acting Commissioner of Customs.
FUSAN, 31st January 1887.


452
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. 11.-GROSS AND NET VALUES OF THE TRADE OF FUSAN,
1884 to 1886.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
VALUES.
GROSS
VALUES.
NET
GROSS
| VALUES. VALUES.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
1
Dollars.
346,073
434,154
FOREIGN GOODS.
Imported from Foreign Countries ....
Imported from Corean Ports .............
Total Foreign Imports......
335,789
11,488
20,783
2,481
366,856
347,277
436,635
10,762
2,614
1,108
Re-exported to Foreign Countries.
Re-exported to Corean Ports (Jenchuan and
Yuensan).....
.....................)
Total Foreign Re-exports .........
55,230
43,369
47,385
65,992
45,983
48,493
Net Total Foreign Imports ..........
300,864
301,294
388,142
46,676
38,495
51,124
NATIVE PRODUCE.
Imported (from Jenchuan and Yuensan) .......
Re-exported to Foreign Countries............
Re-exported to Corean Ports ..........
Total Native Re-exports ..
Net Total Native Imports
46,676
38,495
51,124
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Foreign countries ....
257,805
204,621
Native Produce of local origin Exported to
Corean Ports ......
62,830
68,856
55,890
Total Exports of local origin ...
320,635
253,330
260,511
Gross Value of the Trade of the Port ..........
734,167
639,102
748,270
Net Value of the Trade of the Port, i.e., Foreign
and Native Imports less Re-exports, and Native
Exports of local origin..
668,175
593,119
699,777


454
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
SUMMARY.
IMPORTS from San Francisco ......
......... Dollars
159
,
Japan ........
.
„
416,893
u
,
China....
............
17,102
Total from Foreign Countries.......
-
Dollars 434,154
Imports from Corean Ports.........
2,481
Total FOREIGN IMPORTS .....
Dollars 436,635
RE-EXPORTS to Japan....
..Dollars
1,108
Total to Foreign Countries ....
- Dollars
1,108
RE-EXPORTS to Jenchuan ......
........... ..Dollars 34,622
„
„ Yuensan .......
..
12,763
Total to Corean Ports.........
- Dollars
47,385
TOTAL FOREIGN RE-EXPORTS...
– Dollars 48,493
NET TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS...
Dollars 388,142


456
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
TABLE No. V.-TRADE IN NATIVE PRODUCE.-Exports and Re-exports.
EXPORTS
TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
EXPORTS
TO
COREAN PORTS.
Classifier of
Quantity.
Total RE-EXPORTS
TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AND COREAN PORTS.
Total EXPORTS
(including Re-exports).
DESCRIPTION OF Goods.
Quantity
1
Value.
| Quantity
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Dollars.
Dollars.
26
513
Awabi, Dried.
.......... Piculs
Beans, Red .........
... Yellow...................
Bicho de Mar ........
Cotton Goods, Unclassed ..........
Fish, Dried ..
Piculs
45,492
934
1,404
46,426
Dollars.
473
920
49,771
8,134
161
312
12
399
108,334
513
633)
633
Pieces
401
369
37,506
'161
31,969
1,528
37,907
530
1271
,
Fresh
123
402
115
262
219
7,225
::::::::::::
747
3,885
532
7,225
805
256
Dollars.
473
920
51,175
8,134
32,130
1,840
414
514
108,334
4,417
1,993
5,869
309
19,275
1,807
9,288
1,304
5,599
339
256
1,993
317
12,046
5,869
232
7,314
948
8,311
324
7,146
77
11,961
859
9,288
Salt .....................
Hides, Cow ................
Medicines.....
Nutgalls .....
Paper..
Provisions and Vegetables ........
Value
Rice............
Piculs
Saké (manufactured in Fusan
by Japanese) ...........
Seaweed, Tenso and Funori
Long.......................
Sharks' Fins..
Silk Piece Goods.........
Pieces
,, Raw............................
Piculs
Soy .........
Wheat.
Sundries, Unenumerated...........
TOTAL......
Dolls.
697
:
1,304
7,146
5411
234
5,599
908
339
1541
J:::::::
:::::
418
908
418
93
1,442
1,635
206
1,753
Value
2,242
1,274
2,335
2,716
.................
204,621 ...................
55,890
260,511
SUMMARY.
EXPORTS.
RE-EXPORTS.
TOTAL EXPORTS
AND
RE-EXPORTS.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
To-
Dollars.
Japan.....
.......... 202,191
China.
2,430
Total to Foreign Countries...... —
202,191
2,430
204,621
204,621
.....
Jenchuan .........
Yuensan.
Total to Corean Ports.....
12,660
43,230
12,660
43,230
55,890
55,890
GRAND TOTAL....
260,511
260,511


APPENDIX II.—FUSAN.
459
TABLE No. 3.-EXPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the principal Articles of Export, for the Years 1884 to 1886.
Classifier
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Quantity
Piculs
31
46,426
Awabi, Dried.....
Beans, Yellow.........
Bicho de Mar..
Cotton Piece Goods..
Fish, Dried...
Hides.
46,744
445
4,397
633
Pieces
Piculs
19
27,476
692
3,113
1,103
7,546
1,050
183
30,404
11,082
216
37,907
530
7,225
Medicines..........
805
7,276
466
440
11,284
5,923
248
46
Nutgalls ...........
Rice..
Seaweed, Tenso and Funori .....
Sharks' Fins
Silk, Raw...........
Wheat.
256
12,046
7,146
234
37
722
3,708
1,753
TABLE No. 4.-PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Passenger Traffic, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
PASSENGERS TO
PASSENGERS FROM
Foreigners.
Asiatics.
Foreigners.
Asiatics.
1,074
China or Japan ........
871
247
Jenchuan..........
380
305
Yuensan
235
1,626
TOTAL...
1,486


APPENDIX II.—YUENSAN.
TABLE No. VI.-DUES AND DUTIES.
a.--Dues and Duties paid under each Flag, for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
FLAG.
IMPORT DUTIES.
EXPORT DUTIES.
TONNAGE DUES.
TOTAL.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Japanese..
41,242.34
4,257.89
45,755.07
254.84
166.80
German .....
166.80
TOTAL....
41,242.34
4,257.89
421.64
45,921.87*
* 18 Drawbacks cashed during the year, to be deducted from this total...
........Dollars 253.86
b.—Comparative Table of Dues and Duties collected, for the Years 1884 to 1886.
YEARS.
IMPORT DUTIES.
EXPORT DUTIES.
TONNAGE DUES.
TOTAL.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
1884 .........................
11,029.94
80.00
14,196.30
21,872.91
3,086.36
2,683.55
4,257.89
1885 ....
1886 ....
25,107.61
551.15
421.64
41,242.34
45,921.87


472
TRADE REPORTS AND RETURNS, 1886.
B.-SPECIAL TABLES.
TABLE No. I.-TREASURE (MONEY).
Import and Export of Treasure (Money), for the Year ended 31st December 1886.
usure
ir
e
IMPORTED.
EXPORTED.
FROM
Paper
Notes.
Silver.
Copper
| Copper
Тотли.
Total.
То
Gold.
Cash.
Silver.
Copper
Cash.
TOTAL.
Dollars.
Dollars.
| Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
1,650
2,100
2,978
Dollars.
442,491
Dollars.
4,628
43,164
700
Japan ..........
Fusan ...
Dollars.
592
6,000
1,733
41,064
Japan.......
Fusan ...........
Vladivostock.........
Total.........
12,718
10,385
443,083
29,103
49,820
700
China.......
48,087
503,296
2,978
. 4,450
41,064
48,492
TOTAL.........
8,325
10,385 || 522,006
TABLE No. 2.-IMPORT TRADE.
Comparative Table of the principal Articles of Import, for the Years 1884 to 1886.
Classifier
DESCRIPTION OF GOODS.
of
1884.
1885.
1886.
Quantity.
Pieces
25,447
69,304
24
Cotton Goods :-
Shirtings, Grey.
Drills, English... .........
Lawns..........
Cotton Goods, Unclassed ....
, Yarn.
45,100
126,680
1,976
41,994
8,133
118.54
50,200
1,045
50.55
419
Piculs
25.75
METALS :-
Tin..........
Piculs
79.92
23.46
148.99
14.24
193.94
33.02
White Metal..
3,792
Pieces
Piculs
SUNDRIES :-
Cotton Cloth, Native......
, Raw
Dyes ....................
Oil, Kerosene.......
Rice.............
Saké............
Gallons
Piculs
62.27
128.04
6,327
2,896.50
219.18
192.70
7,461
68,558.32
381.76
29,266
397.63
115.16
23,967
140, 364.52
362.10
17,233.69
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Salt.................


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WO
1.-STATISTICAL SERIES.
No. 1.-SHANGHAI DAILY RETURNS .......
Publication begun 1866.
1869.
» 2.-CUSTOMS GAZETTE...
, 3.-RETURNS OF TRADE ..
, 4.-REPORTS ON TRADE...
1859.
First Issue, 1864.
5.-RETURNS OF TRADE, CHINESE VERSION...
1875