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“...received encouragement from-the-
opening of eight new ports of call for passenger traffic. The ports,
for the opening of which great praise is due to the Provincial
Government, who offered every facility for the purpose, are Do
Sing, Luk To, Yuet Sing, Luk Pu, Plow Lik, Kau Kong, Mali
Ning and Yung Ki. Cargo and passengers are forsaking, in
increasing quantities and numbers, native craft for the faster and
safer foreign steamers. Of these, there were formerly only the
British stern-wheel vessels "Nanning" and " Sainam"; but the
advent of the French steamer, " Hong-Kong," has induced a
lowering of freights, resulting in a loss of profits and negativing,
to some extent, the effect of the general development which lias
taken place.
Woollen goods are up to the average, but compared with 1901...”
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