NETHERLANDS INDIA
TRADE, NAVIGATION.
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Rhio, Macassar, Menado, Kema, Ternate, Amboina, Kajeli, Banda, and Koepang are free ports. The other ports are open either for general trade or only for native coasting navigation. Entrepôts, where goods can be stored and sold and from whence they can be exported without payment of import or export duties, are established at Batavia, Cheribon, Semarang, Soerabaia, Padang, Siboga, Baros, and Singkel.
The value of imports in 1895 was in Java and Madóera in the other islands
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Total...
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110,777,262 guilders
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50,753,032
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161,530,294
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The value of exports in 1895 was from Java and Madoera... 173,800,521 guilders and from the other islands
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Total...
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51,287,289
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225,087,810
The mercantile marine of Netherlands India consisted in December, 1894, of 1,933 ships, of which 80 were steamers, with a tonnage of 237,491 cubic metres.
In 1895 there arrived from abroad
3,418 steamers
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215 European sailing vessels... 1,475 native sailing vessels
Total... 5,108 vessels with a tonnage of and in the same year departed
3,363 steamers
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tonnage 3,866,180 cubic metres
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393,551 "} 123,233
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4,382,964
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tonnage
3,738,310 cubic metres
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406,287 127,196
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231 European sailing vessels... 1,512 native sailing vessels
5,126
4,271,793,
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Import duties are imposed in Java and Madoera, the West coast of Sumatra, Ben- coolen, Lampongs, Patembang, Banka, Biliton and S.E. Borneo, but not in the islands of the Rhio Residency and in the Eastern part of the Archipelago, viz., Celebes, Moluccos, and Timor. The import duty is fixed ad valorem or according to the weight or the dimensions, most of the goods being separately mentioned in the tariff. Most of the metals, machinery, raw materials, as lime and wood, horses and cattle, and articles of art and science are free of import duty. Export duty is only paid on a few articles according to value or quantity, for instance, hides 2 per cent., birds' nests 6 per cent. of the value, coffee f.1, sugar f.015, tin f.3:50, indigo f.10 for 100 kilo- grammes. Transit cargo is free. In the East coast of Sumatra the import duty is not so high and more articles are free.
An excise is charged on liquors of 5 per cent. on alcohol, on kerosine oil (f.2 per hectoliter), on matches 1.0.4 for 144 small boxes, and on tobacco.
PUBLIC WORKS.
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There are now 1,620 kilometres of railway in Java and 279′5 kilometers in Sumatra ; and 307.5 kilometres of tramway in Java. The telegraphs extend over 6,923 kilometres, the telegraph cables over 1,452 33, together 8,375 34 kilometers. The net receipts of the Post and Telegraph services amounted to f.426,820,34'5; the number of offices was 245 for Java and 76 for the other islands.
DIRECTORY
BESTUUR VAN NEDERLANDSCH-INDIE
Gouverneur Generaal-JONKHEER CAREL HERMAN AART VAN DER WIJCK Adjudant van Z. E.-J. J. Staal, Luitenant Kolonel der Genie, teveus
intendant der Gouvernements hôtels
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-J. Ph. Weitzel, Eerste luitenant der Infanterie
Do.
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-E. Baron van Heerdt tot Eversberg, Luitenant ter zee der 2e.klasse -C. M. Kan, Eerste luitenant der Artillerie