20.
286
IMPORTS (EXCLUDING RIVER STEAMERS).
Steamers, ............2,955 measuring 4,014,845 tons.
Sailing Ships,.........
96
Total,.....3,051
Imported 2,760,954 tons of cargo as under :----
ARTICLES.
99,558
31
""
4,114,403
1894.
1895.
INCREASE. DECREASE.
Beans,
8,995
3,848
147
Bones,
2,040
2,340
300
Coal,
562,909
563,767
858
Copra,
10
10
Coffee,
500
500
Cotton,.
50
50
Ebony,
400
400
...
Flour,
60,250
101,767
41,617
Hemp,
1,200
1,200
Kerosine (Bulk),.
31,462
24,450
Kerosine (Case),.
68,905
42,601
7,012 26,304
(1,929,340 cases) (1,192,828 cases)
(736,512 cases)
Lead,
***
1,350
1,350
Oil,.......
3,804
3,348
456
Opium,
2,825
2,464
361
Peas,
1,060
1,060
Rattan,
625
625
Rice,
619,075
764,368
145,293
Salt,.
6,250
6,250
Saltpetre,
50
50
Sandal-wood,.
1,625
1,262
363
Sapan-wood,
1,300
600
700
Sulphur,..
500
500
Sugar,
170,499
185,616
15,117
Tca,
Timber,
Vermicelli,
General,.
350 16,040 170 1,079,676
TOTAL,.....
2,625,610
20 26,389 800 1,026,004
2,760,954
330
10,349
630
53,672
225,374
90,030
155
21. The above table shows that the chief increase in imports during the year were in Flour (41,517 tons), Rice (145,293 tons), Sugar (15,117 tons), and Timber (10,349 tons), while the decrease is shown in 33,316 tons of Kerosine and 53,672 tons under the head of " General.
22.
EXPORTS (EXCLUDING RIVER STEAMERS).
Steamers,.
..2,957 measuring 3,999,745 tons.
Sailing vessels,...................
94
23
97,348,
Total.........3,051
4,097,093
""
Exported 1,551,184 tons of cargo, and shipped 366,060 tons of bunker coal. Compared with last year, this gives 188 ships more, measuring 498,242 tons, carrying 46,374 more tons of cargo, and shipping 32,809 more tons of bunker coal.
23. European constructed vessels imported 1,232,221 tons in excess of exports. Junks exported an excess of 451,691 tons. The excess of imports is thus reduced to 780,530 tons, from this must be deducted 366,060 tons of bunker coal shipped (exclusive of that supplied to Her Majesty's ships and foreign men-of-war), leaving a balance of 414,470 tons consumed, manufactured and in stock in the Colony or unaccounted for.
24. The river steamers, aggregating 3,314,090 tons, imported 134,274 tons of cargo, exported 111,823 tons, shipped 21,810 tons of bunker coal, and conveyed 928,825 passengers, showing an increase under each heading except "passengers," the number of whom carried was reduced by 113,133 for the year.