40.
IMPORTS.
Junks.
Foreign trade, 29,848 measuring 1,881,746 tons.
Local trade,
5,718
Total,......35,566
205,768
""
2,087,514
Imported 633,547 tons as under :--
Tea,
Oil,...
41.
Earth and Stones, General,
3,920 tons. 1,290
..126,140
.502,197
91
Total,............633,547
EXPORTS.
Junks.
265
Foreign trade, 29,728 measuring 1,885,657 tous.
Local trade,
5,817
11
Total,.......35,545
Exported 1,035,081 tons as under:
Kerosine,.
Rice and Paddy,
Earth and Stones,
General,
209,386
"
15
2,095,043
""
20,767 tons. 479,783
""
722 534,409 ,,
Total,............1,035,081
42. European constructed vessels imported 1,165,097 tons in excess of exports; junks exported an excess of 401,534 tons. The excess of imports is thus reduced to 763,563 tous, from this must be deducted 413,396 tons of bunker coal shipped leaving a balance of 350,167 tons consumed, manufac- tured, and in stock in the Colony or unaccounted for.
43. The River Steamers aggregating 3,361,964 tons, inwards and outwards, imported 154,367 tons of cargo, exported 107,087 tons, shipped 21,420 tons of bunker coal, and conveyed 897,843 passengers.
44.
British ships,
PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Arrivals.
Departures.
.145,871
147,570 including Emigrants.
Foreign ships,
.... 71,987
65,984
29
59
River Steamers,
.......457,631
440,212
Launches (outside waters of the
Colony),
63,178
60,993
Junks (Foreign Trade),
,102,349
101,757
841,016
816,516
Excess of arrivals over departures (Foreign Trade),..
......24,500
Arrivals.
Junks, Local Trade, .... 5,602
Launches,
>>
....2,087,492
2,093,094
Departures.
4,406
2,099,199
2,103,605
Excess of departures over arrivals (Local Trade),........
Difference excess of arrivals,
.10,511
.........13,989
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