32.
1896,
1897,
Year.
RIVER TRADE.
Imports, Exports and Passengers.
Imports.
Exports.
Passengers.
154,367
107,087
897,843
146,603
90,544
988,046
IMPORTS
Junks.
Foreign trade, 28,989 measuring 1,718,739 tons.
Local trade,
4,750
Total,...33.739
Imported 671,667 tons as under:--
186,227 11
71
1,904,966
Tea,
Oil,
Rice,
Earth and Stones,.................
General,....
2,787 tons. 1,761 39,301 ??
"
.132,099
.495,719
Total,............671,667
EXPORTS.
Junks.
**
Foreign trade, 28,814 measuring 1,722,556 tons.
Local trade,
4,796
51
Total,......33,610
Exported 684,320 tons as under: ---
Kerosine,
186,053
*
1,908,609
"2
Rice and Paddy,
Earth and Stones, General,
21,253 tons. .209,197
37
453,870
17
183
Total,...684,320
33. European-constructed vessels imported 639,816 tons in excess of exports; junks exported an excess of 138,859 tons. The excess of imports is thus reduced to 500,937 tous, from this must be deducted 445,999 tons of bunker coal, exclusive of coal shipped by men-of-war, leaving a balance of 54,988 tons consumed, manufactured, in stock in the Colony, or unaccounted for.
34. Plague and famine in India affected trade from thence, and probably deflected the Siamese rice trade, short though it was, from this Colony.
35. The River Steamers, aggregating 3,384,721 tons, inwards and outwards, imported 116,608 tons of cargo, exported 90,544 tons, shipped 23,742 tons of bunker coal, and conveyed 983,046 passengers.
PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
36.
British ships,.
Foreign ships,
River Steamers,
Launches (outside waters of the
Colony),
Junks (Foreign Trade),
Arrivals. ..139,893
Departures.
150,800 including Emigrant-
66.679
63,575
.505,080
482,956
} 88,102
91,415
.114,263
123,455
914,017
912,220