COLONIAL REPORTS.
The following, among other, reports relating to Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions have been issued, and may be obtained for a few pence from the sources indicated on the title page --
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
No. Colony Year No. 255 Basutoland 1897-08 206 Newfoundland 1890-97 257 Cocos-Keeling and Christmas Islands 1898 HONG KONG 258 British New Guinea 1897-98 259 Bermuda 1838 260 Niger.-West African Frontier Force 1897-98 261 Jamaica (For Report for 1997 see No. 241.) 262 Barbados 1828 263 Falkland Islands 13 264 Gambia 265 St. Helena 260 266 Leeward Islands 267 St. Lucia 268 Fiji 269 Turks and Caicos Islands 270 Malta 271 Gold Coast 272 Trinidad 273 Sierra Leone 274 Ceylon 275 British Solomon Islands 276 Gibraltar 1898-99 Bahamas... British Honduras Mauritius and Rodrigues Grenada... St. VincentGOVERNOR SIR H. A. BLAKE to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
Government House,
Hong Kong,
22nd September, 1899.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you the Blue Book for 1898, and to submit for your information the following general report on that year --
MISCELLANEOUS.
No. Colony Subject 1 Gold Coast... Economic Agriculture. Forests. Zululand Geology and Botany. Emigration. Sierra Leone Sisal Industry. 4 Canada Bubonic Plague. Bahamas Mineral Resources. Hong Kong Solomon Islands. Agriculture. Newfoundland Condition during 1897. Western Pacific Agriculture in Carriacou. 10 Dominica Vital Statistics, 1898. 11 Virgin Islands 12 Grenada AnguillaI-FINANCES.
The following tables will show in succinct form the heads of revenue and expenditure. They are compared with those of last year; and it will be seen that during the year 1898 the revenue has exceeded the expenditure by $76,354.04. I have also given in tabular form the total revenue and expenditure of each year for the last five years.
Under the headings (B), (C), (D), and (E) I have drawn your attention to matters concerned with taxation, the assets and liabilities of the Colony, the public debt, with the provision made for its gradual liquidation, and the present state of the currency.
3994-6-10/99 Wt 21955 D & S-5 (B)
A 2
HONG KONG,
1898
497