COMMITTEE ON STRAITS SETTLEMENTS CURRENCY.
APPENDIX, No. 19 continued.
TABLE XIII.
IMPORTATION of British Dollars into Straits Settlements.
Annual Importation of British Dollars by the Banke since their first Coinage in 1895 has been :-
Year.
Amount.
d.
d.
2,201,890
January
25H
2b1%
1895
3,628,000
25
251
1896
February
25,704,908
25
25
1897
March
19,492,168
April
241%
24
1898
29,349,725
2311
2311
1899
May
21,571,488
June -
24.
2311
1900
241
23)
1901
July
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TOTAL
17,281,263
119,224,442
August
24f
231
September
237
23
931
2218
October
November
2811
22,
TABLE XIV.
December -
12t
2171
1897 +
1898.
1899 -
1899
1900
Average Monthly Circulation of Notes of Local Banks (Straits Settlements).
$
7,326,693
7,737,057
8,082,210
1900 -
1901
Average Monthly Circulation of Government Notes. Issue commenced 1st May 1899.
161
6,713,133
5,473,750
$ 2,330,555
1901
$ 7,920,908
5,500,250
1902
- 13,393,440
(Month ending 10th December).
TABLE XV.
Straits Settlements Exchange on London.
Highest and lowest Rates for Bank Bills (four months' sight).
a. d.
a. d.
.. d
4.
d.
1891
36 to 3 1
1897
21 to 19
1892
3 1 to 2 91
1898
2
to 1 10
1893
2 D to 2 41
1800
2- to 1 111
1894
2 37 to 2 -
1900
22 to 111
1895
28 to 111
1901
21 to 1 of
1896
2 3 to 2 I
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APPENDIX, No. 10-continued.
TABLE XVI.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE, 1901.
Bank Bills,
January.
February.