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NETHERLANDS INDIA

TRADE, NAVIGATION.

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Riouw,

Macassar, Menado, Kema, Ternate, Amboina, Kajeli, Banda and Koepang are free ports. The other ports are open either for general trade or only for native coasting navigation. Entrepôts, where goods can be stored and sold and from whence they can be exported without payment of import or export duties, are established at Batavia, Cheribon, Semarang, Soerabaia, Padang, Siboga, Baros and Singkel.

The value of imports in 1896 was in Java and Madoera in the other islands

114,192,809 guilders

54,155,824

Total... ... 168,348,633 ""

The value of exports in 1896 was from Java and Madoera... 142,499,708 guilders and from the other islands

Total...

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57,131,003

199,630,711

The mercantile marine of Netherlands India consisted in December, 1895, of 2,002 ships, of which 81 were steamers, with a tonnage of 244,337 cubic metres.

In 1896 there arrived from abroad

3,692 steamers

213 European sailing vessels... 1,474 native sailing vessels

Total... 5,379 vessels with a tonnage of and in the same year departed

3,515 steamers

...

206 European sailing vessels... 1,509 native sailing vessels

5,230

tonnage 4,152,451 cubic metres

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378,150 160,295

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4,690,896 "

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tonnage

4,013,398 cubic metres

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387,965 124,932

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4,526,295 "1

Import duties are imposed in Java and Madoera, the West coast of Sumatra, Ben- coolen, Lampongs, Palembang, Banka, Billiton and S.E. Borneo, but not in the islands of the Riouw residency and in the Eastern part of the Archipelago, viz. Celebes, Moluccos and Timor. The import duty is fixed ad valorem or according to the weight or the dimensions, most of the goods being separately mentioned in the tariff. Most of the metals, machinery, raw materials, as lime and wood, horses and cattle, and articles of art and science are free of import duty. Export duty is only paid on a few articles according to value or quantity, for instance, hides 2 per cent., birds' nests 6 per cent. of the value, coffee f.1, sugar f.015, tin f.3:50, indigo f.10 for 100 kilo- grammes. Transit cargo is free. In the East coast of Sumatra the import duty is not so high and more articles are free.

An excise is charged on liquors of 5 per cent., on alcohol, on kerosine oil (f.2 per hectoliter), on matches f.0.4 for 144 small boxes, and on tobacco.

Commercial intercourse is much advanced by the Steam Navigation Company "Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij," possessing 32 steamers plying across the whole Archipelago. These steamers have splendid accommodation for saloon passengers.

PUBLIC WORKS.

There are now 1,729 5 kilometres of railway in Java and 312′5 kilometres in Sumatra ; and 420.5 kilometres of tramway in Java. The telegraphs extend over 6,89150 kilometres, the telegraph cables over 1,452:23, together 8,343 73 kilometres. The net receipts of the Post and Telegraph services amounted to f.566,491,46; the number of offices was 304 for Java and Madoera and 89 for the other islands.

DIRECTORY

BESTUUR VAN NEDERLANDSCH-INDIE

Gouverneur Generaal-JONKHEER CAREL HERMAN AART VAN DER WIJCK Adjudant van Z. E.-J. J. Staal, Luitenant Kolonel der Genie, tevens

intendant der Gouvernements hôtels

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-J. B. A. Jonckheer Luitenant-ter-zee der 1st klasse ---J. Ph. Weitzel, Eerste luitenant der Infanterie

-C. M. Kan, Eerste luitenant der Artillerie

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