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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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