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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