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Appendix No. 4.

FIJI ISLANDS.

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Return (A).

TOTAL VALUE OF THE IMPORT AND EXPORT TRADE OF THE COLONY OF FIJI.

(I.)-VALUE of the Total Imports and Exports of the Colony, distinguishing between Produce raised in the Colony and Produce imported for Exportation.

1877.

1978.

1879.

1880.

Imports

d. 132,855 12 5

S.

£ 3. 136,607 15

d. 1

£ 5. 142,212 11

d.

5

£ 5. d. 185,740 13 10

Exports-

Produce raised in the Colony Imported produce exported

114,222 1 0

26,671 10 0

146,845 8 0 46,020 0 0

132,513 1 0 36,526 10 0

177,912 6 4 51,616 4 0

Total

140,893 11 0

192,865 8 0

169,040 8 0

229,528 10 4

273,749 3 5

329,473 3 1

311,252 19 5

415,269 4 2

Total of Imports and Exports

"Population 124,000, scattered over a surface of sea and land as large as the area of Great Britain or New Zealand. Of these only 2,193 are whites, for the most part recently arrived, and almost equally scattered.”—Extract from Governor's Message to Legis. lative Council, 28th December, 1881.

(II.)—TOTAL Value of Imports from British Possessions, Polynesian Islands, and other Countries.

From British Possessions From Polynesian Islands From other countries

Total

1877.

1878.

1879.

1880.

£ 8. d. 125,050 18 6

1,021 11 2 6,783 2 0

£ S. d. 133,079 15 1 758 0 0 2,770 0 0

£ S. d. 135,398 3 7 979 14 1 5,834 13 9

£ S. d. 180,452 2 4 2,289 7 6 2,999 4 0

132,855 12 5

136,607 15 1

142,212 11 5

185,740 13 10

(III.)—VALUE of Total Exports to British Possessions and to other Countries respectively.

1877.

1878.

1879.

1880.

Exported to British Possessions Exported to other countries

Total

··

£ S. d. 98,986 6 0 41,907 5 0

140,893 11 0

£ S. d. 154,015 17 38,849 11

192,865 8 0

0 0

£ S. d. 132,150 15 0 36,889 13 0

169,040 8 0

£ 8. d. 212,144 9 4

17,384 1 0

229,528 10 4

The account of imports is exclusive of produce imported for exportation or transhipped in the Colony; and the accounts of imports and exports are exclusive of specie and bullion.

Sir,

Inclosure 4 in No. 132.

War Office to Colonial Office.

War Office, May 12, 1882.

I AM directed by the Secretary of State for War to forward the accompanying Joint Report, dated the 3rd March, 1882,* by Colonel Crossman, R.E., C.M.G., and Acting Commander T. E. Maxwell, R.N., on the defences of Fiji, for transmission to the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad.

I am to request that the Report and plans may be returned to this Office when done with.

I have, &c.

(Signed) RALPH THOMPSON.

* See Inclosure 3.

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