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“...imports .................................................. 8
Medicines ....................................................... 8
Tobacco .......................................................... 8
Silk............................................................... 8
Other imports.................................................... 8
Exports
Tea ______________-............................................. 8
Brick tea ........................................................ 10
Timber ..... 11
Saw mills ......................................................... 11
Camphor ......................................................... 11
Transit trade
Inwards -........................................................ 12
Outwards,........................................................ 12
Shippings........................................................... 12
Coast trade...................................................... ] 3
Inland navigation ................................................. 13
Plague...”
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“...770 6.746 9,823 | 11,512 10,197
Towels | ,, 2,712 5,390 | 6,079 9,411
Cotton yarn j 6,532
Hong-Kong Cwts. ... 4,293 5,128-
Indian ... ! ,, 27,394 21,310 34.958 34,602 39,315
Japanese ! ,, j 10,027 2,001 5,224 596 538
As will be noticed, the increase has been general, with the
exception of T-cloths and plain dyed shirtings, in which there has
been a decline.
Indian yarn continues to increase, while Japanese seems gradually
being superseded. The Shanghai cotton mills do not supply this
district, but the mills in Hong-Kong sent 5,128 cwts., valued at
100,817 Haikuan taels (13,284/.).
Woollen goods in the aggregate show a noticeable decrease..
There is but little demand for them.
In copper the increase has been very considerable, the imports-
during the year under review amounting to 263,676 Haikuan taels
(34,746/.), as compared with 84,105 Haikuan taels (10,934/.) in 1902..
This is mainly to be attributed to the increased consumption of the
Fukien Mint, which has been worked by...”
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“...interior, which the officials are quite unable to
suppress. It is not an infrequent occurrence for rafts to be held up
by villagers on the inland watercourses through which they have to
pass on their way to the river, on the pretext that the waterway be-
longs to the village, and, before an arrangement can be come to,
free fights take place, often resulting in loss of life, and more generally
in wholesale pilfering from the rafts.
Two foreign owned sawmills, one British and the other German, Saw mills,
provided with modern machinery, have been in operation for a
number of years past, and appear to be doing a prosperous business,
.if one may judge by the returns, which show an increase from
14,284 Haikuan taels in 1899 to 52,315 Haikuan taels in 1903. Their
chief business is the manufacture of wood for tea chests, kerosene oil
cases and soap boxes for shipment to Hong-Kong, Ceylon and other
places. The timber used is soft wood poles, which is the cheapest
description of wood on the market, and...”
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