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Trade.
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The following table shows the Eevenue and Expenditure
of the State since the establishment of British protection :
Year.
1889 (half-year)
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
Total
Revenue.
$30,390
$62,077
$77,386
$50,044
$83,688
$100,220
$106,744
$160,947
$198,193
$224,856
$375,350
$419,150
$1,889,045
Expenditure.
$142,621
$297,702
$238,174
$271,393
$282,236
$249,121
$231,914
$462,619
$441,918
$372,719
$1,814,030
$630,678
$5,435,125
It will thus be seen that the expenditure has, during the
past eleven and a half years, exceeded the revenue by over
three and a half million dollars, that being, therefore, the
amount of the State debt at the end of 1900.
Almost the whole of the trade is carried on between the
ports of the State and Singapore. The values for the past
nine years are shown in the subjoined table :
Year. Imports. Exports.
1892 $341,673 $331,196
1893 $363,834 $367,555
1894 $787,859 $659,653
1895 $946,497 $775,313
1896 .. $1,180,188 $865,280
1897 .. $1,226,059 $1,652,607
1898 .. $1,147,054 $1,559,349
1899 .. $1,531,661 $2,062,241
1900 $973,405 $2,322,950
The principal imports are opium, spirits, rice, tinned
provisions and miscellaneous food stuffs, cotton goods,
tobacco, machinery, kerosine and other oils, hardware,
sugar. About $200,000 worth of specie is brought into the
State annually. The principal articles of export are tin,
gold, salted fish, rattans, gutta and rubber, timber,
buffalo hides, and various kinds of jungle produce, &c.
During the past five years the export of gold, tin, and
gutta and rubber has been :— 105,475 ounces valued at
$4,219,000 ; 3,392 tons valued at $3,200,793 ; and 156 tons
valued at $573,237, respectively.
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