GENERAL REMARKS. I am surprised at the small imports in fish, particularly cured fish, such as mackerel, salmon, halibut, etc. It would seem that with the large production of glue by the packers of America, we ought to have the bulk of the glue trade. England imported 137,959 pounds, and the raw material must have come largely from the United States. The same applies to candles, of which England sent 4,000,000 pounds and America 175,000 pounds, and to antifriction. grease, imports of which from England were five times as large as from America. In ale and beer, the United Kingdom furnished nearly 60,000 gallons and Germany 200,000. England sent 6,000,000 percussion caps; the United States only 198,000; in guns and pistols, England sent twenty times more than the United States; in dynamite, England furnished over 4,000,000 pounds and the United States about 2,000,000. England supplied nearly 10,000 gallons of cider; America, with its large apple crops, none. England furnished all the malt. How much of this was made from barley sent from the United States? The United States supplies the world in raw cotton, yet other countries furnish the piece goods. Of wire fencing, produced so largely in the United States, England sent twice as much as our country. The United States furnished 800 pounds of bar iron; the United Kingdom nearly 150,000 pounds. Of corrugated and galvanized iron the United States supplied none; the United Kingdom nearly 400,000 pounds. Bacon and all other salted and cured meats come from the United Kingdom in the ratio of 10 to 1, as compared with the United States; yet the bulk of the raw meat came from the United States and was cured in the United Kingdom. Silver-plated ware was furnished by the United Kingdom to the value of nearly $180,000, and the United States, the great silverproducing country, sent only about $10,000 worth. Sheep dip, valued at some $250,000, was furnished by the United Kingdom; none came from the United States. Three hundred and forty-one thousand six hundred and eightyseven gallons of whisky came from the United Kingdom; 1,103 gallons from the United States. The United Kingdom exported 139,217 pounds of manufactured tobacco; the United States, 14, 226 pounds. CAPE TOWN, May 6, 1898. J. G. STOWE, Consul-General. COMMERCE OF CAPE COLONY. Under date of May 23, Consul-General Stowe sends from Cape Town the following statistics: Articles of merchandise imported into Cape Colony the first three months of 1897 and 1898. Articles of merchandise imported into Cape Colony, etc.-Continued. Exports from Cape Colony, January 1 to April 30, 1897 and 1898. |