The principal additions and alterations to the Tables in the present No. (the 46th) of this Abstract are as follows: NUMBER OF PAGES. SUBJECT MATTER. Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Dominion of Canada in each of the years 1904 to 1908. Postal Statistics for S. Rhodesia for each of the years 1900 to 1908. Value of coinage issued in the Dominion of Canada in 1908. Railway Statistics for principal British Colonies and Possessions for each of the years 1905 to 1908. [The Railway Statistics previously given for the various Colonies, &c. have been re-classified in order to show the mileage, receipts, and working expenses in separate tables.] Extent of Crown Lands granted and sold in British Guiana, and amount realised, in each of the years 1894 to 1908. Zanzibar Railway Statistics for each of the years 1905 to 1908 (so far as available). NOTE.-DETAILED STATISTICS FOR THE VARIOUS BRITISH COLONIES, POSSESSIONS, AND PROTECTORATES WILL BE FOUND IN THE PUBLICATION ENTITLED "STATISTICAL TABLES RELATING TO BRITISH COLONIES, POSSESSIONS, AND PROTECTORATES," WHICH IS ISSUED ANNUALLY BY THE BOARD OF TRADE. CONTENTS. (The information given is in all cases for fifteen years, 1894-1908, except where otherwise stated Foreign Tonnage „ Sailing Tonnage Sailing and Steam Tonnage Entered and Cleared at Principal Colonial Ports Number and Tonnage of Sailing and Steam Vessels Built- Number and Tonnage of Sailing and Steam Vessels on the Register- Number of Horses, Horned Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs Acreage, Production, and Domestic Exports of Jute from British India Asbestos, Quantity and Value produced in, and Exported from, the Dominion of Imports and Exports of Coal and Coke Manganese Ore, Production, Imports and Exports in British India Rates of Customs Duty levied on Principal Article Additional Duties levied on Bounty-fed Sugar: In the South African Customs Union EXPORT DUTIES Rates of Customs Duty levied on various Articles (B) Territory administered by the British North Borneo Company (D) British Solomon Islands Protectorate (E) Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate (3) Zanzibar Protect rate |