APPENDIX D. BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS PROTECTORATE. No. (1.) ESTIMATED POPULATION on 31st (Foreigners 110 (75 British Natives 150,000. March, 1905. (2.) STATISTICS of REVENUE, EXPENDITURE, and TRADE for the Years ended 31st March 1898 to 1905. (a) Including Expenditure from Imperial Grants, amounting to 1,2007. in 1897-98, 2,5007. in 1899-1900, and 500l. in 1900-1. (b) Estimated value. The principal articles exported are copra and turtle shells. (c) The Report upon the affairs of the Protectorate for 1904-5 states that previous to 1904-5 no attempt has been made to estimate the value of the imports. (d) The whole trade of the Protectorate is carried on with the Port of Sydney, N. S. Wales, CUSTOMS TARIFF: No Customs Duties are collected in the Protectorate. COTTON: It is stated in the Report for 1904-5 that "Cotton has not hitherto been grown in the Protectorate, but that a trial is now being made." (3.) RAINFALL at the GOVERNMENT STATION at TULAGI, during each of the Years 1898 to 1904. (2.) STATISTICS of REVENUE, EXPENDITURE and TRADE for the (a) The increase was partly due to the copra collected in 1897 being held over till 1898 waiting vessels to export it. 376, B. B 2 APPENDIX F. ZANZIBAR PROTECTORATE, [Declared a British Protectorate on November 4th, 1890.] (1.) AREA, and ESTIMATED POPULATION of ZANZIBAR and PEMBA ISLANDS during the Year 1904. (a) No census has ever been taken, and the figures given are stated to be only a rough estimate. IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION.-The Protectorate Authorities state that, with the exception of undesirables by way of South Africa there are practically no immigrants from Great Britain but there is a continual stream of British Indian natives coming from and going to their country. There is also a perpetual migration of natives of Africa between the mainland and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba but no records are kept of their movements. (2.) STATISTICS of REVENUE, EXPENDITURE and PUBLIC DEBT for each Year from 1892 to 1904. APPENDIX F.-ZANZIBAR PROTECTORATE-Continued. (3.) NUMBER and TONNAGE of OCEAN-GOING and COASTING VESSELS ENTERED at the PORT of ZANZIBAR in each of the Years ended 31st December 1892 to 1904. NOTE.-All the above ocean-going and coasting vessels cleared the same year that they entered the Port of Zanzibar. (a) Inclusive of certain German Government steamers that run between Zanzibar and the German territory on the mainland. APPENDIX F.-ZANZIBAR PROTECTORATE-Continued. (4.) NUMBER and TONNAGE of BRITISH and FOREIGN VESSELS engaged in the Foreign Trade, ENTERED at the PORT of ZANZIBAR, in each of the Years ended 31st December 1892 to 1904. NOTE.-All the above vessels cleared the same year that they entered the Port of Zanzibar. APPENDIX F.-ZANZIBAR PROTECTORATE-Continued. (5.) TOTAL VALUE of IMPORTS and EXPORTS into and from the PORT of ZANZIBAR during each of the Years ended 31st December 1892 to 1904. NOTE.-Conversions into £ sterling have been made at the rate of 18. 3d.per rupee in 1892 and 1893; 18. 1d. in 1894 and 1895; 18. 24d. in 1896; 18. 34d. in 1897, and 18. 4d. in later years. (a) The trade carried on with other portions of the Sultan's dominions is excli ded in 1900 and later years. |