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 SHIPPING — MONEY, ETC.— CONSULAR REPRESENTATIVES 1089

coprah, and tin. With the exception of rice, about one-half of which goes to Borneo and China, nearly four-fifths of these exports go to the Netherlands.



Shipping and Communications.

Year

Entered

Whereof, from England :

Number

Tons

Number

Tons

1910 1

Steamers Sailing vessels

6,486 96

4,164,102 50,976

634

8

1,556,892 9,912

At the end of 1910 the total length of railways (State and private) was about 1,586 miles (1,386 in Java and 200 in Sumatra) ; the gross receipts (1910) 26,453,000 guilders; working expenses, 15,688,000 guilders; number of passengers, 32,049,786.

There are about 349 post-offices ; internal letters carried in 1910, 19,686,654, while there were 14,585,558 newspapers, &c., for the interior; 2,916,118 letters were carried for foreign postal intercourse.

Telegraph lines in 1910, 10,635 miles ; 564 offices ; messages, 1,250,504.

Money and Credit.

The 'Java Bank,' established in 1828, has a capital of 6,000,000 guilders, and a reserve of about 1,800, 000 guilders. The Government has a control over the administration. Two-fifths of the amount of the notes, assignats, and credits must be covered by specie or bullion. In March, 1911, the value of the notes in circulation was 90,892,000 guilders, and of the bank operations 63,368,000. There are some other Dutch banks, besides branches of British banks.

In the savings-banks, including the Postal savings-bank, there were n 1910, 89,600 depositors, with a deposited amount of 14,082,450 guilders.

Money, Weights, and Measures.

V/eights and Measures.

The Amsterdamsch Pond. =1-09 lb. avoirdupois. ,, Pikol. . . = I33i ,, " C'«% . . . = 1| ,, ,, TjengJcal . . . = 4 yards The only legal coins, as well as the weights and measures, of Dutch India are those of the Netherlands.

Consular Representatives.

British Consul at Batavia. — J. W. Stewart. Vice-Consul at Samarang. — D. M. Campbell. Vice-Consul at Sourahaya. — R. W. E. Dalrymple. Vice-Consul at Makasser. — S. P. Stephens. Vice-Consid at Medan.—A. L. MatheM'Son. Vice-Consul at Balik Papan (Borneo).— F. E. Jago.

DUTCH WEST INDIES.

The Dutch possessions in the West Indies are (a) Surinajn, or Dutch Ouiana, and (b) the colony Curacao.

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