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 THE EAST AFRICA PROTECTOEATE 177

Commerce, Shipping, Communications, &c.— Imports (excluding

government stores and treasure) and exports (including those also of Uganda, German East Africa and the Congo), and the gross tonnage entered and cleared (excluding coasting trade) : —

Years Imports Exports Customs \ Tonnage entered

1 ' HlJCl ClGSrGCl

1907-08 799,717 494,710 78,718 i 1,756,300

1908-09 797,158 409,994 | 81,655 l,762,-248

1909-10 775,246 590,057 i 84,289 1,996,891

1910-11 1,000,346 962,911 | 99,508 2,566,739

1911-12 . 1,330,437 1,016,898 i 122,940 2,886,331

In 1911-12 the chief imports were: cotton goods, 394,715Z. ; grain, 100,903^.; provisions, 76,878/.; machinery, 50,392/.; sugar, 42,57lZ.; wearing apparel, 40,932Z. ; iron and steelwares, 26,517Z. ; agricultural implements, 24,416Z. ; spirits and liqueurs, 20,406Z.; other articles, 552,707^.

Of imports, 549,274Z. came from the United Kingdom ; 273,090Z. from British Possessions ; 132,613Z. from the United States of America ; 128,758Z. from Germany ; and 85,035Z. from Holland. Of exports, 409, 944/. wentto the United Kingdom; 104,966/. to British Possessions; 148,304/. to Germany; and 146,132/. to France.

The vessels of the British India Steam Navigation Company under a four ■weekly mail contract, transship passengers and mails to the P. and 0. at Aden via Marseilles and the Suez Canal ; the Clan EUerman and Harrison joint service steamers have a four weekly service of cargo steamers from Liver- pool ; the Societa Annonima Nazionale have a four weekly service between Genoa and Mombasa calling at the ports of Italian Somaliland. The vessels of the British India Steam Navigation Company and of the Messageries Mari- times, call monthly at Mombasa ; of the German East Africa line every three Aveeks, and the Union Castle line have a four weekly service from South- ampton via the Suez Canal. Vessels from Bombay call once a fortnight. Communication between the ports of the Protectorate is kept up by small steamers, owned by Messrs. Cowasjee Dinshaw Bros, at Aden.

The Mombasa- Victoria (Uganda) railway is a State railway of the Protectorate ; length 586 miles, gauge 39*33 inches. The construction cost to March 31, 1912, was 5,734,335/. There is a telegraph along the line, and four steamers on the Lake in connection with the railway. In 1911-12, 115,767 tons of goods, exclusive of railway material, and 442,479 passengers were carried; revenue, 360,224/. ; expenditure, 228,852/.

The Post Office of the Protectorate (exclusive of the Uganda Post Office, which is worked by the Protectorate Post Office) received and despatched 2,710,593 letters, packets, &c., and 115,781 telegrams during the year 1911-12. The telegraph system has 2,284 miles of wire (exclusive of Uganda). The lines connect Mombasa with Lamu (200 miles), with Kisumu (584) ; and Kilindini (2 miles) (double line) ; Kisumu with Entebbe (226) (75 miles double line in East Africa and rest in Uganda) ; Londiani with Eldama Ravine (22) ; Lumbwa with Kericho (18/:) ; Nairobi with Fort Hall and Nyeri (81) ; Kibigori with Nandi and Eldoret (48) ; and Ruero with Juja (llj) ; Mazeras and Eabai (2 miles). A cable connects Mombasa with Zanzibar.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief. — H. C. Belfield, C.M.G.

Chief Secretary to the Government. — C. C. Bowring, C.M.G.

Secretary to the Administration. — W. J. Monson.

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