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 188 THE BRITISH EMPIRE : — ST. HELENA

through the Protectorate to Tanganyika and Ujiji connecting with Cape Town, with a branch to Fort Jameson. At Zomba there is a water-power electric light installation which provides for the whole settlement.

At Blantyre there is a branch of the Standard Bank of South Africa.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

Deputy Governor. — Major F. B. Pearce, C.M.G.

References.

Colonial Office Reports on Nyasaland Protectorate.

Nyasaland Handbook. Published by Messrs. Wyman & Sons, Fetter Lane, London.

Report on the Cotton-growing Industry in British Central Africa Protectorate. By Samuel Simpson. London, 1906.

Precis of Information concerning the British Central Africa Protectorate. By C. B. Vyvyan. London, 1901.

Caddick (Helen), A Wliite Woman in Central Africa. London, 1900.

Duff (H. L.), Nyasaland under the Foreign Office. 2nd ed. London, 1906.

Foa (E.), Du Cap au Lac Nyasse. Paris, 1897.

Johnston (Sir H. H.), British Central Africa. London, 1897.

Keltie(J. Scott), The Partition of Africa. 2nd edition. London, 1895.

Moore (J. E. S.), The Tanganyika Problem. London, 1903.

Ortroz(F. Van), Conventions Internationales concernantl'Afrique. Brussels, 1898.

Rankin (D. J.), The Zambezi Basin and Nyasaland. London, 1893.

Sharpe (Sir Alfred), The Geography and Economic Development of British Central Africa. Geographical Journal. January, 1912.

ST. HELENA.

Governor. — Captain Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux, C.B., C.M.G.

St. Helena, of volcanic origin, is about 800 miles from Ascension Island, the nearest land, and 1,200 from the west coast of Africa. Area, 47 square miles. Population, 1911 Census, 3,520. Births, 1911, 95 ; deaths, 39 ; mar- riages, 20. Emigrants, 186 ; immigrants, 122. Four Episcopal, 3 Baptist, 1 Roman Catholic chapels. Education, 8 schools, with 770 pupils in 1911 ; the schools receiving a Government grant of 5701., excluding 35Z. to non-Goveru- ment schools. Police force, 5 ; convictions, 1911, 142. A detachment of the Royal Marine Artillery is stationed on the island. The port of the island is called JamestoAvn.

The following tables give statistics for St. Helena : —

—

1907

£

7,207 8,057

1908

1909

£

8,778 9,045

1910

1911

Revenue Expenditure

£ 7,432 8,104

9,306 9,596

£

11,122 9,129

Exports 1 Imports'-^.

4,704 35,614

6,685 36,216

7,892 29,303

9,234

37,570

9,959 42,412

1 Including specie, 2,1971. in 1907 ; 500Z. in 1908 ; 2,700L in 1909 ; 5,300/. in 1910 ; 7,i00l. in 1911.

'-i Including specie, 1,250/. in 1907; 5007. in 1908; 3,655/. in 1910; 5,310 in 1911; but excluding government stores.

Public debt nil.

Savings-bank deposits on December 31, 1911, 12,570Z. belonging to 126 depositors. Fruit trees, Norfolk pines, eucalyptus, and cedars flourish in St. Helena ; potatoes were formerly exported to the Cape, but a pro- hibitive duty has been imposed on their importation by the Cape Colony. Cattle do well, but there is no outside market for the meat. The flax