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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — TRANSVAAL

as indiscriminate slaughter w-jas driving the whales away from the South African waters.

Commerce. — Since the coming into effect of the Union there are no special records made for each of the P?e7>vinces ; the British Board of Trade statistics, however, continue to give deta^ds of trade between the United King- dom and each Province separately. The ic"">Uowing figures show the value of the trade between Natal Province and the Unnited Kingdom for five years : —

1913 (pre-war)

1917

19lY r - '

1919

19201

Imports from Natal Exports of U.K. produce

£

•2,724,265

£

4,681,928

4,344,712 173,795

£ 3,616,428

5,053,861

146,108

\ £

7..'529,832

'I. 5,277, 503

146,410

£

6,333,000

11,804,000 598,000

Exports of foreign and colonial merchandise

389,252

1 Provisional figures. i

a The more important imports and exports in 1919 were: — Imports into United Kingdom: maize, 362, 852Z. ; maize meal, 1,326,010?.; raw ■ hides, 747,699?. ; sheep's wool (24,378,626 lbs.), 2,225,878?. ; sheep skins, wcjjolled, 290,046?. ; dye and tanning stutfs, &c, 696,484?. ; sugar, 414,358?. Ex ports from United Kingdom (British produce): cotton manufactures, 678,2t >5?. ; woollen manufactures, 199,150?. ; machinery, 586,774?. ; iron and steel gorods, 1,109,174?. ; apparel, 469,686?. ; chemicals and preparations, 169,243?.

Statistical and other Books of Reference.

Statistical Abstract for theseveral colonial and other possessions of the United Kingdon i. Annual. London.

Barnett {P. A.) and Sweeney (A. W.), Natal : the State and the Citizen. London. 1904..

Bird (John), The Annals of Natal, 1495-1845. Pietermaritzburg, 1888.

Ciillingworth's Natal Almanac. Annual. Durban.

Ingram (J F.), Natalia : History of Natal and Zululand. London, 1897.

Peace (Walter), Our Colony of Natal. Published by permission of the Natal Govern- ment. London, 1884.— Notes on Natal. London, 1S93.

Robinnon (Sir J.), A Lifetime in South Africa. London, 1900.

Rowell (T.), Natal and the Boers. London, 1900.

Ru»tell(R.), Natal, the Land and its Story. 6th ed. London, 1900.

Stuart (J.), A History of the Zulu Rebellion, 1906. London, 1918.

Tatlow (A. H.), Natal Province: Descriptive Guide and Official Handbook. Durban and London. Annual.

rroHop«(Anthony), South Africa. 2 vols. London. 1878.

Twentieth Century Impressions of Natal. Natal, 1900.

PROVINCE OF THE TRAN8VAAL.

Constitution and Government— The territory comprised within the limits of The Transvaal was colonised by Boers who left Cape Colony in 1836-37. In 1852 the independence of the Transvaal Government was recognised by Great Britain, but, in 1877, in consequence of financial difficulties and troubles with the natives, and in accordance with representations and petitions from the Boers, the territory was annexed by the British Government. In 1880 the Boers took up arms for the restoration of their independence, and, in 1881, a Convention was signed restoring to the inhabitants of the territory their self-government. but with conditions, reservations, and limitations, and subject to tlie