52 Category. Year.

1. Animals and foodstuffs ..

2. Hides and manufactured leather 3. Other animal products ..

4. Cereals, vegetables, and farinaceous foods 5. Colonial wares and drugs 6. Spirituous liquors and oils 7. Papers, books, and printed niattei 8. Coal and wood 9. Stone, earth, glass, &c...

10. Dyeing materials and colours H'. Chemical products, medicine, and perfumery ..

12. Textiles ■{ { ■{.

•{ 4 •{ 13. Metals and manufactured metals . | Total imports .. .. 11 •{ 14. hJisoellaneous ..

Total goods imported Tobacco, tombac, cigars 1909 1908 1909 1908 U09 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 Tobil.

£E. ‘)-i4,243 1,162,124 361,480 380,331 75,000 90,533 3,688.874 3,784,677 . 1,131,804 1,181,993 1.209,244 1,2.54,591 355,183 382,627 2,689,092 3,358,568 535,026 655,112 240,231 266,434 728,033 729,988 5,864,943 6,455,600 1,966,329 2,959,396 ■1.602,332 1,.577,881 21,391,314 24,239,855 I 839,185 860,542 United Kingdom.

£E. 71,961 77.117 140,835 -128,507 17,975 3.566 200,347 303,634 87,247 100,312 169,626 198,405 72,735 74,294 1,173,662 1,520.463 78,880 108,015 28,382 37,780 109,237 101,215 3,463,619 3,744,979 93-1,118 1,649,074 188,997 191,346 British Possessions.

6,737,621 8,258,707 6,057 6,106 hfediterranean.

£E. 32,057 28,340 116 82 62 174 100,536 197,123 78 58 18,785 20,712 39 11 354 249 11,206 17,476 131 85 633 5,249 4,215 4,828 701 561 805 309 169,718 275,257 3,992 3,871 ! 22.230,499 1 25,100,397 6,743,678 8,264,813 173,700 279,128 Par East.

£E. 54,08.'i 48,737 8,371 4,545 228 129 460.508 407,018 81,662 92,462 •8,158 8.915 88 138 3,578 8,275 •163 403 34.867 51,455 33,084 38.571 283899 324,340 1,574 3,199 3,02.5 3,904 973,590 992,121 1,385 1,293 974,975 993,414 1. Ill spite of a large decrease, amounting to £E. 184,000, in the import of live stock, which is clue to the almost total disappearance of cattle-plague in Egypt, cattle and draught horses, also mules I'rom Cyprus, show afi increase. The figures are £E. 12,119, as against £E. 10,615 for 1908 in the case of the former and £E. 6,567 comp-ired with £E. 4,483 in the case of the latter.

Frozen meat from Australia has increased from £E. 19,981 to £E. 29,650. This meat is sold cliiefly to the hotels, and there does not seem much prospect of a further increase in the trade, as there is but little market for it among the native population.

Fish from Great Britain has fallen fi-om £E. 35,692 to £E. 27,024, the figure at which it was in 1907.

Cheese from Malta has decreased from £E. 11,203 to £E. 9,887. Owing to the high prices ruling, the value of- the total import has increased, though the quantity is some 50,000 kilog. less than in 1908.

2. The bulk of the boot and shoe trade is in British hands, and the import from GreaD Britain hrs increased from £E. 65,000 to £E. 79,000. Austria comes next with £E. 20,000.

3. Candles were imported to the value of £E. 40,000, and nearly half this trade went to France, the share of Gi’eat Britain being only one-fortieth. It seems that the paraffin candles from Great Britain are not appreciated here by the natives, who prefer the stearine candle made in France, Holland, and Belgium. Tallow from Great Britain fell from £E. 21,000 to £E. 16,000.

4. Owing to a better harvest in Egypt the import of cereals is nearly £E. 100,000 less than in 1908. Wheat from Cyprus has fallen from £E. 67,249 to £E. 1,881. Australian wheat, on the other hand, increased from .£E. 6,000 to £E. 9,624.

The quantity of rice from India has increased, although the value remains about House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online. Copyright (c) 2006 ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.