COMMERCE — EXPORTS— SHIPPING. 



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Balance in favour of imports, £197,120; a result less favour- 

 able, in my opinion, than that of the preceding years. 



This return shows correctly, I believe, the value of re-exports, 

 amounting to the large sum of £844,973. The export of produce 

 and manufactures of the colony is shown in the following Table : — 



Exports. 



Produce of the Cane (Sugar, Molasses, Rum) ... ... £905,448 



Cacao 321,906 



Coco-nuts and Coco-fibre ... 14,231 



Asphaltum 25,314 



Total £1,266,899 



The following Table of comparative imports and exports may 

 prove interesting : — 



Population of Trinidad in 1881, 153,128. Estimated popula- 

 tion at the end of 1880, of Barbadoes, 180,000 ; of Guayana, 

 248,110; of Jamaica, 560,000. 



Proportion of imports and exports to each inhabitant : — 



Average ratio (per inhabitant) of imports — Trinidad, £14 Is. ; 

 Barbadoes, £5 10s.; British Guiana, £8 7s.; Jamaica, £2 10s. 

 Exports — Trinidad, £14 15s.; Barbadoes, £7; British Guiana, 



