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fruits, guano, bricks, Indian corn, potatoes, salt- 

 peter, gold and silver coin, and sugar-house 

 machinery. The following goods were made 

 to pay 20 cents a kilogramme and the above- 

 named 20 per cent : matches, candles, lumber 

 and timber, and cotton goods; 12 cents a kilo- 

 gramme, and 20 per cent. : linseed-oil, olive- 

 oil, olives, beer, paints, wine, glass, and vine- 

 gar; 5 cents a kilogramme, and 20 per cent. : 

 empty bags, sugar, cement, wheat, oakum, 

 macaroni, flour, petroleum, 150 and above, 

 and lard ; 2 cents a kilogramme, and 20 per 

 cent, : rice, bran, tea, anchovies, lime, barley, 

 tire-wood, cordage, beans, and peas. Fire-arms, 

 dynamite, petroleum below 150, powder, salt, 

 and copper and nickel coin were prohibited. 



The new export duties per quintal of 46 kilo- 

 grammes were on cocoa, 30 cents ; coffee, 20 

 cents ; India-rubber, 80 cents ; hides, 28 cents ; 

 cudbear, 28 cents; ivory-nuts, 10 cents; sarsa- 

 parilla, 28 cents. 



IJghthois* Dies, Congress at the same time 

 fixed lighthouse dues, to be defrayed by every 

 sailing-vessel entering a port of the republic, 

 at 10 cents a ton for every light in the har- 

 bor ; steamers only to pay 5 cents, 



Sisptasta of the Bank of'Qait*. The Banco de 

 Quito, a bank of issue and deposit, in which 

 many from among the common people had 

 their savings, failed during the summer, the 

 shareholders losing all they had invested, and 

 the creditors and holders of bank-notes only 

 receiving 60 per cent. Fortunately, an ar- 

 rangement was made through Government ac- 

 tion with the Banco Internacional of Guaya- 

 quil, by virtue of which the deposits on cash 

 liabilities, as well as acceptances having sixty 

 days to run, were finally paid in full, the Banco 

 Internacional taking charge of the liquidation, 

 and the Government paying 15 per cent, on 

 the face of the outstanding bank-notes, so that 

 the loss on the latter was reduced from 40 per 

 cent to 25. 



P*stal Smktw The official returns received 

 from the postmasters of six provinces show 

 for 1SS4 the following items of mail matter re- 

 ceived and forwarded: Province of Carchi, 

 20,923 letters, postal-cards, and periodicals; 

 Imbabura, 29,718 ; Pichincha, 880,976 ; Leon, 

 16,014 ; Tungurahua, 89,580 ; Chimborazcs 29,- 

 790 : together, 516,995 items. 



Mwatita. The province of Carchi has 17 

 schools, with 1,562 pupils and 26 teachers; 

 expenditure during the school year 1S88-'S4, 

 $4,056. The province of Imbabura has 83 

 schools, with 2,186 pupils, 86 teachers, and an 

 annual expenditure of $6,298. The province 

 ot Pichincha has 86 schools; expenditure, $40,- 

 564 ; the number of pupils being 9,172, and of 

 teachers, 17$, The province of Leon has 80 

 schools, with 2,184 pupils and 88 teachers; 

 annual expenditure, $5,984. The province of 

 Tungurahua has 54 schools, with 4,145 pupils 

 and 71 teachers; expenditure, $9,507. The 

 province of Chimborazo has 81 schools; with 

 8,749 pupils and 73 teachers; expenditure. 



$9,040. The province of Quito has 271 sehoola, 

 with 22.585 pupils and 419 teachers; expendi- 

 ture, $76,636. The seven provinces named, 

 taken together, have 522 schools, attended hj 

 45,538 pupils, taught by 836 teachers, at a total 

 annual expenditure of $152,080. 



Commt m. The total imports from Ecuador 

 into England, France, and the United States, 

 during 1883 for the first two, and 18S4 lor the 

 last, amounted to $1,268,000, $44,000, and 

 $1,374,000 respectively, while the exports for 

 the same countries amounted to $882,000^ 

 $924,000, and $629,000 respectively, making 

 the whole trade for England $2,140,00 

 France $968,000, for the United States $2,000 

 000. If the amount of American gotv 

 tered into Ecuador by way of the Isthmus, and 

 credited in our returns to Colombia, were taken 

 into consideration, it would show that our trade 

 with the republic is greater than that of either 

 England or France. 



lUllroads. In addition to the 74 miles of 

 railway in operation between Yahuachi and 

 the Chimbo river, the following lines are pro- 

 iected and the concessions granted : one from 

 Ibarra to the coast of Esmeraldas, which Mr. 

 Finlay has undertaken to build ; one from 

 Quito to Guayaquil, which the Peruvian con- 

 tractors, Messrs, F. Arancibia and Yiflas, will 

 construct; and the completion of the Yahua- 

 chi line, which Mr. J. Kelly has in charge. In 

 July the Government made a contract to that 

 effect with the latter to build a railroad from 

 Chimbo to Sibambe, across the Cordillera, 51 

 miles, to be finished in four years, the Govern- 

 ment subsidizing the contractor at the rate of 

 $29,000 a kilometre, and for twenty-two Tears 

 the line is to be the exclusive property of Mr. 

 Kelly ; but the mails and government freights 

 and employes are to be carried free during that 

 time, in 1907 the line is to become Govern- 

 ment property, to be delivered in good work- 

 ing condition complete, 



Ttteraphs In August the telegraph win 

 reached the city of Cuenca in the south, thence 

 to extend to Loja, the southernmost point of 

 the republic. Toward the north it will soom 

 be carried as far as Ibarra, so that at no distant 

 date Ecuador will be in telegraphic commu- 

 nication by land with Colombia. By cable 

 Ecuador is in communication with the 

 the world by means of the Central and > 

 American Telegraph Company's lines, Ir S 

 tember work was begun on the telegraph KB* 

 that is to connect Guayaquil with Paule ; ateo J 

 on the one between Yahuachi and Babahoro, 

 between Guaranda and Riobamba, and finauy 

 between Quito and Tulcan. 



PrWattiaas. Guayaquil is famous : 

 and hammocks, made of the pita fiber. I 

 'Annual Cyclopaedia" for 1883, page 6 

 The well-known Panama hats are all made 

 Guayaquil, but get their name from the t 

 that Panama merchants formerly oontrolw 

 the trade. They are braided under watar 1 

 native women, of strands often twelve 



