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Labrador in the season of 1893 was 3,499 tierces ; 

 value, $55,984 



Revenue and Trade. The revenue was 

 $1,820,206 in 1891, $1,883,790 in 1892, $1,764- 

 791 in 1893. The value of imports in 1893 was 

 $7,572,569: exports, $6,218,799. 



Population. The census of 1891 gave the 

 population of Newfoundland and Labrador as 

 202,040, the increase during the previous decade 

 having been at the rate of 3 -4 per cent. Of 

 these, 72,696 belonged to the Church of Rome, 

 69,824 to the Church of England, 487 to the Re- 

 formed Church of England, 53,276 were Metho- 

 dists, 1,449 were Presbyterians, 782 were Congre- 

 gationalists, 2,092 belonged to the Salvation 

 Army, and on Labrador were 1,397 Moravians. 



Shipping. The latest returns (1892) give the 

 number of steamers owned in the colony as 35 ; 

 tonnage, 6,178. Number of sailing vessels from 

 20 to 60 tons, 1,421 ; number of sailing vessels of 

 60 tons and upward, 271 ; tonnage, 25,740. 

 Number of boats from 4 to 30 quintals, 20,452. 

 Number of vessels built in 1890, 52 ; tonnage, 

 11,520. Number of vessels engaged in the bank 

 fishery, 199; tonnage, 11,520. Number of ves- 

 sels engaged in the Labrador fishery, 859 ; ton- 

 nage, 93,634. 



Agriculture. According to the census of 

 1891 there are 179,215 acres of land occupied, 

 and its value is $3,224,700. The annual farm 

 produce of that year was worth $1,562,398, and 

 the animals were worth $1,189,413. 



Lumbering. As the new railway advances, 

 the immense forest wealth of the country is 

 brought to light, and a large lumbering trade is 

 now carried on in the valleys of the Gambo, the 

 Gander, and the Exploits. The pine brings in 

 many instances the highest price in foreign mar- 

 kets, its quality being superior. The value of 

 the timber exported in 1893 was $45,986. 



Mining. The export of copper ore in 1893 

 was as follows: 40,247 tons, value $203,435; 

 5,184 tons of regulus, value $207,360 ; 13,350 

 tons of iron pyrites, value $227,334. 



Railways. The Northern and Western Rail- 

 way, now in course of construction, from St. 

 John's to Port-au-Basques, 550 miles, had reached 

 Sandy Pond in 1894, a distance of nearly 300 

 miles from the capital. It will be completed in 

 1896. From the terminus, Port-au-Basques, a 

 line of steamers will run to Louisburg, there 

 connecting with the Canadian system of rail- 

 ways. It opens up excellent agricultural and 

 mineral lands, and makes the great forests of the 

 interior accessible. 



The French Shore Question. No progress 

 has been made in the settlement of this vexed 

 question. The modus vivendi now in operation 

 will terminate at the close of 1895. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE, a New England State, 

 one of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitu- 

 tion J une 21, 1788 ; area, 9,305 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 141,885 in 1790; 183,858 in 1800: 214,460 in 

 1810 ; 244,022 in 1820; 269,328 in 1830 ; 284,574 

 in 1840; 317,916 in 1850; 326,073 in 1860; 318,- 

 300 in 1870; 346.991 in 1880; and 376,530 in 

 1890. Capital, Concord. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, John B. 

 Smith, Republican; Secretary of State, Ezra S. 



Stearns ; Treasurer, Solon A. Carter ; Attorney- 

 General, Edwin J. Eastman; Adjutant General, 

 Augustus D. Ayling; Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, Frederic Gowing; Commissioner of 

 insurance, John C. Linehan; Commissioners of 

 Banking, James 0. Lyford, Alpheus W. Baker, 

 and John Hatch; Commissioner of Labor, John 

 W. Bourlet ; Railroad Commissioners, Henry W. 

 Pultney, Benjamin W. Prescott, Thomas Cogs- 

 well ; Cattle Commissioners, Irving A. Watson, 

 N. J. Batchelder; Chief Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, Charles Doe; Associate Justices, William 

 M. Chase, Isaac W. Smith, Alonzo P. Carpenter, 

 R. M. Wallace, I. N. Blodgett, L. W. Clark. 



Finances. The net indebtedness of the State, 

 June 1, 1893. was $2,131,762.50; the liabilities, 

 June 1, 1894, were $2.654,715.63 ; the assets, June 

 1, 1894, were $618,173.30; the net indebtedness 

 at the latter date, $2,036,542.23, showing the re- 

 duction of the debt during the year to have been 

 $95,220.37. The average annual reduction of the 

 debt since 1872 has been about $100,000. For 

 eleven years, beginning Jan. 1, 1895, $150,000 of 

 the municipal war-loan bonds, series of 1872, will 

 mature annually. 



The effect of the financial depression on the 

 State treasury so far was limited to an increase 

 of the rate of interest on temporary loans from 

 3 per cent, in 1892-'93 to 5 per cent, in 1893-94 ; 

 in the reduction of the premium on the 4-per- 

 cent, bonds of the State from 10'9 per cent, in 

 1892-'93 to 3-63 per cent, in 1893-'94, and in the 

 reduction in the rate of interest on deposits of 

 State funds. 



The Legislature of 1893 authorized the issue 

 of $75,000 4-per-cent. twenty-year bonds, the 

 proceeds to be applied to the completion of the 

 State Library building ; and $135,000 4-per-cent. 

 twenty-year bonds, for the Agricultural College 

 buildings at Durham. These bonds were placed 

 during the financial stringency in 1893 at an 

 average premium of 3'63 per cent. The original 

 library loan of $175,000 4-per-cent. twenty-year 

 bonds, authorized by the Legislature in 1891, was 

 sold at a premium of 10'9 per cent. 



The fact that a temporary loan has to be taken 

 every year is due to the action of the Legislature 

 of 1889 in changing the time of payment of the 

 savings-bank tax from June 15 to Oct. 1. The 

 State tax is not due till Dec. 1, and all the cor- 

 poration taxes are due in October, while the an- 

 nual appropriations are drawn upon heavily di; 

 ing the early part of the fiscal year. 



The taxes on corporations for the year endii 

 June 1, 1894, amounted to $1,107,353.33. 



Banks. The report of the Bank Commission- 

 ers for the year includes the following items of 

 general interest: There are 2 State banks. 70 

 savings banks, 13 trust companies, 17 building 

 and loan associations organized under Chapter 

 CLXV1 of the public statutes, 2 building and lo 

 associations acting under special charters, and 

 savings banks in the hands of assignees. 



The net decrease of savings deposits in 

 savings banks and trust companies for the year 

 ending June 30, 1894, after dividends of the year 

 had been added to the deposit accounts, was, in 

 round numbers, $4,000,000. The dividends for 

 that period were $3,479,622.69. Exclusive of 

 dividends credited, the withdrawals exceed the 

 deposits by about $6,500,000. 



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