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PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



To Dundee, station to station, a special rate for 4-ton lots is 

 quoted 55. ($1.22) per ton; smaller quantities, 6s. 3d. ($1.52) per 

 ton carted. 



Prices of other paper-making articles. 



Free on rail Leith 55. ($1.22) per ton more. Freight from Leith 

 to Guardbridge Mill is 75. 5d. ($1.80) per ton in 4-ton lots. 



As all exports and imports leave this district indirectly through 

 the principal shipping ports, no statistics are available. 



Terms of sale to wholesalers are: Ninety days, 10 per cent; cash, 

 11^2 per cent. To retailers the terms are: Ninety days, 5 per cent; 

 cash, 6% per cent. 



]. N. McCuNN, 



DUNFERMLINE, May 18, 1899. Consul. 



EDINBURGH. 



The Edinburgh consular district comprises, at least for the 

 purposes of this report, the Lothians the counties of Edinburgh 

 (Midlothian), Linlithgow (West Lothian), and Haddington (East 

 Lothian) and the counties of Peebles, Dumfries, Berwick, Selkirk, 

 and Roxburgh. The population of these divisions of Scotland in 

 1891, according to the census taken in April of that year, was as 

 follow r s : 



The total population of the eight counties was 726,934. Only in 

 the case of one of these counties, I believe, has an official estimate 

 of the population been made since the date of the last census. There 

 has been an increase, but not large. Probably the number of in- 

 habitants of this district is to-day between 775,000 and 800,000. To 



