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APPENDIX. 



FOREIGN TRADE OF COLOMBIA 



Imports. 



Great Britain £960,000 



France 390,000 



United States 490,000 



Germany 300,000 



(1890). 



Exports. 



£930,000 



1,060,000 



360,000 



280,000 



Total . . . 2,140,000 2,630,000 



Total exchanges with Great Britain (1891) : £1,600,000. 



Total. 



£1,890,000 



1,400,000 



8.30,000 



680,000 



4,770,000 



Entered 

 Cleared 



Total entered 

 „ cleared 



SHIPPING RETUPNS (1889). 



Sailing-vessels. Tonnage. Steamers. 



933 41,920 589 



924 39,746 583 



1,522 vessels; 814,850 tonnage. 



1,507 „ 811,425 



Tonnage. 

 772,930 

 771,679 



Total 3,029 ,, 1,626,275 

 Total entered (1890) : 1,022 vessels; 801,858 tonnage. 



Cucuta (1889) :— Imports, £200.000; exports, £692,000. 



Coffee exported: Colombian, 5,569 tons; Venezuelan, 4,937 tons; total, 10,506 tons. 

 BarranquUla (1889; :— Imports, £1,470,000 ; exports, £1,970,000; total, £3,440,000. 

 Shipping entered, 240 ; tonnage, 368,000. 

 ,, cleared, 231 ; ,, 364,0i,0. 



Rio Hacha (1889) : Imports, £25,000; exports, £54,000 ; total, £79,000. 

 Santa Marta (1889) : Foreign exchanges, £8,000 ; shipping, 105,000 tons. 

 Cartagena (1889) :— Imports, £400,000 ; exports, £367,000 ; total, £767, UOO. 



Shipping, 470 vessels ; 603,346 tonnage. 

 Buenaventura (1889) :— Imports, £128,000; exports, £100,000; total, £228,000. 



Shipping, 141 vessels; 72,689 tonnage. 

 Tumaco (1889) : Foreign exchanges, £44,000 ; shipping, 78,000 tons. 

 Rio Magdalena : Average yearly traffic, £7,000,000 ; tonnage, 50,000. 



FINANCE. 



Revenue 

 Expenditure 



1S90. 



£4,000,000 



4,500,000 



1892. 



£4,070,000 



4,800,000 



18P3. 



£4,980,000 



5,460,000 



External debt (1892), £1,913,500; arrears of interest, £1,146,485 ; total, £3,059,985. 



PUBLIC INSTRUCTION (1891). 



Primary schools, 1,822: pupils, 114,331 ; attendance, 91,976. 

 Normal schools, colleges, &c. : 14 ; students, 587. 

 Univer.^ities (Bogota, Cartagena, and Popayan) : students, 755. 



Railways (1890) : 218 miles completed ; 150 miles in progi-es.-^. 

 Post Office returns (1891) : 2,592,000 letters, &c., forwarded. 

 Telegraph: 6,016 miles; 273 stations; 505,000 despatches. 



