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IV. 
CHANGE or Market ror Bnrrisu CANE SUGAR. 
“The prominent fact . . is the changed amount and 
proportion of the imports of cane sugar from Br itish possessions, 
Writing in 1884 I pointed ph that while the amount of 
the imports from British Ee sen was maintained at nearly the high 
figures of 1853 and subsequently, yet the proportion of these imperts to 
the total had steadily declined, owing to the large growth of im 
from other countries, especially beet countries. In the last five years a 
still greater change has taken place. The imports from British posses- 
sions have greatly diminished, from nearly 5,000,000 cwts. in 1882, to 
just over 3,000,000 ewts., and "e ae on which had steadily 
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dealt with, and which have not E but they show that that 
production does not find an outlet in the ket of the vea bag 
dom, as it formerly did, its place being Wee tikes by beet s 
V. 
INcREAsR or Home CONSUMPTION AT DIMINISHED Cost. 
tack. "The 8,000,000 ewts, queer Pide 50 to 35 years ago, V catenins 
ly to 
the 22:000,000 ewts. annually consumed in the last two or three years. 
Of course this is again subject to the above ee a as to final 
consumption by the people of the United Kingdom, but the reduction 
of price is also an important matter for the manufacturing industries in 
which the sugar is used.” 
