181 
* The result of the locust pl: ge is all too plainly to be seen in the 
export returns of food stuffs : 
Value in 10€0 Dollars. 
Articles. E 
1892. 1£93. 1894. 
Rice, ar - = - 33 35 9 
4 - - 60 121 16 
aiz 6 7 ER 
Negro corn (matama mä. raawele) > 56 84 53 
3 4 2 
& The same cad a is noticeable in the report returns of cattle, 
sugar-syrup, a 
** On the thet zarg d not affected by locusts show an inercase :— 
Value in 1000 Dollars. - 
Articles. 
1892 1893. 1894. 
Raw caoutchouc - - - 211 232 247 
Cocoa-nuts - - H 3l 56 44 
ero E - - - 47 44 80 
Tobac - - 37 30 101 
Grass for plaiting. - - B 9 13 
* The only exception is copra, the quantity el in 1894 bent 
30,060 dols. less than in 1893. 
* The great Volume. of the East coast trade still finds its way to 
Zanzibar. According to the returns drawn up there the value of the 
goods imported into the island in 1894 from the German coast amounted 
to no less than 3,980,390 TS. and the goods exported thence to the 
cu S iod 3 (139,3 339 rc 
a despatch to the Foreign Office, gives the 
most recent account of the progress adó in the cultivation of T ropical 
staples in German East Aft 
Mr. Gossxtin to the MARQUESS or SALISBURY. 
(No 129. Africa.) 
My Lorp, ~ Berlin, July 9, 1896. 
Tux German East Africa Company have recently issued. t their 
'Annuai Report for 1895 
The Handei Hills coffee plantations are doing well, and have wit ith- 
‘stood the ravages of the rabies gid fairly well, and the first 
harvest (1895-96) realised so 1709 ners; the best t quality was 
sold on the average for 1:10 mile per à E P kilog. (the duty being paid by 
the purchasers). "A great increase is anticipated in the n ext. harvest. 
‘as a number of newly-planted trees will make a retura for the first time. 
From 500,000 to 600,000 coffee trees are already planted, without 
counting some hundred ‘thousands of cuttings. 
