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TRADE IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS IN 1904. 



The Annual Report on the Exports from the Straits Settlements 

 for last year which is just published contains for the first time the 

 record of the export of Para rubber of which 88 piculs were 

 exported. 



Decreases are shown in Rice to the value of 4^ million dollars ; 

 Pepper over f million. Coffee over $520,000; Sago and Tapioca 

 $912,000, while increases are recorded in Nutmegs $390,000, Tea 

 $220,000 and Betel-nuts and Mace in smaller amount. 



DETAILED EXPORTS. 

 Singapore. 



Exports of this class from Singapore valued 83! million dollars, 

 a decrease of 54 million. 



The largest falling-off is in Rice by nearly 4.4 million dollars ; Pep- 

 per by over I of a million, Beche-de-mer by over $600,000, Coffee by 

 over $520,000, Sago and Tapioca taken together by $912,000, 

 Opium by $300,000 and Medicine by over $210,000, followed by 

 Padi ; Spirits, Sugar, Live Animals, Lard, Chocolate and Cocoa. 



The increases are chiefly seen in dry and salted fish by over 

 $830,000, Sugar Candy by over $450,000, Nutmegs by nearly 

 $390,000, Birdnests by over $270,000 and Tea by nearly $220,000, 

 followed by Arecanuts, Mace and Tobacco and Cigars with smaller 

 increases. 



Penang. 



The Exports of this class from Penang valued nearly mil- 

 lion dollars, a decrease of over 4! million 



Rice alone accounts for a decline of 3-^ million dollars, Opium 

 of $730,000, Arecanuts of nearly $645,000, Live Animals and Sugar 

 of about $340,000 each, and Nutmegs of over $220,000, followed by 

 Dry and Salted Fish, Curry Stuffs, Malt Liquors and Sago with 

 smaller declines. 



Cigars and Tobacco showed increased values of over a million 

 dollars, Pepper of over $400,000 and Coffee of over $120,000. 



Malacca. 



Malacca with an export value of over 2^ million dollars gave a 

 decrease of about $11,000. 



Tapioca fell off by $240,000 and Rice by $40,000, but the value 

 of Swine exported rose by $180,000 and Opium by $72,000. 



The Colony. 



The falling-off in Coffee was most marked from Bali, 42,000 

 piculs received in 1903 declining to 14,600 in the year under review 

 and the import of over 50,000 piculs from the Federated Malay 

 States also showing a decline of 10,000. 



