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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 
$220,000 and Betel-nuts and Mace in smaller amount, 
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DETAILED EXPORTS. 
Singapore. 
Exports of this class from Singapore valued 83^ million dollars, 
a decrease of 5-f million. 
The largest falling-off is in Rice by nearly 4$ million dollars; Pep- 
per by over f 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 20^ mil- 
lion dollars, a decrease of over 4! milljon 
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 fa 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 Ball, 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. 
