Vol. VIII. No. 85. 
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
[January, 1902.'! 19 
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT. 
CORRESPONDENCE AND ENQUIRIES. 
IS” The following are given as specimens of some of the enquiries which have been addressed to, 
and satisfactorily answered by, the Institute during the past month ( December J. 
%" :f All communications must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer. Enquiries 
which would involve special applications or expense will be a matter of arrangement with 
the correspondent. 
M. & Sons, Ltd., London. — Duty on carriages into New Zealand. 
P. W. L. A., Staffs. — Museums in the colonies. 
H. A. B., London. — General information on the colonies. 
L. R. K., London. — Flax-growing. 
E. 1 \ P. , London.- — Engineers, boilermakers, etc., in the colonies. 
C. E. C., London. — Cultivation of pimento. 
F. A. G. , London. — Obtaining valuation of various minerals. 
Verbal.— Victorian fibres. 
, , New Zealand hemp. , 
,, Sheep farming in the Argentine Republic. 
REQUIREMENTS REGISTRY. 
In order to provide correspondents with an opportunity of making known special “wants” 
or “needs” in the British Colonies, India, and Foreign Countries, space will be regularly 
devoted to the publication of approved notices in the Imperial Institute Journal. Notices, 
as a rule, should not exceed 25 words in length, for which a charge of 2s. 6d. will be made for 
each insertion. Special arrangements can be made for longer notices. 
Specimens of Foreign and Colonial Woods desired. Purchase or 
exchange. Names and localities must be well authenticated. Address — 
Herbert Stone, Bracebridge-street, Birmingham, 
The Curator of the Canadian Section of the Imperial Institute is prepared to 
furnish information about Canadian Trade and to supply names of importers, manufacturers, 
shippers, etc. 
The following trade enquiries have been received at the Canadian Section of the Imperial 
Institute, from the Curator of which Section further particulars may be obtained : — 
Home Enquiries. — A West of England firm of importers and manufacturers’ agents 
could advantageously represent Canadian manufacturers of turned goods, boxes, hard- 
wood blocks, brush backs, furniture seats, and hardware. 
A London firm desires to hear from Canadian manufacturers of chair parts who can quote 
prices and iill orders. 
A manufacturer of gelatines, greases, glues, etc., asks to be placed in communication with 
responsible Canadian importers of these articles. 
Canadian Enquiries. — A Canadian manufacturer of wire mattresses asks to be placed in 
communication with United Kingdom importers who might be prepared to contract for 
regular supplies of these goods. Price lists furnished on application. 
A Montreal house engaged in the metal trade wishes to secure the agency of a first-class 
manufacturer of steel rails, for which they report a good opening. 
The Canadian owner of large timber properties situated in Labrador asks to be placed in 
communication with L?nited Kingdom firms interested in the purchase Of timber lands. 
A Canadian company which has commenced the manufacture of wood flooring would be 
pleased to hear from United Kingdom buyers of this material. 
A Canadian manufacturer who is about to undertake the production of mineral water wood 
caps seeks information regarding demand for these articles in the United Kingdom, and 
asks to be placed in communication with importers. 
A Canadian manufacturer of church and school furniture of all kinds, chairs and other 
furniture, desires to be put in communication with United Kingdom importers of these 
goods. 
A Canadian company which has commenced tire manufacture of wood flour would be 
pleased to hear from United Kingdom buyers of this material. 
A manufacturers’ agent, who is established both in London and Canada, is in a position to 
represent a few United Kingdom houses who wish to develop trade in Canada. 
A Canadian Canning Company is in a position to fill orders for canned vegetables, pork 
and beans, chicken, turkey, soups, etc., and asks to be placed in communication with 
importers of same open to place orders. 

MAPS AND CHARTS. — RECORDS. 
[The entire collection of maps (with the exception of a few atlases and maps issued by private 
firms) consists of authoritative publications of the various government cartographical departments. 
Such as : the One-inch Ordnance Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, a complete set of Admiralty 
Charts, and a selection from the maps compiled in the Intelligence Division of the War Office ; 
the monumental “ Indian Atlas," and a large number of the publications of the Surveyor-General' s 
Office, Calcutta ; the Geological Survey of Canada, and the Government Surveys of Victoria and 
New South Wales, In the arrangement of the collection, the geographical classification of the 
War Office Intelligence Department catalogue has, with some modifications, been followed.] 
ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTION OF MAFS DURING DECEMBER, 1901. 
AFRICA. 
Egypt. 'Aw I.D.W.O. 
Map of Egyptian Sudan. No. 1489 : — Sheets, Wadi Haifa, Murrat, Kosha, Wadi Keheli, 
Dongola, Kagmar, Ma’atuk, El Obeid, Abba Island, Jebelein, Fashoda, Middle Sobat, 
Nasser, Setit, Gore, and Akobo. 
Beber to Victoria Nyanza, 
Skeleton Map of Sudan. 
Presented by the Director of Military Intelligence. 
WORLD, 
W. & A. K. Johnston, Ltd. 
“Navy League” Map of the World. This production is primarily intended to illustrate 
British Naval History. It shows British trade routes and steamship lines, with distances 
between various important ports, and includes statistical information regarding the wealth 
"lid social condition of the British Empire, the value of its sea-borne commerce, sources of 
its food-supply, etc. Presented by the Publishers. 
+ 
Charts that have received additions or corrections too large to be conveniently inserted by hand, and 
in most cases other than those referred to in the Admiralty Notices to Mariners. 
No. 
1185 England, east coast: — River Thames, 
Sea reach. 
60 Channel islands : — Alderney and the 
Casquets. 
117 Faeroe islands. 
2296 Gulf of Bothnia: — South Quarken to 
Hornslandet. 
2302 Gulf of Bothnia Tome point to 
Tauvo. 
33 Germany : — Kiel fiord. 
2206 Black sea : — Odessa bay, 
2220 Ports on the south shore of the Black 
sea. 
2216 Turkish ports on the south shore of 
the Black sea. 
2S2 Newfoundland: — St. John Bay to 
Orange bay. 
1144 Magdalen islands : — Grand Entry har- 
bour. 
2029 Prince Edward islands : — Cardigan 
bay. 
519 Lake Huron. 
334 Lake Huron : — Straits of Mackinac. 
2522 South America, east coast : — Santa 
Catharina island to Rio de la Plata. 
2887 United States, west coast : — San Pablo 
and Suisun bays. 
No. 
592 British Columbia :• — Barkley sound. 
2462 Alaska : — Windham bay to Icy cape. 
713 Mauritius : — Port Louis. 
833 Bay of Bengal :— Rangoon river and 
approaches. 
1009 Malacca strait : — Approaches to Perak 
river. 
2201 Plans in Sumatra. 
1153 Celebes: — Pulu Mutwo to Tanjong 
Sutuno. 
931 Philippine islands : — Ports Subic and 
Silanguin. 
2734 China, south coast :— Si Kiang or 
West river. Sheet 2. 
1270 Korea : — Approaches to Chemulpho. 
104 Korean archipelago, southern portion, 
2877 Japan Uwajuua bay. 
1055 Australia, west coast : — Bedont island 
to cape Cuvier. 
ijgjab Australia, south coast : — Entrance to 
Port Philip. 2 sheets. 
105 Tasmania » — Port Hobart. 
2922 Australia, east coast : — Turtle group 
to Claremont point. 
2532 New Zealand : — Ninety Miles head to 
Otago. 
1417 South Pacific : —Chatham islands. 
HONG KONG. 
In the annual report on Hong Kong, the Governor, Sir H. A. Blake, refers to the sound 
financial position of the colony, and states that its business, which is mainly that of a great 
transhipping port, continues to increase with the expanding trade of the East. Referring to 
the Boxer troubles, the Governor points out that Hong Kong was practically the British base, 
and incidentally states that the conduct of the Indian troops landed there left nothing to be 
desired. A paralysis of general trade was caused by the outbreak of hostilities, and the 
godowns in Hong Kong and Shanghai were filled to overflowing with imported merchandise, 
of which the Chinese merchants were slow to take delivery. The Governor refers to the 
outbreak of plague at the end of February, which lasted twenty-seven weeks. There were 
1,080 cases, and the mortality was 95*5 per cent. A severe typhoon in November is also 
reported, during which H.M.S. Sandpiper and a large new dredger from England were sunk, 
Ten launches and over no junks were also wrecked, and more than 200 lives were lost in 
about three hours. In consequence of the difficulties which beset them on account of the 
strained interpretation by the Imperial Maritime Customs of the inland navigation agreement, 
the Governor points out that the large river steamers which traded between Hong Kong and 
the West River Treaty Ports were withdrawn during the year. 
Regarding the revenue of the colony, the Colonial Secretary at Hong Kong states that a 
steady increase has been shown during the past five years, which has more than counter- 
balanced the increased expenditure. In 1895 the balance of revenue over expenditure showed 
a deficit of 486,144.12 dollars. In 1900 not only had this deficit been made good, but, 
notwithstanding an expenditure exceeding that of 1895 by 655,904. 12 dollars, the revenue of 
Hong Kong showed a surplus of 574,140.37 dollars. The actual revenue for 1900 was 
3,235,329.61 dollars, exclusive of the amounts derived from land sales and the water account, 
which amounted to 816,222.92 dollars and 151,034.87 dollars respectively. The expenditure 
amounted to 3,623,447.13 dollars, of which 473,205.89 dollars was on public works extra- 
ordinary. The total imporL trade of the port for 1900 amounted to 23,205 vessels, of 
8,626,61410115, carrying 6,342, 138 tons of cargo, of which 4,198,389 tons were discharged 
at Hong Kong. This does not include the local junk trade. The net increase in imports 
thus amounted to 422,717 tons. In exports there was a decrease of 70,666 tons. The 
chief articles of import are coal, rice, sugar and flour ; tea, kerosene, rice and paddy, and 
general cargo are the principal exports. There has been a great increase in the amount of 
sugar imported, no less than 76 '6 per cent.; also in timber, coal, flour and hemp. The 
trade in bulk oil is almost at a standstill, but case oil shows a decrease of 10,609 tons. 
The rice trade has diminished by 98,801 tons, and may now be said to be at its normal 
condition. The population of the colony, at the census taken in January, 1S97, 
was 248,880, while at the census taken in January, 1901, it was 283,975, exclusive of the 
army and navy, which amounted to 13,237. The population of the new territory, which is 
exclusively Chinese, was estimated at 100,000 in the year 1899. 
New docks are projected, one of which will accommodate the largest ship afloat, and 
the existing docks are being enlarged, so that “ the docking facilities of the port will in the 
near future, equal, if not exceed, those of any port in the East.” The building of steam 
launches proceeds apace, and the Governor doubts whether better or cheaper launches are 
built in any part of the world. The enormous traffic of the colony renders it peculiarly diffi- 
cult to deal with the introduction of the plague from without, especially as a few hours brings 
crowds of coolies from the neighbouring plague-infected mainland. Overcrowding is one of 
the pressing problems of the time ; in one district the population is 640,000 to the square 
mile, and this in a city crowded under the precipitous northern slope of a range of hills that 
effectually shut off the south-easterly breezes of the summer months. The main difficulty is 
that the value of houses and land is so great that the opening of new streets must be very 
costly ; nevertheless, “ sooner or later the question of the abatement of surface overcrowding 
must be vigorously dealt with.” 
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CHARTS AND PLANS. 
Published by the Hydrographic Departmejit , Admiralty , during September and October, tqoi ; 
J. D. Potter, Agent, rqj, Minories, London. 
No. New Charts. 
3192 Scotland, west coast : — Loch Broom, upper portion. 
3104 England, east coast : — Hartlepool to Blyth. 
3212 Ports on the east coast of Italy: — Port of Ancona. 
3197 Cuba : — Mevitas bay. Entrance channel. 
3213 Flans on the north coast of Brazil : — Port Ti monha. Port Camocim. 
1921 Plans in the Indian Ocean : — St. Paul island. Amsterdam island. 
3214 Red sea. Suez bay : — Ports Ibrahim and Thewfik. 
1143 Anchorages in Malacca strait : — Wanderer bay. Araug Arang anchorage (Republication). 
3209 Bays and anchorages in Makassar strait. 
157^ Japan: — Simonoseki strait. 
3196 Harbours and anchorages on the west coast of Nipon, Japan. 
3200 Japan: — Aikappu Misaki to Rebun islands. (Plans: — Kabuka Biochi. Oniwaki Biochi. 
Teshio Gawa-Gashi. ) 
3x98 Russian Tartary : — Askold island to Cape Povorotni. 
3222 Russian Tartary : — Rikorda island to Larionoff point. 
1062 Australia, south coast : — Rivoli bay to Cape Otway. 
1014 Australia, south coast: — Cape Jervis to Rivoli bay. 
1:383 Islands and anchorages in the south-east Pacific Ocean : — Juan Fernandez. Cumberland 
bay. Mas o Fuera island. St. Felix and St. Ambrose islands. St. Felix road 
( Republication). 
2194 Anchorages in the northern part of Celebes. New plans : — Bolang Uki bay. Sumalata 
road. Himana bay. Pienchang bay. Domisil bay. Paleli and Lintidu roads. 
208 Japan : — Harbours and anchorages on east coast Nipon. New plan : — Uchiura Wan. 
JOHOR. 
The following information respecting the State of Johor has been recently received 
from the Hon. Dato J, Meldrum, the Corresponding Agent of the Institute : — 
Johor.— Until the projected railway is made through Johor and connected with the 
railways of the Federated Malay States and the line from Singapore (14 miles) is finished, no 
great developments, such as have been made in Perak, Selangor, Pahang, Negri Sembilan, 
etc., may be expected. Land for new gambier and pepper plantations is not to be had 
near the water ; besides, it is difficult to procure Chinese coolies, owing to the high rate of 
wages prevailing in the tin-producing States of the north, and other reasons. 
The population may be said to be about 200,000, mostly Chinese. No census has ever 
been taken. The few Malays that govern the country are, perhaps, as well qualified for the 
task as their neighbours. There are a few British subjects, not more than thirty including 
children. It is now forty-one years since the first European came here to make it his place 
of permanent residence : he erected the Johor Steam Saw Mills (which are still actively 
employed). A few years afterwards, in the sixties, the late Sultan Abubakar came to reside ; 
he built an jstana and the town of Johor Bahru or New Johore sprang up ; his father, the 
Tummongong of Johore, resided at Telloh Blanga in Singapore. The present Sultan 
Ibrahim (a tall, handsome young man 26 years of age) is at present on a tour through the 
Continent of Europe. 
According to the official statement of imports and exports issued by the Government of 
the Straits Settlements for the year 1900, it appears that the exports from Johor into 
