Vol. VIII. No. 86. 
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
[February, 1902 .] 51 
Sweden. — Customs Alterations. — The following 
alterations have been made in the Customs Tariff of Sweden 
by Royal Decree, taking effect from the ist ult. : — 
Tariff 
No. 
6 4^ a 
64b 
141 
284 
59i 
Articles. 
Rates of Duty. 
English 
Equivalents. 
Embroidered articles , 
not specified, finished 
or begun — 
Embroidered ribbons 
of cotton tulle, even 
when provided with 
other needle-work ; 
also similar em- 
broidered tissues, 
manifestly intended 
to be cut up into 
Kron, ore. 
s. d. 
ribbons . 
Embroidered ribbons 
of other cotton or of 
linen tissue, even 
when provided with 
other needle-work ; 
also similar e m- 
broidered tissues, 
manifestly intended 
to be cut up into 
Kilog. 6 50 
3 3l 
ribbons , 
>. 5 5° 
.. 2 9i 
f 
As the material upon which 
Other kinds . , 
Note. — No deduction 
made for boxes, paper 
envelopes, cards, or 
packing paper. 
Colours and colouring 
substances — 
White lead, of all 
embroidered, with an addi- 
tion of 100 ] 
ler cent. 
kinds 
Ckeniico-tecknical prepa- 
rations , not specified— 
Chloride of gold, 
chloride of gold and 
potassium, chloride 
of gold and sodium 
(gold-salt), chloro- 
platinite of potassium, 
and chloride of 
Free. 
Free. 
platinum . , 
Playing cards , and 
painted or printed card- 
board in the sheet, 
whether with or with- 
out figures, intended to 
Kilog. 0 08 
Lb. 0 o| 
be cut up 
Note. — A special regu- 
lation lays down the 
formalities to be ob- 
served before the cards 
are delivered to the 
owner. 
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TRANSPORT AND FREIGHTS. 
The Freight Market. — Outward rates are weak, but in 
most directions not quotably lower. Last fixtures have been on 
basis of Genoa, 5s. 6d. ; Malta, 4s. ; Venice, 6s. ; Alexandria, 
5s. ; Las Palmas, 6s. ; Buenos Ayres, 9s. 6d. ; Colombo, 10s. 
American markets are in a state of stagnation. Australia 
continues weak. Current quotations are 27s. 6d. Europe, 25s. 
Africa, Newcastle-Manila 12s. 6d., Java ios., Singapore 8s. 
Black Sea easy, Odessa berth paying 9s. Eastern markets 
steady at slightly improved rates, Bombay paid 15s. 6d, , 
Kurrachee 16s. , Calcutta 22s. 6d. , Rangoon 21s. 3d. 
Mediterranean markets are extremely dull, and no business 
has been effected except in ore. River Plate steady at 17s. 6d. 
San Lorenzo limit. — Weddel, Turner & Co., London, 
January 22, 1902. 
UNITED KINGDOM. 
Manchester Ship Canal. — The Manchester racecourse 
at New Barnes has now been purchased by the Ship 
Canal Company for the sum of ,£265,000. The acquisition of 
the estate will enable the Ship Canal Company to carry out 
extensions to their docks which have been long needed, and 
already the work of constructing a through railway round the 
course has been commenced. It has been estimated that the 
proposed new works will nominally increase the capacity of the 
docks for ocean traffic by something like 70 per cent. No 
fewer than 142 acres of land will be added to the dock estate. 
It is proposed to ultimately construct two large new basins, 
each about halloa- mile in length. A portion of the dock near 
to Mode Wheel locks will be first made, and it is not likely 
that the Company will seek powers for the construction of the 
second dock until the first is completed. When both the docks 
have been made, two miles will have been added to the exist- 
ing quay frontage, and berths will have been provided for 32 
vessels of an average length of 330 feet. There are at present 
about 5! miles of quays at the docks, but not more than three 
miles are actually available for the accommodation of deeply 
laden ships, for the docks above Trafford Bridge cannot be 
used by large steamers. The remainder of the racecourse 
estate will be utilized for the erection of transit sheds and ware- 
houses and the provision of railway sidings. These last are 
needed for the proper sorting and marshalling of railway 
wagons containing cargo, as well as for the exchange of traffic 
between the Canal Company and the various railway com- 
panies whose systems are connected with the dock railways. 
The cost of the railway and the dock is estimated at ,£150,502, 
while £ 92,000 has been set apart for sidings, storage grounds, 
roads and subsidiary works. To these figures must be added, 
of course, the sum of ,£265,000, which has been paid for the 
land. The new transit sheds, it is understood, will be built by 
private enterprise and leased to the Company. According to 
the evidence given by Mr. W. H. Hunter, Chief Engineer of 
the Ship Canal Company, in the arbitration between the Ship 
Canal Company and the Racecourse Company, the amount 
which has been expended in the past on the construction of the 
Salford Docks, lying between Mode Wheel locks and the 
Trafford-road swing bridge, is ,£933,236, while a further sum of 
,£317,467 has been expended upon the Pomona Docks, between 
the Trafford-road swing bridge and the Wooden-street swing 
bridge. In addition, not less than ,£907,758 has been spent in 
the equipment of the docks, ,£685,848 0 f this amount having 
been expended since the opening of the canal in 1894. The 
cost of the equipment ol the Salford Docks was ,£797.930 and 
of the Pomona Docks ,£109,828. Thus the Salford Docks have 
already cost in construction and equipment a sum of ;£i, 413,699 
and the Pomona Docks a sum of ,£427, 295, atotal of ,£1,840, 944, 
apart from the cost of the land. — Manchester Guardian. 
COLONIES. 
Transport in West Africa. —The Gold Coast Globe says 
it is now very generally recognised that the paramount 
difficulty which faces the mining industry on the West Coast 
of Africa is the lack of transport. In the past six months 
much has been done to combat this drawback by the con- 
struction of the railway from Sekondi to Tarkwa, and by 
making roads from the various coast ports to the interior and 
the mines. Despite this, however, the mining companies still 
continue to suffer greatly. Numerous mining companies whose 
reefs are not in the immediate neighbourhood of Tarkwa have 
taken a very determined attitude with regard to the vital matter 
of transport from the coast to the mining properties, and an 
elaborate scheme for utilizing the Ankobra waterway for the 
purpose of transport has been prepared. Although all the 
details have not yet been completed, the new transport system is 
certain to have a very marked effect on mining developments. 
A company has been formed which will immediately set to work 
and erect the necessary storehouses, and will make a complete 
survey of the river Ankobra and all the necessary arrangements 
for the commencement of active operations. 
INDIA. 
New Railways. — It is announced that the Secretary of 
State for India has sanctioned capital expenditure on railways 
during the ensuing financial year of 1,050 lakhs of rupees 
{,£7,000 ,000). This sum is to be almost equally divided between 
the provirion of rolling stock and other works in connection 
with existing lines on the one hand, and the prosecution of a 
construction programme on the other. Of the latter moiety, 
350 lakhs will be absorbed by lines now in progress, and 
174 lakhs by new railways. Of these an important one is the 
line which will cross the Ganges near Allahabad and connect 
that city with Faizabad, the centre of the fertile districts watered 
by the Goghra. The line, which will reduce the distance by rail 
between the two cities from 235 miles to 98, will cost 117 lakhs, 
40 of which are allotted for the next financial year. Some of the 
other lines to be begun in 1902-1903 are of equal importance. 
The East Indian grand chord is to be completed by filling in 
the gap of 112 miles from Gya to Katrasgarh, v,’hich is to cost, 
in round figures, two crores of rupees (_£ 1,333, 000), one-fourth of 
which sum is now sanctioned. Twenty lakhs of the estimated 
cost of 50 lakhs are granted for the Jech-Doab loop, which is 
intended to serve the large area brought under cultivation by the 
irrigation canal of the same name, and will connect with the 
North-Western system at Lyallpur. The Bengal-Nagpur rail- 
way is to be given long-desired access to the Palamow and 
Daltongunj coalfields by a line bridging the Damuda river, the 
preliminary amount allotted being 20 lakhs. The ten lakhs set 
aside for the Ranaghat-Murshidabad line bears but a small 
proportion to the total cost of an extension which, with projected 
feeders, will do much for the development of Eastern Bengal. 
All the lines mentioned are in Bengal and Upper India, and 
their admission into the official programme has left little margin 
for expenditure in other parts of the country. But any jealousies 
which might otherwise be aroused in the case, at least, of Western 
India will be obviated, we presume, by the sanction accorded to 
a scheme which has for some years been pressed on the notice of 
the Indian Government by the Bombay Chamber of Commerce 
— the Godhra- Baroda chord. Forty-five miles in length, it will 
save nearly 30 miles in the through distance between places 
north and east of Goclhra and south of Baroda, and obviate the 
delays to which the traffic of the Anand-Godhra section of the 
Bombay, Baroda, and Central India railway is subjected in the 
monsoon. There will, however, be some disappointment on 
the part of commercial interests in Bombay that Government is 
not able to include in the programme the much more important 
Nagda-Bara-Muttra extension, to which it is pledged, and which, 
by shortening very materially the connection between Bombay 
and ‘ ' the granaries of India" in the north would be of great 
value in the event of famine in Southern India. Lower Burma 
is represented in the programme by the Henzada-Kyaugin 
m&tre-gauge line, 65 miles in length, which will open up a rich 
rice-growing district ; and Southern India by the Azikhel- 
Mangalore line, for which ten lakhs of rupees are allotted. 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
China. — The Russian Amoor Company for Navigation and 
Trade is having a number of flat-bottomed steamers built to 
work in connection with the Eastern Chinese railway. Two 
passenger boats of the kind, and three steam tugs, are to go 
from Hamburg in the spring for use on the upper reaches of the 
rivers Amoor and Shilka. 
Germany (Hamburg). — Thereport of the Hamburg Chamber 
of Commerce shows that there was a large increase in the ship- 
ping of that port during the past year. The steamer fleet of the 
port now numbers 521 vessels of 842,966 net register tons, 
against 486 steamers of 748,435 tons a year ago ; and the sailing 
fleet 333 vessels of 242,765 tons, against 307 vessels of 
240,419 tons. It is admitted that ocean freights are now 30 
to 40 per cent, lower than a year ago, which is considered a 
serious matter in view of the high prices of coal and the higher 
level of wages, 
Portuguese West Africa. — The Engineering News (New 
York) reports that the Compagnie de MossamCdes (Paris) has 
received a concession of land in Angola from the Portuguese 
Government for a railway from Port Alexander to the interior. 
Amongst the projects of the Company are the establishment of 
a port, construction of quays, docks, telegraphic lines, etc. The 
concessionaires have recently made numerous mining conces- 
sions to subsidiary companies. 
United States. — Panama Canal.— The report of the Isth- 
mian Canal Commission was published on the 20th January 
last, and, as was expected, was in favour of the acceptance of 
the offer of the Panama Company to sell its property to the 
United States for $40,000,000. Thereport of the Commission 
is unanimous, and is to the effect that, after considering the 
changed conditions now existing and all the facts and circum- 
stances upon which its judgment must be based, the Commission 
is of opinion that the most practical and feasible route for the 
canal is the Panama route. 
United States. — New Line of Steamers from New 
York to the Levant. — It is -reported that the Hamburg- 
Anierican Steamship Line have made arrangements for a line 
of steamers between New York and the Levant. The plans 
are completed, and in February a fleet of four ships will be 
started running. The trips will be made monthly, and while 
the vessels will be principally devoted to freight, there will also 
be accommodation for a few passengers. Among the ports 
which will be touched are Malta, Alexandria, Smyrna, Athens, 
Constantinople, Odessa, and intermediate places. The round 
trip will occupy about two months. As business increases the 
fleet will be enlarged and more frequent trips will be made. 
It is also stated that the same company is building two new 
steamers for service between New York rind Hamburg — the 
Moltke and the Blucher, each of which will be between 12,000 
and 13,000 tons. They will have no first-class accommodation, 
and will be used mainly as cargo boats. The first of these 
vessels will make her maiden trip next March. — Steamship 
Service with the West Indies and South America.— 
The United States Steamship Company, which is organising 
a direct steamship service between Boston, the West Indies, 
the Mexican Gulf ports, and South America, will place 14 
boats in the line. The carrying capacity of four of these 
steamers will be 10,000 tons each, of six of them 5,500 tons, 
and of the other four 2,500 tons. The four largest ones will 
run to Mexico and South America, the six medium-sized ones 
to Cuba and Porto Rico, and the four smallest to different 
ports of the Islands. The operations are expected to commence 
at the end of this month. 
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OFFICIAL AND COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS. 
UNITED KINGDOM. 
London. — The London County Council invites Tenders, 
until the 4th March, for the Supply and Delivery into car- 
sheds in South London of Double-Decked, Double-Bogie, 
Electkic-Tramcars. Particulars {^£3) may be obtained at the 
County Hall, Spring-gardens, S.W. 
North Eastern Railway.— The Directors invite Tenders, 
until thu 12th inst, , for the Widening of a Portion of the 
Main Line between Newcastle and Leamside, from Penshaw 
Junction to Wapping Bridge, being a distance of about 4 miles. 
Particulars may be obtained from Mr. Charles A. Harrison, 
Central Station, Newcastle-on-Tyne. — The Directors also invite 
Tenders, until the 12th inst., for the Construction of a 
New Railway Bridge and Approaches thereto over the 
river Tyne at Newcastle. The bridge is for four lines of rails, 
and is no feet above high water. Particulars may be obtained 
as above. 
Stamford. — The Corporation invite Tenders, until the 
17th inst., for the following new Sewers, together with Man- 
holes, Lampholes, Flushing Tanks, Ventilators and 
other Works connected therewith. About 20,560 yards of 
Stoneware Pipe Sewers (from 6 in. to 21 in.). Also for 
about 2,280 yards of Cast Iron Pipe Sewers (6 in. to 21 in.), 
with Concrete Manholes. A short length of 30 in. Concrete 
Sewer; Septic Tanks; Ejector Chambers, Concrete 
Carriers, Distribution Chambers, and other works. Par 
ticulars ££5) may be obtained from J. B. Everard, 6, Millstone- 
lane, Leicester. — The same Corporation also invite Tenders 
until the 17th inst., for the Erection and Completion of an 
Engine House, Cottage, and Out-buildings thereto, to be 
erected in Albert-road, Stamford. Particulars (^’2, 2s.) may be 
obtained as above. 
Woolwich.. — The Secretary of State for War is prepared 
to entertain Proposals for Filling-up the Inner Basin of 
the Royal Dockyard, Woolwich. Particulars may be had on 
application to the Superintendent, Building Works Department, 
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. 
COLONIES. 
New Zealand.— Tenders are invited by the New Zealand 
Government for a Direct Steam Service between New 
Zealand and South Africa, and for an Alternative Service 
between New Zealand, Western Australia, and South Africa. 
The service to be monthly from four loading ports in New 
Zealand in geographical order, and three ports for discharge in 
South Africa, namely: — Durban, Port Elizabeth, and Table Bay. 
The maximum subsidy available for such service is ,£30,000 per 
annum, the present contract to be for three years. The steam- 
boats must be fitted up with refrigerators for frozen meat and 
other refrigerated produce. The steamboats must be not less 
than 2,000 nor more than 4,000 tons capacity draught, and when 
loaded must enable them to discharge alongside the wharves of 
the above-mentioned ports. Accommodation must be provided 
for passengers, mails, and live stock. Preference will be given 
to tenderers offering highest speed and best passenger accommo- 
dation, speed to be not less than ten knots per hour. The rates 
of freight from New Zealand to South Africa to be as follows 
namely ; — Wheat and flour, 30s. per ton weight ; barley, 32s. 6d. 
per ton weight ; oats, 35s. per ton weight ; bran, 40s. per ton 
weight ; potatoes (in sacks), 40s. per ton weight ; hay (oaten or 
meadow), pressed in bales, 37s. 6d. per ton of 50 cubic feet 
measurement. Frozen meat and dairy produce at current sum- 
mer rates ruling between New Zealand and London. Potatoes 
in boxes, 37s. 6d. per ton of 50 cubic feet measurement. Other 
goods at proportionate rates not less than those current between 
New Zealand and London from time to time to be fixed by the 
New Zealand Government. Contractors tendering for alternative 
service to state prices of cargo for Western Australia discharging 
at Fremantle, the maximum cargo for Western Australia to be 
not more than one-quarter, and minimum if offering not less 
than three-sixteenths (yV) of steamers' carrying capacity. Marked 
written or telegraphic tenders, to be addressed to the Secretary, 
Industries and Commerce, Wellington, New Zealand, or to the 
Agent-General for New Zealand, 13, Victoria-street, London, 
S.W. , will be received up to the 14th inst. 
Victoria. — The Committee of the Fund for the erection of 
a Memorial to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria in Melbourne, 
Victoria, Australia, invite Designs from sculptors for a statue 
of Her late Majesty in marble or bronze. Designs to be sent in 
to the Agent-General for Victoria in London not later than 
xst May, 1902, or to the Town-clerk of Melbourne (hon. 
secretary to the Committee), at the Town-hall, Melbourne, not 
later than 2nd June, 1902. Information can be obtained at 
the office of the Agent-General for the State of Victoria, 15, 
Victoria-street, Westminster. — Tenders are invited by the 
Government of Victoria, until the 14th April, for 15,850 tons of 
Steel Rails and 1,505 tons of Fishplates. Particulars may 
be obtained from the Agent-General for Victoria, 15, Victoria- 
street, S.W., on and after the 10th inst. 
INDIA. 
Bengal-Nagpur Railway. — Tenders are invited, until the 
nth inst., for BklDGEWORK (150 ft. spans). Particulars may 
be obtained at the Company's office, 132, Gresham-house, Ol 
Broad-street, E.C. — The same Company also invites Tenders, 
until the 18th inst., for 175 Bogie Covered Goods Wagons, 
of steel throughout, 30 ft. long by 6 ft. 6 ins. wide, complete 
with wheels aud axles. Particulars may be obtained at the 
Company's office. 
Southern Mahratta Railway. — Tenders are invited, 
until the nth inst., for (1) Paints, etc. ; (2) Red and White 
Lead ; (3) Turpentine ; (4) Files ; (5) Miscellaneous tools and 
stores. Particulars (1 and 2, j£i. is. each ; 3, 4, and 5, 10s. 6d. 
each) may be obtained from the Company’s office, 46, Queen 
Anue’s-gate, Westminster. 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Egypt— TENDERS are invited by the Egyptian Govern- 
ment, until the 20th inst., for the Supply ot Stationery. 
Particulars and samples maybe examined at the Commercial 
Department of the Foreign Office, 
