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Of these, 274,548 were used for “ propping,’ which appears 
to have been the chief purpose to which the timber of almost 
all descriptions was applied. Other specified uses comprised 
also :—3,528 trees for sleepers, 43,402 for paling, 32,529 for 
fuel, 58,332 for furniture and building purposes, 5,478 for 
carts, waggons, etc., and 5,157 for clog soles. One loan (for 
#600) was sanctioned for planting for shelter, the total 
amount so sanctioned since the Act 29 and 30 Vic, cap 4o, 
came into force being £30,550, in 132 loans. 
[4eoricultural Statistics of Lreland, 1899. | 

The importation of honey at the poit of Hamburg in 
| 1899 amounted to nearly 48,000,000 Ibs., 
Honey and Wax of which more than half came from 
Trade of one : 
Hamburg. Chili and Peru. dhe trade was con- 
sidered favourable to importers and 
dealers, although the failure of the honey crop in North 
America and partly also in Mexico caused a slow but steady 
rise in prices until towards the close of the year, when 
reports of better prospects for the coming season resulted in a 
corresponding fall in quotations. There were many com- 
plaints regarding the continually increasing competition of 
artificial honey, but it is hoped that the measures taken in 
Germany by the producers of the genuine article will result 
in obtaining the prohibition of the sale under the name of 
honey of products which are merely imitations. Business in 
Wax continues to develop at Hamburg, which is rapidly 
becoming the leading market for this product. A further 
increase of 10 per cent. took place last year in the importa- 
-tion, which reached a total of nearly 30,000,000 lbs. Bees- 
wax is imported principally from the West Indies, South 
America, Morocco, and Madagascar. The Hamburg market 
closed firm, owing to unfavourable reports of the crop from 
Brazil. Transactions in Japanese wax were limited and trade 
became depressed on account of the unsatisfactory quality 
of the year’s supplies. 
[ For ezgn Office Reports, Annual Series. No. 2,431. | 
