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Annual Report of the Colonies. Gambia 1899 COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL. No. 300. GAMBIA. REPORT FOR 1899. (For Report for 1898, see No. 261) ^tesentrt to fcotf) ^ouew of parliament tig atommanto of $et JWajcat*. November, 1900. h 0 N 1) 0 N : PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY'S ST \TIONERY OFFICB, BY DARTING & SON. LTD., 34-40, BACON STAKKT, E. And to bo purchnsuid. cither direcMy or through any Bookseller, from El'HE & Sl'OTTLSWOODE, EAST HARDING HTKBKT. FM;KT STHEKT, EC, and 32. AHINODON STHEKT, WRSTMINSTKR, S.W.; or JOHN MENZIES k Co.. ROSK STRKKT, EDINBURGH, and 00. WKST NII,K STRKKT. GLASGOW; or HODGES, FIGGIS, k Co., LIMITED, 104, GRAFTON STBKKT, DDBLIIC. 1900. [Cd.354-«] Price \d, COLONIAL REPORTS. The following, among other reports relating to Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions have been issued, and may be obtained for a few pence from the sources indicated on the title page :— ANNUAL. No. Colony. 275 British Solomon Islands 1898-99 276 Gibraltar... 1898 277 Bahamas 278 British Honduras 279 Mauritius and Rodrigues 280 Grenada .. - ... 281 St. Vincent 282 Hong Kong 283 •Jamaica «•• ••• ••• ••• 1898-99 284 LagOS #•# • • • ••• ••• 1898 285 Seychelles * 286 Christmas and Oocos-Keeling Islands 1899 287 Straits Settlements 1898 288 Basutoland 1898-99 289 Niger Coast Protectorate 290 British Guiana ... 1897-98 & 1898-99 291 Falkland Islands 1899 292 British New Guinea 1898-99 293 Bermuda ... 1 1899 294 Barbados yy 295 Malta yy 296 Fiii yy 297 Turks and Caicos Islands i> 298 Bahamas... yy 299 Sierra Leone MISCELLANEOUS. No. Colony. Subject 1 | Gold Coast... Economic Agriculture. 2 i Zaluland ... Forests. 3 1 Sierra Leone Geology and Botany. 4 j Canada Emigration. 5 1 Bahamas ... Sisal Industry. 6 ! Hong Kong Bubonic Plague. 7 Newfoundland Mineral Resources. 8 Western Pacifio British Solomon Islands. 9 Dominica ... Agriculture. 10 Virgin Islands Condition during 1897. 11 Grenada Agriculture in Carriacoiu 12 Anguilla ... Vital Statistics, 1898. 13 Cook Islands Trade, 1899. 14 Bahamas ... Fibre Industry. COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL. 3 No. 300. GAMBIA. GJ™. (For Report for 1898, see No. 264.) ADMINISTRATOR SIR R. B. LLEWELYN to MR. ClIiMBERLAIN. Government House, Bathurst, SIR, 20th March, 1900. I HAVE the honour to forward the Blue Book for the year 1899 with my Report on the same. I have, <^c, R. B. LLEWELYN, Administrator, REPORT ON THE BLUE BOOK FOR 1899. The Revenue of the Colony amounted to £40,840, which is the largest on record, and the Expenditure (o #50,405 ; and thus the accumulated surplus of the Colonv was increased by over £.10,400, and on the 31st of December stood at £43,489 12$. 9d. 6T90—800—9/1900 Wt. 24800 D & S—5 A COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL. GAMBIA, 2. The three following items, which indicate the trade and 1899 prosperity or otherwise of the Colony, all shew a further steady —- growth. THE PROTECTORATE. Year. Amount. £ 1896 1,660 1837 ... ••• ••• 2,540 1898 3,165 1899 t%4 *•• ••• 3,655 THE GOVERNMENT RIVER STEAMER. 1896 ••• ... ... 329 189 / ••• i *« ••• 612 1898 ... •*• ... 971 1899 • • * 1,174 EXPORT DUTY ON GROUND NUTS. 1896 3,930 1897 0,626 1898 ><• ... ... 10,693 1899 ... >•• ... 11,-100 REVENUE. 3- The other seven items of usual Revenue made up the total for the year to £46,839 against £43,717 in the year 1898—an increase of a little over £3,100. There was an increase under every head of Revenue, except the Poot Office, in which there was a falling oif from £2,140 to £589, in part owing to the adoption of tna penny postal rate, but mainly to be attributed to COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL. 5 the falling off in the demand for postage stamps by collectors, GAMBIA, wbo, in the previous year, purchased a large quantity of the old 1899. issue and new issue on the change that was made in May, 1898, of the dies. The Customs duties increased £2,550; the Port dues increased £543; and the interest on the surplus funds invested, £640, EXPENDITURE. 4. The total Expenditure amounted to £30,404 compared with £29,035—an increase of about £1,400. In examining the details of expenditure, the principal excesses appear under the heading of Administration, owing to the increase in the salary of the Ad­ ministrator, and Special Services—£2,097, in which is included £1,855 paid for quarters purchased for the Chief Magistrate and Colonial Surgeon. The other items remain, about the same, except Public Works, on which the expenditure was curtailed, owing to the absence o* the Colonial Engineer from Bathurst for four months, whilst he was engaged ou the Anglo-French Boundary Commission. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS, 5. The total value of the imports amounted to £240,906, and of the exports to £241,936, of whieli about one-half of the imports came from the United Kingdom, whilst only about one-ninth went there. Tbe principal export—ground nuts—is nearly all sent to France, which received during the year three-fourths of the total exports. The following summary shews the value of the imports and exports from and to the principal foreign countries: — Imports. Exports. £ £ France * , 69,599 182,663 Germany 9,761 6,455 Denmark ... — 5,654 Holland — 10,508 United States 6,782 — COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL. GAMBIA) 6. The value of the kola nuts imported from Sierra Leone 1899. amounted to £33,951—an increase of £12,312 on the previous *— year, but this is principally owing to the circumstance that in . the year 1898 it was difficult to obtain kola nuts from the Siferra Leone Protectorate. 7. Owing to good rains for the cultivation of rice in the Gambia, the local crop was large, so the quantity of rice imported fell from 79,208 cwts. in 1898 to 35,G82 cwts. in 1899, and a decrease in value of £22,172. 8. The value of the specie imported in 1895 was £13,432, and in 1899 £69,335, the aggregate for the five years being £197,574, whilst during the same period only £17,466 in specie was ex­ ported. Perhaps these figures are not absolutely correct, but it is indisputable that a very large amount of specie (silver coins) has been put in circulation during the last few years in the Gambia Protectorate, owing to the cash trade supplanting the old system of barter; and it is remarkable that the importation of merchan­ dise has kept up as well. I hope this rather startling change in the system of trade will pass over without any serious incon­ venience to the general commerce of the Colony. 9. The value of the ground nuts exported was returned to the Customs at £210,005—an increase of £9,696 on the previous year. This represented 04,353 tons—I believe the largest quan­ tity ever shipped in a year. Apparently there was a good find of beeswax, as the value of the export is given at £4,412 compared with £1,833 in the pre­ vious year. 10. The imports and exports show little variation, except in the large decrease in the shipments of rubber, due to the prac­ tical extinction of the rubber plants by the ignorant class of men who wander about rubber cutting in the bush. There are no rubber plantations or estates—all that is collected being the product of uncultivated plants or trees found in the forests. 11. It is hardly necessary to comment on all the different items of revenue and expenditure, or imports and exports, &c, suffice it to say that trade was good, and I hope the mercantile firms had a prosperous year, as well as the public chest. 12. The legislation of the yi ar comprised an Ordinance con­ solidating several Tariff Ordinances, but leaving the rates of duty practically unchanged, with the ad valorem fixed as before, at five per cent. An Ordinance was also passed authorising the preparation of a revised edition of the statutes, which work is now in the hands of the Chief Magistrate. COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL. 7 SAVINGS BANK. 13. The total balance in the savings bank on the 31st Decem­ ber amounted to £3,882, and the number of depositors was 203. Compared with the year 1895, an increase, which has been gradual and steady, is shewn in the amount of the deposits and the number of depositors, which then stood at £2,436 in the names of 138 depositors. * Efforts are being made by the Travelling Commissioners to induce the natives in the Protectorate to use the savings bank for their savings, instead of putting all their money in cattle, and I have heard of one man who has opened an account, but I know what a difficult task it is to persuade a Mandingo to change his habits. BOARD OF HEALTH. 14. The Board of Health, which means the Town Council of Bathurst, had, at the commencement of the year, £248 to its credit. The rates yielded £.10 more than in the previous year, but the surplus was reduced to £107 by the judicious expendi­ ture of about £120' on new and additional lamps in the streets in Bathurst, which is now, in the principal streets, as well lighted as is possible with oil lamps. I believe the town of Bathurst, with its broad streets, concrete side walks, brick drains, and large square, will compare favourably with any other town on the West Coast of Africa, 15. The only incident that can be called exceptional during the year was the unusual length of the rainy season in Bathurst. The total rainfall (56 inches) was a little above the average, but was spread over five months instead of four, the heaviest fall in any 24 hours being 2*53 inches, whereas it is usual to have several falls of four and five inches, and now and then floods.
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