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BE8IDEN0T AOT) MA8KAT TOLITIOAL AGENOY POE TUB YBAB 1890-87. 17

Exports eliow a net gain of $490,000, made up as follows
Increase,
9 «
Dates • 107,000
Fish . 11,000
Cotton goods— . •
Tarkojr
1 Zanzibar and Africa . 8,000
.
65,000
Other countries .
Salt • o • • 18,000
• 16,000
Specie—
'India . . 240,000
Pernia . • . 76,000
Turkey • • . 15,000
Other countries , . 20,000
658,000
Decrease,
Fruit • • 86,000
Unspecified—
India . • « . 25,000
Turkey • © . 5,000
Other countries . 2,000
68,000
Net gain . 490,000

The currency in Mask at is the Maria Theresa dollar varying in price per
hundred from-168 to 2C0 rupees. The average price being from 170 to 180
rupees.
The Messageries Maritime^, who have been calling monthly at Maskat,
ceased running from March lSSrF, owing to the prevalence of plague in Bombay,
and quarantine being in consequence imposed at ports in the Persian Gulf and
Maskat.
E. G. BE'VILLE,
JPolitical Agent and JS, JB. 31*8 Consul,
Maskat.