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The increase in Steamships “Cleared " is due
to the visit? of vessels the Arab Steamers,
V?. Limited, which earn*' into existence earl v in the
•si*» 1 The Down Mail Service remain* <1 as in
Imperii- v'ur.
previous years fortnightly, so no difference arose
nol or alrf’Ut 5* per cent, of the
corresponding to that iu the entries.
Shipping Cosnpsinict.
16. During the greater part of the year, there
' *®.d conrist in the main of raw article were Agencies of four Shipping Companies in
production, which can only Bahrain :—
?f^1dby these countries, or, in the nature (1) Messrs. Gray Paul 3: Co., Agents of the
^must necessarily he eupphed by them, British India Steam Navigation
therefore of small importance to the Company.
- ”! or outside merchan t. (2) Messrs. Robert WanckhauB & Co.,
i?a n.wc Pvl.25,72,848 or 41 per cent. Agents of the Hamburg-America
. h7 India. Excluding Pearls and Line.
br India.
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Meir (3) The Agency of the Bombay-Persia Steam
Navigation Company.
‘^.26 per cent, thit of India 53 per cent. (4) The Agency of the Arab Steamers,
7' There thus remains to be divided among Limited.
1'^Foreign Countries, 5 per cent, of the Nos. 1 and 2 have European Agents. These
• ,‘1-,-orts or 15 per cent, of the General Companies also engage in trade on tbeir own
’■“Wise Imports- Imports from the United account, and execute orders on commission.
. .j-m, Austria, Germany and Belgi— “ Company No. 3 is registered in India, and has a
urn show a
. . ase over those* of last year. Persian Agent. Company No. 4 is also registered
___nf last TP.1
’-'uiy be remarked that the Imports from in India, and has an Arab Agent. The line was
V. ter Foreign Countries 19 arc composed only started daring the early part of the year and
/rcV General Merchandise, and include no was still in an experimental s'-age.
y- cr Specie. The import of Specie from Two small Turkish boats from Bnsrab also
::.i was essentially an ordinary purchase of occasionally call at Bahrain bringing principally
v.d is on a different f- oting from the xaove- Burrah ghee and mats.
of Specie between B ahrain and India. 1 7. The relative activity of the Shipping Com­
^ jt portion of the gxds actnally supplied panies under the British FLg will be se^n from
• (principally) European Counirise is how- the addenda to Tables Nos. XI and XII which
j xidoabtedly in excess of the 15 per cent. shows the number of the v*es?els of each which
.love, for manufactured goods Imported
n India and shown accordingly, are often of were entered and cleared during the year. The
figures for the German and Turkish Companies
origin. There is no means of rectifying
(which are the sole representatives of their Flags)
are those shown under the names of their respec-
Export*. pective countries in the botiv of the above-noted
If The only European Countries to which Tables.
•"is ire shown are England and Germany. Comnunieaiior.t.
* b however in a sense misleading as the bulk
’-y Pearls find their way to Europe, and a 1?. (Steamers).
rcenlle proportion from Europe to America. There is a regular fortnightly Mail Serive of
b figures stand however, India absorbs steamers of the British India Steam Navigation
I’r ^h of the Total Erports. Of the General Company, Limited, between Bahrain and Bomhay
*li"cise Export, however, she receives only in each direction. Extra Cargo-boats of the same
* Ul'O or about 4| per cent The principal Company also occasionally call at irregular
v:5. f# takes are Date?, Hides and Skins, intervals.
^ fins, Tortoise shells and Carpets. The Arab Steamers, Limited, also provides
•tr 90 per cent, of the General Merchandise a similar fortnightly sendee, but their boats are
yts go to the neighbouring countries, distri- not always very punctual to their timings.
* is fellows:—30 per cent to Turkish Arabia, The steamers of the Hamburgh America and
^ers^» under 25 per cent to the Bombay-Persia Steam Navigation Company
'■*' ai" ^ per cent! to Trucial Oman. This only call occasionally and at irregular intervals
^ToSSs** 40 onty 10 per cent. Communication with the mainland of Arabia
is by native boat.
^^dL.8”8*1^ “d Zanz,’bar con- 19. (Post).
From May onwards, there was only a fort­
nightly mail in each direction carried by the
\ K°(ci o% Shipping Statiitici. British India mail boats. Previously there was
a weekly Up Mail (»>., from Bombay). This was
Nos. XI and XII (annexed) a serious inconvenience, and it is to be hoped that
an<1 linage of Vessels rumours that a weekly service is to be reinstituted
y^leared the port of Bahrain.
V:i will prove true.
? I0 Ba,lin& vfs^ "Entered ” and Peari merchants sometimes endeavour to ret
,tTcul activity *tricbu,«i ^ the general more recent news of the Bomlay and European
*v* The figures are approximate nmt« hv haying telegram, addressed to them
to Bandar Abba, or Iloshire and hrought on
«Steamships “Entered" is due thence to Bahrain by steamer or natire boat.
*rvi> /■ ‘orL °*a fortnightly for a weekly The inconvenience and uncertainty of snrli .
from Bombay, early in the year. makeshift are obvious. *