NOTE.-The figures for the year 1903, having been furnished at the earliest possible date by the Colonial authorities, are, in some cases, subject to future revision. ΑΡ WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. No. 1.—WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF VARIOUS COLONIAL POSSESSIONS, WITH THE ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS. MONEY. MONEY. No. 2.- MONEY OF VARIOUS COLONIAL POSSESSIONS, WITH THE ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS. Note.-For purposes of abbreviation the term Rx. has, sometimes, been used in this Abstract, and is equal to 10 rupees. (a) The rupee has been converted into £ sterling as follows: For British India, in the year ended 31st March, 1889-90, at 1s. 44d.; in 1890-1, at 1s. 6d. ; in 1891-2, at 1s. 4d.; in 1892-3, at 1s. 3d.; in 1893-4, at 1s. 24d.; in 1894-5, at 18. 1d.; in 1895-6, at 1s. 14d.; in 1896-7, at 1s. 24d.”; in 1897-8, at 1s. 34d.; and in 1898-9 and later years at 1s. 4d. For Ceylon, Mauritius and Seychelles, in the year ended 31st December, 1889, at 1s. 44d.; in 1890, at 1s. 6d. ; in 1891, at 1s. 54d.; in 1892, at is. 34d.; in 1893, at 1s. 24d.; in 1894 and 1895, at 1s. 1d.; in 1896, at 1s. 2jd.; in 1897, at 1s. 3jd.; in 1898, at 18. 3fd.; and in 1899 and later years, at 1s. 4d. (b) In the Straits Settlements, the Straits Settlements silver dollar is, by a Proclamation dated 5th October, 1903, issued under the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order-in-Council of 25th June, 1903, the standard coin of the Colony, and the Mexican dollar was treated, by the same Order-in-Council, as its equivalent. The British and Hong Kong dollars were also treated as the equivalent of the standard coin by Order-in-Council of 2nd February, 1895. Under a Notice issued on 24th August, 1904, Mexican, British and Hong Kong dollars ceased to be legal tender after 31st August, 1904. In Labuan and Hong Kong, the Mexican, British and Hong Kong dollars are current. Conversions of the silver dollar into £ sterling have been made for the Straits Settlements, Labuan and Hong Kong as follows: In 1889, at 38.; in 1890, at 3s. 4d.; in 1891, at 38. 21d.; in 1892, at 28. 10d.; in 1893, at 2s. 6d. ; in 1894, at 28. 1d.; in 1895, at 28. 14d.; in 1896, at 28. 2d.; in 1897, at 18. 11d.; in 1898, at 1s. 11d.; in 1899, at 1s. 11ĝd. ; in 1900, at 28.; in 1901, at 1s. 11d.; in 1902, at 18. 84d.; aud in 1903, at 1s. 9d. (c) Prior to 1894, the Guatemalan silver dollar was the standard of currency in British Honduras, and conversions into £ sterling have been made as follows: In 1889, at 28. 94d.; in 1890, at 3s. 1d.; in 1891, at 2s. 11‡d. ; in 1892, at 2s. 74d.; and in 1893, at 2s. 34d. (d) British coins were made legal tender in Gibraltar in 1898. Prior to that date the peseta was the standard of currency, and conversions into £ sterling have been made as follows: In 1889 and 1890 at 9d.; in 1891, at 8d.; in 1892 to 1896, at 8d. ; and in 1897, at 74d. AREA.-POPULATION. No 3.-AREA, and POPULATION according to the CENSUS taken (b) Exclusive of the military and shipping population. (c) Exclusive of the Military population. (d) Inclusive of t area (6,970 sq. miles) of the territories of Vryheid, Utrecht and Paulpietersburg annexed to Natal in January, 1903. (e) Exclusive the area (376 sq. miles) and population of land on the Kowloon Peninsula leased to the British Government in 1898. The populati was 102,254 at the Census of 1901. (f) This Territory was declared a British Possession on 4th September, 1888. The Europe population at the Census of 1891 numbered 272 (228 males and 44 females). (g) Exclusive of Aborigines. (h) Exclusive of Maor estimated at 41,993 in 1891, and 43,143 in 1901. (j) Constituted a separate Colony by an Order-in-Council, dated 10th August, 190 (k) Excluding the population of Zululand annexed to Natal on 30th December, 1897. (1) The Orange River Colony was annexed 24th May, 1900, and the Transvaal on 1st September, 1900. (m) Population of the town of Lagos and Ebeute Metta only. T population of the whole Colony, at Census of 1901, was estimated at 1,388,847. (n) Exclusive of the area (about 23,280 sq. miles) a population of the Protected Districts adjacent to the Colony. (p) Exclusive of the area (about 30,000 sq. miles) and populati (about 949,827 in 1903) of the territories under British jurisdiction adjacent to the Colony and proclaimed a British Protectora on 21st August, 1896. (9) Exclusive of the area (about 3,057 sq. miles) and population of the Protected territories adjacent the Colony. The population of the Protectorate (including British Kommbo, Ceded Mile and McCarthy's Island) was 154,911 perso in 1903. (r) Inclusive of a few coolies and natives, sex not distinguished. (8) For the Island of St. Mary only. of 1904. (t) Cens The Cape returns include the population (287,229) of Pondoland and Bechuanaland, annexed since 1891. (u) Inclusive cos Keeling Islands, added to the Colony in accordance with the provisions of an Order-in-Council dated 30th May, 1903. AREA.-POPULATION. in each of the Years 1891 and 1901, and as Estimated on 31st December 1903, so far as available. (a) Exclusive of the area of lakes and rivers situated within the territorial limits of the Dominion of Canada, which is 125,755 sq. miles, excluding the area of the tidal waters of Hudson Bay, Ungava Bay, Gulf of St. Lawrence and Bay of Fundy. (Exclusive of the Military population. (c) Exclusive of Aborigines. (d) The area of Quebec was extended in accordance with the provisions of Act 3 of 1898. The number of the population in the area acquired under Act 3 is not included in the figures for Quebec for 1881 and 1891, but is included in those given for the North-West Territories, &c. (e) Population on 31st March, 1904. (1) Population on 30th June, 1903. |