Hazell's annual ..a cyclopædic record of men and topics of the day .. . ll be found of interest :—Jute Shipments from Calcutta toEurope. Year ending July 31st. Bales. 97-8 3,504,474 98-9 2,295,290 99-1900 .. .. .. 2,065,580 1900- 1901 2,916,594 1901- 2 3,472,490 1902- 3 2,773,621 1903- 4 3,186,000 As regards manufactures of jute, they formone of the smallest textile industries in theUnited Kingdom. As will be seen from thefollowing table, Great Britain has an immensesuperiority over the only important Europeanrival, France; but here again it is hardlysatisfactory that while British shipments t
Hazell's annual ..a cyclopædic record of men and topics of the day .. . ll be found of interest :—Jute Shipments from Calcutta toEurope. Year ending July 31st. Bales. 97-8 3,504,474 98-9 2,295,290 99-1900 .. .. .. 2,065,580 1900- 1901 2,916,594 1901- 2 3,472,490 1902- 3 2,773,621 1903- 4 3,186,000 As regards manufactures of jute, they formone of the smallest textile industries in theUnited Kingdom. As will be seen from thefollowing table, Great Britain has an immensesuperiority over the only important Europeanrival, France; but here again it is hardlysatisfactory that while British shipments tendon the whole to decrease, those of France aregrowing in magnitude. Exports of Jute Yarn anil Manu-factures. Here a^ain the British have a superiority,but here also of later years the Germans are1 unning them more and more closely in therace—though a considerable portion of theirgain so far has been at the expense of States exports have improved largely— percentages, but are still on a small scale,«S the high duties on wool and all classes of. Tha] HAZELL S ANNUAL, I905. [Board of IV. THE LINEN INDUSTRY. The United Kingdom does a satisfactoryexport trade in linen goods, the industry inthe north of Ireland being particularly im-portant, and the business tends on the wholeto increase. The chief rival is France, whosetrade is now much larger proportionatelythan it wis a few years ago, though it is stillinsignificant as compared with British of JJuvii Yain fiufl Manti-factwves. United Kingd om. France. £1000. £1000. 1893 . 1894 . 4,5°S 1895 . 5,35! 805 1896 . 5,031 558 1897 . 4,77i 482 1898 . 4,393 512 1899 . 5,073 962 1900 . 5,225 1,266 1901 . 5,020 1,096 1902 . 5>43o i,477 1903 . :,54o 1,203 Thames Conservancy. The Conservatorsof the River Thames were constituted a bodycorporate by Act of Parliament in 1857, andtheir powers enlarged by various Acts fromtime to time. Their general jurisdiction extendsover the entire waterway and
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