TRADE RETURNS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 5, 7 January 1908, Page 2

TRADE RETURNS.

The Board of Trade returns for October, issued on Thursday, exhibit the same characteristics as, those of previous months in 1907. As before, exports are seen to be increasing at a higher rate than imports. For example, the total exports for October are nearly £5j000,000 more than in the corresponding month of last year, but the imports only some £3.000,000 better. On the ten months the total increase of exports, as compared with the same period last year, is more than £55,000,000, while the increase in imports isJ £35,000,000. The development in exports is chiefly in cotton and coal. The coal increase, it is to be noted, is due, not to the higher price of coal, but to the actual quantity exported.