BRITISH TRADE VIA SUEZ CANAL.
The following statistics from the Journal of Arts, of the 16th February, 1883, page 301, many of your readers- maybe glad to see, as they show the enormous increase of British trade in the East:— 1879. Nationalities. No. of Ships. Gross Tonnage. GermaE ... 16 ... 21,548 English ... 1,114 ... 2,508,524 Austrian ... 40 ... 71,400 French ... 93 ... 262,017 Italian ... 52 ... 94,162 Dutch ... 61 ... 159,024 All others... 71 ... 120,263 1,477 ..." 3,236,942 1880. . Nationalities. No. of Ships. Gross Tonnage. German ... 38 ... 52,557 English ... 1,592 ... 3,446,431 Austrian ... 60 ... 103,030 French ... 102 ... 271,598 • Italian ... 52 ... 104,567 Dutch ... 70 ... 174,485 All others ... 112 .. 191,850 Total ... 2,026 ... 4,344,519 1881. Nationalities. Ko. of Ships. Gross Tonnage. German ... 45 ... 59,515 English ... 2,251 ... 4,792,117 Austrian ... 64 ... 115.77G F-euch ... 109 ... 289,324 Italian ... 52 ... 113,252 Dtrch ... 71 ... 187,910 AU others ... 135 ... 236,504
Total ... 2,727 ... 5,794,401 With the great increase in shijl-building since, it is exceedingly interesting to watch themovemerits re the new canal ; as your ready and well-informed " Calamo Currente" refers to Ezekiel xlvii., 10, allow me to refer to the remainder of the chapter, and ask who and whero are these people to so occupy, &c, if not the British, with the Jews, which are only ten tribes ? Would you also kindly allow allusion to the highway out of Egypt referred to by Isaiah six., 19-25 ?—I am, &0., A. Fsnnell. Wainui, Wade, Ist October, 1883.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6827, 4 October 1883, Page 6
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