DEMARKS WEST INDIAN. ISLANDS.
OFFERED TO AMERICA. NEW YORK, December 11. Denmark has offered America her West Indian possessions for £600,000. [The West Indian possessions of Denmark are St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, and are inhabited mostly by free negroes engaged in the cultivation of the sugar-cane, but the trade with Denmark, formerly considerable, has fallen off in recent years. The imports from the Danish West Indies into the United Kingdom amounted to £20,122 in 1897 ; and the exports of British produce to these islands to £55,036. The chief article of import into Great Britain from these islands in 1897 was sugar, £18,713; while the British exports were mainly cotton goods to the value of £15,324, and machinery £4445.]
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Otago Witness, Issue 2390, 21 December 1899, Page 47
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121DEMARKS WEST INDIAN. ISLANDS. Otago Witness, Issue 2390, 21 December 1899, Page 47
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