COAL  Quantity . Value . Tons . £ 5,229,662 1,899,592 9,025,325 3,060,931 12,980,103 6,314,400 Quantity . Gallons . 9,248,800 39,351,960 55,135,880

ANTIMONY Quantity . Value . Tons . £ 27,362 13,481 22,862 1897 1901 1906 1,133 529 293 was 190,000, in round 189; and the aggregate COPPER Quantity . Value . Tons . £ 19,722 869,266 26,495 I,625,244 37,254 3,007,992 PETROLEUM LEAD Quantity .

Value . Tons . £ 746 10,343 1,744 24,640 2,721 49,690

SULPHUR Value . Quantity . Value . £ Tons . £ 44,389 13,138 33,588 227,841 16,007 38,612 314,550 27,406 61,386 OTHERS Value . Total Values . £ £ 3,863 3,345,662 3,450 5,670,508 41,338 10,839,783 of effort-no less than 4595 industrial and commercial companies, joint stock or partnership, with a paid-up capital of 4o millions sterling . Her development during the decade ending in 1906 is shown in the following table:- Reserves Number of Paid-up capital (millions companies . (millions sterling). sterling) . 1897 .

. 6,113 53 6 1901 . . . 8,602 83 12 1906 . . . 9,329 107 26 What effect this development exercised upon the

country's over-sea trade may be inferred from the fact that, whereas the manufactured goods exported in 187o were nil, their value in 1901 was 8 millions sterling, and in 1906 the figure rose to over 20 millions .