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REPORTSANNUAL.
No. 249;
GOLD
COAST.
<ttommanti of
ftra&ajtrtfit
November> 1898.
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COLONIAL REPORT*
The following, among other, report* relating to Her Majeety %
Colonial Possessions have been issued, and may be obtained for a
few pence from the sources indicated on the title page ;
ANNUAL.
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
Year.
Colony.
No.
...
Ceylon ...
...
...
Lagos
...
Gold Coast
Labuan ...
British Guiana ...
Rodrigues
Basutoland
Jamaica ...
Bechuanaland Protectorate
Leeward Islands
Bermuda
Gambia ...
Turks and Caicos Islands
Barbados
Lagos
H I ...
.**
St. Vincent
...
Sierra Leone
Falkland Islands
Straits Settlements
British New Guinea ...
Bahamas
St. Lucia
St. Helena
Trinidad and Tobago ...
British Honduras
Malta
...
...
...
Fiji
...
...
...
Hong Kong
Leeward Islands
Grenada ...
Gibraltar
.
...
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1897
1896
1896-97
1896
1896-97
1896
1897
..
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1896-97
1897
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MISCELLANEOUS.
No.
1
2
a
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Colony.
Gold-Coast
Zululand
Sierra Leone
Canada
...
Bahamas ...
Hong Kong
Newfoundland
Western Pacific ...
Dominica ...
Virgin Islands
Grenada ...
Subject.
Economic Agriculture.
Forests.
Geology and Botany.
Emigration.
Sisal Industry.
Bubonic Plague.
Mineral Resources.
Solomon Islands.
Agriculture.
Condition during 1897.
Agriculture in Carriacou.
COLONrAL REPORTSANNUAL.
No. 249.
a
GOLD
%r^
COAST.
Government House,
Accra,
July 2nd, 1898;
SIR,
Governor.
R E P O R T ON T H E B L U E BOOK O F
THE
G O L D C O A S T F O R 1897.
REVENUE.
A?
3
GOLD COAST,
1 8 9 7
COLONIAL REPORTSANNUAL.
1890
1891
1892
1893
...
...
...
'
38,549 \
52,614
24,970
22,848
...
1896.
1897.
Increase.
Decrease.
162,849
158,382
4,467
42,126
42,606
480
6,596
8,002
1,416
11,448
11,899
451
Other items
14,449
16,968
2,519
237,458
237,857
4,866
4,467
Items of Revenue,
merchandise
(ad
valorem duty).
Liquor licences
EXPENDITURE.
COLONIAL REPORTSANNUAL.
7. The following table shows the years in which the expenditure <*OLD COAST,
1897.
has been in excess of revenue
1887
1888
1889
1894
1895
1896
1897
... 17,092
... 35,660
... 13,614
...
8,670
... 35,213
... 44,817
... 168,512
10. There has been an increase of the trade of the Colony for
the year under review, although the country beyond Ashanti has
been in anything but a settled state. The total value of imports
in 1897 was 784,188, and the value of the exports 857,793,
thus making the total value of the trade of the Colony for the
year 1,641,981, an increase of 71,861 on the year 1896.
6
GOLD PPAST,
COLONIAL REPORTSANNtJAt.
IMPORTS.
Year.
EXPORTS.
Paying duty.
Admitted free.
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
464,188
422,026
475,346
518,163
563,290
552,968
562,418
Total.
201,593
175,068
243,006
170,303
231,691
225,041
221,770
684,304
665,064
722,106
850,343
877,803
792,111
857,793
1,350,086
1,262,158
1,440,460
1,538,809
1,672,784 V
1,570,120
1,641,981
Year.
From
the United
Kingdom.
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
407,038
524,037
504,255
539,718
569,828
526,411
From
British
Colonies.
9,925
8,719
12,068
81,897
282,520
60,787
From
Foreign
Countries.
180,132
185,597
172,143
173,366
179,661
196,990
Totals.
597,095
718,353
688,466
794,981
778,009
784,188
COtOtflAL REPORTSAlhfUAL.
Exports.
GOLD COAST,
1897.
To
the United
Kingdom.
Year.
To
British
Colonies.
To
Foreign
Oountnes.
Totals.
1892
471,219
2,054
191,791
665,064
1893
530,300
27,016
164,790
722,107
1894
608,258
29,765
212,320
850,343
1895
586,415
38,211
253,177
877,803
1896
536,106
37,471
218,534
792,111
1897
581,904
35,667
240,222
857,793
Port.
7m ports,
exclusive of
Spirits,
Gunpowder,
and Guns.
Spirits.
Gunpowder.
Guns.
Totals.
...
6,330
9,&44
233
108
16,615
Cape Coast
...
18,819
21,717
1,926
440
42,902
Saltpond
...
6,519
16,586
1,731
207
25,043
Winneba
...
2,363
' 13,688
258
53
16,362
Axim
...
...
Accra
...
...
14,436
27,969
1,428
214
44,047
Adda
...
...
...
3,483
8,524
57
67
12,131
Quittah...
. ...
...
2,998
8,997
1,252
103
13,350
...
4,193
24,675
448
41
29,357
Totals ...
59,141
132,100
7,333
1,233
199,807
8
GOLD COAST,
1 8 9 7
'
COLONIAL BfcPOfctSANNUAL.
Total value,
excluding expenses.
...
193,029
2,911
...
15,513
(c) Other
'
lit.Manufactured articles :
(a) Textile
... . ...
18,424
281,790
55,077
140,456
(c) Other
477,323
95,412
784,188
Total ...
Exports.
Value in Sterling
Produce and
Manufacture
of the Colony.
Articles.
...
Carried forward
- I
...
17
British
and Foreign
and other
Colonial
Produce and
Manufacture.
Totals.
1,016
1,033
464
464
84,867
14
84,881
738,754
143
738,897
823,638
1,637
825,275
COLONIAL SfiPOfitSANNUAL.
9G
E>rfc~continued.
Value in Sterling.
Produce and
Manufacture
of the Colony.
Articles.
Brought forward
British
and Foreign
and other
Colonial
Produce and
Manufacture.
Totals.
823,638
1,637
825,276
44
2,313
2,357
628
628
5,556
5,603
23,922
23,922
823,729
34,056
857,785
[II.Manufactured articles
(a) Textile
(b) Metal
(c) Other
47
Total...
...
16. The supply of the staple articles, palm kernels and palm
oil, has not been satisfactory, but the export of rubber shows a
considerable improvement.
The following figures show the trade in the three important
exports for the last three years :
Palm Oil.
Year.
Gallons.
Value.
1895
Tons.
4,338,627
lbs.
Value.
Value.
Bubter.
Palm Kernels.
231,415
15,559
93,384
4,022,385
322,070
126,857
13,046
85,349
3,735,439
313,817
107,737
10,836
69,818
4,957,016
419,813
1896
2,394,563
I
1897
2,021,716 1
;
...
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0 A 9 T
COLONIAL REPORTSAtttfUA'L.
GotiD COAST,
W7*
Countries.
Quantity.
Value.
lbs.
United Kingdom
Germany
4,595,696
391,106
361,031
28,691
v.
''
shipment, the logs being floated down the river Ancobra. The
following statement will serve to show the trade of this industry
for the last six years
<*
>
Year.
Quantity.
Value.
. i'
Feet.
2,130,216
36,394
3,407/226*
50,428 "*
1894
5,012,670
69,345
1895
3,587,337
28,245
1896
6,033,381
52,234
1897
15,236,216
90,569
1892
1893
GOLD COAST,
24. The following table shows the shipment of cocoa, coffee, and other products for the last five years :
Cocoa.
Guinea Grain.
Copra.
Coffee.
Kola nuts.
Year.
lbs.
Value.
lbs.
Yalue.
lbs.
Yalue.
lbs.
Valuo.
Packages.
979
25,116
Yalue.
1893 . . .
3,460
93
21,437
630
248,304
831
183,224
621
1894 . . .
20,312
546
41,488
1,265
649,600
1,940
174,412
1,186
1,202
28,511
1895 . . .
28,906
470
51,755
1,753
482,608
1,712
154,693
580
2,352
30,565
1896 . . .
86,754
2,275
141,836
4,065
273,840
852
26,594
193
3,156
33,278
3,196
102,146
3,068
272,272
803
22,873
229
4,278
37,870
1897 . . .
156,672
25. The number of monkey skins shipped in 1897 amounted to 14,438, valued at 811. This trade has
considerably fallen off and can no longer be considered as one of the important exports of the Colony. In 1894,
168,405 skins, valued at 41,001, were exported, whereas in 1896 the number of skins fell to 67,660, valued at
8,6S2, and in the year under review the decrease again is very marked. This no doubt is owing to the distance
hunters have to go to procure their victims.
COLONIAL
BEPOBT8ANNUAL.
13
26. The gold mining industry is carried on chiefly in the Gow> COAST,
Western Districtin Wasgaw and Appolonia. Three or four
** '
companies are doing steady work. The gold reefs of the mining
district have been declared by experts to be similar to those of
Johannesburg, and there is no reason why gold mining in this
Colony in a very short space of time should not prove a decided
success. The industry up to the present has, been hampered
owing to the serious difficulty of transporting the necessary
machinery from the coast to the mines j but the Government is
constructing a railway from the coast to the mining districts in
the neighbourhood of Tarquah, and, when this is completed, it is
confidently anticipated that the gold industry will receive an
impetus which will result in the larger investment of capital for
the development of existing mines and the opening of new ones.
On the other hand, it cannot be expected that investors will risk
their money in this part of Africa unless they are assured that
they will have proper security as regards the land which has been
conceded, and the Government has under consideration a Lands
Bn% one of the objects of which is to afford such security.
l
27. The following table shows the weight and value of gold
exported from the Colony during each of the last five years.
Year.
Weight.
Value.
Oz.
21,972
1893
79,099
1894
21,332
76,795
1895
25,416
91,497
1896
231,941
86,186
1
i
1897
23,555
84,797
.i
14
GpiiD COAST,
1 8 9 7
COLONIAL
REPORTSANNUAL.
1897 :
Quantity Imported.
Description of
Liquor.
Rum ...
Decrease.
Increase.
330,804
335,163
4,359
11,432
12,987
1,555
Whisky
... ...
Brandy
..
822
760
62
!.
22,177
18,969
3,208
26,220
23,388
2,832
...
2,189
1,297
892
Totals
1,226,779
1,270,616
Wines
..
6,994
50,831
SHIPPING.
Sailing Vessels.
Nationality of
Vessels.
1896.
No.
United Kingdom...
Germany
...
France
...
TonTon
No.
nage.
nage.
105
1,540
United States
4,670
Other Nations
Totals
...
16
10
16
No.
1,385
No.
Ton
nage.
366,857
247
361,742
87
108,168
90
108,029
50
65,870
70
92,449
4,882
Ton
1897.
nage.
315 254
559 ,
6,874
1896.
1897.
6,582 400
18,059
553,794 415
580,277
19,199
COLONIAL REPORTSANNUAL.
The mail service with England remains the same, the GOLD
voyage taking, on an average, from Liverpool to Accra, a distance
of 3 , 9 2 0 miles, 2 1 days. The mail service from the Colony to
England still continues most irregular, and there is no competition.
31.
LEGISLATION.
COAST,
COLONIAL
GOLD COAST,
BBPORTSANNUA I
proclaimed district, and provision is made, where additional' constabulary or police has been sent to a proclaimed district, for the
costs thereof to be paid by the inhabitants.
Per 1,(XX
Invalided
Invalided.
Died.
Populatio
Death-rat
per 1,00C
160
31
37-5
137-50
Non-officials
362
34
47
93*92
129*83
...
COLONIAL BEP0BT8ANNUAL.
17
G o L
36. It will be noticed from the foregoing table that the deathrate among the official class is less than that among the mercantile
community. This may perhaps be attributed to the leave
arrangements of the Government service whereby all European
officials are permitted to proceed to Europe on leave after twelve
months residential service on the Coast, and to the houses
occupied by Government officials being away from the thickly
populated part of the town. This is no trivial matter, for climatic
conditions are such that what is at most an inconvenience in more
temperate climates is a* veritable calamity to the European
resident in West Africa. Much of the comfort of life depends
on attention to its minutise, and this is pre-eminently so in a
country such as the Gold Coast.
36. Facilities for hospital treatment at Accra have much
improved, and the arrangements in the Colonial hospital are as
complete as possible. Tne introduction of European nurses has
proved a great boon, and no doubt the extra nursing has saved
many lives during the past year.
RAINFALL,
37. The following table shows the rainfall for the different
months of the year at the most important towns of the Gold
Coast Colony j
Stations.
Month.
Accra, j Aburi.
Axim.
AdJa.
Cap 3
Coast.
Quittah.
January
083
0-45
o-ob
0-00
0-78
000
February
0*52
5-93
2-82
0-11
0*91
0-76
March
1-39
2-88
8-25
0-71
6-58
1-33
April
3-13
3-89
4-88
4-75
4-37
1-87
May
11-63
9-46
21-31
10-84
18-61
7-34
...
3-65
3-38
15-51
2-95
9-40
2-59
Carried forward
21-15
25-99
52-77
19-36
40*65
13-89
June
...
7*36
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COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
RAINFALLcontinued.
GOLD COAST,
1897.
Stations.
Month.
Accra.
Aburi.
Axim.
Adda.
Cape
Coast.
Quittah.
2M5
25*99
52*77
19*36
40-65
13*89
July
0-14
3*60
1-06
063
2-45
0-00
August
031
0*87
1*40
0-14
0-85
0*12
September
1-54
5*29
0*25
12*03
1*14
1*67
October
319
8*46
7*17 *
2-96
5-96
5-84
November
0'34
3*10
4-85
100
0-34
000
December
0-64
1*55
000
o-oi
000
0-72
27*31
48*86
67-50
36-13
51*39
2224
Brought forward
Totals
PUBLIC WORKS.
COLONIAL Rfi^ORt8ANNUAL.
Id
to collecting water under ground into a well or wells to be pumped GOLD COAST,
up into a reservoir on the high land adjacent. Special officers
RAILWAYS.
POST OFFICE.
No. of
Registered
Articles
dealt with
Total amount
of
Money Order
transactions.
Total amount
No. of
of
Postal Order Parcels.
transactions,
Year.
No. of
Letters, &c.
posted.
1893
335,112
15,956
13,313 4 9
1,231
3 6
2,762
1894
386,028
18,068
13,271 8 3
2,021 7 6
3,224
1895
390,502
17,474
17,076 14 11
2,150 13 6
3,518
1896
545,824
19,324
34,207
2,489
9 6
3,563
1897
584,216
23,942
12,974 7
2,549 15 6
3,907
d.
5 11
3
8.
d.
COLONIAL REPORTSANNUAL.
GOLD COAST,
*ff*7
42. 4,311 bags were brought to the Colony, and 3,673 bags
ere despatched from the various Post Offices in the Colony
during the year, as against 3,890 received and 3,678 despatched
during the year 1896.
TELEGRAPHS.
Year.
No. of
Offices.
Miles of
Line.
No. of "
Messages.
Cash receipt.
1893
18
368
60,031
1822
1894
20
375
73,776
2,293
1895
21
415
81,681
2,509
1896
24
512
79,901
2,538
1897
26
626
84,580
2,333
COLONIAL REPORTSANNUAL,
EDUCATION.
COLONIAL
22
GOLD COAST,
l 8 9 7
ftOfcTS-rAN#tJAL.
Schools.
No. on
Books.
Average
attendance.
Teachers
examined.
Grant
earned.
11,638
8,798
100
3,600
>
119
>
St.
VII
Denomination.
St.
V.
St.
VI.
St.
St,
St.
iv. ! III.
I
SS.
II.
SS.
I.
Infants.
'
...
Basel Mission... 36
47
55
61
147
163
208
283
310
776
38
96
184
279
380
454
516
480
545
1,730
19
42
93
101
124
163
163
223
636
40
43
59
83
80
110
143
116
371
Totals ... 86
202
824
492
711
827
1,067
1,067
1,194
3,513
Wesleyan
R. Catholic
Government
...
COLONIAL REPORTSANNUAL.
23
sowing, &o. The results are at present unknown. Jute growing OOLP COAST,
is not popular with the natives, the mode of extracting the fibre
necessitating hard work.
1 8 9 7
GENERAL REMARKS.
54. The year under review, in which Her Majesty the Queen
completed the 60th year of Her reign, was an eventral one in the
history of this Colony. The Ashanti Expedition of 1895-96
having opened up the way into the interior, there devolved upon
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GOLD
COLONIAL
REPORTSANNUAL.
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COLONIAL
REPORTSANNUAL.
Mr. Ferguson, and asked for protection against the Sofas. Bona
had already been raided by the Sofas, but Lobi was still un
touched. Mr. Henderson, therefore, went to Dawkita, or Dokta,
an important town in Lobi, about 20 miles north of Bona, and
there on the 16th of March made a treaty with the new King
(Kampa) of Bona, which was also signed by Danwa-Massa, Chief
of Bona and Governor of Lobi.
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COLONIAL REPORTSANNUAL.
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'
97,
COLONIAL REPORTSANNUAL. *
27
COAST,
1 8 9 7 ,
G . B . HADDON SMITH,