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Returns of the Rail-Borne Trade of Bengal For the quarter ending the 31st December 1889

1890

FOR the purposes of these returns the articles of which the rates of freight were changed by the East Indian Railway dining the quarter under review as compared with the corresponding period in 1888-89 are specified below :— 1. Coal. [...] The question of the cotton rates to Calcutta and to Bombay from our stations received attention during the month but it was agreed that no reduction which we could make even if not followed by corresponding aotion by our compettors in Bombay would influence the direction of the traffic." (The increase occurred in the despatches to Calcutta I from stations in the Tundla district. [...] r The following explanation of the decrease is ful nished by the Traffic Manager East Indian I Railway in his report for December 1889 :-- In upwards traffic the decrease was almost entirely at Giridih and was in despatches for the Bombay Barocra and Central India Railway and for the Indian Midland Railway. [...] The decline was I chiefly in the exports from the Western Bengal k. block The falling off occurred in the quantities sent to the North-Western Provinces from Behar and is Quantity of decrease.. 10 927 mds. [...] The oil had never been carried to Patna in such quantities before ; and as has since become known the object has been to I make Patna into a centre of distribution principally L by means of country boats.""( 9 ) In the report for December 1889 the following extract from the Goods Superintendent's report on the subject is given :— The large despatches during December 1889 beat the record sin
commerce industry
Pages
90
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141658
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Returns of the Rail-Borne Trade of Bengal During the quarter ending the 31st December 1889
1-10 unknown view
Appendix
i-lxii unknown view
Statement Showing the Total River-Borne Trade Between Bengal and Assam
i-xvii unknown view

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