There is really no alteration to note in our trade with the Channel Islands. The potato season last year extended a little longer than in the previous year, but the tonnage remained practically unaltered. Our exports of coal to Guernsey in 1897 were rather smaller than in 1896:

From France, we have had a novelty in the shape of the arrival of a cargo of flour from Bayonne and another from Marseilles; otherwise, our trade with France shows little alteration. A large number of vessels have come to Hull during the year from Dunkirk to load. Both Rouen and Bordeaux show decreases:

In addition to the vessels arriving from Spain, several of the Wilson liners trading to Italian, Austrian, and French ports called at the Spanish fruit ports and brought away large quanties of fruit and vegetables. It will be seen that between the years 1877 to 1887 this trade seriously declined, only, however, to rally considerably during the last few years.

The imports from the various Spanish ports have been:

As in former years, the Italian trade is carried on by the Wilson steamers running along both the east and the west coasts of Italy and the neighboring island of Sicily. The ports which have sent us goods include:

Bari-Almonds, locust beans, olive oil, drugs, fruit, chemicals, and soap. Genoa-Manufactured goods, iron, plumbago, rags, yarn, ammunition, hemp, asbestus, and wine.

Leghorn-Fruit, goods manufactured, hemp, marble, metal, honey, hemp, oil, wine, chemicals, and wax.

Molfetta-Fruit, olive oil. and drugs.

Naples-Olive oil, chemicals, hair, hemp, rags, and licorice.

Venice-Hemp, wine, glass beads, copper, and manufactured glass.

From Austria, we receive a vast assortment of goods, including almonds, bark, drugs, dyestuffs, flour, fish, glue, gum, hair, manufactured goods, iron ore, prunes, sumac, vegetables, wine, locust beans, pasteboards, wood pulp, sheep's wool, and wood.

We had no transactions last year with Greece, though a steamer arrived at Hull with ore for Newcastle, which had been shipped in Greece. This vessel brought locust beans to Hull from Cyprus.

The imports of grain from Roumania and the various Turkish ports show a great diminution when compared with the previous year. The following are the quantities of grain and seed which have reached us from the Turkish peninsula:

With the exception of 1896 and 1897, these figures also include the island of Cyprus.

The imports from this district into Hull during 1897 included the following goods: