TABLE No. 25-continued.

RATES of Wages paid to Mates, Petty Officers, Engineers, Firemen, and Sailors employed in the Foreign Trade upon Vessels registered in the British Islands-continued.

(The rates are Monthly, and are in addition to Provisions, except when otherwise stated.)

TABLE, No. 25-continued.

RATES of Wages paid to Mates, Petty Officers, Engineers, Firemen, and Sailors employed in the Foreign Trade upon Vessels registered in the British Islands-continued.

(The Rates are Monthly, and are in addition to Provisions, except when otherwise stated.)

8.

North America: East Coast
South America and West Indies
Australia and New Zealand

230 200

West Coast of America

West Coast of Africa

280 160 240 230 200 240 310 180 220-260 220 120 160-200 220 130 160-200 -300 180 220-240 300 180 220-240 280 160 200-220 240 120 160 240 110 160-180 230 240 210-260 230 220 240-280280 200 240-260 200 140 180-200 220 160 180-200 East Indies and China 280 180 240 240 280 180 240 200 130 150-180 240 140 180 Cape, Natal, and East Coast of Africa 270 180 220-240 270 180 225-210 270 180 220-240 210 140 150-160 210 140 150-180 Mediterranean 280 135 200-220 230 135 200-220 280 120 200-220 200 100 130-160 180 100 130-140 240 230 240 249 230 210 240 220 240 180 160 180 180 160 180 240 180 220-240 240 180 220-240 240 200 200-220 180 120 180 180 120 180

TABLE, NO. 25-continued.

RATES of Wages paid to Mates, Petty Officers, Engineers, Firemen, and Sailors employed in the
Foreign Trade upon Vessels registered in the British Islands-continued.

(The Rates are Monthly, and are in addition to Provisions, except when otherwise stated.)

TABLE, No. 25-continued.

RATES of Wages paid to Mates, Petty Officers, Engineers, Firemen, and Sailors employed in the Foreign Trade upon Vessels registered in the British Islands-continued.

(The Rates are Monthly, and are in addition to Provisions, except when otherwise stated.)

TABLE, No. 26.

PERSONS EMPLOYED-(BRITISH AND FOREIGN).

NUMBER of PERSONS, distinguishing BRITISH and FOREIGN, employed in VESSELS (registered under the Merchant Shipping Acts) belonging to the UNITED KINGDOM, ISLE OF MAN, and CHANNEL ISLANDS (exclusive of Vessels employed on Rivers and in Inland Navigation), which were returned as employed in the Home and Foreign Trades, showing the proportion of Foreigners to every 100 British Subjects in each Year from 1853 to 1893.

Note.-Masters were included for the first time in the year 1888.

*Only such Foreign-going vessels belonging to the Isle of Man for which crews were engaged at ports in the United Kingdom are included.

Lasc rs and Asiaties under Asiatic articles of agreement are not included in the above Table, their numbers not having been ascertained and recorded before 1886. The total number of persons employed, including such Lascars and Asiatics was, in 1886, 204,470, in 1887, 202,543. in 1888, 223,673, in 1989, 230,263, in 1890, 236,108, in 1891, 240,480, in 1892, 241,735, and in 1893, 240.974.