--Agricultural Statistics, Ireland, 1883. Parliamentary
Return, c. 3768.
[3] Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom, 1883.
[4] The particulars are these: deposits in Irish Post Office
Savings Banks, 31st December, 1882, 1,925,440; to the credit of
depositors and Government stock, 125,000L.; together, 2,050,440L.
The increase of deposits over those made in the preceding year,
were: in Dublin, 31,321L.; in Antrim, 23,328L.; in Tyrone,
21,315L.; in Cork, 17,034L.; and in Down, 10,382L.
[5] The only thriving manufacture now in Dublin is that of
intoxicating drinks--beer, porter, stout, and whisky. Brewing
and distilling do not require skilled labour, so that strikes do
not affect them.
[6] Times, 11th June, 1883.
[7] The valuation of the county of Aberdeen (exclusive of the
city) was recently 866,816L., whereas the value of the herrings
(748,726 barrels) caught round the coast (at 25s. the barrel) was
935,907L., thereby exceeding the estimated annual rental of the
county by 69,091L. The Scotch fishermen catch over a million
barrels of herrings annually, representing a value of about a
million and a-half sterling.
[8] A recent number of Land and Water supplies the following
information as to the fishing at Kinsale:-- "The takes of fish
have been so enormous and unprecedented that buyers can scarcely
be found, even when, as now, mackerel are selling at one shilling
per six score.
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