The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-08-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

BOARD OF TRADE RETITRNS. The Board of Trade returns publixhed on Saturday are again disappointing. Bth exports and imports shew a further contraction, proving that co far at least the anticipations of a trade revival have not been realised. Toe exports for the month of July chew a dscrease of £1,86i -Ind for the seven months ended July of £l3, 069.161, and the mi. ports a decrease of .5,600 fur the month, and 16,686,140 for the seven months. The total imports for the month of July and the seven Months ending July as under: 1681, 234,203,416 L 133,157,157 ; 1685, £21,847,616 £224,271,017. Dealing with the month, sum. iii liviin; (for food) shew an increase of £214.721, articles id food and drink dutiable, £231749; tobacco, 1:127 Iv 9: metals, £162,004; manufactured atticlsa, £9 ,427; and miscellaneous articles, £107,027. On the other bawl articles of food and drink dutiable shew it of £404,226, chemicals, dyetliffs, and tanning ' substances £214.568, oils a 1213.00, raw materials for textile manufactures .12,03.4141, raw In.iterais for sundry industries and m ism actiires £710,412. The total exports for the minth if July. and : the seven months ending Jul.. were £21.039,092 £136,661,005 ; 1665. 49,173.--it; £123,37i.,934. Deiding with the Statid , t. the month, animals living chew an inn,. ic• f £127,_ apparel and articles of pc-I-son:a Articles of food and drink shove decrease of •, : raw materials, £121,t,62; yarns and textile 1.1. r CA, £892,453. Meta-, and attic', s manufactured from, except machinery, 0,66; ; mac iv and millwork, £196,06 ; cheminais, and cheaucal and medicinal preparations, cr.5.431, and -el other articles either manufactured or partly manufactured a decrease of £19:1,261. The tool export of foreign and colonial merchandise for July and for the seven months ending Jnist wure —lBB4, £4,146,5frd, £37,%;5,012 ; 1665, Vi,5:15:172 £34,911,195. The import of gold duri.4 .; was £1,222,725, against £311.795 last year. .ind for the seven months Li 006,050, against 1:8,434,1,:34. The export for the month was 4:602.052, aguiist £868.069, and for the seven months 0,275,202, adsiost £6,932,846. The import of silver was for the month £829,595, against £687.738; and for the seven Mouths £5,686,593, against £5387,407. The export for ens Month was £672,772 against £092,097; and for toe 'even months £6,216,933, againet 4.2,879,025 last y, or.  -- Henry J. Strawy. Bart., has died at his re,i• ~.na.....,,Zackileath Park, Norfolk. He was educed at Eton, and was for some years a captain of the let Dragoons.. He sat for East Norfolk in Parliani-nt from 1861 to 18.17, for Yarmouth from 1819 to 1:61, and for Norwich from 1868 to 1870. He was sheriff of Norfolk in 1871. Lord Carnarvon, owing to indisposition, has postponed his Irish tour. He is confined to bed with an attack of rheumatism. Sergeant Holmes, of Leamington, a theatrical manager, committed suicide on Saturday bridowing out his brains with a Martini-Henry rifle. H.- rose at four o'cicck and went into the dining-room, where he shot himself, being found by his wife lying in • pool of blood. - _