1000

ITALY

Vessels entering and clearing in 1910 at the prinoi

pal Italian

ports : —

Port

Entered

Cleared

No.

Tonnage

No.

Tonnage

Genoa

Leghoi'n .... Naples . . . . ■ .

Messina

Catania .... Palermo .... Venice

5,970 4,485 7,344 2,780 3,041 3,558 4,355

7,475,583 2,465,744 7,542,076 1,899,990 2,069,642 3,088,422 2,197,560

5,979 4,483 7,330 2,797 3,958 3,577 4,353

7,485,717 2,461,376 7,513,596 1,901,933 2,065,691 3,096,398 2,202,091

Internal Communications.

I. Railways.

Length of State railways 8,252 miles (June 30, 1912) ; all the railway lines 10,800 miles.

In 1910-11 the total receipts were 534,361,158 lire; in 1911-12, 575,213,000 lire (provisional).

II. Posts and Telegraphs.

In the year 1911 there were 10,238 post offices. The postal traffic was as follows : —

Letters . Post cards Newspapers, &c. . Post Office orders, &c.

Total .

Internal.

1,000 258,616 147,367 645,443

21,410

1,072,836

External and Transit

1,000 41,524 10,867 22,021 476

74,887

Total

1,000 300,140 158,234 667,464

21,886

1,147,723

On June 30, 1910, the telegraph lines had a length of 32,328 miles, and the wires, 187,424. There were 7,676 telegraph offices, of which 5,747 were State offices and 1,929 railway offices. There were, in the year, 12,115,048 telegrams sent inland ; 2,418,878 international telegrams ; 2,818,379 official ; 116,725 in transit; total, 17,469,030.

The telephone service in 1910 had 46,293 stations. There were 219 urban systems with 6,698 miles of line and 104,762 miles of wire ; 363 inter- urban systems with 14,687 miles of line and 29,375 miles of wire. Total number of conversations in the year, 4,404,082. In 1907 the telephone service passed to the direct working of the State.

Money and Credit.

State notes and bank notes in circulation in lire : —

^

1907

1908

435,671,090 1,862,657,800

1909

1910

1911

state notes . Bank notes .

437,518,410 1,851,541,950

432,924,715 1,931,663,450

442,119,195 2 026,847,950

485,290,695

2,193,381,850