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THE STATESMAN S YEAR-BOOK, 1899
VIC
Victoria, banks, 320
— births, deaths, and marriages,
312
— books of reference, 320
— commerce, 316
— constitution, 309
— crops, 315
— currency and credit, 320
— customs valuation, 317, 318
— debt, 314
— defence, 315
— emigiution, 312
— exports, 316-318
— finance, 314
— gold production, 316
— government, 309 local, 310
— ■ governor, 310
— immigration, 312
— imports, 316-318
— instniction, 312
— justice and crime, 513
— manufactures, 316
— mining, 316
— ministry, 310
— occupations of the people, 311
— population, 311
— posts and telegraphs, 320
— production and industrj^, 315
— railways, 319
— religion, 312
— revenue and expenditure, 314
— schools and colleges, 312, 313
— ship]iing and navigation, 319
— wealth, 315
— wool export, 318
Victoria, (British Columbia), 223 Victoria (Kamerun), 612 Victoria (Hong Kong), 121 Victoria Island, 332^ Victoria (Labuan), 171 Victoria, Queen and Empress, 3 Victoria (S. Africa), 213 Victoria University, 34 Vidin, 1096 Vienna, 373
— University, 376
Villa Rica (Paraguay), 852
Villenour, 547
Vilna, 915
Vinh-Long, 548
Virgin Islands, 247, 248, 250, 251
A'^istula, navigation, 961
WES
Vitebsk, 915
Viti Levu Island, 253
Vladikavkaz, 916
Vladivostok, 908, 916, 960
Volga, navigation, 961
Volo, 694
Vorarlberg, 370
Voronezh, 915
Vostok Island, 332
Vranya, 989
Vrijheid (S. Africa), 1004
Vryburg, 213
Vyernyi, 916
WADAl, 341-343 Wady Haifa, 1123 Wakayama, 764 Waldeck, 685-686 Wales, area and population, 14
— agricultural holdings, 70
— coal raised, 74
— middle- class education, 36
— trustee savings banks^ 98
— University, 34
{See also England and Wales) Walfish Bay (S. W. Africa), 184, 612 Wallachia, 896 Wallega (Abyssinia), 337 Wallis Archipelago, 571 Walsall, 19
Warri (West Africa), 209 Warrnambool, 312 Warsaw, 908, 915 Warsheikh, 195
— Island, 332 Waterford, 25 Watling's Island, 244 Waziristan, 338
Wei Hai Wei, 179, 458, 462 Weimar, 675
Welle (Congo State), 479 Wellingto^l (N.Z.), 275, 276
— trade, 285, 286 Wenchau, 465
Wensan (Wonsan), 778, 780 West African Colonies, British, 215
— customs valuation, 217
— troops at, 104 West Bromwich, 19
Western Australia, agriculture, 324
— area, 322
— banks, 326
