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
