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MANILA HEMP. 



L. & J. KJEBOW, Telegrams, Hanfriebow, Hamburg. 



Price end of year. 





; Production 

 (luring 

 \ear. 



Consumption 

 during year. 



Mock in 

 Manila 

 end of year. 



1903 



1 



M 39 81— 9! 







cts. 



900,000 



1 ,030,000 



108,000 



1902 



36 8i— 8| 





900,000 



792,000 



153,000 



J 901 





if 



76 '0,000 



£98,000 



108,000 



190O 



• 7?— 7j 





92 1 ,000 



673,000 



227,000 



1 899 



|.r r g — T44 





493,000 



795,000 



3 ,000 



1897 







730,000 



855,000 



1 20,000 



1 



4—5 



?5 



t~- 







1896 



4i-4i 











1895 



4'i-4l 





bales 



>f about 250 lbs. 



1894 



4—4-3 











1893 













1892 ; 6| „ .r 

 r 891 6| — 7 \ 



1890 gi „ 



1 



MURVA FIBRE. 



We understand that a firm in Singapore has just received an 

 order from San Francisco for 500 tons of "Nanasfibre" the price 

 offered being 3a?. a pound, the fibre to be not less than 30 centi- 

 meters in length. This so called " Nan as fibre" from Java is not 

 as might be supposed pineapple fibre. Mr. SCHIRMER who has 

 seen its cultivation and preparation in Java says it is nothing else 

 than Murva fibre which is grown and hand prepared in the Java 

 Hills.— Editor. 



Agaves and Furcroyas. 



The Agaves are Amaryll idaceons plants, natives of Southern 

 North America and the West Indies. Several of them hav * been 



