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Veuve E. Baetens & Co., Lez Anvers, writes:— We give you 

 below as requested a few explanations regarding the wants and 

 quotations for the European market. 



Green Aloe (Mauritius Hemp). — As it must be known to you 

 this fibre has a large consumption and the value subject to the 

 quotations of a very uncertain market, as we have seen the prices 

 during the last ten years fluctuate between 19 and 37 shillings per 

 cwt. for prime quality, C. F. Antwerp. 



Murva (Konji Hemp) and Pineapple. — These products are 

 shipped not in large quantities however from the Dutch po>>o 

 sions, Java, etc., to Rotterdam, and as you say under th ; name 

 of Ananas-fibre. Their price at present is from 24 to 30 shillings 

 a cwt. according to the length of fibre. 



Aloe fibre. — (This appears to be Mauritius hemp, Fou rcroya, 

 roughly beaten out by natives. — Ed.) is shipped to Antwerp in 

 thousands of bales from Bombay. Their present prices arc: — No, 

 I, II to 12 shillings; Xo. 2, 10 shillings; No. 3, 9.V shillings per cwt. 



Ramie. — We have personally the conviction that this fibre will 

 eventually occupy the position in the textile world as cot on and 

 flax. The quantities offered are insignificant and cannot be sup- 

 plied regularly. According to the method of decortication the 

 price fluctuates from 8 to 150 shillings per cwt., but we think that 

 Ramie will get the easiest, largest and most suitable opening in 

 the flax spinning w orks, when prepared in such a way as to replace 

 in quality and price the Russian flax, this latter being about 28 

 shillings a cwt. (medium value market). 



C. J. Schirmer Esq, 

 Singapore. 



DEAR Sir, — I duly received your letters of 8th and 10th October 

 and in answer I beg to inform you that in the meantime I have 

 given on your samples several reports and informations to Mr. 

 ARNHOLD OTTO Meyer which I hope his Singapore firm, BEIIN 

 MEYER & Co., has transmitted you, but as you wish to have my 

 reports and informations also directly I hereby enclose copy of 

 them. 



Sanseveria Fibre. — If this fibre is strong, white in colour and well 

 cleaned, prices of £28/32 as offered by Messrs. L. AXKERSMITH & 

 Co. for account of their San Francisco constituents are not at all 

 out of question more .if this fibre is 80 Ctm. (31") and above in 

 length and in every respect without faults you can make easy £35 

 and more. It is as you will understand quite impossible to give a 

 valuation from here on completely unknown qualities, colours and 

 lengths of Sanseveria grown and made in the Straits. Xobody w ill 

 make contract " tel quel " even if you give the guarantee to deliver 

 not under 25 Ctm. (10") as it may be that everythi ng is of twenty- 

 five Ctm. and perhaps only a little over 25 Ctm in length. 



