400 



MARKET RATES FOR TROPICAL PRODUCTS. 



(From Lewis <f? Peat's Monthly Prices Current, London, 11th September, 1912.) 



ALOES, Socotrine cwt. 



Zanzibar & Hepatic „ 

 ARROWKOOT (Natal) lb. 

 BEES' WAX, cwt. 



Zanzibar Yellow ,, 

 East Indian, bleached „ 

 „ unbleached ,, 

 Madagascar ,, 

 CAMPHOR, Japan 



China ,, 

 CARDAMOMS, Tuticorin 



Malabar, Tellicherry 

 Calicut 

 Mangalore ,, 

 CeyloD, Mysore ,, 

 Malabar 

 Seeds, E. I, & Ceylon „ 

 Ceylon Long Wild ,, 

 CAS'luK OIL, Calcutta,, 

 CH1L.LIE8, Zanzibar cwt 

 Japan ,, 

 CINCHONA bAKK- U>. 

 Ceylon 



CINNAMON.Ceylon lsu 

 per lb, 2ndf 

 3rd* 

 4tht 

 Chips, &c. 

 CLOVES, Penang lb. 

 Amboyna 

 Ceylon 

 Zanzibar 

 Stems 



COFFEE 



Ceylon Plantation cwt 

 Native 



Liberian ,, 

 COCOA, Ceylon Plant. ., 



Native Estate ,, 

 Java and Celebes „ 

 COliOMbU KUOT „ 

 CKOTON SKKUS.sift. cwt 

 CUB BBS 



GINUhK, Bengal, rough,, 

 Calicut, Cut A „ 

 B& C „ 

 Cochin Rough ,, 



Japan „ 

 SUM AMMONIACUM ,, 

 ANIMI, Zanzibar 



Madagascar „ 



* KAHIC E. I. & Aden ,, 



Turkey sorts ,, 



Ghatti „ 



Kurrachee „ 



Madras „ 



ASSAFOiTIDA „ 



KINO 



MYRRH, Aden sorts cwt 



Somali „ 



OLIBANUM, drop „ 



pickings „ 



sittings ,, 

 INDIA RUBBHK lb. . 



Ceylon, Straits, J 



Malay Straits, etc. | 



Assam 



Rangoon 



QUALITY. 



QUOTATIONS. 



Fair to fine .., 

 Common to good 

 Fair to fine 



^lightly drossy to fair ... 



Fair to good 



Dark to good genuine .. 



Dark to good palish 



Refined 



Fair average quality ... 

 Good to fine bold 

 Middling lean 

 (iood to tint bold 

 Brownish 



Med brown to fair bold 

 Small fair to fine plump 



Fair to tiood 



Fair to good 



Shelly to good 



Good2nds 



Dull toSne bright 



Fair bright small 



Crown, Renewed 



Org. Stem 

 Red Org. Stem 



Renewed 

 Root 



Good to fine quill 



Fair to fine bold 

 Dull to fine blight pkd 

 Dull to tine 



F'air and fine bright 

 Fair 



Medium to bold 

 Good ordinary 

 Fair to bold 

 Special Marks 

 Red to good 

 Ordinary to red 

 Small to good red 

 Middling to good 

 Dull to fair 

 Ord. stalky to good 

 Fair 



Small to fine bold 

 Small and medium 

 Common to fine bold 

 Small and D's 

 Unsplit 



Ord. blocky to fair clean 

 Pale and amber, str. srts 

 ,, little red 

 Bean and Pea size ditto 

 Fair to good red sorts 

 Med. & bold glassy soits 

 Fair to good palish 



,, „ red 

 Ordinary to good pale 



Sorts to fine pale 

 Reddish to good pale 

 Dark to fine pale 

 Clean fr. to gd. almonds 

 com. stony to good block 

 Fair to tine bright 

 Middling to good 



Good to tine white 

 Middling to fair 

 Low to good pale 

 Slightly foul to fine 

 Fine Para bis. & sheets 



„ Ceara „ ,, 

 Crepe ordinary to fine. 

 Fine Block 

 Scrap fair to fine 

 Plantation 

 Fair II to ord. red No. l|3s id a 3s 9Jd 

 .. 2sa3a4d 



65s a 70s 

 50s a 82s 6d 

 8d a 9d 



»56 15 a £6 17/6 

 £7 17/6 a £8 2/6 

 £5 17/6 a £6 10s 

 £6 15s a £7 2s 6d 

 Is 6d a Is 8id 

 155s 



5s a 5s 6d 

 is id a 4s 9d 

 4s 1 Hi a 5s 5d 

 4s 4d a is 9d 

 4s 5d a 5s 8d 

 4s a 6s 

 3s 7d a 3s lOd 

 4s 3d a 4s 6d 

 is 2d a 3s 2d 

 3|d 



40s a 45s 

 28s 6d a 32s Ort 

 3|d a 7d 

 2d a 6d 

 l|d a i\d 

 3d a 5Jd 

 lid a 4d 

 s 3d a Is 7d 

 Is4d a Is 6d 

 Is a Is 5d 

 Is a Is 4d 

 2d a 3d 

 lid a Is Id 

 9d a lOd 

 71da 9d 

 74 d a 7Id 

 iid 



80s a 113s 

 Nominal 

 75s a 85s 

 77s a 90s 

 0s a 76s 6d 

 42s a 75s 

 26sa8?s 6d 

 10s a 17s 

 70s a 80s 

 150s 3 170s 

 35s nom. 

 82s 6d a 85s 

 65s a 80s 

 38s a 42s 6d 

 37s 6d 

 29s 



40s a 72s 6d 

 £12 10s a £14 5s 

 £11 a £12 

 75s a £9 10s 

 £ 7 a £9 10s 

 £5 a £8 

 £4 a £8 15s 

 £4 a £7 10s 

 38s a 42s 

 s9s a 65s 



25s a 35s nom 

 27s 6d a 35s ,, 

 27s 6d a 35s „ 

 £10 a £12 

 50s a £9 

 6d a Is 



52s 6d a 62s 6d 

 50s a 52s 6d 

 45s a 60s 

 35s a 40s 

 12s 6d a 27 s 6d 

 20s a 22s 6d 

 4s 7d 

 is id 



4s 6d a 4s 7£d 

 is Sid 

 . 3s 7d a 3s lOd 

 4s 



INDIARUBBER.f Contd.) 

 Borneo 

 Java 

 Penang 

 Mozambique 



Nyassaland 

 Madagascar 



New Guinea 

 INDIGO, E.I. Bengal 



MACE, Bombay & Penang 

 per lb. 



Java 

 Bombay 

 MYRABOLANES, cwt 

 Bombay 



Bengal 

 NUTMEGS — 



lb. 



Singapore & Penang ,, 



NUTS, ARECA cwt. 

 NUX VOMICA, Cochin 

 per cwt. Bengal 

 Madras 

 OIL OF ANISEED „ 

 CASSIA 

 LEMONGRASS 

 NUTMEG 

 CINNAMON 

 CITRON ELLE 

 ORCHELLA WEED— cwt 

 Ceylon ,, 

 Madagascar „ 

 PEPPER - (Black) lb. 

 Alleppy & Tellicherry 

 Ceylon ,, 

 Singapore 

 Acheen & W. C. Penang 

 (White) Singapore 



Siam ,, 

 Penang „ 

 Muntok „ 

 RHUBARB, Shenzi 

 Canton 

 High Dried. . 



SAGO, Pearl, large 



medium . 

 small 



SEEDLAC cwt. 

 SENNA, Tinnevelly lb. 



QUALITY. 



Common to good 

 Good to fine red 

 Low white to prime red 

 Fair to fine red ball 

 Sausage, fair to good . 

 Fair to fine ball 

 Fr to fine pinky & white 

 Majunga & blk coated . . 

 Niggers, low to good 

 Ordinary to fine ball .. 

 Shipping mid to gd violet 

 Consuming mid. to gd. 

 Ordinary to middling 

 Oudes Middling to fine 

 Mid. to good Kurpah 

 Low to ordinary 

 Mid. to fine Madras 

 Pale reddish to fine 

 Ordinary to fair 



,, good pale 

 Wild 



UG and Coconada 



Jubblepore 



Bhimlies 



Rhajpore, &c. 



Calcutta 



64's to 57's 



80's 



UO's 



Ordinary to fair fresh 

 Ordinary to good 



Fair merchantable 

 According to analysis 

 Good flavour & colour 

 Dingy to white 

 Ordinary to fair sweet 

 Bright <S good flavour 



SHELLS, M. o'PEARL— 

 Egyptian cwt. 

 Bombay ,, 

 Mergui ,, 

 Manilla ,, 

 Banda ,, 

 TAMARINDS, Calcutta... 



per cwt. Madras 

 TORTOISESHELL — 

 Zanzibar, & Bombay lb. 



TURMERIC, Bengal cwt. 



Madras 



Do. 

 Cochin 



Fair ., 

 Fair 



Fair 



„ to tine bold heavy . 



Fair ... 



Dull to fine 

 I Fair to fine 



Fair 



Fair 



Fair 



Ordinary to good 

 Ordinary to good 

 Fair to tine flat 

 Dark to fair round 

 Fair to tine 

 j) » 



Ordinary to gd. soluble 

 Good to fine bold green 

 Fair greenish 

 Commonspeckyand small 



Small to bold 



QUOTATION S 



Is 9d a 2s 9d 

 3s 4d a 3s 6d 

 Is 6d a 2s 8d 

 3s lOd a 4s 6d 

 3s 6d a 4s 5d 

 3s a 4s 

 2s 9d a 3s 4d 

 2s a 2s 6d 

 6d a 3s 3d 

 2s 6d a 3s 6i 

 3s 2d a 3s 8d 

 2s 6d a 3s 

 2s 3d a 2s 6d 

 2s 6d a 2/8 nom. 

 2s 2d a 2s 6d 

 Is 6d a 2s 

 None here 

 2s 6d a 2s 8d 

 2s 2d a 2s 4d 

 2s 4d a 2s 8d 

 7d a 8d 

 4s 9d a 5s 6d 

 4s lOJd a 7s 

 4s 10id a 7s 3d 

 4s «d a (is 

 4s a 5s 

 lOd a Is 

 3d 

 5£d 



14s a 15s 

 9s tid a 12s 6d 



9s a 9s 6d 



5 



3s 6d a "s 9d 

 lid 



Hd a 13d 



2±d a Is 4d 

 Is 7d 



VANILLOES 



Mauritius 



Madagascar 



Seychelles 

 VERMILLION 

 WAX, Japan, squares 



lb 



Ists 

 2nds 

 3rds 



Fair to good £ 

 Sorts 



Mid. to fine bl'k not stony 

 Stony and inferior 



Small to bold 

 1'icbings 

 Fair 



Finger fair to rine bold 

 Bulbs [bright 



Finger fair 



BulDS 



Gd crystallized 3£ a8J in 

 Foxy & reddish 3J a „ 

 Lean and inferior 

 Fine, pure, bright 

 Good white hard 



10s Nom. 

 lUs „ 



5|d 



5£d a 5gd 

 5Sd 



5 ;-d a Md 

 ■■-■id a 9d 

 8*d 

 Sd 

 Kid 



Is lid a 3s 3d 

 Is Sd a 2s 2d 

 is a Is 2d 

 9d a lOd 

 18s a 19s 

 17s a 18s 6d 

 14s Oil a 15s 

 45s a 60s 

 5d a8jd 

 3d a 4Jd 

 Mil a 2Jd 



95s a £10 7s 6d 

 62s 6d a £11 10s 

 £15 15s a £19 5s 

 1312/6d a ±117 5* 

 57s bd a 75s 



a 12s 

 4s a 5s 



15s a 34s 

 13S 6d a 25s 



22s 



24s a 26s 

 18s a 20s 

 21s 

 15s 



13s 6d a 18s 6d 



13s a 16s 



12s 6d a 13s 6d 



2s lid 



47s 



