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MARKET RATES FOR TROPICAL PRODUCTS, 



{From Lewis & Peat's Monthly Prices Current, London, 12th A pril 1910,) 



ALOES, Socotrine cwt, 

 Zanzibar & Hepatic „ 

 ARBOVVKOOT (Natal) lb. 

 BEES' WAX, cwt. 

 Zanzibar Yellow „ 

 Bombay bleached „ 

 ,i unbleached „ 

 Madagascar „ 

 CAMPHOR, Japan „ 

 China „ 

 CARDAMOMS, Tuticorin 



Tellicherry 



Mangalore ,, 

 Ceylon. - Mysore „ 

 Malabar 

 Seeds, E. I, & Ceylon „ 

 Ceylon Long Wild „ 

 CABTOK OIL, Calcutta „ 

 CHILLIES, Zanzibar cwt. 



CINCHONA BARK.- lb. 

 Ceylon 



CINNAMON, Ceylon lste 

 per lb, 2nde 

 3rds 

 4tns 

 Chips, <&c. 

 CLOVES, Penang lb. 

 Amboyna 

 Ceylon 

 Zanzibar 

 Stems 



COFFEE 



Ceylon Plantation cwt 

 Native 



Liberian „ 

 COCOA, Ceylon Plant. „ 



Native Estate „ 

 Java and Celebes „ 

 COLOMBO ROOT „ 

 CKOTON SEEDS.sift. cwt, 

 CUBEBS 



GINGER, Bengal, rough,, 

 Calicut, Cut A „ 

 B&C „ 

 Cochin Kough „ 



Japan „ 

 aUM AMMONIACUM ,, 

 ANIMI, Zanzibar 



Madagascar „ 



ARABIC E. I. Sc. Aden „ 



Turkey sorts ,, 



Ghatti „ 



Kurrachee ,, 



Madras „ 



ASSAFCETIDA 



KINO 



MYRRH, Aden sorts cwt 



Somali „ 

 OLIBANUM, drop 



pickings ,, 



sittings ,, 

 INDIA RUBBER lb. , 



Ceylon, Straits, J 

 Malay Straits, etc. 



Assam 



Rangoon 



Fair to fine 

 Common to good 

 Fair to fine 



Slightly drossy to fair ... 



Fair to goud 



Dark to good genuine ., 



Hark to Kood palish 



Refined 



Fair average quality „, 



Good to fine bold 



Middling lean 



Good to fine bold «, 



Brownish 



Med brown to fair bold 



Snull fair to fine plump 



Fair to good ,„ 



Fair to good 



Shelly to good 



Good2nds 



Dull to fine bright 



Crown, Renewed 



Org. Stem 

 Red Org. Stem 



Renewed 

 Root 



Good to tine quill 



QUALITY. 



QUOTATION S. 



Fair to fine bold 

 Dull to tine bright pkd. 

 Dull to tine 



Fair 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 



Sm. blocky to fair clean 

 Pale and amb;r, str. srts. 



„ „ little red 



Bean and Pea size ditto 

 Fair to good red sorts 

 Med. k bold glassy sorts 

 Fair to good palish 



•i „ 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 fine bright 

 Middling to good 



Good to fine white 

 Middling to fair 

 Low to good pale 

 Slightly foul to tine 

 Fine Para bis. & sheets 



„ Ceara „ „ 

 Crepe ordinary to fine . . 

 Fine Block 

 Scrap fair to fine 

 Plantation 



Fair II to ord. red No. 1 



. s 0s a 85s 

 |*0s a 70s 

 |7d a 8d 



£6 15s a £6 17s 6d 

 a 10s a £7 12s 6d 

 £5 15s a £6 10s 

 £6 15s a £7 

 is 5|d a Is 7d 

 UCs 



2s a 2s 5d 

 Is 9d a Is lOd 

 2s a 2s 3d 

 Is 3s a Is 9d 

 is lOd a 2s 8d 

 Is 4d a 2s lOd 

 Is 2d a Is id 

 Is 8d a Is 6d 

 6d a ls7d 

 Sid a 3 M6d 

 40s a 45s 



3|d a 7d 

 2d a 6d 

 lid a 4M 

 3d a 5$d 

 lid a 4d 

 e!jd a Is 5d 

 5Jd a Is 4d 

 5d a Is 

 4£d a 8jd 

 !\d a 3d 

 Id 5s a Is 6d 

 9d a lOd 

 9d a lOd 

 5id a bid 

 2Jd 



IN DIARUBB ER.f ConM.; 

 Borneo 

 Java 

 Penang 

 Mozambique 



Nyassaland 

 Madagascar 



65d a 100s 

 nominal 



43s a 55s 

 fcOs a 69s 

 54s a 59d 

 39s a 56s 

 30s a 80s 

 30s a 35s 

 45s a 47s 6d 

 150s a 170s 

 40s nom. 

 65s a 85s 

 55s a 60s 

 45s a 50s 

 42s 6d a 45s 

 43s 



35s a 73s 6d 

 £15 a £16 

 £12 a £14 

 75s a £14 2s 6d 

 £8 a £12 

 £6 a £8 

 £4 a £8 15s 

 £4 a £7 10s 

 25s a 32s 6d nom, 

 30a a 50s 

 :0s a 42s ad nom. 

 20s a 30s 

 15s a 25s „ 

 £9 a £10 10s 

 15s a £8 

 6d a 9d 

 55s a 65s 

 50s a 65s 

 45s a 60s 

 30s a 40s 

 10s a 22s 6d 

 13s a 16s 

 12s 4d 

 lis 



12s 2d a 12s 6d 

 12s 6d 



9s 6d a lCs 2d 



5s 6a a 8s 

 6s a 7d 

 4s 6d a 5s 3d 



New Guinea 

 INDIGO, E.I. Bengal 



MACE, Bombay & Penang 

 per lb. 



Java 

 Bombay 

 MYRABOLANES, c 

 Bombay 



QUALITY. 



Bengal 

 NUTMEGS— 



lb. 



Bombay & 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 & VV. C. Penang 

 (White) Singapore „ 

 Siam „ 

 Penang „ 

 Muntok ,, 

 RHUBARB, Shenzi 

 Canton 

 High Dried. . 



SAGO, Pearl, large 



medium . 

 small 



SEEDLAC cwt. 

 SENNA, Tinrievelly lb. 



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 



VANILLOES — 

 Mauritius 

 Madagascar 

 Seychelles 



VERMILLION 



lb, 

 Ists 

 2nds 



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 tine ball .. 

 Shipping mid to gd violet 

 Consuming mid. to gd. 

 Ordinary to middling 

 Oudes Middling to fine 

 Mid. to good Kurpah 

 Low to ordinary 



id. to fine Madras 

 Pale reddish to fine ' 

 Ordinary to fair 



,, „ good pale 

 Wild 



UG and Coconada 

 Jubblepore 

 Bhimlies 

 Rhajpore, (Sc. 

 Calcutta 

 64's to 57's 

 110's to 65's 

 160's to 115's 

 Ordinary to fair fresh 

 Ordinary to good 



QUOTATIONS 



Fair merchantable 

 According to analysis 

 Good flavour & colour 

 Dingy to white 

 Ordinary to fair sweet 

 Bright ik good flavour 



Mid. to tine not woody.. 

 Fair 



Fair 



„ to tine bold heavy . 



Dull to fine 

 Fair to fine 



Fair 



Fair 



Fair 



Ordinary to good 

 Ordinary to good 

 Fair to fine flat 

 Dark to fair round 

 Dull to fine 



Ordinary to gd. soluble 

 Good to fine bold green 

 Fair greenish 

 Commonspeckyand small 



Small to bold 



Fair to good 

 Sorts 



Mid. to fine bl'k not stony 

 Stony and inferior 



Small to bold .. 



tickings 



Fair 



Finger fair to dne bold 

 Bulbs [bright 

 Finger 

 Bulbs 



Gd crystallized 3 J a8J in 

 Foxy & reddish 3j a „ 

 rds 1 Lean and inferior 

 Fine, pure, bright 



■ . •• ■ muj jjuit, Ml&gUI* 



WAX, Ja±an, square^ Good white hard 



3s 7d a 4s 8d 

 6s 3d a 7a 

 3s 9d a 4s 8d 

 7s 6d a 9s 

 7s a 8s lOd 

 6s 3d a 7s 4d 

 5s 6d a 6s 6d 

 4s a 4s 4d 

 2s a 5s 

 4s 6da6s 

 2s lOd a3s8d 

 2s 6d a 2s lOd 

 2s 2d a 2i 5d 

 2s 6d a 2/8 nom. 

 2s 2d a 2s 6d 

 Is 6d a 2s 

 Is 5d a 2s 4d 

 Is lid a 2s 4d 

 Is 8(1 a Is lOd 

 Is 7d a 2s 

 4d a 4.VJ 

 5s a 5s 6d 

 5s a 6s 

 5s 3d a 6s 6d 

 4s 9d a 6s 6d 

 5s dd a 6s 

 Is a Is 6d 

 4|d a Is 

 id a 4£d 

 14s a 15s 

 9s a lis 6d 

 6s ed a 7s 

 6s yd a 8s 



4s 5d 



3s 4d a 3s 8d 

 2Jd a 2gd 

 Ud a IjJ 

 2d a Is 

 Is 



8s a 10s 

 10s 



3Jd 



3jd a 4|d 

 id 



3id a 3|d 

 6Jd a 8a 

 6jd 

 6id 

 74d 



Is 3d a 2s 8d 

 10 jd a Is Id 

 10-is a Is 

 5d a e.!d 

 2os a 22s 

 17s 6d a 20s 

 17s. 6d a 18s 6 d 

 45s a 60s 

 4Jd a 7d 

 2jd a 4Jd 

 ljda2jd 



27s a 135s 

 18s a 127l6nom 

 £s5s a £9 7s 6d 

 £7 10s a £10 16s 

 25s a 30s nom. 

 lis a 12s 6d 

 4s a 6s 



Us a 29s 

 8s a 23s 

 19s 6d 

 23s a 24s 6d 

 I7s a 18s 

 20s 



14s ed 



13s a 18s 

 lis 63 a 14s 

 lis a us 6d 

 3s 2d 

 1QS 



