380 



MARKET RATES FOR TROPICAL PRODUCTS. 



(From Lewis dk Peat's Monthly Prices Current, London, 28th Februuary, 1912,) 



ALOES, Socotrine cwt. 



Zanzibar & Hepatic ',, 

 ARROWROOT (Natal) lb 

 BEES' WAX, cwt 

 Zanzibar Yellow „ 

 East Indian, bleached „ 

 „ unbleached „ 

 Madagascar ,, 

 CAMPHOR, Japan 



China „ 

 CARDAMOMS, Tuticorin 



Malabar, Tellicherry 

 Calicut 

 Mangalore ,, 

 Ceylon, Mysore ,, 

 Malabar 

 Seeds, E. I, & Ceylon „ 

 Ceylon Long Wild ,, 

 CABTOR OIL, Calcutta,, 

 CHILLIES, Zanzibar cwt 

 Japan „ 

 CINCHONA BARK.- lb 

 Ceylon 



CINNAMON. Ceylon lets 

 per lb, 2nd? 



3rds 

 4ths 

 Chips, Sc. 

 CLOVES, Penang lb. 

 Amboyna 

 Ceylon 

 Zanzibar 

 Stems 



COFFEE 



Ceylon Plantation cwt. 

 Native 



Liberia n ,, 

 COCOA, Ceylon Plant. „ 



Native Estate „ 

 Java and Celebes „ 

 COLOMBO BOOT „ 

 CBOTON SEEDS, sift. cwt. 

 CUBEBS „ 

 QIN6EB, Bengal, rough,, 

 Calicut, Cut A „ 

 B4C,, 

 Cocbin Rough „ 



Japan „ 

 SUM AMMONIA CUM ,, 

 ANIMI, Zanzibar 



Madagascar „ 



ABABIC E. I. & Aden „ 



Turkey sorts ,, 



Obatti >, 



Kurrachee „ 



Madras ,, 



ASSAFIKTI )> a „ 



KINO 



MYBBB.Aden sorts cwt 



Somali ,, 

 OLIBANUM, drop 



pickings „ 



sittings „ 

 INDIA RUBBKR lb. I 



Ceylon, Straits, J 

 Malay Straits, etc. 



Assam 



QUALITY. 



QUOTATIONS 



Fair to fine 

 Common to good 

 Fair to fine 



Slightly drossy to fair 

 Fair to good 

 Dark to good genuine 

 Dark to good palish 

 Refined 



Fair average quality 

 Good to fine bold 

 Middling lean 

 Oood to font bold 

 Brownish 



Med brown to fair bold 

 Small fair to fine plump 

 Fair to good 

 Fair to good 

 Shelly to good 

 Good 2nds 

 Dull to Sue bright 

 Fair bright good bright. . 



Crown, " Renewed 



Org. Stem 

 Red Org. Stem 



Renewed 

 Root 

 Good to fine quill 



Fair to fine bold 

 Dull to fine 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 



Ord. blocky to fair clean 

 Pale and amber, str. arts 

 „ 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 fine bright 

 Middling to good 



Good to fine 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. rid No. 1 



65s a 70s 

 10s a 72s 6d 

 8d a 9d 



£6 17s 6d a£7 

 £.1 17/6 a £8 2/6 

 £5 17/6 a £6 12/6 

 £6 12s 6d a £7 

 s 6d a Is Sid 

 140s 



JS lid a 3/3(1 110 m 

 2s 5d a 2s 8d „ 

 2s lOd a 3s 3d „ 

 2s 3d a 2s 7d „ 

 3s a 4s 3d 

 2s 9d a 4s 

 2s 7d a 2s 9d 

 3s 2d a 3s 4d 

 6d a 2s 

 jd a 4d 

 40s a 45s 

 40s a 46s 

 i|d a 7d 

 2d a 6d 

 Id a 41d 

 3d a 61d 

 id a 4d 

 s 3d als7d 

 .s4d a Is 6d 

 Is a Is 5d 

 s a Is 4d 

 2id a 3d 

 lid a Is 2d 

 9d a lOd 

 yd a lOd 

 od a Sjil 

 2id 



80s a 113s 

 Nominal 

 70s a 80s 

 72s a 83s 

 67s a 71s 6d 

 43s a b5s 

 25s a 80s 

 15s a 20s 

 70s a 76s 

 150s a 170s 

 35s nom. 

 80s a 86s 

 a 70s 

 40s a 45s 

 40s 

 32s 



40s a 72s 6d 

 £16 a £16 

 £12 a, £14 

 75s a £11 

 £7 a £9 

 £5 a £8 

 £4 a £8 16s 

 £4 a £7 10s 

 35s a 45s nom. 

 37s 6d a 57s 6d 

 32s Hd a 40s nom 

 27s 6d a 35s „ 

 27s 6d a 40s „ 

 £17 o£19; 

 26s a £15 

 Odals 

 52s 6d a 60s 

 60s a 62s 6d 

 45s a 60s 

 35s a 40s 

 12s 6d a 27s 6d 

 20s a 22s 6d 

 5s 3d 

 5s 2d 



5s Id a 6s 4d 

 5a 4d 



4b 6d a 4s 7d 



4s 3d 



3s 6d a 3s lOd 

 2s a 2s 8d 



NUTS, ARECA 

 NUX VOMICA, 

 per cwt. 



IN DIARUBBER.f Contd.) 

 Borneo 

 Java 

 Penang 

 Mozambique 



Nyassaland 

 Madagascar 



QUALITY. 



(QUOTATIONS. 



New Guinea 

 INDIGO, E.I. Bengal 



MACE, Bombay * Penang 

 per lb. 



Java 

 Bombay 

 MYRABOLANES, cwt 

 Bombay 



Bengal 

 NUTMEGS— 



lb. 



Singapore <fc Penang ,, 



cwt. 

 Cochin 

 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. 



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 „ 



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 & b lk 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 

 to 57's 



80's 

 110's 



Ordinary to fair fresh 

 Ordinary to good 



Fair merchantable 

 According to analysis 

 Good flavour & colour 

 Dingy to white 

 Ordinary to fair sweet 

 Bright & good flavour 



Fair , 

 Fair 



Fair 



„ 10 fine bold heavy 

 Fair 



Dull to fine 

 Fair to fine 



Fair 



Fair 



Fair 



Ordinary to good 

 Ordinary to good 

 Fair to fine flat 

 Dark to fair round 

 Fair to fine 



Ordinary to gd. soluble 

 Good to fine bold green 

 Fair greenish 

 Commonspeckyand small 



Small to bold 



VANILLOES— 

 Mauritius 

 Madagascar 

 Seychelles 

 VERMILLION 

 WAX, Japan, squares 



lb. 



Ists 

 2nds 

 3rds 



good 



Nom. 



Fair to 



Sorts 



Mid. to fine bl'k not stony 

 Stony and inferior 



Small to bold 

 Pickings 

 Fair 



Finger fair to fine bold 

 Bulbs [bright 

 Finger fair 

 Bulbs 



Gd crystallized 3i a8J in 

 Foxy & reddish 34 a 

 Lean and inferior 

 Fine, pure, bright 

 Goodaite hard 



Is 9d a 2s Sd 

 3s lOd a 4s 3d 

 is 6d a 3s 

 3s9da4s5d 

 3s 6d a 4s 4d 

 3s a 4s 

 2s 9d a 3s 6d 

 2s a 2s 6d 

 6d a 3s 3d 

 2s 6d a 3s 64 

 3s 2d a 3s 8d 

 2s 6d a 3s 

 2s 3d a 2s 6d 

 2s 6d a 2/8 nom. 

 2s 2d a 2a 6(1 

 Is 6d a 2s 

 None here 

 2s 3d a 23 6d 

 2s a 2s 2d 

 2s a 2s 4d 

 6d a 7d 

 4s 6d a 5s 

 4s 9d a 6s 6d 

 4s 10id a 6s 9d 

 4s 6d a 6s 9d 

 3s 9d a 4s 3d 

 lOd a Is 

 id 

 6d 



14s a 15s 

 9s 6d a 111 

 7s 6d a 8s 

 s 6d a 8s 6d 

 5s lid 



33 5d a 3s 94 

 lid 



lid a ljd 

 2Jd a Is 4d 

 Is lid 



10s Nom. 

 10s „ 

 10s „ 

 5id 



5*d a Si 



Bid 



Did a 6d 

 8d a Od 

 8d 

 7id 

 8jd 



is 9d a 2s 94 

 is 5d a Is 8d 

 9jd a 10id 

 7*d a Hid 

 18s a 19s 

 17s a 18a fid 

 14s a los 

 45s a 60s 

 6d a8id 

 3d a 4 jd 

 Uda2id 



773 6d a 186s 

 67s fid a 187a 64 

 £12 7/6 a £15 

 £9 6s a £14 

 32s a 37s 

 10s a 12s 

 4s a 5a 



Us fid a 37a 

 lis a Its 



22s 



25s a 27* 

 18a a 20a 

 21s 

 16a 



13s a 18s 84 



13s a lfis 



12s fid a 13s Id 



3a 



12s 



