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[July 1908. 



MARKET RATES FOR TROPICAL PRODUCTS. 



(From Lewis cfe PeaVs Monthly Price Current, London, 10th, June 1908,) 



ALOES, Soceotrine cwt, 

 Zanzibar & Hepatic „ 

 ARROW KOOT (Natal) lb. 

 bEES' WAX, cwt, 

 Zanzibar Yellow „ 

 Bombay bleached „ 

 „ unbleached,, 

 Madagascar ,, 

 CAMPHOR, Ffrmosa „ 

 China ,, 

 C ARDAMOMS. Malabarlb 



Tellicherry 



Mangalore ,, 

 Ceylon.- Mysore ,, 

 Malabar 



long Wild ,, 

 CASTOR OIL, Calcutta,, 

 CHILLIES, Zanzibar cwt 

 CINCHONA BARK- lb. 

 Ceylon 



CINNAMON, Ceylon let* 

 per lb. and* 

 3rds 

 4tlis 

 Chips, (Sc.. 

 CLOVES, Penang lb 

 Amboyna 

 Ceylon 

 Zanzibar 

 Stems 



COFFEE 



Ceylon Plantation ,, 



Native 



Liberian ,> 

 COCOA, Ceylon Plant. „ 



Native Estate ,, 



COLOMBO KOOT 

 CKOTON SEELS.aift. cwt 

 OUTCH 



GINGER, Bengal, rough,, 

 Calicut, Cut A „ 

 B & C ,. 

 Cochin Rough „ 



Japan " 

 GUM AMMONIA CUM ,' 

 ANIMI, Zanzibar , 



Madagascar ,, 



ARABIC E. I. & Aden „ 

 Turkey sorts 



Ghatti „ 



Kurrachee „ 



Madras „ 



ASSAFCETIDA „ 



KINO 



MYRRH, picked „ 



Aden sorts „ 

 OLIBANUM, drop 



pickings , 



sittings , 

 INDIA RUBBJiK lb. 

 Ceylon, Straits, 

 Malay Straits, etc. 



Slight'y drossy to fair 



Fair to good 



Di rk to good genuine 



Dark to goon palish 



Crude 



Fair average quality 

 Go< d to fine bold 

 Middling lean 

 Good to tine bold 

 Brownish 



Med brown to fair bold 

 Smiill fair to fine plump 

 Fair to good 



■Seeds 



■Shelly to good 

 lsts and 2nds 

 Dull to tine bright 



Crown, Renewed 



Org. Stem 

 Red Org. Stem 



Renewed 

 Root 



Common to tine quill 



Fair to fine bold 

 Dull to tine bright bold 

 Dull to tine 



QUOTATIONS. 



Fair and fine 

 Fair 



bright 



85s a 90s 

 20 s a. 80s 

 2-Jd a 4d 



£6 10s a £6 15s 

 a 12s 6d a £7 15s 

 £5 1 5s a £0 10s 

 £6 1' s a £6 17s 6d 

 nom. 

 135s 



Is lOd a 2s 

 Is 5d a Is 7d 

 is a 2s 6d 

 Is 6d a Is 9d 

 Is 9d a 2s 9d nom 

 Is id a 3s 6d 

 Is 5d a Is 6d 

 is 6da ls9d 

 Bd a Is 9d 

 3d a 31d 

 0s a 25s 



3|d a 7d 

 2d a 6d 

 ljd a i\d 

 3d a b\d 

 lid a 4d 

 7jd a Is 3d 



da is 2d 

 6d a Is 

 5d a 8£d 



id a 34d 

 9i a lid 

 7hd a 8d 



da 8d 

 Hd a 6Jd 

 •2d 



Assam 

 Rangoon 



Bold to fine 

 Medium to good 

 Good ordinary 

 Fair to bold 

 Special Marks 

 Red to good 

 Ordinary to red 



Middling to good 

 Dull to fair 

 Fair to fine dry 

 Fair 



Small to fine bold 

 Small and medium 

 Common to fine bold 

 Small and D's 

 Unsplit 



Sm. blocky to fair clean 

 Pale and amber, str. srts. 



„ little red 

 Bean and Pea size ditto 

 Vi.ir to g< od red sorts 

 Med. & bold glassy sot ts 

 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. almond 

 com. stony to good block 

 Fair to fine bright 

 Fair to fine pale 

 Middling to good 

 Good to tine white 

 Middling to fair 

 Low to good pale 

 Slightly foul to fine 

 Fine tara bis. & sheets 



,, Ceara „ „ 

 Crepe ordinary to fine . . 

 Fine Block „ 

 Scrap fair to fine 

 Plantation 



Fair II to good red No.l 



QUALITY. 



INDIARUBBER f Contd.) „ 



Borneo Common to good 



Java 

 Penang 

 Mozambique 



Nyassaland 

 Madagascar 



New Guinea 

 INDIGO, E.I. Bengal 



MACE, Bombay & Penang 

 per lb. 



Java 



MYRABOLANES, cwt 

 Madras 

 Bombay 



110s a 116s 

 Sus a 100s 

 nominal 



15s a 50s 

 78s a 90s 

 72s a 77s 6d 

 55s a 70s 



12s 6d a Hs 

 27s 6d a 32/6nom 

 Is a 25s norn. 

 30s 



72s 6d a 85s 

 48s a 05s 

 36s a 37s 

 33s a 35s 

 28s 



25s a 60s 

 tie a £19 

 £13 a £15 

 0s a £14 

 £9 a £12 

 £6 10s a £7 10s 

 £4 a £8 10s 

 £4 a £7 10s 

 25s a 32s 6d 

 32s 6da 60s 

 17s a 42s 6d 

 :0s a 30s nom. 

 15s a 25s 

 85s a 10PS 

 25s a 75s 

 Bd a Is 

 £5 a £6 

 60s a 75s 

 45s a 55s 

 10s a 40s 

 10s a 20s 

 Us a 15s 

 4S 2d 

 4s 2d 



4s Id a 4s 3d 

 4s 3d 



2s 6d a 3s 

 is 4d 



2s a 2s 9d nom. 

 2s 2d a 2s 4d 



Bengal ,, 

 NUTMEGS— lb. 

 Bombay & Penang ,, 



NUTS, ARECA cwt. 

 NUX VOMICA, Cochin 

 per Cr/t. Bengal 

 Madras 



OIL OF ANISEED „ 

 CASSIA 

 LEMONGRASS 

 NUTMEG 

 CINNAMON 

 CITRON ELLE „ 

 ORCHELLA WEED— cwt 

 Ceylon ,, 

 Zanzibar. ,, 



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 .. 

 Ordinal y 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 

 Mid. to fine Madras 

 Pale reddish to fine 

 Ordinary to fair 



good pale 



UG and Coconada 

 Jubblepore 

 Bhimlies 

 Rhajpore, &c. 

 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 A good flavour 



Mid. to fine not woody.. 

 Picked clean flat leaf .. 

 wiry Mozambique 



PEPPER- (Black) lb. 

 Alleppee & Tellicherry 

 Ceylon 



Singapore ...I „ 



Acheen & W. C. Penang Dull 

 (White) Singapore „ 

 Siam ,, 



PLUMBAGO, lump cwt. 



Fair 



„ to fine bold heavy 



chips 

 dust 



AGO, 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 ,, 



to fine 



Fair to fine 



Fair 



Fair 



Fair to fiue bright bold 

 Middling to good small 

 Dull to fine bright 

 Ordinary to fine bright 

 Dull to fine 



VANILLOES— 

 Mauritius 

 Madagascar 

 Seychelles 

 VERMILLION .. 



lb 



lsts 



Oidinary to gd. soluble 

 Good to fine bold green 

 Fair greenish 

 Commonspeckyand small 



Small to bold 



Fair to good 

 Sorts 



Mid. to tine bl'k not stony 

 Stony and inferior 



Small to bold 

 Tickings 

 Fair 



Finger fair to fine bold 

 Bulbs [bright 

 Finger 

 Bulbs 



Gd crystallized 3J a8§ in 



• 4 • 



6d a 2s 2d 

 Is 9d a 2s 6d 

 Is 4d a 2s lid 

 2s 6d a 3s 4d 

 2s 6d a 3s 4d 

 2s .da 2s 4d 

 Is lOd a 2s 2d 

 Is a Is 6d 

 6d a 2s Id 

 ls6da 2s 6d nom 

 3s 5d a 3s lOd 

 3s Id a 3s 4d 

 2s 9d a 3s 

 2s 6d a 2/8 nom 

 2s 3d a 2s 6d 

 Is 6d a 2s 2d 

 Is 5da 2s id 

 Is 5d a Is lOd 

 Is 2d a Is 6d 

 Is Id a Is 6d 



4s 6d a 4s 9d 

 5s a 5s fid 

 5s a 6s 

 4s 9s a 5s 3d 

 5s a 5s 3d 

 Is 4d a Is 5d 

 SM a Is 5d 

 4 id a 5jd 

 17 s 6d a 20s 

 9s a lis 6d 

 7s 6da 7s 9d 

 7s 9da 9s 

 4s 6d 



4s Od a 4s 9d 

 2d 



lid a 2d 

 2id a is 3d 

 Id 



10s a 12s 6d 

 nom. 



d 



3|d a 4d 

 3jd 



3d a 3Jd 

 od a bd 

 5id 

 4 L d 



35s a 45s nom. 

 25s a 40s 

 15s a 30s 

 s a 15s 

 14s a 15s yd 

 14s a 16s 6d 

 14s a ) 5s 

 £5 a £6 nom. 

 4£d a7d 

 d a 4d 

 l|d a 2d 



45s a £5 10s 

 9s a £6 Its 

 £5 6s a, £7 7s 6d 

 £4 5s a £8 2s 6d 

 z5s a3is nom. 

 lis a 12s 

 4s a 5s 



8s a 31s 

 (is a 26s 

 19s 



i 9s a 22s 

 13s a 16s 

 17s 

 13s 



8s a 15s 



2nds Foxy & reddish 34 a 8 „ 6s 6d a lis 

 3rd. Lean and inferior ...Us 9d a 6s 9d 

 I Fine, pure, bright . |2s 9d 



WAX, Jaran, squares (Good white hard ...|50s 



