480/i 



November, 1! 



MARKET RATES FOR TROPICAL PRODUCTS. 



(From Lewis & Peat's Monthly Prices Current, London, 14th October, 1908.) 



ALOE, Socotrine cwt- 

 Zanzibar & Hepatic „ 

 ARROWROOT (Natal) lb. 

 BEES' WAX, cwt. 

 Zanzibar Yellow ,, 

 Bombay bleached „ 

 ,, unbleached,, 

 Madagascar „ 

 CAMPHOR, Formosa „ 

 China ,, 

 C iRDAMOMS. Malabarlb 



Tellicherry 



Mangalore ,, 

 Ce\ lull. - Mysore ,, 

 Malabar 



,, Long Wild",, 

 CAB j OK OIL, Calcutta „ 

 CB1LLIES, Zanzibar cwt. 

 CINCHONA BARK.- lb. 

 Ceylon 



CIN IS AM ON, Ceylon lsts 

 per lb. 2nd* 

 3rds 

 4ths 

 Chips, &c,. 

 CLOVES, Penang lb. 

 Amboyna 

 Ceylon 

 Zanzibar 

 Stems 



COFFEE 



Ceylon Plantation cwt. 



Native 



Liberian >. 

 COCOA, Ceylon Plant. „ 



Native Estate ,, 



COLOMBO BOOT ,, 

 CHOTON SEEDS.sift. cwt, 

 UUTCH .. ■• 



ti 1NGEB, Bengal, rough,, 

 (Jalicut, Cut A „ 

 B& C ,, 

 Cochin Rough „ 



Japan '■ 

 GUM AMMONIACUH '* 

 ANIMI, Zanzibar " 



Madagascar 



aKAHIO E. I. & Aden 



Turkey sorts 



Gbatti 



Kurrachee 



Madras 

 ASSAFCETILA 



KINO lb. 

 M1KKH, picked cwt 

 Aden sorts ,, 

 OLIBANUM, drop „ 



pickings „ 

 Sittings ,, 

 INDIA RUBBEK lb. 

 Ceylon, Straits, 

 Malay Straits, etc. J 



QUALITY. 



Fair to fine 

 Common to good 

 Fair to fine 



Slightly drossy to fair .. 



Fair to good 



Dark to good genuine .. 



Uark to goou palish 



Crude 



Fair average quality 

 Good to fine bold 

 Middling lean 

 Good to fine bold 

 Brownish 



Med brown to fair bold 

 Small fair to fine plump 

 Fair to good 

 Seeds 



Shelly to good 

 lsts and 2nds 

 Dull to fine bright 



Crown, Renewed 

 Org. Stem 



Red Org. Stem 



Renewed 

 hoot 



Common to tine quill 



QUOTATIONS 



Fair to tine bold 

 Dull to tine bright bold 

 Dull to tine 



Fair and fine bright 

 Fair 



Bold to fine 

 Medium to good 

 Good ordinary 

 Fair to bold 

 Special Marks 

 Red to good 

 Ordinary to red 



2-ood 



90s a 95s 

 20s a 82s 6d 

 2fd a 4d 



£6 5s a£6 7s6d 

 a 10s a £7 12s 6d 

 £5 Ills a £0 2s 6d 

 £0 5s a £6 10s 

 nom. 

 I5us nom. 

 Is 10d a 2s 

 is 6d a Is 8d 

 is a 2s 6d 

 is 6d a Is 9d 

 2s a 3s 

 Is 5d a 3s 6d 

 Is e<! a Is 7d 

 s 7da Is 9d 

 6d a Is 9d 

 3d a Sid 

 25s a 30s 



3§d a 7d 

 2d a ed 

 lid a 4£d 

 3d a 5 ; '[d 

 1-Jd a 4d 

 8Ad a Is 5d 

 7 id a Is 4d 

 B|d a is 

 5d a 9id 

 2Jd a 3Jd 

 lod a is 

 7id a 8d 

 d a 8d 

 h\A a 5jd 

 2d 



UOs a l!2s 

 SOs a 108s 

 nominal 



42s 6d a 46b' 6d 

 75s a 90s 

 08s a 74s 

 40s a 65s 



IMDIARUBBER.fCojiW.; 

 Horneo 

 Java 

 Penang 

 Mozambique 



Nyassaland 

 Madagascar 



Assam 

 Rangoon 



Middling to 

 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 

 Fsir to good 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 fine white 

 Middling to fair 

 Low to good pale 

 Slightly foul to fine 

 Fine Para bis. & sheets 



j Ceara 

 Crepe ordinary to fine . . 

 Fine Block 

 Scrap fair to fine 

 Plantation 



Fair II to good red No.l 



15s a 17s ed 

 27s 6d a 32s 6d 

 21s a 23s nom. 

 30s nom. 

 72s 6d a 85s 

 48s a 65s 

 32s 6d a 35s 

 33s 

 27s 



25s a 60s 

 £16 a £18 

 £13 a £15 

 75s a £13 

 £9 a £12 

 £6 10s a £8 

 £4 a £8 10s 

 £4 a £7 10s 

 25s a 32s 6d nom, 

 32s 6d a 50s 

 17s a 42s 6d nom. 

 20s a 30s 

 15s a 25s „ 

 S5s a 100s 

 25s a 75s 

 6d a Is 

 £5 a £6 

 55s a 70s 

 45s a 55s 

 SOs a 40s 

 10s a 22s 6d 

 Us a 15s 

 4s 7§d 

 4s 7Jd 



4s 5d a 4s 9d 

 slid 



3s 2d a 3s 5d 

 3s 6d 



2s a 2s lid 

 2s 2d a 2s 4d 



New Guinea 

 INDIGO, E.I. Bengal 



MACE, Bombay & Penang 

 per lb. 



Jaya 



MYRABOLANES, cwt 

 Bombay ,, 



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 ,, 

 Zanzibar. ,, 



PEPPER- (Black) lb. 

 Alleppee & Tellicherry 

 Ceylon 

 Singapore 

 Acheen & W. C. Penang 

 (White) Singapore „ 

 Siam , , 



Penang ,, 

 PLUMBAGO, lump cwt. 



chips 

 dust 



SAGO, Pearl, large 



medium .. 

 small 



SEEDLAC cwt. 

 SENNA, Tinneveily lb. 



QUALITY. 



Common to good 

 Good to fine red 



iow 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 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 



CG 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 



u 

 m. 



Fair merchantable 

 According to analysis 

 Good flavour & colour 

 Dingy to white 

 Ordinary to fair sweet 

 Bright <St good flavour 



Mid. to tine not woody... 

 Picked clean fiat leaf ... 

 wiry Mozambique 



Fair 



,, to fine bold heavy 



Dull to fine 

 Fair to fine 



Fair 



Fair 



Fair to fine bright bold 

 Middling to good small 

 Dull to fine bright 

 Ordinary to fine bright 

 Dull to fine 



Cd a 2s 2d 

 Is 9d a 2s 6d 

 Is 4d a 2s 3d 

 2s 6d a 3s ed 

 2s 6d a 3s 5d 

 2s 3d a 2s 4d 

 Is lOd a 2s 2i 

 Is a Is 8d 

 6d*a 2s 



Is 6da2-i6d no] 

 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 4d 

 Is 5d a is lOd 

 Is 2d a Is 6d 

 Is Id a Is Gd 



5s a 5s 6d 

 5s 6d a 5s 9d 

 5s 3d a 7s 

 5s a 6s 

 5s a 5s 6d 

 Is 4d a Is 5d 

 5d a Is 3d 

 4Jd a 41d 

 14s a 15s 

 9a a lis 6d non 

 7s 6d a 7s 9d 

 7s 9da 9s 

 4s 5d 

 4s6da4s lOd 

 2d 



l|d a 2d 

 2id a Is 

 Is 



12s 6d a 18s 

 nom. • 



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 



Ordinary to gd. soluble 

 Good to fine bold green 

 Fair greenish 

 Commonspeckyand small 



Small to bold 



3Jd 



3d a 4d 

 3d 



2id a 3|d 

 4Jd a 8d 

 5d 

 4j-d 



35s a 45s noui. 



25s a 40s 

 15s a 30s 

 7s a 15s 

 14s a 16s 

 12s 6da 15s 

 lis a 13s 

 £5 a £6 nom 

 5d a7d 

 3id a 4£d 

 l|d a 2jd 



Fair to good 

 Sorts 



M id. to fine bl'k not stony 

 Stony and inferior 



Small to bold 



Pickings 



Fair 



Finger fair to fine bold 

 Bulbs [bright 

 Finger 

 Bulbs 



[ VA.NILLOES 

 Mauritius 

 Madagascar 

 Seychelles 

 I VERMILLION . 

 iw^X, Japan, squares 



lb. 



lsts 

 2nds 

 5r<i 



Gd crystallized 3£ t&k > n 

 Foxy & reddish 3J a 

 T,f>an and inferior 

 i ,u, pure, bright 

 tjuod white hard 



65sa£510/no 

 35s a £5 18s 

 £6 2/6 a £7 7/6 

 £4 10a a £71 

 25s a 30s no 

 lis a 12s 

 4s a 5s 



8s Gd a 27s 

 6s 6d a 18s 6d 



18s 



19s a 22s 

 16s a 17s 

 16s 

 13s 



6s a 13s 

 5s a 9s 

 4s a 5s 

 2s 9d a 23 lOd 



6 2s 



