384c 



MARKET RATES FOR TROPICAL PRODUCTS. 



(From Lewis <£• Peat's Monthly Prices Current, London, 17th Mar< k , 1909.) 



ALOES, Socotrine cwt 

 Zanzibar & Hepatic ,, 

 ARBOWKOOT (Natal) lb 

 BEES' WAX, cwt 

 Zanzibar Yellow „ 

 Bombay bleached „ 

 „ unbleached,, 

 Madagascar ,, 

 CAMPHOR, Japan 

 China 

 CARDAMOMS, M '■ 



Te 



cherry 



Mangalore ,, 

 Ceylon. - Mysore „ 

 Malabar .. 



Long Wild "„ 

 CA8TOK OIL, C.ilcutta ,, 

 CH1LLIE8, Zanzibar cwt 

 CINCHONA BARK.- lb. 

 Ceylon 



CINNAMON.Ceyl 



Chips, 

 CLOVES, Penang 



Amboyna 

 Ceylon 

 Zanzibar 

 Stems 



COFFEE 



Ceylon Plantation 



Native 

 Liberian 

 COCOA, Ceylon Plant 



Native Estate 



COLOMBO ROOT 

 CROTON SEKJJS.sift. cwt 

 CUBEBS 



GIMGhB, Bengal, rough,, 

 Calicut, Cut A ., 

 B & C ,, 



Cocbin Rough ,, 



Japan ,, 

 SUM AMMON1ACUM ,, 

 AN I MI, Zanzibar 



Madagascar 



ARABIC E. I. & Aden 

 Turkey sorts 

 Ghatti 

 Kurrachee 

 Madras 



ASSAF(KTlliA 



KINO 



MTiRRH, picked ow 



Aden soi ls 

 OLIBANUM, drop 



pickings 

 siftings 

 INDIA RUBBER. lb, 

 Ceylon, .Straits, 

 Malay Straits, etc. 



QUALITY. 



Fair to fine 

 Common to good 

 Fair to fine 



Slightly drossy to fair .. 

 Fair to good 

 D. rk to good genuine . . 

 Dark to mood palish 

 Refined 



Fair average quality ... 

 Good to tine bold 

 .Middling lean 

 Good to hue bold 

 Brownish 



Med brown to fair bold 

 Small fair to fine plump 

 Fair to good 



Seeds 



Shelly to good 

 lsts and 2nds 

 Dull to hue bright 



Crown, Renewed 

 Org. Stem 



Red Org, Stem 



Renewed 



QUOTATIONS 



id to tine quil 



Fair to tine bold 

 Dull to tine bright bold 

 Dull to tine 



bright 



2gd a 4d 



£6 15s a £6 17s 6d 

 £7 10s a £7 12s tid 

 £5 16s a £6 10s 

 £6 10s a £6 17s 6d 

 s 6|d a Is 9d 

 137s tid 

 a 2s 5d 

 7d a Is lOd 

 3d a 2s 8d 

 Is 7d a 2s 

 2s 2d a 3s 2d 

 Is 7d a 3s tid 

 Is 7d a Is 8d 

 Is lid a 2s Id 

 Bd a 2s 

 2Jd a 3J.d 

 3»s a 4os 



|d a 7d 

 d a 6d 

 l|d a 4Jd 

 3d a bid 

 lid a id 

 lodals 4d 

 9d a Is 2d 

 id a Hid 

 6£d a 9-Jd" 

 2id a 3Jd 

 111 a Is 

 7Jd a 9d 

 7d a 9d 

 4|d a 5d 



Bold to tine 

 Medium to good 

 Good ordinary 

 Fair to bold 

 Special Marks 

 Red to good 

 Ordinary to red 



Middling to good 

 Dull to fair 

 Old. stalky to good 

 Fair 



Small to tine bold 

 Small and medium 

 Common to tine bold 

 sin ill ,ni(l D's 

 Unsplit 



blocky to fair clean 

 P«le and amber, str. srts, 

 little red 

 Bean and Pea size ditto 



t" g. od red sorts 

 Med. & bold glassy soits 

 Fair to good palish 



,. red 

 Ordinary to good pale 



Penang 

 Mozambique 



New Guinea 

 INDIGO, E.I. Bengal 



MACE. Bombay * Penang 

 per lb. 



Java 

 Bombay 

 MVRABOLANES, cwt 

 Bombay 



_ood 

 Good to tine red 

 Low white to prime red 

 Fair to fine red Ball ... 

 Sausage, fair to good ... 

 Fair to tine ball 

 Fr to fine pinky & white 

 Majunga & blk coated 

 Nigger9, 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 

 Mid. to fine Madias 

 Pale reddish to fine 

 Ordinary to fair 



„ ,, good pale 

 Wild 



UG and Coconada 

 Jubblepore 

 ' ;Bhimlies 



Rhajpore, &c. 

 , (Calcutta 

 lb. |ti4's to 



Bombay & Penang „ Jllo's to 6S's 

 160's to lla's 

 NUTS, ARECA cwt. Ordinary to fair 

 NUX VOMICA, Cochin JOrdinary to good 

 Bengal 

 Madras 



ts to fine pale 

 Reddish to good pale .. 

 Dark to tine pale 

 Clean fr to gd. almond; 

 com. stony to good block 

 Fair to tine bright 

 Fair to tine pale 

 Middling to good 

 Good to tine white 

 Middling to fair 

 , I Low to good pale 

 , Slightly foul to fine 



[Fine Para bis. <fc sheets 

 (\ „ Ceara „ „ 



[Crepe ordinary to fin*, 

 J , iFine Block 

 I !Scrap fair to tine 

 I ; Plantation 

 Fairlltoord. rad No. 



110s a 112s 

 I. 108s 

 nominal 



13s aoOsP 

 73s a 83s 6d 

 65s a 72s 6d 

 65s 



30s nom. 



65s a 85s 

 48s a 52s 

 35s a ii 's 



OIL OF ANISEED 

 CASSIA 

 !., KMONGRASS 

 NUTMEG 

 CINNAMON 

 CITRON ELLE 

 ORCHELLA WEED- 

 Ceylon 



( Fair merchantable 

 'According to analysis 

 Good flavour & colour 

 Dingy to white 

 Ordinary to fair sweet 

 Bright A good flavour 



Is a : 

 2sa ; 



Is 6d a 2s 8d 

 3s 3d a 4s 6ftl 

 3s 3d a 4s 3d 

 2sl0da 3s 8d 

 2s lOd a 3s 6d 

 id a 2s 9d 

 Is a 2s 6d 

 2d a 3s 84 uou* 

 5d a 3s lOd 

 3s Id a 3s 4<1 

 2s 9d a 3s 



; 2/S how. 

 -s Id ;i. 2s tid 

 lis tid % 2s 2d 

 Is5da2s4d 

 Is Sd a 2s 4d 

 Is 4d a Is tid 

 Is 3d a Is 84 

 id 



■cwt 



30s 



25s a 60s nom. 

 £16 a £18 

 £13 a £15 

 75s a £12 

 £9 a £12 

 £7 a £9 15s 

 £4 a £8 15s 

 £4 a £7 10s 

 25s a 32s 6d nom. 

 32s a 50s 

 20s a 42s tid nom 

 20s a 30s 

 15s a 25s 

 85s a 100s 

 25s a 75s 

 ad a9d 

 80s a 90S 

 50s a 65s 

 40s a 60s 

 a 35s 

 10s a 20s 

 13s a 15s 

 5s 5td 

 5s 4d 



6s a5s6Jd i 

 6s 9d 



4s 2d a 4s 8d 

 8d 



2s a 2s tid 

 2s 3d a;»8d 



Mid. to tine not woody 

 Picked clean flat leaf . 

 | ., wiry Mozambique 



PEPPER - (Black) lb. 

 Alleppee & Tellicherry i Fair 

 Ceylon „ to tine bold heavy . . 



Singapore ... „ ... 



Acheen & VV. C. Penang Dull to fine 



(White) Singapore , Fair to line 



Siam „ Fair 



Penang „ I Fair 



PLUMBAGO, lump cwt. Pair to tine bright bold 

 Middling to good small 

 chips iDull to tine bright 



dust lOrdinary to tine bright 



SAGO, Pearl, large ...4>ull to flue 

 medium .. ,, „ 

 small ... ,, ,, 

 SEEDLAC cwt Ordinary to gd. soluble 



SENNA, Tinnevelly lb. Go °4 to fine bold green 

 Fair greenish 

 Commonspeckyand s'nall 



SHELLS, M. o'PEARL— 

 Egyptian cwt 

 Bombay „ 

 Mergui ,, 

 Manilla ,, 

 Banda „ 

 TAMARINDS, Calcutta.. 



per cwt. Madras 

 TORTOISESHELL — 

 Zanzibar, & Bombay lb. 



TURMERIC, Bengal cwt. 



MadraB „ 



Do. 

 Cochin „ 



Fair to good 

 Sorts 



Mid. to fine bl'k not stony 

 Stony and inferior 



V ANILLOES — 

 Mauritius 

 Madagascar 

 Seychelles 

 VERMILLION 

 .WAX, Japan, 



4s9da tis94 

 4s9da7s 

 4s6datis 34 

 5s a os Od 

 Is 2d a Is 44 

 4|d a is 2d 

 44 a Ud 

 lis ai2s 

 a lis fid 

 6s a tis 64 



3da8s 

 4s 5d 



4 s 4d non 

 2id 

 m a 2d 

 2Jd a Is 

 is Id 



12s 6d a 15s 



Sin Ii 



ild 



a 90s 

 30s a 90s 

 £S2s6da£710s 

 £5 15s a £9 5s 

 25s a 30s nom* 

 Us a 13s 

 4s a 5s 



Small to Bold 

 Pickings 

 Fair 



Finger fair to 

 Bulbs 

 Finger 

 Bulbs 



ne bold 

 Lbright 



90s nom. 



5d a 74 

 3id a 4|d 

 ' ' 2*d 



nonu 



lsts Gd crystallized 3* a8i in 1 

 J i Foxy & reddish 34 a „ I 

 Lean and inferior ...f 

 Fine. pnr«,,*nght .. 4 

 Goo* white Jtard ...I 



