72 



MARKET RATES FOR TROPICAL PRODUCTS. 



(From Lewis & Peat's Monthly Prices Current, London, 2Uh May, 1911.) 



ALOES, Socotrine cwt 

 Zanzibar & Hepatic „ 

 ABROWKOOT (Natal) lb. 

 BEES' WAX, cwt. 

 Zanzibar Yellow ,, 

 Bombay bleached „ 

 ,, unbleached „ 

 Madagascar ,, 

 CAMPHOR, Japan 



China „- 

 C ARDAMOMS, Tuticorin 



Tellicherry 



Mangalore „ 

 Ceylon. Mysore „ 

 Malabar 

 Seeds, E. I, & Ceylon „ 

 Ceylon Long Wild ,, 

 CABToR OIL, Calcutta,, 

 CHILLIES, Zanzibar cwt. 



CINCHONA BARK.— lb. 

 Ceylon 



CINNAMON, Ceylon lets 

 per lb. 2nd? 



3rds 

 4ths 

 Chips, &c. 

 CLOVES, Penang lb. 

 Amboyna 

 Ceylon 

 Zanzibar 

 Stems 



COFFEE 



Ceylon Plantation cwt. 

 Native 



Liber ian ,, 

 COCOA, Ceylon Plant. ., 



Native Estate ,, 

 Java and Celebes „ 



COLOMBO HOOT 



CROTON SEEDS, sift, cwt 



CUBEBS 



3INGER, Bengal, rough,, 

 Calicut, Cut A „ 

 B&C „ 

 Cochin Rough „ 



Japan „ 

 SUM AMMONIACUM ,, 

 ANIMI, Zanzibar 



Madagascar „ 



»RABIO E. I. & Aden „ 



Turkey sorts ,, 



Ghatti „ 



Kurraehee „ 



Madras „ 



ASSAFOSTIDA 



KINO 



MYKRH, Aden sorts cwt 

 Somali „ 

 OLIBANUM, drop 



pickings ,, 

 sif tings ,, 

 INDIA RUBBER lb. 



Ceylon, Straits, 4 

 Malay Straits, etc. i 



Assam 



Rangoon 



QUALITY. 



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 

 Good to fine 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 tine bright 



Crown, Renewed 



Org. Stem 

 Red Org. Stem 



Renewed 

 Root 



Good to tine quill 



6615s a£617s6d 

 £7 10s a £7 15s 

 £E 15s a £6 7s 6d 

 £6 10s a £7 

 Is 6 3 d a Is 8*d 

 155s 



2s 8d a 3s 2d 

 2s 3d a 2s oil 

 2s 9d a Hs 

 _'s a 2s 6d 

 2s tid a 3s Pd 

 Is Sd a 3s 2d 

 Is lOd a 2s 

 2s a 2s Id 

 6d a Is 6d 

 3fd 



4Us a 45s 



Fair to fine bold 



Dull to tine bright pkd. 



Dull to fine 



Fair and fine bright 

 Fair 



IN DIARUBBER.f Contd.) 

 Borneo 

 Java 

 Penang 

 Mozambique 



Nyassaland 

 Madagascar 



3§d a 7d 

 2d a 6d 

 lid a 4Jrt 

 3d a 5Jd 

 lid a Id 

 63d a Is 5d 

 old a Is 4(1 

 5d a Is 

 4Jd a 8£d 

 2jd a 3d* 

 I da Is 3d 

 9d a lOd 

 9d a lod 

 d a 71d 



New Guinea 

 tNDIGO, E.I. Bengal 



MACE, Bombay * Penang 

 per lb. 



Java 

 Bombay 



Medium to bold 70s a 113s 



Good ordinary 

 Fair to bold 

 Special Marks 

 Ked 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 amber, str. arts 

 „ little red 

 Bean and Pea size ditto 

 F<<ir tu 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 tine bright 

 Middling to good 



Good to tine 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. red No. 1 



60s a 65s 

 70s a 85s 

 63s a 693 ■ 

 40s a 60s 

 25s a 77s 

 30s a 35s 

 4.'s 6d a 55a 

 150s a 160s 

 35s nom. 

 80s a 85s 

 60s a 70s 

 40s a 45s 

 40s 

 35s 



40s a 67s 6d 

 £15 a £16 

 £12 a £14 

 75s a £12 10s 

 £7 10s a £10 

 £5 a £7 

 £4 a £8 15s 

 £4 a £7 10s 

 25s a 32s 6d 

 42/6 a 57/ 

 20s a 42s 6d nom 

 20s a 30s ,, 

 15s a 25s ,, 

 £17 a £18 

 25s a £133 

 9d a Is 2d 

 55s a 60s 

 50s a 52s 6d 

 45s a 50s 

 35s a 40s 

 12s 6d a 27s 6d 

 20s a 22s 6d 

 5S 



4S 7d 



4s lid a Ss 2d 

 5s 2d 



33 lOd a 33 lid 

 4s Id 

 3s a 3s 3d 

 23 2d a 3s 



MVRABOLANES, cwt 

 Bombay 



Bengal „ 

 NUTMEGS— lb. 

 Singapore & 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 & 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, 

 u adras 



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 <fc blk 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 



s to 57's 

 80'S 

 110's 



Ordinary to fair fresh 

 Ordinary to good 



QUALITY. 



QUOTATIONS 



Fair merchantable 

 According to analysis 

 Good flavour & colour 

 Dingy to white 

 Ordinary to fair sweet 

 Bright «S good flavour 



Fair .1 

 Fair 



Fair 



„ to 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 «mall 



Small to bold 



Nom 



good 



VANILLOES — 



Mauritius 



Madagascar 



Seychelles 

 VERMILLION 

 WAX, Japan, squares 



r} 



lb. 



lsts 

 2nds 

 3rds 



Fair to 

 Sorts 



M id. to fi ne bl'k not stony 

 Stony and inferior 



Small to cold 

 Pickings 

 Fair 



Finger fair to fine bold 

 Bulbs [bright 

 Finger 

 Bulbs 



Gd crystallized 31 a8J in 

 Foxy J£ reddish 3 J a „ 

 Lean and inferior 

 Fine, pure, bright 

 Good white hard 



2s a 2s 4d 

 2s 9d a 8s 

 2s a 2s 8d 

 3s lOd a 4s 3d 

 ■<s9d a 43 Id 

 3s 8d a 4s 

 3s 2d a 3a 3d 

 2s 2d a 2s 7d 

 9d a 23 lOd 

 2s 9d a 3s 9d 

 3s a 3s 8d 

 2s 8d a 2s lid 

 2s ad a 23 8d 

 2s 6d a 2/8 nom. 

 2s 2d a 2s fid 

 Is Sd a 29 

 None here 

 2s 6d a 2s sd 

 2s a 2s 6d 

 2s a 23 6d 

 4d a 6d 

 4s fid a 5s 

 4s 6d a 6s 3d 

 5s a 6s 6d 

 4s 6d a 5s 9d 

 5s 6d a 6s 

 Is a Is 6d 

 7id 

 5id 



17s 6d a 20s 

 8s 6d a 93 6d 

 7s a 7s 6d 

 7s a 8s 6d 

 4s 9d 



3s 4d a 3s 8d 



m 



lid a ljd 



2d a Is 4d 

 ltd 



10s 

 10s 



41d a 4id 

 3}d a 5d 



m 



3jd a 4d 

 6Jd a 8d 

 7d 



m 

 m 



Is 2d a 2s 6d 

 lUd a Is 

 bill a 9*d 

 5Jd a 7,d 

 18s a 19s 

 173 a 18s 6d 

 Us a 15s 

 52s 6d a 72s fid 

 i.Ui a7d 

 2}d a 4d 

 da2d 



62s fid a 150s 

 45s a 150s 

 £10 2/6a£12 3/8 

 £7 7/6 a £13 5s 

 25s a 30s nom. 

 lOsa 123 

 4s a 63 



10s a 33s 



8s a 833 

 20s 



26s 6d a 2s 9d 



22s 6d 



19S 



143 



14s a 19s 

 13s a 15s 6d 

 12s fid a 13s 



3s 



41s 63 



