648 THE TROPICAL AtraTCttLtUmST. [March t, i88 9 
MARKET RATES FOR OLD AND NEW PRODUCTS. 
(From Lewi* <t Peat's London Price Current, 14th February 1888.) 
FROM MALABAR 
COAST, COCHIN, 
CEYLON, MADRAS, &c. 
BEES' WAX, White 
Yellow 
CINCHONA BARK— Crown 
Red 
CARDAMOMS Malabar 
and Ceylon 
Alleppee 
Tellicherry 
Man galore 
Long Ceylon 
CINNAMON Ists 
2nds 
3rds 
4ths 
Chips 
COCOA, Ceylon ... 
COFFEE Ceylon Plantation 
Native 
Liberian 
East Indian 
Native 
COIRROPE.Ceylon&Cochin 
FIBRE, Brush 
Stuffing .. 
COIR YARN, Ceylon 
Cochin 
Do 
COLOMBO ROOT, sifted . 
CROT( N SEEDS, sifted . 
GINGER, Cochin, Cut 
Rough 
GUM ARABIC, Madras'... 
NUX VOMICA 
MYRABOLANES Pale, 
Pickings 
OIL, CINNAMON 
CITRONELLE 
LEMON GRASS 
ORCHELLA WEED 
PEPPER.Malabar.blk.sifted 
Alleppee & Cochin , 
Tellicherry, White 
PLUMBAGO Lump 
Chips 
dust 
REDWOOD 
SAPAN WOOD 
SANDAL WOOD, logs 
Do. chips 
SENNA, Tinnevelly 
J' IJRMEKIC, Madras 
Do. 
Do. 
Cochin 
VAN J LLOES, Mauritius & 
Bourbon, lata 
2nds 
3nls 
4thn 
FROM BOM HAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
QUALITY. 
f Slightly softish to good 
\ hard bright 
Do. drossy &dark ditto 
Renewed ... 
Medium to fine Quill 
Spoke shavings ... 
Branch 
Renewed 
Medium togood Quill . 
Spoke shavings ... 
Branch 
Twig 
Clipped, bold, bright.fine 
Middling, stalky & lean 
Fair to fine plump clipped 
Good to fine 
Brownish 
Good &fine, washed, bgt. 
Middling to good... 
Ord. to fine pale quill 
Woody and hard ... 
Fair to fine plant... 
Bold to fine bold 
Medium 
Triage to ordinary 
Bold to fine bold colory 
Middling to fine mid. 
Low mid.andLow grown 
Smalls 
Good ordinary ... 
Small to bold 
Bold to fine bold... 
Medium to fine ... 
Small 
Good to fine ordinary 
Mid. coarse tofine straight 
Ord. to fine long straight 
Coarse to fine 
Ordinary to superior 
Ordinary to fine 
Roping fair to good 
Middling wormy to fine.. 
Fair to fine fresh 
Good to fine bold 
Small and medium 
Fair to fine bold... 
Small 
Daik to fine pale 
Fair to fine bold fresh ,. 
Small ordinary and fair.. 
Good to fine picked 
Common to middling .. 
Fair Coast 
Burnt and defective 
Fair to fine heavy 
Bright & good flavour .. 
Mid. to fine, not woody.. 
Fair to bold heavy i 
„ good „ f 
Fair to fine bright bold... 
Middling to good Email... 
Slight foul to fine bright 
Ordinary to fine bright ... 
Fair and fine bold 
Middling coated to good 
Fair to good flavor 
Inferior to fine ... 
Good to fine bold green... 
Fair middling medium 
Common dark and small 
Finger fair to fine bold 
Mixed middling [bright 
Bulbs 
Finger 
Fine crystalised 6 a flinch 
Foxy & reddish 5 a 
f Lean & dry to middling 
\ under 6 inches ... 10s a 12s 
Low, foxy, inferior and 
[pickings lis 6d a ?s 
QUOTATIONS 
£6 a £6 10s 
85s a 105s 
5d a Is 6d 
t»d a Is 
4d a9d 
2d a 6d 
3d a Is 6d 
4d a 9d 
3d a 7d 
2d a Id 
Id alfd 
2s 4d a 3s 4d 
Is 4d a 2s 6d 
Is lOd a 2a lOd 
Is 9d a 2s 9d 
Is a Is 6d 
2s a 3s 6d 
Is 6d a 2s 4d 
8d a Is 3d 
7Jd a Is 2d 
6£d a Is 
5d a lid 
ljd a 6Jd 
>-6s a 95s 
80s a 85s 
50s a 75s 
106s a 114s 
94s a 105s 
88s a 92s 6d 
88s a 91s 6d 
80s a 85s 
«5s a 80s 
a 115s 
*7s a 96s 
P5s a 90s 
80s a 85s 
£16 a £22 
£18 a £32 
£10 a £20 
£17 a £36 
£17 a £44 
£17 a £22 
15s a 40s 
8s 6d a 15s 
40s a 60s 
22s a 34s 
18s a 30s 
14s a 17s 
20s a 90s 
Us a 12s 
7s a 10s 
7s a 8s 6d 
5s a 6s 
5S 9d a 6s 3d 
3s 6d a 4s 3d 
Is a 2s 6d 
id a Jd. 
I *d a lfd 
25s a 30s 
7|d a 7|d 
s a Is 6d 
2s a 16s 
7s a 12s 6d 
9s a lis 6d 
a 6d a 10s 6d 
£4 15s a £5 
£6 a £8 
£20 a £44 
£5 10s a £22 
8|d a Is 3d 
4|d a 8d 
d a 4d 
8s a 8s 6d 
6s 6d a 7s 6d 
5s a 6s 6d 
9s a 9s 6d 
17s a 25s 
12s a 19s 
ALOES, Sozcotrine and Good and fine dry ... £4 10m a £ 7 
Hepatic. .. Common and good ... 40s a £5 10s 
CHILLIES, Zanzibar ... Fair to fine bright ,..35sa37s 
Ordinary and middling,., 'iOs a 35s 
FROM BOMBAY 
AND ZANZIBAR. 
CLOVES, Zanzibar 1 
and Pemba, per lb I 
>> Stems... 
COCULUS INDICUS 
GALLS, Bussorah \ 
& Turkey V cwt. ( 
GUM AMMONIACUM per 
ANIMI, washed, # cwt. 
QUALITY. 
QUOTATIONS 
scraped.. 
ARABIC, E.I. & Aden . 
per cwt. Ghatti ... 
Amrad cba 
A SSAFOETIDA , per 
cwt 
KINO, per cwt. 
M1RRH, picked . 
Aden sorts 
OLIBANTJM, drop 
per cwt. ,, 
pickings., 
siftings ... 
INDIARUBBER Mozambi 
per lb. Ball & Saus 
Good and fine bright 
Common dull to fair 
Common to good 
Fair 
Fair to fine dark blue 
Good white and green... 
Blocky to line clean 
Picked fine pale in sorts, 
part yellow and mixed 
Bean & Pea size ditto ... 
amber and red bold 
Medium & bold sorts ... 
Sorts 
Sorts to fine pale 
Good and fine pale 
Reddish to pale brown ... 
Clean fair to fine 
Slightlystony and foul ... 
Fair to fine bright 
Fair to fine pale ... 
Middling to good 
Fair to fine white 
Reddish to middling ... 
Middling to good pale ... 
Slightly foul to fine 
que, 1 red hard 
age J white softish 
unripe root ... 
liver 
... Sid a 8^d 
... 7|d a 8d 
... 2d a 2*d 
... us a 9s 
...!55s a 60s 
FROM CALCUTTA AND 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
CASTOR OIL, lsts per oz 
2nds ,, .. 
3rds „ .. 
INDIARUBBER Assam , per 
lb. 
Rangoon .. 
Madagascar 
SAFFLOWER 
TAMARINDS 
FROM , 
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 
ALOES, Cape, per cwt. .. 
Natal 
ARROWROOT Natal per lb 
FROM CHINA, JAPAN & 
THE EASTERN ISLANDS 
CAMPHOR, China, ewt. 
Japan 
GAMBIER, Cubes, cwt. .. 
Block [per lb 
GUTTA PERCHA, genuine 
Sumatra... 
Reboiled.. 
White Borneo 
NUTMEGS, large, per lb.. 
Medium 
Small 
MACE, per lb. 
RHUBARB, Sun dried, per 
lb. 
High dried 
SAGO, Pearl, large}* cwt. 
medium 
small 
Flour [per lb. 
TAPIOCA, Penang Flake 
Singapore 
Flour 
Pearl 
45s a 53s 
10s a 36s 
j£16 a £18 101 
!£12 a £15 
!£7 10s a £10 
£11 a £13 
£5 a £7 
,65s a 100s 
30s a 100s 
1 76s a £6 
[34s a 79s 
35s a 40s 
25a a 30s 
28s a 30k 
£6 a £7 10s 
80s'a 100s 
40s a 55s 
27s 6d a 35s 
12s a 20s 
10s a 15s 
Is 8d a Is lOJd 
Is 2d a Is 7d 
4Jd a Is 
9d a Is 6d 
Nearly water white 
Fair and good pale 
Brown and brownish 
Good to fine 
Common foul and mixed 
Fair to good clean 
Goodtofinepinky &white 
Fair to good black 
Good to fine pinky 
Middling to fair 
Inferior and pickings 
Mid.tofineiJacfcaot stony 
Stony and inferior 
3Jd a 4Jd 
2|d a 2 15-16d 
2Jd a 2Jd 
Is 8d a 2s 2d 
9d a Is 6d 
Is 6d a Is lOd 
Is lid a 2s 2d 
Is 5d a is 8Jd 
85sal05e 
55s a 80s 
15s a 26s 
7s 6d a 10s 
4s a 6s 
Fair dry to fine bright ... ;18a 6d a 20i 
Common & middling soft 10s a 17s 6d 
Fair to fine ... (none here 
Middling to fine ... l£d a 3d 
Good, pure, & dry white j m a ^ 
Ordinary to fine free ... 37s a 42s 6d 
Pressed (none here) 30s a 35s 
Good ... 27s 6d a 28s 
Fine clean Banj&Maca- 2s 4d a 3s 3d 
Barky to fair [sar 6d a 2s 3d 
Common to fine clean ... 3d a Is 4d 
Good to fine clean ... lid a Is 3d 
Inferior and barky ... Id a 8d 
57's a 80's, garbled ... 2s 7d a 4s 
83's a 95's ... 2s Id a 2s 6d 
100's a 160's ... Is 9d a 2s 4d 
Pale reddish to line pale 2s 4d a 2s 6d 
Ordinary to fair ... 2s a 2s 3d 
Chips and dark ... Isl0da2s 
Good to fine sound ... Is 4d a 4s 
Dark ordinary &middling!8d a Is 3d 
Good to fine ...fedalld 
Dark, rough & middling 3d a 7d 
Fair tofine ... Us 6d a 13s 6(i 
lis 6d a 12s 6d 
lis a 12s 6d 
lis a 12s 
2fda 2id 
2£d a 2?d 
15s a l»-s 
Bullet, per cwt. ... 21g a 22s Hd 
Medium „ ... 20s a 21s 6d 
Seed „ ... 80s a 31s 6d 
Good pinky to white 
Fair to fine 
