Feb. 1, 1894.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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prices, fair bright grey qaill at lid to la Id, small an 
more or leas damaged at from lOd down to 6d, ver 
email and common down to 2d per lb. Of genuiDeLox 
bark 1-3 piickages were offered aod sold at Is lOd pe 
lb. for fair bright quil', and is 3d 10 la 4d for smal 
ditto. Of a new parcel of 21 bales flat Bolivian Calisaya 
imported via Hamburgh 5 sold, fine pale orange quality 
at Is 8d per lb. A bale of bright Cartagena offered with- 
out reserve, realised only ,3|d per lb. 
Cocoa.— Priee< remain Very Ijw, bnb a fair proportion 
of the leaves offered today found buyers. Twelve cases 
from Colombo found purchasers at ed per lb. for medium 
to boll green, partly dar* mixed leaves of gcod flavour, 
and from M down to Id per lb. for dull brown to com- 
mon damaged ditto. 0£ a parcel of 2'i bales South Ame- 
rican leaves, flve sold at lod per lb for fair but broken 
Truxllio, damages bringing ij-idperlb. Fine broken green 
ditto realisel Is 2d, and strong brown Huanoco leaves Is 
4d to Is 6i per lb. 
Cocaine.— The market is firm, at Ha Gi per oz. hydro- 
chlorate- The outside maker who recently undercold his 
colleagues now quotes 4d per tz. more tlian they do. 
Kola.— lu slow demand at somewhat easier rates, rather 
dull West Indian see 1 brought 7jd per lb. 
QuiNiNK has been quiet this week. Since a sale of 5,000 
oz second-hand German bulk at 10^ last Friday, no 
business has been reported at all uncil at today's auc- 
tions, when 6,000 oz. of B. & S. qu niue in HOoz tins 
sold at 1( jd [jer oz., s'lowing' the market to be very 
firm. It is reported that there are sellfrs of Whiffen's 
quinine in second-hand at lid. The muker's quotations 
are unaltered. 
ToNQUix-BEAXS.— In rlentiful supply, but there is very 
little demand. Fair blact to good bright frosted Para 
were bought in at from 2s 3d to cs per lb , and ordi- 
nary, very fixey at is 4d per lb. 
Vanilla. — A very large supply, numbering over SCO 
packages, sold with good competition at a 1 ai'-vance of 
Bd to Is ou short and la to 2a on long beans : fine bold 
1.5s Bd to 17s 6d ; good Oi to 8 in..hes, Jus 6d to Us ; 
fair to good, 4 t« Bj inches, Bs UJ to lOs ; ordinary ftXgy 
and brown from 4s Bd down to 2s per lb. 
LONDON EXPORTS ON TIUVANCORE 
PRODUCE. 
TEA VAN CORE TEA. 
(From Fatry & Pasteur, Limited. Report of the 
Colonial Markets for the week ending 
January 3rd, 1S94.) 
Owing to the crush of tea coming in from India 
and Ceylon, and the low prices current for medium, 
these have not sold as readily as they deserved, 
although prices compare well against other sales. 
The quality shows alight falling off on previous 
sales, the chief feature being the lightness in the 
liquor. 
« Pw P-i 
Brigton lOJd 6d ... 
Ancimadi 9d 7|d 6id 
Poonraudi 8id G^d 5|d 
Braemore 
Bonaccord 
Hereford 
Istield 
bid 
Stagbrook 8d 
Nagamally 8id, 
bid 
Kinuylies 
Unas. 
7id 6id ... 
8id 6id 5id 
83d 54d ... 
8id, 6^d 5|d, 
bid 
6iA SJd 
6id 5hd 
6^d, ... 
bid 
5id 
5d 
P 
ei 
w 
olid 
7d, 
5d 
sp, 
5id 
5id, 
5d 
5d 
,5Ad, 
4Sd 
5|d 
e^d, 
c 
40 pkgs 
53 i-cha. 
33 chs. 
37 J-chs. 
75 do 
3 chs. 
8 do 
93 do 
101 do 
7^d 
7*d 
7d 
6£d 
63d 
6|d 
63d 
6id 
O^d 
90 i-chs. {-.hd 
Home (nnass.) 7Jd. Churchill (nnass.) 51 (bid.) 
Total 8G1 packages, averaging 0|d per lb. 
CEYLON TEA IN AUSTRALIA, 
(From Alfred Harvey cC- Co.'s. Monthly 
Tea Report.) 
SvDNK.y, Jan. 9th, 1891. 
GENEn\L. — The uuual oeaaation of public aaloa 
precediug aud immediately following the Christmas 
and New year holidays has this year been more 
marked than usual, no tea being printed between 
the 7th December and 9th January. Consequently, 
there is little to report of general interest. There 
is no doubt, however, that importers of Chinas are 
most decidedly firm, and also that the few sales 
that have been effected have shown that full prices 
were obtained. Kates paid gave an advance of ^d to 
^d per lb. upon last auction's lowest prices. 
Indians having had large sales, with still a fair 
quantity available, there is no change in values to 
be noted, but it is generally conceded that higher 
prices than those now ruling must be expected, be- 
cause present results must check purchases upon 
colonial accounts at the closing sales in Calcutta. 
At first glance the quantity already shipped shows 
a large increase, but when it is considered how short 
of stock we all were at the commencement of the 
season, and also the large increase in consumption 
throughout the colonies, it will be apparent that the 
probabilities favour higher rates through a shortage 
of leaf alone. Ceylon have probably had a quieter 
month that an any time for the past eighteen 
months. Arrivals have been a little heavier, but 
sales were almost confined to the dealers. The re- 
cent falling-off in the demand for Ceylona was in 
a measure due to the poorness of quality submitted 
— a fault doubtless due to the demand for low 
price kinds ; but still the cost in Colombo of all 
grades has been so much above present colonial 
rates that the shippers, in their endeavours, to suit us 
for price, have failed in quality, and so the sale 
of C'eylons has been seriously checked. 
Ceylon — There have been no public sales during 
the month, but 700 packages are printed for to- 
day's sales. Private sales have been few, and prices 
are without change. A few fannings and broken 
leaf sold from 5Jd to 5|d ; whole leaf souchongs, 
5Jd to 6d; fair pekoe souchongs, 6jd to 6id ; decent 
pekoes, 7d to 8d ; and fine quality, 8|d to lOd. 
Nothing choice offering. Stocks in bond on 30th 
December were 243,611 lb. 
NOTES ON PRODUCE AND FINANCE. 
Cementino the Union. — The visit of Mr. J, Berry 
White to India, with iitter alia a friendly mission 
to approach the Calcutta Tea Association, with a 
view to bringing it in closer touch with the Indian 
Tea Districts Association in London, will be ex- 
tremely useful. No one knows better than Mr. 
White the necessities of the tea industry at home 
and in India, and the happy effect of combined 
effort. A judicious blending of tea interests to use 
a familiar term, is of the greatest importance for 
mutual protection and the commercial welfare of 
tea enterprise. 
Glimpse of ihe Past. — The great China tea race 
that once caused such a flutter of excitement in 
Mincing Lane is now but a memory. Only the 
other day, as it seems, the name of the first vessel 
to arrive with the new season tea was in every- 
body's mouth, and now we have men of twenty 
years' experience in the tea trade regarding the 
race between fast vessels as a piece of antiquity. 
In an account of the tea trade paet and present, 
combined with a plea put forward on behalf of the 
professional tea blender, contributed in a letter to 
the Grocer, the editor, Mr. C. S. Hicks, says, by 
way of preface : " After having had several years' 
experience in general merchants' business (import 
and export), I entered Messrs. Harrisons and Grostiekl'a 
sale-room some 20 years ago to learn the tea trade. 
Even then everyone was looking back ou the 'good 
old times,' just as people do now. lodian tea was 
of courRe, known, but the bulk of trade, eay two 
thirds, was done in China tea, end the event of the 
jear was the great China tea race; for instance, lli»t 
between the Taeping and Ariel, which Tessels passed 
the WoosuDg light-hip together lost siKht of each 
other all the way till they camo together in »lio 
chops of the Chaunel, and raced side by side up to 
the mouth of the 'lhames, arriviujf in dock within 
thirty minutes of each other, The 'finetit tta tb« 
world producee' b»d agt been diecorereJ »t tt&t tiwj 
