CEYLON PRODUCE SALES LIST. 
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Nutmegs— 1069 Ceylon. 
Shrllac — .May delivery I883 and may see 161a. 
Orchella Weed — should be sent ofi for sale here, 
fait worth lis 6d to 13s 6d per cwt. 
Nux— offerings poor value 88 7d at 8j lOd to 9a Id 
good stuff; mixed and rough lOd. 
Cinnamon — dull, no buyers about. 
Impehial Cotton— King Cotton most excited. The 
Bulls talk of 9d and lOd for middling Amerio m and 
the Bears expect to see one day a sudden l^d drop 
perhaps after 16th February to 16lh March, new crop 
planting late and drought reported. Estimates of the 
crop are now 9fs to lOJd millions : P G F c i t May- 
July Tinnivelly Oolton 6|d. Spot value 7J. Good 
Madras Westerns and Northerns would fetch here 
6 1-I6d or 5 9-16 c i f from Ceylon at sea 3,200 bales. 
Coffee — Santos September futures 41i6d,and people 
here expect it to go over .5i's and a good thing for 
Ceylon Coffee. 
Ceylon Occoa — 2,89.5 bags up, 905 about sold fine aud 
choice 78s to 903 email and medium. 
Rice — strong, Japan buying, and war talk here 
dropped at moment. 
Mr. Chamberlain's policy has improved this week. 
At the Great Eastern Railway Company's meeting the 
Ghai I mm reported it advisable that the Fiscal Policy 
should be taken up. About 12 to 13 millions are re- 
ported on the verge of hunger, a nice exposure of Free 
Trade. British trade should be defended againsc the 
foreigner who seeks to destroy it. L md in East 
Anglia is reported requiring attention. In Mincing 
Lane from Noa. 21 to 27 there are notices from Jive 
houses running that the ground Aoor offices are to let. 
Oppoaite to No. 21, however, 
a new coffee and tea cafe 
has been successfully opened and includes a Free 
Library and Directories, Papers, Magazines and 
Writing Tables, The books total 585. No. 564 is 
about Oeylon. "Two Happy Years" by C T G 
Gumming — a most useful book for city men. 
CEYLON COCOA SALES IN LONDON. 
Mincing Lane Jan. 5th. 
"Formosa-" — Coodoogalla, 68 bags sold at 65s ; 8 
sold at 583 ; 2 sold at 55s ; Old Haloya, 4 bags sold at 
55a 6d ; 253 bags oui. ; Kepitigalla 5 bags sold at 57s; 
36 sold at 55s ; 25 sold at 58s 6d ; 1 sold a-. 51s ; Alloo- 
wiharie Ceylon Cocoa A, 148 bags out. 
" Clan McNeil."— Katugastota, 107 bags out. 
"Warwickshire." — Coodoogalla, 20 bags out ; Kepiti- 
galla, 61 bags sold at 643 6d : 9 sold at 643. 
Antenor." — Goonambil, 144 bags out ; Strathisla 
Ceylon Cocoa A, 24 bags out. 
" Zaanstroom."— Old Haloya. 151 bags out. 
"Antenor." — Meegama A, 110 bags out ; ditto 1, 9 
bags sold at 54s 6d ; B, 5 sold at 533 Cd ; B 1, 2 sold 
at 263. 
" /stroom."— A, 101 bags out ; C, 32 bags sold at 593 
"Somali." — Strathisla Ceylon Cocoa A, 7 bags sold 
at 738 ; ditto B, 22 bags out ; ditto G, 7 bags sold at 
5''is ; ditto D, 1 sold at 508 ; Alloovvih.irie Ceylon Cocoa 
A, 88 bags sold at 738. 
" Formosa." — AUoowiharie Ceylon Cocoa A, 2 bags 
sold at 55s 6d ; Glenalpin A, 17 bugs out ; 4 bags sold 
at 55s 6d ; ditto B, 9 sold at 41s 6d ; 2 sold at 37s 6d; 
Laxahena, 56 bags out ; 1 bag sold at 5l8. 
" Warwickshire."— A High Walton, 33 bags out ; B 
ditto, 1 big sold at 44s. 
" Hyson."— F MAK in estate mark, 110 b igs sold 
at 51s. 
" Dalmatia."— 1 KK in estate mark, 143 bags sold at 
5l8 6d ; 1 sold at 44s j E MAK in estate mark, 105 bags 
sold at 51s. 
CEYLON CARDAMONS SALES IN 
LONDON. 
Denbighshire." — Duokwari E Splits, 6 oases sold at 9d 
" Warwickshire." — Dehigolia Cardamoms No. 1 B. 
& S, 4 cases out at la 2d. 
'' Orizaba." — Kobo 1, 6 cases sold at Is 2d. 
" Staffordshire."— Upper Haloya AA, 6 cases out, 
'• Antenor." — Karagahatenue Mysore A, 3 cases out 
at Is 6d. 
" Hyson." — Lauderdale, 2 cases sold at lo 4d ; 5 sold 
at Is 2d ; 6 sold at 8^d ; 1 fold at 6d ; 3 sold at Is. 
" Formosa." — Forest riill U, 7 cases out ; ditto 1, 2 
cases sold at la lOd ; ditto 2, 8 sold at la 3d ; ditto 
Seed, 3 sold at lid. 
"Antenor." — Gonakelle, 5 cases sold; K >bo 00, 4 
sold at2s6d; ditto 1, 17 sold at is 3d; ditto Seed, 2 
sold at ll^d. 
" Kanagawa Maru." — Kobo 1, 7 cases sold at lid. 
" Sado Maru." — Winohfield Park A, 3 cases sold at 
Is 5d ; 2 sold at 1=; 6d ; 1 sold at Is 2d ; A 1, 2 sold at 9d. 
" OrotHva." — Dromoland OB, 1 case sold at 23 5d. 
" Yeoman.''— Elkadua O, 5 cases sold at Is 7d ; ditto 
1, 4 sold at lid ; 3 sold at 9^d ; ditto 2, 1 sold at 64d 
ditto B & S, 1 sold at 6d ; ditto Seed, 1 sold at 9d, 
"Antenor.'' — Dangkande, 1 bag out. 
"Cheshire." — A Kabaragalla, 4 cases sold at 2s ; 5 
sold at 23 2d ; B ditto, 2 -sold at Is 3d ; 4 sold at Is 2d; C 
ditto, 5 sold at 9§d ; D ditto, 1 sold at 6 i ; ditto Seeds, 
1 case out at is. 
OEYLON AND1NDI.\N PRODUCE REPORT, 
FOR WEEK ENDING .'.TH FEB 1904. 
The Produce Markets bar Coffee, Cotton, Shellac, 
and Cloves are dull. Silver is 25| ^ and looks a pur- 
chase or of calls three months off. Bank Rate 4 per 
cent. Consols 8 75/8 closing. Colombo Root : market 
dull. Quinine slow at lid. Rubber strong. 
Indian Maize— 17s 6d to I83 c i f aud selling thereat. 
Shellac — Mny 186s, we look for 162s. 
Coiton — The King's Speech — to grow more Cotton in 
all onrpossessions — is much admired : for which thanks : 
but where one inillioo can be giowQ is a poser. 
Certainly not for 19 years time ! Som-- say the West 
Indies could : bat the natives won't work there. 
The staple and pi ice is too good. What is wanted for 
choice Is 1/2,000,000 bales of Cotton like America, 
Teraa Cotton If India could grow a million bales of 
'■fine' Broach, and Tinnevelly ' f g f to Good' — it might 
help to relieve Europe. American crop estimates 
range from 9^ to lOf millions and the figures tonight 
oddly enough look like 10,700,000 bales. July-Auguat 
futures t juched 8.99d, and close 7.39/lOOd. The Bulls 
talk of 8 J to 1/ per lb. aud the Bears think the 
' bubble is burst "; some talk of it as not a ' white man's 
market.' — .Manchester is bad and traders working 4 
davs a week. P G F i/m c i f Tinnevelly 6 3/8d to 5/16. 
Cloves — recommend shipm;n(8. 
Coffee. — Santos today is 38/6, would rather sell 
than buy, 4l3 6d was highest pivot for May delivery. 
East India 563 o 683 
Sugar— Apiil-Juue Beet 83 Id. The Cartels and 
Bounties total about 2s to 5s ff for certain Sugar, ao 
think it a buy down still. 
Ck.ylo.n Nut Oil - firm at £26. C i f easier March- 
May £24 10s. 
Ceylon Native Cocja— Strong, rest dull. 
The Brokers in the Lane over Coffee, Shellac and 
Cotton have been active, but the chief people to scoop 
it up are in America, N w York, New Orleans, etc. 
The Stock Brokers are grumbling about trade ; if war 
occurred, some thi' k bn-iness there would be bad for 
5 years 1 The Daily Mail today thinks tea-drinking 
the cause of caucer and nH fish-meat. The Jews.how- 
evei-, are very free from it. 
Ceylon Toffee — 13 being sold at a confectioner's 
shop. It has ft very peculiar look about it : 3 ounces 
Id or J lb. 2irl an l of course worthy of a trial from 
Ceylon Toffee e.iti-r.s. 
Mr. Chambeilain is off for a holiday. His policy 
this week longs a bit stronger, bus the working 
j classes think so much of bread and meat being dearer 
I th laktisother matters to vhem of better trade, etc , 
' anl into oblivion. 
