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sale'for several years. The offeringa of South American 
barks were small, and in no way remarkablei Oompeti- 
tiou throughout the sale was fairly active, nearly all 
manufacturers participating in it. Prices showed no 
quotable change, but there was, perhaps, some slight 
tendencv towards greater firmness. The unit remarks 
at 1 l-16ths d- to ja per lb. 
The toUowiug are the approximate quantities purchased 
by the principal buyers =— 
Lb, 
Agents for the Mannheim and Amsterdam works... 120,543 
Messrs. Howards & Sons ... ■■■ • ••• 69,325 
Agents for the Italian and American works ... .56,742 
,, Auerbiioh factory ... ... .31,246 
, „ Frankfort o/M and Stuttg ks 27,4G1 
„ Brunswick works ... ... 23,995 
„ French works ... ... 8,880 
Mr. Thomas Whiff en ... •.. lASi 
Sundry druggists.. ... ... 26,829 
Total quantity of bark "sold ... ... 868,2.35 
Bought in or withdrawn... ... ... 85,872 
Total quantity ol bark offered the 404,107 
It should be well underBtood that the mere weight of 
bark purchased affords no guide whatever to the quinine 
yield represented by it ; firms who buy a small qiaautity 
of bark by weight frequently take the richest lots, and 
vice versa, 
CiNOHONi.,— A parcel of i bales of Huanoco bark, the 
first of this variety which has been imported this year 
has just arrived ; the last price paid for this class of 
bark was Is .3d per lb., but in view of the great scarcity 
the importers expect to get a trifle more now. The 
following are the approximate quautitles of bark, with 
their equivalents in .sulphate of quinine added in ( ), 
purchased by the various comijetitors at the last Amster- 
dam auctions :— Auerbach 100,.579 kilos (4,240 ko.) ; Phila- 
delphia 06,929 kilos (2,775 ko.) ; Mannheim and Amster- 
dam 43,228 kilos (2,052 ko.); Brunswick 3M,284 kilos (1,679 ko.); 
Paris 19.799 kilos 1 090 ko.); Howard & Sons 19,378 nilos 
(1,080 ko.); Frankfort and Stuttgart 12,925 kilos (649 ko.) ; 
Hoppert & Heyse, Amsterdam 5,177 kilos ('228 ko.) ; 
druggists 10,700 kilos. 
Cinnamon.— The market has advanced further, and 
sales of 200 bales Ceylon, second quality, have been 
made this week at 7 7-16th8 d. to 7^d per lb. At 
auction yesterday 260 bags chips were partly sold at 
2|i per lb. 
QuiNiNR.— Very flat ; a sale of 5.000 oz at 9id second- 
hand was reported , yesterday, but has not since been 
confirmed, q'he B & S ageuts sold a email quantity 
this afternoon at ujd per oz. The following are the 
present quotations of the msnufacturers :— Howard & 
Sons Is Id to Is 2d in tins. Is 3d lo Is 4d in 1 oz 
vials ; Thomas Whiffen Is Id in tins, Is 3d in 1 oz 
vials; Zimraer and Jobit Is in lins ; Milan Hid in 
tins. Is lid in 1 oz vi.ls ; Pelletier's Is 9d in 1 oz 
vials ; Auerbach, Brunswick, Alannheim IQd jier oz 
in tins. 
THE LANKA PLANTATIONS COMPANY, 
LIMITED. 
Report to be presented at the Elevenlh Ordinary 
0-enornl Meeting of the Lanka Plantatioca Oompany, 
li'iuited, to bo held at the Offices of the Company, on 
Wednesday, the 3nd December, 1891, at 3 o'clock in the 
afternoon. 
1. The Directors submit their Report for the twelve 
montha ending 30th June last, tosether with the 
Balance Sheet and Accounts of the Company made up 
to that date. 
2. The coffee crop was 2,031 cwt., and the amount 
realised therefrom was £9,603 I83 9d, All fields of 
good coffee are receiving liberal cultivation, but each 
year the acreage becomes unavoidably smaller. The 
Thotnlagilla estate continues to give satisfactory 
returns, as well as some fields on Ampiltiikuude, 
Amhall, Bappahaunock and Gonagalla. 
3. The cmchona bark shipped has been 61,905 lb., 
which has bt-m re.Ui.^ed, and produced £731 128 10.1. 
There is no improvcmout m this market, a n! the only 
ou'lay made on this product is that ot I'.arse^tiMg Bark 
froni trees which ftro cank'Ti li, or which iujariously 
iiffi;ct thoTei orcotfce benentli them. 
4. Cocoa realised £5.071 lOi 6d, the quantity 
futhcr«i from tho 3U acres now in boari. g bein^: 
l,10t) cw'., shewiuij a prolit ihorofiora on Uiu 12 mouths' 
workin,' cf £2,85(). The following i x'rjci is ti'icu tram 
the Superlntendenl'M Report dated 15 h .Inly : — 
"Laitycar I planted 18 acres ol carJauioma wiih 
cocojt, ihe growth ie remarkably good ovon for Yatte- 
watte. 1 have noticed also along the jungle boundariea, 
and through the jungle, that cocoa plants from seeds 
carried by monkeys are springing np wild and com- 
peting with the natural growth, which shows that the 
plant has thoroughly established itaelf in this locality." 
The cocoa trees are very favourably reported on and 
there is every prospect of a good crop again this season. 
As the acreage in Ceylon suitable for the suooesaful 
cultivation of eoooa is limited, the Directors confidently 
look forward to present quotations being maintained 
for this product. 
It seems therefore moat desirable that a very con- 
siderable extension of acreage under cnltivation should 
Ht once be made, but the Directors cannot undertake 
this expenditure out of income, and unless the Share- 
holders will take up a anbstantial amount of the un- 
issued 6 per cent. Cumulative Preference Stock it 
cannot be carried out. The cost of planting and cul- 
tivating Ooooa, nntil the planta begin to bear enough 
crop to pay expenses, isj about £12 per acre, or £2,400 
for 200 acrea : a moderate sabscription from each 
Shareholder would produce this sum. The calls could 
be spread over the year, and the interest would be 
but a slight burden on the nett profits. The Direc- 
tors therefore enclose a form of application for Pre- 
ference stock and will open as much land as the sub- 
scriptions justify. 
5. The cardamoms' have produced 3,224 lb. The 
amouut realised therefrom was £271 Is 4d. 
6. The tea received from .the Company's estates, 
without purchase of any outside leaf, has amounted to 
248,574 lb. which have realised £9,627 lis 2d, an 
average of 9Jd per lb. nett. The leaf from Rappaha- 
nnock and Rillamalle is manufactured iu adjacent 
factories, the rest in the Oompaiiy'a own faotoriea. 
A small amount of leaf is being plucked on Thotnla- 
galla, and this for the present will bo sold to a neigh- 
touring estate. 
The following Statement shows the acreage and 
state of cultivation of the Company's estatus on the 
30kh June last:— 
Carda- 
Cinch- moms, 
Estate. Coffee, ona. Ten. Cocoa. &c. 
Ampittiakando ... 100 ... 193 
Ariihall ... 132 40 124 
F.-uit Hil! 22a ... 
Fordycq Garbuwn, ~j 
"^onsgalla and [■ 235 ... 527 
Pavamatta J 
Rippabanuook 
RillamuUe 
Thotulagalla 
Yattawatte 
♦ Partly in Coffee. 
Ampittiakaude 
Aruhall 
Fruit Hill 
Fordyce, Garbawn, " 
Gonagalla and 
Paramatta 
Rappahannock 
Rillamulle 
Tnotulagalla 
Yattawatte 
The profits for the past year amounted to .£6,443 29 
6d, and ha i tho rate of exchange duiini^' tho first half 
of the yi ar not ruled hi^^her thiu it has do e during 
the lest te>v mniihs, the profits would h:ive been 
much better ; a.3 it is, tLey are sufficieat for the divi- 
dend on tie Preference Shares and aitio to |).iy nearly 
4 percent on tho O.'diniry Share .s, but deeming it 
expedient, having regard to poisil l^ <1 preci t on, to 
reduce the Machinery Account by ill 10 l';. lOd., and 
having to roduoo tho Suspense Aooouut by ,fc'l,427 
40 
21 
270 
28 
187 
15 
220 
145* . 
... 384 41 
755 
61 
1.666 884 56 
Forest & 
Timber 
Grass. 
Pattina. Trees. 
Total. 
2 
3 
34 
332 
15 
37 
25 
373 
220 
23 
16 
135 
936 
25 
62i 
55 
473| 
2 
6 
20 
258 
143 
50 
558 
95 
150 
277 
947 
162 
417| 
596 
4,097f 
