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MANILA HEMP, 
L. & J. Rikbow, Telegrams, Haiifriebow, Hamburg. 
Price end of year. 
j Production I 
during 
year. 
' Consumption 
during year. 
j Stock in 
Manila 
! end of year. 
1903 
39 «! 9] c~. 
900,000 ■ 
1 ,030,000 
108,000 
1902 
36 81 — S : f „ 
900,000 
j 
792,000 
1 T 53,000 
T901 
i 1 
46 j i j — 1 1 > 
760,000 
898,000 j 
108,000 
1900 
; 7 i — 7 ^ ■* 
92 1 ,000 
673,000 j 
227,000 
1 899 
1 1 s Ifii 
493,000 
O 
O 
3,000 
j 89 8 
6^—6} „ 
1 
730,000 
855,000 i 
1 20,000 
1897 
V 
1 
j 
4 — 5 
V 
1896 
4 * 4 t j> 
1895 
4 i — 4 l » 
bales 0 
f about 250 lbs. 
g 8 Q 4 
4 — 
• 
1893 ! 
5 h — 5 t » 
1892 
C| 
189'! 
7 l „ 
I . 
1890 
9-2 
MURVA FIBRE. 
We understand that a firm in Singapore has just received an 
order from San Francisco for 500 tons of “ Nanasfibre" the price 
offered being 3//. a pound, the fibre to be not less than 30 centi- 
meters in length. This so called “ Nanas fibre ” from Java is not 
as might he supposed pineapple fibre. Mr. SCHIRMER who lias 
seen its cultivation and preparation in Java says it is nothing else 
than Murva fibre which is grown and hand prepared in the Java 
Hills.— Editor. 
Agaves and Furcroyas. 
The Agaves are Amaryllidaceous plants, natives of Southern 
North America and the West Indies. Several of them have been 
