Coffee and Kapok.

Many planters in New Guinea and Papua are experimenting with coffee and kapok, with an eye on the Australian market, and we have arranged to publish Australian quotations in future. New Guinea and Papuan coffee, entering Australia, would be free from duty and exchange.

Practically none is being received from those Ter ritories at present.

The following quotations were given on No vember 17: —

Coffee.

Robusta, f.a.q.. imported from Java, on firm conversion of exchange, c.i.f., Sydney, per cwt., 59/-.

Robusta, as above, based on 9 gulden to Aus tralian £, fluctuations at date of shipment on buyer’s account, 54/-.

Arabian (Aden) Hodeidah No. 1 (pure), c.i.f..

Sydney, per cwt., 78/-.

Djibouti, Longberry Harrar Extra, 1 4/-; No. 1, 76/-; No. 2, 74/-; pure, 72/-.

Importers of Robusta coffee from Java pay the following charges: As above, per cwt., 59/-; re mitting 254 per cent, exchange, 15/-; duty 4d. per lb., 37/4; primage 10 per cent., 5/10; land ing charges, .1/-; total, 118/2 per cwt., equal to 1/0½d per lb., landed cost. Coffee imported from Papua and New Guinea would escape exchange and duty equal to 52/4 per cwt.

Kapok.

Australian supplies now imported from Java.

Based on an exchange conversion of 9 gulden to Australian £, the Australian c.i.f. prices cur rent in mid-November were, per lb.; Prime Sama rang, 6¼d.; prime Japara, 6d.

Rev. Father W. F. Connors, M.S.C., who has been a missionary in Papua for five years, under Bishop Boismenu, arrived in Sydney during October. He is staying at the Sacred Heart Monas tery, Kensington.