Coffee and Kapok.
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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 December 13 :
Coffee.
Robusta, f.a.q., imported from Java, on firm conversion’ of exchange, c.i.f., Sydney, per cwt., Robusta, as above, based on 9 gulden to Aus tralian £, fluctuations at date of shipment on buyer’s account, 39/-.
Arabian (Aden) Hodeidah No. 1 (pure), c.i.f..
Sydney, per cwt., 78/-. n Djibouti, Longberry Harrar Extra, 74/-, No. 1, 73/-; No. 2, 72/-: pure, 72/-.
Importers of Robusta coffee from Java pay the following charges: As above per cwt 47/-. remitting 25i per cent. exchange, 12/-, duty 4d per lb., 37/4; primage 10 per cent., 4/8, landing charges, 1/-; total, 102/- per cwt. equal to lid. per lb., landed cost. Coffee imported from Papua and New Guinea would escape exchange and duty equal to 49/4 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, 5½d.; prime Japara, sid.
A DIARY of early Fiji, kept by the Rev.
David Cargill, who was one of the pioneer Methodist missionaries m the Fiji Group, was placed in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, during November Mr.
Cargill and Rev. William Cross, with a party of missionaries settled, in 1835, on Lakemba, one of the small islands of east of Viti Levu, and were the first white settlers in the Group.