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Business is mostly conducted through agents in Bombay who quote C l. P.
terms The method of payment may be 10 per cent, with the order and balance
against documents at Bushire or consignments of Persian goods may sometmie
! bo uccopted on account.
The firm of Sankoyu at Tehran at present have an active agent in Bushire
(Aglui Ahul Casim Tawaklml) and it is rumoured' that other offices will soon be
established here.
In the following list of Japanese goods at present available in the market
it has not been possible to obtain, in every case the prices offered by Bombay
agents so the prices paid by local shopkeepers have been inserted and starred.
Chdy in a few cases is comparison of prices possible as similar goods from oilier
sources are not stocked :—

Description of goods. Japanese. British. Russian.

Rials.
•Shirting, coloured drill, 27* X 30
yards .. ... 20* per piece
•Coloured prints, 27* X 41 yards [ 20* do. 27' X 40 yards Rials 55
per piece.
•Coloured Poplins, 27* X 30
yards 30- do.
•Sattcens : 28' X 30 yards 40* do.
•Striped drills, 28' X 30 yards 32*60 do. 28 X 44 yards Rials 160
per piece.
•White Shirtings: 28 * X 40 yards 64 do. 28' x 41 yards Rials 62
per piece.
•White Mulls: 44' X 20 yards .. 27- do. 60' X 20 yards Rials
50 per piece.
Small glass & Saucers used for tea:
per case of 100 dozens Rs.25- C.I. F.
Bushire.
Tumbler: por dozen .. Rs. Q*8 do. ...
Hurricane Lanterns per dozen
with glass Rs. 9*12 do. .
Sun glasses (assorted colours) per
dozen .. Rs. 1-10 do. ..
Forks and Spoons : (Inferior
quality) por gross .. Rs. 0 do. Rs. 14-8-0 per Bet of 18
pieces in Bombay offered
by merchants.
Mother of pearl buttons : Set on
cards and in boxes of 144
pieces.—Superior quality per
gross : (i.e., 12 boxes of 144
pieces) Rs. 1*10 do.
Buckles (Trousers) per gross .. [Rs. 4*8 do. ..
Artificial silks (white) 22' x 30
yards per yard Rs. 5*8 do. .
Artificial silks (coloured and stri­
ped) 27' x 30yards per piece Rs. 7*8 do. .
Carpenters’ nails per 1 owfc. .. Rs. 9 do. .. 16/per cwt. C. I. F. Bushiro
No orders have yet been placed for Japanese cement, which is offered at 28
per ton C. I. F., Bushire, againtft, 35 per ton British cement, as merchants are
afraid of the quality. The paper bag packing recently introduced to Bushire
has met with approval.
(b) Russian.—Russian activities were already moribund at the beginning
of the year and apart from a few shipments which arrived during the first months
their chief concern was the liquidation of stocks preparatory to closing down.