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JOHN HADDON & CO. SPECIAL 

 PRODUCE LETTER. 



London, December Ilth, 1908. 



Steaits Eeport. 



Yellow descriptions have met with a fair demand 

 although it is not the bleaching season. 



For a time supplies sold well, the best descriptions 

 selling at 50/- to 60/- per cwt, but the market is now 

 fully 5/- down. 



Market owing to Eastern manipulation dropped to 

 135/- to 140/- per cwt for Crude unsettling trade gener- 

 ally by causing a nervous feeling among buyers. 



Market quiet and easier. Good to fine Nyassland 

 value 45/- to 55/- per cwt and Japan 42/6 to 45/- per cwt. 



For a time business was quiet and only moderate 

 transaction took place, but with a big failure in Marseilles, 

 covering, caused a decided improvement, and a good 

 business followed at advancing rates. To-day F. M. 

 Strait £17.12.6. to £17.17.6 and Java £19.5.0 per ton. 



Heavy supplies were brought forward, which were 

 mostly firmly held. Scraped kinds however, were 

 neglected, but a moderate quantity of Macassar descrip- 

 tions found buyers at about previous prices. 



1447 Cases 3470 baskets and 442 bags offered and 

 about 900 packages sold. 



Manila and Macassar: Sorts, yellow pipey at 27/6 to 

 30/- ditto part small and dusty at 23/- to 26/-, ditto part 

 blocky at 20/6 to 24/-, good pale block at 21/- to 22/-, 

 blocky pickings at 14/-. Nubbles, good pale hard at 36/6, 

 fair ditto at 31/- to 34/6, Chips, palish small at 26/-, 

 darker at 24/-. 



Pontianac : Bold amber scraped at 65/-, dark brown 

 at 60/-, hard nubbles at 36/-. 



Amboyna : Bough dark blocky sorts at 19/-, good 

 yellow nubbles at 27/6. 



Quiet and easier. 315 packages Singapore offered 

 and 120 sold. Penang character : Sittings, small specky 

 at 32/6, blocky ditto at 27/-, small dusty at 26/- blocky 

 ditto at 20/- to 21/-, gray pickings at 40/-. Borneo: 

 Black coated, part dusty at 6/-. Batavian : 48 cases 

 were bought in. 



