457 



GUM DAMAR 



GAMBOGE 



INDIA RUBBER 



ISINGLASS 



MACE 



NUTMEGS 

 PEPPER 



SAGO 



SHELL 



Also lower. Penang sorts pea size sold at 27/-to 

 27/6d, dust 22/6d, amber pickings 30/-, hard block 18/6 

 to 2l/-per cwt. 



Market slow. Siam-Pipe, fair mixed dark sold at 

 £14.5.0., pickings at £9.7.6. per cwt. 



The past month has marked a material advance in 

 Plantation Para. Some Estates have taken the oppor- 

 tunity of selling their output during 1910 and 1911. 

 Medium grades have been in fair demand, but have not 

 appreciated to any marked degree. 



In Sales Lanadron, block sold at 6/10d per lb. Crepe, 

 pale 6/4R to 6/9R palish 6/2d to 6/8d, mottled 5/7d 

 to 6/6d, brown 5/3d to 5/6|d. Biscuits and Sheets 

 6/2fd to 6/7d, Smoked sheet 6/10d to 7/-. Scrap 4/10d 

 to 5/3id per lb. 



There has been a slow demand. Saigon, long leaf, 

 fair to good stout pale selling at 5/2d to 5/l0d. Tails, 

 fair pale l/6d. Purse, fair stout but wormy 1/-. Pen- 

 ang, round leaf, fair pale 4/-, middling 3/6d, part thin 

 and rough 2/3d to 3/ld, pickings l/3d to 2/-, Tongue, 

 fair pale 4/ld to 4/2d, pale and reddish 3/5d to 3/10d, 

 small ditto 3/ld, pickings, low 6d, long, fair pale 2/10d, 

 floats, fair l/7d. Purse, small dark to fair pale 6id to 

 1/ld per lb. 



Unchanged. Pale reddish to fine 1/lld to 2/4d, 

 ordinary to fair l/8d to l/10d. Java, ordinary to good 

 pale l/7d to 2/10d per lb. 



Quiet. 43 cases of Penang offered and partly sold, fair 

 gargled 110's selling at 4id to 4|d per lb. 



BLACK : Market has ruled firm. Speculators have 

 advanced prices to 3id for Jan/March, 3 xed for Oct/ 

 Dec. and 3 Ad for Sept/Nov, but recently with such 

 support withdrawn prices have fallen back fully id. 



White Singapore: In sympathy also improved, and 

 for near positions 4 lid to 5d was paid, July/Aug. 3£d 

 to 4 ltd, and Aug/Oct. 16 4fd to 4jd, but is now cheap- 

 er. 



Near 4 ltd and Aug/Oct 4 fid per lb. 



Very little business has been done. In sales the offer- 

 ings have had to be put back. The value of fair small on 

 the spot is ll/6dper cwt., medium 14/-to 15/-, and large 

 15/-to 16/-per cwt. 



FLOUR — Market very quiet. On the spot a good 

 pinky to white, value 8/9d to 10/-per cwt. 



M.O.P. 24 packages of Macassar sold well. 



Country assorted, A, medium shells, part thin, many 

 yellow £7.2.6. ; B, medium, part stout, part slight grub- 

 by, many yellow £8.15. ; C, heavy bold shells, part grub- 



