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8 4d., clean brown at 7 3%d. to 7/6%d., dark brown at 6/6%d. 

 to 6/io34d. Worms, good pale at 7/1 i%d. Scrap, fair to fine 

 at 5/2d. to 5/9d., mixed inferior at 4 9d. Java Plantation: II 

 packages offered and bought in. 



Isinglass : — There has been a good steady demand. 



Penang : in good supply selling at irregular but generally 

 steady rates for all kinds. 



Saigon: has been freely offered, long leaf realising better 

 rates, but round leaf was not so well enquired for in the last. 



Sales: — Penang: 177 packages offered (about 34,000 lbs.) 

 and 152 sold ; Round Leaf, middling to fair palish at 4/- to 

 4/4d., ditto reddish at 3/5d. to 3 6d., ordinary reddish part 

 small and rough at 2/9d. to 3/4d., small part thin and rough 

 dark at 2/- to 2/8d., pickings at iod. to i/nd. Tongue, good 

 heavy at 4/5d., middling to fair yellow and reddish at 3 7d. to 

 3/iod., heavy dark part small at 2/6d. to 3/2d., small and 

 pickings at iod. to i/lld. Tails, small pale at l/6d. to l/7d., 

 middling at l/4d. Bladderpipe, thin at i/-. Purse, fair to 

 good at 1 id. to 1/-. Ordinary to middling at 8d. to iod., 

 ordinary dark mixed at 6d. 



Saigon: — 66 packages offered (about 15,000 lbs.) and 34 

 sold. Long Leaf, good to fine stout pale at 5;8d. to 5/ 1 id., 

 middling to fair ditto at 5'4d. to 5 7d., middling part thin and 

 dark at 3/4d. Round Leaf, fair palish part thin at 4/2d., fair 

 reddish part thin and rough at 3/iod. to 3/ 1 id., mostly thin 

 part rough at 3/1 d. to 3/6d., small reddish and pickings at 

 2/4d. to 2/l0d. 



Mace: — Trade small, but steady, prices have been paid 

 for the small quantities offered. 



Nutmegs: — Quiet. A few cases of Penang and Singapore 

 have been offered and sold at unchanged rates. 64's to 57's 

 1/3 to i/6d., no's to 65's 4%d. to 1 2d., 160's to 115's at 4d. 

 to 4%d. 



Pepper : — A moderate business has been done during the 

 past month at irregular but generally firmer prices. We close 

 sellers of fair Singapore at 3%d., spot value. For arrival 

 September to October shipment at 3 9-32d., October to 

 December at 3 5-l6d., November to January at 3%d. January 

 to March at 3 7-l6d., delivered weights. White Pepper: — 

 There has been a corresponding firmness, and a fair business. 

 On the spot we close sellers of fair Singapore at 5/4d. For 

 arrival October to December shipment at 5 J^d., November to 



