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check to the extent of 8d. to II d. per lb., but a partial 

 recovery has since taken place. The last sales of Plan- 

 tation Rubber which were offered on the day of the 

 decline only marked slight difference of about id. per lb. 



Malay and Straits (about 78 tons) : Sheet, fine 

 smoked at 9/6d. to 9/6%d., fair to fine at 9 0%d. to 9/ld.; 

 mixed part pressed and inferior at 8-l0d. to 8 ll%d. 

 Crepe, good to fine pale at 8/1 1 %d. to 9 3%d., fair to 

 good palish at 8/8%d. to 81 id., palish mottled at 9 2d. 

 to 8/9%d., clean brown part dark at 7 6d. to 8 2d., dark 

 brown part specky at 6/5d. to 7 6%d., black and soft at 

 5/- to 6/ld. Block, fair pale at 9/2d. Scrap and virgin 

 pieces, fair to fine at .6/- to 6/l0^d. Rambong, Crepe, 

 fine clean red at 6/8%d., Scrap, good at 4/iod. to 5/-. 



Ceylon (about 1 1 tons) : Sheet and Biscuits, fair to 

 very fine at g!o%d. to 9/i%d. Crepe, fair to fine pale at 

 9/%d. to 9/1 ?4d. with fine, thick " Rosebaugh " at 9/ 3d. 

 fair palish at 8/8%d. to 8/1 1 %d., clean brown at 7 I0%d. 

 to 8/4%d., dark brown clean at 7/5?4d. to 7/8J4d., dark 

 part softish at 6/5d. to 7'4%d. Scrap, fair to fine at 

 6/6d. to 6/gV 2 d. 



Mace: — Unchanged. 17 cases Penang offered and 

 bought in, pale and reddish at 2/-, ditto wormy at I/I0d. 

 also 4 cases Singapore, ordinary red and broken at i/IOd. 



West India steady, 5 packages offered and sold, fair 

 pale and reddish at I/6d. to l/7d., fair to good red at 

 l/5d. to I/6d., broken at I/- to l/4d. 



Isinglass : — A steady trade has been done. Penang 

 was sold with good competition at rather irregular 

 prices, but on the whole favoring sellers, particularly, 

 for the better qualities of leaf and Purse. 



Penang: — Round Leaf, good stout pale at 4/Ild., 

 middling to fair part small at 4 - to 4 6d., middling to 

 fair reddish at 3/5d. to 3/lid., ordinary reddish part 

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

 rough dark at 2/4d. to 2/8d., and pickings at I 2d. to 2/-. 

 Long Leaf, small thin part rough at 2/9d., pickings at 

 I/Id. Tongue, fair heavy at 4/id., middling to fair 

 yellow and reddish at 3-7d. to 3/9d., heavy dark part 

 small at 2/6d. to 2 lld., small and pickings at I 2d. to 



