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Copra : — A fair business has been done at firm to 

 dearer prices, but we close on the easy side with ten- 

 dency in Buyers' favour. 



F. M. Straits £21.10.0.; Sundried £22.5.0.; Java 

 £22.10. Manila £21.5.0; Ceylon £24.; Malabar £25,; 

 Southsea £22 c.i.f. delivered weights. 



Gum, Benjamin: — Quiet, and in Sales 331 cases 

 offered only 38 sold ; Siam, dark glassy block £6 to £7 ; 

 Sumatra, fair seconds £6.10.0., ordinary third £4,15.0. to 

 £4.17.6. 



Copal: — Market unchanged, but rather irregular. 

 In Sales 4,016 packages were offered, only 850 sold; 

 Sambas, fair palish scraped 67/7, Manila, ditto scraped 

 45/- to 46/-, chips, good pale 34/6d., Macassar, scraped, 

 pale and amber pipey 37/-, small pipey 25/- to 27/6d. 

 Nuts, fair pale 31/- to 32/6d., dark and drossy 18/-, dark 

 blocky sorts and pickings 15 - to 16/- per cwt. 



DAMAR :— Market steady. 426 packages offered 

 and 150 sold. 



Singapore, pale and amber, unsifted, at 57/6., small 

 ambery sorts 47/6d., dark, dusty, pea size 25/- to 25/6d., 

 black Borneo scraped i6/6d. per cwt. 



Gamboge :— Market quiet. In Sales 30 packages 

 offered, but retired. We quote Siam pickings to good 

 clean pipey £9.7.6 to £14.15.0. Saigon pickings to fair 

 Ricey pipey £4 to £7 per cwt. 



India Rubber: — The market since our last report 

 advanced prices to 9 -2d., since when an easier tendency 

 has been seen. 



Business in Plantation grown Para privately has 

 since been somewhat in Buyers' favour. Fine Crepe is 

 worth 9/- per lb., fair Biscuits and Sheets 8 lid. In Sales 

 everything sold. Crepe, pale at 9/0% d. to 9/3 ^d., palish 

 8/1 Id. to 9/01^ d., fair to good mottled 7/6^d. to 8/l0i4d., 

 fair to good mottled 7/6^d. to S/lO^d., fair to good 

 brown y'SVi^- to 8'7i^d., barky 6iS]4d. to 7/6d.; Biscuits 

 and Sheets 9 O^^d. to 9/ld., scrap 6 4d. to 6/loJ^d. per lb. 



