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Market firm. Recent business — Sumatra good 2nd 

 at £8.2.6 to £8.10, ordinary 2nd £6.10.0 to £6. IT,, 

 common to fair 3rd £3.5.0 to £5.2.6 per cwt. 



We quote Sumatra marbled, good to fine 2nd £8 to 

 £8.15, common to fair £3.5, to £7.10.0. Palembang 

 common to fair £1.5, to £2. Siam, fair to fine bold 

 £7 to £25 per cwt according to quality. 



Trade has been rather irregular ; Macassar, small 

 yellow scrape pipey 30/- to 34-, small unsorted part 

 blocky 24/6 ditto drossy 20/- to 23/6 ; Nuts, dark 

 drossy 20/-, chips small specky 21,'- to 23/- ditto 

 drossy 20/-, dark drossy blocky sorts 17/- per cwt. 



We value Manila and Macassar, fair dark brown to 

 fine pale scraped 50/- to 75/-, mid. to fair half hard 

 32/6 to 47/6 Nuts ordy to hard 25/- to 43/-, chips 21/- 

 to 42/6d. Soft blocky sorts 20/- to 26/-. 



Pontianac : — Dark to pale scpd hard 65 - to 75 -. 

 Unsorted to half scpd 35/- to 45/-. Nuts, small to 

 bold 27/6 to 32/6 Chips 23/- to 29/-. 



A good business has been done in Singapore sorts, 

 pale and amber at 48/- to 48/6, pea size 37/6. Sittings 

 30/-, dark speckly Pea size 29/- to 31/-; Batavian 

 damaged sold at cheap prices, but we value Singapore 

 specky to fine clean at 72/- to 75/- and Batavian, fair 

 to fine 65/- tc 80/- per cwt. 



The market is firm but quiet. Plantation grown 

 Para is in good demand, good Biscuits, sheets and 

 Crepe at 4/ld to 4/34d per lb. 



In the last sales Crepe pale to palish sold at 4/1-Jd 

 to 4/2R mottled 3/9id to 4/-, brown 3/7 to 3/9, dark 

 3/3 to 3/5fd, block 2/9 to 2/lld. Biscuits and sheets 

 at 4/lfd to 4/3d, scrape 4/5|d to 3/- per lb. 



The last sales went off very slowly. Penang was 

 in fair demand and firm prices were realised parti- 

 cularly for good leaf and Tongue only 145 packages 

 were catalogued of which 100 sold. 



Round Leaf, fair to good pale 4/- to 4/3d ; middling 

 3/4 to 3/8 ; part thin and rough 2/2 to 2/8d ; pickings 

 l/4d to 1/lld ; Long Leaf, brownish 2/7d. Tongue, fair 

 to good pale 3/7 to 4/ld ; pale and reddish 3/2 to 3/6d ; 

 dark and reddish 2/2 to 3/ld ; pickings 1/ld to l/10d ; 

 long palish 2/6 to 3/- ; small and thin l/8d to 1/I0d ; 

 pickings 1/ld. Purse, small thin to fair pale 7 2d to 

 1/ld ; Floats fair to fine bold pale l/2d to l/10dper lb, 



