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Saps and Exudation*. 



MARK. 



PRICE 



QUANTITY. DESCRIPTION. PER LB. 



Good palish hard biscuits ... 6s. lid. 



Good palish hard scrap 5s. 2d. to .Is. 2£d. 



Pine palish to darkish biscuits ... 6s. 2d. 



Fine pale scrap 5s. 2id. to 5s. 2M. 



Dark scrap 3s. lid. to 4s. 0|ef. 



Fine palish to darkish biscuits ... 6s. 2d. 



Fine palish scrap ... 5s. 2d. 

 Good darkish scrap and rejected biscuits 5.s. Id. 



Fine pale and dark biscuits ... 6s. 2d. 



Good palish scrap ... 5s. Id. 



Fine pale biscuits. feAV dark ... 6s. lfd. 



Good pale scrap ... 4s. 



1AITS SETTLEMENTS. 



Fine scored sheet ... 6s. 2d. 



Fine dark pressed scrappy sheet ... 5s. Ohd. 



Fine palish sheet ... 6s. l|d. 



Rejected sheet ... 5s. 



Fine palish scrap ... 5s. Id. 



Fine pale scrap . . . 5s. 2\ d. 



Fine pale pressed sheet ... 6s. 2d. 



Pressed scrappy sheet ... 5s. 



Fine palish amber sheet ... 6s. 2d. 



Fine palish scrap ... 5s. 3d. 



Fine pale washed ribbon ... 6s. 2d. 



do little darker ... 6s. Ofd. 



Fine pale sheet ... 5s. lOd. 



Fine pale scrap ... 5s. 



Fine large pale biscuits ... 6s. 2d. 



do darker ... 6s. 2d. 



Fine palish and dark pressed sheet & scrap 5s. 2fc£. 



Fine amber sheet and biscuits 6s. 2d. bid 



Good palish sheet ... 6s. 2d. 



t ine palish to darkish scored sheet ... 6s. 2d. 



ASSAM AND RANGOON. 

 These kinds were only represented by 12 packages, of which only a few 

 inferior parcels changed hands from 2s. 5d. to 2s. 6d. 



London, February 16th.— At to-day's auction, 276 packages of Ceylon and 

 Straits Settlements plantation grown rubber were offered, 238 of which were 

 sold. The total weight amounted to lS'i tons, Ceylon contributing about 4] tons and 

 the Straits Settlements 94 tons. This was the largest auction of plantation grown 

 rubber that has yet been held, and included several very fine invoices weighing a ton 

 and over. The largest sale previously being that held on the 10th November, 1905, 

 which consisted of about 1H tons. There was good competition at about last rates, 

 fine Sheet selling from 6s. l^d. to 6s. 2\d.\ Crepe from 5s. 5d. for dark to 6s. ljd. for 

 fine pale ; Biscuits from 6s. l%d. for dull up to 6s. 2d. for fine ; Scrap from 3s. 8d. for 

 dark dirty up to 5s. 4d. for fine. There was also some nice clean red and dark Ram- 

 bong which sold readily from 4s. 6£tf. up to 5s. 



The popularity of the sheet form was again evidenced by a fine parcel of five 

 cases from the Highlands Estate bringing 6s. 2%d. per lb., highest price in the auction. 

 Another fine parcel of very large sheet from Bukit Rajah sold at 6s. 2d. Average 

 price of Ceylon and Straits Settlements Plantation Rubber.— 238 packages at 5s. ll£d. 

 per lb., against 148 packages at 5s lOfd. per lb. at last auction. Particulars and prices 

 as follows :— 



CEYLON. 



Wiharagama 2 cases Good pale biscuits ... 6s. lid. 



do 1 do Good rough darkish biscuits ... 6s. lf d. 



do 1 do Fair ball scrap ... 4s. 5d. 



do 1 do Pale Ceara biscuits ... 6s. \%d. 



17 



Tudugalla 



6 



cases 



do 



4 



do 



do 



11 



,do 



do 



3 



do 



do 



4 



do 



Maddagedera 



3 



do 



do 



1 



do 



do 



1 



do 



Halgolle 



] 



do 



do 



1 



do 



Sirigalla> 



1 



do 



do 



] 



STR^ 



L. E. (Muar in triangle) 







Straits 



3 



cases 



do 



1 



do 



B. N. A. & B. 



1 



do 



do 



1 



do 



do 



1 



do 



B. N- E. 



1 



do 



T"> T> /CI * J • l » 



R. R. (S. in diamond) 



3 



do 



S. R. (S. in diamond) 



4 



do 



G.M.S.B. 



6 



do 



do 



1 



do 



L. & P. F. M. S. 



7 



do 



do 



1 



do 





2 



do 



do 



1 



bag 



M. 



1 



case 



do 



6 



do 



do 



1 



do 



C. M. C. S. 



3 



do 



W. F. 



1 



do 



Highland Estate 



17 



cases 



