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■ * uf#ra:— The market has been very firm during the last month 
and prices have shown an advance of about £2 per ton. The pre- 
sent value — F. M. Straits £23.10. 
Dragons Blood :— Market quiet. Singapore reeds, dull to fine bright 
£9 to £9.10,0, per tom Lump, ordinary, to fine bright £6 to £6.10.0. 
per cwt. 
Gums Benjamin:- .Market has been very quiet. Sumatra, good 
seconds sold at £7 to £7.5*0., ordinary £ 6 . 10 . 0 ,, Broken £6 per cwt. 
Copal -.—Market steady. Pontianac, good clean amber scraped 
sold at 68/-, dark 63/-. Nuts, fair clean 57/6. Macassar, Nuts, fair 
to good pale 36'- to 32/6A. amber, dark and drossy 17I-, dark and 
drossy blocky sorts I5/6d. Chips, small palish specky 20 / to 20/6 
dark 16/- per cwt. 
Damar : — A small trade, but at rather better prices. Singapore, 
palish p^a size selling at 32/^ siftings 27/6d. to *8/* amber pickings 
at 33/- per cwt, 
India Rubber : — The month been a decline, Fine Para , has 
dropped to 7/Jd. zr 
In Sales Plantation grown Para, Crepe sold at 9/3#d. to fj I id., 
palish 9/oHd. to 7/7-54+. ^ir to good mottled 8/loHd* to 6/4d., fair to 
good brown S/y^d. to 6/ld., barky 7/6d. to 5 / 2 J 4 d., Biscuits and 
Sheets 9/ld. to 7/6d.,:sctab 6/io^d. to 5/6d., smoked sheets 8/3 Hd. to 
8/8d.. closing dull at the lower rates. 
Isinglass The Sales have gone well, Saigon, long leaf advancing 
2d. to 3d., other qualities steady. Long, fair to good selling at 6/- to 
6/3d., middling 5 / 5 d* to 5 / 9 d*. small reddish 4 / 7 d., dark 4 / 2 d., small 
thin 3/2d. to 3/4d., round, fair to good pale 4/- to 4 / 3 d., middling 3/5d., 
to 3 / 8 d., part thin and rough 2/4d. to 2/lOd., per lb. 
Penang : — Market firm. Roung leaf, fine pale stout 4 / 9 d*> 
to good pale 3/iod. to 4 / 5 d., middling 3 / 3 d. to 3 / 9 d-, part thin and 
rough 2/3d. to 3/ld., pickings l/2d. to l/6d. Long Leaf, small thin to 
fair pale 3/7d. to $/6d. Tongue, long palish 2/8d., dark 2/2d. Floats, 
fair l/5d. Purse small thin to good pale 8LJd. to l/5d., per lb. 
Pepper : — Business has been fairly steady, the demand has been 
quiet, values have ranged for Black Singapore, December to January, 
4 Ad. to 4 d., January to March, Ad. to 4 Ad., March to May, 
4 ?\d. to 4 l Ad. White Singapore, December to January, 7 d. to 
6 fid., January to March, 7 Ad. to 7d. 
Siam, 6 lid., Penang 6d. to 6 Hd. per lb. 
Sago : — In better demand at dearer prices. To arrive a small 
business has been done in medium at l2/9d. to l3/3d., c. 1. f. On the 
spot Pearl at 15/- to i6/6d., medium 14/- to 15/-, small 12/- to i3/6d, 
FLOUP. * — Gook pinky to white 9 h to 10 - per cwt. 
