BO 
GUM DAMAR 
ISINGLASS 
PEPPER 
RUBBER 
Quiet and prices easier. 
Singapore and Penang ; Of 324 cases 110 baskets 
and 315 bags, 370 packages sold, fair grayish sorts at 
48/- to 48/6, pickings at 86/6 to 37/-. Siftings, pale 
bold specky at 32/6 to 34/-, small dusty syecky at 
27, - to 28/6d, dust at 17/6 to 21/-, block at 13/. 
Batavian: 100 Cases offered and mostly sold, pale 
bold pale sifted at 85/-, medium ditto at 78/-, pea-size 
at 55/-, and assortment bulked at 70/-. 
The tone generally has been quiet and prices favour- 
able to buyers. Moderate supplies of Penang brought 
forward sold, good quality Leaf at 2d to 3d down but 
other grades about steady. Tongue which is scarce 
sold well. 
Purse steady ; Saigon met with a fair demand, long 
leaf barely steady, but round leaf fully 3d down. 
PENANG : — 94 packages offered (about 21,700 lb) and 
61 sold : Round leaf, fair to good heavy pale at 3 /lid 
to 4/2d, middling to fair palish at 3 2d to 3/106, ditto 
reddish at 2/36 to 2, lid, small part thin and rough, 
dark at 1 /7d to 2/ld, pickings at 9^a to 1/56. Tongue, 
fair to good heavy at 3/4d to 3/ lid, middling ditto at 
2/4d to 2/8, small thin at 1/96 ; long, fair to good pale 
at 2/4 to 3/-, thin pickings at l/2d. Tails, fair pale at 
.1 5d to !/6d. Purse, fair heavy at 1/ Id, ordinary to 
middling at 9d to lid. 
Saigon : — 61 packages offered (about 14,300 lb.) 
and 35 sold : Long Leaf, good heavy pale at 5/56 to 
5/6d, fair ditto at 5/16 to 5/36, middling at 4/6d to 
4/96, reddish and dark at 4 /2d to 4/3 d, dark rough part 
small and thin at 3/7d. Round Leaf, good heavy pale 
at 4/16, middling to fair yellow and reddish at 3/(kl to 
3/106 , reddish part rough and thin at 2/4d to 2/86, 
small thin at l/8d. 
Little change can be hoted here. A fair business 
has taken place in Black Singapore, closing January, 
March shipment at 2fd per lb. c.i.f. delivered weights. 
WHITE PEPPER : — is firm closing near at hand at 
4|cl per lb. c.i.f. October December at 4xVd c.i.f. 
delivered weights. 
Has been a strong and advancing market. The 
shipments of Plantation Para selling at improving 
rates. At the present time fine hard Para is worth 
4/9d per lb. but may be expected to reach 5/- per lb. 
before long. 
The last offerings of Malay and Straits amount to 
about 44 Tons. 
