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BEESWAX 
CAPSICUMS 
CAMPHOR 
CHILLIES 
COPRA 
GUM COPAL 
GUM DAMAR 
JOHN HADDON & CO. SPECIAL 
PRODUCE LETTER. 
London , December 11th, 1908. 
Straits Beport. 
Yellow, descriptions have met with a fair demand 
although it is not the bleaching season. 
For a time supplies sold well, the best descriptions 
selling at 50/- to 60/- per cwt, but the market is now 
fully 5/- down. 
Market owing to Eastern manipulation dropped to 
135/- to 140/- per cwt for Crude unsettling trade gener- 
ally by causing a nervous feeling among buyers. 
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Market quiet and easier. Good to fine Nyassland 
value 45/- to 55/- per cwt and Japan 42/6 to 45/- per cwt. 
For a time business . was quiet and only moderate 
transaction took place, but with a big failure in Marseilles, 
covering, caused a decided improvement, and a good 
business followed at advancing rates. To-day F M 
Strait £17.12.6. to £17.17.6 and Java £19.5.0 per ton. 
Heavy supplies were brought forward, which were 
mostly firmly held. Scraped kinds however, were 
neglected, but a moderate quantity of Macassar descrip- 
tions found buyers at about previous prices. 
1447 Cases 3470 baskets and 442 bags offered and 
about 900 packages sold. 
Manila and Macassar: Sorts, yellow pipey at 27/6 to 
30/- ditto part small and dustyiat 23/- to 26/-, ditto part 
blocky at 20/6 to 24/-, good pale block at 21/- to 22/-, 
blocky pickings at 14/-. Nubbles, good pale hard at 36/6, 
fair ditto at 31/- to 34/6, Chips, palish small at 26/-, 
darker at 24/-. 
Pontianac ; Bold amber scraped at 65/-, dark brown 
at 60/-, hard nubbles at 36/-, 
Amboyna : Sough dark blocky sorts at 19/-, good 
yellow nubbles at 27/6. 
Quiet and easier. 315 packages Singapore offered 
and 120 sold. Penang character : Siftings, small specky 
at 32/6, blocky ditto at 27/-, small dusty at 26/- blocky 
ditto at 20/- to 21/-, gray pickings at 40/-. Borneo : 
Black coated, part dusty at 6/-. Batavian : 48 cases 
were bought in, 
