GUM BENJAMIN 
GUM COPAL 
GUM DAMAR 
GAMB1ER 
PEPPER 
RUBBER 
Trade has been rather quiet and consequently prices 
favouring Buyers. 
In the last Sales 139 Cases' were offered and only 32 
sold, pea and bean sized Siam almond slightly block y 
at £14 to £14.2.6, small grains and dust blocky at 
£7.15. good garblings in block at £7 5.0. fair Sumatra 
2nds in Tins part drossy at 44 - per cwt. 
Market quite. Of 5,361 packages ottered only 
1,200 sold ; Pontianac, clean amber anti dark hard 
scraped at 60 -to 65/-, nuts, fair amber 36/-, Manila 
Nuts good pale 36/- to 36/6, Macassar, pale and amber 
scraped much weaker 30/- to 32/-, Unassorted, pale and 
amber pipey sorts at 30/-, Nuts, palish pipey at 28 6 to 
31/-, ambery at 27/6, mixed chips 26/-, amber 25/-, chips, 
pale and rather drossy at 24/-, pale soft blocky sorts at 
22/-, dark and drossy at 19 - per cwt. 
Market Hat. We value Singapore siftings at 32/6, 
blocky ditto at 27/-, hard block at 25/-, small siftings at 
26 - hard block blocky siftings at 20 -to 27 - per cwt. 
Market has been fairly steady, prices ranging from 
24 - up to 24/6 and down to 23. 9 afterwards advancing 
to 24/6 per cwt c. i. f. delivered weights. We close 
however Sellers at 24 - c.i. f., small Sales of cubes on 
the spot at 34/- per cwt. 
Black Singapore has been an irregular market, prices 
advanced from 3d to 37-32d declining to 3 id and back 
again to 3 7-32d at which we close. 
White Pepper has fluctuated in a similar way from 
4 Id to 4|d per lb., closing at 4 25-32d for Jan /March 
shipment and Mareb/May 4fd c.i.f., delivered weights. 
The market during the past month has had rather an 
easier tendency, this naturally has affected all Plan- 
tation kinds. At the last Sales the offerings were — 
Plantation — Malay — 33 tons offered and mostly sold. 
Sheet, good 5/2|d to 5/3d, Crepe, good to very fine pale 
5/2lrd to 5/4d, fair to good palish 5 1 to 5 2 [d, light 
brown and grey 4/10fd to 5/0fd, clean and dark brown 
4/7 id to 4/9|d, dark, fair black and speckv 4/3£d to 
4/6fd. Scrap, fair to fine 4/li to 4/3id. Mixed part 
inferior 3/32tl to 4/0id. 
CEYLON : — 15 Tons sold : Biscuits and Sheet, fair 
to fine pale 5/2lfd to 5/4d. Worms, fair palish (1 lot) 
5/3id. Crepe, fine pale 5 3 id to 5/4|d, fair palish 4 11 id 
to 5/2id, clean brown 4/9id to 4/10id f dark brown 4/7 
to 4/8£d, dark and black 4/3id to 4/6£d. Scrap, fair to 
fine 4/~ to 4/4id, mixed part inferior 3/10d to 3/lld. 
