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CHILLIES 
COPRA 
GUM BENJAMIN 
GUM DAMAR 
GUM COPAL 
GAMB1ER 
GUTTA-PERCHA 
INDIA RUBBER 
A fair business has been done, but market closes 
rather easier. 
A good business has been done at steady prices 
although market closes rather easier. F. M. Straits 
value £18, Sundried ditto £18.17.6., Java £19.5.0., 
Ceylon £19.15., Malabar £20.2.6., Southsea £18.5.0., 
Trinidad £19.2.6., c.i.f. delivered weights. 
Trade has been very quiet, and in recent offerings 
Sumatra fair almondy sold at £7.5.0., medium to fair 
brownish £6 to £6.10.0., middling brownish £5.10. to 
£5.12.6., ordinary £5 percwt. 
We value Sumatra second quality^ marbled, fair to 
fine at £7 to £8, middling to good £5.10. to £6.10., 
Palembang and thirds, middling to fair part almondy 
30, -to 50 - Siam, firsts and seconds, fair block to fine 
clean £7.15. to £27 per cwt. 
Has been in slow demand, the small business transact- 
ed, only at prices favouring buyers. Penang, good clean 
grey at 52 /-, small grey and dark 42/6, grains 30 -to 
33/-, fine pickings 40/-, ordinary 20/-to 30/-, siftings 25/- 
to 27/-, clean block 36/6d, dusty block 15 Singapore, 
pale clean 64/-, grey clean 43/-, brown dusty 25/ -per 
cwt. 
We value Batavia, good to fine pale at 60/-to 65/-, 
Singapore, ordinary specky to fine 30/-to 65/-per cwt. 
The recent offerings-only part found buyers at about 
previous rates. Trade privately has been quiet, Ma- 
cassar, hard pale scraped 51/ -to 52/-, hard Amber 
scraped 45/-to 47/-, pale bold pipey 37/-, pipey, yellow 
31/ -to 32 6, nubbles, good pale 34/6, fair 25/-, dark 
20,'-, glassy block 24/-, chips 16/-to 20/-, pickings 
19/-. Pontianac, Amber hard scraped 63/-, coated 40/-, 
nubbles 30/-to 34/-, chips 22/-. Sambas, pale chips 
32/6. We value Macassar etc., hard scraped pale at 
60/ -to 67/6, amber 50/-to 57/-, dark 48/-to 52/6, soft 
scraped, dark to pale 30, -to 45/-, nubbles, pale 28/-to 
36/-, dark and mixed 19/-to 25/-, chips, pale hard clean 
25/-to 35/-, ordinary and softy 20/-to 24/-per cwt. 
A steady demand has existed more particularly for 
near positions from the Continent and America. Sales 
of block up to 22/6, afloat to New York, and 22/-March 
shipment to the Continent, but we close easier May/June 
shipment at 21/7id c.i.f. 
Market quiet. Good to fine genuine red value 4/6d 
to 7/-, good to fine white l/4d to 2/9d. Cotie, Siak and 
Soo'loo reboiled value 4d to 5d per lb. 
A good market has existed, and firm to dearer prices 
have been obtained for Plantation kinds. Block, fine 
clear pale 5/6d to 5/9d, fine sheets and biscuits 5/4d to 
