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GUM DAMAR 
GAMBOGE 
INDIA RUBBER 
ISINGLASS 
MACE 
NUTMEGS 
PEPPER 
SAGO 
SHELL 
l O' 
Also lower. Penang sorts pea size sold at 27/-to 
27/6d, dust 22/6d, amber pickings 30 hard block 18/6 
to 21/ -per cwt. 
Market slow. Siam-Pipe, fair mixed dark sold at 
£14.5.0., pickings at £9.7.6. per cwt. 
The past month has marked a material advance in 
Plantation Para. Some Estates have taken the oppor- 
tunity of selling their output during 1910 and 1911. 
Medium grades have been in fair demand, but have not 
appreciated to any marked degree. 
In Sales Lanadron, block sold at 6/T0d per lb. Crepe, 
pale 6/’4|d, to 6 9^d, palish 6/2d to 6/8d, mottled 5/7d 
do 6 6d, brown 5/3d to 5/'6fd. Biscuits and Sheets 
6/ 2fd to 6/7d, Smoked sheet 6/10d to 7 -. Scrap 4/l0d 
to 5/3|d per lb. 
There has been a slow demand. Saigon, long leaf, 
fair to good stout pale selling at 5/2d to 5/10d. Tails, 
fair pale l/6d. Purse, fair stout but wormy 1/-. Pen- 
ang, round leaf, fair pale 4/-, middling 3/6d, part thin 
and rough 2/3d to 3 Id, pickings 1 3d to 9,1-, Tongue, 
fair pale 4 Id to 4/ 2d, pale and reddish 3/5d to 3,/10d, 
small ditto 3; Id, pickings, low 6d, long, fair pale 2/10d, 
floats, fair 1 / 7 d . Purse, small dark to fair pale 6id to 
1,/ld per lb. 
Unchanged. Pale reddish to fine 1/1 Id to 2/4d, 
ordinary to fair l/'8d to l/10d. Java, ordinary to good 
pale l/7d to 2/10d per lb. 
Quiet. 43 cases of Penang offered and partly sold, fair 
gargled 110’s selling at 4|d to 4|d per lb. 
BLACK : Market has ruled firm. Speculators have 
advanced prices to 3id for Jan/March, 3 fVd for Oct/ 
Dec. and 3 g^d for Sept/Nov, but recently with such 
support withdrawn prices have fallen back fully |d. 
White Singapore: In sympathy also improved, and 
for near positions 4 lid to 5d was paid, July/ Aug. 3td 
to 4 l#d, and Aug/Oct. 16 4fd to 4|d, but is now cheap- 
er. 
Near 4 ltd and Aug/ Oct 4 f|d per lb. 
Very little business has been done. In sales the offer- 
ings have had to be put back. The value of fair small on 
the spot is ll/6dper cwt., medium 14/ -to 15/-, and large 
15/-to 16/-per cwt. 
PLOUB---Market very quiet. On the spot a good 
pinky to white, value 8/9d to 10/-per cwt. 
M.O.P. 24 packages of Macassar sold well. 
Country assorted, A, medium shells, part thin, many 
yellow £7.2.6. ; B, medium, part stout, part slight grub- 
by, many yellow £8.15. ; C, heavy bold shells, part grub- 
