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check to the extent of 8d. to n d. per lb., but a partial 
recovery has since taken place. The last sales of Plan- 
tation Rubber which were offered on the day of the 
decline only marked slight difference of about Id. per lb. 
Malay and Straits (about 78 tons) : Sheet, fine 
smoked at 9,/6d. to 9 6%d., fair to fine at 9 0%d. to 9/ld.; 
mixed part pressed and inferior at 8-l0d. to 8 ll^d. 
Crepe, good to fine pale at 8 1 1 d. to 9 3%d., fair to 
good palish at 8/8%d. to 8 lid., palish mottled at 9 2d. 
to 8/934d., clean brown part dark at 7 6d. to 8/2d., dark 
brown part specky at 6 5d. to 7/ 6%d. t black and soft at 
5/- to 6/ Id. Block, fair pale at 9 2d. Scrap and virgin 
pieces, fair to fine at 6- to 6/io%d. Rambong, Crepe, 
fine clean red at 6/'8J4d., Scrap, good at 4/iod. to 5/-. 
Ceylon (about II tons) : Sheet and Biscuits, fair to 
very fine at 9 0%d. to 9/1 %d. Crepe, fair to fine pale at 
9/%d. to 9/l?4d. with fine, thick “ Rosebaugh ” at 9 3d. 
fair palish at 8/8%d. to 8/llJ^d., clean brown at 7/io?4d. 
to 8/4%d., dark brown clean at 7/5 %d. to 7/8^d., dark 
part softish at 6/5d. to 7/4%d. Scrap, fair to fine at 
6/6d. to 6/9% d. 
Mace : — Unchanged. 17 cases Penang offered and 
bought in, pale and reddish at 2/-, ditto wormy at i/iod. 
also 4 cases Singapore, ordinary red and broken at i/iod. 
West India steady, 5 packages offered and sold, fair 
pale and reddish at I/6d. to l/7d., fair to good red at 
i/5d. to X/6d., broken at I/- to l/4d. 
Isinglass A steady trade has been done. Penang 
was sold with good competition at rather irregular 
prices, but on the whole favoring sellers, particularly, 
for the better qualities of leaf and Purse. 
Penang: — Round Leaf, good stout pale at 4/1 Id., 
middling to fair part small at 4 - t° 4 6d., middling to 
fair reddish at 3/5d. to 3/1 id., ordinary reddish part 
small and rough at 2 9d. to 3 4^., small part thin and 
rough dark at 2/4d. to 2/8d., and pickings at i/2d. to 2/-. 
Long Leaf, small thin part rough at 2/gd„ pickings at 
i/ld. Tongue, fair heavy at 4/1 d., middling to fair 
yellow and reddish at 3-7d. to 3/9d., heavy dark part 
small at 2/6d. to 2/1 id;, small and pickings at I 2d. to 
