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GUM BENJAMIN 
GUM KOPAL 
GUM DAMAR 
INDIA RUBBER 
ISINGLASS 
Market firm. Recent business — Sumatra good 2nd 
at £8.2.5 to £8.10, ordinary 2nd £6.10.0 to £6.15, 
common to fair 3rd £3.5.0 to £5.2.6 per ewt. 
We quote Sumatra marbled, good to fine 2nd £8 to 
£8.15, common to fair £3.5, to £7.10.0. Palembang 
common to fair £1.5, to £2. Siam, fair to fine bold 
£7 to £25 per cwt according to quality. 
Trade has been rather irregular ; Macassar, small 
yellow scrape pipey 30/- to 34-, small unsorted part 
blocky 24/6 ditto drossy 20/- to 23/6; Nuts, dark 
drossy 20/-, chips small specky 21/- to 23/- ditto 
drossy 20/-, dark drossy blocky sorts 17/- per cwt. 
We value Manila and Macassar, fair dark brown to 
fine pale scraped 50/- to 75/-, mid. to fair half hard 
32/6 to 47/6 Nuts ordy to hard 25/- to 43/-, chips 21/- 
to 42/6d. Soft blocky sorts 20 - to 26/-, 
t Pontianac : — Dark to pale scpd hard 65/- to 75 -. 
Unsorted to half scpd 35/- to 45/-. Nuts, small to 
bold 27/6 to 32/6 Chips 23/- to 29/-. 
A good business has been done in Singapore sorts, 
pale and amber at 48/- to 48/6, pea size 37/6. Siftings 
30/-, dark speckly Pea size 29 - to 31/-; Batavian 
damaged sold at cheap prices, but we value Singapore 
specky to fine clean at 72 - to 75 - and Batavian, fair 
to fine 65 - tc 80/- per cwt. 
The market is firm but quiet. Plantation grown 
Para is in good demand, good Biscuits, sheets and 
Crepe at 4/ld to 4/34 d per lb. 
In the last sales Crepe pale to palish sold at 4/l|d 
to 4/24 d, mottled 3/9id to 4/-, brown 3/7 to 3/9, dark 
3/3 to3/5fd, block 2/9 to 2 lid. Biscuits and sheets 
at 4 lfd to 4 3d, scrape 4/5id to 3 - per lb. 
The last sales went off very slowly. Penang was 
in fair demand and firm prices were realised parti- 
cularly for good leaf and Tongue only 145 packages 
were catalogued of which 100 sold. 
Round Leaf, fair to good pale 4/- to 4/3d ; middling 
3/ 4 to 3/ 8 ; part thin and rough 2/2 to 2/8d ; pickings 
l/4d to 1 lid ; Long Leaf, brownish 2 7d. Tongue, fair 
to good pale 3/7 to 4/ld; pale and reddish 3/2 to3/6d ; 
dark and reddish 2 2 to 3 Id ; pickings 1 Id to l/10d ; 
long palish 2/6 to 3/- ; small and thin l/8d to l/l0d ; 
pickings 1/ld. Purse, small thin to fair pale 7id to 
1/ld ; Floats fair to fine bold pale 1 2d to l/10dper lb. 
