500 
INDIA RUBBER 
ISINGLASS 
PEPPER 
With the improved prices in Para values for Planta- 
tion Rubbers have sold at improved prices although 
we close a shade off from the top. 
In the last auctions Sheet, Biscuts and Crepe medium 
qualities were about 2d down and common quite 3d per 
lb lower, the best parcels however sold at full prices. 
Malay and Straits: — (25f Ton£) : Sheet, fine pale sold 
at 4/7ld dark part pressed at 3/7^d to 3/10ld. Crepe, 
fine pale at 4/4 to 4/6d, fair palish at 3/llid to 4/2d, 
mottled at 3/6d to 3/9 brown at 3/3|d to 3/44d, dark 
brown at 2/8fd to 3/l^d, black part softish at 2/6d to 
2/7d. Scrap, fair to good at 2/8ld to 2/9id, mixed part 
inferior at 2/lid to 2/4d. Rambong at 2/9d. 
Ceylon: — (13 Tons): Biscuits and Sheet, fair to 
good sold at 4/0jd to 4/2d. Crepe, fair thick palish 
at 4/- to 4/lfd, light brown at 3/8d to 3/lld, brown at 
3/'2d to 2/4id, dark brown at 2/9d, black at 2/3d. 
Scrap, fair to good at 2/10d to 3/-, mixed and dark at 
2/4 id to 2/7d. 
The usual attendance of buyers and with only 
moderate offerings of Penang, Saigon etc., prices wei^e 
steady, Penang character Leaf sold well. 
90 packages offered (about 23,700 lb.) and 55 sold ; 
Round Leaf, middling to fair heavy at 3/6d to 3/10d, 
middling reddish at 3/2d, reddish part thin and rough 
at 2/6d to 2/10d, small part thin and dark at 2/ld to 
2/10d, smail part thin and dark at 2/ld to 2 4d, 
common thin and pickings, at l/10d. Long Leaf, fair 
pale at 3/-. Tongue, fair to good heavy yellow and 
reddish at 3/4 to 3/9d, ordinary to middling at 2/8d to 
3/-, thin at l/10d to 2/ld, mixed dark and pickings at 
1/6 to l/9d. Tails fair to fine bold at l/ld to 1/ lOd, 
Purse, fair at 1/- to l/ld, middling at 8|d to lOd, per lb. 
Saigon : — 13 packages offered (about 5200 lb.) and 
sold : Thin tongue at l/4d, thin pouches at 10^d, 
per lb. 
China:— 2 Bales offered (440 lb.) and bought in 
Pale circular leaf at 2/10d. per lb. 
Japan : — 3 Bales Yokohama squares offered (about 
700 lb) and bought in. 
Black : — Market has been steady ; on the spot sales 
have been made at 3d per lb for fair quality. For 
arrival a good business has been done particularly of 
lare. August/October a 2/29d to 2-Id. c.i.f. London or 
Continent and August/October New York at 2 fid, 
c.i.f. delivered weights. 
