QUICKSILVER—American per Pel. COTTON—Common 'a 10.6.0 TIN PLATES ce 10 no demand per Box. @ rey mal ap ose " a 7.04 IRON WIRE=No. 17"..) " Soninal er Pel. a a 6.5.0 1,38 mo demand. 00 a @ 600 STRAITS TINS—Fong Hing—nom, 0.0 a @ 5.6.0 Fok Choke. 5 31.0.0 @ 320.0 a 49.0 Common Chops 12.5.0 a 15.0.0 a 3.2.0 Sree eau 5000 378 @ 380 smboo " 3.6.0 37. a 28. JAPAN COPPER—Finge: per Bel. 17.0.0 a 17.5.0 a 2.5.0 Slab, " 17.5.0 @ 17.8.0 la 10.4.0 Ore " [145.0 a 15.5.0 'a 20.0.0 HOOP IRON 4 3.5.04 3.6.0 a 29.0 RIG IRON per'fon 98.0.0 a 29.0.0 a 360 a 45, Dawes' Best per Pel. 340 3.5.0 a 3.0.0 Belgian es 285 a 29.5 Bar—Dawe Fe 29.5 3.1.0 Timor. @ 67.0 M. Crown, Ks B20a 3.25 a 42.0
LEAD—L B " 5.10 a. MANGROVE BARK @ 110 Round " 3.3.04 3.6.0 Malabar @ 17.5.0 Common Brand if 5.0.0 a FLINT STONES, new. @ O75
COALS.—Holders have lately become much firmer, and the market closes with a strong upward tendency. Buyers are disinclined to pay the advance demanded, and business is thus somewhat limited. The few transactions made public, however, establish better prices than were ruling immediately before the Native holidays set in, and the firmness of holders if sustained must ere long result in a still further improvement.
-FREIGH'TS.—There have been very few coasting charters since the holidays, but there is rather more enquiry for the coal trade between Formosa and Japan. The rates offered, however, are below the ideas of shipmasters. 35 cents Mexican per picul has been accepted for a voyage from Chefoo to Swatow. The rates for England and America are unchanged.
COTTON.—The receipts from the country have been very small during the holidays, and buyers in consequence, have had to pay from 3m.
to Sin. per picul, advance, in order to supply their wants. The settlements have not been large, and stocks are firmly held for quotations, EXCHANGE.—There has been rather more demand for Bank draft on London during the past few days, and Mercantile paper being source, rates have gradually declined, the banks having latterly sold at 5s. 1084. whilst a small amount of Bills under. First-class Credits has been placed at 5s. 11{d. a 5s. 11d. On India, business is limited, and rates have receded to Rs. 303. On Hongkong, rates remain almost nominal at 25 and 25$ for Bank and Meroautile bills respectively.
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