The year closes with a pheno-menial rise in the price of plantation rubber which very few even of the optimists anticipated. Everybody expected a wider fluctuation during war than in peace times, notes the "India Rubber Journal," bat that we now record must be considered as extraordinary. The prospect for the immediate future is a little uncertain, but in view of the very large quantities sold in the East during the months of December and November, the quantity ar-
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