The local cotton market is steady to firm, but quiet. Very tittle business has been done since the holidays in the face of an effort
cord with the advance in the Hame made to put up prices more in ao-markets. Stocks in the interior ere short and the probabilities are that a much larger trading would have been done if it were not for the reports of disturbance in the southern' provinces. Local spinners are reported to be holding ample stocks and in consequence prices sre expected to hold firm, and no great. activity is predicted for the immediate future.
Tungchow is quoted at Tis, 2 ta Tls. 24.40 and ordinary Shanghai at Tie, 22.50 to Tls. $3, an advance of about Fle, tee ieee the market Hyactive and compli-
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