Canton and the south generally were buyers of local yarn at the beginning of the week, and this had the effect of imparting a firm-for tendency to the mar the total of busin quarter has not bee kept the market week. Deliveries of yarn and cloth, however, still leave something to be desired.
Chinese cotton has become firrier in sympathy with yarn, but the amount of business in this staple has not been of any great volume.
Japanese mills have been large purchasers of Indian cotton at considerably cheaper rates than those obtainable for Chinese varieties.
In their weekly report on the cotton market Messrs. J. Spunt
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