Little if any greater activity in the piece goods market can be reported during the past week, A. few more Poplins have been! booked, Home prices for these having been reduced owing to the recent drop in cotton, Dealers have also bought one or two small lines!
other goods, principally in low quality, Velvets.
Further inquiry for Blacks [been noted, but prices generally are Fvery much out, and it is doubtful whether any actual business has 36 bean brought to book. inquired for are those for-shipm The only goods which are. being
a Joly and August, which are actually needed to replace the short stocks held in China, while there fs nothing doing in Spring cargo ree position more or less Woollens, in, which very been doing. The market is at present between seasons, and having covered their June-July. requirements dealers are more oF less [waiting developments. " Practically that. can be reported amounts few lots of overcoatings. Little business further than this can the expected for another month when there may. be bookings for the Spring trad With reference to Japanese good reported that, local factories axe now beginning to compete with Japan in Black Coatings, which is said to be having an effect [Japanese trade already.
Clearances. generally have been slower during the past week, The demand for Linens is steady.
The Yuenfong Aucti At the Yuenfong auction on Thursday the total cold amounted 118 packages. The general tone Jof the market was much the same jas for some weeks past, but there was somewhat greater activity in demand, this being principally for Whites, chiefly from the North—Tientsin and Tsingtao. Some of the River Port chops were. else higher, and the average result was an improvement of 3 mace.
Grey Shirtings attracted only small attention, there being a few orders in hand from Foochow and [Changsha for particular wei otherwise there was very doing for these goods. After! several weeks the rising price of White Lawns reacted to the extent Jof 12 mace.
As far as dyed goods are concerned there was fair activity in the inquiry for Venetians and 2 Italians, and probably. owing to the fneidence of the cold weather these were on the average higher to the Jextent of 2 mace. Velvets and [Poptins were both inclined to be here fs no sign of any definite finer ease in activity, end the projeess_ of adjusting prices to. higher levels is obviously proceeding very slowly.
In the case of Toeal_ goods Blacks }were found to be definitely stron-}ger, while Whites also fetched high-'Ter prices, 'The demand for fast'
Blues was not very strong, and values eased off a little,
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