Calcutta, Aug. 18.
The first estimate of the acre ay of the all India cotton crop for Season 1933/1934, with combat sons:——
1981/32 1932/33 1989/34 15,926,000 13,488,000 14,031,000 Acres.
New York, Aug. 17.
The raw rubber market during the past week has been dull, follow: ing the fluctuations of wheat and Jother commodities, and has rezerally" very uninteresting, "with lack of any restriction news offsetting a bullish July consumption report.
who apparent side-tracking of the tainty restriction, iaue_ ie causing, uncer-sections, of the for Me Wason 1932/3 issued on [208% tre awaiting developments Apell 2 indicated: 22,658,000 acrer. august im the United, States 19 the, 19 oneumption of raw he frat acreage forecast is InvAZi onofelally oximated at £1,000 tone obtaining complete returns early in Reuter. the' ceaton= Reuter, fettlement as compared with thet)
Gold stocks rose $1,000,000 to Jdeferring. the manufactie of their Jautumn lines antu the situation be-
Ready' price, 84,321,000,000 though the Federal the import-duty on sliver have Hot Rumours regarding reduction of Reserve tatie receded from 684 er cent. to O61 per cent. Brokers' Yet ceased to circulate. teans increased slightly from $045,- 000,000 to $969,000,000.
Owing to a widening of the parity modities: The heaviness with London, some Tecal_ operators commodity prices is reflected by the have sold silver in London and following comparisons between ought here, with the result, that quotations on December futures at the focal quotations have reacted to the beginning and end of the period some extent, though these figures fail to reveal The offtake this week has been slightly better owing to the settle-the ow levels reached doring the ment.
The market, has shown a slightly: healthier undertone towards the lose of the week, The up-country demand has aver~ aged about 55 bars of silver a day, compared with 30. bars last week, the former figure including the settlement offtake, Silver Rubber Silk Latest 'A surplus of about 7,500 bars is now expected after the September
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