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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 665, 28 November 1882, Page 2

Messrs R. Wilkin arid Co. report :—We held on Thursday, in our New Zealand wool stores, our weekly sale of sheepskins. There was a fair attendance of buyers. Aβ the competition was somewhat depressed the sale was dull; 2295 nkina were catalogued. Butchers' crossbred, largo, 5s 7(3, 6s sd, 6s lOd ; do do, second quality, 3s 9d, 4s Bd, 5d 7d ; do merino, ss, 5s 7d, 6s 3d : lambskins, largo Is 7d to 2s ; do, second quality, Is to Is 7d ; pelts, green, 3d, 9d, Is Id each ; pelts, limed, 5a per dozen; country crossbred, lai'ge, 5s 10d, 6s sd, 7s ; do do, medium, 2s, 3s Id, 4s, ss, 5s 10d ; do do, small, Is 3d to 2s ; do merino, large, 4s lid, 5s sd, 6s; dodo, medium, 2a, 2s 10.1, 3s lid, 4<s lid : do do, small, Is. lsGd, 24. Fat and Tallow—The trade was well ri'prosunted, and there was good competition ; 111 packages were catalogued, and all sold at prices a shade in advance of last week's rates. Fat— Best qualify, clean and well saved, to 2jd per lb ; second quality, to 2jd per lb. Tallow, insmill lofs, at 16) per cwt, and to 2|d per lb. Hides, sound, dry salted, 4d per lb ; wet stlted, 3;} 1 lb ; greon, Shd per lb ; 2£d per lb. Calfskins, sound, 4d per lb ; cut and damaged, 2d per lb. Wool—Wo bog to remind our clients that the fiiMt mila of the season will be held on Tuesdny tvixt, 28th instant,