COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1495, 25 November 1874, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

WOOL SALES

} Messrs E;'unter and Nolan held their first i wool sale of the season at noon to-day. There j was a good attendance of buyers, and all i the lots offered, about fifty in number, were sold The prices for longwool, in grease, ' were 9d, 9^d, 9gd, 10£ d, and 10£ d; ! longwool, washed, Is lfd, Is 2d, Is 2£d, Is 3d and Is 3f d. Half-bred wool, in grease, j gj^ 9.^ ]s 2£d. Meriao wool, in grease, | BJd, 9d. Locks, 6£d. The buyers were i Messrs Ireland Brothers, Gilford, Sutheri laud, Fetter, and J. Osbore and Co. Mr Alfred Buckland's second wool sale of the season commenced at two o'clock to-day, i and was proceeding when we went to press. i The bidding is being sustained with spirit, I and the following prices have ruled to the ! time our reporter jefr, :—Longwoo', in grease, j 9|d„ 101 , 10fd., and lljd. ; half-bred, B£d., 9|d., 9gd., and 10^d. ; mixed, 9d. ,

i At Messrs Cochrane and Sons mart, to- \ da>, his Excellency's yacht, the Blanche, $ vat offered for sale. Tbere was a capital S att fVlance, aud the bidding was started at 1 £l.^V by a well-known gentleman having CH inteie.^, j n the pott. By hundreds at a ™\ time. offers wen- up to £2,000. A pause lai tl c • cn td, aft r which another £100 was P»| added. \; a w<s the last bid, and after in •B'j vain fc^ to coax out some further cornbut Pet' '?,\Nlc-ioneersaidhevtas compelled rets to J" the yacht. —It is understood 1 that tt¥^\figf^dKMl£?*£o( W imAi 1 \ ft&jHMtfrnOT