WOOL SALES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 286, 2 December 1896, Page 5

WOOL SALES.

FIRST OF THE SEASON.

Tee first wool sales of tlie season, under the auspices of the Auckland Vvoolbrokera1 Association, wera held to-day in the Wool Excbsnge Rooms, Queen-street, commencing ab 9.30 o'clock. There was a general fall in prices of from id to ifd per lb. The total number of bales catalogued was about 4,500, a considerably larger number than •t the first aale last season. There waa a large attendaaco of buyers, iacluding Mesera Mureacroyd, Pricej Slator, SuSherlasd, Warnoek, Ireland, (Jolbeck and ethers,

Ths first lofc of wool wa* sold by Me3Br3 Hunter and Nolan, Mr J. P. Fhileon being N>B auctioneer. This Uvm oilored 1,013 °»les, of which all bub six wore sold. Bidding was brisk up to from Jd to £d par 'olesg than last year* prices. Lonjrwool ranjod from 6d to 8d ; crossbred from 6d t(>7f; merino from s|d to 6.} d ; and faulty wool from 5d co s§tJ per lb. Messrs G. W. liinsey and Sons followed on with a catalogue of about SSO bales, Mr "• B. Kingewell acting as auctioneer. The wool, as throughout the sale, was hardly in aa good condition as last Benson, being somewhat heavy owing to ito Kreaßy nature, cocaequcnb on a dry »ORSon, and it> was 'therefore waaty. Umpetition was good, but interior cross«ea» show a decline of about jd, Lincolns | di and Shropshire and half-bred £d. nces for bellies end pieces were J* in advance of last year. The tOP priesi of Messrs Bi;mey and Sons' catalogue were for the Easling brand 51 °Meß of down wool, which brought Bd, and "r the C.W. brand 6 bales of half-bred "OOl.which also realised Bd. Prices for thf> »»e were as follows ;-Lineoln, 7d to 7Jd ; natt-bred, 7Jd to 8d ; medium croisbrad, «4a to6£d ; inferior wools (all sort?), shd mo ftew Zealand Loan and Mercantile iseney (;o mt )any were the noxb to sell, naviag a catalocue of 997 bales. Mr S. C. gold on behalf of tha Company. 1 th. *&ia ?«neral faH of from kl to jd in I "'* pneos realised as compared with last ■■ :* r» ™s prices ranuine 0.3 follow : — ■ WBMbreds. 7d to 7|d ; halfbro.l, Id to 7.', d ; . r°[! a °. bd to 7ici; pioce*. 4.U1 io 5Jd ; ■ be^'.■<!«! to sid ; Lincoln., O^d to 7Ad. R nn ?, DD we "'6nt t0 P^s Messrs A. mk 1 aad Sona wero h()idinfT their »»• having a catalogue ot 1,588 bales.