WOOL SALES.
CHIMSTCHURCH. this day
The third wool, sale of the series took place to-day, when there was a good attendance of Home. Continental and foreign buyers. 'The catalogues comprised'.l2.soo bales, and the condition of the wool was much the same as at the two previous sales, a considerable proportion being earthy and dingy. Competition was fairly good. Superfine half-bred and Merino showed tin advance of a farthing as compared with the previous sale, while, good cross-bred-and medium wool held their own, but coarse, coated descriptions were a farthing and a halfpenny lower.
WANCIANUI, this day
The New Zealand Loan and -Mercantile Company have received a cablegram, from their London office advising that the Mercantile brand butter shipped by the Gothic sold at the high average of 110/G per cwt.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 296, 15 December 1898, Page 5
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