WOOL SALES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIX, Issue 777, 26 July 1907, Page 5

WOOL SALES.

♦ [Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.] [Press Association.] LONDON, July 23. The wool sold to Home buyers was 82,000 bales, for the Continent 15,000 bales, America 5000 bales; held over 24,000 bales, including 19,500 bales New Zealand. Compared with the May closing rates, best merinos suitable for the American trade, were fully 5 per cent, dearer. Average sorts were slightly in sellers' favor. Short and faulty, especially scoureds, a half-penny to a penny lower. Good : greasy crossbreds were firm and unchanged; shabby and faulty sorts showed a decline of 5 to 10 per cent.^ Slipes were in superabundant supply; finest and coarsest declined a halfpenny to a penny, medium one .penny. Lamb: Best merino, unchanged; 'faulty- -merino -.and New Zealand crossbreds declined a halfpenny to a penny. The average prices realised for the fleece portion of the undermentioned clips were: Ngakonui 11-Jd, Homewood lid. At the wool sales the following Avere the average prices realised for fleece portions of the clips named : Moeraki 12* d, Awhea 11-ld; W.D. lOgd. The sales closed firm at full rates..