SKIN SALES, &c.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8726, 23 February 1894, Page 3

SKIN SALES, &c.

MrF. C. Tabartsold 1770skine, 35 hides, 83 pkgs fat at the following prices i—-Best haltbieds, 2s to t2s 7d ; medium do, Is 3d upwards; best longwoole, 2s 4d to 2s lOd ; medium do, Is 3d upwards ; beet merinos, pelts, lOd to la 4d; famba, la 6d, la 9d, 2s, up to 2s 8d; pelts, 4d to IOd; dry crosabreds, up to 5s 3d } dry merinos, up to An 7d ; rough fat (per lb), ip, lfd, l|d, up to 2d ; hides and calfskins, without alteration. Tone of market—Active. Messks Wilson and Sons report selling a good average quantity of skins, hides and pkgs. fat at tne following prices :■ —Medium half breds, 2a to 3s; medium long wools, la 9d to 2s 6d; medium merinos, Is 6d to 2a; lambs, Iβ 9d to 23 4dj dry cro'aabreds and dry merinos, none in; rough: iut (per lb), l£d to ljdi hides and calfskins, as usual. Tone of market was quite up to some weeks past. Mb E. G. bTAVELEr (in coujwaotipa with the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealauil, Limited) sold skins, hides. and fat at the following prices:— Best crossbreds 2a 3d to 2s 7d, medium do la 3d to la lOd, best meriuoa Is 6d to Is 9d, medium do 8d to is, lauiba is 44 to 2a Bd, dry crossbreds and dry merinos up to 6a Id (equal to 4d per lb), rough fat (per lb) to l|d, tallow (none in), hides and calfikina ljd to 4d per lb., Tone of market—Very irregular. , t ./- \ 'V, :■. ■