AUCKLAND WOOL SALES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11790, 13 January 1904, Page 9

AUCKLAND WOOL SALES.

(FR£33 ASSOCIATiOM TKUQIUiI.) AUCKLAND, January 12. The second wool i«le of tlw? «i>aeon was \w)d to-day. The total number of bales catalogued" v.un 3447, but this would doubtless have beou cousid-eraWy augmented but for tl» bad state of the roads in tlw outlying districts. Th«re is a cciuiidcnible shortage of sheep in X«*w Zealand us compared vrilh last year. This was brouybt about priiicipally owing to the litiivy t-xpertation to Australia twt>!ve months ;>so, «ud n good dval of wool ha» Iven sold privttt*ly Miie*> la*t wool side. This all helps to* reduce the catalogue. Tlk» guiility «f the lots geuewtfy w(t» bolo«- tik> average o.s comparvd with last nik». Valium hay« ineiewwd by jd to This applioH to medium :uid coarse crot»)-bi-ciis principally, and to all other gnuk>» of mool, with the exception of fin« gradte, wliioh remain unaUi>r«<d. In fact fine wools, in sympathy with the southern market*, are slightly* taaier. It .was generally expteted thnt thtre would lie an all-round drop, owing to the threatened war between Russia and Japan, but local buyers evidently saw no cause for alarm. Following are principal, prices realised: —• Fino crossbred. 7d to'Bjd; medium crossbivd. to 7|d; coarse crossbred, s|d to 6|d; Shropshire, 6d to 8d; pieces?, 3jd t.> 4|d; btillks. 3d to 4d: locks. 2d to 23d. The sales throughout were brisk, and pric-ee to the close were Trell maintained.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, hnve received the following cable message from their London office, under date January 11th: —"The new arrivals for the first series of wool sales have amounted ti 190,000 bales, of which 58,000 bales have been forwarded direct to manufacturers) at Home and abroad, leaving, 5000 bales carried forward from last series, 137,000 bales available for sale."