TIMARU WOOL SALES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13613, 23 December 1909, Page 8

TIMARU WOOL SALES.

(press association telegram.) -Hi TIMARU, December 22, *I 1 The second wool sale of the .season - I at Timaru yesterday was a very satis- -* 1 factory one. The attendance was very S". 1 large, bidding, especially from the Cbn-"* : j I tinental section, was very animated. .3 1 and nearly every lot was cleared under*— 1 tho hammer. Very little of tho w001.;'4 1 appeared to be suitable for American.""*':? I orders, so that there was practically no*L~" «f | United States competition. Bradford*? f | were steady. Buyers for low and me-d"'-! f dium crossbreds and the New Zealand y| | woollen mills formed a strong factor-:- I in the competition for good to superior ■, 3 1 halfbreds. The most excited | tion came from the French buyers, of. 1 whom a good number were present*-.'-! and all of them appeared to have goba. \ orders for good to super pieces. Tbe.[;_]. | condition of tho wool was neavier than' \. ] at the opening sale in November,' and '->*» ; I taking this into consideration, prioeav".; j were quite as good as those obtained Ly| 1 at the opening sale. The catalogue J T-j j comprised just on 14,000 bake, the _*j j sale lasting from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. The -" :% range of prices was: —Super halfbred, _ S j 13d to 14Jd; halfbred, lftd to lSjd; .;*! medium and inferior, lOd to lid; miner •' J - crossbred, lid to 12.d; crossbred. .Jd ■ j to 10fd; medium and inferior, Sd to -~m \ 9d; super merino, 10$ dto lljd; mo- "»f j rino, 9d to IOd; super '-| bred, Hid to 13d ; good thrpe-gnarter- .| bred, lOd to lid; medium aad inferior, Ji 8d to 9d; firat pieces, 7d to IQJd; second. pieces,y 6d. to 7sd; locks and *_j. stained pieces, 4d to 5Jd; 5d to 6Jd. *• ,§£. Pyne and Co. report the sale on'ic.!*" I count of the Execntive of the' late 8.-||*' IM. Morten, of -the Vernon Block, Mfcf^ Pleasant Estate, containing 600 j fine grazing land to Mr George son, whose many friends will he,-J_»cfJ||f to welcome back to Canterbury again, *$£||