SYDNEY WOOL SALE
(Rec. 12.30 am.) SYDNEY, May 11. Good style Merino fleece and skirtings carrying light vegetable fault were .up to 2j per cent dearer at the Sydney wool sale today compared with the Newcastle sale closing rates. AB other Merino descriptions, comebacks and crossbreds showed a hardening tendency. „ . Of the 14,230 bales offered, 14,138 were sold Competition was particularly strong from Britain, the Continent and Japan. Top price for Merino fleece was 132 d for flue bales of best 64/70 s. Herses Killed to Fire.—Fire caused by an electrical short circuit raced through a newly-built stable at Beulah Park, Ohio, today suffocating or fatally burning 18 horses valued at 52,000 dollars. A stable hoy was overcome by smoke when he triedto rescue some of the terrified horses. N IXOOMbStark Csoghk-The Chinese P ipto S Na“ c a me to the help of two Chinese fishermen who caught a shark weighing 13.0001 b about 100 miles south of Shanghai. The navy towed theshark by its tail. The fin was 4|ft widerHong Kong, May 10.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27037, 12 May 1953, Page 9
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