WOOL SALES.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 28, 21 January 1875, Page 4

WOOL SALES.

Meß i rs 1 *j rI *n t . Stephenson & Co. held their second public Bale last week, at which there was * very full attendance of buyers and o. hers interested They catalogued IUOO bales of greasv and washed wool, and every lot was competed for with treat small line of a few bales passed in, they so d at v°rv satisfactory prices every lot cataloged. The demand for merino and halt-bred woo s, H-ht in grease, suitable for the Ameriean market continmm grood, and any surh lot* cominp forward will meet with ready Bale at. full rates. \Va<hedlware also in good demand, and command from Is 6d to Is 10d per lb, accordinsr to quality. Inferior and heavy wools are saleable atfulf values, but not be*™ suitable for the American marker, are nor so rageriv competed tor, Maclean Bros. heM- a second Se of the season on the Bth inst.. when .hey submitted a catalogue of 200 bales. There wa« YKvood attendance of buyers and for. certain cips^red competition was spirited. On the whole, however the demand was scarcely so active as at their opening sale. Several large clips were withdrawn pending receipt of instr .ctions. and for others' Krowfirs' limits were not obtainable. The Srion rea ised ranered for jfreaßy fle-ce from lOd to I3?d and for washed from Is 6d to In 9d per lb Their sales privately and at auction comprise 6«5 ,bales V^i Dpi »«-«»«*nir'forthe New^ Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenc t Company, held his second sale on the I3th iyt with vcry.satiHfactory re«X . The attendance of American and local buyers was goorl and the. .competition spirited- throii«hout while prices obtained will compare favora^v w th those of the previous sale. He sold private)? and at auction 2000 bales of wool. P«va«ay, ana