WOOL SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 673, 25 November 1909, Page 10

WOOL SALES.

THE -LONDON OPENING-BTJSIKESS, BRISK. . (Uy■'..Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright.) .'.- V (Rcc. JTovcmbcr 24, 11 p.m.) ■■■■■"■i: . . Loniion,'ifoveinber 24. The wool sales opened witli brisk competition. Tho olfcrinj! was 6958 bales—a poor selection— and included. 1602 ,bolc3 of New Zealand wool. Thoro.was a very large attendance of buyers, and strong general copi'petition .was "maintained. Pricea of pood merino were firm and unchanged, and faultiea declined. Prices ol fino. crossbred were well maintained, being occasionally'-slightly in sellers' favour. : ■ •■ ;;-.:'.'t , . '• .'BBOKERS , •PRIViTE-..OABLEB:-.,.v-iv,^- v Tho New Zoa'.arvA Loan and Mercantile Asency Corapauj, Limited, havo ' received the following: cablegram" from their London)house, under date -November ,23-.—"London wool sales.—There, was a good .attandanco at thq..opening, of the sales to-day, comfictition by' Home,- Continental;' and American-buyers being active. '.'Vhc.'openia'z catalosues were fairly, ropresentativo/ •.'Aβ coinpared witli last, sales,' closing rates -prices aro lower ahout p'aTlo.s -per ccnti for merino,;'a'i)[l> higher-'.about> par-.'to; i' per , cent..-'tor cross-', bred." ■ ■' .-,-..;;,.».,.' .■..;',-...,-,;,.,;.. ;■. ■ Messrs. Dalcety' Janil' Comnanyi' Limited, : ,r6- v port having received 'the '.followiiiK cabh-.'mes-" sage from their■ London.'houso, ,, under dato.of November 23:—VVrool' sales".oponed. with a- : ,vcr.y large attendance of: buyers. 1 :•.- ComneUtion is animated, and a good, selection-is olTering.;; prices for merino wools iarc' ru'-'nc at. par' to-5 per ; cent, lower. : . ; Crossbred wools are unchanged, but for coarse greany erSssbred-a change, it α-sy, is in soliers , ' favour." x . '.