WOOL AND SKIN" SALES.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 119, 15 November 1902, Page 4

WOOL AND SKIN" SALES.

Messrs. Murray, Roberts and Co. report on yesterday's wool and sfcan sales as follows: — We offered 3200 sheepskins. Wool is being kept back for the iirst wool sale of tho season, (o be held on the 27th inst. Prices for inferior skins showed a falling off in price to the evtent of a. farthing per lb, while good skins sold, much about late rates, with an occksiooial weakness. Prices were — Merinos and balf-breds, 4|d to s£d per lb ; crossbreds, :fino to superfine, ~4d to 4|d per lb; croasbreds, coarse to medium, 3id to 4-^d per- lb ; inferior and damaged, 2d to 3id par lb ; hoggets and dead, 2£d to 3id per ll>. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report: — We offered a catalogue of about 1500 skins. Prices wero rather easier than at last sale. We quote— Half-bred and merino, 5d to s|d; fine crossbred, 4-id to 4-^d ; good crossbred, 33d to 4-id ; medium crossbred, 3d to 3id; doad skins, 2j,d to 3d; lambs, 2£d to 3d per lb. Messrs. Levin and Co., Ltd., report: — We offered 1800 skins and son»3 oddments of wool. Buyers were not quite so keen, no doubt waiting to see how the firat wool sale of the season "opens at Christchurch next week. Wo quoto as follows : — Wool : Medium crossbred fleece^ 3j>d to 4-d per lb ; pieces and bollies, 3^d to 2%& ; locks, i& to l^d. Slans: H&,lf-bred and merinos, 4|d to 5Jd per liw; full-wool crossbred, 32d to 4|d ; dead t&ins, 2id to 3id ; pelts, 3d to Is. PKODUCE MARKET. Messrs. Laery and Ccj. (Limited), Jer-vois-quay, report the fallowing wholesale selling jprices on the "W-ellington produce markot : — Flour, £12 per ton; pollard, £7 5s per ton ; bran., £7 per Ion ; oatmeal, £15; wheat (fowls), 4s per bushel; broken, 3s 9d per bushel; oalsheaf fhaff, £6 per ton; straw chaff, £3 10s; hay, £4- 10s to £5 per ton : horse bea ps, 4-s 3d per bushel ; feed oats, 3s to 3s i>d ; Tartarian seed, 3s 4d ; dun oats, 3s 2d ; black oats, 3s 3d ; discoloured oats 2s 10s; barley, 3s 6d per bushel ; maize, 4s 8d per bushel ; Dcrwents, £5 10s ; onions, American £12 per ton, Viotoria-o. £10 ; cheese s|d per lb ; butter, 8d to 9d per lb; factory bacon, 9d ; hams, • lOd ; rolls, 9d per lb ; fowls, 4s to 4s 6d per pair ; ducks, 5s to. 5s 6d per pair; geese, 5s 6d per pair ; turkeys, hens, 7s to &s ; gobbjers, 9s to 11s per pair; fresh eggs, lO^cl per dozen; cauliflowers, 7s to 12s per sack ; cabbage, 3s to 5s per sack ; apples, dessert, 8s to 17s per 401b case ; cooking, 7s to 11s ; red carrots, £4 ; swodes, £3 per ton ; par&uips, 12s to 14s per sack. Mutton birds, 4^d ; rhubarb, 4s to 5s per doz. MAT I. EOTICEfc. Subject to necessary ultoraiiions mails will close ul the Chief Post Office as under :— SvruiuMY, 15th November. For Southern Offices of New Zealand, per Tarawera, 7.45 pm For Nelson and Elmslie's Bay, per Eotoiti, 7.45 pm B'or JJlenlioini, per Pania, 7.45 pm Monrav, 17th November. For New Ph mouth and Auckland, per Manawatu tniin. 6.30 am For Motneka, per Mauaroa, 2.20 pm For Weslporfc und Groymoutli, per Coriima, 2.20 pm lor ifnikoura and Cheviot, per Waknfcn, 3.20 pm For Napier, Gisbome, and Auckland, per Moura, 3.20 put For SouMiern Offices of New Zealand.- also Piiyscgur Point-, Crbmarfcy, and To Onoroa (to conneot with. luveicaigill at Bluff), per ltotomaliaiiu, G pm T<rnsi>Ar, lsyi Novenibar. For New Plymouth and Auckland, also Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, per Munawntu train, 6.30 nm For Pietoii, Bluuhciui, and NcUou, per Haupiri, 11.50 am Kor Southern Ollicex ot New '/I'uliiml. nlso Australian States, per Warrimoo, 3,20 pm (transliipb to ilociuki at Dunedin) • Kor Koitlhcin Olliueb ol New Zealand, per Tnrawo'B, 4.20 pm Wi;i)ni:si>at, 19lh November. For Piotou, Blsnbeiiu, Nehon, Weitport» Greymoutli, and llokitikn, per ATaponrika, 11.50 aiii Aloney orders for United Stales, Canada, United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via San Fraucisco, •! pm Parcel mail for United States, 5 pm Registered correspondence for despatch, by San Francisco mail, 5 pm For Southern Offices of New Zealand, per liotomahana, C pm TuiMtsiuY, 20tb November. For Samoa, Sandwich XsiaiuU, Japan, Ameiica, West-Indies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Ruropo, via Sau Frauuisco (duo in lioudou 20th December), per IXnnawatu train, 6.30 am For New, Plymouth aud Auckland, per Jtftinawatu train, C.30 am S. J. .TAGO, Chief Postmaster. TELEGRAPH MAIL NOTICES. Mails for .Australia, Tasmania, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, aud Straits Settlements, nlso South Africa, Continent of Europe nnd United Kingdom, close at Auckland at 4,30 niu on-Monday, 17th iustflat.