SALE OF FUR GOODS.

Evening Star, Issue 12163, 6 April 1904, Page 4

SALE OF FUR GOODS.

Owing to wholesale shooting and trapping for years past in Australia—our chief .source of supply in the fur goods trade—the market is continually bare of prime genuine rugs and other articles of a similar kind, and 1t is only once in a blue moon that a g»od shipment finds its way to this colony. On that account the consignment now received by Messrs Alex. Harris and Co. tor auction to-morrow is being closely inspected, and as the inspection evidently gives saushicrion the chances are that there will be brisk competition at the sale. The colie ition comprises- about thirty large travelling rugs. In one of these we counted seventy ail-back pieces of opossum sldn. Besides, ihere are all kinds of pretty hearthrugs and mats in sable _ and brown opossum, Awadian fox, American squirrel, English fox, French marmot, etc., and in addition a choice assortment of ladies’ goods in seal and other skins. The auctioneers guarantee the skins mothproof, and we can avouch that they are clean and free from smell, the get-up of the goods being worthy of. their intrinsic value.