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SYDNEY WOOL SALES
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SYDNEY, November 18. Under very strong competition from all sections tire market was equal to the best rates of the week, with a hardening tendency on ordinary top-making wools. ■ Comebacks _ and cross-bred scon reds also met with a strong demand. Greasy merino sold to 28d.
TALLOW MARKET. LONDON, November 17. At the tallow sales 1,853 casks were offered, and 280 were sold at about Is decline. Mutton: Fine, 43s per ewt; medium, 40s. Reef; Fine, 445; medium, 80s 6d. WHEAT MARKET. LONDON, November 17. On the wheat market freer offers induced weakness, and cargoes declined (id to 9d, and parcels 9d. PRICE OF FINE GOLD. & LONDON, November 17. Fine gold is quoted at £4 4s Hid an ounce. LONDON MARKETS. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from London, dated 17th inst.: Tallow ; 1,855 casks offered; 241 casks sold. Mutton, nominally unchanged; good mixed, Is less; low sorts, 6d less. UNITED STARR-BOWKETT SOCIETY. A meeting of members of the United Starr-Bowkett Building Society was held in Messrs J. W. Smeaton and Co.’s office last evening to dispose of £2,000. Mr F. W. Mitchell, who presided, stated that shares were coming in steadily for No. 10 group, which was already a strong group; and that a further appropriation would be arranged at an early date. A ballot was held for the 126th appropriation in No. 3 group, cluster. No. 48 being drawn, held by one shareholder; a sale for the 127t1i appropriation in No. 3 group, £SOO, at £l2 per hundred;a ballot for the 22nd appropriation in No. 8 group, cluster No. 118, held by one shareholder; a sale for the 23rd appropriation in No. 8 group, £SOO, at £36 and £33. The chairman stated that a further £2,000 would be disposed of on December 9. .
The Royal Show concluded at Auckland yesterday in fine weather. The gate takings were £303, making the total £2.441) for the three days,, Mr J. A. Johnstone (Dunedin) had the championship exhibit in Corriedale rams.
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Evening Star, Issue 19410, 19 November 1926, Page 2
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