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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1414, 27 March 1905, Page 3

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> LONDON WOOL SALES/ By Telegraph—Proas Association—Copyright £i. London, Maroh 24. At the wool sales tbo total quantity catalogued during the scries WO9 165,000 buloa, and thero wore sold 63,500 bales for 1 i.home consumption, 70,000 for tho’Continv eat, and 6000 for America. Twenty thousand bales wero held over. Merinos hardened towards the close, good beipg a shade above dosing rates at January sales, and faulties fivo por cent if-' below- Medium and ’ coarso . crossbreds ip, : fully recovered the opening decline, and closed at par with January sales. Fine ’’wwero a halfpenny below. Scoured caused g?l., keen competition at full January rates. Lambs were firm at opening rates, except j- ehort faulty merinos, which deolinsd five •{. per cent. % Messrs Williams and Kettle, Ltd., report upon tho cattlo sale conjunc- 1 tion withs Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. at Kaitaratabi, on behalf of Mr Max Jack- 1 sod, Fairfield There was. only a small attendance of buyers, and the offoring'was I far ahead of the demand. They sold 18* , cows at prioos varying from £5 15s to £lO 10s. A line ofeSS-.woaner steers brought 1 £1 17h od, acd?24Slvos still on the bucket | wore dlsposßd^Sfri^j^.Sa.