CANTERBURY WOOL SALES.
pHY TELEGRAPH.] Christciiubch, Friday. The fourth of the present series of local wool sales was held to-day. There was ft large attendance of local and foreign buyers, and the sale was the best for many years. Better classes of merinos and finer half-brcds met with exceedingly keen competition, and the price for these advanced fully Id from the last sale, 9.1 d being reached for the Culverden clip, which has topped tho market for some years. The best crossbreds also advanced, and oven the lower classes of wools met a better sale owing no doubt to the shortage now apparent. The lotal mills bought some of the best merinos. Out of a catalogue of 6199 bales, 5587 wore sold. The offerings this season have been about 7000 bales fewer than at tin) samo (Into lnst year. Superior luoriuo 8M to Hid, medium to good (i.UI to fid, inferior Id to Oil; superior half-broil Sd to H]d, medium to good (i.UI lo 7 : fd, inferior •lid- to Oil; superior crossbred 7idtoSJ.il, medium to good li'id to 7UI, inferior 4id to O-Ul; best longwool s|d to GJd, and inforior 4d to sd, good piocos and bellies 5d to 7Jd, inferior 2)d to 4ld, locks 2d to 3}d. __
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11122, 14 January 1899, Page 3
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208CANTERBURY WOOL SALES. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11122, 14 January 1899, Page 3
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