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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 8323, 10 November 1887, Page 4

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Lyttelton Times Office. Wednesday Evening, CHRISTCHURCH WOOL SALES. The Mew Zealand 1 oa» and Mercantile Agency cokpant. Limited, repot t as follows:We held* or opening sale of the season at the Christchurch Wool and Grain warehouses this morning, • hen we submitted a thoroughly representative catalogue, embracing 874 bales greasy and 402 ales scoured wools; total, 776 pales, ol which 274 bales greasy found buyers at satisfactory rates. Biddings for scoured lots were exceptionally alack, and wa had to paai in the whole of the line* offered. For greasy wools competition was animated up to a level of prices, milking a a/cHna on the openiuff rates of last season of Id to Isa on merinos, and id on cross-breds The priops secured ■were:—Merino, Bd to 7d; qnartar-bied,6J'lltorid; half bred, 6*d to 84d; er .su-bred. 6Jd to BW. Bix bales of half and three-quarter-bred, branded J, from ihe Baoeoour«e Hill district, made the sail*, factory price of 84d, and the crossed T’u clip, of 55 bales was withdrawn at 9d. Appended are detailed particulars of the sales -ffeoteu:— jl I-...., merino. 4 bale at 6d. BET, half-bred, 1 at7i i. iyebolr, half-bred, 1 at7|d, J over L, half-bred, lat 6Jd. '-n', half-bred. 1 at 744- AT, c-DBs-bred ewes 3at 7d- J over O, cross-bred, 3at 7d. JTconj ined half-bred, 3at 7fd; do quarterbred. lat «fd. Tllo -n join-d, merino. lat Bid; do half-bred. Ba‘ 74d. «*F, conjoined, half-bred *at 7d, PB, half-bred. 4a* 7H- Va coni -wed, fleece, lat did; 1 alf-bred, 3at ?id P/a. halt-bred, 2at 7d. SW over Z, half-bred, 5 at 7*4; hrif-hred pieces, 1 at 511. UU, fleece, lat 6|d; half-bred, lo at 7*o. B over J, half-bred. 6at7J J. ÜB, half-bred, part cross-bred, 11 at 7fd. 80, halt-bred wethers. 24 at 74d. r l wo T’s crossed, locks, I at Bd. BY, halfbred, 6at 7|d. tB, half-bred ewes. S at7d; half-bred wethers, 4at 74 Got in two triangles, half-bred, 16 at 71d; flue half-bred. 17 at 7d; cross-bred, 4at 7d, bellies, Bat 6Jd; looks and pieces, 2»t3|d, WB. holf-br- d hoggets, 3at 6*d. W over B. ha.f-bred hoggets, 6at 811; cross-bred owes, lat Bid. AM conioi’ ed, half-bred, 3at 7d; quarter-bred. lat Tld. DIC, quarter-bred 3at 7Jd ; half-bred, 2 at 7d over A. half-bred, 8 at 7|d; looks and pieces. 1 at SJd. JH conjoined, quarter-bred, 8 It 7*l: pieces, 1 at 4[<L TW. half-br d 4 at fid- o»er W, half-bred, 3 at -Id. B. half bred, 6 at 8d ; - cross-bred. 3 at 71d; Leioestar, 1 at 7d; merino, 1 at Bid. I PI. halfbred 19. cross-bred 9-28 at B*4; pieces, Bat tld ; GW # half-bred 10 cross-bred 2—12 at 7d; pieces, I at 41 d. GP "enjoined, merino lat 6 |d. JBcm. joined, half-bre i, 2 at 744. GB half-bred, 2 at 744; pieces. 4 at 4id, J.. half-bred 6. three-quarter-bred 2-8 at bid; croes-bred hogeets, X at 6M ; pieces Xat 4d. AN. cross-bred hoggets, 3at Sid; l.t pieces, 1 at 4id. O. merino, 1 at 644; half-bred, 1 at 714. JR, Leicester 6. cros -bred hoggets 3- 9 at 744.