WOOL SALES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12430, 20 February 1901, Page 6

WOOL SALES.

Iho fourth and final sale o£ the present 'Series was held in the Chamber of Commerce vosterday. There was only a., small ■ attendanco of buyers,' and very . . little spirit was shown in the salt'. The !Khw Zealand mills' hid, supplied their wants at previous sales, and only took a few small Jots that they could get cheap. Outside buyers did not operate at all freely,, and the was that out of the 4835 bales offered' 'only 'about- half changed hands at auction. A good many of the lots had been withdrawn at the previous' sales, and the quality of the wool all round was interior, the coarser sorts including several Chatham Islands clips. There was a decline of fully id per lb o.n fine wools and merinos, while other classses suffered to the extent of from Jd to £d per lb, but locks and pieces sold fairly well, local scourers bidding up for most lines of this- description. The- following tare the prices realised: Greasy merino, medium to good, 6Jd' to 7d per lb; greasy merino, inferior, aid to 6d; greasy half-bred, superior, 6Jd -to 72d; greasy half-bred, medium, ofd to 6id_; greasy halfbre'd, inferior, od to std; greasy cross-bred, superior, old to 6£d; greasy crosn-bred, medium, 4Jct to. 5Jd; greasy cross-bred, in-. ferior, 4d to 44d; greasy longwool, superior, 4|d to 5Jd; greasy longwool, inferior, 4d to 4ld; greasy pieces and bellies, good, 4-d to 5Jd; greasy pieces, inferior, fid to 3|d; greasy locks, ltd to Srlcf. The following particulars of the numbers of bales offered and sold are 'supplied by the curious salesmen:

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 19. The closing wool sale of the season was held to-day, when about 1700 bales were catalogued, and the majority were sold. The. condition -of the wool,was heavy, and the general run was not quite as bright as at the preceding sales. Prices were low, ranging 'as ■follows:—Half-bred, 4|d to, s|d; fine crossbred, 4Jd to medium cross-bred, 4d to 4|d; coarse and Lincoln, 3|d to 4Jd; inferior ■sorts, 3|d to 33d.; lambs, superior, 4Jd to did; inferior, 3id to 4d: pieces, ■ 2Jd to B|d: bellies-, 2|d to 3d. ; •

Bales ■Bales offered. sold. Pyne and Co 331 303 K.Z, • Loan,■'•'and- 'Mercantile JAgency Co., Ltd. 737 300 AT.Z. Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd. 1207 342 iFriedlaiider Bros., Ltd. 69 48 F.C. Taibart; . •; 415 336 !H. Matson- and Co. < and D. Thomas , ... , 010 614 Dalgety and Co., Ltd. 916 492 Totals . 4635 2435