Dunedin Wool Sales.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 83, 11 January 1896, Page 2

Dunedin Wool Sales.

" .-■ - ~^A-—."-:jA-xjm Messrs Donaxd Reid & Co. report on the above as follows ;— • . - .Tbi The second sale of the season's, series, was v"C held at the Choral Hallj Moray Place, Dun- 7 "', edin.on Thursdoy, the 9th January, when .ii some 0982 bales-: were catalogued by-'ithe' '--■ - various selling brokers'. There was aKveryt v i : large attendance 6£ wool growers and farmers 7'YY present, and an exceedingly, satisfactory .77: representation of-buyers :' English, colonial, -"ty. and lopal wool buyers and -Manufacturers ;Y- --, beine* fully represented. - There was fair coini ■':*■'& petition throughout the sales; and for choice Y : "Y lots of all description? there -was some-very' Y--animated. biddiogYprices for best samples;' ' 77 being slightly in excess of thosa paid at the - :fAf, first sale. For medium, halfbred, and merino,'iS?wools prices wore much the same ; while fmA&A'A second-class and inferior, stained, ahd dingy -' :Y,colored jwoo's of all sorts, the market was 7*7-35 decidedly- weaker. Some of the wool offered' -Y-tf? by iis, being-offi iurnip-febyioggets, was earthy -O'A and rather heavy in grease, and there!p)***rYv? made low' prices. Ligh't-conditioheiivwools Ayfv made fair values.. Qur catalogue comprised'"' j& 1712 bales, of which 1518 were sold at auction, . -fi-W aud 194 bales were passed, bidding not reaah-.VisSi ing valuations or owners' reserves,, Oiir tibxt'-SS^ be held.on Friday, theSlst Janaary.YMl loon- . . - " •-■■•y'&ssi The following were .the. prices ruling for;';^^ the various., classes: —.Greasy halfbred :YS*fi Superior, BJd.to 9d ,- ,good,\7id to' 7|d ; '£ri medium, 61d to ,6fd ; inferior., fifd t0. 61.;^ Greasy crossbr,ed: Superior, Sid to 9S»; vWil good. 7_d to Bid ; medium, 6_d' to 7£i ; infer-?* A& iPI} 0 «l. Creisy merino- Superior,**® 6|d to 7|d ; good. 6,1 to 6id-; medium, sd . tof^S 5Jd ; inferior, 4£d.to sd. * Greasy pieces and MAM bellies ,- Superior; 6i > to 7ja ; -good, 6M-to3fs sfd ; medium, -lfd. to 5d •* inferior; SU to --# <|§d. Greasy lock* i Superior, ;.ld to «di V'« good, 3£d to <td ; medium, 2|d tb 341 ; inferV X* ior, lid to 2_d. VV v ;-a yvi ' ■ :-■-:'.■ ■ - ;-'--'. "v.-sy