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Nelson Evening Mail, 19 February 1917, Page 6

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LONDON WOOL. SALES.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, •beg to advise having feceivei the following (Cahlegram. from their London house tinder date of 14th inst :—London, wctf'sales: The wool j>ales opened yesterday. . There wag a sgood- attendance of and good compefci-tion. ,As compared: with the ; close of iast tales, good combined." Merinos are 5 per cent, higher, whilst other wools' are •unchanged'." . ..

"When a military defaulter at the {Magistrate's Court at Palmerston-North -last week .excused • himself 'by stating 'ihat.'fes ihad to take the horses he was . training .to race meetings -out of the-dis-trict, and was, consequently, a'bserit from drill, the Magistrate (Mr W. G. K. Kenrick) said it was time that -racing was ■ cut "dorvrn. This was not a time when sport should be allowed to interfere with the training <pf troops. A Napier stock dealer had a had run of luck the other day. Buying on the top of the market he purchased a line North district: Ho took his purchase to ■Hastings, 'the market price fell, and he had to idispose of 'his line at a loss of £2 a . head, an' out-of-pocket deal of £XpO.\

{Special to Ma^.) National Bank of N.55. 100 0 Bank of NvZ., 2nd, 8 17 6 IPIate, s 39 0 Investment, *b 10 9 Investment, s- 1 . 11 3 Trust;.' ; : ;;' ;: "- .'•■". 133 0 WelKng'toii Gas, 1st, ex., s ; 290 0 Wellington Gas, 2nd, b 1? 3 Wellington Gas,' 2nd, s ; 19 P South. .British Insurance 106 0 Wellington Woollen, ord., s 122 6 WWpa Coal - 18 0 teyland Ot'Brien 23 6 Goldeii-Bay Cement, s 21 6 »SL-_ '~ ' ■ ■ ■