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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8295, 25 September 1903, Page 1

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R:c:ivcd September 24, at 9-15 p.m. London, September 24. The* hardening tendency of wool i.s due lo larg-e topmakers' purelia.sei> m complete old ordeis. Crossbredn relatively are the. dearest wools, tJie. market rendering tlie position of merinos sounder. The wiles cluw) on Tuesday. Clipu : St. Clair. 9£d : Gear, 82<l.

Victorian threes. 86; Mouth Australian fln-ec'S, 87; West Australian 1 hree-halfs, 97. Coppor.—Spot., £55 12s 6d ; three muntiiis, i£s3 10s. AUSTRALIAN MARKKTS. Pi:r. Press Association. Received September 24, at 9.53 p.m. Sydney, September 24. At l.lipi Honicbtish wiles t lum-o \va,s keen competition at advanced rates. !!<■,.( u - 0 _ tilers .20a 6d to 26s 9d, good 19s; ewcx, boat 20g to 23ri. Cattle are dull and tlio rates lower. IK fit bullocks £ll to £l3 2s 6d, good £0 17k 6d ; cows £G 10s, good £7 ss. lieef, 26s 6d. Melbourne, 'September 24. Tallow* is in demand. Local eonmimption is brisk. Shippers are operating moderately. Tli.re are no sales of New Zealand for transhipment abroad. Slides— Light weightij and kips continue. Jirm at late rates. Other are unchanged.

CLHAIUXCi SALE. The Canterbury 'dinners' Co-opmtivo Association (per Mr <*. U. L\l. .loner;, auctioneer) report having conducted a sale at Blr Jer. O'Doiioghuc's farm, Manual mi, Studholme, yesterday. Hie attendance wax large, though tho number of lots offered was not numerous, and no uoubt the cattle and young horsos oiiered were tlie attraction. The sale started Willi implements and sundries, about 50 lots, which were soon disponed of, the cattle following, consisting of heifers near calving, which mado £5 ss, £5 12s 6d, £6, £6 IDs, £6 15s, £7 to £B. The horses followed and the heel; prico obtained was for a 2-year-filly by Knight of Snowdon, an outside entry oil account of ilr J. Leon, passed 111 at £7O 10n to Mr J. T.'K'lien ; 2 yearlings by same sins (for whom when .submitted IUO guinea.s was bid) made £l9 each, a mare in foal to tho same horse soiu at £52 10s. The stallions were not sold, and ihe goodwill of the (arm waG passed in at £305. ao was also the chaffcutting plant, at- £4OO. A number of outside entries of horses were sold under the hammer.