THE WOOL SALES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10571, 18 January 1896, Page 4

THE WOOL SALES.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, January 17.

At the wool sales a fair selection wa3 offered. Prices were unchanged and very firm.

The Bradford sales showed a ifirmer tone, in sympathy with' the London market, bat spinners were not inclined to advance.

Wellington, January 17. To-day's wool sales we:e most successful. The number of bales put on tha market was a record number—viz., 3250. The attendance was unusually large, and bidding brisk and spirited, a large proportion of lots submitted being quitted at satisfactory prices. The competition between English aud colonial buyers for the choice lots wss very kten. The sales opened with rather a want of spirit, but as they proceeded the bidding grew more spirited, aud culminated when a fine clip of 200 bales from the Wairarapa wits so!d in lots nt B£d, 9ti, 9£d, and 10d> the latter prices being record ones for the colony for this season. The greater portion of the good wools sold at 8d to oNld, and other wool Bold in proportion, ■

Messrs Dalgety and Co. have received the following cables from their head office, dated London, ltth and 15th inst. :—" January lA.— The wool salts opened with a very poor selection and large attendance of buyers. Tha competition was very animated. Tha bulk of good merino wools are par to 5 per cent, higher than closing rates of last series, while piices for medium and inferior merino wools are fully maintained. For crossbreds prices are, if anything, tending upwards. The English, Continentsl, and American buyers are buying freely, the total number of bales available teing (including old stocks, Australasian and Cape) 207,000." "January 15.— Prices are very firm and tending upwards, particularly the better classss of wool. The American buyers are still buying freely."

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