THE WOOL SALES.
LONDON, September 13. The list for the September and October sales closed -with 226,000 bales available. The arrivals from New Zealand by the •Aotea and Helois were the last in time for * the sales. ANTWERP, September 14. 'At the wool sales bidding was animated. Merinos and crossbred wools, /which predominated, were calmer. One thousand one hundred and forty-seven bales Were sold out of 2259 offered at a rise of
ten centimes on the" !April rates. Good merinos and crossbred are unchanged. September 17. The wool sales closed firm, with an increased demand for. crossbreds. Out of 4477 bales Australian wool offered 2702 bales were sold, at an advance on the prices obtained at the last London sales. Messrs Dalgety and Co. (Limited) received a cablegram yesterday from their head office, London, that at the Antwerp wool sales prices of merino wool, compared with tho April sales, were from 5 per cent, to 10 per cent higher, while crossbred wool remained unaltered.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 15
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164THE WOOL SALES. Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 15
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