COMMERCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8701, 21 December 1899, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

LOCA T i WOOL SALES. Messrs Williams and Kettle, Ltd., report having held their first sale of wool, skins, hides, tallow, etc., yesterday afternoon. There was a large and representative attendance of outside buyers, and competition was particularly keen for every lot offering. There were only a few withdrawals, and most of the passed lots were afterwards sold at satisfactory figures. The result [cannot help being hailed with the utmost satisfaction throughout the district, and shows an increase in prices of at least lid per lb all round as compared with local values this time last year. For fleece wool, coarse cros3-bred made from 5Jd to G|d, fine cross-bred 6|d to 7d ; halfbred up to 8d ; lambs 6d to 7d. Looks from 2Jd to 3Jd ; dead 5d to 6d ; pieces and bellies 3|d to sd ; erutchings 3d to 3|d. Skins matfe up to 7£d for one choice lot of half-bred ; fine cross-bred made from 5Jd to 6J J ; coarse cross-bred, well saved, 4d to oid. Hides made for station Bayed, light, 3Jd to 3|d ; ox made up to 4Jd for heavy. Station tallow made from 15s to 16s per cwb in tins. Our total offerings consisted of 403 bales, 4 pockets, 71 bags of wool ; 2800 skins, 29 hides, and 9 packages tallow. Our next sale will be held about 2nd February, and we trust that growers will recognise the utility of the sales and the benefit accruing to them, by sending in all their produce to be competed for in the open market. This gives the brokers an opportunity of encouraging outside competition by offering attractive catalogues, and there can be no doubt that these focal sales prove of immense benefit to the district. .Messrs Willie and Mason report having held their wool sale yesterday, when the whole of their catalogue, consisting of 1!26 bales, 30 bags, 13U0 skins, atid 74 hides was disposed of under the hammer at the followiug prices :—Crossbred 6fd to 7d, rough lambs 6Jd, dead s|d, bellies and pieces 3|d to 4|d, crutchings 3d to 3|d. Skins : butchers 6d per lb and at 4s 9d each, station 5d to 6|d, hoggets (badly saved) 4|d, lamb skins (salted) Is Bd, pelts (salted) Is 3d. Hides realised very satisfactory prices to sellers. Ox (butchers) 4fd, heifer (butchers) 4Jd, ox (station, well kept) 4j|d, rough Btation hides 3£d to 3|d, calf skins (badly kept) 3jjd. Tallow : oddments 15s to 16a. Messrs Common, Shelton, and Co. report : — Our first wool sale of the season was held yesterday, when we offered about 360 bales of wool and a number of skins. Outside buyers were well represented, and competition was very brißk, prices showing a ' considerable rise on last sales. We cleared the whole of our catalogue at the following prices ; Fleece wool 6|d, pieces 4Jd to 4|d, locks 3d to 3Jd, crutehings 3&d, good skins 5Jd to s&d, medium skinß 3i_d to 4Jd, pelts 7d, station hides 3|d. Messrs Bennbtt and Shebbatt report : We held oar wool and skin sale yesterday, when we offered 26 balea of wool and 550 skins. We sold crossbred fleece at 6fd to s|d, pieces 3|d, and locks 3d. Sheepskins : '-ood well-saved butchers' 4s 6d, station from s£d to 3Jd per lb.