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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9160, 31 May 1901, Page 3

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4 Eleotrio Telegraph— Copyright— United Press Association. LONDON, May 30. The arrivals to date for the next series of London colonial wool sales are 361,000 bales, of which 79,000 have been for- ; warded direct io the manufacturers, leaving 229,000, including tbe quantity held: over from -tart sales, available for the ensuing sales. WELLINGTON, this day. . Mr Cameron, Inspector of New Zealand produce at Home, writing to the Agricultural Department on April 26, says that the prices then ruling indicated that the future of the New ZealaceTkemp market for some months is likely to be good, and prices will be wellxmaintained. At the time of writing, it was anticipated that values for cocksfoot seed would improve, but a good deal .wouia^depend on " the reports of the harvest m America. Prices for New Zealand cocksfoot seed were likely to advance if the American • crop was disappointing. The periodical sale of wool, skins, etc., at Gisborne was held to-day m the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's office. . There were present: Messrs Murgatroyd, Warnock, and Donald, and the local buyers Messrs Smith aad EUery. Messrs Wyllie and Mason's was the first catalogue submitted, and the firm quitted their entries .at the following prices: Fleece wool, locks ls 2d, bags of fleece 3d ; sheepskins up to 2s 3d per lb, one . line of bullock skins ls 7d, lamb skins Is 4d, station hld&i 3_d, butchers' hides 3 4-3 d; tallow in^ casks 18s 6d, m tins 16s per cwtJ (