Wool Sales.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 367, 28 January 1890, Page 3

Wool Sales.

Loxdom. January 22. At th* Antwerp wool sale* the kidding » vi flat and the attendance onlv iu<.derail*. Tue pneae realised show au all round Cal! of ten per cent, on the closing rates of the November sale*. Two thousand bale* Were offered, of which 1100 were sold. January 25. Tha Antwerp wool sale* cloeed at s'.ithtly better quotations thon I ho** obtimed at the cloee of last series. 3500 bales being told. AU the Australian wool was withdrawn from sale*. Tha i.'uatouit authorities hare abandoned lb* rnle requiring all wool bales to be marked with the name of the place and (vigin, and have reverted to the old ersteta. Stdxby. January 24. At lb* wool auction* to-dev 4400 bales were offered, of which 3900 were sold. The competition waa rigorous, and the following prices were obtained : - Inferior to good greasy, 8d to llfd; inferior to average *’ wasters," 14d to I>|d ; inferior to good scoured, 1 tfd to la 9fd. The third series of wool* male* were c. in me need at I'uoedin on Friday. Tlic a'.ieudajic# was (food and lII* competition

fairly aclire. especially for light-condi-tioned. An* half bred* and cruse brsds. which rnal.sed juice* about on a par with those ruling a fortnight ago. Merinos of e.ery description were let* forward, and price* Were Id to Id lower, several lots being passed in.