NEW ZEALAND WOOL AT THE SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

Colonist, Volume XV, Issue 1531, 28 May 1872, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND WOOL AT THE SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

We {Otago Daily Times) aro glad to notice that New Zealand wool takes a high place in the prize list of the Intercolonial Wool Exhibition lately' held at Sydney, New South Wales. The exhibits of tho New Zealand and Australian Land Company of Dunedin, figure in the list, as follows: —

Class 237.—F0r the most valuable 12 fleeces ewe?, unsxirted. Recommended for both firs'; and second prizes, for cold water washed Leicester wool.

Class 239b.—For the most valuable 12 fleeces rams hozgetts, unskilled. Recommended for both first and second prizes, for cold water washed Leicester wool.

Class 240b —For the most valuable bale of ewes' wool. Kecommended for a prize for cold water washed Leicester.

Class 246b.—For the most valuable 12 fleeces greasy ewes. Recommended for ;i prize ; and they have taken the Champion Prize Medal for the most valuable 12 fleeces in the whole Exhibition. The wool which took this latter prize against all-comers, was from imported Lincoln sheep, cold water washed, and grown in Otago.

The whole of the exhibits forwarded by the Company have been taken notice of, and we are informed that there was no special preparation of the fleeces, which were chosen from the clip as they were shipped to London. The Judges at Sydney have appended the following note to their award in class 237 : —'■ Tlih is as good a specimen of Leicester and lustre wool as we have ever seen in the Colonies. The same remark applies to the whole of the exhibits of this brand." The reporter of the Australasian further refers to the same exhibits, as " a remarkable sample of Leicester wool, which gladdens the heart of the Bradford Judge. There appeared to be not more loss than 25 per cent, in the washing, comparing the washed and greasy parcels from the same (looks, ani in point of strength and lustre the wool was perfection." This Show was intended for merino wool, and hence the " recommendation " of fir-it and second prizes to the Company's Leicester wools.