WOOL STILL ADVANCING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10284, 14 January 1922, Page 3

WOOL STILL ADVANCING.

LONDON, January 10. At the wool sales 12,764 bales were catalogued, of which 37-2 B.were New Zealand. • It was an excellent selection, of. all sorts. There, was a crowded attendance and excited bidding. The English were the chief operators, .though France and Germany took a fair quantity. Evident-. ly the market is in the midst of a covering movement, forcing prices.to a level that many consider unduly high in view of the state of the woollen industry. Best merinos were 15 per cent, above the December closing rates, avenge sorts. 10 per cent., crossbreds and slipes were practically unchanged. ADVANCES AT NAPIER. NAPIER, January 11. The second wool sale of the season was held to-day. Bidding from a large bench of buyers representative of all sections of the trade was brisk throughout and 90 per cent, of the catalogue of 20,000 bales was,; sold under'the hammer. Prices generallv showed an improvement/ There was an advance of ''.'d on coarse, Id on medium, and lAd on super Romney.

I ball Clubs. Mr Goring, who has 1 coached both the Greendale hockey I and football teams and has been capI tain of the- football team for the past I two seasons, was presented with a i dress|ng - case, and regret was exI(pressed that he was.leaving the disI'trjct.s i The death is announced in Timaru, I at (he age of 85, of Miss Mary Forbes j who fwas for many years head, raisI tressj in Timaru Main School. , ■.'■The' late I'MiSs Forbes was a very able ,' teacher, and her death will cause a . pang:; of regret to many- who were i privileged to be taught by her. I The death is announced at" Sydney 'of Mr Frank Gwynne Tudor, the ■ Labour leader. Mr Tudor's .death ■ evoked general expressions' of regret. . Ho wili -be-given- a State funeral. The Home correspondent of the Press writcs:-M3ince his arrival in ' England, the Right Rev. H. W. Cleary, D.D. (Auckland) has been in the hands.of eminent medical and surgical consultants." After a series . of deliberations extending over some weeks, it has been decided that an operation would be attended by too grave a risk. The alternative; is to be a:course of treatment in a private hospital, with the promise of a complete cure. This is likely to occupy some considerable time, and during his sojourn there the Bishop will receive instructions regarding the care of his health for the future. He is quile cheerful, and is anticipating a subsequent visit to relatives in the South of Ireland, which should exfend until after Easter. A trip to the Continent for the still more distant future is in the programme. Father Bradley, the Bishop's secretary, has. gone to Ireland.

I The death is announced in Sydney {of Stanley William {"Shorty) Rowe, 1 who way one of the last five men to j leave Gallipoli at the evacuation in ' December, 1915.