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Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8076, 11 December 1906, Page 2

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LQNDON WOOL SALES. LGKDQV, Ddceuiber 9. The wool sale 3 have o'.csea with competition animated for all sorts, and prices firm except for medium merinos. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., h&vo received the following cableadvic 3 from their London offi:e: Wool : The market closed strong far all sorts of wool. As ejmpwed with last sales dosing rates prices are about 5 per oent. to 7i per oent. higher for scoured merino, and about 10 per cent, to 15 per cent, higher for cross-bred slipe. BUTTER AND EGG*. The Auckand Pairy Produce Committee fixed the fallowing whole-sale quotations for bu' trr and for the week endiug December 15th: Factory butter, Is per lb; farmers' butter best, 8d lb; eggs, 8d per doz n. LONDON CABLE. LONDON, December 9. North Island sheep, 4JI; River Plate, 3 11-16 d. The rairket is practically bare of lambs and no New / taland are oll'erThe hemp market is quiet at about 10s decline. The rabbit market is I! it. Hares are firmer owing to the prospect of short supplies for Christmasj Is lid is asked for new colonials. Twelve thousand quarters of Victorian January shipment of wheat sold at 29s ltd. The wool catalogued amounts to 118,000 bales; sold to Home buyer-, 50,000 bales; for the Continent, 47,000 bales; for the United States, 8000 bales ; held over, 3000 bales. As compared with opening rates, beet and faulty merinos were fairly m<intained, but m (hum sorts were slightly weaker. tirosabreds fetohed faroy prices throughout, and closed at lo to 15 per cent above September rates, Tii& tone of all markets is strong.