WOOL, SKINS, TALLOW, ETC.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 4, 24 January 1901, Page 13

WOOL, SKINS, TALLOW, ETC.

London, January 15. — The wool sales have opened, and there is & brisk demand. Merinos have advanced from sto 7$ per cent. London, January 16. — Messrs. Balme, Buxton, and Jaoombs'a joint catalogue comprised 7826 bales. There was a crowded attendance of buyers. A good selection of merinos was offered, for which there was strong Continental competition at from 5 to 7$ per cent. above the November rates. Crossbreds were in less demand. Fine brought from par to 5 per cent, in advance.

At the tallow pales 18.10 casks were offered and 650 sold. Mutton : Fine, 29a 3d ; medium. 275. Beef : Fine. 27s 9d ; medium, 26a 6d. London, January 17. — At the, wool sales there was spirited competition at opening rates. London, January 20. — At the rabbitskin sales 1595 bales were offered and 1419 sold. The finest were slightly dearer, but seoondary barely maintained late rates. At the wool sales prices are slightly easier. Croasbreds are firm. The amount of wool catalogued to date is 48,760 bales, of which 46,715 baleß have been sold. Christchurch, January 17. — At the third of the local series of wool sales to-day there was a large attendance both of local and foreign buyers, and a brisk sale resulted. On the whole the wool was of a much better quality than at the previous sale. Fine wools showed an advance of fully £d, but coarse and inferior sorts scarcely held their own. Colonial mills operated extensively, and outbid foreign buyers. Out of a catalogue of 12,791 bales 10,470 were sold. Extra merinos went up to 9£d for ' Culverden,' which has now topped the market for eight years in succession ; medium to good do, 7Jd to BJd , inferior, ."|d to 6d ; halfbred super, 7Jd to x\d : medium do, ?>\d to 7d ; inferior do, r>Jd to 6d ; super crossbred, 6d to 7d ; inferior to medium do, 4Jd to s£d ; long wool, 4Jd to 6 Jd ; extra good pieces and bellies, to 7|d ; medium do, 4Jd to .">id ; others, '2\i to 4d ; locks, l^d to 3d. London, January IS. — Wool is very firm, but prices are unchanged The Bradford market is quiet. Common sixties, 18 Jd ; supers, r.ijd. The Longburn clip realised 6Jd at to-day's sales.