WOOL.
London, July 2. — At the tallow auction sales 1725 casks wcie offered and 730 sold. Fine mutton, 38s ; the rest are unchanged. The tallow stock is 18,4."53 casks, imports casks, deliveries, 3041 casks. London, July 4. — Dradford wool is strong- ; common sixties, 22$ d supers 234 d.
Messrs. Stronach Bros and Morris report as follows : — We held our usual fortnightly hide sale at our stores, Crawfond street, on Friday, 4th inst., when there was the usual attendance of buyers present. We are pleased to state that the market quite recovered the drop experienced a fortnight ago, and, in fact, went a shade better. We were fortunate in topping the market for the day's sale for both ox and cow hides, one lot of tho former being sold to Messrs. Remshardt and Co. at 6d per Ib, and one of the latter to Mr. S. L. Brookes at 5d per Ib. Both these lots were sold on account of Mr. G. Ralston, of Allanton, whose consignments always meet with spirited bidding. In addition to tho above we obtained the following very satisfactory prices : Ox hides — 1 at sfd per Ib, 2 at sld, 1 at sfd, 1 at
sfd, 2 at 5Jd, 4 at 5d ; cow hides— lat 4fd, 2 at 4*. 6 at 4fd, 1 at *ta, 16 at 4id. Our catalogue comprised 145 hides and calfskins, end actual prices obtained were as follows :— Prime ox hides, 5d to s#d per Ib ; extra stout do, sld to 6d • good do, 4*d to 4*d ; light and inferior do, 3d to 4id ; prime cow hides, 4id to 5d ; good do, 3sd to 4d ; light and inferior do, 2sd to 3id ; calfskins, Is 2d to 3s 2d each.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 28, 10 July 1902, Page 13
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286WOOL. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 28, 10 July 1902, Page 13
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