WOOL, SHEEPSKINS, INDES AND TALLOW REPORT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 393, 11 May 1880, Page 2

WOOL, SHEEPSKINS, INDES AND TALLOW REPORT.

Messrs Robert Wilkins and Co.-report:—l On Thursday we held our usual weekly J sale of Sheepskins, Hides. Fat. .&c .#,238 : skins were catalogued. The attendance of buyers was good, nnd the competition'was brisk, resulting in a clearance of nil lots at, satisfactory prices. .Buteltere' crossbred. 2s 2d to 3s 3d ; do, do, large and full-' woolled, 4s Id to 4k l)d .; do, merino, 2s 3d, to 2s 9d ; country cross-bred, Is 3d, to 4s Id ; do, do, large and heavy, 4s 10(1, to ss , i)d ; do, merino. Iβ 2d to 2s Bd-; do, -do,; Urge, 3s Gd, to 4* 5d : do, pelts, 7d, to 1h : 3d ; dry and small, do, 2d to sd. Fat and Tallow. —110 packages rough fat and \ tullow were catalogued, uuil aU. sold. The \ trade was well represented and the coin-' petition was keen. Rest quality, clean and well saved, 2jd per lb ; second quality \ i'A do ; -lieated and inferior, £d and do ; tallow, in bags, 2£d do, do, 1 cask, at ■ lUnOd per lb. Wool.— We offered and. disposed of 14 packages as follows :— Ureasy wool in bag*, «t Id and 2£d per lb ; do, in bales, some odd lois, at 4|d and, 5.](1 per lb ; lambs wool, greasy in bales,! •at 9id fK'r lb; scoured wool, in bales realised llfd per lb. Hides.—Sound and ealt'id, over GO lbs weight, at 3£d per lb ; under GO lbs at 3yd per lb ; damaged over .55 lbs weight, at2£il per lb; under 55lbs, at 2d per lb. Calfskins.—Sound, at 3d per lb ; cut and damaged, at l£d par lb.