WOOL, SHEEPSKINS, HIDES AND TALLOW REPORT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 405, 22 June 1880, Page 2

WOOL, SHEEPSKINS, HIDES AND TALLOW REPORT.

On Thursday, at our Canterbury Wool Stores, we held our usual weekly sale 'of the above. There was at the commencement of the sale a small attendance of fellmongers, prices slightly suffering in consequence, but towards the close a reaction set in, and all green skins were quitted at an advance upon last week's rates, country jjnd dry skins being slightly t/aeier. Our catalogue comprised 3513 hK eepskiris, 143 bags rough fat, 131 hides a calfskins, v few packages tallow, and seve\ ' a ' hags and bales of wool, the whole of .win, c 'h >\ vere disposed of at quotations as undct '< v ? z •' —Butchers' best cross-breds made ssi ° srf 4d, one exceptionally £ood line, of 27 . making 6s each ; second quality, 4s to 4s 11 At medium, 2s 3d to 3s 10d . Batchers' bet * -Merino, 3d to 3d lid; medium, 2s 3d to 3e Hd each; inferior, Is 3d to2s 2d Butchers'best rough fat Hiad7 2J.d40.2fd '• >cond quality, 2d to 2|d per lb.; interim '• nc*e on often Hides, 3fd per lb; dainag ** 2d Per lb Calf sfcin,Sv4M ,per lb. J- ? Ilow ' 2d to , 2 £ d per lb. .Wool,-teed pt J pieces, dd to o£d ; locks, 2d. to.3£d pc» - lb - T^ en , ac a whole, the-sale must bt' considered as highly satisfactory, to vend*. * rs -