THE SOUNDS AT A WOOL SALE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 708, 6 January 1910, Page 8

THE SOUNDS AT A WOOL SALE.

:!■■•:■>■.: V ■.. :&/ jpeN'Hctuee. ■; In, a pen picture of the - Sydney wool sale, RandplEh Bedford, in the "Bulletin," says V ,- ■'■ ;, All men raved ■without ceasing; raved in. a mixture of dog-barks, hysterics, and the discharge of .artillery, with' fierce, bids of. "twelvepenco,"; liko revolver ishots, and, pompoms' of "three farthings." There were Frenchmen, vrhite-clothed and alert; frenchmen, with weak ■, .wliiskers like untovseaweedj' who'-made; their bids •with'the bark of fox terriers; Frenchmen rtith : wire beards who yapped like collies ;' large • Germans who bayed like' mastiffs;' Belgians- with the hoarse roar of Newfoundlands.'. Tho Japanese buy' the lowest grade of wool -for which: there is not fierce 'competition, , 'but mostly they sit,there saying nothing, whilo .Britain, , France,' Germany/arid fight and ravo; : for the-finest:fleeces.,.Then out of. that tremendous pandemonium. : comes' 'a battle .■-..0f alerijiess—a; •: tonrnament, : of quick .vate—among'men who can become Hysterical foria ■ha'penny. . . '. ; '.. TheJauctioneer/ , calm to all.; appearance,' but probably secretly bustling the' buyers,'opens-his mouth to say "41" or some- such innocent statement of fact, and immediately Hell breaks' loose:— : "Tenpence." , :v ;i -..-,- '. ,; ".'■"'-■:•. .:■ "Halef-halef!" -y/i'-v' . ■<•■>;- "Y-tre-y-trel.-'iT'tre, y'tre, y'tre!" .. , ~:"Yah!":' -;:'V,' -:v ~■:..' -.■.-.- I ~ "ttven—boo !"„ -v m . , .■■ \ "Halef! Halei-rioo!" : i. *<>*; . .. >'■ / ": >:~■■"-■■ > .:■-. "Zwelf! : Zwelf!" Bobr ' r ; . • i -?'Deux!-T , tre-y'tre !"-■;■ .. ■ ' dreizehn—yah!",. ; ;'-'S6mebo'3y'_says. ,witk"..:thf)',;; s tone "of. a'. 'strohg!&ensob" lot'is 'knocked down. :.-.•;•■ ■■'-■-"■' .'; ; : -'.. ':-.'.::."'■..": .'.' ;'■-

'Mr. C; : ;J. Montbr-oPFitzherbert 'West,' has issued a challenge to- quacks who selhspecilics'for killing frait tree' pests.' HS;says:—-"I have live small apple troes, r grqiring well apart, fron all. others, arid affected' with that'. most : .troiiblesome of ■■ all :frnit: blights—"woolly : aphisi" ; '■'-. To; test , the accuracy \fii my contention that blight's!cannot be eradicated,-I"now invite, the proprietors". of "all.. these wonderful, remedies to. take their. , , cure: in :hand. -The trees .may;be;sprayed ad.lib' from now' till the end of the monthjthey must not be injured; arid if on March 1 they 'ate' found to ibe free of the" pest'l'will gladly; |iay -,the. operator, *i£s for ;, his\ trouble.. It. "is a case'.of no .-■ cur'e>no>"p'ay.? and ■ first; come first''served. .'Success'-,would be a grand advertisement for. the specific; but ,f don't , ; expect, to ,be: rushed with offers. It.-is' so"mnch'.teasier;-to'gull::.the fruit-, jgrowers^than-to-do/th : e"rick yourself." --

".-':5:.''^EW,^bW.:'SAi:ES.;::;; ,\ : [\ '" :; Settlefs'"'nea'f. : >WaiKariaoi,i and '■''-Paliau-. tanuft. -will. be ...interested" to learn that' the". Loan 'arid'";Mercantile/Agency .Com--pany will hold its opening sales of- stock' in those, two; centres on January 12 and,' Janua'ry. ? l9.; Owing: to- the 'abundanco of (■loriey-which is expected to bo available: this', season - for' exti&sipns on .... existing farms ;'or; developments.;of . new;: : : countryi': a Jpretty. brisk season in .stock sales is, 'jenerally'expected; These. s opening salesIfill;; consequently .; be ! well: : patronised: Atthe. Waikanae. sale' on' January- 12 there vdlW'some-good, stock.offered from , . sMr.■E.'XW.'iKelsop/siflock.-' ;--;;:;! { ■'-. ; :■•■'