OPENING OF THE ANTWERP WOOL SALES.
THE CRESWICK MINING DISASTER. PROPOSAL TO ALTER DATES OF LONDON WOOL SALES NEGATIVED. A MINISTER DROPS DEAD AT THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE AT ADELAIDE. MELBOURNE. January 2G. Telegrams arc to hand announcing that the Antwerp wool sales have opened. Four thousand bales of colonial wools have been offered, but prices are weak, and there is but little animation, only good qualities selling readily. The withdrawals of Australian wooWcomprisc thirty per cent of the total. French buyers arc cautious. This day. The coroner's jury found that the Crcswick mining accident was due to an error of judgment on the part of Mr Nicholas, the mine manager, in consequence of a mistake in the survey. A rider to the verdict recommends a compulsory mode of signalling, and also that the escape drives should be provided with ladders. Private telegrams to hand state that Mr Young's proposal to alter the dates of the London wool sales have been negatived.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3602, 27 January 1883, Page 3
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161OPENING OF THE ANTWERP WOOL SALES. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3602, 27 January 1883, Page 3
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