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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 525, 23 September 1902, Page 2

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WOOL SALES

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright London, Sept. 21. At the wool sales crossbreds sold ex* coedingly well. Merinos are firtu, with a hardening tendency. The quantity catalogued to dato is 47,377 hales, and there have boon sold 3o,!ol bales. The Takapnu elip averaged lijd. Lor hides there is a moderate demand. Priecs are unchanged. Leather is firm at lli. Basils aro steady. First New Zealand 14d. Meat : Medium Canterbury 13,",d, Dutodin 3 11-16,1 ; New Zealand beef, ISO to 2201b5, fair average quality, ox fores -lit ox hinds 4J, wethers unchanged. Silver is at Is 11 lil 16d. ■Wellington, last night.

Tho Agent- General cables under dato London, 20th inst. Mutton market quiet. Average price to-day : Canterbury mutton iiijd, Dunedin, Southland, and Wellington Meat Export Company oRd, other North Island mutton iitd. Lamb market weak. Tho averago prieo to day of New Zealand lamb, Canterbury brand, is 4id. The averago pi ice to-day of New Zealand lamb, other than Canterbury, is There is a better demand for beef. Now Zoaland hinds 4}d, fores -Id. Tho butter market is rising. Danish is at 116 s. Tito cheese market is firm. The price of cheese to-day is 49s per cwt. The hoiup market is stoadv- Tho prieo of hemp, good fair Wellington grade, on spot to-day is jCoB ; October to December shipments £3l 10s. Tho cocksfoot seed market is firm. New Zealand 171 b standard is at 535. There are signs of improvement in tho cocksfoot seed market. Wool is brisk of salo.”

Messrs Dalgety have received the following cabled advieo from their Loudott hottso “ Leather in general higher by a >d ; heavy New Zealand basils higher bv ij j to Id.’ For other descriptions prices unchanged. Best quality butter higher by 2d to -id; iulerior quality, prices fully maintained, hut wo cannot quoto a riso.”