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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1386, 22 February 1905, Page 3

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'(Per Press Association.) ' { Auckland, yesterday. The last wool./Bale of tho season wae hold to day. (JlSly S6S bales wore ontored, p lots hp.’ving boon splAprivately since |*s 'auction! Prices' showed a deoline ot on fine and 2£d oiicoarso wools. l&Tn sbowed ; a'hoavy'fall,'avor aging id VUk Lambs wool so!d ; at 6jd to od, i littlo offered, realised to Oja i \ 'j sbrod avoc’ngtd 3d to S£d, coarßO * i ' Wellington, yesterday. . I . ..'d St'dustrics and Coco'J2eroi J~,'pertrxr_o6 has reoeived too following c'Aougrnm f.oui the Agent-General, dated _ London, 18th mutton market is quiet. ' rfhe consumption is sma'l, but there iSJ> bettor tono in tho lnarkot this week, although no . . .chango in prions is reaorded. There is a better demand for. Now Zealand lo™". ■ Tho average to-day of .Jbrands other tnau . Canterbury is 6d. Tho beef markot has ■ collapsed. Supplies of American ohilled 1 beef arc large. Chilled Kiver Plate is solliog'at—hinds Sd, foros 2 5-83. The butter market is vory firm. There i 3 a good demand for choicest New Zealand, which is t‘- quoted ot 102 s per ew). Tho oheeso markot is quiet, prioes being slightly weaker, but they are likely to improve. _ -the average price of finest New Zealand issls per bwt. The hemp market is dull. 1“° price of New Zealand hemp, good, fair Wellington grade, on spot to-day per ton is .£3O 103, April to June shipments foO. There is no alteration in the, oooksfool seed markot. ' The wooi market fs vory unsettled. The market for hue crcssbreds, all grades, is steady, bat there is a farther deoline in medium and coarse crossbreds of all grades. Deliveries are now inoroasing rapidly. Current Bradford quotations foe tops are : 86's, low crossbreds, Is 2d per lb; 40's, low crossbreds,. Is 2^d; 44*3, medium crossbreds,'ls 3id ; 50’s, halfbreds, Is 6sd; 66’s, quarter-breds, Is B£d; merinos, 2s.