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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 245, 15 October 1874, Page 2

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- «-... , Lowdoh Wooi. Market. Messrs Jacomb, Fon, and Co., report under d*te London, August 24 . — The third series of public sales of Colonial wool for ihe , current) tar opened on 18th insr, and will 1 probably tot till tbe 3rd of October. Th- re has been an extraordinarily large attendance of bu>ers from all quarters. Tbe Borne trade «re short of stock, snd bare shown '" gre*t spirit, taking perhaps tbe moat active . part in lbs competition hitherto; Continental * : purchases have, however, increased in pro- - portion the last night or two. There are also, apparently, some considerable orders ,p . Joe America in the market. Taking the very "A "»ery best price* of last sales as a basis (which • a it will be remembered were far above tbe average of tbe teries), we quote the average , prices so* established for most Australasian . descriptions fully equal to them, with an .advance of }d to Id here and there. Ez- '■\- ceptfooally thereto, all good scoured parcels ; ' realise an advance of fully id, as do also good coarte and half-breds, both washed and in ' the grease. Good lambs wool and all broken and pieces average Id to ljd higher. Cape and Natal scoured have ad vaccei Id to l|il per lb; fleeces about Id; grease sot showing so much advance. The -' ' effects of the recent generally good harvest ' give a firm aspect to the future of tbe market; ": the present rarge of prices is still below that of July-August, 1873.