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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 250, 21 October 1874, Page 2

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a-ssfi-.S HOPS. : ~\ESbj XSkbp^ladan of^.^be 3fd.inaUnt.repott^-' B^pa^are firm; ,We quote for good t£be«s.Kients. 1873' a la "d to Id lOd. Fifty picEeJA'Srere placed yesterday at these figures,. , A parcel pf inferior sold st Is 3d. Y^rtfakrare'Wt.fd'bemet with; lid to Is 2d might be got;- Tasmanian ere in good demand,' lB74*«Bre moving st all prices from lsjM^olsTa'fbr outside to good brands; a r Hoe iof,lstt,pocket9 wag quitted op Friday st l&fc, unlrfpnoay 80 pockets were taken np oS'pjmte' tertns, | and yesterday 190 pockets 187S'i We quitted at Is 2<i to is Sd. U£ to 0 ' isSd is wanted for Shcobridge'e; 1873' a are qdne.^£B3 to Is.'— lv the same journal of tif^rah-'lnsUnt? we find the following:— •' Hoptr still meet with attention; Tasmanitrn'^ lg74Xhaye,.been quitted to a fair extent at Is*M to Is 6d. ' We are informed that lft 9.1 w^a^o^r^'WdTrefused for a shipment of B3ftt; JB73V Yesterday, however, under khe hAmrcer/atoiit Sn pockets of these bops were quirfed at Is lid.'' \hv-V; h .W O O L . aileisrsia. Goldsboroagh and Co., of Melbourne, report under date- October . 10: — Very little^ Sosineia has been transacted daridg the- peat month, only 150 bales, consisting' of"" odd lots, to close consignments, having ifeen sold. We have numerous inq^ries, the buyers here being anxious to ofMtte-00- orders received on European and American account, but cone of the new wool h«« been oflere V'nor is it probable that any will be sold until the market has been tried by pubßfc aaction. Both buyers and growers are, therefore, looking forward with consider* able interest to' the opening sales which, nowever, will not be ' held so soon as was expected,'" owing ; to the heavy rains which preifciled dnriog the; month -haring a good; deal'retarded shearing operations, and almost wholly ktopped the carriage of wool by cutting up the roads leading to the different railway termini, j A considerable quantity of the new Cephas, however,, already been receircd into store, and the weather haviDg now become fin? and settled, we may expect a more rapid andi; uoinierrnpted delivery during the rtmainder^f the season. Ourfint sale of the new clip will be held on tbe 14th instant. A large proportion of the wool to hand has been shorn in the grease and ia in excellent* order, bAigwdl growq and sound in the staple. The washed flocks also appear clean, and to hatftbetn carefully got up The Engli h newsr**iFed,by the Golconda on the. 2nt, uMobo is {(Bimportaot, tbe third series of the LondoD sai«*/ not hariag commenced wbt-a, the n»atl Jeft.-,%>t;we have, telegraphic advices . to Srd'instast that the tales ha l closed firmly and that prospects were favorable for tie next berk*, .which wejre fixed to commence pa tbe IJUJiiJuOTrember ; i rices current; nornmallyJßfiolJows':— Greasy— lnfer! oi, 6d to 8<1; crdhiaryno average, 8i to lOd ; good to "P^SOl ll^/ 1 ' ld Fieece, wftfhed— Interior, Is 2d to Is 4d; ordinary to avers gi, Sd , Ifljds good to superior, lOd to Is M. JPle^-Vifljed— Inferior, Is 2d to Is 4.1; ordiauytß'iycrage, 1b 6d to Is 7d; average to good/l^gd-^to ,1s 10d ; superior, Is lid to 2«3d- Seoufeti— Inferior, Is ld to is 3t; Offllnaty; J« !to Is 6d; middiintr togooi, Is 7d to is 9d; superior, Is lOi to 2s ld.