AUSTRALIAN WOOLS.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 90, 9 June 1843, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN WOOLS.

On Saturday, November 26, Messrs. Southey and Son put up 1,321 bales, comprising 432 bales Australian, 363 Port Phillip, 251 Van Dieman’s Land, Cape of Good Hope, and 250 Odessa Merino. The Australian sheep's brought Is. 2d. to Is. 9-^d.; the unwashed 9|d. and the lambs’ Is. 2d. to Is. 3d. per lb.; the Port Phillip sheep’s Is. 3£d. to Is. 6d., the unwashed &jd. and the lambs’ Is. to Is. per Jb.; the Van Diemen’s.sheep’s Is. 2d. to Is. 5d., .the samples in the grease and the lambs’

Is. 2d. to Is. od. per lb.; the Cape Is. 2df. io' Is. 3|d. per lb.; and the Odessa Merino 1 to Is. 3jd. per lb. The sales went off very well.

The series was expected to continue until the middle of the following week. Messrs Marsh and Edenborough, had announced their intention of offering on Thursday, 1071 bales of Australian, South Australian, Port Phillip, Van Diemen’s Land, Cape, and East India. The buyers however, refused to purchase, unless guaranteed from* any loss arising from false package, many bales having been found to contain very inferior wool, and even dirt and stones of considerable Weight in the middle. The brokers were, anxious to do justice, but the blame of course did not lie with them, but with the Australian shippers and growers, and the importers here will have to sustain any loss arising from such shameful frauds. An adjourned meeting was held on Friday, and the buyers induced the brokers to protect them as far as possible from imposition. The following announcement was put forth by one firm : —Messrs. J. T. Simes -and Co. beg to inform the buyers of colonial wool, that in order to ascertain, as far as possible, any irregularity of package, the warehouse-keepers have been instructed to open each bale for examination by the buyers at the end opposite to that from which the sample has been drawn, and according to which the respective ..bales have been lotted and described in the catalogues.— Messrs. Lord and Hall also promised an indemnity within one month to any buyer of a fraudulent bale ; and Messrs. Southey, Marsh, and the other brokers, will accede to the desire of the buyers. The Australians are the only parties who will lose caste by the disgraceful trickery, which happily frustrates itself.— Colonial Observer .