SEPTEMBER WOOL SALES. {From the Hobart Town Courier, Jan. 16.J

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 167, 6 March 1847, Page 4

SEPTEMBER WOOL SALES. {From the Hobart Town Courier, Jan. 16. J

We are favoured with accounts of last sales of Colonial Wool, which commenced on the '9th, and concluded on the 28th September. There were 24;982 bales, of which are 1 1,476 Australian, 6,453 Port Phillip, 2,/>75 Tasmania!), 158 Suuth Australian, 59 New .Zealand, 137 Swan River. The rest Cape and East Indian, The Van Diemen's Land prices are — combing, Is. sd. to Is. 10|d. ; -clothing, Is 2.1. to is. lOd. ; ditto, scoured, superior, Is. lOd. to 2s. 9d. ! ditto, inferior, Us. sd. to Is. Bd. ; inferior, Is. 2d. to Is. 4d. ; unwashed, 6d. to lid.; lambs', good, Is. lOd. to 2s. Gd. , ditto, ordinary and fair, Is. 6d. to Is. 9d. ; skins, Is. Id. to Is. Gd. ; locks, lOd. to Is. 4d. We subjoin the remarks of Thomas Southey and Son, Brokers, Coleman-streeu — " There has been more activity in the- manufacturing districts of late than during the earlier part of "the season, and there was a desire manifested by most of the large buyers at these sales to secure their full portions at July prices. It being, however, generally considered that a slight advance was being paid, in which opinion we concur, all parties bought with caution, and tl>e wools were much divided, which gives us reason to expect firm prices at the next sales, which we conclude will take place about the middle of November. Good wools in general were in most request. The only unfavourable feature in the piospects of the woollen trade is the probability of dear provisions during the whiter. Cape wools were ia more request and sold fully at former rates. East Indian wool realized rath?r improved prices." Also, tlie observations of Messrs. Buckles & Co., dated Ist October, 1846. j " We have much pleasure in forwarding to you the accompanying price current, of our third series of wool sales of the present season, which have certainly gone off more satisfactorily than we could have anticipated but a few weeks since. As compared With the sales of July we consider that prices have ruled fully 1 d. per lh. above the highest rates then obtained, and higher by 2d. per tt>. than the average of those sales. Of the market prospectively We entertain a still more favourable opinion ; and although we shall not probably see any material improvement during the present year, unless any unforseen political event should interfere, we think that prices will certainly be higher in the spring, and that we shall have a good market throughout the ensuing season. " Our potatoe crop has again been attacked by the same fatal disease as that of last year, end even to a more serious extent, which circumstance, coupled with the fact that several cargoes of wheat have been purchased here on French account, in consequence of the harvest having comparatively failed in some districts of Prance, has had so material an effect on our corn market, that we have been this week obtaining 68s. to 725. pel quarter, and we thinkthat the maintenance of something like present prices may be relied upon, even if a further rise does not take place. " Our tallow market is firm at 38s, to 435. per cwt. hut there has been little or nothing doing of late in Australian."