COMMERCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 225, 25 November 1874, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

GOLDSBBOU GH’S MONTHLY CIRCULAR.

Wool Market.

Melbourne, November 4. The first sale of the new clip of Wool was -held' at our warehouse on the 14th ult., and hrew together a larger attendance than we have witnessed on any previous occasion, th? •ale-room being crowded throughout with merchants, squatters, and others interested in our great staple. The catalogue was not a very large one, only 3,209 bales, principally greasy, having been offered, as much business is not usually transacted at the fir.-t sale. The biddings, however, were exceedingly brisk and competition was well maintained, the market closing with considerable firmness. Washed fleece realised from Is 6d to 2s 4d, and greasy fleece from 7i to 16|.1; the latter figure, we may remark, being given for a very superior, light-conditioned clip, which was purchased for the London market.

The staple, owing to the favorable weather that prevailed during most of the growing season, is of good length, even, and sound ; and it is very evident, from the care that has been observed in the skirting, and the general get ting-up of the ilrere, that the growers are fully alive to the advantages of maintaining the high character which Australian Wools have now acquired in the principal manufacturing centres of Europe and America. Auckland. Mr. Buckland reports fat. cattle in full supply. Prices 22s 61 to 30s per 1001 bs; sheep in wool, 4|d ; shorn, 3d ; lambs, 10s to 16s ; cross-bred sheep, mixed, 9s to Ils each.