COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 January 1914, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON WOOL SALES. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house under elate 24th instant;— The sales closed strong. 123,000 bales of wool were sold at the wool sales, .jo, ooo of which were taken for the Continent and 5000 for America. (3000 bales were held over. As compared with last sales’ closing rates prices are higher by about 5 per cent to 7) per cent for medium greasy crossbred and line greasy crossbred, and lower by about par to 5 per cent for crossbred slipe. Newton King’s Report. At my Haymarket sale on Saturday last, pigs were penned in unusually large numbers, all pens being fill'd Large sorts were offered, and an excellent attendance of buyers met with good competition, while slips ami weanors sold on a par with previous sales. I,quote:—Slips and weaners 10s to 18s (Id, small stores £1 Is to £1 7s, medium stores £1 10s to £2 0s (id, sows £2 Is to-£3f4s, calves -Is. A large quantity of timber was. also disposed of.

Mr Newton King lias received the following advice re London wool sales: —“Sales closed firm; 7000 hales held over. Market shows no material change.”