INLAND TELEGRAMS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 130, 4 February 1915, Page 7

INLAND TELEGRAMS

WOOL SALES.

I 82J13K BUYING AT AUCKLAND. AN ALL-ROUND ELSE OF 2d. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. Fob.. 2. There never have been wool sales in Auckland more keenly contested than the second series of the 1914-15 season which were held to-day. Buyers numbered thirty, representatives from EugI hind, France, America and New &<:■»- hind operating. Host of the bidding came from the English buyers, bur 3t least one French representative was operating extensively. The buoyancy of the market surprised the most optimis-tic-of the farmers and brokers, the valuations of the latter being substantially exceeded all the way through. Generally speaking, prices showed a.i allround increase of about 2d per pound as compared with those which ruled at the second sale last season. The total offerings were much less than those of the corresponding sale* of last year, 5,929 bales as compared with 1.1,256 Taken as a whole, the wool was not in good condition. The following figures

give a comparison of the price"* ar tij day's sale as coin pared with the sal* in ! November last. February prices are given in. parentheses:—Fine ha'.fi.rci merino, lid to'l22d (12d to Hid): fine crossbred lOd to lid (11M to 13|d); .Shropshire and Bo'mncy, lid to 12=U1 (12d to I4d); medium crossbrods 9|d to 10J.d (lO'd to 12-]d); coarse crossbred and Lincoln 83d to 10]d (9-Jd to 13d); inferior log-stained and cot ted S.d to BJcl (9-jd to 103*1); fn-t pieces. 7Jd to 9d.(Sd to lOd); second piece* and bellies, sl<[ to Old (51 to 7d); erutchings, 7d to R}(l (7d to 84d); locks Jd to 5d (-id to (3d.)

WONDERFUL WAIHI. AUCKLAND, Feb 3. The Waihi Gold Mining Co. declared j a dividend of one shilling per share {payable en March Ist. This represents the distribution of £24,797, making the total dividends £4,70(5,183 from £lO,772,662 gold won from the mine LACK OF MEAT SHIPS. .SHORT TIME WORKED AT NCAHA TJ RANG A. Short time is being worked by the mutton butchers at the Ngahauranga

factory of the Wellington Meat Ex-' I port Company owing to the lack of j vessels to get the meat away from j the port. Instead of finishing at 5 p.m. | they now finish at 3 p.m. The beef butchers are putting- through over 100 per c-enfc_ less beasts than the usual number' killed at this period at the year for the same reason. The cold stores of the company are practically full, and in a day or two the freezingchambers will have to be used. Despite the assurance in certain quarters that sufficient vessels are available the position as far as this company is concerned! threaten to become serious. A GISBORNE SUICIDE. GISBORNE, Feb. 3. James "Muir, aged 47, employed as a carter at the Freezing Works, committed suicide this morning. His body was found hanging in a cartshed. ESTATES FOR PROBATE. WELLINGTON, Feb. f. The estates of 173 deceased persons were certified for death duty last month. The largest was that of George Hampton Rhodes, Canterbury, £157,672. The following are the principal estates in the Wellington district:

Nisbet, John 10,685 McMenamin, Grace 4,127 Douglas, John Phillip 3,808 Cullins,' Richard Reeve 3,206 Newman, Hugo Ferdinand .... 2,780 Pen'iU, John Edmund 2,704 Murphy, Mary Theresa 2,654 Jack, Andrew 2,398 Mullev, George Diedrick Ludwig 2,370 Harrison, John Stark 2,372 WdKm',. Thomas ?>245 Murphy, Thomas 1,336 Cronin, Mary 1,330 Murray, Catherine Wakelin . . 1,265 Shepherd, Letitia Irvine 1,117 Murphy, John David 1,069