WOOL SALES. DISPUTE BETWEEN BROKERS AND BUYERS. Christchurch, Jan. 9,
Tin; Sou Oh series of wool &ales this lmrn: ing were stopped as the buyers lcfused to bid less than a fai thing, and the brokers not meeting them they retiied in a bedy' The brokers propose recommencing the sa'es afc two, but the buyers have dispersed after unanimously agreeing neither to attend the sale nor buy more wool in Chrisbohnroh thi& sea&on, unless farthing bids are adopted and Iho half-crown charge for delivery of wool to the ship is discontinue.!.
A building in Chicago, which weighs 20,000 Lous and is six storeys high', is being lifted up 6lb sin- Se\eral thousand sciew jacks aie used, and it takes 300 men to work them. The averago lift is lit per day. The eo&t will be £8,000. There is in Sydney an ancient spinster of 106 She has smoked for fifty years.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 342, 13 February 1889, Page 4
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151WOOL SALES. DISPUTE BETWEEN BROKERS AND BUYERS. Christchurch, Jan. 9, Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 342, 13 February 1889, Page 4
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