WOOL SALES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1903, Page 3

WOOL SALES.

AUCKLAND SECOND BALE. IMPROVEMENT IV HtICES. FIB PUB ASSOCIATION. Auckland, January 13. The second wool tale commenced to-day. Ihe catalogue embraced 4228 bales, which is considerably in excess of the quantity put forward at the previous sale. Prices, compared with lait sale, chow an all round advance of a farthing, while better grown wool show an improvement of a half-penny. Half-bred realised sji to Bsd; fine crossbred, 6}i to 7d; coarse and medium crossbred, 4Jd is 6J; log-staines 1 and cuts, 4d to 4id; £"«•'■, 3J<i to 4d ; bel'ies up to i Jd. One t of Merinos, rot catalogued, lealised 9d. Ihe competition was keen throughout. TiMARU SALE. The second wool sale of the season apened this morning, when 8770 bales were offered. There was a large attendance ef bnye b. representing Home and Colonial mills The competition »as very keen. For coarser weols the best price was 10£ d and Merino 9d ; Mfbred brought 7Jd and three-quarter brad 6jd. As compired with the last Timarn Btle, Merinos declined s<l par lb, half-bred 11 to sd, whiU three-quarter bred advanced jdtofd.

Unch interest has beta excited it medical circles by the statement in th Daily Mail tbat the Armour chemis'i recently succeeded in extracating fron a minute gland in sheep a new druj called suprarenaUn. It Rppears tba the drag, which is worth 1000 guinea a pound, is used in operations con nected with the eye. It's purpose n to prevent suffusion of the eye. A stringent law against bachelor) has recently been promulgated in oni of the States forming the-Argentim Republic. A nvm is marriageable ii Argentina when he is twenty. If from that date, and till he passes hii thirtieth birthday, he wishes to remaii single, he must piy £1 a month to th< State For the next five years the t»2 increases 100 per cent. Betweei thirty-five and fifty the bachelor it mulcted to the tune of £4 a month From his fiftieth year to seventy-fivi £5 a month is the tax, but, hiving reached bis seventy-fifth year, relie; finally comer, and the tax becompi nomica l , being reduced to £2 a yosr After eighty, a man can remain sitiglwithout paying anything, There is » paragraph relative to widowets, whe are given three years in which to mourn and pick a successor. A man who can prove 'hat he has proposed and been refuted rhiee times in one year is also coosideied to have earned immuni-y from taxation. It is said that the law r works like a charm. ' WHICH "RHEUMO" GOES IS BHBCMATIOB GO OUT I

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