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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 January 1913, Page 6

COMMERCIAL

I LONDON WOOL SALES.

j Messrs Abraham ;md Williams, •Ltd., rejxirt having received the im'dennentioned cable from their London agents under oven date: "London .sales'closed. Fine crossbred and merino f> per cent advance, medium and coarse crossbred unchanged, market very iirni, as compared with closing rates at last, series." The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and Urdu oed, have received the following cablegram from their London house: "London Wo-od Sales. —Sales closed strong with good competition ; 13,000 baJevS were sold, of which 43,000 were taken to the Continent, 0000 for America, and 5000 were held over. As compared with last sales' closing rates prices are higher by about par to 5 per cent for crossbred lambs, scoured merino super, and medium greasy crossbred, higher by about 5 per cent for merino inferior super, .scoured merino medium, fine greasy crossbred, higher by about 5 to 7.1 per cent for 'greasy merino .medium and lambs, 'prices are alwut the same for crossbred scoured, coarse greasy crossbred I and crossbred slips. We quote average current London values of the undermentioned descriptions of New Zealand wool: Good merino 1-1 id, medium merino 13s, inferior merino lid, fine crossbred Lis, medium crossbred 12Jd, coarse crossbred (40's) 11: id, coarse crossbred (30's) 10,' id." PALME'RSTON STOCK SALE. (J))/ Tel en ra ph ■—F ress A ssoc iat i n n.) PALME'RSTON X.. Last Night. Messrs Abraham juu! Williams, Ltd., report: At our Palmevston North sale, held on Thursday, the 30tli inst., a small yarding of both sheep and cattle sold at Into rates. We quote: Woolly lamlxs 9s 10s to 14 s 6d, f.m, ewes 13s fid, forward cows £-1 10s, .springing cows £5, springing boilers '£s 5s to £5 10s bulls £2 Us to £3. ' '