WOOL FREIGHTS.
(BY TELEGRAPH—PRKSS ASSOCIATION). Wr.LLiNf.Tox, Thursday. The trouble iu the Trnn-vna! and the transport of American (.roups to the Philippines are responsible for a rise in wool freight?. There has been an increased demand for tonnat>e for the transport of troops, provisions for their maintenance, and munitions of wa r . Towool rates by steam are fil and §d, unVitgents will not book moie than a few hundred baler. It seems almost certain 'that they will be $1 and Id befoie the month is out. At lirisbane there is no steamer for the January sa'es, the Duke of Fife having been sent to San Francisco in ballast to take up charier to tke Government of the United S'ates. Agents nn; t') ,; ng in all d'rections to tet a steamer, and the best prr-pom) that they have been able to obtiiu was m the bisis of |'l and Id, and even then for only a limited nmouut of cargo. There has seldom been Mich a sudden advance in freights on this side, but the withdrawal of so many steamers for youth Africa and ihe United States business has completely chanced the position.
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Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 503, 21 October 1899, Page 3
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