WOOL, SKINS, TALLOW, ETC.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 18 January 1900, Page 15

WOOL, SKINS, TALLOW, ETC.

London, January 10. — The Antwerp wool sales opened with good animation. Ht.lf the catalogued wool sold at 10 to 15 per oent. above October rates.

At the tallow sales 1625 casks were offered and 1575 sold. Mutton : Fine, 29s 6d ; medium, 28s. Beef : Fine, 28s ; medium, 27b.

London, January 11. — At the Antwerp wool sales River Plate dips closed at prices unchanged after the opening advances. Five thousand seven hundred and seventy-three bales were offered, and 2068 sold.

The Bradford wool market is slack. Common sixties, 30Jd ; super, 31 id.

London, January 12. — River Plate tops at Antwerp are quoted for January delivery, at 6.32 Jfr per kilogram ; June delivery, 6.42Jfr. At Roubaix January delivery is quoted at 6.42£fr ; June delivery at 6 55fr.

Sydney, January 12. — At the wool sales there is good competition, but prices are irregular and declining ; greasy merino are a halfpenny and inferior sorts one penny lower than at the preChristmas sales.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. (Limited) report having received the following cablegram from their London office yesterday :— ' The Antwerp wool sales as compared with the average rates of last Antwerp wool Bales closed with prices higher by 10 to 13 per cent.