WOOL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 20 August 1903, Page 13

WOOL.

London, August 14.— Bradford wool : There is more inquiry, and large orders have been placed at a fraction below last rates. Forty-sixes, 13£ d.

Messrs. Stronach, Morris and Co., report for week ending August 18 as follows :—

Sheepskins.— We ottered to-day a catalogue of 131 lots, made up of 1554 skins, to an excellent attendance of local fellmongers and shippers, competition being very Keen throughout the sale. Dry halfbreds, 12Aft, 6s 6d • do, 10ft, 5s 6d and 5s 8d ; do, Bft, 4s 3d ; do 7£ft 4s • do, extra heavy, 7s 9d ; dry crossbreds, 13|ft, 6s ■ do' ll£ft, 4s 8d ; do, 9ft, 4s 2d , do, 7£ft, 3s 7d ; do hoggets, lOJft, 4s lOd ; dry merinos, 9|ft. 4s 8d ; do, s£ft, 2s 2d. All butchers green skins also selling at very high rates. Next London sales 4th September. Rabbitskins.— Market unchanged. Best winter greys 16d ; medium do, 13£ dto 14d ; blacks, to 38d ; small and inferior, 4d to Bd.