As Thursday was a holiday, we held oar usual weekly saleof sheepskins, &c, on Friday at our New Zealand Wool Stores. There was an average attendance of buyers, and tke com petition was brisk. We note a depreciation in value of woolly skins at about Is as compared with last week's rates. 1737 skins were cata logued and all sold as follows:—Butchers' cross bred, full woolled, 3s Sd, 4s sd, 5s 9d; do merino, do, 2s 9d, 3a lOd, 4s lOd, 5s 9d; lamb skins, large, Is 6d to Is 8d; do, medium, Is 3d to 1b 6d; pelta, large and early shorn, Is 2d to Is 6d; do, medium, 7d to Is 2d; do, late shorn, 2d to 7d; country crossbred, large asm full wooiled, 4a 7d, 5a 4d, 6s; do to, medium, 2s sd, 2s lOd, 3s 9d, 4s 7d; do do, small and inferior. Is 4d. Is lOd, 23 sd; do merino, large, 4a 3d, 4s lid, 5a 4d, do do, second quality, 23 4d, 3i Id, 4s 3d. Fat and tallow.—l here was a good at tendance of the trade, and the competition was spirited. Fas—Best quality, clean and well saved, to 2Jd per lb; second quality, to 2d per lb; heated and inferior, at Id and lid per lb. Tallow, 2|d to Ui per lb. Hides, sound, 3£d per lb, and 4d per lb for a line of heavy hides; hides, damaged, 551b end over, at 2H per lb; do, unier 551bs, at 2d per lb; calfskins, sound, at 4d per lb; do, cut and otherwise damaged, at 2d per lb.
