Huddersfield Chronicle (04/Jan/1868) - page 2

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Woollen, Corn and Cattle Markets

Huddersfield Cloth Hall

Huddersfield Cloth Hall, Tuesday, Dec. 2lst, — During the past week operations have been of a restricted charneter, as is customary at this festive season of the year; and to-day, being the last in the expiring yeur, purchasers frou distont houses have been few in number, and the market destitute of anima tion. Several representatives af Canadian and other shipping houses have been present, but, from one cause or other, their purchases have been unusually limited in all depiriments. A few job lots have been bought from stock, and the uew goods for spring have been selected from, althy ugh only very cautiously. There hag of late been a very general resort to short time throughout this district to prevent tho further ftecurmulation of stocks, and employment is consequently more difficult to get now than it was some months ago. Quiet patterns in stripes and mixture twists, in subdued colonrings, seem to be taking the lead in fancy trouserings just now. There is a proportionately fair demand for silk mixture goods, both in trouserings and coatings. The country houses have been very quiet of late, but this is usual at this season. There has been very little doing in the local wool trade through the week.


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