Commercial News
-♦- STEVENS & GORTON'S STOCK REPORT. Bulls, August 4. We had not such a large sale a* Palmerston on Thursday as usual, but the sale nevertheless was a success in point of prices,and cattle, of which we cold nearly every head in che yard, brought better prices. Our sale at Sanson. on the following day was an unqualified success, buyers attended from all partß of the coast, and the bidding for the sheep, more particularly the hoggets, of which there were sereral good lines, was more spirited than we have seen at any sales for .years. Both cattle and sheep 6old well, the latter at prices considerably in favor of what the vendor expected. We quote . — Cattle. — Palmerston: Fat. bullocks, £6; 18-month steers, 33/- to -39/-; 18-month heifers, 28/-; fat •cows, £3 2/-; forward cows, £2 5/- to £2. 16/-; weaners, mixed, 11/- to 15/- ; milkers, £5. Sanson: Mixed year- j lings, 25/6; mixed "weaners U/- to 12/6; 2-year steers, £2 12/6; 2- year lieifers, 32/- to 44/- ; cows, 30/- to \ 37/6; milkers, £3 1.4/6 to £4 2/6. Sheep. — Palmerstbn North : Fat wethers, 12/- ; ewes were passed in at j 7/6. Sanson : 2-tooth wethers, 1 1/10 ; j fat sheep, 11/-; awes in lamb, 8/6 to ] 10/IoV; woolly hoggets; 8/8 to 9/6 ;i shorn hoggets, 7/- to 8/6. Pigs : suckers, 4/6 to 5/3. v
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 25, 9 August 1888, Page 3
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223Commercial News Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 25, 9 August 1888, Page 3
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