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The Customs revenue collected on Friday was as follows: — £ s. a. Spirits 213 6 6 Tea 50 1 3 Sugar 101 19 11 Tobacco 98 11 6 Drapery .. 368 0 0 Sundries 52 12 3 £B3B 4 11 Messrs Clifford and Koper report on their usual weekly sale of live stock, September 2nd, as follows :—Cows, none yarded; calves, 6s to Its; pigs—weaners, 4s to 5s ; small stores, 6s to 158; stores, 16s to 25s 6d; fat pigs, 388; small sows 20s to 38s. Poultry, per pair—Fowls, 3s to Is 9d ; ducks, 6s 9d; geese, none; turkeys, 9s 6d to 10s 6d. In pigs, the supply was full, demand good, especially for small stores, prices firm, and a shade higher than last week. Good attendance. Mr H. E. Alport, reports that, at the Canterbury Sale Yards on Wednesday last, the supplies of sheep were not excessive; prices, however, ruled low; prime quality fat merino wethers sold at from 8s to !)s; do. ewes, Us to 7s; cross-bred wethers, medium weights. Us to 13s; do, heavy ivetghts, 15s 6d. Taking the sales of sheep throughout, prices were as low as at. any market dav during the past three months. Fat cattle were in demand, and sold readily at from 30s to 35s per lOdlbS for gond quality. Store cattle continue saleable at full rates.
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Globe, Volume VI, Issue 689, 4 September 1876, Page 2
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224COMMERCIAL. Globe, Volume VI, Issue 689, 4 September 1876, Page 2
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