STOCK MARKETS.
At Addington on Wednesday 200 fat cattle were on offer, mostly light weights. Steers, .£7 15s to £9 17s Gd; heifers, £5 10s to £8 10s ; cows, £412s Gd to £8 10s.
Fat Sheep. — About 3000, mostly secondary ewes. Good wethers, 15s to 17s; lighter, 13s to 14s; owes, best, 12s to 15s Gd; others, 7s Gd to lls; few merino wethers, 7s to 10s.
Fat Lambs numbered 1460. Freezing, 10s 6d to 13s 4d, averaging lls 9d ; butchers, 8s 7d to 13s sd.
Store Sheep—The 180^ shown were mostly inferior wethers. Forward wetheys made lls to 12s 2d; others, 7s 7d to 10s ; good sound ewes, 10s to 13s ; others, 5s to 8s Gd; lambs, 4s lOd to 7s 3d.
Pigs—About 500, Baeouors made 32s Gd to 455, equal to 3§ d per lb; porkers, 20s to 30s—3^d; large stores, 15s to 23s 5 small, 8s to 12s Id ; suokers, 4s to 7s»
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 74, 29 March 1902, Page 2
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156STOCK MARKETS. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 74, 29 March 1902, Page 2
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