Wanganui Stock Quotations.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1459, 19 September 1885, Page 3

Wanganui Stock Quotations.

MR FREEMAN R. JACKSON'S FORT NIGHTLY STOCK REPORT. "Wangantji, Wednesday. : • At the yards f 6-day a first-class lot of stock was yaided, the bidding 1 was brisk throughout, : and all sold at current quotations. " I do hot anticipate any further advance m prices, but tha demand will be good duriiig the spring montlis for all sorts of store cattle. A larg« draft leave for the Wairarapa to-uiprrow, these j with what have already gone to that district, and Napier make up a total export of 300 head, all young cattle. The export trade by sea has been very brisk indeed during the past two months. A large numb if of fattle cattle and sheep having been shipped from 'this port to the West Coast, Dunedin, and Wellington. This together w£th the. quantities that have, been consumed by tfte Meat Preserving Company has pretty wellcleaned out the supply of beef. Eat sheep sold fairly well at last sales quotations. At the horse sales on Saturday the .bulk of horses offered, were of an indifferent class, but found purchasers at low prices.' Any really good animals meet with good com T petition, ■'■„'. . . . ! .. Cattle.— 4J-yr-old bullocks,. £5 7s 6d ; 2 and 3-yr-bld's, £4 6s ; f at cows, £4 to £5 ; heifers, £2 Is to £2 12s ; yearling heifers (m low condition), 245; forward cows, £3.1 Is.- • ' '. " " .'...'•./<. Sheep;-^-Fafewes, 13s ; ewes, ■ 12s 6d..., Horses;- — No alteration ifi Value... ' ,[' „ Pigslr- Porkers, lls, 12s 6d, , up^io 225 ; . baconerg, 40s to 415. . .. .^ Poultry .— Powls, 2s ; 9d and ; sji;6d ; the couple ; ducks, 3s ffd^'and i^'s O,tV; gee§e, , 4s each.';, \ ;'"';. , v ':^;V. ; .r- r ' -••'■ Drays, dog carts, ancl" harness, sold, well on Saturday. '"' . . ';,;-^ ! ..\.;.^^'^ ".'/'.■