TORNS & CO'S STOCK SALE.
Messrs Lowes and lorns report: Our fortnightly sale of stock yesterday afternoon was very well attended, and sales were readily effected. Fourteen pens of cattle were yarded comprising 150 head. 50 bullocks from 2£ to 4 years were suld at prices ranging from £'s to £6 ss. A pen of beeves fetched £6los. Heifers £5. aged cows £3. Two-year-olds l' 3 15s. Yearlings £2 6s. Calvesll6s, Sheep: 2 pens ewes 5s to 5s 6d ;good conditioned wethers Gs 9d to 7s 3d, Draught horses 15 to 119155, Hacks £5. A quantity of timber, bricks, aud sundries coinpletod the sale,
Messrs Lowes & lorns also report ■: During the past month we have disposed of by auction 400 he id of cattlo at satisfactory prices to sellers. In sheep we have been unable to supply the demand, grass being so abundant in the country districts Belters are holding. For draught horses there has been a slight increase in the demand, and prices obtained a shade higher, Hacks are still plentiful at low rates. Tho values of Town and Suburban properties havo improved, several freeholds changing at satisfactory figures. We anticipate a more lively market generally for the present month.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 989, 2 February 1882, Page 2
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200TORNS & CO'S STOCK SALE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 989, 2 February 1882, Page 2
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