COMMERCIAL.
THE STOCK MARKET. Messrs Stevens and Gorton report as follows of their sale at Palmerston last week:—We held a very good sale yesterday at our Palmerston yards, which were fairly full of cattle and full of sheep. The attendance was large, and tho bidding for sheep, more particularly lambs, wasbrisk, but opened rather dull with cattle, though we managed to dispose of nearly all tho pens, and sold every gjieep, A splendid pen of wether lambs, from the flock of J. Manson, Esq., EdenkilliePark, brought 8s per head, the highest price, we believe, paid for any lambs this year on the coast, We quote the following rates:— Beef, small £5 2s Gd; 2to 2|yr steers £3 7s 6d 2yr steers £2los to £2l7s Cd, yearling and 18 months steers £2 2s 6d; forward wethers, k Cd; breeding owes; 7s 9d to 8s; fat ewes 7s to 7b Gd: shorn lambs, 3s 2d to 5s M; lajnbs in wool, Gs 4d to 8s; draught liorses 1/2 .to. L 22; trap mare, LlO,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1993, 18 May 1885, Page 2
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172COMMERCIAL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1993, 18 May 1885, Page 2
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