COMMERCIAL.
Messrs Lowos and Irons report at their fortnightly stock sale last Wednesday, All stock entered came* forward and all selling under the hammer the prices in most cases being in excess of previous sales especially in wethers which were in great demand. Iu cattle some 75 head sold being principally large.- One pen of prime fat bullocks making £5 2® or about 12s Gd per lOOlbs small ialOs; fat heifers £2 15s to £3 Os; store bullocks 50s to 68 s, small 40s yearlings 20s—In sheep the number penwi nearly reached 4000 being large wethers and good breeding or fat ewes; fat wethers brought from 8s 9d to 9s lid; forward stores 7s 9d to 8s lid; fat ewes 6g to 7s 6d; dry
eves 4s to 6s; breeding owes according to quality and arranging from 2s for old culls to 4s 3d for medium, and Gs 9d to 7s 3d for really good ewes; no lambs oijfed-The entries in pigs were very lnmtcd those penned selling at good figures with wore enquiry—Horses very dull a quantity offered but few sales effected.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2907, 25 May 1888, Page 2
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183COMMERCIAL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2907, 25 May 1888, Page 2
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