Commercial.
Messrs Lowes and lorns report at their stock sale josterday they yarded 150 head of cattle, 1,500 sheep, besides pigs, horses, &c. Cattle, sheep, and pigs wero quitted either under tho hummer or by private treaty immediately afterwards. Cattle showed a dcoline, but all sheep maintained previous rates. . The followin? aro the prices realised: Fat bullocks modiuni quality, £5 2s 6d; forward bullocks, 80s to 90s; storo steers, 60s ;to 70sj small steers, 50s;,yearlings, 30s; calves, 16s; dairy cows','4os to 90s, Fat shorn wethers, according to weight and condition, 7s 9d to 9s 3d; store wethers in the wool, lis; ewes and lambs, lis to lis 6d; hoggets, 7h 9d to 8s 6d; small store wethers, 9s. In horses, a great ■niany offered,! but few changed hands at low figures, Store pigs wero in good enquiry, those penned making lis b'd to 13s Gd.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3026, 11 October 1888, Page 2
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145Commercial. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3026, 11 October 1888, Page 2
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