COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3101, 11 January 1889, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Freeman E. Jackson & Co, report;— The beef * entered for Wednesday's Johnsonville sale was of good quality. The smallest bullock mado best price considering weight.' The heavy cattle were too large for trade, aud sold at relatively .lower values. Some grand n ethers came forward and sold well. Somo of the ewes were only . half fat. Lambs were fairly well competed for and mado late rates, Figs wero at lower values, The stores were a rough lot, and ia poor- condition. Small beasts-made, 14s, and largo cattle 12s Gd the lQOlbj Diuttun l|d per. lb, Bullocks, £5 7s Gd to £6 23.Gd, averaging £5 Us Gd j others averaged £5 7b Gd and £6 Bs, and one pen of very small bullocks £4l7s 6d. Sheep —Best wethers averaged. 12s, . others 9s; best ewes, 10a; others 7s Id to . 78 9d; tombs 6s 4d to 7a6tl, Pigs— Small baconers, 27s to 37s 6d j porkers ißs to 23s ; stores 7s 6d to 14s j smill pigs, 6s. CORRESPONDENCE,

Duck Shooting,

■ (To the Editor.) : Sib,—-I would wish to' draw the attention of those /who are in autho* ' rity in. tliis matter, to the wanton destruction of ducks,by some persons: in. the vicinity of the Masterton,/railway station—their breeding ponds. Nightly, the crack of the' sportsman's (?) gnu can be heard in' this locality, and. the birds flying about singly, and in broken flights testify, to, the havoo committed by those night prowlers, .Trusting this matter willbe seen into.—l remain, &0., ' " Stranger.