GREAT FALL IN THE PRICE OF BEEF IN ENGLAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2242, 20 November 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

GREAT FALL IN THE PRICE OF BEEF IN ENGLAND.

The wholesale price of beef has, says tho Liverpool Journal of Commerce, of October 2nd, not been so low for the last 3& years. Prime carcases of American heet were yesterday disposed of at the Birkenheid lairages at 4^l por pound. First class store cattle were a drag at Chester fair, and could only be disposed of at a reduction of at least .30 per cent, as compared with the prices realised two years since. It is therefore expected that very heavy losses will be sustained by the exporters of American livo cattle and dressed beef.

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