PRIZE SHEEP IN LONDON.
(BY TELEGBAFH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION".)
Wellington, this day. The Loan and Mercantile Agency have received a report from Blomiield and Lieeenden, of the Central Meae Market, London, on the prize sheep exhibited at the last show, and subsequently frozen and sent home by the Matatua. They say that "ac prize sheep for agricultural shows, we consider them as °ear perfection as poasible, and certainly thabesfc bred mutton we have ever seen from the colonies for consumptive purposes. They were too fat for ordinary purchasers, but such mutton if from 601b to 68 b per carcase would realise prices equal to the beet Canterbury. The sheep were Sussex Down and a cross between the Hampshire Downs and Leiceeter, grown by fcargforth and C. J. Lysagh,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 95, 25 April 1891, Page 5
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