MARKET REPORTS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 8990, 1 January 1895, Page 6

MARKET REPORTS.

RANGIORA MARKETS. MONDAY. The market held to-day was well attended, and a fair amount of business was transacted. At the Central Yards, Mr W. Buss had an entry of 3400 sheep, 130 cattle, and 90 pigs, and the prices were:—Fat merino wethers 10s 9d to lis, -fat merino wethers 63 4d, fa. crossbred ewes 5s 9J to 7s 9d, Store crossbred breeding ewes 5s 91 10 6s, old sheep 2s 6d to 3s 4d; a line of nice crossbred breeding ewes, with lambs just weaning, 5s 9d to 6s id ; old lambs 6s to 6s Id; station merino wethers, four and sixtooth, 3s 8d; also, privately, 1500 freezers at 12s 6d. Cattle—Bullock beef 23s per 1001b, cow beef 16s to 18s, eighteen months old cattle £2 15s to £3 sa, yearlings £2 to £2 5s ; 90 head cattle, yearlings to twenty mouths, £3. Pigs—Baconers 303 to 37s 6d, porkers 16s to 30s, sows 32s 6d to 37s Bd, good steers 15- to 18s, weaners 7s 6d to 9. 6J. Mr Tutton also sold live stock. Fat crossbred ewes 63 4d, two-tooth crossbred. 9., merino ewes 3s 3d to 4s lid. Messrs Joynt and Wilmot sold woolly sheepskins at 3s 9d, pelts id to 6d, lambskins Bd, roosters to 3s 6d per pair, hens 2s to 2s 3d, docks 3s od, chick wheat Is lOd to 2s 4d per bushel, oats Is 6d, bran 3s per bag, Bharps 5s 6d, pig meal 6a, potatoes 2s per sack, new do f d per lb, bacon 4_d, flour 14s 6d.