MARKET REPORTS.
There was a large attendance at the tUngiora market yesterday. At the yards of Mr W. Buss there was an entry of 2000 sheep, 105 oattle, 140 pigs. Bidding for fat sheep, good stores and lambs was brisk. Prices were—Fat ewes and wethers, 14s to 16s 6d; fat lambs, 10s 6d to 12s 2d; fat ewes, 8a to 10a; crossbred turuipers, 9s to 11s 6d; merino swee, in lamb, 3i to 4s ; crossbred ewes, in lamb, 7s to 9k ; good store lambs, 7s to 7s W. Fat Cattle—Beef, equal to 18s to 20a per 1001b; two-year-old oattle, £3 10« to fi3 15i; three-year-olds, £4 to £4 15s; yearlings to eighteen months, £1 5s to £2; springers, £6 to £7. Pigs—Baconere, heavy weights, 433 to 535; light weights, 30s to 38s; porkers, 18a to 255; good stores, 10s to 14s ; small do, 7s to 8s; weaners, 2a 6d to 3s 6d. In the Produce Yards of Mr A. P. Tutton, heavy butchers' skins 3s 9d to 4s, merino 2s to 3s 6d, ohiok wheat. 2s 9d to 5a 4d, oats 2a to 2s 3d, barley 2s 6d to 2s Bd, beans 2s 6d, blue peas 3s 9d, dun 2« 9d to 2s 10d, grass seed 3s to 3a 6d, sharps 6s 9d bag, bran 4s 3d, flour 21s sack, onions Id lb, apples 4s to 4s 6d case, fowls 2s to' 3s 3d, ducks 3s to 3e 3d, geese 5a 6d to 6s.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9433, 3 June 1896, Page 6
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