MARKET REPORTS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10381, 26 June 1899, Page 3

MARKET REPORTS.

At Tattersall's on Saturday- there was a« entry pf sixty horses, and -with few excep-" tions they were only ordinary sorts. . Best draughts, for wlrich there was a good demand, made £27 to £d 5; medium, £13 to £20 ; best saddle and harness horses, £9 to £15, others, £1 10s to £5. ■' At the produce markets there were fair, entries of pigs and* a good demand. Suckers made 10s to 12s, weaaers 13s to 16s, stores 17s to 275, porkers 24s 6d to 355, and small baconera 455. ' There were large supplies of poultry, and a brisk sale. Hens made 2s 3d to 3s 3d, pullete 3s 6d to 5s 6d, roosters, good table birds 3s to 4s } others Is 6d to 2a 6d, ducks 3s to 5s 3d, geese 5s to 7s, turkey cocks 14s to 18s, do hens 5s to 9s, all at per pair. , ' *•-- •'-";'""' The monthly sale at West . held on Monday, when there was an entry: of nearly 4000 sheep, and alarge'attend&nco/ Buyers did not seem anxious to operate, .and/.,;, consequently only a limited number r ehaßged ,-_■•' hands, several good lines of freezing wefinixs , ■>- being withdrawn, at 18a and some good twotooths at 14s 5d and 15s sd. Lambs sold at ; 10s up to 13s 2d, fat ewes lls to ;155,. fat merino ewes 8s 2d to 8s sd, six an 4 eight-, ;, tooth crossbred ewes in Jamb up to 14s 2d; , , older Borts 7s to 9s, and merino ewes ia .'■-; lamb' 6e 04 to 7*.