COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.
Messrs. Murray, Roberts & Co. received tho followitag wool market cablegram from their London house, under date of 20th September : — " Tho fifth series of sales opened to-day. Morino advanced s per cent., good greasy combing descriptions being relatively dearest. Coarse orossbred declined a shade. " Messrs. Freeman R. Jackson & Co.'s Johnsonville stock report is as follows : — Primo beef made 19s the 1001b, with occasional pens rather more. First - quality heifer and cow beef sold much on a par with the best ox. For good quality the bidding was steady throughout. Second-rate cattle sold irregularly, making 16s to 17s Gd the 1001b. The average number of fat stock was yarded. Prime bullocks made .£8 to .£9 ; light weights, £1 10s to .£7 17s 6d; smaller bullocks, second-rate quality, .£4 to .£6 12s Gd ; prime cows and heifers, .£6 lGs to £7. Sheep were in full supply, the greater portion being seoond-rate to inferior. The bidding was somewhat dull. Good wethers made to 15s 6d ; light weight, 12s 6d ; others, lls 2d ; well-fatted ewes, 12s 7d to 13a ld ; others, lls 7d ; stores, 8s to 9s 6d. Pigs, in short supply, sold briskly throughout. Porkers, 22s to 265 ; stores and small porkers, 10s 9d to 18s.
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 72, 22 September 1898, Page 4
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