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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1695, 9 January 1874, Page 2

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■'^CArtotjh'VßOH.— The' Lyttelton limes oi Saturday;- last reports :- • , Owing to the NeW ( Year's holidays, we ;> j! ii lave iffain'- nothing' 'to .record in the grain-;-^marker Qubtationi' f reift&in as' they were last week, viz. :— Wh'eatj 4s fid 'to 45.9 d ; pate, 4s,sd,^b(irley,,6s 9d; flour, millers' " i; quotations, Lit lOsin sacks, Ll2 in bags— 10s extra f.ob. in Lyttelton; bran and : ' i! sharps, L 4 ,10s to L 5. : The following 'are ■ '■'■'■[■ rattes ruling for dairy produce :■— Butter, '64<T to 7d ; cheese, new, 5d to s£d ; do prime old, 7d to 7id;' bacon and hams are without .'-charigd, at B|d covered;' and'Bd 'uncovered. ' i! ,; With regardto stock and stations we have [>i /'■>■> agauV merely ',td make* a ridminal report, as ''■}'•• . f the ''continuance of : the' 'holiday^ has pre- .: i ''• Vdnfed'petfple ' settling 'properly to 'business, •■>"''' }Atid "few- triinsactibiis Wdrtkyoi note tiave «f>7j;}>ikkei^£la&e/' 'The weather -has been exces- : lively not and : dry; so mucH sb'that in some localities the feed has' gone off to nothing, -;.- i n '(and' 'e^eii'on 'the be»f;.;of 7 latid 1 there is a - ;•;> n.'jnjtfkefd*' difference l / Ijb 'iiasi^ho'wever, been .splendid weather i6r-''st66k. r 'hi.4 ( wherever ithey are not pinched for grass or water. both, sheep and cattle must be laying on fas very quickly.

At the Yards, on Wednesday, there- was a fair number of sheep penned, ■ but onlyi a email number of cattle. The biddings.ior sheep were exceedingly languid, and the Dr,ice,s,obtained._were certainly low, but we forbear giving quotations, believing tha'F"tho business; done, did; not'; afford, a fair, criterion of the ' state of the market: J Tne ! same/ remarks- apply to cattle, although, the biddings for them were more spirited than they were for the sheep. < {