TELEGRAPHIC COMMERCIAL.
(by. special wire.) • -•'-■■•*■ ; Waxgasui, Thursday. ■ Mr Freeman Jackson reports sales to-day as follows :— Cattle— Fat bullocks, £8 15s and. £l 02s (sd ; cows, £7 7s Gd and £9 2s Gel ; mixed stores, stccra, and heifers, £1 3s ; cows and calves, £2 2s Gd ; milch cows, lip to £7 103 5 calves; '£2 2s.- Sheep — 729 were penned ; fat wethers, 9s 9d to 10s 3d ; ewes, 7s to 8s t Gd ; store ewes, 6s 9d. Pigs — Good fat porkers, '21's to 28s. Horses — Some good unbroken horses were sold ; draught, £36 10s, £24 10s, £15, and £18 ; liacks up to £21 10 3) and screws from £3 to £5. Hay, £3 10s per ton. CnßiSTCinmcir, Thursday. Q-ood;milliug wheat is in excellent demand at 4s 3d to 4s 4d ; seed -wheat 13 also -wanted, and a considerable advance can be obtained for good samples ; oats and barley are unchanged ; flour, £10 to £11 ; grass seed shows signs -of life at 4s 6d to ss, for well-dressed samples ; inferior, 3s to 4s. There 13 a sigu of improvement in business generally, and good investments for money are difficult to find. Many .lines of merchandise are becoming scarce,' especially sugar, finest to fine white crystals and counters; the sale of a cargo last week did not supply the demand.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5461, 15 August 1879, Page 2
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217TELEGRAPHIC COMMERCIAL. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5461, 15 August 1879, Page 2
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