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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10479, 8 December 1896, Page 2

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HiEß>T.n Office, Monday evening. Mr Alex. Lean. Tattersalls, Hastings, reports on his weekly market as follows l -On Saturday last outside local entries, X offered a consiznment of light and heavy draught horses from the West Coast. Tho bidding under the hammer was completely dead, and not a single auim.-il sold. Privately since I have iilaoed several of the draughts aO from «1810s to AW, trap geldings «12, oxpress sorta aooa stamps filO, light baoks £5. Ihave buyers for good reliable trap horses. Brom the Colonial Couslgnmenb ana Distributing Company's market report dated London, Ootober 30th, we ollp the following:—New Zealand lamb— The Rnnpehu, Tdkemaiu, Indraghirl, and lonio, brought between them 6471, making the total tor the tan months 779,200, as against 734,735 last year, and 450 778 in 1894. Demand has been of tho ■lightest, aaloathat have been effeotedhavo beenafilowpriceß, and usually made with a Tjew to curtail ohargos, and prevent further deterioration from long storing, Many now offered on the market are bioßchod ana stale, and havo been oompulsorily held over from • inability to find a market at any prloe. Numbers this year havo been far too largo, and shipments extended to far too late a period, Prloea havo ranjioa from 3}a to3ja per lb for tho best to 3Jd to 3}d per lb for Beoondß, •