MARKET REPORTS.
HORSE SALES. About fifty horses were entered for sale at TattersalTs on Saturday, a very fair sale being.effected. Prices were: Medium draughts .£l6 to .£2l, host harness horses £l6 to £22, medium do £9 to £l3, hacks £8 to £l2. A Clydesdale stallion, rising four years, by Lord Dromore, dam Minnie, was sold for £2O. PIG AND POULTRY SALES. At the sale of pigs on Saturday the demand was not as good as it was the previous week. Light baconers brought 22s 6d to 28s, light porkers 16s 6d to 245, stores 10s to 14s, weaners 5s to 9s, breedings sows 32s 6d. Poultry sold very well, the range of prices being: Heavy roosters 3s to 4s, light do 2s to 2s 9d, hens 2s to 3s 9d, ducks 4s to ss, geese 5s to 8s 6d, turkeys—hens 6s to 7s 6d, gobblers 13s to 16s 6d.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 11050, 31 August 1896, Page 6
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149MARKET REPORTS. Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 11050, 31 August 1896, Page 6
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