GREYMOUTH -Yesterday.
Live Market. — At the maiket on '"eptcmber 17, despite the l-aye nnmber of fat cattle to hand, 139 head, they were all disposed of, and at very fair prices. As they were all from tin Wangaaui district, the quali'y was from prime to medium, and the we : gh'B were just suited t) the m rkor, M'Qregor's lot of 34 bnllocks, medium weights, averaged £8 10s 3,1 ; Hanson's, which wereuot np to the usual quality, £6 9 ; Fox & O'Neil.'e, £8 6s Bd, Prime beef to-dsy was worth from 20s to 22s 6d per lOolbs. Evidently the high prices of last maiket day had induced a large number of dealers in sheep to flood the marker, as there were close on 600 penned. Of these 170 crossbred nethra belonging to M'Gregor *etesoldat 16s 4d; a nrxe < lot of 41, local bred, at 13s, and 67 of fox and O'Veill's at 15s 7d, the balance, 72, being 'withdrawn; as also were 60 of Hanson's, I*o from Canterbury (Russell's), end some 80 to 100 shorn Canterbury sheep, prices uot reaching vendors' idea of value. We quote prime mm ton as worth 3 i per lb. There wdie 40 fat pigs to hand, and they were all ssld at average rates of last market,
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8275, 22 September 1888, Page 4
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