CHRISTCHURCH.
March «. Prices are : — Fresh butter 8d to lOd, eggs ! Is 3d, cheese 6d to 9d, milk 4d, beef 4d to Bd, mutton 2Jd to sd, pork 7d, ham Is, bacon lOd, lamb 2s 6d to 3s 6d per quarter. Wholesale prices : — Barley (feed) Is 9d to 2a per bushel, barley (malting) 3s 6d to 4s, beans (nominal) 2s 9d to 3s, butter 6Jd to 7d per lb, cheese 4d to 4Jd per lb (nominal), fowls' wheat Is 9d to 2s 3d per bushel ; flour £7 10a to .£8 10s per ton, hams and bacon ont of cloth 7~d to 9£d, oats (feed) Is 8d to Is 9d, oats (milling) Is 9d Is lOd, peas (nominal) 2s 9d! to 3s 9d per bushel, wheat (milling, new) 2s 6d to 2s 9d per bushel, ryegrass seed (good farmers' lots) 2s 6d to 2s 9d per bushel, machine-dressod do 3s 9d to 4s per bushel, tares 63 6d per bushel, bran (sacks included) .63 10a per ton, pollard (sacks included) .£3 10s per ton ; fat bullocks from <£6 10s to £7, store cattle £2 15a to J>s, light horses (unbroken) £3 to ,£2O, draught horses (unbroken) =£8 to .£2O, sonnd useful hacks dfilO to .£24, carriage horses JJ2O to .£4O, light harness horses £8 to .£2O, draught horses <£17 to 435 ; fat merino wethers 7s to 9s, store merino wethers (sound-mouthed) 5s to 6s, store crossbred hoggets 9s to 11s, prime fat crossbred wethers 13s 6d to 15s, crossbred ewea 10s to 12s, lambs to 10s.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3259, 7 March 1885, Page 2
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254CHRISTCHURCH. Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3259, 7 March 1885, Page 2
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