LEESTON.
A fine day tempted a larsje number of ! armers to this sale yesterday, and a full rarding of btock was recorded. Sheep were (specially well represented, every pen )eing full up. A large proportion of the jntries, however, were old and inferior s wes, which realised from is 3d to 2s 6d )er head, for boiling down. Fat pigs were rarded in good numbers, and realised prices iuggestive of dear bacon. There was only i very meagre entry of cattle, and compeition in this market still remains, lifeess, and very few sales were made. Appended are a few quotations : — Sheep. — Butchers' good fat ewes made rom 5s 6d to 7s 6d, store wethers 7s 9d to fs lOd, store lambs 3s 6d to 5s 6d, good >reeding ewes (six and eight-tooth) 5s 6d ;o 6s 9d. A few one-shear rams made a juinea per head, and a lot of old ewes and nferior sorts were shunted off at boilinglown figures. Pigs. — In sympathy with he rise noticeable at Addington on Wedtesday, fat pigs rose quite 5s per head on ate rates, some of the primest baconers eachiug 575 ; lighter weights ' brought rom 35s to 455 ; good stubblers made from !5s to 32s 6d ; slips 12s to 18s. Cattle.— small entry and most lines quite unsaleLble. Prices unchanged at late rates.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6127, 14 March 1898, Page 2
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221LEESTON. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6127, 14 March 1898, Page 2
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