WELLINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.
The following may be taken as current quotations : — Fat cattle, 4£dperlb, in demand at that figure ; stores, 80s to 100s, few enquiries, and sales difficult; fat wethers, ssd per Ib. saleable : store do, 14s to IGb, enquiries ; store owes, 21s to 23b. There will be a ready sale for breeding ewes after clip, as we have many enquiries for small lots of 400 to 1000. Hoesbs — Good draft horses would find a ready sale. Q. H. Ldxtord & Co.
Messrs G. H. lajxford & Co's Eeporfc for the week ending September 25, 1863 :— It would be needless to expect much business to have been done in the live stock market during the recent inclement weather, and we have consequently few transactions to report that would call for much comment The advanced rates on fat cattle are still maintained as the number brought into town continues limited in quantity, although shewing a marked improvement in quality and weight A mob of 45 head of fat beasts brought in by A. M'Masters, Esq, on Monday last, call for particular notice. Without being by any means large framed, they were compact, and very fat, and wore taken by the trade at the large average of 850 lbs each, realising 4jd per lb. Too much credit cannot be given to Mr M'Masters who for a. number of years has, by careful breeding and good management, succeeded in supplying this market with fat beef at a season when the othov cattle of the Province were in their poorest condition. The export cattle trade continues dull. "We hear that a mob of 100 head of store cattle are on the road from P. Hume's run, for G. S. O'Halloran, Esq, whose spirited exertiona to keep up the export trade of this Province, nothing can daunt In other respects nothing is doing, or is llkoly to be done until fine weather sets in. The market is fairly supplied with fat wethere at our last quotations. We understand that 300 of the first shearing are coming in from M'Maßters' run— &n early clip— and must expect prices to giye way g, trifle BO 8008 aa shearing fafw fairly get ia,
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Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1962, 26 September 1863, Page 2
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364WELLINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET. Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1962, 26 September 1863, Page 2
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