COMMERCIAL.
INVERCARGILL GRAIN MARKET. Oats.—Only a limited business is being done, orders from Australia being small. Farmers are holding out, anticipating an advance. Quotations are Milling (thin skinned), very scarce, nominally 2s 2Jd (f.0.b.) ; best feed 2s lid ; ordinary 2s Id ; discolored Is lid (f.ob. sacks in.) Ryegrass.—The new crop is reported to be up to the average, and samoles offering are bringing 2s 3d direct from the mill, 2s £M to 3b for machine dressed. SALE OE BAMS SOUTHLAND TO THE FORE. At the Palmerston Ram Fair the phenomenal price of 160 guineas was paid by Mr Bremer, of Waverly, for one of Mr J. B. Sutton’s Lincoln stnd rams, while Mr E. J. Kiddiford gave 80 guineas for another. Romney flock two- tooth rams ranged from 2? guineas to 3* guineas Border Leicesters from 11 guineas to 2J guineas, English Leicesters from 1-1 guineas, to 2£ guineas, and South, downs brought 4 guineas. Generally there was not much demand for any thing outside Lincolns, Romneys being next. About 1000 rams were sold.
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Western Star, Issue 2178, 9 February 1898, Page 2
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174COMMERCIAL. Western Star, Issue 2178, 9 February 1898, Page 2
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