LATE BURNSIDE STOCK REPORT.
(SPECIAL TO N.Z. TABLET.) (Per favour Messrs. Stronach Bros, and Morris.) Wednesday, 5 p.m. Fat Cattle — 103 yarded. Competition was keen, and showed an advance on last week's rates. Prime bullocks, L'J 1.5s to LI 2 2s 6d ; medium, L 7 15s to L 9 10s ; light, L 6 IQs to L 7 10s. Cows, best, L 6 5s to L 8 ; medium, L 5 to L(i. Sheep — 2763 yarded. Prices showed a slight advance on last week's quotations. Prime crossbred wethers up to Ifis 6d ; medium, 13s to 14s 6d ; light, 10s to 12s 6d ; a few extra quality up to 19s. Ewes— Best, 12s 6d to 14s 3d ; medium, 11s to 12s ; others, 9s to 10s 6d. Lambs — 113 penned. All selling well up to 14s 9d. Pigs — 60 forward. The demand was very keen, prices being in favour of vendors. Suckers, 12s 6d to 15s ; slips, 15s 6d to 19s 6d ; stores, 22s to 27s ; porkers, 30s to 38s ; baconers, 42a to 545.
We beg to draw the attention of the public to the advertisement in another column of Burkes Hotel, Christcbureh. This noted caravansarai is under the proprietorship of Mr. James Murphy, who has made of Burkes a most desirable hotel to stop at. — *„ The absolutely painless dentistry performed by the London Dental Institute is advertised elsewhere in our columns. Those of our readers who require treatment in this direction would do well to note the very reasonable charges of the Institute. — „.% The ' Royal Enfield ' bicycles, particulars of which appear elsewhere in our oolumns, are said by the manufacturer, Mr. W. A. Scott, to be • made like a gun.' Judging from the number of them seen about town they appear to ' go off.' — *%
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 25, 27 October 1898, Page 15
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291LATE BURNSIDE STOCK REPORT. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 25, 27 October 1898, Page 15
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