The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-10-17 00:00:00

SATURDAY'S MARKETS.
CATTLE.

DORCHESTER.—At Mr. T. Ensor's Repository
sale, there was • large supply of beef. In store beasts
trade was very dull. Mutton was scarce, and • dull
trade. Prices were: Heifers and calves, £145.. to
£lB ; In-call heifers, £lB to £23 Is. per pair;
barreners, £26 to £3l 10.. per pair; fat bulls, £l6 to
£3O each; fat beef, 13s. 6d. to 14s. 6d. per score ;
mutton, 3d. per lb. A full pig market in point of
supply, but business slow at bare quotations Small
pigs, 18s. to 255. ; stores, 35a. to 48s. and 650. a head;
pork, Bs. to Pe. 6dper stone.
NORWICH.—There was a considerable supply of
store cattle on offer. Previous prices were about
sustained. There was a fair supply of sheep and
lambs, Trade ruled steady, and in somc instances an
advance of Is. per head was obtained.
coals.

BORCHESTER.—Large attendance at the Col
Exchange to-day. Supply of wheat unusually short,
the best being the tui a dearer than last week, when
the quotations were 465. to 50s, per imperial qr., the
official average being 445. I. pot qrs. yielding
£450 125.) Rather better supply of barlewithe but
ces
selling freely at late prima—last week's o average
beinB9s. &i. per imperial qr. (2,463 qrs.; bushels
yielding £4,886 6e. 9d.)
C BRIDGE—Dry sample* of wheat realised
fully last week's prices, while those at all out of con-
dition were . le. le. Barley a very dull trade, and
oats, too, were slow of sale.
NORITICEL—A fair supply of wheat. Prices for
good qualities z oled about the same as this clay
se.nnight. Best malting barley was taken at about
the same terms as last week; other sorts met • slow
sale, at • slight reduction.
NOITINGHA.II4.—There was a moderate show of
wheat, the demand for which was quiet, prices were
about the same as those of last week. The supply of
barley was fair, and the inquiry was limited, rates
being as high as heretofore. There was a middling
supply of oats, which sold steadily.
READING.—Wheat was in good supply, but
prices were • :th difficulty supported, &met samples
orly making late prices; inferior sorts sold 6d. to Is.
cheaper. Fine malting qualities of barley met a
brisk sale, and in several instances Is. to 2s. more
money was realised. Secordary samples and 6.inding
were without alteration in value. Oats were in good
supply, but moved off at unchanged prime. Beans
made • large show, but no variation occurred in last
week's quotations. Peas were quoted Is. cheaper.
No alteration in flour.
WARMINSTER.—There was a large supply of
wheat and ba.dey at our market.. Last week's prices
were maintained, but trade was not brisk. In other
grain tmre was a fair consumptive demand at the
• advanced rates of last week.

HAT AND RI .tAW.
WHITECHAPEL.—A rather large supply of hay
and straw at the nuo•lcet, With a dull trs& prices
were easier : -Prime clover, 100 s. to 140 s. ; inferior
ditto, 8.50. to trw. • prime meadow hay, 00a to 130 s. ;
Inferior ditto, 56e: to Vie.; and straw, 401. to 525., per
load.

TILE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
[wr TILKGRAPH.]

The l'euce and Princere of Wake, with their
childmo, left Dunrobin Castle to-day en route for
GLl.egow. They were enthusiastically received by a
large crowd on arr;ving in Inverness.