The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-15 00:00:00

THE MARKET&

MARK-LANE.
At Mark-lane the business done was about the average.
English a heat was in quiet :equest, but at steady prices.
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Foreign wheat was firm and quite as doer. The flour
market was steady.
suppbes were moderate, about an average business was
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fair demand at steady prices, to an advance of 3d to 6d per
qr. llisize was rather dull and weaker. Beans rose 6d to
Is per q. Peas and lentils unaltered.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
The cattle trade has been dull and weak. The supplies
offering were about ;he average, and were quite up to the
demand, which was at no time active. As regards beas s,
the arrivals from our own grazing districts were toltrab y
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raeLasn, ana prices w re not strong. The
c, of ac;ivity ia the market, even as
clio;cest Scots and crosses real sed 4s 4d to 4s ad per 8110,
Fore.gn b asts were in fair supply and slow request, at
al out last ae k's prices. In the sheep pens w s a f irly
o d Rho.v of sheeo. The trade was dull, especially for
heavy breeds, which were only saleab e on lower te,ms.
The best Downs and half-breds reached 58 10u to 6s per
blb. Calves and pigs were quiet, at late rates. _Prices -
Coarse and Ulterior eeasts, 3s 2d to Is led; second quality
ditto, Is 10d to 48 2,1; prime large oxen, 48 40 to
45 ad; ditto Scots, &c., 4s 4d to 45 6d; coa. se anf inferior
sheep, 45 Od to 4s 611; second quality ditto, 48 6d
to Is ed ; prime coarse-woolled ditto, 55 4d to 58 Sd
prime Southdown ditto, 58 Ki to 68 Od ; large coarse
calves, Is 8d to 48 411; prime small ditto, 4.9 ed to Is 44;
large hogs, 2s 4d to Is 411; neat small porkers, 3s 64 to
4s 84 per Elb to Bnk the offal. Total supply Beasts,
4050; sheep and lambs, 10,530; calves, 130; milch
cows, 30. Foreign: Beasts, 3to. From the midland,
home and western counties we received 2220 beasts',
from Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, 70; from Ireland,
and from Scott ;ad, 9 ; lzu,asts.
METIfOYOLITAI4 MEAT MARKET.

The supply was in excess of the demand, trade being gene-
rally slow at annexed rates :—lnferior beef, 28 to ad ;
middling ditto, 25 84 to 3s 0d ; prime ditto, 3s 44
to 38 hd ; Scotch ditto, 3s 8,1 to 4s Od ; American
(Liverpool killed), 35 24.1 to 38 6d; American knied,
hindquarters, 35 id to Is id ; Amencau killed, fore-
quarters, •ts ild to 2s 4d ; English veal, 48 24 to 4. 81;
Dutch ditto, 3s Od to 4s cd ; inferior mutton, 28 44
to Be Cd.; middling ditto, 38 41 to 48 d ; prime
ditto, 4s 2d to 48 lid; Scotch ditto, 48104 to Is 2d
New Zealand ditto, 28 8d to 35 Od ; large port, 2. 10.1
to 35 24; small ditto,
.39 841 to de 24 per Eab, by the
carcase.
FISH.

Fair fripplics and moderate trefde. Turl-nt, 45 to 18,3
orill, 45 to be ; cod, 4s to 105; skate, 5s to Is; red mudet,
Id to is &Peach ; salmon. 2s 4d • soles, is; eels, bd to 9d
per lb; plaice, 18s to 25s ; haddocks, 323 ; whitimr, Bs;
sprats, 6s per box, 5s per pad; smelts, is to 5s per
basket ; flounders, 2s flol per quartern ; herrings, 7s per 100;
Glasgow ditto, 25a per box; lubsters, Is to is 6d; crabs, Is
to:3a 6d each.
POTATO.

There was a moderate supply of potatoes on sale. A
dull trade prevailed, at the annexed rates:— Magnum
bonums, 70s to 90d; regents, 80s to 1108; Hebrons,
808 to 1108; Victorias, 70s to Ka ; champions, 70s to Ws;
Ge man r.ds, 60s tn 70$ per tnn.

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