The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-05-11 00:00:00

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BrusroL CORN, THIJILIDAY.—EngIish &him
very small supply, with prices tending in bum' fsrs;
Foreign had only a limited inquiry, without change
value. Grinding barley was ill larger supply, &addict*
fkl per quarter. Maize was also pressed for sale, &ad pa
we" la. Oats unchanged, with a fair dernan& 15
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pais steady, and rather more money paving.
BRISTOL CATTLE, Tit eRSDAY. —There was a modem
supply of beef, but it proved quite sufficient 14 :Is
demand, owing to heavy purchases of American oink,
which realised about 73s per cwt. Best quits'
English made 785, and inferior 70s per cat A Tithe
short supply of sheep, which sold quietly, choice wetles
selling at 10d per lb., and ewes and infenor, at f5l.
sold very slowly at 15 to ls Std per lb. A large suppir 5
store sheep, and they were in fair request. Full show I
milch cows, with • dull sale at a reduction. There ye'
1,500 store cattle, but the cold weather ebe..kei trait
About • thousand pigs came to baud, ani they vet
disposed of at lls 10.1 per score for bacon pigs, &pi
to Us 6,1 for porkers.

SOUTHAMPTON CORN, FRIDAY.- Thin attends:at
to-day's market Wheat, met a arm trade at lan eel',
prices. All feeding stuffs dull, without change. Fier
quiet sale, at last week's quotations: - New skits
(English) -red, XV IN to 114 : white ditto, £lO to LBI4,
grinding barley, 26s to 30s; malting ditto X. 4,44 i 'WA
B's ; beans, 458 to 475; peas, 40* to 411; maise,3oi
34s ; flour, 38s to 40. per sack.
H SOUTAMPToN CATTLE, FRIDAY-There vi
small supply of stock at our to-day's market, aril a rel
demand for things of the best quality, which rted4
changed hands at the following prices: -Beats. lii fdti
15e 641 per score; wethers, 78 to 78 4,1 per 'tone
following were offered :-Beasts, 38; sheep, 310: cilm
21 ; pigs, 180 ; horses, It
LIVERPOOL CORN, FRIDAY. -Marketricael quietlit
attendance-Wheat, red, generally Id per ,ntal lose:
others without change in price; moderate bil.lars 4as
Wiforitiarut. 9s to 198. Indian corn. new mix,-! Awerm
411 iO/d to is 11d. Flour, small business, rate uccbsafei:
Beans, Egyptian, 7s 84 to 7s 9d. Peas, Inure diem. •
4d. Oats, slow. Oatmeal, quiet, rather blower
FR
SIIEPTON MALLET, IDAY. -Wheat, It. t3to
barley. 30s to 495; oats, Sris to pis; beans, 44, to
flour, 39. to Ilk; broad. 64d per 41b loaf. Beef, 1:1,
per score: mutton, 9.1 to 104 per lb. ; veal, 94; lamb,
milk butter, 14s 91 to 15s per dozen; whey ditto, 11,
eggs, 91 per dozen ; potatoes, Is 31 to ls 81 per peck.
-YEOVIL CORN, FRIDAY-Wheat, 40, to 5i,; lerk!.
93e to Xs ; oats, 94s to 28s ; beans, 406 to 54. ; ft or.
405 tier 280 lb.-There was a full attendance, aid, with
decline on the week for foreign wheat, a gosl 1.11011
was done, leaving a better feeling in the trade. Tziglw
wheat scarce and unaltered.

- YEUVlL—Ciffie:'illiDar —There was a good ealli4
of stock, and trade was brisk. Good cows and calve
fetched from £l6 to £23; barroners, £IO to £l4
sold well at high prices—There was a very small lach
cheese; prices were still high.—A large pitch of flax. el
an improvement in the tone of the trade at from al Ceti
£.5 Be per sack.
CHEMICALS —This week ha, not been produrtiw
any improvement in the chemical mai ket.
MINERALS. Reports from this and other at
districts confirm the unsettled state of this Mane,:
trade noted last week. The slightly improved gimp*
demand has almost entirely subsided, and the wow
weather is natutally tending to restrict the requireeso
for house and the commoner sorts of coal. Prier se
again weaker, and sellers and holders have to slake re
siderable concessions in order to relieve thantelees all
portion of their stocks. Very little business is repork42
engine fuel, consumers having Mann Ihn• back leatsa4
their orders in anticipation of better prices. but Os
calculstions in this instance have not been productire
th?.derirtd result,

METALa —ltls very estiellactory to be able to marl!
considerably improved tone from the North of Estee
and Scotch markets. Prices ef pig iron are MT egi
firmer, and in fact. business has been arrsaged on ILO
advanced terms for the 'idiom

CONSERVATIVE VICTORY AT OXFORD.
The polling for Oxford city took place on Saturig
Mr. Hall, the Conservative candidate. was at thehes(
of the poll, the numbers being :—Hall, 2,735: lig
court, 2,BBl—mitiority, 54. At the general elecu,c
month ago Sir William Harcourt polled 2,771 ,44
Mr. Chitty (the second Liberal candidate) 2,e4
Mr. Hall 2,6.59. The victorious candidate I! g
"eminent brewer" in the city.
The Bristol Mercer,/ says :—" That any set of elc
tors could be persuaded within a month, a
' month,' to turn their backs upon themselves sad P. 3
the lie to their previously-pronounced
indeed, astonishing. It will be remembered that tk
Home Secretary in his address to the constageo
spoke of a certain process of ' that
going on amongst the electors, and we perceive by
papers that one of the resident clergymen fuand
necessary to issue a warning to his parishioners ail°
the oorrupticui of bribery, and that the ruagisiro"
Friday grated a summons against a publican tali
alleged very daring act of the sort."
On Saturday, .11. r Herbert Gladstone was
unoppooed for Leeds.

The Cape Pnrliament has been opened by Sir BO
Frees,
It is rumoured among the Turcomans tbat
Berdi Khan, of Merv, has sent or propose' to sco
envoy to the Shah offering a return on the part di
Tekkifie to their former allegiance to Persia.
Will Mehemed, the assassin of the Russian
Colonel Commend, has been found guilty 11
Council of War, and will probably be executcl
week.

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