LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 878, 26 July 1910, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited (Wanganui branch)! report having hold clearing sales during the past week on account of, Messrs. Palmer Bros., Whenuaknra, and Mr. .T. M. fl"iggic, No. 2 Line: The report states:—At Palmer Bros.' s.alo on Tuesday we offered a large selection' of shsop. store and dairy cattle, horses, and sundries, There was. a. large attendance of buyers, and bidding throughout was spirited, and wo have to report a most successful sale. The- sheep were a particularly good lot, the e\ve.i making up to 19s. 2d. Competition for tho dairy- stock was very keen, good sorts selling up to £10 ss. A. large and varied assortment of implements sold particularly well, in somo instances making right up to new prices. At Mr. Biggie's on .Thursday, we again had a good attendance, and. a successful sale. Quotations:—Palmer Bros.' sale: Twotooth ewes, in lamb, 18s. lid. to 19s. 2d.: four and six-tooth ewes, do.. 18s. 9d.; sixtooth do., 18s. 3d.; four and six-tooth and f.f.m. ewes in lamb, 16s. 4d.; dry ewes, 12s. 2d.;-store wethers, 15s. 4d.; mixed hoggets, 12s. 10d., 13s. .43:;. cull hoggets, 7s. 6d.;. full-mouth Eoinncy rams, 18s. to £1 Bs.; Lincoln rams, to £2 25.; forward bulloeks. £7 9s:;-store bullocks,- £5 Its. 6d.; cows and- calves, £5 55.; eightcen-months steer, £3 Bs. 6d.; empty cows, ; £3 6s. 6d.; vcarlings, £2 :17s, 1 Cd.i dairy cows, good sorts, £7 to £10 ss.';. others, £4 7s. 6d. to £6 10s.; springing heifers,.£s to £6 10s.; horses, draughts,, two-year allies, £15 ,1.0 £21. 155.; geldings, l broken to all .work, £17 to '£18 Ids.-, Shetland pony, .£l2 10s.; hacks, £5 15s. to £11 Ms. Harness, implements, etc., all sold well up. to. market rates. : Mr.. Eiggie's sale: Breeding ewes, 13s. 3d., to 13s.' sd.'j fat and forward ewes, Us. 5d.; springing heifers, £4 18s. to £5; dairy cows, £5 12s: 6d., £6, £6 10s. to £8 2s. 6d.; young draught 'horses, £7 to £7 155.; young .hacks, £2 10s. to £3 to £7. A large assortment of sundries sold at tho usual rates.