LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1002, 17 December 1910, Page 13

LIVE STOCK SALES.

:—«■ — an ~ ®°- report-.—At our sa i®, a ' Dannevirke yesterday theio was a fair entry of sheep, anil a mlftS!) y £ pt cattl0 ' which v?as-sub-mitted to a large attendance ot buyers. i?„ B i WaS i? p - n 'i t . e<l ' and tho sale through--1 a brighter tono than at recont roin S ',..E°? < ? ? n .account o£ the heavy rain vt inch Is being experienced all over •tf 'i s ' lee P not show any api'r^vanC(}.ou last quotations, but r?tS g S? ? r fu \ considerably hicher rates. Two-tooth wethers sold at IPs. 9d • ™ ewe ( s - ?s. 6d. : small two and four: in? ii/i ?i if' »' tat an< * for ward ewes, i-u : fat ewoß ' lls - Bd.; ditto withers, 13a.; light, fat bullmkn, £6 10s.; ditto cowa, £5 10a.; ditto heifers, £5; for?Snt„ cm J ty h li fe r s ' £4 £4 ICb -: forward empty oows, £4 <s. to £4; 13 store cows, «f? ■ «" s i : , COWB calves, £3 Bs. to i 3 6d.; dairy cows, £4 15s. to £5 55.; springing heifers, £5; two-year heifers, £3 is.; fifteen-month heifers, £2 lis, to 17. IZ3-i,ye^rlll?Bl Z3 -i, ye^rl I 1 ?B Btcera and heifers, £2 j?j ■ O'Shteen-month steers, £3 9s. to piss 8s m weauers, 295.; weaner

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report;—At Shannon, yesterday wo had a small yarding of sheep, and a good yarding of cattle.- All stock mot with a ready sale, and brisk competition, and the SriSlS :!' as;so , ld at tho following pnoos;—Ty-o-tooth wethers, 135.: fat ewes, 13s. 6d.; two,and a half to three-year steers, £4 lis., £4 lfe., to £5 4s. 6d.; twelve to fl£teen : month steers, £3 6s. to £3 Us. 6d.; yciu'ling steers, tj2 135.; weaner steers, mixed yoarlinßs, 3«s. 6d. to £-2; springing heifers, £4 155.; springing cows. £7 55.; empty heifers, £3 125.; fat cows, £5 65.-, store pi?s, lis. 6c!., 12s. 6d., to 14s. Tho New Zealand, loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. (Feilding branch) report for tho week ending December 17 as follows; At' Hangiwahia oh AVednoßday we had a Bmall entry of sheep, which sold readily. No cattle camo forward. Wo quotei-Jfedium two-tooth wethers, Us. 5d.pood miied two-tooths, 12s. Ud. At ing yesterday wo had a good entry of sheep, and a small entry of cattle. Wo effected a total clearance of sheen at advanced rates, and cattle sold well up 'to lato rates. Cull ewes and lambs (all counted), 65.; cull two-tooth ewes, 9s. 6d.; twotootli ewes, lis. lid., 12s". 2d., 13s. 5d., to 13s. 7d.; sniall two-tooth wethers, Us. 9d. • others, 13s. sd. to 15s. 7d.; owes and lambs! <Jls. 6a.;, mixed weaners, 225. 6d.s vearlinp steers, £2 25..; empty cows, £3 13s. fid.; fat heifers, £5; fat cows, £6; bulls. £2 lfl. to £5 ss,

.-Mr. Kewton Kind's weekly stock report is as follows:—At TJronui on lionday yearling lieifors made £3 to £3 2s. 6d.: voarling steers, £2 10s. to £3 55.;- eight-cen to twenty-months do., £3 lis. to £3 15s. Gd • two-year do., 7s. 6d.; heifers, R.W.8., .7 ' 8 - «d. to £4 65.; do., Jersey strain, £4 & S ' ; c ? W3 V^ 0 15s V J to £3 17s -i do., £4 -7s, to £4 12a. 6d.; fat do., £5 • S r 9? B t!!. s fS 0 ' ,f Au S 10s - , £7 10s - : bu "'s. i" is. to ±4. On tho same day at Douglas yearling steers made £3 45.; empty heifers. £3 6s. to £3 195.; store cows, £2 16s. I s 15s -i forward do., £4 4s. to £4 135.; fat do,, £5 Eg.; three to three and a halfyearßtoers, £5 155.; bulls, £4 7s. Cd. At Stratford on Tuesday there was a fair yarding. Bidding was brisk throughout, with an unsatisfied demand, and good realised. Yearling heifers made £3 2n ; fifteen-months do., £3 Bs. 6d. 5? eightcen-months to two-year do., K.W.8., £3 125. 6d. to £3 18s. 6d.j fif-teen-months steers, £3 9s. 6d.; eighteen, months do., good duality, £4 os. 6d.; store fvl ? s ' 6d - i f° r «ard do., £4 4s. to £4. 165.; fat cows, plain, to £5 10s.; thre* and a half-year bullocks, £6 os.; stags, £5 2s. to £5 10s. 6d.; bulls. £3 Bs. to £5. On the same day, at the springing !n?H r S r ??' I 1? 110 ? 5 ' cloß o w. mad© £5 10s. to «,{ 17e. 6d.; later do., £3 15s. to £4 15o.; heifers, at profit, £4 7s. 6d. to £7springing cows. £3 15s. to £6 10s.; cows at profit, £4 10s. to £7 15a. At Stoiy' Bh4 on Wednesday, there was a fair yarding, and practically everything was sold at the hammer, or afterwards. Yearling heifers mado £2 16s. 6d. to £3 55.; fifteenmonths d 0.., £3 12s. 6d.: yearling steers, £2 15s. 6d.i eighteen-months heifers, 8.W.8., £3 193. to £4; two-year do., £4 95.; stci'e cows, £3 to £3 18s. 6d.; fonvard do., £4 £s. to £4 18s. j fn.t cows, £5 3s if) 11c . bulls, £3 7s. Cd. to £6. ' ls ' :

AUCKLAND STOCK PEICES. (By Telegraph.—Sjjecial Corrcepondent.l rpt „ „ , Auckland, December 16. a J™, r w 201111111(1 Loan and Mercantile Agency Company roport:-At. the Westfleld yards on wo held our weekly Bale of fat stock. There was a good yarding, and prioes were lower than last week Pj? e '„? old „ to 23'-,6d. per 1001b.; cowsi tn -PI9-19." isl SOld at from f6 7s - SifO •n I : cows alld heifers, £3 10s. t! t werc Penned in moro than f Lumbers, and sold at late rates. Is To 3sf"Ll° ( !d £ L l7s - : mediSms i^S.. to 355.; lißhter, 3s. 6d. to 15s. Tho Sheep pons were well filled, and sold at !!' 11 . 8 nuotations. Wethers sold at from 14s. to 18n. 9d.; owes, lis. Cd. to 17s Lambs wero yarded in fair numbers inti sold at from lis. to 14s. 9d, for tho Iwstother sorts, sa. to 9s. 9d. Pi gs wero S rates? ™ numbers, and sold at lato

TW ,Tw ger ot i th< ? Traininir ■«! i.. < oreroa desires to express his tuanks ior donations of papers, pcriodieals, books, etc;, which will provo useful milted to the boys, and help, to pass the brae profitably. Mr. ,T. Darling, the Marine Institute, tho Public Library, the p! Vl i' 'h TVI S? C l ub ' tho Men's Club, the Boy Scouts, Mr. E. C. Hall and particularly Constable Young, who has taken great interest in taking the matter up, and Mr. Arnold, ,T.P„ who was good enough to receive and forward tho goods. The Blonde—"I wonder it I shall ever a 'hundred. Tho. Brunette.iNol' if 3*<i*a remain 22 much jongcr/' A poisonous spider, i inches,in width, of tho variety which feeds on humming: birds, has been presented to tho Guildford Museum by a London grocer's assistant, who found it on his apron. It is behoved to haro been imported -in a crate of bananas.