LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1453, 30 May 1912, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. (Maatcrton branch), report :-Wc had a fair entry of sheep and cattle. There was a large attendant of buyers, and competition was again spirited, nearly all the pens being cleared under the hammer. Fat and forward ewes brought from lis. Oil. to lte. 4d.; fair-con-ditioned empty ewes, 9s. 3d.; forward woolly lambs, 9s. Id. to lis. 3d. Fifty woancr steers and heifers, ou account of Messrs. Percy Eros.,_ made £2 65.; springing heifers, to £5. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At our liaumsi sale, held on Tuesday, we submitted a good yarding of sheep and cattle to a large attendance of buyers. fioth sheep and cattle met with a keen demand, and we have .to report a. total eviaranoo at prices in favour of vendors. Ewe lambs, lis.: mixed lambs, 9a„ 9s. 2d.. 9s. 9d. to 9s. lid.; culls, ewes in lamb, 9s. 3d.; three-year bullocks, £5 !55.; 20-month steers. £3 to £<S Os. 6d.; fat heifcrs, £5 25.; store cows. £2 10s. to £3 Is. 6d.; woa-ner heifers, 3Ds.; mir.od weaners. 235.; dairy oows, £5 7s. 6d. 1o £6; springing heifers. £4 ss. io £5 17s. 6d. A lino of particularly nice Jersoy-IfSisteiu cross .'-.pringing heifers, £7 15s. We also offered the who',? of Mr. A. Ihnloin's dairy herd and heifers and cows, v.hirli were n par-' ticularlv choice lot. These sold at, prices ranging from £7 to £15: the whole herd averaging £M lis. Two-year springing heifers, nn account of the snnv? vendor, made £6 17s. 6d„ £8. £8 55.: wciucr Jersey heifers. £3 19s. A herd of cows offered on account of Mr. 11. C. Sandilands av?roged £7 7s. Gd„ and a line of cows, offer?d on account of Mr. M'lionald, averaged £8 10=. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd.. report on their liohnsonvillc sale as follows :~A good yarding of bullocks and slvep came forward, nnd sold .nt late rstc=. The sheep were of only m»c>ini« nualitv. Prime bullocks, £9 !os. to £9 16= ■ lidit. £9 to £9 55.: medium wethers. \n:-. 6d. to 16s. lid.; medium ewes. ]h. M. to Hs, lid-; rhln. lis. '..■> 15s. s<-j.: prim" limbs, Ifo, 81J EOOd lftH2J»i i?{. tO Us. ii,