LIVE STOCK SALES '

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1890, 27 October 1913, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES '

Messrs.. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., PalmeMton North,- report having a small yarding H of'ijoth eheep and cattlo r.t their Feilding f< sale oih Friday, which sold as under:— T ' Quotations': Sheep—Poor ewes and lambs, i' 13s. 3d.; mixed hoggets, 16s. Ed., 15s. 9d. « Cattle: Three-year steers, £6 17s. 6d.; for- tl ward bullocks, £8'60.; steers, £2 195.; bulls, d. £2, £4. ... si Messrs. Dalgoty.' and Co., Ltd., report:— m At our Levin,salo on Friday wo had a . moderate yarding of sheep and heavy j' entry of cattlo. Although bidding wag in- !' dined to bo spasmodic, lato rates wero J fully maintained, tho oatUo market cepeclally showing a' firmer tone, moro buy- ri ers. being present for yourtg stock. Tho £ lato rains no doubt account' for the in- i crossed demand, and with, abundance* of Cl feed bow assured for somo months to ..come, we. look for a, still further increase 01 In prices.. Tho sheep market Tcmains firm 17 at lato rates. Sales effected were as un- J. der:—lHrted-sex hoggets. lfc.; medium liou,'Eets, 143.. -7d.; empty, ewes, 14s. 4d.; fat ewes, £1 3s. to £1 4s. Cattlo: Polled An- iZ •pus amply cows,- £5: thrco and four-year „ bullocks, £6 lfe.; three-year steers, £4; fat ( - ;cows and heifers, (lisht. weights). £5 17b. to £6 35.;, forward co\ya, £4 Is, to £4 45.; .two-year ..empty lieifers, £4 55.; yearling steers, £3 7s. to £3 12s. 6d.; two-year steers, £4 55.; eighteen-montlfe heifere, £0; bulls 1 (a, largo .entry), from £4 to £8; dairy cows, f 0 from £4 "10s. to £5 10s.; vealcrs, £1 10s. to co >.15i. .' ;x . ;• ' „c Messrs. Abraham and .Williams, Ltd., re- T1 port on-their Feilding sale,■ held on Oct-o- vw ber 24:—Owing-to tho very inclement weather, wo had a very'limited yarding of both 'sheep and cattle.. which sold at lato 1 rates. Wo quote 1 :—Ewes and lambs, £1 2s. t 1 lid.; mixed two-tooths, 12s. 6d.; small do., . 1 7s. Cattle: Forward 'cows, £4 9s. to £5 10s.: springing heifers, £4 lCs. to £5 10s.: •cowb and calvai, £3 125.; store cows, £3 Pr to £3 25.; cull cows', 3Cs.; bulls, £2 ss. to s 'l £5. • (in Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At. Lerin oti Friday we had -a good 9? yarding of both sheen and cattle.- There H was keen- competition for sheep. Cattlo J~j met with a dragging sale, but wei quitted ?" the whole of our entry .with the exception :.r v of 3 pens at satisfactory prices. Quotations:'—Springing cows, £6 10s.; snringln<r iP, heifers, £5 10s. to £7; yearling heifers, £2 y; 5«. to. £3 2s. 6d.: small yearling heifers. ' £1 7s. 6d. t» £2 fa.. empty -heifers, £3 J? 55... to £3' 10s.; yearling steers. 28s. to £.2 103.; fat heifers, £6 12s. 6d.; fat cows, £4 7s; 6d. to £6 fat bullocks, £9 6s. to ,i £10 155.;. forward bullocks, £7 ,155.; eight-<vm-mouths steers. £3 145.; fat shorn ewes, 16s. lOd. (o 18V. Jfl.; fat wonllv ewe*. £( 3s. ed.; ft ss. ?d.. £1 85. 5d.:~ fat shorn 'vctl'or?. 195.; fat woolly wether.-'. £1 5c.; 0 / fit lambs, 13s. Irl. to 145.: owes with lamhs, In( £1 2s. id.-to-ft 7s. 3d.: forward ewes, £1; >H hoegets. lfe. 9(1.. 17«., t9s. 3d. to.£l. ~lj Tho. New Zealand Loan, and Mercantile si) Agency, Co.. Ltd.,reportAt Palmerston oxNorth. on .Thursday 1 moderate er.try so'd Tli as. under:—Cattle: Swinging cows, £4 7s. Ai 6d.: : .spri"ging hclf^r*,'£-5 2s. 6d.; vmrlin™ foi rteers, £2 lfe.; eip-'i^^n-irintU heifers, S3 in; lis.; o(. n ro "iws, £3 IBs.; bulls, £2 17s. 6cl. Pr to £5 123. 6d. ' " of At Levin on Friday the New- Zealand A 1 Loa.ii and Mercantile offered a good yard- of ing of' stock. AU classes mot with a keen Is demand, and were sold at satisfactory nn pricp?" to vendors. Jersey wcancr heitcm. cc £2 Es. M.; fifteen-months heifers. £3. £3 th ss. to £3 10s.; .yearling steers. £2 6d. so to £2 lis.; «tor'e cows, £3 to £3 2s.abetter j'f to £1173.; elghtesn months heifers, £3 10s.: '«> heifers, t-o .£4; cows and u 1! eilves £4 1«.: vcalcrs, £1 95.;. fat, cows, tn £6 155.: light, tot bullock-i, £8; young to bulls, £3 lfe; young Jorscy bulls, to£slos. tn "I'll stick'it. I'll not show m.v regi- £,! ment iip," remarked ,1 private ill the 2nd do Batt..Welsh-Regiment, who'wns urfjeil to th fall ont of the ranks because lie had 011s- ta tained piuistroko while marching. Sui> ported by two coniradfs, he inarched to . a( ] within about two hundred yards of th& i,,, barracks, where ho' collapsed. He died 12, tho samoyCvoninE. b" HIGGINSON' & MTCSHME, tf Sharebroken and AcconntaDta, *■"' 113 FEATIIIiRSTON ST.. WKLLfNQXOM. ToloL'rtinWMarmlcn, j hr