LIYE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1962, 20 January 1914, Page 10

LIYE STOCK SALES.

Mr. Newton Kin?, in his weekly report, saya:—At Vaiwukaiho on January 9 I had only a small entry, which sold as follows: —Coloured fifte.c-u-iiionths heifers, £3 10s.; bulk, £A 155.; store cows. .« Is. to £4 Ke.< forward eows. up to £5 Bs.: fat cows. £J 19.=. to £6 5?.; cows and calves, £4 76. 6d. to £5 17s. At. TJrenul on January 12 there waa a. fair yardins of cattle-, with several pens of sheep. Competition, on the latter was keen, every Den beini placed at the hammer. There was an improvod inquiry for cattle, most of the yardinc: bcins clcated'at the followinz prices :—Weauer steers, £1 15s. 6d.. £1 35., 17a.; mixed wcaners, £111=.; ye-a-rUnc to fifteen-months heifers, £2 55.. to £3.45.: ronch fifteen-months etccr?, £2 14s. 6d.; small store cows, £2.73. to £3 35.; store cows, £4 9s. and, £4 10?.; forward cows, £5. 17i3.; fat cows. £6 14s. and' £6 16a.; two-year steers, £4 Is. 6d.; two and a, half-year steers. £4 10?. to £4 155.: bulls. £3 I??.'6d. to £5 55.; sprinElns heifers. £5 &r. 6d. to £6 !os.; dairy cows. £5 ss. and £5 7s. 6d.;' f.m. ewes, and lambs, 17s. 6d.; mixed two-tooths wothersl, 14s. 3d.: fat and forward ewes (four-tooth -up'i. 14s. 3d.: lambe, Bs. 9d. and Us. lid.; weancr pies. 4s. to 10s. On, January 13, at Ttohotu. there was a nice entry «f cood-conditioncd saleable cattle- and strone; competition throughout. practically everything yarded being' cleared at tho hammer. Wcauer e'eeis mode £1 Vs. 6d. and £1 10s.; wcaner heifers, £1 Bs.; other small Unci-, r.ot .so forward, did not retch vendors' reserves; yearlins heifers, £2 3s. to,£3 6=.: coloured, £3 18s. to' £4: small or bad sorts. £1 to £1 13s. 6d.: vearline to fifteen-months it.eer«, £3 l£o. 6d., £3 lis., £3 10s.. £2 is.; two-year steers. £4 2s. to £4 10s.: bull's. £5 7s. f-d. to £7 ts.; nice pen of forward two and a halfyear bullocks. £6 6=. 6d.: fat heifers, £5 6«.. £5 IDs. 6d.; pair, workinj: bullocks, £2.0; aze.d cows or small stores, £1 10s. to £3 11,'.: good store cows, £4 175., £4 165.,. £4 155., £4 135.. £4 10s., £4 95.; £4 f3.. £4: - forward and fat cows (all ' ar.. cnrdinE to size anrt condition), £7 10s.. £7. £6 165.. £6 os.. £6 55..' £6 4s„ £6 .«.. £5 If?.' 6d.. £o '15.9., £5 175., £5 13s. 6d.. £5 13«., £5 lis. 6d.. £5 10.=.; £5 9s. 6d„ £5 Bs. 6d.V fis.fi?.. £5 5=.. £4 19s. 6d.

Tho .'New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd.. report:—Wc had our monthly sale, at Pongaroa. on Thursday. when, wo submitted a good yarding of. both sheep and cattle. Competition throughout .the stile was keen, and wo' mado'almost a, total clearance, at prices v;h'ich must have been most satisfactory to tho vendors. Two-tooth wethers brought from'lis. sd. to 15f>. 7d.; f.m. ewes, 9s. <d. to lis.; fat cows. £5 10s. to £6 55.; three-, year-old steers, £-6 155.; two and a half-year, steers. £4 15s. to £5 lCs.; yearling steers,. £2 13s. to £3 10s.; store cows. £3 17s. 6d. to. £4 2s. fid.; cows with calves, at foot, £5 145.; two-year empty heifers, £4 12s. 6d. At Eketahuna, on Friday .the. firm had a very -fair entry of'cattle. Bidding was fairly animated. Wc mads a- good clearance at the following prices:—Stora cows, £3 lte. 6d. to- £4 £s.: light-, fat- cows, £5 IW.: cows and calves.. £4 165.; yearling hcifens, £2 17s:; two-year empty .heifers, £-3 to.; bull, £4 10s.