LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2118, 8 April 1914, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Mossrs. Dalgflty and- Co., Ltd., report havinc offered a good yarding of both sheep and coUlo at their Eannevirkc. eale on Friday. Sheep wore again in good demand, . and the whole entry was quitted at prices well up to late salo reports. In cattle the principal entries comprised* fat and forward bullocks and cows which were offered and sold on account, of Mr. Jonathan Holden, Hakotuku, nt highlv satisfactory prices. The following ie a list of prii'ss rcalis-ed:—Shcey: Oull lambs, '4s. to 65.; medium lambs, 76. to 95.; good shorn lambs, to 12s. 7d.; good woolly lambs to 12s. 4d.; cull ewe 3, to 7s. 2d.; medium two-tooth ewes, 14s. to 143. 6d.; ditto wethers, 155.; mixed-age breoding cwe°, 143 4d. to 15s. Gd.; four and six-tooth wethers lfc. id. Cattle: Small weanore, £1 os. 6d.'to £1 45.; best lines, £2 Is.; two-ycar-oi" steers (medium colours), £4 19.; fat cows, £6 to £7 45.; fat hcifer3, to £6 55.; three-year etecre (bad- colours), £7; fat, forward bullocks, £8 83.. £8 11s., to £9 7s.

6i.. ' The Now Zealand-Loan ond Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report :-At Hiroatanjcl on Monday we had a. good yardinft of cattle, and have to report a (rood sale at late rates. Quotations: lieno lambs, Hβ. 9d.; fat lambe. 15s. C<ittle: Small wcanTS. 17s. 6d. to £1 33. 6d.; mixed wconers; £1 5a., £1 75., £1 Bs.; B ond woaner heifers, £1 16a.: good wcaner stoers. £1 lis. 6d.: aucd etore cows, £1 10s. to £2 lCs.; forward cows, £4 to £4' 10s.; fat cows, £5 la. £5 9a., to £5 10a.: bulls. £3 to £5 10s. Piffa: Wcanera, 75.. 10s. 3d., and 10s. 9<i.: Berkshire boar, £2 2s.

PAHIATUA. CATTLE FAIK. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Limited, Po.hiatua, report on their outumn eattlo fair, held at Pahialua, as follows:—An exceptionally heavy yarding camo forward, upwards of 28G0 head being submitted to public competition, which was BCO in exccc3 of advertised numbers. Tho shenn pens and paddocks adjoining tho yard« had to be mode lisa of. In addition to this tho yards opposite owned by Messrs. Dalgcty nn.4 Co. and tho New Zealand Loan Company were filled, and we have to thank thoeo companies for their courtesy in'allowing us the use of them. On tho whole the nuality *•«,* exceptionally cood and distinctly creditable to tho district, several hundred head of crown bullocks in forward condition boinc yarded. The attendance was "unusually large, Mirers from "a.'distance bcine prominent. Hawko'a Bay and tho Wairnropo, bcinK 3t.ror.ely represented. The fily opened oulotb and a- few.pens passed in at auclloß, 'but livened up considerably, itv

votme fettle especially made very liikli : price?.: Messrs. Smith and Dawson topped the rtarket with an. extra Rood pen of forty ■ bisc-framcd .sappy bullocks ct £10. Other . sa-lcs of good bullocks worthy of mention wore 50 on behalf of Mr. Harry Cornelius ' £8 155., 20 on account of Mr. John Burch £8 Kβ. 50 on account, of Mrs. Frank Bur- , line £5, and 31 on account of Mr. G. H. ( Scale's £B ss. lira. Burlinir also sold a line of 86 two and a half-year Polled Angus eteers in forward condition at £7 los. 6d., and He. T). TV. Allen 15 steers of , the same age £6 15s. 6d. Mr. 0. H. Druco (Kumcroa) sold 21 cows and calves at £7. ■Forward bullocko, several pens sold at £8, £8 In. 6d., £8 55.. £8 10s.. £8 123. 6d.. £8 155.. and ud to £10 according to duality end condition.; store bullocks, £7 lite., £7 165.; tlirce-year steers. JE6 75.. £5 10s.. £6 125.. SA 155., « 17s. 6d.. £7. to £7 Ui. two and a half-year stcere, £5 10s.. £5 155., £6 Is., £6 25., £6 45., £6 15s. 6d., end up to £7 Us. 6d. for an extra Rood lot of Polled Angus cattle; cightecn-raontlis steers, £4 11s. to £5 Is., according to uuitlity' and condition; yearling steers, £3 10s. to £3 155.; mother-reared weaners, £1 to £1 65., aad from £1 Us. to £1 l6s. for better eorts; cowe and calves, £6, Is. to £7. and dow* to £5 for an inferior lot: cull breeding cows, £5 to £i 10s.; forward cows. £4 10s.. £5 155.. and lip to £6 ss. for best-conditioned lots; store cows, £2 106. to £3 155.; ciehteen-months dairy lieifers, £3 10s. to £4 165.; two and a naifyear dairy heifers. £5 to £5 55.; empty dairy heifers, £5 10s. to £4.