STETENS AND GORTON'S STOCK REPORTS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 35, 25 March 1884, Page 2

STETENS AND GORTON'S STOCK REPORTS.

■' At our sale at Bulls oh the 18th instant we yarded pyer' 1 40 head of cattle, 8500 sli'eein, and -sbme half- bred ram*, by 'pure ■merino ranis, oufr'df Lincoln ewes. There 'was no improvement in the price of cattle, and sheep were, if anything, lower, which isfin some measure to be attributed to the cpnipulsory week's notice which has to be given before sheep can be .sent to the Wangii'nui .district. Most of the lots, jiowever, 1 were" disposed • ot under the haminferi 7 and after at following' rates:— r Small; beef,- £5; 2-yr steers, £2 4s: 6d ; mixed cattle, 20s ; weanersjt; A3s ; . , fat wethers, -10s.; : ewei»r;7 s to 9s 6d ; ew«"B,-58^d'to.78;^w.ethers, 7s*ld to 9s 2d; lninW^g^^^Sb/'^rhaJf-lwedrain^ from i guinea to 1| guineas. We held our first, sale CheltehKam on 21st inntant. Mr'Stewart, of the Cheli teßhaih^Hotelil 'deiierves/ great? eredil for the excellent yards he ha« erected , ther^, and me quality of the stodk eiitered'spok* y«)l«n<es;for>th«» character of, the district hs regards cattle nnd sheep. { 165 s ; hq»<tl V>f .cnttle anH 7QQ sli-Pp were yarfled; ;W\b;e^ttendanpe .f bnyers rC w.as, s.ipaU, i ad weflerepnl.v able toquitafe^ lots, but (at the reque-tt of the settlers we purpose ■ holding another sale in a month, when ■jjeb, descriptions of stock as were offered ,Mfn shtmldfind a ready market.' ■ . '_ '