COMMERCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 74, 1 December 1885, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

STEVENS AND GORTON\S STOCK EEPORT.

# Since our last report wo have held two successful stock sales at Feilding en the 24tk, and at Bulls on the 26th, when we held the usual annual sale of stock on behalf of Messrs Fraser and Dalrymple. At Feilding though we did not yard so many as advertised owing to some not coming forward, the yards were well filled, and the cattle sold remarkably well. Sheep were dull, but we quitted a few pens. Prices— Beef, £6 2/6 to £6 5/-; forward bullocks, £5 5/- ; 18-mo to 2-yr steers, £3 12/6 ; cows and heifers, £2 10/6; yearlings and 18-mo (mixed), £2 7/- ; fat sheep in wool, 11/6; fat mixed sheep, 7/-; colts, £3. We had a large attendance at the annual sale on the 26th, when we had the pleasure of offering about 500 head of cattle and about 1000 sheep, and the reserves as usual being low, we quitted everything excepting a couple of pens for which value was not offered. The prices obtained were very satisfactory — those of the cattle being up to former sales, but for sheep decidedly lower. A grand lot of horses were offered, 13 of which were sold, and were quitted at rates decidedly in favor of the purchasers, but the vendors are determined to make their annual sale one where the public can obtain firstclass stock at moderate rates. Prices — Beef, £6 1/- ; 4-yr bullocks, £4 15/- to £5 ; 2J-yr steers, £3 12/6; speyed heifers, £3 8/- to £3 14/- ; fat cows £4 15/-; cows, £2 16/-; yearling steers, £2 5/-; puro bred bulls sold without reserves at £2 2/to £9 9/- ; fat shorn wethers, 7/6 to 8/8 ; fat sheep, 7/3 ; fat half bred sheep, 7/- ; young draughts, L 8 10/- to LlO 10/-; hacks, L 4 10/- to Ll3.