The Stock Market.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 246, 26 February 1894, Page 2

The Stock Market.

Messrs Gorton and Son report as fol« lows under date February 24 :—We are glad to be able to report a- decided improvement in prices of sheep, and a very spirited sale, as our sheep fair at Feilding yesterday unrbistakeably proved. We yarded over 7000 sheep, and sold considerably over 6000, chiefly under the ham* mer, and at prices in nearly every case in excess of vendors' reserves. The class of 6heep yarded was good, and good ewes will find a ready market. Mr D. Pownes* 2 tooth Lincoln ewes were justly much admired, and after spirited bidding were knocked down to Mr G. Pemberton at 12« 7d, and his 4 -tooth to fnll-inouth ewes brought from 9s 6d to 10s Id. The demand for wethers, however, was not so great. Mr A Levett's excellent pen of wethers should have sold; this is bard to understand, because unquestionably they are a class of stock which will shortly be in good demand. Oar sale at Hunterville was a fairly good one throughout ; but at Campbelltown, where there were Jarge entries, it was dull for cattle but brisk tor sheep. Our quotations are ; Cattle.- Hunterville 18-month, £2%^ 6d : 3-year heifers, M 4s ; mixed cattle, £2, Campbelltpwu,— Milkers Yanqus prices, from £ 4 12s 6d to 4& * JS-naonHaa steers, £2 ?s ; 2ryear steers, £% J6s ,• yearlings, 89s; weaners, 255. tQ gQs; calves, 14s 6d to 19s 6d ; forward pqwa, £3 5s to £3 18s.. Sheep.— Huntorville— Breeding ewes, 5s 6d to 8s 9d ; 2-tooth wethers, 6s 9d to 8s 4d ; lambs, 4s 6d. Campbelltown. — Lambs, 4s 9d ; f .in. ewes, 4s 6d. Feilding. — 2-tooth ewes, various prices, from 6s 7d to 12s, 7d ; 2tooth wethers, 7s to 8s ; fat wethers; ,9s lOd ; Komney ewes, 2-tooth to fan., 10s; breeding ewes mixed age, various prices is 7d to 10s Id ; lambs, 8s 8d to 5s Id ; >kl ewes, 3s Id to 4s 6d ; Koainey ramp, IJ- to 1$ guineas; Lincoln rams, £1 Is o £2 2s.