COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1842, 24 August 1906, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

SALE AT MATAWHERO YARDS.

ALL CLASSES OF STOCK IN GOOD DEMAND.

The gloiiouj wca'her which prevailed yesterday had tha t fl-.ct of drawing logoiher a largo attcndarce at tbo M- t-iwhero salts, and there was keen competition for the lots offered.

Messrs WiPams and Kolt'o report that in cot;j-motion with the New Z island Loan and Mercantile Company they held their usual asle at Ma'awhero yesterday, thero bei'. g a large aUsndaccj of buyer-. Competition vvai remarkably biite throughout, and almost every let was so’d at prices tightly in advance cf previous abler. There wii3 a goad ontiy cf .-limp. Eat ewes in fahly lirgu lines made up lo 17s I 3J, whilst two fat pet sheep sold at 19s and 225. Ewes iu lamb ranged from lls yd to 21s 2J, and owes with iambs ut foot log to 20s 9J. Hoggets sold from 9j Id

to Ms 2d. There was a goad general yardirg of citric, aid there was so improved d:m»nd, dairy stock crptcially being ragetly soughs alter. Tho following salsa were n corded : Sheep : Pen of sound month ewes in

lamb 17. r 91, II W. B s;k ; U 3 owes and 19 lambs 15u D. Laugher; 18 ewte in lamb 11s 3d, Mm ckion ; 20 ewes in pcor e.inditicn (3, 61, O. Neeuaa; 23 eivca an)

oO lamb* 20 -, D. Graham ; email pen hoggeti 9j 11, C. N-ena-i ; pen ( woi in lamb 21s 21, D, Graham ; -11 owes 10s 3d,

C. Noonan ; 151 big hoggets 12a 3d, Saddler; 20 mixod young sbeep 14i lid, W. Judd ; 29 big hosgots Hs 2d, J. B, Von Pcin ; 1 fat pet sheep 225, D. Malone ; 1 do. 19--, L Duuno ; 1 Romney ram 30s, C, Nren-iu; 19 fat owes 17s 31, D. Gordon ; | 91 twos and lunabs ISs 91, D. G-absta ; j 140 good hoggets 12s Id, Saddler. j Ca t’e : Oi behalf of W, B. Mnrlyn, 14 aprirg;;-g hrii'c.r, one £G lOe, two AO, one £4 10 , ami five 13 15 a D. Malone ; five £5 7 -6), W. Wood. Two springing^cows To 10-, ono springing heifer At 5?, C. Neenao. Oc. aoeouot of Mr A. Gregg, 12 .springing o-vs a* tha fnlluwii-g prices : Ooe £5 12? 9 3, £0 15 >, £0 ss, £i 15i, £5 12s 63, £5 17s 63, £4 5?, C. Neenan ; oue £4 10s, D. Malono ; ono £7, O’Sullivan ;

i ono TO Ids, ,T. Boneon ; ono iu full profit I .£7 tl)-r, Gallagher. Pigs : Porkers 25?, Armstrong ; 5 do, Jills, Armstrong ; 6 d 0.221,9 1, J. Maynard ; 0 pigs 15s, T. O’.Donnell ; one big how, X‘2, ,1. Maynard ; ono sow and suokor 555, one porker itfis. Missis Common, Shelton and Co. and Dalgoly and Co. had a largo entry of sheep, chi, lly a good class of vvothors, for which there was koon competition. 'The lust lot (Uireo hundred odd) realised 17s 9d, going to Mr O. Evans, whilst sma'ler lots sold at from lfi.i 8J to tils (id, sixty-one boivy weights being scoured by Mr A. McKonzio at the latter fignio. Tho firm's entry of I cattle consisted chit lly cl! dairy cows, tho demand for whioh was much better tlinn lat recent sales. On behalf of Mr J. Bnlst fiffom oboion dairy c’vvs (tiro majority being oloso to calving) were oflerod and nr.ld, prices ranging from To 15i up to Till. Hcif.rs in calf sold from Xll All Clio lines offered wore uloarod.