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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2046, 5 April 1907, Page 2

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MATAWHERO SALES. There was a fair attendance at the Matawliero saleyards yesterday, the market for sheep being oil the whole better than last week, and good lines (especially wethers) selling well. A number' of lines passed found purchasers later on. Messrs. Common, Shelton and Co. and Dalgety and C'o., who bad a yarding of over 4500 slieep, made the following sales:—l6l fat owes 14s Id, 110 store wetliers 32s 9d, 135 fat wethers 15s 9d, 134 black-faced ewes 7s 3d, 115 owes low in condition 3s, 168 owes 0s lOd, 496 ewes 5s 9d, 1000 lambs (mixed sexes) 9s, 213 fat and forward owes 9s 3d, 1240 good wethers passed, 347 woolly lambs 7s 9d, 18 small lambs 3s. Pigsj A small entry sold as follows: One bacon pig £2, 1 fat sow 355, 3 porkers 365, 3 do. 32s 6d, 3 sows 225. Messrs. Williams and Kettle, the Loan and Mercantile Company, and Murray, Roberts and Co. had a yarding of over 6000 sheep, the prices realised being: 42 fat owes 13s, R. Hill; 290 owes ss, Geo. Witters; 30 ewes 4s 3d, Von Pein ; 25 small wether lambs 4s, J. Atkins; 69 fat and forward ewes. 8s 3d, R. Hill; 72 owes ss, E. Knight; 45 do. 6s 6d, E. Knight; 40 do. 9s, Russell; 47 good owes 10s, Russell ; 47 ewes 5s Cd, G. Wittors; 8 lambs 3s lOd, W. Atkins; 19 ewes 4s, Long; 59 ewes 4s 9d, Lougher; 50 fat wethers 14s 6d, J. Hunt; 103 two and four-tooth wethers 13s 9d, A. B. Newman; 12S four, six, and eight-tootli ewes 10s 6d, Russell; 130 good ewes 10s Id, P. McLoughlin; 70 fat owes 12s 2d, R. Hill; 74 owes 9s 3d, Jt. C. Miller; 56 old ewes -ss, G. Witters; 6 wethers 13s Id, J. McKenzie; 19 fat owes 11s lid, D. Gordon ; 94 ewes 8s 9d. J. Russell; 96 cull ewes 2s, J. Hunt; 81 lambs ss, N. File; 10 Border Leicester rams 265, Korendine. Cattle: Over 300 bead were yarded. mostly beef and young stock, the prices realised being: 89 forward bullocks £5 7s Gd, Holden Bros. ; 16 steers £2 13s, Mullaney; 13 bullocks £t Bs, A. B. Newman; 13 station cows £1 12s 6d, G. Witters; 18 do. £1 2s 6d, G. Witters; 7 beef bullocks £6 4s, N'elsou Bros. ; 8 beef cows £4, D. Gordon ; 7 beef bullocks £6 Is, D. Gordon ; 8 light beef cows £3 10s, D. Gordon; 6 beef heifers £3 15s, Judd Bros. ; 7 forward steers £2 12s 6d, G. Witters; 7 light beef cows £4, J. Maynard; 3 light beef steers £3 los, Judd Bros. ; 1 beef cow £4. J. Maynard; 6 do. £4 ss. D. Gordon: 13 prime beef bulloc-ks £6 3s Gd, Nelson Bros. ; 1 steer £3 11s, Judd Bros.; 1 do. £2 14s, Thomson: IK21 K 2 steers £3 los. Mullaney; small do. £1 13s Gd. F. Reid; lo heifers £1 12s 6d, G. Witters: 1 beef heifer £3 17s, J. Maynard: i calves £l, Craig; 6 young cattle £l. 10s, Craig. Press AssociationNAPIER, last night. The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company cabled to-dav: Prices are unchanged at the Lo>-Uon frozen meat market.