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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2114, 13 February 1908, Page 3

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AIATAAA'HEItO STOCK (SALE. A DEPRESSED AIARKET. There wms a fair attendance at the Alatawhero stock sale yesterday, but bidding was not very brisk, a large number of sheep being passed in. The market was very much the same as lasit week. No improvement is expected in the demand for store sheep until yesterday’s rain has made its effects felt. Following wUs the range Of .prices:—.Ewes 6s Id to 11s, wethers 13s, ewes and wethers 6s 2d, lambs 4s 5d to Ds 3d, steers £2 11s to £6 10s, cows £2 10s -to £5 Is, heifers £2 Is to .£2 7s 6d. Following are .the principal sales: Sheep : 16 lambs 9s 3d, 24 lambs 6s 9d. 117 lambs 6s sd, 149 lambs 6s, 117 lambs 4s 9d, 13 small lambs 4s sd, 60 fat ewes 11s, 14 f.at ewes 10s 6d, 31 ewes 7s 6il, 400 ewes 7s, 267 owes 6s 6cl, 107 -two-tooth ewes 6s Id, 29 ewes and wethers 6s 2d, 50 fat wethers 13s, 875 four-tooth wethers 13s, 10-two-t-ooth Shropshire rums 1-i guineas, 5 rams 5 guineas. Cattle: 6 steers £6 10s, 7 steers £6 os, 6 light beef steers £6, 20 steers £4 18s 6d, 52 steers £3 12s 6d, 64 steers £2 11s, 8 cows £5 Is, 7 cows £4 8s 6d, 1 oow £3, 8 cows £2 10s, 4 calves 225, 26 heifers £2 7s 6d, 62 heifers £2 Is. One chestnut gelding was sold at £l2 15s,

DAIRY PRODUCE. The following is Messrs. Wed del Oo’s report for the week ending January 3rd on the Loudon markC ]flitter. —The cold weather Which prevailed at the close of, last week lias become much more .intense, and keen, frosty temperatures, with cutting east winds aro .being experienced. The demand for Australian and. New Zealand butter, which has been strong all -this week, is unusual ten a holiday period. This is, doubtless, due to the small arrivals, combined with absence of stocks. Prices on “spot” are pretty well maintained, although some holders have let their goods go at a slightly low er quotation. It appears that the speculative element is reviving; but in the present case it consists in short sellers of Queensland butter, as sales are being made here for arrival in February and March ut less figures than the goods can be bought for in Queensland. The market for foreign butters continues firm, and Continental markets are showing an advance in price. Supplies of foreign, as well as ot colonial, butters continue to /bp less than .last year, and as America and Canada will have nothing to send us before new grass butter can be put on our markets, there seems little prospect of lower values for some time. All varieties of second aiy butter are very scarce, and Siberian is ■“ssrssswsv r* t iiig this week, but m-wes have ini fined, firm.

AUCKLAND SHEEP AND RAM FAIR,

Press AssociationAUCKLAND, Feb. 12. The first sheep and ram fair of the season in Auckland was held at tho Remuera yards by Messrs A. Bucfcland and Sons yesterday, there being some 7600 sheep and 600 rams yaided. Oil account of the dry., weather and tlie fall in the price of wool, the stock was, generally speaking, in lower condition than at last year’s fair. Low conditioned sheep sold at .about 3s Od per head, and other classes were also a shade lower in price than during last season. Lincoln, Romney, and Leicester rams were in good demand, but very lew bidders were forthcoming for Southdown rams. On behalf of Mr. C. Barriball 12 twoloo tli Lincoln eiyes were sold to Mr. J. Elico at £2 2s *'er head, and 10 others to the same purchaser at £2 os 3d. Air. AY. J. Hockin’s 12 ewes of the same breed were sold to Mr. Schoidwern at £1 3s. Air. Gills’ two and four-toolh ewes, to tho number of 10, were knocked down to Mr. Bell at £1 lls 6d. Other classes brought up to £1 Is 6d. AVith Lincoln rams Messrs Selby Bros, sold 12 at pric.es , ranging lroin l:i guineas to 7i gum- ! eas. Shropshire rams sold at £1 8s to £3 3s; lloumay Marsh at £2 12s 6,1 u, £7 7s (the latter price being obtained by Mr. J- Plo.se). English Leicester:; sold at £2 2s to £1 ,'js. | AVetliers (two-tooth) brought up to . Xyjj; a,| Lambs ranged in price from 63 .1

A spl:Tnt£^_ nE1 ’ 01! ' r ' I (Special to Times/i CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 12. 1 The number of stock which passed through Addington sa.leyards in 1907 was 673,221 sheep, 25,116 pigs, and 27 087 cattle, being an increase of 91 rijQG sheep,, and-; a decrease _of