THE EWE FAIR.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 232, 8 March 1875, Page 3

THE EWE FAIR.

The attendance on Saturday was not so numerous as upon the previous day, and the biddings if anything less spirited. The auctioneers again drew lots for the order of sale, Mr Matson being the first to commence business. The following were the sales effected :—Leicester eweß, the property of Messrs Hay Brothers, of Annandale—Five for 255, to Mr E. J. Lee ; five at 255, to Mr T. Hassall ; five at £l, to Mr R. Wilkin ; five at 455, to Mr J. Campbell. The next lot were six-tooth Leicester ewes, of which Mr J. Lee secured two pens at five guineas, and Mr Corlett two pens at the same figure. The next lot was a pen of five Leicester ewes, by imported rams, which fell to Mr J. Evans Brown at five guineas. The biddings being so very slack, and the prices obtained being so unsatisfactory, Mr Matson elected to stop selling for the time being. Messrs Aikman, Newton, and Campbell, now commenced operations on behalf of Mr Wilkin. The majority of the lots offered were passed in at reserved prices. Mr Walter Hood, of the Chatham Islands, became the purchaser of thirty Romney ewe lambs, bred by Dr Webster, at 355, and a very nice lot they were. Mr Sharp bought six two-tooth ewes at £3. Some Leicester ewes from the flock of Mr W. Tolmie found purchasers in Messrs T. Haßsall and Hep worth. They each took two pens at 50s Subsequently Mr Newton sold a ewe from the Panton flock, imported by Mr Cathcari Wason, to Mr Gammack, for twenty guineas Mr Campbell's lots, which comprised som. very valuable sheep, were all passed in a! owners' reserves, with the exception of five Lincoln-Leicester two-tooth ewes by Uncle Tom, out of fix»t prize Leicester ewes, bred

by the Hon Matthew Holmes. These were purchased by Mr Curlett, of Riccarton, at nine guineas. Mr Matson again officiated, and made another attempt to dispose of the remainder of Messrs Hay Brothers' selections, but was as unsuccessful as before. He then sold on, account of Mr Wm Boag, eighty Leicester ewes, as follows :—Five pens to Mr W. Cross, at 20s ; thirty-five to Mr John Evans Browu, at 15s ; forty to Mr White, at 225. This brought the fair to a conclusion—a fair which in point of prices realised compared most unfavorably with that of last year.