STOCK SALES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 96, 21 August 1908, Page 5

STOCK SALES.

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report as folio ws:— At Hamilton Borough yards on the 13th insi. ;we yarded 50 fat cattle, 500 store cattle and 572 sheep-; none of the fat cattle were heavy weights and some not too well finished. . 'Fat steers, £7 IS to £8 10s; fat cows and heifers, £4 5s to £5 15 ; backward sprinsers £4" lOs to £4 15s ; more forward'sorts up to £5 103; store cows and heifers £2 7s to £3 5s ; good calsve? and vealings £25: fresh steeds off turnips £5 15s ; With the exception of r il weathers, all the sheep were sold, fat weathers 17s ; fat ewes 13s 3d to - 14s lid : store wethers I2s 6d ; aged ewes in lamb lis ; pigs, weaners, lOs to lOs cd ; slips, 21s to 24s 6d. At Cambridge on Friday last- we yarded 450 head of cattle, 250 sheep and 83 pigs. There was a good attendance and a good enquiry for beef and stores. Seventy head of cattle beef penned sold readily. Fat steers £6 to £8 lOs ; lighter weights £7 to £7 lOs ; heavy fat cows £6 10 to £/ £7 15s; others £5 8s to £5 I7s 6d ; forward 3 and IVI year- steers £5 I2s 6d to £6 5s ; 2 and 2 J / 2 year steers £3 14s to £4 Us; 18-months heifers £2 5s to £2 12s 6d ; yealing steers £2 7s 6d ; calves, mixed sexes 25s to 35s ; younger sorts, 13s to 15s; feesh emptv cows £3 5s ; springing cows up to £5" lOs ; heifers £6 : fat forward hoegets lOs 3d to lis; cull ewes in iamb, 6s; sows £2 lOs to £5 IOs; slips 18s to 30s ; weaners I2s to 16s.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows: — On Saturday,. August 15th, at Hillside, we held a clearing sale at Mr William Sancles' A large number of Jfirymen and others attended, and we report one of the best dairy stock sales held this season. The cows, either in milk, or close to profit, realised from £6 10s to £lO 15s: a few aged cows £4 10s, to £5 12s Gd; choice S year oid heifers at profit or nenriy calved £3 5s to £lO 10s; yearling heifers -l'6s; 2 year old heifers £5 ~s to .'.-3 .'.(is; heifers in caif £4 15s; sows in pig £5 5s to £6; slips £1 ICs; boars £2 7s_6d to £4 15s; young boars £2 -5s to £o; medium draught 2 year oid filly £2B; harness mare £22; gig pony o£; spring cart £lB ; light spring waggon £9B; tine harrows £2 10s to £4 ss; dfsc'harrows £l2 15s; The balance of farm implements, furniture, etc. all realised good prices.

At Te Kuiti Police Court on Thursday, before Messrs. Tammadge and ■ Burgess, Js'.P, William Smitn appeared on remand charged_ witn trie theft of six bottles of whisky. Gn the accused's application the case was remanded to Auckland to be tried before the Stipendary Magistrate onAugust 26th. Bail was allowed on one surety of £2O. It is stated that owing to private reasons Mr G. H. Mackenzie, of Oparau, has decided not to contest the Taumarunui seat the next geralen election. In answer to Mr Greens!ade's rcouest that a trial survey be made oi a fcrepesed railway from the vicinity 01 the Kawa station, on the Main trunk Kawhia and Raglan, the Minister for Public Works has undertaken to give the matter favourable consideration when an officer is available to undertake the work.