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Levin Daily Chronicle, 9 February 1918, Page 3

Some idea of the value of stock in England at the present time may be •fathered from the fact that at a sale near Wantage, in Berkshire, principally of stock for the Xinas market, prices ranged from £50 to £64. Old cows sold up to £55, calves suckling mothers £10, working cart horses £112, a 30-yeur-old horse £40, 6-months lambs 755.. 0-th Hampshire ewes (to breed another lamb) £4. None of these were pedigree stock. j 1 The public notification of the closing 1 time of all overseas mails was resumed yesterday. However, no names of steamers or mention of routes are to bo published, but virtually the information given will lje the same as that given before the war. _ It is understood that the friends of Mr P. C. Webb,, M.P., are making an effort to have him exempted from active service. Under present arrangements Mr Webb must go into camp in March, and it is stated that there is not the remotest chance that he will be excused from this obligation save for a military reason."