HIGH PRICED SHEEP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 292, 13 November 1883, Page 2

HIGH PRICED SHEEP.

j?% * '^JM following paragraph about highync d sheep is froa tha South Austra'<ian correspondent ofthe AigJ : — Tin disposal of E. W. PitU's stud flo* was one of the most wonderful saleb ever held io the olony. It is a national calamity that Mr Pitts, through ill health is obliged to relinquish the pur-suitwhich'has-m^e^irn'ifßS«RiirnouH throughput Australasia, but faa • beaten the be undentood that his ambitron^to-sayTi^hing of the question 'of health,, haareceivtflits utmost satisfaction;; il* ds *stafed that when Mr Pitts :defcerminecVl to sell his sheep he offered to sell the lot for fJ&W, t0 > }*<>;■. o»fiffprei»t> individuals, but they would .not boy.- It is" just as well that theY did'hot, for the sale re* alised: t;he unexaeotedbr forge of JUIJOO.Z Tfai^ksSo^m^y due to the high. reputation which Mr Pitta had won as a breeder of,s,tui sheap, and tothe,.f W b tbat buyefs" from ''all the colonies t were,represented, at^the sale. Mr C. B. Fisher bought a&ji 0,000 i wprth, and Mr,>o'Shannassy was also a liberal r buyer., f As iilustr^Pva ot the extreme prices, realised, 'ib.wis be mentioned that fout,'pehs <tf ewes, containing 646, brought £19,553— a res-ilt, it is affirmed, that lias never r before been attaiued m any couatry.-r from l a single sale confined to one stud flpck^v ~