IMPORTANT STOCK SALES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 60, 9 February 1884, Page 2

IMPORTANT STOCK SALES.

On Friday the 22nd of February Messrs Stevens & Gorton will hold their annual stock sale at the Oroua Downs Homestead. The names of the vendors, and breeders, Messrs John iMcLeunan and F. B. Latkworthy, will be a sufficient guarantee to purchasers tha the stock are all of a superior description. There will be offered 400 TieSTjhffißn£f aSaraßStTaaa^ '4500 ipyimerfet andfstore sHe;epV2s pure-bred Lincoln rams, (Carnarvon) a number of heavy draught mares, broken and staunch with foals at foot, and a fewgood hacks. The annual stock sale at Oroua Downs is now looked forward to by breeders andfcattle dealers all over the district, and m everj part of the West Odast,as anopp^fJLuStly/btpßDcurlng really first-class slock? aVd a&cioubt this year's sale-.wilj be even a greater success than that of last^y'eaV? r^A > • . . , , .On Tuesday 19 th of February Messrs Stevens & Gorton' 'will hold dfo&bffiuil ram fair a{ tha sale yards Bulls. Iftlere are already catalogued 400 '^fobfed rams and ewes; the- breeders beiugauoa well-known names ,as AMes&rs J. G. Wilson, F. B. Larkworthy, T. Bwee. E. Read, T. Night, ,%, Q- SUpfe*^ J. Pearson (Canierbujy), D. Fraser and .Major Willis.- There are also four hundred head" of cattle, including store, bullocks' m , forward condfwion, fat bullocks, mixed : weaners, cows, and calves, 2 and 3jear-old lielierej ! and niilcb cows. In addition there will be offered 700 ft sheeD, com^tisin^'fifere ewes, prime fat' iheep, fat wethers, mixed- Jambs, store- : ewes, and wether lamb>\ This 1 immense'-citalogue will doubtless >be considerably added to prior to date of sale. No sucn* extensive sale as this, we suppose has yet taken place m Rangitikei, and it will probably attract buyers from all parts of the North Island. The sale will commence at 1 "o'clock sharp.