Stevens & Gorton's Report.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 115, 10 April 1884, Page 2

Stevens & Gorton's Report.

At Sanson^on the teh inst&nt, 'we -~ : yarded 61^ head of .itaittie and 1583' J sheep. We are glad to-report a decided improvement m therbidding fpr^cattle,. /$ and that 'We quitted Ail the lots, oxcegt-'I '* ing two, at fair rates.- Good sheep" ■were m lisuat demand, and- ,neffriy a11.,---the lots were ; disposed of under the ' hammer and after. The-following weru the rates realized : — 2 to 2^year ;i ol,d fl steers, £2 15s ; 18-mdnths;;to 2-year-oicl heifers, £1 Us; 18-months.^ steers, £% 3s 6d ; yearlings, 21s ; calves, 14s ; store wetherrf, : Bs -6d; .ewea, 7s 8d; mixed sheep, 8s 2d ; lambs, 3s lOd to 4s Id. t At Palmerston, on the, Bth instaqt,.. . over 100 head of cattle ' and over 1500k sheep- were. y,arde4- "ij 06 /biddingf /vyas:. 7, decidedly more spirited for cattle^ ti'ui : '' the demand for sheep was not so great. There r were bikers for good, sfcpre vredders or first-classewes. We quitted all the cattle, excepting one pen, and several, ldt&Vdl : jsheep, \at fq^i£>fiag);.r prices : — Store bcows, . $%i 'yearlings, *~ 255; yearlings and -18-m'onths, mixed; 87s 6d; 3 ahd-t-year, bullocks, £4>Aa 0 , - 6d; calves, 13a; forward mixed^heep^ 8s 6d ; vvethers, 7s to 7s 7d ; ewes, 7s to 7s 9d ; lambs. 3s ; Id to 4s 7,^, . ,; .^ ,