Wanganui Stock Quotations.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 44, 24 January 1885, Page 2

Wanganui Stock Quotations.

MR FREEMAN R. JACKSON'S FORTNIGHTLY STOCK REPORT. "Wanuanui, Jan. 22. Mr F. E. Jackson reports : — My ■ gale at the Waverley yards on Friday last was largely attended. The bidding throughout was brisk, especially for cattle; the sales m all cases being m favour of the vendors. The cattle are all of good quality. At the yards to-day-tho same may be said so far as cattle are concerned, every line being sold at the fall of the hammer. Sheep were not so' well competed for.' I did not sell all that offered here or at Waverley, ewes being neglected; lambs and wethers met with a fair market, all selling at current .'rates. Pigs sold well at full rates. Horses are better worth for good useful sorts, the bulk of those .offering at the yards tor day selling at quotations. I placed some properties during. the fortnight at thegood prices, and expect to complete | the sale of a farm of '500 acres to-morrow at a satisfactory figure. Cattle.— At Waverley : Steers, £4 8s 6d : fat cows, £3 10s ; cows and calves, £"2 13s i. to £2 15 ; good forward cows, £3; two-year-old bullocks, £3 10s; mixed cattle, £5 Is ; heifers, £5 ; young steers, £1 15s ; waaners' 18s 6d. At the yards torday : Fat cattle,, medium qualities, £5 12s 6d ; two-year-old steers, £3 15 ; forward cows, £ 3 to £3 Is ; heifers, 80s ; and milch cows, .£3 17s. Sheep. —At Waverley : ' Ewes and lambs, lls Id; wether hoggets, 3s sd; ewes, 7s:sd ; lambs m wool, 6s. At St. Hill-street : Fat ewes, 9s 6d ; wethers, 10s 7d ; store wethers, 9s 2d ; mixed, 9s 4s ; hoggets, 7s lid ; lambs m wool, 5s 3d ; shorn and woolly mixed, 4s 7d. " Pigs.— Sows, 22s to 31s ; porliers, 25s •Od ; suckers, ss, — Superior hacks, £^L 10s to £15 17s 6d ; good useful animals, £1 to £9; weeds and screws, L 2 10s to L 4.