STOCK MARKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8389, 30 March 1907, Page 3

STOCK MARKET.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report as follows: —At our Masterton . stock sale, on Wednesday, we had a good average yarding in sheep, no wathers offering. All pood sound ewes were eagerly competed f'-.r, the aged and faulty sorts being hard to quit, all, however, changing hands. " All lambs penned sold freely, with an unsatisfied demand. A few rams were submitted, but being late in the season they did not reach high figures. We yarded a fair number of cattle, which included good steers, forward cows and strong young cattle. The tone of the market for tais stock was better, and good sales * were made. At Ballance, on Wednesday, we held a clearing sale on account of Mr Quillinan. His dairy * hard of 35 cows all sold under the hammer, but the season being prac- ' tically over rates were low. Cows and heifers sold from £6 down to £llos. At Tauherenikau, on Thursday, we yarded some 2,000 sheep, a fair number of cattle and horses. „ The weather conditions being very ■unfavourable, the sale was slow, only a sm'all proportion of the entries changing hands, although rates for thejines sold were on a pqr with sales elsewhere. We quote:—At Masterton—rFat and forward ewes 14s 3d, forward ewes 13s 6d, breeding ewes lis to 13s, medium and culls 10s down to 7s 2d, best lambs 10s, others 93 9d, 9s 6d and 8s 9d, best Lincoln rams SJgns, others Ign to 3grfs, boilers 10s to 12s, store bullocks £5 10s, 3yr steers £4 2s 6d, 2yr and 2syr steers £3 to £3 8s 6d, ISmths steers 30s to 40s, yearlir.jS 275, calves 14s to 18s. At Ballance, en Wednesday, the dairy herd brought £2 to £6, p ; gs 23s to 60s, 2yr heifers 40s, yearlings 255,_ weanersu 8s; • Vehicles, horses, implements, tools and sundries at good sound prices. At Tauherenikau, on ' Thursday good wethers sold at, 16s, small 14s 6d, ewes 8s to 13s, good lambs lis 6d, ' good Shropshire ewes 17s 6d, cows and calves 40s to 60s, fat cows 80s, yearlings 255.