STOCK MARKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9159, 5 August 1908, Page 7

STOCK MARKET.

Messrs Dalgt-ty and Company, Ltd., : report:- At Ekttahuna, last Friday, we had a good yarding of sheep and bidding all through the sale was animated. Every line offered found buyers undep-the hammer, and prices all round showed a decided improvement on the previous sale. Cattle were yarded in fair numbers, but vendors' and purchasers' ideas of values differed and not much business was done.' Some sales effected were: —Two-tooth wethers (good), 13s 9d to 14s; medium hoggets, 7s Id to 8d sd; small hoggets, 6s Id; a.m. ewes in lamb, 12s to 12s l Jd; cull ewes, 7s 9d; fat heifers and steers (light), £5; dairy cows, £3 15s to £5.

Greytown sale.—-On Monday we had a good entry of sheep and a fair yarding of cattle. Some really good "linaa of ewes and hoggets came forward and satisfactory businejs wag ■ t-tfojced We hid a special entry i'v.jtn Messrs Wiggins Bros., of some : really goo ! ewes and one line of 200 L'.m. ewes iniau.b to Southdown rams » made 17s sd; forward hoggets, lis 4d to 128 3d; medium hoggets, ''s 7dtoßj3d; inferior, 4s b"d; 2 and 4-tootli wethers (forward), 14s 3d; .medium ewes in lamb, lis Gd; me- ■• dium 3-yar steers made £4 10s, and sprinting htiieis (well forward), £4 12s Cd. At vuv ntxt (Jri-ytown sale Ave will I e ottering a line of 25 first-class tprmgii g heifers. Martinbobough horse sale.—At our Martinborough yards last Saturday, we hud a heavy yarding of all Ce- • scriptions, 88 horses'coming forward, and although wc have to' report a large attendance of the public, bidding was very slack, and not much i business was done under the hum mer. vl'rivateiy we sucreeded in effecting a number of sales, and some of the prices realised were:—Light draught , gelding 3 years. £24 10s; light oraughf filly, 4 years, £29; spring- < cart gelding, 3 year?, £lO 10s; . spring tart filly, £l- r i; draught filly, •■-3 years, £3O; draught filly, £23; draught gelding, 3 years, £2i; light • draught filly, 2 years, £ls 10j; and several hacks and harness horses at ' from £8 to £l2 10s. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report as follows on Mr Jas. Avery's clearing sale:-WeheHa clearing sale or dairy stock, implements, etc., at the farm, Konini, on account uf Mr Jas Avery. The cows were of good quality, but the fact that no record had been kept of calving dates militated sale. Prices . rarged from £3 5s for heifers to £8 7s (id for cows, the" line of 39 aversiging £5 ss. Sows with litters, from . £6 7s 0d to £7; sows to farrow, from .£3 to £5 each; porkers, 16s to 20s; alips, 12s 61; two-year colt, £l4; gig, £to. Implements and sundries brought fair values.

PAHIATUA SALE.

(By Tcleg-aph—Special to Age). PAHIATUA, August 4. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report en their Puhiatua sale as follows:—Thfie was a good attendance of buyers and a fair y aiding of sheep arid small cattle. T here was animate! bidding for sheep, especially hoggets. Woolly ho.;get» (good) brought up to 12.4 Id. others 10s, 9a 3:1, 7s 9J, c ilhi 5s Gd to 6s 6d, ewei in' Imp ('s'ood» up to 14s, madium (fjt ai ! f - tooth wjthora 10s Id to lis 6d.