PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9694, 19 January 1910, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). Tueacay. The Commissioner of Crown Lands is visiting Pahiatua. j Mr Jack Hnghes 5 a local gun club j enthusiast of the Gun Club, left | Pahiatua yesterday, for a trip to Wairoa. While at Wairoa Mr Hughes intends to compete at£a gun club competition at Wairoa. Sheep farmers will be very pleased to hear that there is a rise in tWe price of fat sheep, as some time back it was rumoured that fats would fall, instead of rise in price. The S.M. Court sits to-morrow (Wednesday), the first, sitting of this year. Of late Court day has been Tuesday, which is sale day, and consequently a'very inconvenient day for a good number of people. It is to be hoped that Court day will in the future be fixed fur Wednesday. The local tradespeople have definitely decided to close their shops on Monday next in lieu of Saturday, inst. Several local enthusiasts contemplate journeying to the KumeroaHopelands spoits to-morrow, Wednesday. A South Island sheepfamer states that exporters are giving 10s "d to 12s '6d for fat Jambs rangingviji weight from. 32 to 36lbs. , ••• Mr and Mrs Frank Orbell, who have been the guests of Mr and Mrs David Crewe, of the "Grange," returned to Taranaki yesterday. While on their visit here, Mr and Mrs Orbell, in company with Mr Crewe, motored through the Wairarapa, Makuri and Ballance districts,and Mr Orbell, who was through these parts in the narly bush days, states that he was greatly astonished at the way the country was*'broken in," and he considered this district compared favourably with any district in the North Island. Mr J. Corrigan, who it will be remembered helped to successfully canvas this district when the Wellington Farmers' Freezing Works was first mooted, is on a visit to Pahiatua. Chatting with Mr Corri • gan on the season in the South Island, that gentleman informed me that this year the iust was bad in the crops in the South, especially in the barley. In several places near Christchurch and Titapu paddocks of barley were being burnt, crops which in the beginning of the ssason gave promise of a yield of 60 bushels to the acre. The oat crop was not so good as in some of the previous years, but taking the country on the whole it looked fairly well. A considerable amount of land was changing hands at advanced rates. Mr Corrigan further stated that so far he had not heard any reports of blight making its appearance, but the turnip crop was not as forward as might be expected owing to continued dry weather. In many places, the ground was not only dry, but burnt up for want of rain. Comparing the two Islands the North was much greener than the South, and he still held his opinion—formerly expressed in this paper—cf the Pahiatua district. Speaking of the Nelson Co operative Freezing Works, which have had one season's working, and which were started on a much smaller scale than the Waingawa works ara to be started on, Mr Corrigan stated that the profits for last season amounted to £405. These works have a district with only ?°9,000 sheep to draw from, and the jits exceeded the most sanguine expectation. This season the farmers, jaid Mr Corrigan, are very enthusiastic on the subject of fat sheep, and hope to send awjy from the works some 50,000 carcas?s. i STOCK MARKET. j Tt.e New Zealand Loan a id Mer-! cantik Agency Ltd., report on their weekly sale held to-day as follows:—We had a small entry of both sheep and cattle, sheep showing a very slight improvement on last sales rates, cattle selling fully up to lato rates. Prices ranged as fol lows:—Ewe lambs, 6s; wether lamb?, 5s lOd; 2-tooth wether, 9s 6r1.; store cows, £2 Is to £3 lis; bull?, £2 103; horses, £4 10s; dogs, 8s to 20s. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., held their weekly stock sale in their Mangahao road yards, yesterday, and w; report a very fair yarding of cattle, but no sheep came forward.

We q-jote: Weaner s eerr, 26s 6d to 275; LB-month wteers, £2 12s6d to £2 12s 6d tii £3 15s; empty rows, £2 17s 6d to £3 7s 6d; heifers in calf, £3 to £3 10d. Our next sale wil be held in the P.F.A. yards next Tuesday, commencing 11,30 sharp. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report as follows on their Pahiatua sale: —We had a moderate yarding of sheep and a heavy yarding of cattle. We experienced a strong enquiry for all classes of stock, and quitted practically everything yarded. We quote:—Two and four tooth ewes small, lis 9d tol2s9d; s.m. ewes, 8s 6d to lis; aged ewes, 5s Id to 7s; two and four-tooth wethers, small, 10s; shorn lambs, 4s 3d to 6s; woolly lambs, 6s 6.1 to 8s: forward bullocks, £5 6s; 2& and 3-year steers, £3 17s to £6 4s 6d; two-year steers, £3 10s; 18 month steers, £2 15s 6d to £2 18s 6d; springing heifers, £3 15s to £4; two-year heifers in calf, £3 to £3 yd; 15 and 18-month heifers in calf, £2 7s 6d to £2 16s 6d; empty forward heifers, £3 2s Gd; empty forward cows, £2 17s to £3 8s; bulls. £3 to £3 15s.