PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 982, 28 February 1910, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). Saturday. A runaway horse attached to a dray, was the cause, this morning, of a youth, named Still, of Mangatainoka, being thrown out of the vehicle and sustaining a broken leg. Owing to the inclement weather to-day, the return cricket match between the Town and Country members of the Tennis Club was not played. The match will, in all probability, be played on Saturday next.. Extra yarding accommodation is being made at Messrs Abraham and Williams' yards in Mangahao Road, in readiness for the sheep fair on Tuesday next. Tuesday promises to be h veritable "day out" for sheep farmers, and the number of sheep to be yarded will be the largest yet recorded in Pahiatua. A lad named I. Ramsay, in the employ of Mr E. Sullivan, of Kohunui, had the misfortune to fall from a horse and disclocate his collarbone. He was brought to town this morning, where his injury was attended to. The condiiton of Mr Alex. Reese, who has been an inmate of the Pahiatua Hospital for some time past, 's such as to cause his friends great anxiety. Messrs C. be;-?o-., W. Algie, P. Wilton and H. Dagg, members of the Alfredton Rifle Club, left to-day for the Wairarapa to take part in the Wairarapa championship meeting at Papawai on Monday and Tuesday next. After the Wairarapa meeting, they will proceed to the Trentham meeting. The Pahiatua School Cadets arrived in Pahiatua to-day by the mail train, from the encampment at the Hutt Park. Although bad weather was experienced in the camp, the cadets report having a good time, and ready to make another similar journey. The boys were driven to the Drill Hall, and their captain, Mr White Scott, congratulated the cadets on their splendid behaviour when in camp, and, also, on the journey to and from the Hutt. Mr T. Boyd, a member of the School Committee, who happened to be present, said he was very pleased to hear that the boys had bell ived so well, and had been a credit

to Pahiatua. At Mr Boyd's instigation, three ringing cheers were lustily given by the boys for their captain. Mr J. W. Carter has disposed of his long established bakery business to a well known resident of this town, who will take possession on March Ist. Several other business changes have taken place during the past month, and three new business establishments have been added to the town. Mr W. F. Shaw has won his matches in B section in connection with the Bowling Club's competition for the President's trophy, and has now to play the winner of section A to decide the ownership of Mr Burgess' trophy. COMMERCIAL. Messrs P. E. Debreceny report on their Mart sale to-day as follows -. We had a fair penning of pigs, including some purebred Berkshire boars and sows, the former realising three guineas each, and the i latter 2f guineas each. Other kinds sold as under:—Weaners, not too good 7s 6d; slips from 8s to 10s 6d; stores from 10s 6d to 13s. Fruit:— Good eating apples, 4s per case, cookers 2s 6d per case; pears, good 4s 6d per case; peaches, 4s 6d per case. Fowl wheat realised 5s 6d per bushel; barley, 3s 4d; oats, gool feed 3s; barley meal, 13s 6d per sack: pollard, 15s 6d. There was a good demand for vegetables, which sold well at late rates.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report on their Pongaroa sale as follows —We submitted a good yarding of both sheep and cattle. Bidding was slow at the commencement of the sale, but brightened up as the sale went on, and we quitted all, with the exception ot two or three pens. Prices ranged as under:—Wethers, 10s lOd to lis 8d; shorn wether lambs, 6s 3d, 6s 6d, 7s; woolly lambs, 6s lOd to 8s; other lambs, 3s lOd to 5s Id; 2tooth ewes, lis 6d to 12s; f.f.m. ewes, 7s, Bs, 9s 4d; cull ewes. 4s 2d, ss, 5s lOd; 2 shear Lincoln rams, 2£gns, 3gns; other rams, 15s to £1 14s; Romney rams, 2, 2£ to 2| gns. Cattle.—Weaners. £1 13s; 3yr steers, £4 5s to £4 7s 6d; 18-month steers, £2 ss; 2yr heifers, £2 16s; cows and calves, £2 15s.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ldt., report:—We held our sale in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.'s yards ut Pongaroa on Friday last. We offered a very good yarding of sheep and a fair yarding of cattle. There was a very poor demana tor sheep, but we sold all the cattle at satisfactory prices. We quote:— Woolly wether lambs, io 6s yd; Komney rams, from 22s, 275, £2 5s to £3; 3 and 4yr steers to £5 10s; 18-month steers to £3 12i6d; fat cows, to £4 2s 6d; cows in calf, to £2 10s.