PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10011, 6 April 1910, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(Own Corr-.v-p .indent). Tuesday. Ti.e kev H. b Wo lcombe, of the ' Church of England Men's Society, will speak in Pahiatua on Saturday, April 23rd, at 8 p.m., at the Olympic Theatre. The meeting will be for men oily, and this will be the only opportunity of hearing Mr Woi'leomhe in this town. Staff-Gergeant-Major McChrysta! is in town to-day fixing up the affairs of thj two defunct corps here. The butchering firm ot Messrs Barrel! and Early is in future to be carried on by Mr G. Early. The partnership having been dissolved from April Ist. The wool-classing classes inaugurated under tne Pahiatua Agricultural Association are to be started in Messr.s iJjlgtty and Co.'s grain store on Monday, 11th inst,. at 2.30 p m. j The annual general meeting of the K'ltoroa Ladies' Hockey Club was held la.t evening in Mr D. Crewe's office. The following officeis were elected: —President, Mrs D. Crewe", Vice-Presidents, Mesdames Hawkins, Lilly, Burgess, P. Tullocn, Weston, J C Crewe, Bolton; Captain, Mi ,! s E. Burgess; Secretary, Miss L. K. Hughes Tne Club is in a fi.,e lir.ancial position, and several new numbers were elected during the evening. A meeting is to be held in the Borough Council Chambers on Friday evening, at 8 p.m, to en Jenvour to form an Amateur Dramatic Club in this town. The settlers of Putara. a settlement beyond Nireaha, are forwarding a petition to the Minister of Public Works asking him to urge upon tlieGovernment the necessity of making a grant for the erection of two bridges over bad creeks in the Man- ! gatainoka Valley Road. S The Tararua Rifle Club will tire a match against the Maurii evilly Club, at Mauriceville on Saturday ' next. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report on their Pahiatua sale ro-d-jy | as follows: —We had sheep forward ! above advertised numbers, also a fair ! yarding of cattle, comprising 2£yr ] steers, store cows, heifers and ) weaners. Bidding showed a marked j improvement on last week's sale j ana we have to report a total clear- | ance uf our yarding. We topped the i local market for wethers with a line ! of good Hkinned'4-toiths at 12s 4d: | others, lis lOd, lis lid to 12s; 21 tooth ewes to 12s; s.m. ewes, 5s sd, j 6s, 6s 5d to 6i 8d; lambs, woolly i small,-6s, 6s 3d to 6s 8d; good I wether lambs, to 7s 2d; culls, 2s 9d, j3s6dto 4s Bd. Rams sold well up to late rates. Cattle.—Two and a half year steers, good, to £'4 10s; empty cows, £2 8s to £2 lis; fat cows, £4 to £4 12s; fat heifers, small, to £8 ' 10s; empty 2yr heifers, £2 to £2 8s ' 6d; weaners, 28s to 35a. Our next j sale will be held this day week, 12th ! April, at our Mangahao yards. | The New Zealand Loan and Mer- '■■ pantile Agency Co., Ltd., report on I their weekly sale in the P.F. A. yards 'to-day:—We ha 1 a medium yarding of sheep and r-attle. There was a fair attendance of buyers and farmers, and prices on the whole compared favourably with late rates. Sound mouth ewes made from 5s to 8s 6d; lambs, 3s 3d to 6s lOd; wethers, small 9s 8d; rams, 1 guinea; dairy cows, £2 15s to £3; weaner steers, £1 8s 6d; other weaners, 7s 6d to 15s; 2Jyr steers, £4 10s. . Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Pahi»tua sale, i held yesterday, as follows:—We submitted a heavy yarding of both sheep and cattle to a good attendance, and have to report a successful sale, all classes of stock meeting good cornpetition under the hammer, and we had practically a total clearance of the whole yarding at satisfactory i figures. Quotations:—Young breeding ewes, 10s 7d to lls7d; good sound mouth ewes, 8s 7d to 10s Id; ' medium sound mouth ewes, 6s 10d to 8s 9d; full mouth ewes, 5s 3d to 6s 3d; cull ewes, 3s 2d to 5s ld;fat and forward ewes, 8s 7d; fat and forward wethers, lis lid to 12s 9d; 2 tooth wethers, small, 8s lOd to 9s 4d; woolly lambs, 8s 3d to 8s lid; good shorn lambs, 6s 8d to 7s 3d; medium shorn lambs, 5s 5d to 5s lid; forward steers,£s to£s l()s; weaners, 2Cs to 26s 6d; fat cows, good £4 9s to £5 8s; forward cows, £2 15s to £3 16s; store cows 37s to 395; cows and Culves, £3; springing heifers, £4 5s to £4 12s 6d; heifers in calf, £2 8s 6d to £3 ss; empty heifers, £2 Is.