CARTERTON RAM & EWE FAIR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3123, 7 February 1889, Page 2

CARTERTON RAM & EWE FAIR.

The annual fair, under tho auspices --;; of the Wairarapa and East Coast • .; Pastoral • and Agricultural Sooiety, : was held on thei Society's 'Show ■•'. Grounds, Carterton, on Wednesday.;, There were about six hundred' sheep' " of all classes penned/- The weather ."'"' was all that,could be desired,' and there was a large gathering of people ' ou the ground. 'The Committee had ;;■- entered into arrangements • with Mr , ,';' A.Grigg, jun,, tohavearefreshment'!;- . booth on the ground, and this made' it far more convenient to many,' than -'; - having to go to a hotel; The sale was cpmmeuced about twelve o'clock by Mr P, H, Wood offering a lot of Komney 'Marsh Bams of Mr:A, Clifton's, which realized from 5s to , ; ,,;.'. 14s each, There were a great liuin- :'- ber of the'Bomney Marsh breed,' and 1 they did not sell so readily as they;,', have done on previous occasions, A;'lot of Lincolns,'belonging to Mosßrs fljjj' Jas. Stuckey, W. 0. Buchanan, and' "''"': E. J. Biddilbrd, fetched from £8 2s '' 6d to £4 per head. Mr E. J. Eiddiford had.some'good Lincolns, but their ago fold rather against them. Prices realized from 35s to £3 2s Gd. ' Mr D. McMaster had a grand lot of 70 2-todtn Lincolns for,which the competition was very spirited.- These were'sold singly at ''."'• prices ranging from £3 to £5 2s 6d,' Mr P. C. Threlkeld's Canterbury rams were the next to cbmo under the ; hammer, these numbered 40 2-tooth, ,' or shearlings as Mr Throlkeld prefers '"' ■ to have them called, They were. ■"..-.'' really a fine lot of sheep, and came in, •:- for* a good, share of attention; and... ';• keen competition, all selling readily at- : ,:',' prices'raninngfrom£3ssto £?:lOa/ [■["■ A largo nhmbor of. Komney Marsh;;, ; : , Southdowns, Loicesters, Shropshire Downs, Cotswolds, and Merinos, were also disposed of, but at prices.. ""' - ■'"■•' ■'''■; -• ■':'}.

Messrs Lowes- .& Man^report^t;'?;^ ■', their : :-sale of ramsjaf yesterday all were .quitted.; Lincolns ;,</■ from Mr Holmes' of Oan)ara :; made" '.,-:, I from M to £6; for Mr:Bajner^£B;6s^";. to L 4 7s; Edmneys; : for,; Messrs, 06 Dorset,. Allen, arid Gray made, from.. 'Bos tp 42a. ••'. ' :v ' : :i ":"y