COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4336, 4 February 1893, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

The Egmont Farmers'Union, Limited,

Haweha, February 2. Wo hold our monthly eale atOkaiaw« on Thursday, the 26th ult., when the yards wero well filled with atock of first-class quality. There was a good attendance, and bidding was spirited trout start to finish, 80 tliut nearly every lot wnsdisposedof under tlm hamtnor. Wo quote fat and forward bullocks, £1 13s to £5 9a 6d, 18 mouths to 2-year steers £3 '2a to £3 lis, 12 to 18 months mixed £2 Us to i'2l2>, fat cows and heifers £3 17s Ci! to ft 7s Gil, lieifors in calf £3 to £36s, sheep—mixed hoggets lis, woolly lamliK Gs 4d. Our usual monthly horse fair took placo on iiaiurdav, the 28tli ult. A great number of horses weio entered, but the majority ot them had seen too ninny summers to elect much competition, mulling in little business being done. Wo quote draught, ill 10s to £l7los, hacks up to .ill.

Wo had hut ut small ale at Manaia on Wednesday, Ist inst., for though ihe entries were much larger than those advertised, the quality of the stock was below the average usually offered at our Manaia yards. The attendance was poor, owing tofarmors being in tho midst of harvesting, and our dull sales may also he accounted for by the reserves on some lines of cattle being higher than purchasers were prepared to go to, so that in the end little business was transacted.

Wo qnoto fat bullocks, £G to £G 2s 6d, 18 months to 2-year steers £2los (id to £3lßs, wi nncra £1 7s Gd to £2, fat cows .£4'ls to £1 16s, cows and calves £i to £1 10s; sheep-fat wether hog«ets 12s.

Jaiterton Ham and Ewe Fair,

Mr I<\ H. Wood reports (briefly) of tlio above fair held at tlio W. and E. C. Pastoral Society's yards, Carterton, yesterday, as follows ;—Taken as a whole the Fair must bo pronounced a success, bolli from quantity and quality of rams yarded, and also from the attendance of buyer* and spirit of bidding. The demand for really good rams of nil classes was very satisfactory, but aged and inferior rams wore- bard to quit at any price, and a great many were passed in. The number of rams eutoied, about 900, was too many to get through in one tiny, and d'o justico 10 vendors and purchasers, The whole, howevi-r, were passed under the hammer, and the sale concluded about fi.3o. p.m. In Lincolns, Mr D. McMaster took the palm, with a line of 112 two tooth, which averaged close on sgs ; in Romnejs, Mr F. Monckton's averaging ogs; in Shropsliires, J. G. McKcmm's with an avomgo of Jgs, A line of 05 2-tooth Lincolus, entered by Mr Tully aud bred by Mr J. I\ Russell, averaged Mr W. McKenziu's Liucolns, aged, avernacd ]Jgs,and,2,iootb, 4gs; Mr UcDotiijels do, lfgs to 3Jgs, Mcasra Walker and Sutherland yarded a fine lot of 2tooth Lincolns, which realised from to Ojgs, these wore bred by Mr E, J, Kiddiford, Mr J, Burrow's Romney Marsh, 2-tooth, averaged 2]gs. Messrs Walker and Sutherland's 4 and C-tooth Lincolns, various breeders, ranged from 3gs to 6}»s. Mr A. King's Romney Marsh ram lambs averaged Ijgs, Mr W. McKenzio's Border Leicesters, G|gs to 7gs. MrF, Moore's i-tooth Lincolns, 2gs, Messrs Walker and Sutherland's Cotswolds, 2Jgs; Mr W. McKenzie's 2tooth Rninneys, 4igs, and 4-tooth do, 3gs; Mrs Burnett's Lincoln ram lambs, lgsj Mr W. C. Buchanan's South Dowus, ljgs to 2gs. Lincolns, 2gs, Boeder Leicesters, 2igs; Tuhita. rata Estate Lincolns, 2|gs to 4gs; Mr J. Burrow's Romney Marsh ram ' lambs, 2gs, owes, ligs.