COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4355, 27 February 1893, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

IheEgmont farmers' Union, Limited. We had a good sale at Stratford on Friday tie 17th inst. There was a fair entry of cattle, the yards being well tilled, and the sale passed off very well, nearly every lino changing hands at tho hammer or immediately after tho sale. We quote 12 to 18 months steers, £2 10s to £3 4s, fat cows and heifers £3 10a to £1 und Bpringers C4l2s Gd to Li 17b 6d. Our bi-monthly Bale at Manutabi which was held on Monday the 20th inst., proved to bo the largest we have ever held there, the entries for which wo mostly composed of sheep, and were so large that our ordinary yards were quite inadequate for penning them, and temporary ones had to be erected, We had everything in our favour as rogards weather, and there was also a fair attendance at tho sale, so that notwithstanding tho fact that sheep were dull of salo we managed to quit more than half tho lines offered : at satisfactory prices. We quote 2i year steers lis. Sheep—2-tooth owes lis 3d to IBs, 4, 0 and full mouth ewes 8s 5d to 8s Gd; shorn lambs 6s. Our Hawera Earn and Ewo Fair was held in tho Glover Road yards on Tuesday, tho 21st inst,, when we submitted a largo number of useful rams for sale, chiefly Lincoln, some thousands of very good ewes, also lambs, Tho attendance was small, considering tbat we had so large a number of sheep advertised, and the bidding, from start to finish, was tho slowest we have experienced since the Union started, with the result tbat only two-thirds of the rams, and about 1700 ewes were sold. We quoto 4, 6 and full-mouth ewes, 9s 6d to 10s Gd; woolly lambs, 7s 8d; cull lambs, 8s Gd, A, A, Fantham'a rams averaged £4 0s 3d each, Walker Bros.' £2 13s, E. Bremer £2 14s 9J, Iredalo Broa.' £8 11b 3d. Other lines of rams averaged from £2 12s 6d to £l2sGd. Wo held our fortnightly stock ssle in tbo Glovor Road yards, Hawera, on Wednesday, tho 22nd inst., when our yards were fairly well filled with a useful class of cattle, and the sale taj£ characterised by a briskness of that was entirely absent on tho two previous days, and which resulted in nearly all tho stock changing hands before leaving tho yards. Wo quote: 2iyr steers, £4 4s to £4 6s Gd; 18mth" to 2yr steers, £8 to £3los; cows in calf, £3 5s to £l3s; fat cows, £4 Is to £4 as, Since tho date of our last report we have disposed of somo large lines of fat stock, at prices ranging from £6 to £G ss.