COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4400, 31 July 1893, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

- The Egmont Farmers' Union Limited. 0 llaweka, July 27. 1 Tiiero was an unusually slow sale 1 at Stratford on Friday the 21st inst, 1 A fair number of cattlo came in, but * bidding was slaok throughout, and a 1 number of the lines of stock loft the i yards unsold. We quote 12 to 18 months cattlo, £2 Ms to 1317s 6d; ' springers and cows in calf, £3 10s to f £0 7sCd, - Our salo at Hawera on Wednesday 1 the 20th inst, was a marked contrast 3 to tho ono previously reported, for in I this case the yards wero all filled : with cattle and sheep, the former predominating, and there was also a very lirgc attendance, some of those r present being foreign to tho district, I I 'I ho bidding for tho first few pens was 1 1 slow, but uftorwanls as the sale pro--3 i gresso 1, compotitiiin ainonget the 3 j purchasers for different linrs offered, •! became very keen, so that tho ruht of I! the sale passed off in a satisfactory 1 j manner and at its close there were 5 j but two pens of stock unsold. Wo l! j quote f«t bullocks, £6 12s to £7; 2i ito 8 yearsteois, 16j> 10 £5 12s; ■ 18 months to 2 year Btoers £3 .Si to • £8 lis; yearlings £2 7s to £2 18a Gd; i fat cows and heifors, £8 19s to £5; J springers, £5 7s Gd to IV, heifers in ' calf, £8 4s to ss.