THE SYDNEY SHEEP SALES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5077, 15 July 1895, Page 2

THE SYDNEY SHEEP SALES.

Racked July 13, II) p.m. Sydxkv, July 13. ' Thero was not one redeeming featuro in to-day's sheep sales, wellbred sheep going for a song in the ■ •' majority of cases, purchased f£A boiling-down purposes. P* The sale of longwool sheep which concluded to-day marks a pitiable episode in tho history of Colonial sheep-breeding. It is not easy to gauge the cause, but undoubtedly the chief roason is that, owing to the dry season, owners find it difficult to pasture their present Hooks, without adding to them. With few, if any exceptions, breeders suffered sovevoly, and this year's experience will probably kill the Sydney market for a bug time to come.

In Lincolns—A. McKonzie sold 50 rams at an average of 10s lOd each; Pearco, Wanganui, 35 rams at threequarters of a guinea each; Walker, Masterton, 12 rams at lis each; Urquhart, Featherston, 2b' rams at an average of 8s 7d each; W. McKenzio, Wairarapa, 88 rams, averaging 10s 6d each,

In Romneys-W, lington, 10 rams at 10s Gd each • Walker, Masterton, 28 rams at ait averago of 10s each; W. McKenzie, Wairarapa, 15 ram hoggots at 10s Odeach, ewe hoggets sold privately.

Received, July 15, 11.25 a.n. L SVDSEY, July lo.iP The sheep sales, excluding private i sales, show that N.Z. breeders sold 2009 Lincoln rams for £2339; 283 ewes for £259 ; 402 Romnov Marsh rams for £397; 98 ewes for £IBB. 388 Border Leicester rains for £298; 20 owes for £3O ; 9 English Leicester rams for 9 guineas; 31 Southdown rains for 17 guineas ; 150 Shropshire rams for £ 119 ; 288 ewes for £l5O. Total, 8608 sheep realised £3,893. Last year 4,532 sheep brought £14,8-10.