THE VICTORIAN SHEEP SALE.
Mmuoum, August 27. At the annual stud sheep sales, chielly Tasinanian bred animals were • offered. Bidding for merinos was spirited and tlio prices gonoralty showed an advance on last year. Bidding for longwools was spiritless, and prices unsatisfactory. Tlirco of Mr James Gibbon's Tnsmanian rams brought 310,300, and 170 guineas respectively, 10 averaging £loßl3s. One of Mr W. Gibbon's rams sold at 160 guineas, and one of Jlr .1, B, Gibbon's at 130 guineas, ' Messrs Kelly and KcGilHcudtWA greyhounds were put up to auction" Blackbird was withdrawn at 210 guineas, Lindsay Gordon was sold " for 95 guineas, and the Joker for 43 guineas, while prices realised for the | others ranged front 39 guineas to 3 guineas.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5114, 27 August 1895, Page 2
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120THE VICTORIAN SHEEP SALE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5114, 27 August 1895, Page 2
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