SYDNEY SHEEP SALE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2069, 10 July 1896, Page 3

SYDNEY SHEEP SALE.

Tho eale of stud «heep in Sydney now>; proceeding is a great Roccesa. Merinoß wern Hold'fi'-fl*. and 258 sheep were sold on tho firsi dv >vr-.eing-£i4 bi'M. ihe B«conH '.In , Piljjf'im brought 210jt8,, nnd Sir -AM..' ? " iSO'p. IVq-ioVthe f Iβsrtw, l.ciw. v r, "Tni" •VO-β (he day of dHVrt in tli« -liixKfry'of ■A'l-niiiian sheep hilpp. 'T'i»iii'nia, fDrni-lu'.i 'tho -bonne, 'hdiiclt-e of'fx- sale in" Vie -hape of the stud ram President the champion at muliy ehowe, and peihapa the gfandeet animal in'ihs colony. TMring'lhe''morriifig- fexj celtent prioee pfev-'iilbd, 1 the * well-' r jh"6'wrj 'GiVson fisrnlly claiming"' rij'ost ■'atle'ntinm. Mr _'Gihson realised an 'average of £45 'Us for twenty etudr«m a , while Mr Thoe , . Gibson, of avprnged £71 for eight ram«. Mr Tnmbul!. qfOtago, purchapod a couplf) of Mr Gnibb'd the progeny of Gibson etock, for 19<s and "21ge reepectivelr. Mr-Thoe. Gibson's ewes averaged 32|sjp. Prepide'nt was nest brought under tho hammer. The fir'i bid was 500gs nnd the competition went on by hundreds to SOOgp, by fifties to 950gs and iOOOga, amid great excitetnent andcchee r ing. After this the bidding'quickly ran. up 'o 1400g! , , when tfre "Btnges dropped to 25gs and lOgd finally ceasing'Rt l6oogs, at which price MessrsfsGrubb and Laurence of Tasmania became the owners under a partnership compact. This is the highest legitimate Bile on colonial records. After the excitement ,of this tussle, sales et 190gs, 175gs, l*s3gp; 143gs. 145gs and iSOge for various Tasmanian 'stocks seemed a mere t'ifle by comparison. On the third day tlmtop price was 500gs for a pure' Vermont ram, the property of Mr S. M'Oanghey, which was purchased by of Victoria Fourteen other Vermont rams from the same stock averaged £86 5.8, and ewes 20is:s. Sixteen of tha Colliery Compmiy's stud rams averaged 52£35.