EWE FAIR.

Press, Volume XXV, Issue 3279, 4 March 1876, Page 2

EWE FAIR.

Committee : —Messrs G. Gonld 77, Acland, John Anderson, iun H k ai maa 0. P. Barker, B. B. Biehop, W. J*, q. £ Thomas Bruce, P. Cunningham, John |w' A. Duncan, A. A. Fantham, John Ferrm. U. B. Freestone, Samuel Garforth, J GeS' D. Gebbie, B. QiUett, Hon E O ' ' Qrifflf, B. L. Sieging, J. R. HilCwmff; Heudorson. William Holly, J. T Ford w Boap, A W Money, J. Maun, William m£ croft, 11. J. Mathißß, J. T. Mntsnn J \ini' E. Mitchell, J. Mcßeth, J. A. Mcllrai'th n' Newton, William Norman, Rev A P ly'oY laphan, J. Palmer, J, Page, Wm. RossSl" Hon E. W. Stafford, li. Sutherland P .' Tnrelkeld. H. Washbonrne, sen, James Robert Wilkin, H, P. Murray. AynJley A Cracroit Wilson. Thomns Kowp. The ewe fair came off, as notified, TestM . day. The attendance was vnry limitwf bnt several sales were effected which were m™l or less satisfactory to breeders. The cat, logucd number of ewes were very' snm iM *l several auctioneers improved the occasion by offering several other important lots rll following are the particulars of the VtrlmE transactions:— UUB Mr Aikman, who sold for Mr VViIV? offered six Lincoln ewes imported dT' Calypso, bred by Mr Mackindor of Lincoln* shire, which were sold to Mr Coe ar guineaa each. These sheep are sDlendi* animals. A lot of thirty.five two too J Lincolns, bred by imported rams, the nJn perty of Mr Cathcart Wason. of Corw« were sold to Mr Con way at £1 eac h and a very cheap bargain they were. Mr J. Matson then officiated. «,» mencmg with some Leicestere and Leicesteraof Mr Maydwell'a. The first tm> or three lots were passed in at th reserve figure, but Mr Conway succeeded in obtaining five Leicester ewe lambs at 2 guineas, and one Lincoln-Leicester at 3 pninena m, Matsoa then offered a lot of his own breed ing with the following results:—Sixteen two' tooth down ewes, at £1 Iβ each, to Mr It' Wilkin ; seven Leicester two-tooth ewe* *l £1 6s, to Mr W. Jeffrey; B i x tinrolS! Leicester ewes, at 2 guineas, to Mr Perham* 7 Lincoln-Leicester ewes, at 15s 9d to Mr Morris Jones; 2 Leicester owes, to MrW Jeffrey, at lOs; and eight Lincoln-Leiccatets at 173 6d to the same gentleman • forty-one Leicester ewes, at I7g $$ to Mr Dowding, of Cold&treatn. On account of Messrs Digby and Ilebden, Mr Mataon then offered two Leicester rams, which, after a spirited competition, were knocked down to r M L \r L i eVre, , of karoa ' at 3 P*»« each, Mr Matson also sold sixteen Southdown ewes, in grand condition, to Mr R. Wilkin, at £1 each. Another lot of the same fetched from 10s 6d to 17s 6d. We underhand tha* Mr Matson has also disposed of two more of Mr Lysaght's imported rams, one being pur. chased by Mr Gerkin at 55 guineas, and the other to MrS. Nutt at £48. Wo wish hero to correct an error in our report of the ram fair of the preceding day. The ten Leicester ram lambs by Charmion, and bred by Mr Matsou, were reported as havinc been passed in. They were, however, purchasod by Mr. Arthur Dobson at 5 guineas each, which was the highest price obtained upon the ground for ram lambs during the day. Mr Matson also submitted yesterday two pone of two-tooth Leicester ewes, of his own breeding, by Young Scotland, and theee were passed in at 16 guineas each, and two other lots of twelve Leicester ewe lambs by Charmion, were paesed in at 12 guineas each. Mr B. Mitchell sold some Romney March rams at £1 each, but as the attendance was becoming somewhat limited, aud in view of his approaching eale of Every McLean'a young rams, he soon relinquished the hammer, which brought the proceedings to a termination.

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