LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1286, 15 November 1911, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. I)nlgoly and To., Mil., report having held their m-iial stork r.nlo :it Waipuknrn.il vi'stjrilay, when they offered a fair yarding of rcittlo and sheep tn n. lame attendance of thn public. They ryiote as follows:--Fnt. hulloi-lis. £8 lCs.. £t 155., to JC9 55.: fat ewes, 15s. Gd.; liokfTCts. in the wool, 10s. to Ms. 6d.; twotooth wethers, 10s. 9d.

Messrs. Abraham nun Wllllamo. Ltd.. report on Jlr. C. P. Phnrnr.yn's clc.irlin: Bale held at boniwood, FeathenUon, yesterday, as follows:-The attendance wan large, anil buyers from a. dist.anrc were present, but the Romtiey flock, although a lonc-establiKhed one. showed apparent shns of want of culling, and tho fact also of the sheep not, heiiiir in t.ho flock hook (added to which they were offered in surh larßc lines! was responsible for the -oor demand. The two-tooth ewes wore in cood condition, but thn percentage of lambs, however, wan very small, and they must be considered reasonable at from two to two and three-quarter guineas. The toin.iinins three pens of mixed-age cwoti r.old from two to two and a quarter rniincas. There was no demand for tho Shropshire ewes, which sold at 1J guineas, ram hoggets at 1 gnij.ra. and ewe boggets at 16s. 6d. The draught horses wero a better lot, and In (lrst-clars condition. Competition for these was satisfactory, and prices realised wore as under:—Scvcn-yoar-old mare (Peggy), 50 guineas; cightr year mare (Violet), 38 guineas; reven-ycar marc (Biddy), J1 guineas; eight-year marc (Diana). M 0), 14 guineas; aged brood mare, 26 guineas.