SEDDON STOCK SALE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 86, 13 April 1907, Page 8

SEDDON STOCK SALE.

Dalgety and Company,. Ltd...report holding their fprtnightly , stock sale at Seddon on Wednesday last, when a fair entry came forward, and nearly every line submitted was sold at late ruling rates. There was a good attendance, but bidding was a bit dragging at the start of the sale, but livened up a little as the sale went on. Prices ruled as follows:—2-tooth to f.m. crossbred ewes, 12s Id; forward lambs, 10s 6d; small lambs. 5s lOd; aged ewes, 6s; fat ewes I3s Id; 2-tooth to t.m. Leicester ewes, 10s lid; 2-tooth wethers, 11s 2d;> 2-tooth to f.m. crossre<i^es' ,i2s lld J a Sei3 merino ewes, 4s; 626 wether crossbred lambs in wool, from Mr Rittson-Thomas, Tirohanga realised 9s 4d for the line. They were a splendid lot. Aged rams were disposed of at low rates. Grey mare, draught, 3 years, realised £27 15s.

vance to the attack. I saw him shot, and I believe his body was taken to Ntfpier for tangi and buriM. Karaitiana Takamoana, of Napier, was the-M.H.R., and took no active part in the wars.—Faithfully yours (Signed) T. W. PORTER.

The editor of the Mutual Provident Messenger, who has just returned to Sydney from New Zealand, writes: —

" The natural beauties of the country are probably unequalled by those of any other country in the world, and the colony is a veritable tourists' paradise ; but under existing conditions few visitors v will risk a second visit. The railway' accommodation is jwholly inadequate and the management extremely inefficient, while the hotels, except in, a few of the leading centres. are models of discomfort. The Exhibition at present open in Christchurch is attracting enormous crowds of visitors^ who appear content to spend their time and money in riding down watershoots and toboggan slides.""

Blankets! Blankets! AH wooL'colonial large size, 15s pair. Hundreds protected from the cold by this line. Try a pair to-night.—R. Allan.* * .

Poseidon (in Victoria) has arrival in it:, neighbourhood. A new rush has broken out near the old "Slip Up" diggings, halfway between Tar^ nagulla and Newbridge. The field was first .worked about fo*rty years ago, when it proved a,.." duffer," and two miners who got stranded, became lost in the bush, and died from starvation. "Several fossickers have at times got good gold from pot holes in the old gaily, but they never succeeded in finding the lead. A prospector from the Poseidoiv»field has, however, now located the gutter on Crown lan*ds, and obtained lOdwt of water-worn gold from the bottom of a 12ft shaft. There were soon over one hundred men on the field; pegging along what is considered to be the line of the reef. A good deal of development work will be necessary to thoroughly prove the ground. '