MESSRS STEVENS & GORTON'S ANNUAL RAM FAIR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 69, 20 February 1884, Page 3

MESSRS STEVENS & GORTON'S ANNUAL RAM FAIR.

jln glorious weather and with an unusually large attendance Messrs Stevens and Gorton held their annual ram fair yesterday at Bulls. Settlers were present from all the country round, including Napier, Wanaganui, Manawatu. Rkngitikei, Patea, Hawera, and Taranaki. The sale started with the cattle, but bids were hard to obtain, and three lots were all that found buyers out of a great number offered. Far different was the case with the sheep, of which no less than 9000 were sold at the hammer, the great run being on the Eoniney Marsh ewes, all of which found ready purchasers at from 18s up to £2 2s a head. The Lincoln rams were not so much m demand, and cannot bo said, to have Bold well. Mr Larkworthy's pure pedigree Lincoln stud rams occasioned good competition, arid wei*e all sold at prices averaging about 8 guineas. But the tendency of the sale was strongly m favor of "the Rpmney Marsh breed, the stud rams belonging po Major Willis and Mr L. O. Richards all h'ndiug purchasers, at prices ranging from LI la to L 5 ss. They were certainly fine sheep, and we do not wonder at their finding favor m the Rangitikei. Owing to the late hour at which the ram fair finished we (Chronicle) were unable to procure a full and official list of the lots sold and the prices they fetched, but these particulars of a very successful ram fair will appear m a future issue.