CLINTON ANNUAL EWE AND LAMB FAIR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2664, 5 April 1905, Page 23

CLINTON ANNUAL EWE AND LAMB FAIR.

The National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited) report having held its annual ewe and lamb fair at Clinton on Thursday last, the 23rd ult.. when there was a record yarding cf sheep. Every pen, as well as the cattle yards, in Mr Irving's commodious ygrds being taxed to its utmost capacity. Tiie combined yarding totalled about 20,000 sheep and lambs. The attendance was good, but the feeling that prices had reached top, the scarcity of drovers, and the inability of the Railway Depa-rtment to supply trucks, had a depressing effect on the sale of full and brokenmouthed ewes and all descriptions of inferior sheep, and for these lower prices, by at least Is per head than was anticipated, had to be accepted, while on the other hand young ewes, wall-grown, forward wethers, and good crossbred lambs were keenly competed for, and "brought prices quite equal to late ruling rates. The sales comprised the following: — For Mr A. C. Begg (Cairn Station), 1000 ewes at 16s sd, 1004 cull lambs at lls 2d, 214 ewes at 12& Id, 155 do at lls 7d, 143 wethers at 15s 9d, 265 oull lambs to 10s; Mr John Tait (Taumata), 100 crossbred lambs at 14s Sd; Mr H. Tolmie (Waipahi). 600 crossbred ewes at 17s 4d, 347 halfbred ewes at 15s 3d; Mr J. U. Wallace (Clinton), 80 ewes at 17s Id; Mr D. A. M'Lachlan (Clinton), 34 ewes at 15s 3d ; Mr H. E. Ste-el (Clinton), 31 ewes at 21s, 244 do at 18s lid, 67 -vv ethers at 17s lOd, 370 lambs to 14s; Mr D. Wallace (.Clinton), 43 lambs at 14s 6d, 56 ewes at 14s 7d ; Mr Walter A. Brown (Knowsley Park), 126 wethers' at 17s, 300 do at 16s Id; 'Miss Logan (Popotunoa), 64 ewes at 18s 6d; Mr R. Alexander (Waipahi), SI lambs at 14s lid; Mr John Clerks (Wairuna), 211 lambs at 16s Id, 17 ewes at 17s, 70 do at 8&; Mt J. W. Thomson (Clinton). 64 ewes at 19s 3d, 154 do a.t 16s 4d ; Messrs W. and J . Scott (Keilor), 78 ewes at 21s, 62 wethers at 18s 9d, 85 owes a.t lls 9d, 31 do at 18s 8d ; Mr J. Johnston (Anise Hill), 347 lambs at 13& sd, 86 ewes at 15s Id, 20 wethers at 15s Id, 10 ■ewes a.t 10s, ■40 cull lambs at 9s ; Mr Thomas Irvine (Wairuna), 60 lambs at 15s 9d ; Mr D. Williamson (Clinton), 204 ewes at 15s sd ; Messrs J. and J. C. Begg (Wyndham Station), 294 ewes at 15s 3d, 151 do at 14s Id, 46 do at 7s 8d ; Mr A. Gouston (Wairuna), 119 lambs at 15s Id, 40 cull ewes at 6s sd ; Mr James iM'NeMr, SO ewes at 9s; Mr D. Clarke, 399 crossbred lambs at 14s 4d; Mr J. Kirk (Kelso), 50 extra good two-tooth ewes at 265, and passed, in 720 ; Mr H. E. Steel, 11 Border Leicester rams at £3 3s; Mr T. Blacklook, 7 Border Leicester rams at llgs; and for Mr A. Reay, 10 head of cattle to £6 7a 6d.