STEVENS & GORTON'S REPORT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11126, 11 February 1886, Page 2

STEVENS & GORTON'S REPORT.

• -We held our annual ram and sheep fair tat Bulla -yesterday, under certainly disadi.Yaritageoiis circumstance., for it was without doubt the wettest, day we ever held a sale on. Thia, how-aver, did not affect the pri.o.s of eheep, all of which, with the exception of two or three pens, were sold under tbo hammer at considerably higher rates than of l*it<-t, but it certainly put a damper in more oenaos than ore on tho sale of rams. Of tlie latter we ytwded 430, and of the fonticr jusfc on 50.10. The demand for rams was not fo good this year, but the Bplendid order in which Mr (.'obb brought his excel- ' 'l<*iifc Uomney rams to the sale, and placing th *m before the public without the slightest reser-ve,- rewarded him by obtaining the highest average and highest prices, his average being over £5, and his highest price ram 8 guineas. The next highest iwcaeswa-i obtained by Mr Willis, whose ' rams were much admired. In the Lincolns, Mv J Q Wilson carried off the palm with ---an average of £3, hie highest price being 5 _ guineas. Mr Lark worthy was the next high st in price, but Mr J, Bryce was the next in average, his ramß being much admired: We quote tho following rates j —Forward wethers, 1_ 9d j ewes, 6s ld to 6a lld ; fullmouthed ewes, good frameß, 6s ld ; breeding ewes, 4*-tooth to full-mouthed, 7s 6d ; lambs in wool, _\_ 9d to 5s ld ; shorn lambs, 8s 7d to, 4s 3d j fulNmouthed eweß, 4s 3d to 5s 6d.