LATE STOCK REPORT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 2, 13 May 1898, Page 20

LATE STOCK REPORT.

BURNSIDE STOCK REPORT. (SPECIAL TO N.Z. TABLET.) (Per favour Messrs. Stronach Bios, and Morris.) Wednesday, May 11. Cattle — Fat bullocks— 2l2 yarded. There was a fair demand and prices much the same as those ruling last week. Best bullocks, LBtoL9; medium to good, LG 5s to L 7 15s; inferior, L 3 10s to L 5 10s ; best cows, L 5 10s to L 7 ; medium, L 4 2s Gd to L 5 ; others, L 2 to L 3 10s. Fat Sheep — 1181 penned. Owing to small entry bidding was very brisk and prices fully Is Gd higher all round. Best crossbred ■wethers sold at 13s to 15s ; medium, 11s to 12s !>d ; light wethers, 8s to 10s 9d ; best crossbred ewes, 10s 3d to 10s i)d ; extra heavy, 14s 6d ; medium, 8s Gd to 10s ; others. 7s to 8s 3d ; merino wethers, 4s9dtD Bs. Lambs Only 102 penned. Sold very well at from 8s 9d to 10s. pIG-sp IG - s 29 penned. All selling fairly well at last week's rates.

It is manifestly as unfair to judge of a place by its March as to judge a man's disposition by the hour before dinner.— Eliz ibeth Stuart Phelps. A Protestant layman may determine and propound all by himself the terms of saivation ; we are bigots and despots if we do but proclaim what a thousand years have sanctioned.— Newman.