Late Burnside Stock Report

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 13, Issue 7, 13 February 1908, Page 17

Late Burnside Stock Report

Sheep.— l2oo penned.. Prime wethers brought better prices than those ruling last week. Extra prime wethers, 20s to 22s ;' good, 17s to' 18s 6d ; light, 14s to 17s ; extra prime ewes, -22s 9d ;- good, 14s to 15s ; medium., 10s to 13s Od. There were some store sheep for which there was no inquiry, and which were soiia at from 3s to 6s 9d. ; .' ' . Lambs.— There was a fair yarding' 1342 being penned There was fair competition, and- there was an advance on prices ruling at last sale. Prime lambs 15s 6d to 17s 9d ;i good, .13s 9d to 14s -id ; fair, 10s 6d to 12s 6d. . .. Fat Cattle.— There was a -medium yarding of 142. Prices for prime beef were slightly better than those ruling last week, but inferior sorts were lower Best bullocks, £.8 to £9 12s 6d ; medium, £5 to £7 10s, light, £3 to £4 10s. Stores sold at' about last- week: s rates. Best,£3 7s-6d to £4 2s 6d ; mediuir, £2 7,s 6d to £3 5s ; inferior, £1 15s . to £2 ss. . Pigs.~lso forward. Young pigs were sold at from 2s to 4b below last week's rates, an d Porkew md baconers were slightly easier. Suckers 13s to 15s 6d, slips, 17s to 18s 6d; stores, 20s to 25s ; Rorßers, 33® to 38sl; light baconers, 43s to 465-; heavy- do, 46s to 545. ' '

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(From our own correspondent.) . ' - February 10. Mr. and Mrs. F. Neylon left Wanganui on Wednesday last en route to Europe. Ihey expect to be .absent from Wanganui for about six months. The mission at St. .Joseph's Church, Aramoho, was very successful, large numbers of people having attended all the services. The church was crowded on Sunday evening week when the Very Rev. Father Clune, C.SS.R., conducted the closing ceremonies. On Sunday week t the members of St. Mary's Catholic Club approached the Holy Table in a body at St. Mary's .Church. Last Friday evening teams representing St. Mary's Club and the local lodge, of Druids, played a euchre match at Hodson's Rooms, which resulted in a victory for the Club. The Catholio schools re-opened last week. Referring to the matter yesterday and on the previous Sunday, the Very Rev. Dean 4 G-rogan said that the Catholics of Wanganui had good reason to be proud of their schools, as the Wanganui Convent held the first place for results, and the Marist Brothers' school, too, had been ' very successful. He pointed out that at Home, in Australia, in other parts of New Zealand, as well as in Wanganui, wherever the pupils of the Uatholic schools met the children of other schools in even competition the \ictory always remained with the Catholic children. The Dean also explained the two reasons of this superiority. In .the first place in the Catholic schools the knowledge off God! and of the truths which. He has- revealed was imparted to the children whose minds were thus enlightened, whereas in secular schools the children were taught nothing about God, and their minds were thus cramped and dwarfed for want of this knowledge. In the second place teachers belonging to the religious Orders took a deeper interest in the' welfare of their pupils than lay teachers, and consequently devoted more time to their advancement in learning. With regard to the Wanganui Catholic schools your correspondent is in a position, from an experience extending over many years, both as a parent and an examiner'K> endorse the encomiums passed upon them by the Dean, and to state with confidence that these schools are, m all that pertains to true education, superior to the other institutions of their kind in Wanganui At the recent Junior Civil Service Examination, five candidates from, the Convent soh,oiol passted, all of them with credit The Marist Brothers presented four candidates, ail ot whom passed, one being in the credit list At the recent scholarship examinations in connection" with i Kf ™ - S . Collc S e > Master Gerald Mahony, a pupil of the Marist Brothers, secured one of the scholarships