Messrs Lowes and lorns report of their Pahiatua sale: —We submitted an unusually large catalogue of sheep. The bidding at fir.-t lacked animation, but later on lots fell at good sound rates, lambs showing a slightly improved de mand ; good young ewes anil wethers also sold briskly. W’e quote —Sheep: Fat ewes brought 9s, 9s fid, 9s 91, 10s; 4,6, and f.t.m. ewes 7s Bd, 8s 7d, 9s, up to 9s fid ; sound month ew es, 7s, 7s Id, 7s 3d, 7s 101 ; aged ewes 5s 9d, Gs, 6s fid, 0s 7d, (is 91; shorn lambs, fis to fis 3d ; culls, 3s Id to 4s 3.1; cull woolly lambs, 4s 9d to 5s Id ; 4-tooth wethers, 10s 2d ta 10s 9J ; 2-tooth wethers, 9s od, 9s 7d, 9s lOd ; good Lincoln rams, 1 to 2f guineas; Romney rams, no demand. Cattle ; Very forward bullocks brought .£4 lls to £5 ; 18-months steers, T2 12s to T2 15s ; yearlings, T'2,2s ; heifers, in calf, <£2 15s to T 3 ; forward cows, T2 12s fid. Pigs again unsaleable.
