STOCK AND STATIONS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 96, 19 June 1877, Page 2

STOCK AND STATIONS.

In this market we have nothing new to report, transactions being limited in consequence of the season of the year. At the yards on Wednesday, 2954 sheep came forward, comprising a number of both cross-breds and merinos of good quality. Best cross-breds reached 14s, and merinos up to 10s each, being average of 24d per lb for the former, and quiet 2Ad for the latter. In cattle, 154 were yarded, and amongst them were some pens of prime quality beef which reached up to £19 10s for bnllocks, and £15 for cows. Ordinary quality beef sold at 27s 6d per lOOlbs, while very prime quality reached as high as 32s 6d per lOOlbs The latter, however, is an exceptional quotation. Of pigs, about 18 were yarded, and for them there was a dull market.

Messrs H. Matson and Co. report on the live stock market, &c, for the weekending Friday, June 16, 1877 :—At Addington, on Wednesday, 154 cattle and 2954 sheep were entered for the week. Our entries comprised 90 cattle and 1589 sheep. We sold for Messrs Birdling, 30 head of the heaviest and best quality cattle that have been through the yards for a long time. Bullocks soid from £11, £13, £14, £16 to £19, and heifers to £15 per head ; for Mr. W. Strachan, 40 head of stores, from £3 15s, £4 10s, to £5 10s per head ; 20 dairy cows, for Mr. Ferguson, at from £7 10s to £9 10s per head, and several small lines at fair values. —In sheep, we sold 133 crossbreds, at 12s per head ; 100 merino ewes, at 4s Id per head ; 150 2-tooth merinos, at 9s 6d and 10s ; 157 cross-breds, at 13s ; 147 merinoß. at 7s 9d ; 365 cross-breds, at lis fid and lis 9d ;96 do, at 14s : 50do, at lis, and sundry small lines at fair quotations. Wool, sheepskins, and laities, &c. There was only a moderate supply to hand on Thursday; this was caused through the wet weather, and the railway lines being stopped. There was a fair attendance of buyers, and sales were satisfactory. Best butchers cross-brads, 4s 3d, 4s 6d, 4s lOd, ss, to 5s 4d each ; merinos, 3s to 3s 6d each secoud quality, a shade lower. Hides brought, green. 3|d, and salted 44d ; calfskins, 6£d per ib. Rough fat sold well, at 2£d, 2jd, to 23d per lb. Several bales of lambswool realissd 9dperlb.