ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2148, 30 April 1897, Page 2

ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Wednesday. Yardings for the day comprised 15,175 seep. 452 cattle and 523. Fat Cattle.—The week's supply consisted of 168 hejd, of which 5O were dealers' lots and disposed of rrivaiely. Prices per 1001b show no change, viz., 163 to 18s for prime quality and 13s to 103 for infe-ior to medium sortsi Pi ices per read were -.—Steers £4 12a 6d to £6 123 6d, heifers £3 12s 6d to and £7 15s 6d for threj extra prima beasts; and c we £3 15 to £5 17s 6d. Fat .Shei'p.— B-tween 7000 and 8000 sheep occupied the fat pen*, and amoogst these w>s a much larger proportion than usual of freezing wethers and mixed sexes. Really good plump sheep, which should weigh out 651b when dressed for the butcher, were sold at from 61 10d to 7s 6d each. S:>me very prime merinos were on off r, notably some four tooth. Hursley Dowo wethe<B

Bent f irw.ird by Mr L. Toss will, which were taken at from 9s 3d to 10s Id, anil a beautiful of ewes from W. Strange, of Upper Selwyn, which sold at 8a 1M and 9s 4d. Go <d freezing wethers brought from 12s to 14s medium do and mixed sexo , * 10s to 11s 10, backward sets 7« Cd to 9s 6d, gaod young fvei 8-! 6d ts 10a. *nd aged 6s 61 to 7s 6d. mnino weathT* 7s to 10s ld> and ewes 5s to 9a 4d* Sice Sheep.—Th'B class was better represented than of late, and consisted mainly of crossbred wethers and lambs. Tlmepjrts fat wetliera brought 103 3d to lls 6d. not quite so good at 9* to 10-t, and baickwaid sovhlh lid to Ss 9d; good healthy forward lambs 7s to 8. 9d, medium do 5s f> 6s 91 and weeds aod bac«wjrds 3< lid io 4s 9'L Pigs.—Although the entry of pigs contained more weli-fiuished 'aorta, there is still room for improvement in the manner in which soma of the animale had been fed. All prime qu*lit.y mot ngo d s*le. Fat pigs realised frjm 3d to 3i'i per lb, and storrs brought late rates. Amongst thesdes of local sheep, we no'ice Mrs Partial, W-duui, croaebied wethera and mvden ewes at lla 3d. Fat Limbs—Vlr W. H. Montgomery, Little River, At 10a.