ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8963, 29 November 1894, Page 3

ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Wednesday, November 28.

All classes of stock were well represented at the yards to day, and there was a good attendance.

Fat Cattle—There was, a good entry of fat cattle, so far as numbers were concerned, but the quality wa3 not np to what it has been of late, cows forming almost the whole of ihe yarding. Prices were easier by at least 10* per bead, and best quality can only be quoted at about 23s per lOOib. Messrs Miles and Co., Limited, sold heifers at £5 7s 6d to £7 10s, cows at £5 to £7. ; Messes Wilson and Sons sold cows at £5 2a 6d. SIR F. C. Tababt sold steers ac £7 10s to £10 12s 6(3, cows at £5 15a to £7 10a. Messrs Todhcnter and Jennings sold steers from £6 17s 6d to £S, heifers at £5103 to £8, cows £5 17s 6d to £7 7a 6d. Messrs J. T. Fori> and Co. sold cows at £7 123 6d to £8 2s. Messrs H. Matson and Co. sold 29 head steers at from £8 10a to £« sd, heifers from £5 7s 6d to £6 7a 6d, cows £4 12s 6d to £7 sa. Messrs Pynk and Co. sold 17 head as follows :—Heifers £4 10a to £7 2a 6d, cows £4 13s to £6 123 6d.

Stoke and Dairy Cattle—There wae a large entry of dairy cows, including a consignment of handy sorts, of Jersey and Ayrshire cross, from Otago. Competition was not active, but a fair amouut of business was done. There was again a large yaidiug of store cattle, including eeveral lair lines of two and a half-year-old stock, and most of the lots were quitted at late ratfes. * Tire New Zealand Loas act Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, bold steers at £5 5s to £5 12s 6d, heifers at £4 9a to £5 la. Messrs George Kiso and Co., Limited, sold yearlings ab 21s to 403, eighteen months steers ab 55a to 575, two-year-old heifers up to £5. Messrs Todiicnteb and Jennings sold a line of eighteen-nionth-old heifers at £2 14:, a line of weaners at £1 183, yearlings at £2 10s 6(1, two-year-old steers at £5 7a 6d, eighteen-month-old heifers at £3 7s, fifteen-month-nld do at £2 2a 6d, store cows £2 10s to £4. Messrs Wilson and Sons sold store cows at £4 103 to £6 7s 6d. Mr H. B. Sorenskn sold dairy cows at £6 153. Messks Geo. King and Co., Limited, sold dairy cows, iucluding a line from Ocago, at £4 to £9 153. Messrs Wilson and Sons sold dairy cows ab £1 15a to £7 10a. Messrs Todhuster and Jknnings sold cows and springers from £5 2s 6d to £8 10a. Messrs H. Matson and Co. sold cows and springers from £4 15s to £7 ss.

Pigs—The entry of pigs was an average one. There was & better demand than last week and pi ices improved somewhat. Best baconers and porkers may be quoted at 3£d per lb. - Mr H. B. B. Sorensen sold porkers at 20a to 29a. Messrs Wilson and Sons sold porkers at 18s 6d to 27s 6d, baconers at 293 6d to 355. Mv E. G. Stavelev sold porkers at-183 6d to 23s 6d, baconers at 33s to 41s, stores at 10s to 14s. Messrs Todhdnter and Jennings sold 106 pigs aa follows :—Baconers from 34s 6d to 475, porkers at 18s to 265, stores at 9s to 15s. Messrs H. Matson and Co. sold 141 pigs as follows:—Best baconers at 40a.t0 455, medium at 30s to 37s 6d, porkers at 19s to 26s 6d, stores at 10s 6d to 17s. Messbs Pyne and Co. sold 39 pigs as follows:—Baconers at 32a 6d to 395, porkers at 23s to 26s 6d.

Store Sheep—There was a fairly large yard Log of store sheep and for all the classes - yarded there was a good demand. Crossbred ewes and lambs sold at 7a 3d, all counted-; crossbred hoggets at 8s 2d to 9a 7d and four-tooth wethers at 11s 6d. Messrs Todhunter and Jennings sold 760 crossbred hoggets at from 7s lid to 9$ sd, and 1239 crossbred ewes and lambs (shorn) at 63 6d to 7s 3d, all counted. Messrs H. Matson and Co. sold shorn merino ewes and lambs at 12s 2d. 'Messes Fyne and Co. sold shorn two-tooth crossbieds mixed at 7s 6d to 8a sd, fourtootha at 9a 6(1 to 11s 2d.

Fat Lambs—A fairly large entry of fat lambs was quitted at all prices from 9a to 123 6d. Messrs Miles ano Co., Limited, sold fat lambs at 9s to Hβ. Messes Tobhunteb and Jenningh sold Jamba air froht-W^Kl-ta'^lOs-6tfr 6d to 12s 4d. MKSiKS J. T. ITobd and Co. sold lamb 3at 8* lid to 9s 6d. Messrs H. Matson and Co. sold 191 at from 10j 3d to 11s dd. Messrs Pyne and Co. sold 92 at from 10s 6d to 123 9d. The New Zealand Loan and Mbbcantile Agency Company, sold best lambs at 10a 4d to 12* 7d, others at 7s 10k to 83 6d.

Fat Sheep—There wae a full yarding of fat sheep, the bulk of which was crossbred ewes. There were bnt few pens of prime sheep or merinos. At the opening the demand was not active, and prices were if anything a shade easier than last week. Later on there was a further decline in values, and towards the close of the sale there was a difficulty of disposing of the lots .at any price, so that a number had to be The New Zbaland Fabmebs' Cooperative Association. Limited, sold prime crossbred wethere at 13s to 14s 6d, crossbred maiden ewes aud wethers at 13s 3d to 13s 9d, crossbred ewes at 10s lOd to 12s B'd, merino ewes at 4s to 6s 9d, merino wethers at 7s to 8s 6d. Messrs George King and Co., Limited, sold crossbred ewes at 83 6d to 11a. Messes Miles and Co., Limited, ' sold prime crossbred wethers at 12s 6d to 143, medium do at 103 6d to 12a 3d, crossbred ewes at 9s 4d to 10s 6d, medium do at 7s lOd to 9s Id. Todhunteb and Jennings sold crossbred ewes at 7s QA to 11s 3d, crossbred wethers at lOa to 159. Mb E. G. Staveley. sold mixed halfbreds at 12s lOd to 13a lid, crossbred ewes at 83 4d to 12s 3d, merino ewes at 5s to 6s Bd. Mb F. C. Tababt sold crossbred wethers at 14s lid, crossbred ewes heavy weights at 11s 9d to 14a 6d, do lighter at 8s 6d to 11s 6d, merino wethers at 6e 6d to 8a 6d. Messrs J. T. Ford, and Co. sold crossbred flhorn wethers at 19a, Southdown ewe 3at 14s. Messes, H. Matson and Co. 501d.864 as follows—Prime crossbred wethers in the wool to 16s, do shorn at 14s to 15s 9d, eecondarv at 11s 6d to 13s Bd, best crossbredem at 12s to 13s 6d, secondary do at 10s lid to lie 6d, beat merino withers in wool at 10s to 12a 2d. - Messes Pyne ajsd Co. sold 1381 as follows:—Best crossbred .wethers at 13a 8d to 14s Bd, freezers at 12s to 13s 6d, crossbred ewea at 83 6d to 9a 9d, merino wethers at 7s to 7a 4d, ewes at 7e. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, sold best crossbred wethers at 12s 6d to 13s 3d, medium at 9a 7d to crossbred ewes at 8a to 12s 4d, merino ewes at 4s 6d to 5s 9d. -