ADDINGTON YARDS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10760, 13 September 1900, Page 6

ADDINGTON YARDS.

(BY OVR COMMERCIAI, EDITOR.) There was a fairly large yarding of all classes of fat stock at the yards, but stores were in limited numbers. The' attendance was good, and business was generally orisk.

There were only a little over 1300 store sheep entered, and competition was good for all kinds, especially hoggets and ewes and lambs. The chief sales were: —112 wethers, 15s sd; 405 hoggets, 15s; 126 ewes, with 100 per cent, of lambs, lis, all counted. The entry of fat lambs was the largest of the season, there being 94 penned, and they sold at 10s to 17s 6d, the bulk of them making 12s 6d to 13s 6d. The yarding of fat sheep was smaller than last week, and there were but few un-inis-h-d lines. The firmer tone of the meat market at Home caused tbe export buyers to compete more freely, and there was a general advance all round of fully Is to Is 6d pea- head. Heavy weight wethers sold up to 235, freezers 18s to 21s, light and unfinished sorts 16s lid to 17s 6d, butchers' ewes 17s to 21s 3d, merino wethers suitable for fi-eezing 16s 2d to 17s Bd, others 14s 9d to 15s Id, merino ewes 14s 4d. The chief sales were for Mr W. W. McClelland, Kimberley, 39 halfbred wethers 21s 9d to 235, 21 crossbred do 22s 9d; Mr J. Scott, Windwhistle, 200 halfbred wethers 19s to 22s 6d, 26 ewes 17s 8d to 19s; Mr Jis. Dysart, Courtenay, 60 halfbred wethers 19s lOd to 225; Ashburton clients, 41 crossbred wethers 21s 6d, 36 ewes 20s to 21s 3d, 130 crossbred wethers 20s to 21s, 28 halfbred do 21s sd; Mr W. B. Andrew, jun., Dumroslyn, 30 crossbred wethers 20s 7d to 21s 6_, 26 ewes 19s 8d; Mr D. McLaren, Timaru, 108 crossbred wethers 20s to 21s 3d; Mr J. Smythe, Killinchy, 60 halfbred wethers 18s 6"d to 21s; Mr W. Kelly, Cheviot, 160 'crossbred wethers 19s 6d to 21s; Messrs C. and A. Robinson, Cheviot, 180 halfbred wethers 17s lid to 20s lid, 62 crossbred do 19a to 20s; Mr J. R. Gorton, View Hill, 160 halfbred wethers 18s lid to 20s 6d; Cust client, 60 halfbred wethers 17s lid to 20s 6d; Mr A. Hunter, Cust, 93 halfbred wethers 16s lid to 20s 3d, 27 crossbred do 19s; Mr C. J. Hurst, Waimate, 160 halfbred wethers 17s to 20s 3d, 30 maiden ewes 18s, 34 crossbred wethers 18s to 20s, 49 maiden ewes 17s 4'd to 18s lid; Mr J. Baker, Methven, 36 crossbred wethers 19a to 20s 3d, 28 merino wethers 15s id; Timaru client, 91 crossbred wethers IBs 3d to 20s, 147 halfbred wethers 19s 3d; Mr W. MoMeekan, Springston, 70 crossbred wethers 18s to 20s Id; Mr Thos. Richards, Rakaia, crossbred wethers 19s lid, merino wethers 163 lOd, merino ewes 14s 4d; Mr T. Linton, Makikihi, 115 halfbred wethers 17s 9d to 19s 6d; Mr J. Sowden, Dunsandel, 302 crossbred wethers 17s to 15s sd; Mr J. Grigg, Longbeach, 115 crossbred ewes 18s to 19s 3d; Mr A. G. Holmes, Hoon Hay, 35 crossbred wethers 18s to 19s 2d; Mr W. Read, Darfield, 60 wethers 17s 6d to 18s lOd; Mr H. Page, Kirwec, 60 crossbred ewes 17s 6d to 18s 7d; Mr J. W. Irvine, Dunsandel, 60 crossbred wethers 17s to 18s; Mr W. Chapman, West Eyreton, 184 merino wethers 16s 2d to 17s Bd.

In the fat cattle pens there were 190 head, there being a larger proportion of steers than of late, and the quality all round was of good average. The sale was not very brisk, and values showed a further decline. Among the best lines in were 14 steers from Air A. W. Rutherford, Brookdale, which made _66 15s to £9 12s ~6d, and 20 heifers from the same estate, ivhich changed hands at £6 5s to £8 17s 6d, also 4 heifers from Mr A; Chamberlain, Brookside, which sold at £8 15s to £9 15s, the highest-priced one being a first-prize taker at the Ohristehurch show, and 2 cows at £7 15s to £8 17s 6d. Ordinary steers made £6 2s 6d to £9 15s; heifers, £4 7s 6d to £7 10s; and cows, £4 7s 6d to £6 17s 6d, equal to 22s to 24s for prime, and 17s to _ils for cow and medium quality per 1001b. The store cattle sent forward were mostly small rough sorts, and they did not sell as well as last week, 2_r-year heifers making £3 55," 18 months mixed £2 2s, 15 months 27s to 365, yearlings 16s, dry cows £1 15s to £3 9s, dairy cows sold at £3 to £7 10s.

Inhere was a fairly large yarding of pigs, and all classes showed an advance. The first of the season's consignment of stores, to be sent to Southland in view of the opening of the dairying season, were purchased, and this had the effect of the price of stores. Baconers made 32. 6d io 425, equal to 3_d to 3|d per ib ; porkers, 22s to 31s 6d, equal to 3Jd to 4d per lb; stores, 12s 6d to 22s 6d; and suckers and Treaners, 4s to lis 6d.