STOOK SALES.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1902, Page 4

STOOK SALES.

! [Bt TBLKORAVH — 1-HUBS ASSOOU.TIOW.] OHRISTOHUROH, 23rd April. Thore was a pood attondanoo of buyers and large entries to-day at Addington market— shoep 20,832, oattlo 488, pigs 735. if'at Oaltlo.— Over 200, mostly heavy bullocks. Thoro was a slow snlo at oponing, but bidding improved towards tho oloio. A decline on lait week's priced must be recorded. A lino of 22 bullocks from Mount Palm xnado £10 10a to £13 7s 6d ; 21 from Hawkeswood, £11 13a 6d to £13 2s 6d ,' 15 *from tho North Island. £10 12s 6d to £12 2s 6d} 1* from Mr. ;W. Birdling, £9 17s 6d to £11 2s 6d. Other stoers made £6 15s to £13 2b 6d ; hoifers, £5 5b to £9 2s 6d ; cows, £s>'2s 6d to £9 12s 6d, equal to 19s to 24s 6d por 1001b. Storo Cattle.— Oalves fetched up to £1, and young eattlo from £1 10s for yoarlings up to £4 Is for two-year-old steers, and £6 lls for three-year-olds. Dairy eattlo wore as usual, one good cow fetching £9 ss. • < Fat Sheop.— A full entry, but of mixed description, and varied quality. Freezing wothera, 16s to 18s sd; owes and wothors, 13s 6d to 16s 7d ; medium, 10b to 12s 6d ; light and inferior, la to 9s 6d. Fat Lambs.— Tho numbor penned was 2157, mostly backward. Prices wore easier. A lino of 934 for export, 9s to 13s 2d: 189 to butchoro, 7b Id to 13s Id ; 1034 wore passou. Storo , Sheep.— Over 15,000, mostly wothors in Rood condition. A lot of 1400 from tho North Island woro roally good sheep. Forward wothors and gooa owes wore in demand, but lambs and inferior sheep were dull and easier. Piga.— A largo entry, muoh above trade wants. Prices woro oasior. Stores were unsaleable. Baoonors, 32s to 40s, equal to 3d to 3id per' lb ; porkers, 20s to 30s, or oid to 3jd per lb. DUNEDIN, 23rd April. At Burnsido markot 198 fat eattlo were yarded, mostly of medium quality. Pricos, on tho whole, were about oqual to laat wook's. Best bullocks, £9 10s to' £10 10r; two pens oxtra, prime, £U 15s to £12; good, £8 to £C ; modium, £6 2s 6d to £7 10a ; best cows and hoifers, £7 15s to £8 IQs; good, £6 10a to £7; others, £4 10b to £5 10s. Fat Sheep.— About 2300, mostly heavy to inferior owes, with a few pons of exceptionally woll-finishod wethers, for which prices woro firmer, while for others they woro a shade easier. Best wothors, 14s 6d k to 15s Bd : a few pen* extra, 17s to 19s : medium, 12s to 13s 6d ; best owos, 13s to 14s; medium, lie to 12s; others 7s 6d to 9s. Lamb* mimberod 641. Tho demand for all finished lots was good, and prices rather better than last week, while inferior sorts woro duller. Piga.—The 162 yardoil hi6t with fair demand. Big piga brought up to 645, baconors 35s to 58s, porkers 24s to 325, stores 18s to 235, slips lls to 16», auckors 4« to 9s. ■ [OTO OWK COTHHSSrONDINT.} A* ,1. l .M^STKRTON, This Day. At the stook sales hero yesterday tho "prices _of sheep showod a distinct hardening. This was in oonsoquenco of the heavy rains which have fallen.