STOCK MARKET

Feilding Star, Volume XX, Issue 194, 24 February 1899, Page 2

STOCK MARKET

I Messrs F K. Jackson and Ho. re-port:-At VVaverley o« Friday all classes of stock largely exceeded the advertised numbers. The various ' cattle yards were mostly well filled. j The quality generally was good ! Bidding was brisfr, almost the whole going off under the hammer. Sheep in large numbers sold freely, and at an advance on previous rates. At Bt. Hill Street yesterday cattle were in limited supply. For bullocks and fresh steers an unsatisfied inquiry existed were plentiful and the bulk sold Pric-s in relation to stores may be described as being at a premium. *iood sound breeding ewes of any quality rule high. Pigs in moderate supply made recent rates. Waverley : Forward bullo.ks, £4 2s 6d ; fresh 3£ year steers, £3 18s o'd ; fresh 2} to 3 year steers, £3 2s ; 1\ yea* steers, £2 7s 6d to 4*3 Is ; 15 to 18s month steerß, 35a ; yearling steers, 245 ; weaners, 14s ; forward pmpty heifers, £3 ; others, £2 2s to £'2 17* 6ii ; woolly lambs, 6s 9d ' shorn lambs (poor), 3s ; culls, li 6d ; choice, 2-tooth ewes, 9s 4d ; others, 7s lid; full-mouthed ewes, 5s Id to 78 6d ; fat ewes, 7s ; store wethers, 8s 6d to 8s 9d. Waoganui : Fat cows (light weights), £'2 18a to J23 ; fat bullocks, £6 ; fresh 3£ to 4year old bullocks, £4 7s ; 2^ year steers, £2 13s; springing heifers, £2 7s 6d to £2 14s; 2 year steers, £2 ss ; 4 tooth Lincoln ewes (R. Hair,s), 17s 6d to 20s ; 2 t oth do, 13s ; 6 tooth to full-mouthed, 10s 9,1; Mr D Blair's well known Lincoln ewes mixed ages, 10s Id ; Mr Sarjeant's ewes, 6s 8d ; store ewes (medium), 5s 4d to 6s ; culls, 3s 9d ; choice 2 tooth ewes, 10s ; well bred Lincoln lambs in wool, Gs 7d ; shorn lambs (poor), 3s; fat ewos, 6s 8d to 7a lid; well bred aged Lincoln owes, 9s 3d; pigs — porkers, 16s 3d to 22s 6d ; small stores, 7s to 10sDuring the week we disposed of a number of flock rams passed in at the fair. We may meution as au item of intertst that the 8.8 Gertie left this I port for Lyttelton on Monday night, under charter to somo well known local graziers, with a cargo of far. wethers for the Addington marker.