Addington Market.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1425, 2 May 1902, Page 2

Addington Market.

Telegraph Press Association Copyright Christchurch, April 30. There was a good attendance and fair yardings at the Addington market to-day. Cattle.— lß9 head yarded. Steers £6 10s to £9 15s ; heifers, £5- 6s to £7 17s 6d ; cows, £5 to £8 ss. Per 1001 b prices were 19s to 24s 6d, the last quotation being for very prime store cattle. The large entry was of a mixed character and quality, but it met with a good sale, the demand being brisk for everything. Nine months old to yearling beasts fetched from 22s 6d to 87s 6d; fifteen to eighteen months, £2 18s 6d;^po-year-old steers, £4 8s 6d to £4 6a ; two-year-old heifers, £3 Is to £8 12s 6d; three-year-old steers, £5; four-year-olds, £6 7s 6d; three-year-old heifers, £4 ; dry cows, 80s to £4 ss. Fat Sheep — The presence of a number of freezing buyers helped to maintain the market during the first hour and a half of the sale, and a rise of 2s per head had to be recorded during that time, but as wants were supplied and buyers moved off with full purchases, the prices receded to last week's level. Eight hundred North Island fat wethers brought from 15s to 17s, some being taken for freezing purposes. Ordinary prime Canterbury wethers fetched from 16s 6d to 16s 8d ; extra heavy, 18s lOd ; freezing ewes, 11s to 15s; best butchers ewes, 12s 6d to 15s; medium, 10s to 12s ; inferior, from 7s to 9s 6d. Fat Lambs — There were 1574 on offer, but with the exception of a few lots, they were of indifferent-quality, and many brought only store prices. One thousand four hundred were taken by freezing buyers at 8s Id to 12s lOd. Tegs fetched 12s 6d to 15s 6d, these being taken for export; butchers' lambs, 8s 9d to 13s lid. Store Sheep— There were 8202 store sheep in the market, for which there was a good sale, only a few lots being passed. Several lines of Chat* ham Island sheep were on offer, one line of wethers fetching from 9s 6dto 11s 9d. The entry was made up principally of wethers and lambs. Lambs brought 6s lid to 8s 9d; wethers 12s 4d to 18s Bd. Pigs — Finished baconers sold fairly well up to 48s 6d for an exceptionally good line, ordinary fetching 84s to 445 ; porkers were dull of sale at 18a to 28s, and stores were a drug. There were no outside buyers, so that business was restricted to local requirements. Per lb baconers were worth 8£ to B£d,with an occasional advance for extra prime ; porkers 8£ to Bfd«