ADDINGTON MARKET.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10708, 18 July 1895, Page 3

ADDINGTON MARKET.

With the return of fine weather business at-the Addington live stock market yesterday- showed considerably _ morel animation. There were good ' entries in nearly all classes, the fat sheep and cattle especially . including , some exceptionally good lines.) There was a ! very good attend dance, buyers operated freely, and business was concluded by 3 p.m. The 193 fat cattle yarded were mostly composed of good to prime steers and bullocks, with some light-weight heifers, and a few heavy - weight cows. One of the best. lines seen in the market for a long time was that from the Mendip Hills Station. Four of them were prime bullocks, and realised £l2 2s 6i apiece, the steers selling at £lO, £9 7s 6d and £8 7s 6d. Some other steers brought from £9 17s 6d to .£lO, heifers ranged from £4 15s to £S 15a and cows from £5 to £9 ss. Prices per 1001 b remain unchanged, with the exception of tho very best sorts, which showed an advance in one or two cases to 24s 6d. Soma very fair cows and springers were on offer, but buyers were somewhat scarce, and not many changed hands, the top price realised being £B. The entry of store cattle was composed chiefly of aged cows and a few pens of calves,there beingnothing quotableoa offer. Fat sheep came forward in fair numbers, the entry including some very prime heavy - weight cross - bred ewes and wethers, and some exceptionally good merino wethers. The sale opened well and good competition was experienced all through. A slight advance all round can ba quoted. While high prices wore undoubtedly given for heavy-weight crossbrad ewes and. wethers and merino wethers of a similar type, the medium-weights and lighter sorts of sheep were the dearest. Amongst the prices realised were the following: —A very good line of two and four-tooth cross-bred wethers from Horsley Down realised from 15a 3d to 16a lOd for heavy weights, and 14s 3d to 14s 9d for prime freezers, giving an average for the line of a shade over 15s. Another draft of Mr D. Cameron’s heavyweight aged cross-bred ewes brought from 12s 3d to 13s Id, and merino wethers from the same estate from 12s 6d to 13s Id; Mr Borton’s merino wethers from Oamaru sold at 13a 6d, 12s 9d, down to lls; Mr C. Ensot’s, Mount Grey Downs, four-tooth cross-bred ewes Ha to 14s Id; Mr J. Neave’s, Aetrop, four-tooth cross-bred wethers 13s 9d; Mr M. Friedlaader’s aged cross-bred Down ewes from 13s to 15s 9d; Mr R. M. Adair’s, Chertsey, aged crossbred ewes 12s to 15s 4d; Mr Campbell’s, Cairnbrae, four and six-tooth cross-bred ewes 10s 9d to 12s lid; Mr P. Cunningham’s, Rakaia, small cross-bred wethers and maiden ewes 10a to lls sd; Mr W. B. Andrews’, Qreenpark, heavy cross-bred ewes 13s 6d to 14s 9d; Mr W. Witbell’a Brookside, cross-bred wethers 13s; Mr D. Rutherford’s, Mendip Hills, lightweight cross-bred wethers lls fid to 13s 9d, and ewes 10s 3d to 12s lid. Fat lambs brought from 9s for fairly good to 143 for a well-finished line. The entry of store sheep, included some cross-bred wethers from Duntroon which had been rejected in the fat pens, and these changed hands at lls 2d. The yarding was principally composed of two and four-tooth cross-bred wethers and hoggets, with a sprinkling of breeding ewes. The sheep did not show so much sign of the recent rough weather as might have been expected, and the sale all through was extremely good. Two and four-tooth cross-bred wethers brought 9s, 10s 2d, lls 2d, lls 4d up to ,11a 6d, a line of 900 changing hands at-Toa 7d. ' Grass, ) fed lambs brought from 6a to 7s 6d, and those in good condition oft turnips from »7s 9d to 8a 10<1; breeding ewes brought from 8s to 8a 9d. A fair yarding of pigs contained a good proportion of prime baconers and porkers, and aa oncers and butchers were in need of supplies, there was, good competition, baconers and porkers advancing quite 3s per head and averaging 2fd per lb. Entries for the day comprised 3700 fat sheep and lambs, 2500 store sheep, 193 head of fat cattle, 60 stores, 40 dairy cows and 318 pigs. The following are prices current:—Beef—Best from 20s to 22s 6d and up to 24s 6d for special lines, inferior to’medium cowand heifer from 16s to 19s per 1001 b; steers £5 15s to £lO and up to £l3 2s 6d for prime bullocks, heifers £4 16s to £8 15s, .cows £5 to £9 5s ; best dairy cows and springers up to £B, inferior sorts from £4 to £5 10s, Fat Sheep Prime freezers 2d per lb (factory weights), butchers’ best mutton from Ifd to 2d, heavy weight cross-bred wethers 14s to 17s, do ewes 13s to 15s 9d, freezing wethers 14s to 14s 9d, do mixed sexes lls to 14s; maiden ewes two and four-tooth lls to 13b i butchers’ best ewes lls to 12s 9d, medium do 9s 9d to 10s 9d; merino wethers 9s lid to 13s 6d. Store Sheep.—.Tnrnipera from 9s to lls 6d, and hoggets 7a to 9s. Pigs.—Baconers and porkers at 2|d per lb; beat baconers 27s to 40s, others 20s to 25s ; porkers 15s to 255; good stores lls to 17a 6d, smaller sorts 3s to 7a 6d.