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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9882, 13 April 1893, Page 2

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New Zealand Times Office, Wednesday Evening. Freeman U. Jackson and Co. report as follows on their stock sale yesterday at Johnsonville The cattle entered for the sale were of good quality and fair weight. Prices were on a par with those of UhX sale. Beef made, for bullock*, 18s, and cows lOs per 1001 b. Sheep were well competed for. Best bullocks brought L 8 to L 9 ; lighter ones, L 0 12s Gd lo L 7 10a ; cows, Ls7s Gd to LG 2s Gil ; wethers, 13s to 15s 8d ; ewes, 10* 9d to 12s 10J ; stores, 7h 4d to Us; porkers, 19s GJ. No baconers came forward. (PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, April 12. The Addington live stock sale to-day was in all respects a groat improvement on that of last week. The attendance was fair. There was a good entry ol store sheep, the bulk of which sold well. Fifteen hundred 2-tooth crossbred wethers were quitted by Matson and Co. at 10s 7d to lls; full-mouthed crossbred breeding ewes brought 6s Gd to 8s 6d, 4 and 6-tooth 12a Gd to 15a Gd. Limbs brought from 6s 9d to 9s G.i. There was a fair entry of fat sheep, the quality of which was decidedly patchy. Best cross and half-bred wethers brought 15i to 16a (id, medium sorts 13a to 14s Gd, smaller 10a to 12a ; crossbred ewes, 13a 6d to 15s 8d; medium, lls to 12a 3d ; merino wethers (a small entry), beat, 12s to 13a Ud ; medium, 8s to 0a 9d ; inferior, Ga to 7s Gd. There was ft fair entry of fat lambs, mostly of good quality, slightly in advance of last week’s rates : —Best freezers, 12a to 13a 3d ; others, 10s to lls 9d. The entry of fat cuttle wsa very large. All really good lines entered met with a ready sale, A line of first-class from the Amur! was eagerly competed for. The prices were —Best steers, up to Lll 15h ; heifers, to L 7 15s ; cows, to L 9 2a 6d. Second-class and inferior cattle were hard to quit, there being apparently no buyers for these sorts. Best beef from 20a to 21s per 1001 b. The store cattle pens were well tilled, but the quality was very mixed. The sales were rather irregular, prices consequently euffered to a slight extent. Of pigs there was a large entry, but prime baconers were somewhat scarce. Stores sold fairly well, and porkers advanced slightly. Prime bacon pigs averaged 4dperlb; porkers, 4^d, Dunedin, April 12. In wheat the dullness prevailing for so long shows no signs of immediate Improvement in the ton© of the market, the business done hardly at any time going beyond small purchases for personal requirements. The quantity offering as yet is limited, but, given a little more favourable weather, no doubt the supply available will show some increase. Late cablegrams from London report the market there firmer, but no indications of any rise in the meantime are apparent. Good whole fowls’ wheat is in demand, and would sell readily at quotations ; decent lines, however, are difficult to pick up at the moment. The following are the quotations :—For best milling velvet and Tuscan, 2s 8d to 2s 103 ; medium to good, 2a 3d to 2a 7d ; inferior to medium, 2i to 2a 3d ; broken, la Gd to Is lOd (ex store, sacks weighed in, terms.) In oats, while a moderate demand is experienced local consumption, there is but small enquiry for export ; the market in consequence is somewhat flat, though the prices ruling this week show no decline, owing no to the fact that growers aro not now so anxious to quit immediately on arrival. The result is that the market is becoming more steady, and late rates sure more easily maintained. The following are the quotations :—For best milling, stout and bright, Is B£d to la 9d; best short feed, Is 8J to Is B£d; medium, Is 6d to Is 7jd (ex store, sacks extra, net). Of barley the supply of prime malting is evidently in few hands ; medium is not very plentiful either, A much larger business could be done in this cereal for export as well as for local consumption if consignments came to hand with more freedom. Meantime it looks as if the bulk of this season’s product had been already sent to market. In any case the prospect seems to be in favour of sellers. The following are quotations:—For prime malting, 4s to ia 3d ; extra prime, shade more ; medium, 3j 3d to 3s 9d ; feed and milling, 2s to 3a (ex stores, sacks extra, terms). The fat cattle entry to-day at Burnside was again below the average, only 100 head being yarded of medium to gcod, with a few pens of prime. A moderately fair demand was experienced, also a slight advance in prices, though not to the extent that might have been expected, considering the small supply. Best bullocks brought L 8 to L 9, and one only L 9 2s 6d ; medium to good, LG 7s 6J to L 7 15a ; light, L 5 lOi to LC sa; best cows, L 6 to L 6 15a ; medium to good, L 5 5a to L 5 17s 6d ; light and aged, L 3 10s to L 5. Of fat sheep 1630 were penned, all crossbreds, about equal portions of wethers and ewes, mostly good to prime, with only a few light weights. The competition at the commencement of the sale was only moderately active, but improved as the sale progressed, again falling of! towards the close. For best strek, a slight advance on last week's prices was obtained ; while for medium there was no material change. Best crossbred wethers, 14i to 15s Cd, one pen 16s; light weights, lls Gd to 13a; beat crossbred ewes, lls 6d to 13a 6d, one pen 15s ; light weights, 9s to lls.