ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2399, 22 February 1900, Page 39

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

CHRIS'ICHURCH, February 21. There were heavy yarclmgs of ail classes of stock at Addiugton, including 1300 fst sheep; r"00 fat lambs, 13,500 store sheep, 471 cattle, and 290 pigs. Fat CaUle.—The 278 fat cattle were mostly heifers and cows of good quality. There were only a fey, steers, mostly prime, and bidding was slack, and there was a fall of Is per 1001b on best beef, but secondary held its own. Ordinary to good steers &okl at from £6 2s 6d to £7; urirae, £8 to £9; heifers, £i os to £7, ccws,"£3 17s 6:1 to £6 12s 6d. Store Cattle.—Stores of all descriptions sold well. Three-year-old steers fetched up to £'k 10s; do heifers, to £3 17s Gd; good dairy cows, £6 to £8. Fat Sheep.—These were very mixed, including coarse crossbred wethers and ewes from the North Island, and only a few really good freezers. A few prime heavy wethers brought 16s 'Id to 18s 4d; ficezing weights, 14s 6d to 16s; lighter, down to 13s 6d. Butchers' ewes were in over-siipply, and the trade had all their own way, except for good young sorts, which sold at 12s 6d to 14s, and aged nnd inferior at 9s to 10s. Merino .wethers, second quality, brought 8s 6d to 10s. Fat Lambs.—Mos* of the fat lambs were only secondaiy. Best sorts sold well at from 14s to 14s 9d; freezing quality, 11s 6d to 13s Gd; and inferior down to 83 9d. Store Sheep.—All the Canterbury and southern sheep in the store pens sold well, but the coarse wethers and ewes from the north were easier. Forward turnip wethers sold at from 13s 15 to 13s lOd (a Marlborough line of over 2000 at 13s 2d and 13s 3d); backward and North Island, 10s lOd to 12s 6d; and Chatham Islands, 8s 9d to 10s 3d; local mixed two-tooths, 12s 3d to 14s lid; good young to sound-mouthed ewes, 13s to 15s; aged, 10s to 12s; and Chatham Islanders, 8s Id to 9s Id; merino ewes, 53 6d. Pigs.—There was a slight improvement in pig?. Heavy baconers realised 30s to 39s 6d, or 3d to 3Jd per lb; porkers, 20s to 34s 6d, or 3Jd to 4d per lb; stores, 14s to 21s; weaners, 11s to 13s 6d; suckers, 6s to 103 6d.