ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. (Per United Press Association.)

Otago Witness, Issue 2429, 3 October 1900, Page 34

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. (Per United Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, September 26,

The entries of cattle and pigs at Addington to-clay were about up to the aveiage of the past few weeks, while sheep were rather better represent?d than they have been recently. Fat Cattle. — 141 head yarded, the quality being generally good, while some lines were extra pume. A line of 21 steers sent from the Mount Palm estate were taken for freezing, two at £13 12s Gd; two at £12 15s, and 17 at £12 ss. Among the other lines were 9 steers, which brought £8 15s to £d 17s 6d, and 5 which sold at from £9 17s 6d to £11 10s. The ordinaiy run of prices was": — Steers, £6 to £9 ]7s 6d; heifers, £5 to £7 15s, and up to £8 36s for extra good ; cows, £4 5s to £7 12s 63, and up to £10 15s for really good animals. Beef was worth per 1001b X^ractically the same as last week — viz., 22s to 25s for prime, and 18s to 21s for medium to good.

Dairy Cattle. — These were rather dull of sale, the average range of prices being from £3 to £5 30s. One first-class cow brought £8 12s 6d.

Store Cattle. — The entry of store cattle was rather snip-11, and prices showed an improvement. Yearlings of mixed sexes brought £1 11s; two-year-old heifers, £2 1,4s to £2 17s; three-year-old heifers, £3 5s to £i 12a 6d ; dry cows, £2 10s to £4 15s. Fat Sheep. — The pens were slightly better filled than last week, and the equality of tbp entry was generally good. The sale opened briskly, and, though prices cased a little about the middle of the sale, they picked up again, and the market closed firm. Freezing sheep brought from 19s to 225; li»avy weights, ,up to 255; other soils, 17s to 18=s 6d; ewes, from 16s lid to 22s 6d; merino wethers, 14s Id to 19s; merino ewes, 13s to 15s 2d. Store Sheep. — About 1300 weve yarded, the bulk being hoggets and wetheis. Good line 1 * gold well, the principal sales being 101 hoggets, at 14s 6d; 44, at 12s Id; and 265 wethers, at 15s 8d to 15s 9d.

Pat Lambs. — These numbered about 50. Prices were hardly aa good as those obtained last week, the range being from 10s 6d to 15s lid.

Pigs. — There was, a good entry of pigp, but the demand was not so keen as last week, and both baconers and porkers show a reduction. Baconers brought from 26s to 365, and up to 42s for a few choice heavy weights — equal to 3d to 3Jd per lb ; porkers, 18s to 265, or equal to 3£d per lb ; stores, up to 17s 6d ; and suckers and weaners, up to 9s.