ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2660, 8 March 1905, Page 40

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

CHRISTCHURCH, March 1. There was a good attendance at Addmgton yards and fair entries in all sections. Fat Cattle.— The entry was 179 head, mostly fair to prime steers. There was a slight improvement in the market, and most of the stock was cleared. Steers sold at £6 'ss to £9 12s 6d; heifers, £5 15s to £7 10s; cows, £5 5s to £7 ss. Beef was worth 16s to 21s per 1001b. Fat Calves.— A fair entry sold at 7s 6d to £2 10s, values being firm. Store Cattle.— The entry was small, and the demand no better than of late. Values are shown by the^following quotations : — Yearlings, 20s; 15 to 18 months' old, 30s to 595; two-year-old steers, £4 10s; two-year-old heifers, £3 5s to £3 10s; three-year-old steers, passed at £5 12s 6d; three-year-old heifers, £4 9s 6ddry cows, 30s to £4^los. Dairy cows. — There was a large yarding. Good springing cows and heifers met with fair inquiry, but aged and inferior animals were difficult of sale. Prices ranged from £4 5s to £8.

Fat Sheep. — The entry was of moderate dimensions, and consisted mainly of wethers, including some station lines, which were keenly competed for by exporters. Bixtchers' joined issue with exporters for the ordinary supply, with the result of a very buoyant sale at firm rates for wethers and an advance of quite one shilling on good ewes. The absence of aged ewes is very noticeable at this season's markets. The range of prices was : For prime wethers, 22s 6d tp 25s 9d; lighter, from 20s to 225 ; prime heavy ewes, 21s to 23s 3d ; good, 18s to 20s 6d; aged, 16s 6d to 17s 6d; prime merino wethers, 19s 3d to 21s.

Fat Lambs. — About 3000 were penned. The quality generally was good, but many of the primest lots now come into the " teg " grade. There was good competition by both butchers and exporters, and prices were steady. Current values were: For tegs, 18s 6d to 20s 3d; freezers, 16s to J.Bs 3d; lighter sorts, from 15s. Store Sheep ~and Lambs. — The entry was not so large as at the last two or three markets. Competition was extremely keen, and prices made a farther advance of Is. Ewes sold up to 25s 9d for a line of six-tooth crossbreds, with about 25 per cent, older sheep, from Mr W. C. Fleming, Port Levy. Good young ewe-s generally commanded from 23s to 24s 6d ; lines of moderate breeding and condition, 21s to 22s 6d ; good sound-mouthed ewes, 21s to 22s 9d ; moderate, 18s to 20s; aged, 14s to 17s 6d; culls, from lls ; good forward wethers made from 18s to 19s 7d ; fair condition, 17s to 18s ; backward and culls, 15s to 16s 9d. A line of North Island shorn lambs, very mixed in size and condition, made 16s 7d; forward lines, 15s to 16s; backward to fair condition, 13s to 15s.

Pigs. — There was a good entry of fat pigs, which met an active demand, prices advancing 3s to 4s a head, best baconers selling at the rate of 4d to 4£d ; heavy weights, to 3|d : and porkers, 5d to s£d per lb, and some pens even higher. Stores were a small entry, and there was a dull sale.