ADDINGTON LIVE SIOCK MARKET.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12153, 30 January 1908, Page 4

ADDINGTON LIVE SIOCK MARKET.

Christchurch, January 29. At tbe Addington live stock market to-day, there were large entries of stock "in all departments, and a good attendance of buyers. Beef was very dull of sale. Store sheep were in fair demand, and prime fat lambs I were very firm. Fat sheep sold well till the 'butchers had filled their reiquiremtnt:". ..raJi a J sold at late rates, There wag a poor demand for store and dairy cattle. i The yarding of store sheep was the largest for some months past. The demand was not so keen as the pre- \ yious week, and prices were on a j lower level. Forward lambs and wethers were most in request, but backward sorts were neglected. There was a very large yarding of fat lambs, including some prime lots, but the average quality was not equal to that of the previous week, j There was keen competition for tegs and prices were firmer. Ordinary freezers were about the same as the j previous week, while lighter lamb j were easier. Tegs made 15s 3d to 17s 10d : standard weights 13s to 15s; lighter 11s to 12s' 6d, rape fed lambs 10s to 12 6d.

There was a moderate yarding of fat sheep, but the supply proved beyond the butchers' requirements, and at the close of the sale some thirty or forty lots were passed in. Prime wetberaand ewes sold very well, but prices} for medium and aged ewes were easier. The range of prices was piime wethers 17s 6d to 20s, lighter 15s to 17s, prime ewes 15s to 17s, medium 13s to 14s 9d, aged and light 10s to 12s 6d. The entry of fat cattle totalled 225 bead, tbe quality being mixed. Too demand for all classed was very slack and prices were lower by fully Is per 1001 b. Steers brought £6 to £9 10s. heifers £4 5s to £7, and cows £'d 10s to £5 7s 6d, equal to 20s to 22s Gd for nrime beef, 17s to 19s Gd for medium, and 14s to 16s 6d for cow and inferior per 1001 b. I Veal calves sold at 3s 6d to 37s 6d. A medium yarding came forward ! id the store pens mostly in poor condition. The demand throughout was weak and prices were about on a par with those ruling last" week. Yearlings made from 15s to 19s, fifteen to eighteen months old 25s to 30s, two year- ild steers £1 16s, two-year-old "heifers £2, three-year-old heifers £3 8s dry cows £1 5s to £3. The dairy cows were of a poor class, and tno market lacked animation.' Prices ranged from £2 to £6 ss. There was a large yarding of all classes of pigs, and prices were about the same as the week before. Cnoppp.rs Bold up to £4, baconers 45s to 52s Gd, heavy to 60a, equal to 5d per Ib. Porkers* fetched 33t so 40s equal to 5d to fiVgd. i Larj™ stores realised from 27s to ■, 335, media isi 22s to 2us, smaller sorts at Toa to 20s, weaners of which tbe entry was small, made from 10s fid to 13s.

As au indication of the value! of gfcud sheep a leading'farmer 'in^the Palmerston North; district! states that he cleared £700 in one year off 178 acres. The turnover was over £1000. Dairy factory payments for December milk for factories in tne Inglewood district are as follows:— Moa Dairy Company, £3967 Is; Makatawa, £1272 19s f ßd ; Taratu, £469 7s 9d ; Lepperton, £742 2s 2d ; Waitui, £460 0s 3d : Tariki, cheese, £1356 4s sd. ' ' a parcel of d — rogues, ' ' was the way in which an Auckland vinegrower referred to the Government at meeting of vignerons held to protest against the removal of the restriction on the importation of Australian grapes. There were nineteen present and strong exception was taken to what was referred to as "the treachery of the Government" in inducing growers to take tp the industry, and then "cutting their throats" by removing the embargo on Australian 'grapes.

One of^Berlin'sj; most popular^and certainlyjone of^ithe dians, Herr |<3eorge Engels, -[has passed" away, after a very brief illness, at the age of 61. — :.; yr^Z Ttie'Taieri "Advocate'»J|records a wonderful escape from death'whioh a boy had recently while travelling on a train from Dunedin to Mosgiel. A passenger on the tram had occasion to go out on to the platfoim of the carriage he was in just as- the train emerged from the south end of the Caversh.amtunnel,and he saw the boy hanging to the couplings between the carnages. He immediately brought another passenger, and they rescued' the thoroughly-frightened ! boy from his perilous position. He had been hanging there ever since | the train had lett the Cavershani station. To those familiar with this particular locality, the lad's escape i seems almost miraculous, as he must ' have been hanging to the coupling ! while the train covered over a mile, most of which is steep gradient, and i therefore traversed slowly.