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Timaru Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 4185, 8 March 1888, Page 2

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(By Telegraph.) ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET. CHEISTCHT7BCH. , , , March 7. At Arlington market to-day there was a fairly average attendance of farmers and dealer, but until harvest m fairly over many ' familiar faces must of courso bo absent from j the yatd3. For several markets m anccession ! tho weather haa been superb, and to-djjy'a weather was no exception to what has ruled eince almo3t tho beginning of February. CATTLE. In cattlo thero wag not a numerous entrv r and to this may perhaps have to be attributed the marked rise m prices. Thero were several lines of grand steers and heifer 3, really first class animals, and theso brought prices representing according to quality a rise of from 153 a head to 173 Gd. This would mean all over i tho market an average price for beef of about i 17s 6d per lOOlbs. SHEEP. There wag a heavy entry of sheep, and aortic grand pens were on offer. For really good stuff aa high as 103 (id was obtained . Lambs aleo were numerons, and it may bo Hani that m the sheep market generally values haA a rising tendency. A safo calculation of sheep per lb 1 ■ would be about 2d. I'IGS. In pigs bat littlo was dbno, and as compared with last week the entry was about nit. ■ DUNEDIN MARKETS. „ _ . , MurciT. Mr D. Stronach reports for the week ecd/ed March 7tli, aa follows :— CATTLE. 183 head Wflfo yarded, tho greater portion o f which wefo medium and light weights, cm'iy a. I few pens approaching to prime. Thero was Ho improvement m tho values. Best bullocks brought £<> to £7 12s 6d, ordinary £3 75s to .£slss, cow.s from .62 15s to- £<!. Draughts were sold on account of Mr John Duncm (Cherry Farm), Mr John Sutherland (Moegiel) i and others, at quotations J 3KEJSI». 3182 were penned, of wfaich 820 wero merinos medium to good, tho balance crossbred? chiefly ewes of good to primo quality, but owing to no demand for export this number was largely m excess of requirements, and '1 prices m oonsoquonce suffered a decline of o,nite Is per head as compared with last week Only for ono or two buyers for boiling down operating to a cortain extent a heavier drop would havo to be submitted to. Bo3t cross- i bred wethers brought 8s to 9s, ordinary 6s .3d to 73 «d, best crossbred ewes 8s to 9a Gd ordinary on to 7* 3d, merino wothora 4s Gd <m drain. I Wheat— Tho fcmo of tho market continues weak, and thoro i 3 still considerable indifmosikion on the part of buyers to make pnrr;hase-i heyon;! present re(iuiroments. A considerable tjtrantity of tho now crop is offering and. some »m«)l lots hava been disposed of, butt nnti! <lelivenes into .store assume some dirocr sions bnyers will not be disposed to operate, with mnch froedom, moro ospecially whf n the position of tho London market \s considered ; also the absonco of any .-freights. I>unng the past week small p SI eels re- - qnired for immediate use realise* I 3 3 <w to .7 ? Gd bnt theao prices W on!<l not bo obtainable for quantities. At pre? e nt howOats —These aro m modorato. a-mund now Mpecmlly, chiefly for milling, Wt Xliverio^ any odd lots of last season's loft™ hami havo Sr/'p I ™',™ ll " 8 by this timo all f< cleared out Prices, howover, havo not m any „ way boon altered by tho con*,i nnotl abaenco of orders for sh.pmont Indications or o noTso " satisfactory as could bo wiahod Wo (mote hnifW Htout milling U B'd to Is M, 'best I bright short feed Is 8d to Is 8!d medium to ai good Is 7d to Is 71'Hojc stom) raOQIUm «> Barley— l, m gon,l domwirl, but Supplies aro B not coming forward with any frocdom. Wo bi quote prime malting 3s «d to 3s Mf mcd ; nm ;iB ™ ■Jd^ to 3s Gd, feed and milling 2s 9d to 3s (ex £