LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5914, 28 April 1887, Page 2

LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Tbe AddiDgt n market to-day was fairly attended, and there was generally a better feeling la the tnda. C&ttlk. Th le was a email supply of fat cattle, especially or go d quality, and the demand being lately aetl- e, thure was an improvement noticeable in the priceß of primo Hupb. Ordinal y and inferior qualities, howover, showed little change. We quoto prime be> f 18a per 1001b ; middling to fair, 16b to 16a 6(1; inferior, 13s to Ui, Good steers sold from £6 to £7 7s 6d, the top price "being for a vary nice lino f r^m North < 'antorbury, another enpit 1 1 do of 23 head from the same dis"trioi; being j>l a>'dat£6ss. The beat heifers brought bom £5 to £8 10a. A largo proportion of the cattle yarded w< re Hght nn<l btv'f fa*: and sold at £3 upwards, "Very few store cattle were ente ed, and the demand b«ing HtiU estremoly wo A, transactions were limited to odd lots at low prices. Good, weM->>red dairy cows contained to attract attention aed brought full prices but ir different sorts were nt?gl cl^d Spriui/ers within a week or ■o of calving suld at £6 to £3 10a, but those not 80 neir tbe tim u are not wanted. Shhep. - The numbers penned again showed a reduction tow r' a an average supply, hut the quality wah butter than has been usual lately. There was a'i ao'ivo demand for the beet crossbred wethers for export, aud bntcbers also bid freely, bo th it a ri»e of 1b to 1b 6d was obtained on tfala description, Good slirep of lighter weights ■hand pr<.poriion<itrly in the advance, a Weßfc Coast buyer giving st ength to the demand for those; an' <>M sliutp were also the turn against buyers. Prim- mutton may be quoted atlidper lb; middline, Id t>ljil. An altogether exceptional line of or -H.bred ewea brought the high average of Ve 6J,one pon bringiug 13s 3d, the top price of tho day, with the exception of a single wethor, rrbiuh brought 13s Gd. Prime cross-bred wethors (fi<:f/. rs , sold at 9a to lls 6d ; lighter weights, 7a r, 8a 61; prime ewea ; freezers), 8b to 10s 6d; li^h ( cr, 5a to 7a. In merinos a superior Una of we h-ra brnueht 6s 3d ; good wethers, 3s 6d to 4a lid •, mixed line', 2s 6d to 3b 6d. Fat lambs again mot a drngging sale, the season beiig about over. '! he brat pmis bronght from 4s to sa, jtnd everything not up to this standard brought only the price nf stores. " Boilfn^-lown " sheep wera l-.s^i numerous, and not of rn h Inferiority as was tie uase at the Beginning if *ha bo i son. Merino cull-), la 3d to Is Jd, and oi»a<.brerl<4 2a to 3s ; but a great many ewes, not pn»t breedirg, are Veing bought for boiliog down at prioea considerably above these quotations. Store shenp cold fairly well at about lafco vnlues. Oroßa-bred i we a and wethers, 2-tooth, sold at 4b and ' 3) lOd ; 2 'in't 4-tooth ewos, 4s Id ; ewes and wethers, 4<; ; owes iu lam**, mixed ageß, 5a 4d ; fullmoathed ernes. 2s 1 Id ; merino ewus, 2a sd ; loug--woollod lauibrf, 3? sd. Fias ( — \fa<r supply came forward, including a good proportion of baconsra. The sale was more spirited than list week's, theonrers beiug about to begin the Fons'm's work Bacon pig3 sold at 25a to 37« 6d ; porherp, IS* to 22a ; stores from 10a to 18s.

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