Addington Live Stock Market.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5337, 15 August 1895, Page 1

Addington Live Stock Market.

There was a gooi attendance at^the. live stock market at Aldington yesterday, and business in the principal departments bad a satisfactory tone. The receiving and drafting of stock over night, and in the early morning, was attended with the greatest discomfort, and it is not to the credit of the Yards Company that, the facilities for this work are so poor. Entries for the day comprised 7880 sheep, 235 •cattle and 327 pigs. Fat Cattle.— The en-ry was small and consisted mainly of young and indifferently fattened stock. The demand was good, and every head Bold 'at . an advance on last week's values. A line from South Canterbury sold at from £7 iSs. Gd to £1 15s for steers, a heifer fetching £Q 15s and a polled cow £8 15b. A pair of steers under two years old fetched JB6 10a a head. Other lots Bold from. iftO a head for a prime bullock and a very heavy cow down to as low as i 65 for light steers and heifers and old cows. The rate for beef was 22s to 25s for good to prime, and 17s to 20s for secondary to medium. Storb Cattle were few in numbers, and the only well-conditioned lines were one of two-year-old steers,, which sold at •JB3 14s 6d; heifers of the uatne age at £2 16s, and a line of good store cows at JB3 12s 6d. Tearlingß, ifl wa^b^ondition, fetched 18a 6d to 255, and a small line of good . : fifteen-month steers, 42a. ; 7 ' Values Temain unaltered. Daisy Cattle. — A small yarding was quite equal to the demand. Good springers aold at £6 17b 6d and 46 10a, and. the other entries were poor in quality and condition, and not quotable as to price. Fat Sheep.— The market was well supplied numerically, but indifferently so in foint of quality, a large proportion of unnished cheep being penned, while there was an absence of anything special. The demand ran on freezers and heavy fat ewes, both of which classes realised an adranee on last week's rates. Some good merinoeß went at very moderate prices. Imperfectly grazed sheep were present beyond butchers' requirements, while graziers, from shortness ,o£ feed, are Sellers- rather, than buyer b, so that this class met a weak market. Dalethorpe half-bred wethers fetched 14s 9d to 15b 9d and merino wethers lls to 13s 3d ; Springfield, Mr D. Cameron, heavy-weight crossbred ewes 16a 7d to 19s, half-bred ewes to 19a, and merino wethers 11b lid to 13s 3d ; Mount Grey, cross-bred maiden ewes 16 3 lOd to 17a, and merino wethers to 15s 7<* ; Horaley Down, two -tooth half-bred wethera 149 6d to 16s 2d,; Balmoral,- twotooth bali'-bred wethers 13s to 16b, and merino wethers Ba lQd to 10a 4dj Cordy'e '■- executors, merino wethers 8a lid to 10s Sd; Mi S, Hart, North Canterbury, a line of 189 croEB - bred wethers 16s Id ; Mr T. Needham, mixed croßs-brod freezers 149 fid to 15s lid ; Messrs J. and A. D. M'llraith, full-mouth crossbred ewes, heavy weightp, 159 7d to 17s 6dj Mr A. Kelman, Geraldine, half-bred ewes, 16s to 17a 2d; Mr T. Miles, crossbred wethers, 15s 5d to 16s 8d ; Mr Sprott, South Canterbury* croßß-bred ewes, 23s Id to 14s 6d ; Mr L. Charles, Bangitata, half-bred wethers, 10s 9d to 14s lOd ; Mr Stephen Harris, Styx, cross-bred wethers and maiden ewes, 14a 5d to 16s lldy Mr E. Buddock, Elleamere, half-bred Wethers, lls 4d to 14s 2d; Mr Henry Kimber, two and four-tooth, cross-bred ewes, lls 9d to 12s; Messrs Maindonald Bros., two and four-tooth cross-bred s wethers, 13s 7d, four and six- tooth' cross-bred ewes, 13s 8d ; wethers and maiden ewes, 16a 7d; Mr W. Collins, Sptingaton, two-tooth croßß-bred wethers, ■ 17a 9d and ewes to 13s; Mr S. Pearson, <jross-bred ewes, 11s to 13s lOd. The range of prices was as follows :—Crossbred wethers, prime freezers, 15a to 17a ; second quality, 12a to 143 ; mixed sexes, 14a to 16s; croßß-bred eweß, extra heavy, 14a to 19s i medium crosa-breds, 10s to 13a ; merino wethers, prime, 11b to 18s 6d ; secondary to medium, 7s '6d to 10a. Freezers and butchers' beat sheep may be -quoted at 2d to 2£d per lb, other classes If d to 2d. Fat Lambs.— A few v came forward, inept of which were unfit for the butcher. One pen fetched 13s 6d, the rest: down to nominal prices. Storb Shew.— Some good lines of forward two-tooth half-breds sold well, for finishing on turnips, a line of 588 wethers, from Stony hurst, fetching 12s 2d, 500 mixed sexes lls sd, smaller lines lla 4d down to 10s 3d, 245 two and foUr-tooth wethers lls 2d, 209 Balmoral half-bred hoggets 9a 9d, smaller lines of hoggets 7s to 93, These prices compared favourably with those obtained for many of the sheep in the fat pens. There was no demand for ewea with lambs or in lamb, and. moat of the entries left the yards unsold. A line of 189 merino ewes was sold at 3s 9d. . Fioa.— There was not a large entry, and baconera and porkers commanded improved price?, fully 3d being averaged. Baconera sold at 21s to 42s and porkers from 16a to 20a 3d. Stores brought recent values.

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