LIVE STOCK SALES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11745, 23 September 1902, Page 2

LIVE STOCK SALES.

CHRISTCHURCH

Ab Addington 207 fat cattle were yarded, mostly secondary sorts. Better classes all sold well, (prime beef ruling from 28s tr ous and up to 32s 6d for extra, others 24sr to 27s per 1001b. ; prime bullocks £12 tc £il<* 15s ; good steers £9 to £11 10s, lighten £5 17s 6d to £7 10s. Store Cattle.—A slack sale. Yearlings £1 8a to £1 17s, 15 to 18-months £2 12? 6d to £3 12s, 2-year steers £5 12s 6d, 3 year steers £7 ss, heifers £5 l/7s 6d, drjf cows £2 to £4. extra good dairies £9 J.o< to £10 12s 6d, good £7 to £9, others £4 to £6 10s. Store Shee,p|.—423o, mostly wethers an<' hoggets. The demand was not quite so keen. There were only two lots of ewes ii( lamb, which brought 8s 6d to 8s lid; good lines of forward wethers fetched 13s to 14r Id, backward 10s to- 12s 3d; forward hoggets 9s 5d to 10s 9d, backward 4s 6d to 7b 6d.

Fat Sheep.—About 3000, mostly secondary wethers and ewes. Good sheep we* very scarce, and this class showed an-irii prove-ment by a shilling per head, but secfidary sorts were easier. Prime heavjt ethers 20s 6d to 22s 4d; freezers 17s U\ :Tj 6d, lighter 14s Id to 16s ; prime heav owes 19s 6d to 21s 6d, good 15s to 18s 6d, inferior 11s 6d to 14s 6d; prime merino -wethers 15s to 17s 9d, others 10s to 14s sd. Pigs.—s4o. There was a strong dcmanc) for all sorts, owing to a buyer for South., and high prices ruled, especially fo? fats, Baconers, 36s to 55s for higher arid 60s tc 80s for extra prime, equall to 5d and 6d pea lb. ; large stores 17s to 265, smaller 11s 6d to 15s : suckers and weaners 8s to* 11s. DUNEDIN.

.At the Burnside market 142 fat cattle were yarded, the greater proportion of medium quality. Prices for best bullocks were well maintained, while medium were slightly easier. Best bulliocks £11 to £13, good £10 to £11, medium £8 to £9; bast cows £8 10s to £10 10s, good £6 10s to £7 10s, medium £5 10s to £6, inferior £4 10:< to £5.

Fat Sheep.—2o9B were, .penned. Prices opened about on a par with last week, but imwoved towards the close of the sale. Besit wethers 18s 6d to 20s 9d, good 16s lOd to 17s 6d, medium 14s 6d to 15s, best ewes xv*s to 17a 6d, others 11s 6d to 13s, best hoggets 10s 6d to 12s 6d, others 8s to 9s 3d. Lambs. —Only twelve of this season'? were penned, the.best selling up to 15s 3d. Pigs.—l7s were penned, all sorts meet ing with brisk sale at prices equal to last week. Suckers 7s 6d to 14s, slips 15s tit 30s, stores 22s to 265, porkers* 30s to. 38s, baconers 45s to 565, big pigs 65s to 795.

The New Zealand Loan and. Mercantile! Agency Company (Ltd.) re,port:—■ Rangiwahia, Sale, Tuesday. 16th inst.— The weather was very rough, and only i, small yarding of stock came forward. Prices' were fully equ<<l to recent sales. Feilding 'Sale, Friday, 19th mat. —A large muster of catt!,'e of all classes were penned, the majority of which we quitted at satisfactory prices. A fair yarding of sheep were penned, consisting principally of good sound hoggets, wliich met with reach Kales under the hammer.

Rangiwahia prices.—Heifers in calf £4 3:i to £5 10s; milch cows (good line) £7; wethers 13s 2d; hoggets 6s to 7s 2d ; mixed hoggets and 2-tooths 7s Bd. Feilding prices—3 to 4-year bullocks £6 14s to £7 7s; 2-year steers £4 8s; milch cows', a line of 24 head averaged over £6 a line of 9 head averaged over £7, others from £5 17s 6d to £7 10s; springing heifers £3 12s 6d to £5; empty heifers £3 5r to £3 17s; fat heifers £5 6s to £6; store cows £2 14s to £4 14s; 18-month heifer.-f £'£ 18s 6d; fat ewes 12s to 14s; hoggets 5s to 9s 9d; wethers lls 6d; forward empty ewes 9s 3d; cull ewes, 5s 4d; ewe? with lambs at foot lls Bd.