LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 21, 22 May 1902, Page 13

LIVE STOCK.

APT)r?vCTON STOCK MARKET

Fat Cattle — 2.".'? head yarded— a mixed entry There was no change

in prices Beef realised 19s to 24s 6d per 1001 b Best bullocks, £11 to £12 . good steers. £8 to £10 10s ; lighter , £(i I.ls to £7 10s . heifers, £.1 .Is to £8 , cows-, £.1 to £8 7s Gd.

Store Cattle —2.10 yearlings soldi at 28s ; 1.1 to 18-months. £1 l^s to £2 7s Gd . two-year steers, £4 18s to £.1 .Is , three year steers. £,<S 10s to £(> 17s Gd, dry cows, £1 8s to £4; best dairy cow's, £7 10s to £10; others, £3 10s to £0 10s

Fat Sheep — .IIMJO penned' — a mixed entry. Owing to rise at Home exporters were competing keenly both for wethers and ewes, the former more than holding their own, a^d ewes showing a considerable rise. Freezing wethers from 1 (is to 18s Gd and 19s 3d , maiden ewes, 14s Gd to IGs lOd ; ewes for export, 10s Gd to I.ls . butchers' best ewes, 1.3s to 15s to 17s Gd for extra , others, 8s Id to 12s Gd , merino wethers for export, lls to 13s lOd , butchers' ewes, .Is to lls 9d

Fat Lambs — a IS3 penned, mostly inferior There was a good demand for any thing (it foi e\poi 1 , freezers taking half the en1 1 \ at lls 1 3d, 13s (id to 11s 2d for 'tegs butchers took 300 ul 10s to 14s Od , and 2(50 fell tO gl\l7ie|s ,( lOs fid

Store Sheep —l(V.>.l yarded, equally <b\ided between wetheis. ewes, and lambs The quality, on the whole, was poor, and there was a weaker demand, onl\ a few forward lambs holding their own. About half the entiy was passed. Forward two- < oot'h wetheis realised 13s Od to 13s 1 10d fan, 12s 7,d inferior, 9s 9(1, one line good two-tooth ewes, 14s. The rest weie passed. Forward lambs lealised 8s lOd to 10s 3d ; others, Gs 3d to 7s (id

Pigs — A Hunt 400 v.irded Owing to heavy supplies during the past few weeks- all sorts weie easier. Baconers realised 30s to 4.1s (id , eq.ual to 3d to 3 ',d per Hi . porkers, 20s to 30s, or 3ld to 3 id per If' , stores, lls. to I.ls , suckeis and weaners, 3s 9d.