LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 21, 12 June 1902, Page 13

LIVE STOCK.

ADDING TON STOCK MARKET. Fdt Catlle— lKl \arded, mostly useful soils, with a few hca\ \ weights There was a slightly iinpioved demand Beef icaliscd I<K (id to 21s (id per 10017) Heavy steers, £9 to £11 10s- , steers, £5 I.ls to £H 10s, heifers, L 5 10s to £S 10s , cows, £1 17s (id to £8, and £8 15s foi extia he.i\ v. Fat Sheep — Over 6000 penned, niostK ewes, with a few good lines of freezing wethei s Owing to the block at the factoi ies, exporters were not Keen, and \endors did not reap tlie expected ad\antage of winter ieductions m freights Free/ing wcthei s and secondary effes were easiei , but prune fats weie in good denr.md for coa'-t trade i'rune heavy wetheis, 18s 9d to UK «Jd , freezers, lGs

to IPs Gd ; lighter sorts, 14s 10 to I.)S (id ; prime ewes, 16s to 17s liddown to 7s 6d 133 North Island wethers were taken by butchers at 15s <)d to 13s Id, and 180 fell to gr.i/.iers at 3 4s 10 to 15s. Fat Lambs —1100 penned, mostly unfinished sorts, and the market was weaker, exporters holding, ofT About half the entry was passed Freezers 10s 3d to 12s 8d , inferior Ss to 9s Stoic- Shocji — 4dfii penned, a mixed entry find a poor demand, tho bulk being withdrawn Wethers made 10s 2d to lls 'Ad and 13s ; 047 two and four-tooths from Marlborough being passed at lls 4d In ewes a large hue of six and eight-tooth halfhreds (m l.unb) sold at lls 4d to lls (id, and two and four-tooths at 12s . aged sorts, 2s to 4s 8d and os lOd . and sountl mouthed, 10s 9d. 1 igs —300 penned. The scarcity caused an improvement 111 all classes 13a Conors, 35s to 455, or 3Jd to 33d Per 11. porkers, 20s to 31s 4d • stores. ios to 23s , suckers and weaners, 4s to (is (id.