ADDING TON STOCK MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 29, 17 July 1902, Page 13

ADDING TON STOCK MARKET.

Fat Cattle— lss were yarded, mostly secondary soi Is There was an impro\ement for prime beef, winch bi ought from ISs 6d to 24s per 1001!) Pi une stores, £0 5s to .CIO 12s 6d , others, £0 10s to £8 10s, best luMfers. £8 to £9 15scows, £5 to £M 32s 6d. There was no business done m stores Good; dairies sold well at from £7 10s to £9 32s 6d , others were neglected, £4 to £6 10s Fat Sheep —35 00 were offered, mostly cues, with a few good wethers Exporters and butchers competed keenly for suitable wethers,, but only best ewe.s were in demand. Anything likely to be in lamb was neglected, and sc\eial lines passed. Hea\y wethers, 10s to 22s 6cl ; freezers, 35s to ISs 6d , prime heavy cues, 17s to 21s S»d , good, 12s 6d to 3 (is 6d . mferioi, 6s 6d to 11s. About 250 prime merino wethers wero taken for export at from 16s to 18s 7d Fat Lambs —600 \arded, mostly off secondary quality. There was a better demand for good sorts, the hulk being taken for export at from 30s 6d to 13s 5d a few extra good sold at 14s 3d , inferior, 7s 6d to 9a Od. Store Sheep —Boo were brought! forward The only lot of wethers in sold at 31s 9d ; small lots of good ewes brought from 10s 6d to 12s 8d; aged. 7s 4d to Ps , and boilers from 2s 4d ; 196 lambs sold at 8s 4d, and small lots at from 6s 3d to 9s 2d.