ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 40, 2 October 1902, Page 13

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

Fat Cattle.— lso yarded, including a few prime heavy weights and a lot of lighter sorts. There was keen competition. Prime beef, 303 to 35b per 1001 b ; others, 24« to 29a per 1001 b. Heavy bullocks, £14 to £16 ; gocd steers, £9 to £13 5s ; lighter, £5 17a 6d to £8 10s ; prime heifers, £9 to £11 7s 6d ; others £5 15s to £8 10s; prime heavy cows, £10 2s 6d to £12 10a ; others, £5 to

Store Cattle.— About 300 yarded, mostly good, young sorts. The market waa easier. Calves, 27s to 28s ; yearlings, £1 16s to £1 18s ; 15 and 18 months, £2 5s to £3 6s ; two year old steers, £4 2s ; heifera, £3 12s 6d to £3 16b 6d ; three-year-old steers, £5 16s to £6 12s 6d ; heifers, £4 17s 61 ; dry oows, £1 10s to £4 ss : dairy cowp, £4 to £9. Fat sheep —3500 were offered, including a few linea of extra prime orossbreds, but the bulk were unfinished. There was ■> large 6upply of prime merino wethers. Competition was mostly in the hands of the local trade, export buyers not being much in evidence. Prices for all good sorts, especially ewes, were firmer. Extra heavy wethers, 22s to 23s 6d, and up to 27s ; freezers, 16s to 20s ; unfinished, 13s to 16s ; heavy ewes, 21s 3d to 22s 9d ; prime, 17s 6d to 20»; others, 13s 6d to 16s ; prime merino wethers 18a to 21s Gd; good, 14s 8d to 15s 9d ; others, 13s to 14s.

Fat Lambs. — 80 were brought forward, and sold at from 11s to 169.

Store Sheep. — There was a mixed yarding of 1480 Owners would not accept the prices offered, and nearly all were withdrawn. The only sales were : 103 hoggets at 9b lid ; 85 ewes with 120 per cent of lambs, 8s 9d (all united) ; 143 merino wethers 4s 6d.

Pigtf. — 450 penned. The sale waa easier, and as stores were mostly inferior sorts, the demand fell off. Baconers, 38s and 53a to 68s for heavy (averaging 4£d per lb) ; porkers, 22 i to 355; large stores, 16a to 20a; smaller, 7s to 14s.