ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1313, 12 August 1886, Page 3

ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET

At the Addington Yards yesterday, the enpplivß were not so much affected by the bad weather es w. l rutielpated, but the attendance was r.ther thin, for which the Hnnt Club Races were a good deal to blamo.

Cattle. —Fully an average supply was yarded, but couv *ned very little really good beef. The <i< ’e was a ve.y slow one, but last week’s rates of about 93s per I.oolb for prime h vf, aud IJJaforprdi ary, were, by ance pa the part of sellers, fairly maintained. Good steers sold at £7 to £9, lighter weights down to £5 ; heifers, £6 to £7 10s, and down to £4 12s 6’. Transactions in store rattle were more imp>.tant than cf late, two good lines of about four-year-old bullocks selling at £6 Is 31 and £5 12a 6d respectively ; and 30 three-year-olds at £4 12s od. < aity stock vraa doll of sale; good cows brought £5 to £7 2s 6d. bheep.—The m jP r yrrded was lather below the av nge, t ad com'sted almost entioly of very ordinary qa. ity. The few lines of go d bmchera’ ; nd freezing 1 sheep were hr Vly competed for, but everything e!ae t. placed wi h difficulty. The laghm tr uetue topped the aa’e at 16i 61 j and u . week’s quotations msy be repeated, namely, best shop motion, good f.v z’.m rnd shoo lines, 21; and ordinary, 2 4 i per ib. Prime cross bred wetl era old at 12s to 16 ; secondary. Os to lls; prime merino wethers, 8a to lie. L’ghter lines at d ewes sold at innately lower prices, except a few epee-al lines of cross-bred ewes, inc'nding* those from Messrs Gould and Cameron, which brought wether

prices. There were no store shetp yarded.

• Pigs.—The n ac approach ef the of the sesion wr i shown by the limited number of bacon pigs entered. Good heavy weights sold rathar better than last week, say at equal to 31 per lb ; but other sorts showed no improvement.— Times.