ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK SALE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1398, 4 November 1886, Page 2

ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK SALE.

There was a large attendance a* Addington yards, yesterday’s being a doable market, In view of next week* holidays. Cattle.—Thera was a good anpplyof fat cattle, all from Canterbury graziers, and including some splendid quality. Mr W. Birdliug, Lake View, sent in a line of grand bullocks which cold at £lO 6a, £lO, and £9 the highest average of the day. Other lines of good ateers sold up to £9, and helfera £8 19a ; being equal to 22a to 24) for fait to prime beef; some nice beef brought even a higher rate. The 'demand waa very brisk all through the safes. Store cattle waa very dull of aale, excepting forward condition lines of three-year-olds, and upwards, which sold well. A line of four-year-olds, which only required topping off, fetched £6 sa; three-year-olds, £5 to £6 pi. Two-year-olds and under were difficult to quit at any price, about 66s for two-year-olde, and 35a for yearlings, being current values. Dairy cowa were a poor selection, and ao d with difficulty. Cow- in milk, cr springing, aold from £4 to £6 for the beat forwarded. Sheep.—The yards were well fi’led with the number of fat sheep forward, Thp demand waa dull, and prices rather w*)& at the beginning of the sales, but they recovered as the sale progressed, and aclearance waa effected at fairly firm values, ahum sheep being in some cases a little dearer. There waa a large proportion of a superior quality, prominent among which were Mr Leonard White’s merino wethers, of wonderful weight and qualify, which, although shorn, aold at the high price of 17s a head. A nice little line of cross-bred wethers in the wool from Southland topped their class at 17a 9d. Some other lines of prime merino wethers attracted much attention, and of the shorn crossbreds and Downs it may be Said that tbe quality all round was very good. A particularly well-framed 4-tooth half-bred «etber, hand-fed, and of undeniable quality, was bought by Mr W. H Cooper, Armagh street, at a guinea. Good crossbred wethers, in wpol, sold *t *4 17s 9d ; secondary, ila to 14a ; shorn, good to prime, It’s to 13), secondary, 7« 6 i to 9 . Merino wethers In wool—6o«d to extra, 11 to 16s; ordinary, Ta to 10s. Best mutton in wool may be quoted at 3d per lb; ordinary to good, 2jd to lb. Fat lambs, at the opening of the sale, add well, the bed lines going op ashi|h

Jg '-g aa 10a to 12», though good shop lambs Were bought at 8s upwards. The supply * ins, however, in excess of the demand, and towards the end there was a decided drop, and anything not first-class was almost unsaleable. ‘'tores went rather dull, but some considerable lines changed hands at about late values.' A very good line of shorn cross-bred hoggets, from Lincoln College, were pi seed by Mr w . O. Tabart at 11a and 10s 5d Other sales comprised 700 4-tooth ewes and wethers, shorn, at 6s 4d ; crost-bred ewes, shorn, and lambs, at 7s and 6s, and ewes in wool and lambs, at 11s 61 and 10s 9d, and a secondary line at 8s 3d ; mixed cross-breds in wool, 6s lOd ; and hoggets in wool, 4a 91, Pigs.—Very few killing qualities came forward, and any good porkers met brisk competition. A n ? ca line sold at 28s. other lines up to 245. Nice s:zed stores were in good demand.