ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1428, 9 December 1886, Page 3

ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

At the Addington Saleyatds yesterday heavy entries of fat sheep were panned The supply of fat cattle was not large. Of store sheep there ware not many lots on offer, and with store cattle the mu-bet was well auplied. Cattle. —The supply tf beet was out moderate. Very few lots of go d qual ty •were yarded, and by far the larger proportion were but medians roils. The beet lots sold realised from £6 to £B, and heifers and owe brought from £4 10s to £7 We repeat last week’s quoUtim ok from 17s to 21s per 100'. b as the average price for beef. The store cattle yards were well filled ; but owing to the continned dry wea her but little inclination to do business was shown, and prices ruled extremely low. Sheep.—The supply of fat sheep was greatly in excess of the demand, and again Included a considerable proportion of ewes, and as these can only be absorbed locally, the market for them w-a w< rse than ev r, and values receded to the extent of 2s per head compared with prices ruling a fort night Cr three weeks ago. So bad was it, that inferior ewes were almost unsalable, and a number of lines were passed in. The demand for wethers was hardiy as good as of late, and had it not been for two or three buyers who were filling export order*, late values would certainly not have beeamain - talned. The top price of the day for fat sheep was 16s, which was paid by Mr A. B. Tutton for a pen of wethers first p*-’za winners at the Timarn Show. Lines of good wethers sold at from 9s to 11s 91; second q-a’py. mixed sexes, from 6* to 8j ; bat vhe avo.age price was abrm 7« ; ewes brought from 3s to 7s We quote the best wether mutton- at l|d p.-r lb • second quality at J-£i, and ewe mutton at not more than a Only a few lines of store sheep were penned. Tbe enquiry for good young lines of 'cross-breds was, perhaps, a little bi tter than of late, and most lota were sold. Twc-tooth crosEbreds brought from 3a to 4i 6d, and 4-tooths up to 6j. pigs..—Tbe p’g market is without alter ation either in demand or prices.