ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1509, 17 March 1887, Page 3

ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

The Add!n,:ton Matkot on Wednesday was heavily fupplied In all departments, nnd ih/uigh the ut on dance wsu liuf?e trade wpb rat.Ker dragging, but a fair alearanoe waa ultimately tflVcted.

Oaitle. — The large number of fat catde yarded iocluiod very few btasta of firef qnftlity, the principal supply beiig of medium quality, with some very good oowb. Prices showed very little obange from last week, tuyera bang more numerous than has been t c csso for some time. Prime beef fi qootab'o at 18j M per 1001 b, fair to good quality 16 < to 17s, inferior 12s 61 to 14a. Bteer« sold up to £6 12s 6d, superior oows to £7 A large number of store cattle were offered, but sales were confined to odd lines, the larger mobs, almost without exception, leaving the yards anaold. Prices wete deoidedly lower, but so very irregular that we do not give quotations. Dairy cows of good quality sold with spirit at late ratbe.

Sheep wore a vory full market no tern than 11,000 being pented. Tho course of business showed the same cha;aoteris • tics as for weeks paßt, namely, a good demand for frefz'ntr qualities, and a very hesitating enquiry for all other d iorlptlons. It shows the market to bo m a healthy condition where this large ttupp'y was cleared without any giving way io values Vary few special lines of crow breds were penned, but hslf-bred Downi of nice »hnp quality and weight were «O numerous as to form quita a noteworthy feature of (be market, and a pen of this description rpalietd the t p | rica of the day 10 1. We repeat our quo aiions of lißt week, name y — Prime oros&bred wefcherß, 83 it, 10i ; lighter we ghts end maiden owe a , 5i 6d to 8i ; <rd n«ry ewe*, 4» to 5» 6J. Good merino wether* sold at 4», lighter at 2s 6d to 3s Tbeve price? are rqual to ljd per lb for best crossbred mutton, and Id for ordinary and merino. Pat lambs fold vr> 11 at up to 7j for Hampsh'ro Do^db ; other prfms pets, 5j to G 6 J ; store to middling conditioned, 2s 6d to 4a 61. Tho transactions m store sheep w«ro of conflderaMo magnitude. The principal Bales were —775 4-tooth c onbred wothera at 6», and 120 ewoa nt 4a 9d ; 520 2 tooth half-bred ewes tt 4> 9 1 ; 750 fullmouthed croetbrcd ewes at 33 6d 338 crossbred cwob, 4a to 4a Id ; 461 crossbred owes, 3« 26 ; 400 croisbred ewes, 2a 6d ; 350 2-'oo'h mixed crosahreda, 3j to 4a. Several thousands of old eherp for boiling d wn «;ld from Hd tn Is 4d for merinos, and 2s <o 3< 2i for croesbreda.

Piga. — The large onpp'y, wh'ch consisted chiefly <>f ft;res waa cleared at pricfS very litt'e below those of the lant fortnight, fitmera, as before, being tha principal buyers. Good stores nold from 0i to 20', porko-a from 20i to 353, acco*dii g to size And condition.