ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1961, 4 October 1888, Page 2

ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

There waa a large attendance at the yards on Wednesday and a fall muster of the trade. A more numerous attendance of frets'ng buyers would have been desirable, bat even m their absenoa there was a good demand for mutton, although sheep prices did really suffer a drop. The cattle market was too well supplied m all departments for the demands of trade, and fat fell off a little. The end of the turnip season and the beginning of the grass, always causes a rush of young stook into the market, not always with a beneficial result to sellers. Good three-year-olds sold m open market and privately £4 to £4 16', and 2ye»r-olds and younger itook m proportion.

Of fat oaUle there wai a fairly full market with a majority of medium class steera and fair sprinkling of heifers. Prices of beef would be at the beat a drop on last week's market, and not more than 19a per 1001 ba waa ofc voed for store cattle. Transactions need not be quoted after what bai been said above, bat It may ba aald that the market was fairly well BDpplied.

la dairy stock the demand was limited to the looal dairymen, and the supply wai equal to the requirements. In fat sheep there was a fa : rly full market, and for anything fit for freezing there was a good detraid, 3 1 per lb balng easily obtained for good freezing * ethers, but on all other aorta there was a alight drop. - A fair number of store sheep were sold at prices represented by the following quotations :— Oroßsbred hoggets 8s to 11s 61, crossbred owes with lambs Hi to 153,

There was about the usual entry for the saason of fat lambs for which a good trade demand was manlfasted, best felonIng 12s to 13b 9d.

Only about 69 pigs were In the market, mostly scores and porkers. Pcioes were virtually nominal, say 3Jd par lb.