ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2289, 28 November 1889, Page 2

ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

» CHRiBTOHai'OH, November 27 The welcome taiu with its attendant benefits to the giaziDg and farming interobts gave an imineaae impetus to trade at the murket to day. Tho market wasfa small one but m nearly every line good prices were sustained. Fat Cattle— Prime ox beef realised rot less than 21b, while m some oases it went as high as 21s 6d per 1001 b There was very little inferior qnality bat this reach( d from 19a to £1, Stobe Cattle.— Very £< w yearling were offered, but two year olds realised from £2 to £2 7a 6d, according to quality and three year old Bteei's brought from £3 153 U £5 123. , .htorb Shekp.— This d;pa?tment was hut poorly represented, nothing of tx ra quali y being on offer. Mixed oro<mhied3 two tooth, aold at from 5s 4i to 8s ; four too h of the same class realiaing 9i Id ; shorn meri o wethers fetched 4s ; mixed croaabreda shorn also realised Bs, and a li c of shorn hoggets brought 7a 9J. Fat Fhbep.— Scarcely three thoaeand were offered, and the demand both for the butchering trado and freezers was keen. Prime quality freezers retliaed np to 2^d or equal to a rise of from 1b 6d to 2a on last week's prices, while small or over fat mutton for boiling down purposes was allowed to pass at I^-J. - , Fax Lambs. — There >^as a fair entry, some Hampshire croesbfeds realising the highest, but all f«tahud from 3d to 4i per lb dead weight. ' . ; Pigs.— There was the smallest entry for montha, only a few porkprs being m «/hich realised from Bd' to 4Jd, while a few breeding swaware eaorlfioed.