STOCK REPORT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 405, 22 June 1880, Page 2

STOCK REPORT.

"The sales of stock at .Atidin gton on 'Wedneecle.y last wttracted a .large number •of dealers and others,'but the'bid ding was -not so brisk ason,tUeprevious mi irket , day. ' The stock yarded consisted of 7,f )38 sheep, 293 cattle,"and 1.95 pigs. Sheep.—There was a good sup .ply of fat sheep but tlie quality was not sc . good as at tbe last rale. AH-the lots vere, however, disposed.<of.at n slight « duction-in prices. Wie«juote mutton»at 2 per lb. Stores we-ne«onspicnouß by tlw ir absence. 'jThere.is .a ikeen inquiry for this ; description of st©ok. supply of prin ie fat cattle

wa« 'limited, but no improveia ent in prices xjccttrred. Beef sold at .from lls Gd t to 20s perlOSlb. Stores werewery dfcll of s\le, •those yarded being of an mdi Cerent class. The prices obtained cannot be given as a criterion of the true value of store stock. vCows in milk aro in great d< :n»and. . Pigs.—The whole.of th'j pigs yarded were from Wanganni,.and ' being a rough lot, did not fetch top rat? as. They sold freely, however, at- prices ranging up to £4. Good pigs are -still much inquired ' for.