STOCK REPORT.
There was a large attendance at the Addington Yards on Wednesday last, and the stock brought forward comprised 7127 sheep, 494 cattle, and 28 pigs. The quality was good all round with no lines of special quality or the reverse. Bidding generally was brisk, and there was consequently a slight improvement in prices as compared with last week. Sheep.—Prices opened about equal to those at the previous sale, and improved towards the close. Prime crosabreds in the wool sold up to 17s, good do, 15s Gd ; medium, 13s Gd to 14s ; shorn cross-breds realised 10s for best quality. Merinos in the wool brought 12d G.I. We quote mutton, shorn, lid ; unshorn, 2Jd. Stores were in good demand. Four and sixtooth cross-breds in the wool sold at 12a ; lambs of prime quality, 123 Gd ; others, 6s 6d to 10s.
Cattle.—Extra prime quality bullocks realised £12 ss; good do, £11. We quote prime beef at 22s Gil per 100 lb. Storen were in good supply, and sold woll. Best three-year-olds realised £G 10s ; two year elds, up to £5 7s Gd ; yearlings, £3 10b ; and calves, from £1 15s to £2.
Pigs were cleared at about last week's rates.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 441, 12 October 1880, Page 2
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199STOCK REPORT. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 441, 12 October 1880, Page 2
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