STOCK REPORT.
There was a good muster of dealers and members of the trade at the Addinsrton Yards on Wednesday last, but bidding throughout was unusually dull. The stock yarded comprised 4GBB ehecp, 710 -cattle, and 91 pigs, the bulk being of prime quality. Sheep.—The quality of tho fat sheep -was fully up to the average, yet prices were not generally satisfactory. The sheep on this occasion were all shorn, the prices realised being, for prime cross-breds 12s 3d, good do 10s Gd, medium, 8s to 8s 6d, prime merinos, 8s Bd. We quote mutton at Ifd por lb. Fat lambs were in large supply, best quality realising 93, medium, 7s 6d to 8s sd. Stores were in good demand, and merinos in good condition sold up to 6s 3d. There were no crossbreds to hand.
Cuttle. —Prime beef realised equal to 18s per lOOlb. Very few stores were sold in consequence of owners asking too high a price for them, and thereby leaving no mnrgin of consequence between stores and fat stock.
Pigs.—Best quality realised £2. good and medium from lGs to £1 10s.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 459, 14 December 1880, Page 2
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185STOCK REPORT. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 459, 14 December 1880, Page 2
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