LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1287, 16 November 1911, Page 2

LIVE STOCK SALES.

4 Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having he'.d their weekly sale'in - the Solway yards (Itastorton) yesterday,' when they offered a very Email yarding. The attendance of buyers was small, and bidding was consequently dull. The reSort adds:—Most of our entry wa> fold, oggots, 6s. to 6s. 2d.; thorn ewes and lambs (poor condition), £>, 2d.; fat ehorn ewes. Us. Cattle: Springing heifers (backward), £4 25. 6d.-,' Hereford bull, to £19;. empty two-year heifers, £4 25.; springing cows, late calvors, £4 to £5 6s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., ro. part on their Jokusanvillc Kile, held' yesterday, as follows:—Wc oifered a good yarding of both rheep and cattle fj n. large attcndancc'of buyers. Bullock; sold well, but prices' arc easier by quite ono pound per head upon rates ruling a few weeks ago. Sheep are also easing In price. Prime heavy bullocks, £10 7s. 6d. to £U 2s. 6d.; primo medium bullocks, £9 ss. to £9 12s. 6d.; lichter. £8 lis. to £9: light, £8 7s. 6d.: primo vcalors, 245. to 345.; smill, 16=. 6d. to £1; prime heavy wethers, lis. lCd.; plain wethers. 195.; prime Fhorn wotll-. oiv, 17s. Id.; medium ehorn wothcrs, 15s. l(>d.; medium ewes, 18s.; plain, 175.; prima heavy ewes, £1 to 21s. Id.; prime heavy ehorn ewe 3, 15s. Bd.; medium thorn ewes, 12<. 9d. to Us. to 13.9. Ltd.; primo hnlbs, 13s. to 13s. 9d.; plain, 10s. 4d. to lis. 3d.--ADDIXGTON STOCK SALE. Chrlstchurclt, November 15. At Addingtou live stock market there were fairly large entries of stock and a. good attendance. Store sheep wcic a iittlo easier, with the exception of forward wethers.. Fat cat.Uo were unchanged, alia fat, lambs were very firm at the rate:i ruling a fortnight ago. Fat sheep were down m. 6d. to 2s. per head, but there was a. good demand for stores. There were only about 1500 store Mccp offered, one-half being hoggets, and most of the balance ewes and lambs. Tno demand for all classes was fair, but prirea were easier, with the exception of forward wethers, which sold well up to late rates. Good owes lu the wool with lambs undo 11a. 9d. to 125., all counted. Kilr sorts. 6s. s inferior ewes, ss. 3d.; dry merino ewes in the wool, Ss. 2d. Shorn sis and eight-tooth ewes with lambs brought Ms.; shorn fourtooth forward wetkerr, from Chatl am Islands, 15:). to lbs. Id.: shorn two-loolto. IPs. Id.; woolly wether hoggets, ios. Id. to 13s. 5d.; woolly ewe hogsota, 15s. 4d.. aid mixed sexes. Us. 6d. There were 2bS lay lamb" or good to pr me quality penned, and the number was below butchers ;■ requirements. Competition was theuforo keen, l'rlecs wore very Arm » to, if not above, the avenge of thoMi ruling a fortnight ago The bul of ,ho lambs mads lbs. to IBa. 6d., and otnus "rh^"as M i largo entry of! rtgro sheep, of which rather more than lu I ucio shorn aid the yarding again induced « accent the reduced rates. The range of SrfccY was:-\Yoolly wethers, prime, fit. '",", i,,i nihers, 16s. 5(1. U> 20s. 6d.; primo'shorn" webefs 16s. to 2Cs. 6d . others. F£* ?id to 6d.; primo woolly eves, s' Cd to 23s d. ; other*. 13s. U, to IBs I nrl'mo shorn. 15s. 6d. to 2Cbj others. 13s. ,Jd. f- iss -shorn hog-els, 13s-: exlra. prime shorn merino wether.. ««■ «., "«>"» ThWarof Vc "tie totalled only 182 head and there was a pood general of quality. There was a, good do,,?n,.rf iiid nric.s were fairly firm. Ono exception ly .rime r,teer made £26, ottea £7 I?" id. (o £U 55.; extra, to All IPs.; iwilf-.r« £6 to £8 7S. Cd.; extra, to £14; «« thht. to -f-Oj imd extra to £10 Is.; equal to? 275. U> 37*. 6,1. per lMlb., according to vS\ al &e. made 4s. hi. to £2 17s. Cd„ mostly in low condition, met. with an improved demand, yearlings maicinp 3£; fifteen; to oightecu-montlis, 365. 6(1. to 4.5.; t\\o-j<ar S, « 23. 63. i two-year heifers. £3 18s.; fivo-voar steers, £5 75., and dr» cows, 30s. made £3 10s. to £8 sa. for ordinary torts, up to £10 as. for the better el Tlici'c was n. larger entry of pigs than a, fortnight ago. niwl both demand nnd prices were rosier. Ohoppers made £3 16s ; large baconcM. 525. 6d. to 605.; extra, to «M otliorß, fe to 50s. (equal to S'd- per b.li large porkers, 40s. to 445.; Biiiallor. 3a. o 37s 6d! (equal to 53d. to 6d. per lbWere „„» a good demand for stores. Impe ■» making 28s. to M.i.; smaller, IW. w Meand wea iters, 6s. to 13s. HUIIKSIIIE JfARKKT. my Telegraph l're»s Wclatlin.. Dunodln, November 15. At llurn«ide to-dav 22 fat cattle wor» yaVdcd" chiefly, bnllieta. There were no icavy-weights forward, and ■!»;' J ill over nas about average, u.uyg w inu V,i a fair proportion «f which were prime heavy owe* and jardns prices opened equal to Inst wcelt s nucf,, Tuwanls the flnisH Hardened by M. to Is per head for, prime sheep, l'rlmo wetherv to 245. to 80s.; extra primo nnd linavv 27«. to Xs. 6d.: medium to good, 20V to tali unfinished. 18s. to 195.; best cw'cs 20s. to 225.; medium to good, 17s. 6d. ! w 195.; Inferior, 13s. 6d. to 15s. , Fat lambs: 183 penned, nearly all being uico quaMtv. Couipotition was keen, and prices' advanced about Is. per head. Host, , lfo, to 17d. 9d.; niedluai, Hs. Cd, to 16s.