LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2166, 3 June 1914, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Tlie Now Zealand Loan mid llcrcautilc Afioncy Company, Limited, report :-At Ilimata-ngi on Monday v,e had a fair yarding cattle, which sold at late vale.?. UiJOtdtions:—lsmail weauers, 23?.: weaker £ io*"' £?' * 5, twenty-month steere, £e %* ° <l -5 c°ws, «€5 lfc.; dairy cows, £5, £$ lis. fid.; bulls, £4. .Messrs. Williams and Kettle. Ltd., Dannev>rl:e. report Having .held their fortnightly aye stock sale at the Woodviile yards oil Monday, when thev offered a, pood varding of enesp aiKl a fair yarding of cattle to a good attendance of buyers. I'riccs were on a par with last week's prices. Wc quoit: —boon breeding ewes, 2fts to 225.' other breeding ewes,' 12s. 4d. to 17s, fai and forward ewe?, 16y. 6d. to. 17s. lid.; two, four ana six-tooth wether*, lfe. 3d.; m.s. hoggets, 12a. <d.. Ka Id., to Ifo.; fat cows. £4 155., £6, and .£6 ICt?,; store cows £2 |£s.: spruisinc heifers, £5 12s. 6i1.; weaner heifers, 295. to 30a 6d. ADDIXOTON" STOCK SALES. '.By Telezraph.—l'ites Arcuciation.l Christcliurcli, Juno 2. In consequence of the general holiday for the King 5 Birthday, the Addition lire stock market was held to-doy instead of on \v ednesi'.ay as usual. The general all-round yarding for all. oinsse* ot stodi wa<s smaller than iirual, end the attendance oi farmers, butchers, and exporters wan also smaller. The. yarding of fat lambs was a comparatively .small one, 2163 being penned, as against 7795 las* week. The- range of prices was:—'Tego, 20s. to 245. 6(1.; average weights, 18s. to 15s. 7d.: lighter and unfinished. Ite. 4d. to 17s. 6d. Vat sheep: Prime wethers, 21s. 6d. to J/s.; others. .16s. 2d. to 215.; prime ewes IBs. to i.ss. 9d.; medium. 15>\ to 17e. 6d.: agca and light, lis: Id. to 14s. 6d. Fat cattle: Ordinary eUwrs, £7 to £52 extra steer,?, to £17 lCs; heifers. -C 5 iOfl. U) £10 15*5.; cows. £5 7s. 6d. to £9 7s. 6ci. More cattle: Fifteen to cighteon-nionths soVu : \ £i 18s.; three-year steers £5 18s,♦ 'tows, £1 10s. to £3 Mi. A small yarding of nairy cows included eouic very useful animals and, as usual at this eeasou of the year, good cows wer? in keen request. Prices ranged from £3 lGs to £10 155.. extivr making to £12 15c->. 1 There was an ordinary entrv of rat ealvccs.; the quality.. as usual, covering a wide range, and values were unchanged, running from Bs. to £3 £,•».; cxtro. *c.oil sorts, to £5 ss. "°° a Store sheep: lambs, 15s. 9d. to 14s 6u.; good lambs, 12.?. 6d. to 13s. £d.- medium to good iambs, lly. 6d. to 12«* .3d • very medium lambs ICs 9d. to lh*.: culi lamb?. ,v«. id,; shorn lambs, Ss 4rt.; ewe lambs lwS 3d. to 165..- four-tooth- wethers, ' V : tv;o -, fo,;r . «nd six-tooth wethers (very forward), 19s. 3d.; two-tooth ewes (kue oaorn). 17s. 9d.: six and eighttooth wet-now, 20s. 4d.; aged cull ewes, &. Cu. to 4«. 4d. Fat pis* Choppers. £3 to £5 13s. Ed.: ordinary . baooners, 575. 6d. to -675.; extra heavy hnconsi-E, to 705.; light baconers, »fls. to sas. : price per ID.. SJd.: licavv porkcio, 4.-S. to <!7r>.; lifr'.iter porker;, 325. to w--.; pnee per lb., Cd.