The Stock Market.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 303, 27 June 1895, Page 2

The Stock Market.

F. E. Jackson and Co.'s Wanganui stock report: — The rough weather prevented a number of advertised stock from corning to the yards. We sold what were penned at current prices. We have enquiry for good useful wethers and shorn lambs. Cattle — At Waverley :— Cows, £2 53 to £3 14s. At Wanganui: Milch cows, £4 10s to £4 17s 6d ; yearlings, 22s ; IS-month cattle, 37s ; 3-yr steers, L3 10s. Sheep— At Waverley : Wethers, 7s 9d to 8s 6d ; lambs, 4*. At Wanganui : Fat wethers, 9s ; stores, 7s lid ; fat ewes, 6s 6d to 7s ; others, 4s 4d to 5s lid ; 2-tooth ewes, 7s lOd. Pigs — Small baconers, 28s to 81s ; porkers, 15s to 20s ; smaller pigs, 9s to lls 6d. Christchurch (Addington) market — Fat cattle — The bidding for prime steers was fully equal to last week, but for old cows, and half fats there was little enquiry. Best beef, 21s per 1001b; inferior to medium, 14s 6d to 17s. Store cattle — Little doing ; for the few good sorts yarded, bidding was slightly brisker. Dairy cattle — No alteration. Fat sheep — The entry was composed chiefly of merinos and agal crossbred ewes, Very few prime ewes being yarded. The sale taken all through was on an ayerage with last w'eek. Best crossbred wethers, lls 6d to 13s 9d ; medium, 9s 6d to 10s 6d; crossbreds, 8s to 12s 9d ; ewes, 7s 6d to 13s ; merino wethers, 6s 4d to 9q 9d.