The Stock Market.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 17, 19 July 1895, Page 2

The Stock Market.

Messrs Abraham and Williams report : Business for the week has been restricted to our Palmerston sale of yesterday, stock of all classes were in excess of advertised unmbers. The bulk of the sheep were of good qnalifcj 7 . The demand at auction was irregular; although a fair proportion was passed in under the hammer, we ultimately cleared all but oue pen, sellers prices being well maintained throughout. Sheep— Store wethers. 8s 6d ; fat wethers, 9s lid ; forward ewes and wethers, 7s 7d ; fat ewes, 8s 6d ; breeding ewes, Gs lOd to 7s lOd ; others, 5s 6d ; culls, 2s 3d to ss ; shorn lambs, mixed sexes, 4s 5d to 5s 7cl ; culls, 2s 2d. Catblc— Small weaherp, 17s 6d ; others, 25s and 27s ; yearling?, 32s ; 2-year steers, L 2 IBd 6d ; 18-mont'i heifers, 36s ; 18-month steers, L 2ls ; fat heifers, L 3 16s ; springing heifers, L 4 5s to L 5 7s. Addington market— Fat cattle— About 200 head penned, chiefly prime steers, some of which sold up to Ll2 2s per head ; prices about the| same as last week for most sorts, but slightly better for beef store and dairy cattle. No alteration to noto. Fat sheep — A fair average yarding, both as regards numbers and quality, bidding throughout the sale being good — in fact the most even sale we have had for a long time— prime heavy-weight crossbred wethers, selling at from 14s 9d to 16s lOd ; medium, 12s 6d to 14s ; prime merino wethers, lls 6d to 14s Id. Store sheep -A fair entry mostly 2 and 4-tooth crossbreds, for which competition was spirited, a line of very forward reaching as high as lls 2d, while several lots changed hands at from 9s 6d to 10s 9d ; crossbred hoggets best sorts, to 9s Id ; crossbred breeding ewes, mixed ages, 8s to 9s 9cl. Pigs —A medium yarding, mostly good baconers, Bidding slightly better, and prices hardened to the extent of about ; }d per Ib.