STOCK MARKET.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 282, 4 June 1897, Page 2

STOCK MARKET.

Messrs Gorton and Sou report: —This week we held large sales at Marton on Tuesday last and at Sandon the following day. We yarded considerably more stock atbotli places than were advertised. Little business was done under the bammor, buyers preferring to do their business privately after tho auction, and in this way we sold nearly everything, only a few pens being turned out unsold. Our quotations are : — At Marten—Light fat cows, £2 18s; fat and forward wothers. 9s ; store 2 tontli do, 8s 6d ; forward ewes, 7s 3d; empty ewes, 3s 6d to 6s; mixed lambs, 4s to 6s sd. At Sandon—Mixed 18 months, 31s ; small wcauers, 17s 6d ; milkers, £3 to M 17s (3d. Sheep —Ewes in lamb, 8* 6d ; wether lambs, os lOd ; woolly lambs, 7s 6d; empty ewes, ss, 5s lOd, 5s lid, 6s and 7s. !

{Per Press Association.) Christchurch, June 2. Tbero were "medium entries and a good attendance at the Addington market to day. Fat cattle—Of 170 | head of cattle which formed the week's j supply of beef, 52 head were in the dealer's bands. The best beef averaged from los to 17s 6d. and secondary and cow sorts from 10s to 14s per 1001 b. Per bead steers brought £5 17s 6d to iB 23 6d; heifers, Jtf to ifi ss; and cows, £3 12s 6d to £5 17s 6d. Dairy cows — Of a large entry of cows and springers only a few could bo described las really useful. For tbeso there was | a good demand at up to £1, but the poorer classes were bard to quit. Store cattle —The entry of store cattle was very small and made up of a few aged cows and a pen or two of yearlings, for wbicb there was little or no demand, and practically no business was done at auction. Fat sbeep : There was a large yarding, which consisted mostly of crossbreds, ewe mutton and a sprinkling of merinos, with a few pens of freezers. Only one factory was bidding for freezing sbeep. Although several good sales were made through the competition of the master batchers, the class showed a decline of Is. per head on the rates ruling last week. The salesmen wbo came late in the day bad bard work to quit consignments even at a reduction. The best heavy-weight wethers brought 15s to 16s ; do. ewes, Us to 12s 6d ; freezers, 12s to 14s 6d ; butchers' good ewes, 8s 6d to 10s 3d ; medium do., 6s to 7s; unfinished halfbreeds (mixed sexes), 8s 6d to 10s 6d; merino wethers, Gs to 9s; and merino ewes, 4s to 7s. Fat lambs -This class came forward iv much smaller numbers than of late. As the Belfast works are shut down the competition for freezers was limited, and a slight drop resulted They brought from 10s to 11s 3d, whilst butchers' sorts, which were not well represented, brought from 8s to 9s 6d, and those which should bave been in the store pens from 7s to Bs. Store sbeep -The yarding of store sbeep was under 4000, and was mostly made tip of small lots of turnipers and ewea in lamb. There was a slightly improved demand owing to the late rains, and where owners' reserves were not exorbitant fair business was done. Pigs—A medium entry of pigs contained a few more fats than usual, and they were ratber better. The sale resulted in the bulk of the baconers and porkers being quitted at prices equal to 3Ad per lb.