ADDINGTON SALES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 434, 5 June 1902, Page 2

ADDINGTON SALES.

(Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The Addington sales took place today

Fat Cattle : 184 head were yarded ; mostly useful sorts, with a few heavy weights. ' There was a slightly improved demand Beef brought 10s 6d to 24s 6d ; heavy steers, £9 to £ll 10s ; others, £5 15s to £8 10s ; heifers, £5 10s to £8 10s ; cows, £4 17 Gd to £B, up to £8 15s for extra heavy stock.

Fat Sheep: Over 6000 were yarded, mostly ewes, with a few good lines of freezing wethers. Owing to a block at the factories, exporters were not keen and vendors did not reap the expected advantages of the winter reductions in freights. Freezing wethers and secondary ewes were easier, but prize sorts were in good demand for local trade. Prime heavy wethers, 18s 9d to 19s 9d ; freezers lGs to 18s 6d, lighter 14s lOd to 15s 6d, prime ewes 16s to 17s lid, freezers 10s 6d to 15s, inferior, down to 7s 6d ; 123 North Island wethers were taken by butchers at 15s 9d to 18s Id, and 180 fell to graziers at 14s 10d to 15s. Fat lambs : Eleven hundred were yarded, mostly unfinished sorts, and the market was weaker, exporters holding off, and about half the entry passed. Freezers made 10s 3d to 12s Bd, inferior 8s to 9s lOd.

Store sheep : 4664 were yarded, a mixed entry, and there was poor demand, the bulk being withdrawn. Wethers made 10s 2d to ils 3d and 13s, 947 2 and 4-tooths from Marlborough being passed at 11s 4d. In ewes, large lines of 6 and 8-tooth half breds in lamb sold at 11s 4d to 11s 6d, and 2 and 4-tooths at 12s ; aged sorts. 2s, 4s Sd, 5s lOd, and soundmouthed 10s 9d.

Pigs: 300 were yarded, and the scarcity caused improvement in all classes. Baconers brought 35s to 45s or 3id to stores, 10s to 235; - suckers and •Is to 6s 6d.