ADDINGTON MARKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1352, 12 January 1905, Page 3

ADDINGTON MARKET.

(Per Press Association.)

(Jhrisoohurcb, last night,

The Addington market was the largest for some months, tue entries comprising 9804 sheep and lambs, 483 cattle, and 458 pigs, and there was a good attendance, | including numerous farmers. Pat cattle: The entry of 284 head con- , tained a large proportion of good to prime beef. The demand was very slow, and there were numbers of withhrawals, which, .however, failed to prevent a fall of about a a head, bteers sold at £6 15s to £lO 2s 6d, heifers at £5 15s 6d to £7 10s, and cows Jjs 7a 6d to L 8 10s, being at the rate ner lOOlbs of 20a to 21s 6d for medium to -prime quality, and 18s to 19s 6d for cows

and secondary quality. 1 Fa& calves : Tbere was a good entry ot I veal and prices improved 2s 6d to 5s per head upon the previous week’s rates, good r to prime calves making 80s to 325, a few h extra to 495, others from 10s upwards. Store cattle : A moderate entry met a very quiet demand, and there was no improvement in prices, which for the lots t sold at auction were as follows—Yearlings 22s Bd 15 to 18 months 51s to 695, 2-year j old steers £3 5s to £3 18s Bd, do heifers £8 2s to £3 13s, thirty month steers *4 IBs. dry cows 35s to 90s. ■•i—liairy oattle: There was rather more ihfe ia the sale than has been seen for some 1 ''time past, good cows being -fairly well competed for and selling at from 120 s to 130 s, and one at 1675. Old and inferior sorts were only saleable at from 40s to

-■ 10 p ot sheep : The yarding was moderate in number, but chiefly of good quality. The sale fluctuated a good deal, opening with a fair demand, and then relapsing and finally closing at about the opening C rates, which, for wethers and good ewes, was about Is, and for ordinary was fully

Is below previous prices. 1 Pat lambs —The entry was the largest * an a best of the season, upwards of 8000 being penned, mostly well finished. In atihv w ith the fall m the London Market-prices opened fully Is lower than I Drevious market, anS though vain a P “Misd during the sale, that figure- repre. V I! the average deoliue. Exporters comd well UP to this point, and after the P ele t'?°had covered their requirements ?f to h,ilk of the offering went for freezing. ThaHfue Of prices was for prime lambs 16s j* The extra to 235, others I sheep’ and lambs : Thore was a i/' Store a |j QO 0 f North Island sheep r*larg e o “‘f' wn , although fair values were IT T-d B Good sheep generally sold woll, and j lambs also found ready buyers at ; S %m*Lvaluea. Sound-mouthed ewes in "smtil lines sold at 17s to 18s 6d, two-tooth Ida Id. twortootb wethers at 163 to lbs lk- : 7dsmall I4s 91 to 15s 9d, four and W six tooth 18s to 19s 3d, small from 16s 9c, °ainba 14s 7d to 15s 6d, others 12s 8u

to 13» 7d. i r II Pigß : There was a large supply of all | classes, Good baooners and porkers sold at previous rates, but unfinished porkers, of which many weie offered, were weaker. Stores sold well at previoua values. Tbe prices current were: Por baooners 38s to 45s 9d, or 4d to 4*d per lb; porkers 25s to 85s, or 4*d to 4Jd per lb ; stores, large 20s to 80s, medium 13s to 18s, weaners 8s to 12s. \