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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 93, 14 December 1912, Page 6

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(Received 9.35 a.in.) London, December 14. 1 River Plate shipments.—Mutton, 224 thousand carcases; lamb, 91,500; frozeh beef, 154,500; chilled beef, 180,500.

Messrs Matthews, Bennett and Co. report a poor yarding of cattle in their Inglewood yards on Wednesday last. Prices were good and everything sold well. Springing heifers £5 to £6 15s,i 2-year-heifers, R.W.8., £4 12s Gd, bulls £3 to £4 2s Gd, yearling steers- £2 17® 6d to £3 3s heifers £2 10s to £3, working bullocks £22 ss. At Mr Forrester’s sale on Tuesday last there was a good attendance of buyers and everything sold well. Cows £5 7s to £8 10s,’ old cows £3 10s to £4 10s. There was a moderate yarding of sheep at Burnside (Dunedin) on Wednesday, the number penned being 1922. The quality was fairly good, the bulk ox the yarding being compost'd of shorn wethers. Best woolled wethers made from 29s to 30s Gd, and best shorn wethers from 23s Gd to 2Gt> Jd. Shorn ewers made from 18s 3d to 18s yd. Values fluctuated slightly, but the average would be about equal to the preceding week’s rates. Jmst week 163 lambs were penned while this week there were 322,0 r nearly double that number. There was an advance in 'prices the previous Wednesday of from 2s 6d to 3s, and, not withstanding the large yarding yesterday, that advance, was fully maintained, the saltclosing wdth values even more buoyant than at the commencement. The values ruling (says the Otago Daily Times! ere a sure indication of keen competition or lambs at next week’s sale, wmen will be the last before Christmas. There were 151 headol| cattle yarded, some , animals of nice quality being included amongst the number. There w r as good competition and prices were about equal to late rates. Prime bullocks made from £l7 to £lB 2s Gd, while heifers made up to £l2 7s Gd. There were 58 baeoners and porkers, and 81 stores yarded amongst the pigs, and all sold under good competition, with values slightly’ easier than last week’s high rates.