ADDINGTON MARKETS. Christchurch, July 25.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 24, 28 July 1900, Page 2

ADDINGTON MARKETS. Christchurch, July 25.

The entries at Addington comprised 8113 fat sheep, 200 fat lambs, 2000 stora sheep, 856 cattle, and 505 pigs. Fat cattle — 177 head were yarded, and included a number of tight weight steers, but heifers and cows were mostly good sorts. Bidding was keen for anything prime, and for this olaes there was a riae of 5s per head, other classes selling at lato rates. Nineteen Norlh laland bullocks sold at £7 7s 6d to £9 2a 63 ; local steers, £5 17s 6d to Ml 10s; heifers, JE4 10s to .£7 6s; cows, £4 17s 6d to 10s ; extra good one, £9 15s. Store and Dairy Cattle. — There was small and mixed yarding! of store and dairy cattle, and not much business was done. Two-and-»-half-year-old oattle brought JE3 17s 6d; two-year-olds, £2 7s 6d ; 18ruontha old, £1 16b ; yearlings, £\ 2s to £1 4a ; dry cows, &1 la 6d to £2 15s ; dairy cows, 453 to £7. Fat Sheep. — The yarding was -mostly of light-weight wethers and very few prime ewes. Freezing buyers were only purchasing when they could get lines cheap, but butchers' sheep were very firm, in consequence of the short supply. Heary wethers sold up to

225 ; heavy freezers, 19a to 20s ; lighter, 16s 6d to 18s 6d ; maiden ewes, 163 6d to 18s 6d ; prime heavy ewes, 13s to 203 6d; good do., 16s to 17a 6d ; others. 14s to 15s 6d ; merino wethers, 16s Id to 17s 9d. Fat Lambs. — The competition for these wab mostly in the hands of the local trade, only a few extiagood being taken for export. The prices ranged from lls to 1-is, and up to 15s Id loi good store fchfitp. A. few small line'of wethers cbangsd hands at 13s 4d to lss Id ; wethers and maiden ewes, 14' Id ; 906 Sorth Island ewes were with drawn at 12s 9d ; good >ouug ewe. Bold at 14s 6d to 16s lid ; fow hoggett. lie 6d. Pigs. — Fat pigs were rather too larg or too small for the bacon trude, an> the sale was BOtnewhat irregulai Average baconars brought 82s to 42 6d, or squal to 3d to 3£d per lb Porkers sold well at 22s 6d to-31s, or equal tv 3|d to 3fd per lb. A better demand for stores existed at 12a to 18s, and anckei-8 and weaners sold well at 6s to 10s 6d.