ADDINGTON MARKETS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 46, 15 September 1900, Page 2

ADDINGTON MARKETS.

Chbistchurch, September V2. Entries of stock at Addington to-day were fairly good.- Buyers were wellrapre3ented, and the business done was generally satisfactory. The fat cattle pens contained 190 "seadj the proportion of steers being rather arger than has been the case recently. The entry all round was of good average juality. Business, however, was not very nisk, and prices showed a still further fall. Steers brought from £6 2s 6d to £9 1 5s ; heifers, £4 7s 6d to £7 10s, and up o£B 17s 6d, for extra good ; eowa £4 7s id to £6 17s 6d, two extra good ones (ringing £7 15s and £8 17s 6d prices 1 vere equal to 223 to 24s per 1001b for prime beef, and 17<j to 21s for low to medium quality. Dairy cattls sold at £3 to £7 10s, Thee.itryof store cattle I 'jonsiated chiefly of young animals, the quality not being first class. Yearlings in-ought 16a ; eighteen-months old cattle C 2 2s ; fifteen-months-old £1 7s to £1 16s ; dry cowa £1 15s to £3 9s ; two-and-n,-half-year-old heifers, £3 ss. The entry of fat sheep was rather srnnller than last week's, but the quality of the lines yarded was generally first class, nod prices showed an all round improvement, although the top price was not quite equal to the previous week's. Freezers fetched from 18s to 21r, heavy wethers from 18s to 235, light and unfinished sorts 16s lid to 17s 6d, butchers' ewes 17s to 21s Bd, merino wethers, mitable for freezing, 16s 2d to 17s Bd, for butchers' 14s 9d to 15s Id, merino ewes 14s 4d. Store sheep numbered just over 1300, and competition I was good for all classes, though hogget", and ewes and lambs were most in demand. The chief sales were 112 wethers at 15s 5«1, 405 hoggetß at 15s; 126 ewes with 100 per cent of lambs 11s (all counted). The entry of fat lambs was the largest of the season, 83 being penned. Prices ranged from 10s to 17s 6d, most being sold at 12s 6d to 13s 6d. A fairly large yarding of pigs came forward, and prices for all classes showed an improvement. The purchase of the first consignment of stores to be sent this season to Southland caused p hardening in the price of stores. Baconers brought from 32s 61 to 425; porkers, 23s to 31s Od ; stores, 12s 6d to 22s 6d ; and suckers and weaners, 43 Us 6d, prices being equal to 3 l-2d to 3£d per lb for baconers and 3sd to 4d for porkers.