Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 139, 20 April 1901, Page 2

Commercial.

ADDINGTON MABKST.

There were small e tries in almost all depigment-at he Adtlington kaleyards, on Wednesday, but the attendance was good. , The yarding of store sheep totalled 6300 ewes, •nd lambs, being in ahout rgual proportions. ; The sale wasduh and dragging, *nd prices, all round, were easier, a corißiderab-e number of lines, failing to change hands. The chief sale* were 113 wether* atl4<4d, 109 t 4 14s, small lots Us 2d to Us Bd, and 1200 were withdrawn at 13a 9d to 13a lOd, 72 two, foar, and six-tooth ewes 17s, 129 two-tooths 16s 4d, 360 mix§d ages 15s 3d, 204 at 12* to 12s Id-; 261 soundmouth I3s 6d, 139 at" 103 id, 253 aged 9s sd. and , 401 -ound-moath we_re withdrawn st 15s, 100 lambs at. 12s Id, 00 at 12s, 102 at Us 4d, 192 at B, 1170 at 10s L Od, small lots 8s to lis 6d, and several lines were passed at lis 7d to 12s 3d. .; .

There was a h:avy entry qj fat larnbs, Tiut many of the lots were not "quite finished, v Competition was slack, aud ; values showed a decline of fully Is per heart. Venders in many cases refused to aocept the prices offered. 'WithdVgkjpaU' was therefore'numerous. Freezere made 6d to 153 9d, and other sprM' lis pi to 13s. '*•■

There was a very light market of fat sheep, the smallest, fo/ mftny monfbs past, and the bulk consisted of awes, .-' In the fat cattle pens w ; as an entry of 121, bat in spite of the? n ambers 1 being much below the weekly ave-age.j there was a'poor demand, arid values' were weaker by Is per lOOib; The-e wer&only seven steers offered at auction, light wajgbt cows andheifera forming th» .pact of the -entry. . Eour. shorf-

nSAcfe £7 Bp to £9:7*£s];\ftrid-i >.6<ttgh?*«n t 4 .months old heife x7a fri; ■ 4 OViiii'''-vv: 4 steers brought fc'Oto s«,"b('ifer-:£f» U j £7 123 and oows 3HS-*OJS7jUa fri 1 .qaul tal7a to 21a fd por 10difc r aecord j in/i to quality* . ;..■':■.;././•. '.] Ther« was, a.fcMj UVt!?e -iftrdlbß.'of pigs, hnd b««'onerß *af{ «toir«s andespecially; the jfottTf -Mbr'a feialw, but oorkera matntfijaed tbofriftltte|ifrly^«ll: Bac nerß;rfikde 863 to,*M is4uaV to»< JBid/ ; oar lb, porkers 20b toMiM* <sfnal to 2sa •■:o 4d per ldti lb SOsi arid «i»fcer« and weiinere 4b 6d to 9a 6a. v '