Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 300, 27 December 1902, Page 2

Commercial.

ADDINGTON MARKETS - - “ tinr T^dBAFH.] Chbistchdrch, December 24. The entry ofstook sod the attendance at the Addirgton yards to-day were very email in consequence of the heavy rains. There were 3249 store sheep on offer, and ■ a good demand was shown, especially for ewes and lambs. The chief isles were: —Bherp—loß shorn wethers, 1 1.6 sJM ; 234 at 14s Id, a-d 147 at 13i 4d; 170 ewes and wethers, 13s 44 ; $7 at 12a lOd ; ewes and lambs, 8s lid to 9s 9d (all counted) ; 33 ewes at fss7d. An entry of 950 fat lambs sold; well up to late rates for freezers, bnt butchers’ torts were rather esaibr, as the< trade had secured their Christmas s/pplies the previous week. There werfisß9 taken tor freexing at 15b Id to 16sjd, 268 were bought by butchers at 12s H to 14s 6d, and 393 were passed in. T/eyarding of fat sheep numbered about 200,'aod there has a fair sale for a'l olarsf, the bulk, of th» entry being ewes. Webers made 16a to 24*, and ewes 14s to 2u. • Cattle—Only 20 head o/fatcattle were penned, nearly all bei/g of paodinm quality,'And the sale wat/ not very brisk. Seven heifers from the/iinloch Urate made £Blos to £9 16/s 1 steers brought £B'to £9 55,. and cowsiph to £6 7s 5d ; store snd dairy cattle latfe rales; yearlings made Bito 37s ; fifteen-t(,«;ighlßen-raonthi, £2/s to £3lss; two-vear-heifers, £sl2s 6 fa three and fouryear steers, £7 2a 6d rry cows, £3 U to £5; dairy ciws, £4 t;£9 ss. "'Pigs—There were amt 59 pigs yarded, bicbners. selling attfSSs to 4JU, and pork-rs 24s to 335. / |. *- *' } ; 1 : JJTDDHOLMESTOCK SALE. kK : V‘ ; 'rtr, ;Th» Stcdholme jock safe was held on 1 Tuwday,, when %re Was - a very b<g [;oteir;49oo sheep.foming forward. The-, -tele.-wa* a mo*(Mtefftctory one, andt on ahr with those of lateThera'/fa good attendance ot‘ Jfwyettt'jtThe *f»,wtng are quotations : #*titeEatfd.J» £8; £8 2s 6d to £9 5« ; £7, sit I*, £7lss heifers localf, £6; ||tslil of.nssar.oid steers and heifers Hd« ol SO head QIS-yeartbldsteers, ■ PflMfe' 3a.V> i ftPP~ffai ewes from 12s 6d. 16a IQd;*row in wool (all counted),. mm ewea in. l3r lOd«; (<dl eoantedh, ihs id & ' lßs m '

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