ALDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 15, 10 April 1902, Page 13

ALDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

Fat Cattle was 128, mostly lightweights, while heifers and cows! numbered under 20. There was a short supply of steers, which caused a rise of Is per lOOFb. Beef brought 18s 6d to 22s 6d ; steers, £6 15s to £10, and '£13 10s for prime Polled Angus bullocks , heifers, £5 10s to £7 7s 6d , cows, £5 to £7 2s 6d.

Fat Sheep. — About 4000 yarded, mostly ewes There were very few good wethers Best wethers brought 15s to 17s 3d ; others, 12s 6d to 14s 6d. Too many ewes for the trade, and a drop in price was experienced, except for a few extra prime, which made 14s to 15s 3d. Good useful trade sorts brought lls to 13s 6d ; inferior, 7a 6d to 10s.,

Fat Lambs.— The total brought for ward was 751, mostly unfinished sorts. The sale Wf^s dull; One hundred and thirty-one were sold for export at from 12s 6d to 12s 7d. Two hundred and thirty-one went to butchers at from 9s 3d to 13s lid. The balance passed in at lls to lls 9d.

Store Sheep.— Over 14,000 were offered, including some good lines of forward wethers and good breeding, owes ; and these, with good forward lambs, met with a good sale; but other sorts remain about the same as last week. Forward wethers brought from 12s 2d to 12a lOd , others, 10s 2d to lls Id ; small, 7s Id to 9s 6d ; good wethers and maiden ewes, 10s to 13s Id ; merino wethers, 8s 3d ; two-tooth owes, 14s to 15s 3d ; four-tooths, 12b Id , two and four-tooths, 12s 6d ; six tooths, 13s Id; four, six, and eight-tooths. 8s 3d to lls 4d ; bound-mouthed, 6s to 8s 3d ; aged, 5s to 5s 9d , boilers, Is 6d to 2s 3d . lambs, forward sorts, 9s to 10s , fair, 5s Id to 8s; inferior, Is 7d to 3s 3d.