LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 19, 8 May 1902, Page 13

LIVE STOCK.

ADDINGTON MARKET. Fat Cattle. — 189 were yarded. Steers brought £6 10s to £9 15s, ; heifers, £5 5s to £7 l>2s 6d ; cows, £5 to £8,, or 25s per lOOtb. Prices were from jL9s to 24s 6d, last quotation being for very prime. Store Cattle. — There was' a large entry of a mixed character and quality, but it met with a good sale, demand 'being brisk for everything. Nine months' old to yearling beasts fetched from 22s 6]d to 37s 6d ; 15 to 18 months', £2 13s 6d ; two-year-olid steers, £4 3s 6d to £4 15s two-year-old heifers, £3 Is to £3 12s 6d ; three-year-old steers, £5 7 four-year-old steers, £6 7s 6d; three-year-old heifers, £4 j< dry cows £1 10s to £4 ss. Fat Sheep. — The presence of a number of freezing buyers helped to maintain the market cguring the first hour and a-lialf of tiho sale, • and a rise oj Is per head had to be recorded during that time, tout, as wants were supplied and "buyers moived off with full purchases, p/rices receded to l&st week's level. Eight hundred North Island fat) wethers brought from 14s to 17s 3d, some of wihidh were taken for freezing piurposes. Ordinary price Canterbury wethers fetched from 16s Gd to 18s 8d ; extra heavy, 18s lOd ; freezing ewes lls to 15s ; best tcutohers' ewes, 12s 6d to 1,5s ; medium, 10s to 12s ; inferior, from 7s to 9s 6d. Fati lambs. — There were 1564 fat lambs on offer, but, witih the exception of a few lots, they were of, indifferent quality, and many brought only store prices. One thousand; fo,ur hundred were taken by freezinjg buyers at 8s Id to 12s lOd !;i tegs fetched 13s 5d tp 15s 7,d, these being talcen for e»p\ort ib,utchers. Lambs, 8s ,9d to 13s lid 1 .,

Store Sheep.— There were 8202 store aheep in the market, for which there was a good sale, only a very few Jots being passed. Several lines of Chatham .Island sheep were on offer, one line ofl wethers fetching, from 9s 6d to 11s 9d. The entry was made up principally of wethers and l«,mbs— lambs, 6s lid to 8s 9d ; wethers, 11s 4d to 13s Bd. Pigs. — Finished baconers sold fairly well up to 48s 6d for an exceptionally fine line, ordinary fetching! 34s to 445. Porkers were dull of sale at 18s to 28s, and stores were a drug. There were no outside buyers, so that business was restricted to local requirements. Per 1b baconers were worth 3£d to3£d with an occasional advance for extra prime ;; porkers, 33d to 3fd.