LIVE STOCK. ADDTNGTON STOCK MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 20, 15 May 1902, Page 13

LIVE STOCK. ADDTNGTON STOCK MARKET.

Fat Cattle. — 215 were yarded, including some good lines. For bullocks the prices were the same as last week, 19s to 24s 6d per 1001 b. Good bullocks, £9 to £12 2s 6,d r lighter, £6 to £8 10s ; prime heifers, £8 to £9 5s lig,ht«r, £5 15s to £7 10s , best cows, £7 to £8 10"= , others, £5 12s to £6 10si. Store Cattle.— 300 yarded. The sale was dull Yearlings, 24s to 21s (>d , 15 to 18-znojith.s, £2 2s to L 2 ISs two-\ear heifers, £4 12s ;, two and a-half year heifers, £5 5s ; t luve-\ t\ir steeis. £6 12s (id; heifeis, £5 15s . cows, £2 to £1 15s ; dairy cows, £4 to £9 Fat Siieep — 5000 were brought foiwaid, mostly ewes, with a few i-ood lines of wethers Buyers for* i-vpoi t competed keenly for' wethers! ,iud nootl ewes, and the prices for wethi.'is iose 2d per head. Butchers' ewes were m over suppjly, and a d lagging and irregular sale resulted. Prime wethers. 19s (>d , good freezers, His to ISs Gd, up to 19s 3d for extra prime , lighter, 15s ;, wethers awl ewes, 14s to 16s , maiden ewes, 14s to 18s , butchers' be^t ewes, 14s to l(3s, up to 17s Id M-iy prime merino wethers, 8s to lls 9d, about 500 North Island wethers making 15s 7d to 16s Bd. One hundred and fifty for export solxl at the foi mer figure, ajul mixed weihers and ewes at 14s 9d. Fat Lambs — Of these there were 21)75, mostly .secondary sorts. Ownig to keeji denia,nd foil freezers, juices rose <kl per head, and 2521 weie taken for export at from 10s JOd to Ms 2,d Butchers took a few at from Os to 13s Od. Fortyeii>ht togs from Acton estate were taken tor fiecving <it 1 9,s 7d, and a line ot (>sl from Sprmgbank at 13s .'M Stoi c Sheep — 8600 were brought foiwaid. mosth wethers and lambs. Then 1 weie vei y few ewes, bait the demand was .slack, \\ ethers and lambs were almost unsaleable,, nearly all j>assjng forward. Wethers, 13s (id to lls 3d others, 1 On" (id to l!2s (id ewes, 7s (id to 1 0s lOd ; lambs, (is to 8s lid Pigs — ()\vv (500 were offered. The demaaid for fats was weak, and there was a decline of \d per U>, but stoics showed unproivementi. Baconeis, 32s to 42 (id (48s Od for extra hea,\y). or 3d to 3 \ per lb ; porkers. 20s to 28s, or 3 } d to o}d per II) , lart;e stores, 15s to 23s ; smaller, 10s to 12s . suckers and wcaners 4s (id to os.