ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 22, 29 May 1902, Page 13

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET

Fat Cattle — 201 were yarded, including some prime heavyweights The trade being well supplied the previous week, beef, especially heavy torts, eased to 18s 6d to 21s per 1001 b Prime bullocks, £.12 12s fid , best steers, £8 10s to £10 10s ; others, £5 17s to £8, prune heifers, Juß to £9 lOs , others, £5 5s to £7 10s , heavy cows, £7 to £8 7s (kl , others, £d 15s to £G 10s. Fat Sheep -GOOO were offered, mostly ewes, which were m great demand for freezing, and showed an advance, while wethers quite held their own Freezing wethers, 15s (>d to 18s Gd, and 19s C>,d for extra prime , freezing ewes, 10s Gd, Ids to 15s <)d , butchers' be."--!- ewes, 12s to 15s, to 17s» for extra good, otheis, 7s 5d to 11s. Fat Laaibs.— Of these there wero

1500, including a lot unfinished. Good sorts were in demand, about two-thirds of tho entry being, taken for export at 10s to 13s 6d ; tegs, to Ids ; unfinished weaker sorts, 6s to 9h (Jd Store Sheep. — d 741 were yarklad, mostly seconfjry wethers and laanbs. Tliere was a poor demand. A nice lot of forward wethers made 15s ; fair sorts, 1 2s to 13s &d i, backward, iOs (>d to list ; few aged ewes, ds to ~i* 3d , aiwl better, to 9s ; forward iambs, 7s (id to 8s i)d , backward, 5s lOd to 7s Pigs. — Only 200 were placed in the pens, and the shortage cau&ed aji advance in the prices of both stores and fats Baconers, 34s to 455, or 3}d to 3^d per J"b ; porkers, 20s to 30s, or 3^ d to 3Jd per Ib ; stores, 10s (id to 20s , suckers and weanors, 2s 6d to Bs'