LIVE STOCK. ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 27, 2 July 1903, Page 13

LIVE STOCK. ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

There was an average yarding of stock and a good attendance of buyers at Aldington to-day. Fat Cattle. — 159 head yarded, including a few useful steers, but the larger proportion was light beef. Pens were disposed of readily at about last week's rates. Steers, £6 15s to £31 2s 6d ; extra prime, £12 to £13 17s 6d ; heifers, £6 2s 6d to £9 10s ; cows, £5 17s 6d to £11. Beef ruled from 27s to 30s per 1001 b. Fat Lambs. — 1500 yarded, and all pens containing prime quality evoked brisk bidding among the buyers for export, who took the bulk of the entry at prices about Is per head in advance of those ruling last week. Lambs: Only half-fat were hard to quit. Tegs realised 17s 3d to 21s 6d ; extra prime, 31s ; freezers, 13s to 17s ; butchers', 12s 3d to 17s 6d. Fat Sheep. — A large entry comprised numerous lines of particularly prime wethers and young ewes. These were eagerly competed for by freezing buyers at prices fully is per head above those ruling last week. For lighter-weight wethers and medium-qlUality ewes the market was firm at last week's prices. Prime freezing wethers, 18s to 24s 3d : lighter weights, 15s lOd to 17s 6d ; merino wethers for freezing, 16s 3d to 20s ; lighter, 14s 7d ; prime young ewes. 18s to 22s ; freezing, 13s to' 16s 9d ; butchers, 15s to 17s 6d ; others. 11s to 14s 6d ; wethers and ewes, 16s Id to 21s. Pigs. — Only a moderate yarding of fat pigs, and the presence of outside buyers firmed the market for baconers, which sold from 46s to 635, equal to 4fd to 5d per Ib ; porkers realised from 26s to 39s 6d, equal to 5d per tb.