AUCKLAND CATTLE MARKET.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 487, 14 December 1850, Page 3

AUCKLAND CATTLE MARKET.

About four hundred pounds wOrlh of stock changed hands at the Monthly Market of Auck'and Hundred on Tuesday last, through the intervention of Messrs. Conncll and Ridings, auctioneers. This rapid increase in the impoitnnce of this marker, so leiently established (Tuesday having been only the third market day) must be highly satisfactory to Majoi Mats )n and the other Wardens of the Hundred, to whom the grente<t ciedit is due for their pei severing exertions foi the good of the agricultural community, and in f ew other ways could those interests be better advanced than by the Establishment of regular markets, from the transactions at which both buyer. 1 * and sellcis con learn the cunent value of stoi'k and produce of eveiy kind hitherto so fluctuating and uncertain. As the Wardens have obtained from Government a grant of a very suitable piece of land at the cross roads, near the Royal G orge Inn, adjoining the present maiket enclosure, Pound, and Public Slaughter House, we hope soon to see the whole substantially enclosed and fitted for the reception of agricultural produce of every desciip'ion so that hay, corn, pot noes, &c, as vvi'll as live stock maybe submitted to public competition on the market day. The first Market was held on Tuesday Bth October, and on that day we believe an excellent dinner was provided ut the Royal George, to which a large company of buyers and sellers sat down, and ut which sundry bottles of were cracked, to the prosperity of New Zetland Husbandry. This was very well for a sort of inauguration, but we are glad to learn, that, under a judicious presiding influence, the refreshments provided for Muiket days arc now limited to a substantial luncheon of cold meat and a glass of good ale. At this table all frequenters of the market can sit down without invidious distinctions on the one hand, or inducements to extravagance on the other. The sales effected at the market were as follows— 10 Cows at prices varying from £4. ss. to £9 ss, a\erage £Q 16s. per head ; 3 Bullocks £4, £'o Iss>. and M 12s. 6d; 15 Hei/eis £2 si. to £5, average £3 2s. 4d ; 2 young steers £l 15s. and £3 ; 4 calves 17s, tid. to 255. average £l 2s. 6d ; 1 Beikshire Brood Sow £2 16s; 376 Merino Weathers, recently landed ex Glencoe from New South Wales, 11s 6d. to l2 s . 3d. per head; 1 Cart Horse £8, 1 Hackney £IV. Stock ofl'eied but not sold, 2 horses at reserve prices, 4 heifers at do. do., 1 Durham Bull at do. do.