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Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 145, 12 April 1873, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Mr Alfred Bucklaud leports — At the Jiiyur.iket, on Apnl 4, the improved price for fodder noted m last ■week's, r-junt was fully sustained, pirtioul.uly for small loads Koiau stock were m very limited number^, hut with a »tea ly enquiry tor good uttiui.ild, p.irtieulaily dsaught. Meavy di aught bi ought fioin L"&2 to 1.">7 ; h.;lit harness f .)iu £12 10s .md upwards; hacks, 17 to U<>. Tiie sale ot wool, liax, A.c , held > esterd.iy. w.is tally attended. >kiiis aid wool weie dull of Bile, «iv I Irotn 2<\ to ."> I the poim ! l.nvcr m value th.vi .it last sale. Flax or hump wms in laiger thin average supply t and trejly competed for up to L'Sl »ir K'2X the ton. Al>ove that pi ice hujeia would not md, ;m I the best brandy weic coiweijueutly withdrawn. At the H.ijuuiket, on 'ihuisd.iy, the s.ile of fodder was well attended with buyers, ,md the piie>s leilnel weie slightly iu.ulxancu of last week's maiket. >mi)l lo.ula we-e m full iupplv, but Ln^uloids weie ill lisa than usual numbers. At Kemueia, daiiy cows, .it piolit, were uuiiaii.iUy pl^utiiul ; 15.) he.id bold ; prices were well sustained tuioiigliout the sale. Ntoie cattle were also i» gieatci uuiuhcib th vi nuual ; .vbo\e3Uo weie soil. Noung and {,'rowiu? cattle sold freely at full lates, but generally uxan were i datively at low values. Fat cattle w eie penned in average numbers, and of better than average quality . l'2H head sold. Sliip-bomo cattle allowed no unpuneuient ill prices, but \no\ incial-fatted were better worth »'iout l(Jsi,each. >lic«p weix- m awrageMipply, and luaintaineil last week's v. lues, i'ljs weie plcuutul, and iv leqilest.