Commercial. Waikato Times Office. Wednesday Evening.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 569, 13 January 1876, Page 2

Commercial. Waikato Times Office. Wednesday Evening.

Mr Alfred Buckland's sh»«p mnd cittle sale at Ohaupo on Tuesday, was well att ended, and •heepfetchel better prices than bad been oxpected, though, on the whole, prices ruled low. Mr McNicoi'i long wooled ones only aroraged 19* (5d which wat a low prico considering the condition of the animils Amongst others, Mr Goodfellow'n two tooth eww and wether*, which were exoellent ihoep, realiifd only 19a each. Two pens of sixty ewo lambs went as high at lls 3<l, while, one pen of wetber lambs fetched only 10s tid. Mr Taylors long wooled ewe< ( iv poor oondition realised 8* 61, and eotne 4*o Merina ewes belonging to llr Parker aver«ged 6j. There wnn a pood show of rams, but Bo little compftition for sime that they wero withdrawn. Ore ram belonßin" to Mr McNioul, which had takrn fho seoond prizn at the Agricultural show at Auckland, sold for £9 15s, and two pens of Lincoln yenrHni; rams belonging to the same owner, — six aUojrol her -realised £3 15i each. The Leicester rims put up for s lie bv Major Jark«on n ere withdrawn, there being no compelih'on ol biddmg. The day before, we nnderstand, Sir A Bucliland sold some of the sime flock of rams for JE2O pjich, The rems aro »ome of the finest bred of their kind produced in the district, but as we hare (laid, the demand was slack. Of c»ttle, there wore lnrgo number of storea jarded and price* ruled wmewhiit lawer than the previous nale which might well bo, for wbat buyers were to do with those purchased at the. December sales, to make a profit on them, it would tiiko a practical farmer nnd Philadelphia lawyer combined to conceive. There wa< a fair demtind /or fxt cattle at satisfactory prices. A few horses, but none of them "jam tarts" wore sold after the mle.