Commercial. Waikato Times Office, Wednesday evening

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 593, 9 March 1876, Page 2

Commercial. Waikato Times Off ice, Wednesday evening

'Keears 'Miller and Co, Wellington, held a sale on Monday last, of cattle and horses. There wm a good attendance. For cattlo the bidding w»» spirited. 11 young itayed heifers, £4 lOi to £6 eaoh ; 31 heifers, mixed ages, and caws, £'* 16s to £10"iCs ; cows, with calves, £2 15s to £9 10 ; horses, very dull of sale, £7 5s to fill. Draught m&res and thoroughbreds all paisecl offers, being under reserve. Mr Routledge sold privately «evon rami for £300. The " Lyttelton Times " reports :~Wt have little or no change to note in the grain and* produce market linoe laat week. Deliveries of neir grain are coming to hand elowly, has threshing has been somewhat retarded by damp wo&ther during the week. English telegrams indicateafurtber fall in the wheat market, and merchant!, in view of the unprecodenteuly large surplus available for export from America, seem rather loth to risk shipments to the home market at 'the present cost of wheat and Tate of freight. Millers having been unablo to get doliver of their purchases quick enough, - Gs' 9d has been freely paid for firat-class samples of wheat for immediate" delivery. Large sales of oat»ihave been made, and the threshing returns, in 'some instances, have been unusually -large. ,- Barloy is in less demand, as our brewers and maltsters have secured sufficient stocks for immediate wants. Dairy -and produce ia still in good request, and supplies are coming to hand more freely. The following are buyers' quotations for delivery at the Christ church railway station : —Wheat, 3s 9d ; oats, Is 6d to Is 7d ; barley, 3s to 3s 3d; butter, Od to Old; cheese, 7Jd to 8d ; grass seed, 4s 6d.