Commercial. Waikato Times Office. Friday evening. ALFRED BUCKLAND'S REPORT.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 663, 19 August 1876, Page 2

Commercial. Waikato Times Office. Friday evening. ALFRED BUCKLAND'S REPORT.

Cattle, etc, — At the Drury sale there w«i a numerous attendance sad a large mutter of cuttle, 350 bead p?uu*d and 345 iold, those withdrawn beiug dairy cattle, for wlnoh, at present, thare is but little demand ; {>uc«» realised wero satisfactory io tlic seller* and fully e«|iial to Auckland rates. Thiyweru: For quiet cows ne*r calving, from £4 10« to JE9 ; barren urma and heifers, £3 lOi to £5 10* ; weaued cilvoi, 30s to 60a ; twelve to eighteen months old cattle, £3 to £5 ; two year old ktuera, £5 to £6 ; tuiee and four-year cud tieern, £7 to id eacb. Some disktiafaotion wm ahtwn by the owaera of davy cowa At th« yards being crowded, bat for >h)m of oidmaiy numbers each oow would have a peu. At Remura, on Thursday, few dairy eovra at profit were peuncd, and for thoid lower Talues were obtained. Store cattle weie also in 'esi thsa average namhrrs, bnt without alter* atioo in value. Fat cattle in usual supply—l3l boad panned. B>th quality aud prurs wei aii regular throughout th« vale, but higher values were obtained as the sale proceeded. Sheep in moderate numbers, and dull of sale. Fat aheap were in leas than average numbers, and in rtqaest at an advance. Prices giren were : For dairy cows, £5 to £8 ; fat cattle, 25) toftli the lOOlbs ; fat sheep, 3id the lb. Avengo-j obtained were : 10 heifer", Hu^li Knux, £8 ; 7 brad, John NicooJ, Jt9;ll head, Jame« El let, £6 17* ; 18 head ('Go-nbead ), £12 ; 20 uteers, John Williams, £8 8s; 11 head, Joaepu Soott, £6 18i ; 17 hebd, Robert Barlow, •£8 12* 6d ; 24 head, 12 E«ea, £7 14* 6 1|; 130 Napier half-rbed store wether*, B*bMj; 80 fat Joapwoolled wutbers, Thouiai Reid, 225 ; 64 wut'iers, lieid Brothers, 19s ; 50 half-bred wetbert, W Uardiaer, 16a ; 100 »-hetp (<>x • Uawea,' from New , Plymouth), 18 > 3d eacb. 1