SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (From our Special Correspondent.) Auckland, last night. BUCKLAND'S CATTLE FAIR.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 670, 28 September 1876, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (From our Special Correspondent.) Auckland, last night. BUCKLAND'S CATTLE FAIR.

'At Buckland's Cattle Fair, about seve» hnudieJ perftbns wero present. " Tfie sale was * great success. Tbe first three lots o! Mr Johns' yearlings fetched £3 15s etch, purchaser, Martin, Waikato ; Lot 2, £2 15s each, purchaser, Bent ; Lot 3, £4 17s 6 1, purchaser, Martin. Mr Johna* short horn yearling, £7 15s, Ireland ; Hutchiuson's ball calf, £7, Woodward ; Smith's ball calf, £3 10 *, Bailey ; J. May's bull caTf, £5 10j, Reynolds ; store cattle still further improved is price, and averaged £5 10a. Dibble* store cattle, lot 72, brought £8 10*. and lota 73, 74, and 75, all fetched £7 7* sU per head. Dibble's cows and heifers brought am average olj£s 15s. Mnurers »tetrs, from' the Bay of Islands, large bents, first lot fetched £7 ; second, £6 5s ; third, £6. At 3 p. m , a serious accident was caused by a sheep, a number of wh eh were et>oapit.g from pent, an 4, in' attempting to nop their career, Mr Byers w»i lushed at by an old ram, which struck him -Jail butt in the cli»efc, kn eked him over, and ha fell violently backwards on to a large stone, aud appears to be serious'y hurt. lie was asjiltfA away. .Pollen and Young 1 ! stock aferigs*' about £6 10j, Bulls wero sold as follows: Kjbertaou'e Hereford Bull, £9 10s } Wallace's short horn withdrawn at £30 ; Allens we.lbiod bull, £10 to Smith Bros ; Maclean's Hereford, joung bull, £14 ; Ditto, £16, to Badley. ' Hugh Eae, proprietor of the Good Templar Hotel, next the Manukaft Hotel, Onehungo, was fined one hundred pounds for sly grog seliag. lie had entertained two constables as lodgers unawares. Ho did not answer the summons. It is supposed he has bolted boutli. A warrant was issued. In t he DUtric &>urt to-day, Mr McOormick abandoned nn applipatiqn' for rule nisi to restrain the Resident Magistrate of Auckland -from, taking: further proceedings in tho zase of Jaokman and Evens, Waikato conlrapjon. '- ' [ . Grahah'stown, last night. An escort is expected to learo Olimemuri next week with 1000 ounces, Mr Segear's oluld, fourteen months old got on the tramway- and was crashed- to death by a loaded truck. WiiAifiaroN, Lsnt -night. In tht IIous« yesterday the whole of the evening sibtirg . was tauri up by consideration of tlie Coauties Bill ia eommitttie. , • Mess.s Bees and Wakefield took up more time than m y half doeen other mem*bers. 'I here wore a very lar^e number of «mm>nd meats jroposed and discuss id, and one or two divisioaa took place, but tho amm^udments made were uotduiportant, except Uat in dause 14 where the proponiou of electors to patitii.n was m de one half instead of one fourth x Clause 22 wa<t po'ponoi. The Hou o adj urnad iX 12.35, leave to sit again n oomm tt c on tho Bill having fiist been obtain- d To-day ii rei y co Sir R Douglas the Premier ad, tli- Government could not at preseut mike auy provision for continuing, us Je3s provincial q ants of noney to Aeii « vial Societies, and CoUutry Lib a it)* la reply to JVI Joice, h ' ( "q nmiisioner oC TologrupUs »ai the Govemaieut would not coatiuuo aft r Cite tie* io i the priveIflgo to evening ptp.rs ol sending 500 I words at evonlux ra es. ■