Commercial. Waikato Times Office. Friday evening.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 677, 14 October 1876, Page 2

Commercial. Waikato Times Office . Friday evening.

ALFRED BUCKLJIND'S REPORT. Fodder — At the H*ymarket on Friday, fodder km in moderate quantity, and was fairly competed for afc late rallies, 2s and 2e 61 per cwt being the rulling price*. Mmzs brought 4i 3d per bushel. Bonedust, dnmuged with saltwater, 5s 6d to 7» Cd per cwt. Horse Stook offered in full numbers, and above uverage sales were effected at a slight improvem-nt io values. Heavy draught brought £35 and £40 ; medium draught, £21 to £32 $ light harness aud ndint; hor.es, £7 to £13 ; small und .inferior, fixm £3 to £5 each. Dules and Skins were offered in full numbers, and fur hides better competition than on the prerious week was obtained. Damaged hides brought from Ifd to 2Jd ; wet and dirty, hid*. 2}d lo 3J 1-1 6ih ; -sound clean hides, S£d ; calf skins, 4d ; sheep skiuF, la 9d to 'd» lid each ; fleece wool, 7d ; look, lid. Cattle, Sheep, e'e— At Bemuera, on Thursday, dairy cows near calving were unusually numerous, but oi medium quality only. They brought irom £5 10s to £9 ; young store cattle in less thun usual numbers, and»t late yalues \ grown store cattle in usual supply, and in request. Dairy cows brought from £3 15s to £5 ; two-ye»r old steers, £i 17a 6 1 4 threeyear o d steers, £6 to £7 each. Fat cattle in moaewtt) number, and better worth ; 104 head penned j prices ranged from 30s to 35s the 1001b. Store sheep in larger numbers thau luual ; ewes and lambi brought, 15a to 18s ;.hoggets,{l4* 3d e*ch ; fat sheep in less tuan usual numbers ; about 300 penned ; prices for ewe 3 lower ; wetheis at last week's values. i Pnoes ranged : For shorn theep, f rum 2id to 2f the ib ; lambs uuintroiu, but not of such generally good quality as last week; be»t qunl ty, 16s, but; the qi eater number 9s to lls j inferior from 7» each. Pigs wi-re penned in unusually large numbers ; Urgd animals were at low ralues, buc imull sized pigs fairly computed for, and late values given for them, Fat calves pleutiml and in request.

BAQLAN CATTLE SALEJ. Mr T B Hill reporti the sale of hones, cattle, shuep, implement*, &c. commenced at Raglan, on Thursday last at 11 a m, and was not concluded at the usual time a otttd to auctioneers, and a few cattle, sheep, an>i sundti-s were left over to tiuittli off in the mJrning. The entrj of h >r*es wm not .numerous, and thoau disI o<ed of tetohed from £3 5s to £6 12i 61,'6 1, ' tlt« higher i-nocd one* not finding purchaiers. About 100 head of cavt'e were uirded, of whioh rho greater uu übur were sold at prioei varjing from £4 to £8 'The same number of tneepwero yenned which. h«d to be left to itu following daj. flougm loltt from 23i to £& A much l.irger number of stock was expected, bitu manj preferred coming to see tne ro&ult uf the present sale, promiaing their sup|jort at a iuturo one, if (hi* m<>t tLcir vxpeoiatioas. A numb r of Europeans, us well as Maories wrr» present, but owing ciut'fly to the Ohuupo tale hayuig taken pluOtf on the preceding Tuesday, the ttendnnce from W^ikato wm much ' ctnollor than expected.