Commercial.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 771, 26 May 1877, Page 2

Commercial.

Waikato Times Office, ' i.Friday evening. ALFJRED BUCKLAND'B RICPOBT. At the Hayrnarkeb, on: Friday lasb, fodder was . iii full supply. Tni-re wa3 a good 'demand,' and a advance iv pricos; Horse stock usual supply, .with an irregular sail, but many Haiea tfteotod. Heaiv^ draught ..from £26 16 £4-3, medium dt-MighV £14 to £18 ; the uiaro Mystery, £:>S. Inferior horse Btock fiom.£3 lO'atid upwards.

B<emuera, pa "Wcdunsday, for the imported bull Whippcr iv tiime was no biddiug. The dairy stock penned wore generally of indtllW'eiit qiuiHty, aud.^ brought fiom £<L to £7. A. f«w of boitor" cpahby biouglifc from £8 5t to £10 10^. Yenrliiig st«cw m request jut full values. Grown afccfr? cattle aij.lq'v^er prices. Fat. stock were iv full 'supply— 147 head penned. - Theadvance ijbted iu last week's report was sustaiued. All ofgood quality sold freely at from 2Gd .to '30' i the .lUOlbs., bub infcribr-cdndilioned animals woro at low values. The ewea adyertieed were m. low coudition" ahdof Sln'all Bize. They wore m request, and brought from 17s to 18s Cd each. v Fat sheep were m moderate i>umbe»-— -500 penned ; al{,6f good quality , f They, were m better quality than of late, and realised 3,3 the lb". Well-faltcdlong-vvoolled wethers brought from ISj to 25a each. Stcond quality from 14% Pigs weie agaiu penned m large uurnbsrs, aad, althoiigly ofgoodiquality, mebwitli a dull sale, and a down ward 'tendency of prices. No. fat calves offered.- Averages were — 16 steers, W■ S Clark, £11 5s ; 19 steers, J Hob.artson, £10 ; 44 head mixed sexes, JSbdrfc, £7 ss ; ; 17 steers, J Waton, £10 89 j 8 afcaera; J .Macdonald, tQ 15i ; 30 head, J Harper, £5 1 2a, Gil'; 99^ wether*, CStacey, 1731Li.j 119 wethers, Macnicol, 163 91; 153: ewes,', W J Hurst, 19s 9d ; 32".vvbthers, D Thomson, 13a 6d each.