WAIKATO LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2233, 30 October 1886, Page 2

WAIKATO LIVE STOCK MA RKETS.

Mjs^sbs Alfuep Buoklani)<x Co. report,— AE'Cainbiidge on Saturday last, we had a big attendance at our eleven o'clock sale, and did a lot of business in chaff and potatoes. Wo quote cliatf at from £2 10s to £."> per ton^ potatoes from £3 to £3 10> ; no poultry ottered. Small pi,'.-*, at Gs each. At the cattle sale, the yards were filled to excess, and all sold at fair values with thfc' exception <jf a fesv springing heifers, hardfy near enough profit. We sold 10 fat steers at £6 ss ; Gat £G 10s ; and G at £7 ; f,vt cows, £4 qs ; and small choice heifer-*, at £ff 5s ; 3 steers at €0 2s fid ; yearling steer*, £2 2s Od ; yearling heifers, £1 5* ; plain. ,2 yoar-old stoer<, at £2 !)s. llorwos : —Wo had a lot of choice hollos ottered, but mqfc.ftduU skle. The pair of roan mares fiotn Ohm<unuti were very choice, and attracted a dt?al of attention, were passed in ;vt t'23 each, the reserve be, ing £30 each. lUttier' mate was parsed at i'll 10s, the resen c beiiK £1~>; bay gelding by Nugget jKisscd at £2:5 .">&, the lescive benig £25. We --old M)inc good useful sorts at £11, £J4 -and ; aud lighter ones at from £8 t(?£td v , one good hack, £11. At Ohaupo, on Tuesday, we had the largest sale tor* a 'long time, 1020 head boing yarded, and almost all sold, fcattlo in neatly all inntancea reaching the sellers' valued. Prices wero not high, but considering beef prices j store*), made f,ull value. We quote 1 : Three-year-old steers from £3 for stores, to £4 Ss and £4 7s for same age, forward condition ; grown steers, at fiom £4 to £1 Kirf, according to quality ; nearly-beof steers, £5 15s ; eujpty cows, fresh, from £2 10s to £3 12s; cowa, nearly beef, at £4; two-year-old steers, at £2 10s to £3 12a Od, according to quality ; yearling steers at their value, but lowrt»thanof late t were of choice quality, although in some instances low in condition. Prices made were from £1 Us Od to £2 2s 6d, according to qu ility ; good two-year-old heifers, »t £2 to £2 14^ ; beef at fair v.Uue ; cow*, fraiii £4 to £."> 7* 6<l ; steers, £5 5s to £0. Sheep : We sold 100 wethers at 12s, and 300 at 11s 9d in the wool. At Morrin>\ille the yards were filled with stock, and neatly all sold at lower than Ohaupo prices, the majority going to Waikato. Wo shld privately during thr week 120 Lincoln ewes, in wool, lambs at siJo, at £1 10s each.