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New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 158, 12 May 1876, Page 5

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Mr. Henry Driver, on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, reports as follows for the weekending May 10, 1876:— ° Fat Cattle.— A full supply of 195 head came forward to the market to day, the greater portion being cows, and the prices realised were about the same as last week. Best pens of bullocks, for which there was a rather keen competition, brought £11 to £13 10s each ; ditto cows, £10 to £12 10s— or equal to 35s per 1001 b. for pritno quality. Fat Calves. — Only a few penned, which sold at 35s to 75a each. Fat Sheep.— 2,ooo were penned, a large proportion being of only medium quality. Best cross breds sold at lls bd to 14s ; i itto°merino9 7s 6d to 9-s (Jd— or equal to 3d per lb for former, and 2Ad per lb for latter. ~ L Store Citlle. — Quotations remain unaltered. Store Sheep.— No nlterntion to note in this description of stock. There is an inquiry for young merino ewes and wethers, with few offering. Wool. — Cable advices are stil! interrupted, but mail advices witb account of sales, both via 'Frisco and Suez, are to hand, which fully confirm previous cablegrams as to the extent of the fall in prices of wool at the first series of the London wool sales of 1876. Intelligence of the close of the second series is now anxiously looked for. At our weekly auction this afternoon we sold a few lots, average quality of merino greasy bringing Bid per lb. Sheepskins were well competed for, and brought very full rates. Butchers' cross-breds, 2s 3d to 2s Sd ; mixed, Is lOi ; lambs, 2* to 2s 3d ; full-wool merinos, 4s Bd. Hides were in improved demand, and bi ought advanced rates. Green butchers', 20s to 22s 3d ; wet-salted mediuir, 19s to 20s Gd. Tallow. -A few small paicels good country rendered brought 27s 6d to 29s 6d. B Grain. — Wheat is in good request. Good to superior milling, 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; inferior, ds 3d to 4s 5d ; fowls' wheat, 3s lOd to to 4a. Oats are in improved demand, especially blight feed, in shipping parcels, bringing Is lOd to la lid ; discoloured and inferior, Is 8J to Is 9§d. Barley — Malting, any but the finest soi ts are difficult to move at quotations ; for prime, 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; medium, 4s to 4i 3d ; milling qualities, 2a 6d to 3s (Jd. At above quotations we soid at public sale several parcels of wheat and oats this afternoon. Mr. Skens reports for the week ending May 10, 1876, as follows : There is a considerable improvement ia the deiutmd for servants in all departments. But ploughmen and country people hove to submit to a reduction in wages, owing to thenuseiublepiii-o of oats. Town business :s: s improving. Storcmeu and clerks are more enquired sifter. The building trade is slacking offfo- the Winter. Couples are asked for. Female servants short of demand. Wages : Shepherds, £60 and £65 • ploughmen, £52 and £60; couples, X7O and £75 ; day labor, 8s and 9s ; dairy people, 15s and 20s ; house girls, Wa to 15s ; hotel ditto, 15s to 303 ; storemen, 36s to COs ; boys and girls,"_6s to 10j ; cooks waiters, &c, 35s to 60a.