Commercial.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3037, 21 March 1881, Page 2

Commercial.

Mr W. Rontledge reports —At the sale I held at Hastings on Saturday the attendance was good and the competition was spirited for every animal except Mr Canning's draught horses, the reserve price on them being considered by buyere too high. The ■folio " T ' n ? prices were realised foV Mr R. Farmer's 2 - Year -° ld s:—Kiacraig, Captain Russell, £85 ; W £<*««». P«ip*« n R_«ell £80 ; bnf The Squire, Mr A. M'Donald, £70 ; uW gelding, The Laird, Mr M'Donald, Taradale, £70 ; brown filly, Sydney, £140, Captain Russell. The hacks of which 20 passed the hammer were sold at from £7 to £15 per head. Two of Mr Shield'B draught mares were sold at _._» H. Monteith and &c. report— TrtPw wm 44 horses submitted to auction at SS w ekly £** <* the , H «. Ba " Saturday. The v ™«f classes - f "J j -vi. i. r I,*, t, ''cks, were well repredraught, to light hu > , attendance sented, and there being m of buyers fair prices ™ , te from former have no change in prices to no. quotations.

(By Cable.) Londow, March 18. ' Consols have advanced to IOOf. Adelaide wheat, ex-warehouse, 50s. Tne total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,190,000 quarters. New Zealand wheat, ex-ship, 365; Adelaide flour, exwarehouse 345. Australian tallow, best beef 33s and best mutton 365.

The four and half per cent. New Zealand 1879-1904 loan is quoted at 97J. Rpst Scotch pig iron, No. 1, free on board in Clyde, 495.