COMMERCIAL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3213, 17 October 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs H. Monteith and Co.'s auction sale of horaes, &c, at the Bazaar on faturday •was -well attended. There were 23 horses of various descriptions catalogued, and notwithstanding the number of horse sales held recently, they realised fair values. The classes most in demand at present are good upstanding haclcs and light harness horaes, several buyers for these elanses having to ]pave the yard nnouited. Prices \mchnnged from last quotations. We also disposed of the race mare Prim for 50 guineas.

Messrs Hoadley and Lyon report a large attendance at their cattle sale on Friday at Hastings. 99 hear! of cattle and ehcap were yarded and everything with the exception of a few pens of poor condition steers pn» ed thp hammer, at the following pri Pe3 ;—Yearline steers, £2 5s to £1 15s : do. heifer?, jG2 10s to *'3 5?; 2-vm)r-old alters, from £4 to £6 10f» accord inp tr> qualify and condition ; dairy cow<>, from £6 tv £H 3» ; one -well-bred * tmll, £13 10. ffhe-o. — An inferior mixed lot of nurinos p<, 4»] i»:i.oh. At■ thfir annual sale on the *. n , r l p cj onl * n f v v (jriundfl in the afternoon th-v lOhfad of fat- show bullor-lte at £\] >n PT> oanh. The wpll-linown prize liH"k Wnrri»r wa« Tcnocked down for 38 „,,;,-,,„.,„ , 2 Patriarch yparline; fillips renlispd 11 n>v' 15 guinea* pach : one mare find f<ml fl'S 9-t. A very lnreo number of the. public •jn/»n werp nttmotod when the , Clydpedales arid "c.!]oroii»hV.rp.d racins ptopk wero offered, but none reaohine the owners' reserves they were passed in to be disposed of by private treaty.

fBT CABLB ] London, October 14.

Consols have advanced to 99,

New Zealand five per cents have suffered a dpcline of throe-quarter per cent, and are to-day quoted at 100f for 10-40 loan, and 103| for 1889 loan ; four and a half per cent 1879-1904 loan remains at 98|.

Tho market for colonial breadstuffs is unchanged. Adelaide wheat, ex-store, 57s ; New Zealand ditto, 55 ; Adelaide flour, exstore, 425. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,960,000 quarters. 'Vustralian tallow, best beef 41s 6d, and best, mu+ton 455.

A fair demand exists for most descriptions of hides.