COMMERCIAL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3661, 9 April 1883, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

MR, MON KEITH'S AVEEKLY REPORT.' Horses.—At tho Horse Bazaar on Saturday. 31 he-id of horses were catalogued* comprising medium draughts, medium light harness sorts aud hacks. There arc- some inqr'ries for active mcd ; urn draught suitable for ploughing, and good %-ht hai.iess horses, and sound useful lux-ks have improved considerably in deniand during the last month, and se 1 . 1 . readily at fa-; prices. I quote heavy cl'-ajights, £40 to £45; medium do, €25, t0,£30; Mght harness, £15 to £20 ; useful hacks, £10 to £15 ; light do.* £5 to £.8,

Produce.—Oats, 2s 9d ; wheat (miV-'ng), 4s Gd : chickfoed do, 3s; feed barley, 3s■;. bran (seance), •£! 10s per ton; potatoes. £3 per ton, rye grass seedy 3s to 4s, ucco>jctiu<<to sample; onions, 1\ jjer lb. °

[By Cable.]

Lewises?, April 5. Consols remain at 102J.. The bank rate of cont-'nues at 3. per cent, and the __arket rat 2 has to 2g. The total reserve iv notes and buPion iv the D.i.nk of England is .-£11,200,000; a reduction, of £1,300,000 during the w<..k. The proportion of reserve to liab:"'tle*fe. 31 per cent. ' New Zealand securities rennr _.- at last quotations. The market for colonial Tn - c_tfelufls continues dr l ! at the following i^i'C-'s:—Ade-laide wheat, ex-warehoi^-0,. 50s;. Now Zealand wheat, ex-warehouse, 45s to 495; Adelaide flour, ox-warehouse, 345.

Australian tallow is fr.m at last quotations, best beef reak'siug 42s Gd, and best mutton 44s Od,

The market for Australian bvles ls dr. 1 !. Melbourne, Swtusday. Messrs, 0. S. Ross and Co., of this city, report the sale of a cargo of kauri p-'io ex Jules Mary at the following average pi Ices : —Per 100 feet, super: Hona logs 13s 9d,. and sawn flit-lies Ms 3d. The market ha.s. a downward tendency.