COMMERCIAL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4169, 1 December 1884, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Monteith and Co. report a good attendance at their sale of-horses on Friday. Tho catalogue comprised 57 head, a large proportion of which wero much better animals than "are usually yarded for sale by miction, with the result that competition was brisk for. the superior lots. The following prices were realised: —1 superior weightcarrying hack, 50 guineas; 1 well-bred mare, £31 ;■ 1 good weight-carrying hack, £25;' 1 dodo, £20 ; useful backs, £12 to £18; useful light harness sorts, £12 to £20; meJium.draughts, £17 to £27. Ponies averaged £12 10s eaoh; light and ordinary hacks; £5 to £10. . At their usual weekly sale at tho Horse Bazaar,.Napier, on Saturday 22 horses were entored, comprising several good sorts, which were sold at satisfactory figures, scrubbers, as usual, being hard to quit. Useful light harness horses fetched to £16 ; medium backs up to £10 ; light and seedy do, £4 to £7.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Reuters Teleohams.) (Received November 29th, 3 p.m.) London, November 28. Consols remain at 100§. New Zealand securities,- colonial breadstuffs, and tallow are unchanged. ' The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,8-10,000 quarters. ' New Zealand mutton, prime quality, has declined to s_d per pound. Australian loather, best sides, is quoted ati-i'd. ■ TT _ . ' The wool sales cloj-e to-morrow. Up to date 140,000 bales have boon, sold and 10,000 held over for the next auctions. All descriptions of fine and finest wools close with prices -firmly maintained, ■_ but all descriptions -of faulty and inferior wools and scoured wools are halfpenny lower than at tho close of the September sales.