COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1468, 30 September 1885, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

The Sydney Sloi-nc Market*

Tho export of horses to Sydney is fasfc : becoming' a': most important branch of New Zpaland trade, and m view of this fact it is satisfactory to learn that ' the market is m a very healthy condition.' In the last, Town 1 awl Country rJoumalfo hand, dated 12th September, we find the folio win!? m reference to sales by' William Ingles and Co., the well-known Sydney salesmen :---" Their entries comprised 60 stallions and 150 draught mares from the principal studs m New Zealand, Victoria, and New South South Wales, and although the number catalogued for sale during the show week exceeded that of any previous year they succeeded, m selling nearly the whole ;of the stock placed m their hands at very satisfactory prices, and the detailed particulars hereafter given sboyv a higher average than. - was ever obtained during the corresponding season m any past year." The following quotations for New Zealand horses are given :— On apcount of various shippers from New Zealand— (s6 marei-tvith pedigree, from 34gs to 42gs ; also 44 fillies, 2 and 3 years, from pedigree stock, from 25gs to 38gs— -making; a. total of 120 mares. At the Bazaar, . on account ot Messrs M'Grath, Peet, Vale, M'Ke»dry. and Knowles, of New Zealand^ ©x; Hauroto, Tekapo, and.Triumph, 30 heavydraught geldings, from £30 to £sft ?25 medium draught sto6k, from '•£& 15s^o. £24 10s ; also, ex same yeseofe,-. at the. Gamperdown yards, on aceotwiß of Messrs? Hegarty, Hawkins, M^Kendry, •Seet^ Thomson, M'Grath, and Vale, 26 draught colts and fillies, , from £28tO: £50 ; 2ft light to medium draught do, from £19» to £26. ; -