COMMERCIAL [RETUER'S TELEGRAMS.] LONDON COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2204, 24 August 1886, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

[RETUER'S TELEGRAMS.] LONDON COMMERCIAL NEWS.

JFaikato Times Office, Monday. WAIKViO MAUKEI'S. Mkssks Ai.nuci) IircMAND & Co. vepoil : - On Saturday last, .it Cambridge, thme «w ,m unusually laigo s.ilu of produce ; thu attendance I>eing largo, arid good l>rnvs wimp icili-L'd throughout. Fowls, Is to 1* Gil ; turkeys, 2s to 3s : bacon. 7d per lh ; onions, 13 ',d | km- lb ; potatoes, Gs to Ss (id n'oi" bta tm ontinfc, aud up to 10s tfd: for lap " stone kidney and other sorts for heed ; clwitf, t"l 7« tid pur ton; oatn, 3s fid per bushel. At the cattle sale theie was a lai «c attendance and the yaids were well tilled, and all sold at good prices. Only one dan y cow sold at £4. Fiesh empty cows from t2 Gs to K2 12s tkl; H-year hrtifefrK, £1 15s; H-vear steei*, -t'2 K>- : I'lupty stoi<> cow^ tf 10^; and cahe-, 10.4 each. Vt Mr Isaacs' sale thore was i\ \ery large attendance,, and good prices weie realised, considei ing the condition the hoises \\.«rr in. Waggons sold low ; lmrness at full \iihic. A number of other horse*? weie placed .it good prices. Draughts at and up to £21 l.">s ; light dniughts at tIL ; good hacks, Ul7 and £22 10s ; good ordinal y riding at £10, and other hoitb froni.iltoii.. At ()h.iui>o on Tuesday we had an unusually small sale, and prices in favour of »"y^> Empty cows, almost beef, £3 7s Od ; JJ year steers, from £2 10s to £3 12s ; bd to £1 10d ; smalhsteers, fat, at £4 12s Od^; Jat .steers, £Gss ; fat cows, from £1 to io os ; No sheep offered. At Waitoa, on rhuvsd.iy, there was a good attendance of buyers, and firm prices realised, but the cattle from the Whakatane Cattle Company were of exceptionally good quality, being the best lot of young stock e\'er yarded in Waikato, and sold well worth the money. Prices were— for steers calves from £2 2s 0d to £2 10s ; heifer calves, in one lot, at £1 IDs ; empty cows, at 255 ; aud spayed hoifeis, at £2 4s ; grown steers, from £3 13s Gd to £4 2s Gd, and well worth the money. Sold a pen of steers off turnips at £.">, another at £4 15s ; pen of cows,. £3 5s ; and one at £32s Gd. 80 wethers, at 10s Gd ; !)0, at 11s Gd. No horses offered. At Cambridge on Saturday, in conßequence of the produce sale following on preceding' sale, we had only a small sale. Prices were —for Lapstone kidney seed potatoes, 5s the cwt. ; Magnum Bonum, at Ss Gd per bag ; Hobartown potatoes, 8s per bag ; chaff,' at £4 10s per ton ; and o cwt. dairy fed bacon at7'iperlb. No fowls sold. Feed oats 3s, Id per bushel, and seed oats same price.

London, Ausust 20.— Consols remain at 10l£.— New Zealand securities remain at' last quotations, namely, five per cent 10-40 loan, 103', ; four and a- half per cent., 99 ; four per cent., inscribed stock, 99. There ha.s bci-n a laige withdrawal of gold (£300,000) from the Bank of England for America.— Colonial breadstuffs have experienced a further advance. Adelaide wheat, ex store, i& Gd higher, viz., 37*; Adelaide flour has advanced 6d, 2os Gd ; New Zealand, wheat, ex store, ranges from 28s to 33s (id, being a shilling higher fo* best qualities.— The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom i.s 1,700,000 quarters, being 50,000 quarters less "than last week. — New Zealand mutton :' Prime quality has declined to 4^d to 4|d per lb. — Australian tallow is unchanged^ Beef,, average quality, 21s Gd ; mutton, 275. London, August 21.— The unfavourable harvest reports which have been received have caused a further advance to Gd in the wheat market. American prices are ■ stn >nger despite the libci al supplies. Flour is Gd dearer.— The English hop harvests are promising.