Commercial.
M. E. Miller and Potts report having held their usual monthly sale at Waipawa yesterday, and considering the scarcity of feed the stock sold well. There were 75 head of cattle yarded, mostly of an inferior class, which were all disposed of at satisfactory prices. In horses there were some very good draughts brought forward, also a few inferior hacks, but the sale for this class of stock was very dull. There were also a superior lot of Cochin China fowls, which being really first-class birds were nearly all disposed of. Cattle : Cows brought from £3 to £5, two-year-old steers from £3 10s to £4 7s 6d, yearlings to eighteen months old from £2 to £3 ss, weaners 25s to 355, eightteen to two-year-old heifers £2 15s to £3. Horses : Draughts ranged from £15 to £25 ; the hacks were of an inferior class, and were unsaleable. Fowls; 25 sold at from 4s to 20a each,
(By Cable.) London, May 25. Consols remain at 102f. New Zealand five per cent 10-40 loan, 105 ; New Zealand five per cent 1880 loan, 104 j "New Zealand four and a half per cent. 1879-1404 loan, 102£. Adelaide wheat, ex-warehouse, 48s ; Now Zealand wheat, 445. Adelaide flouv, 33s 6d. Australian tallow, best beef 34s 6d, and best mntton 36s 6d.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3093, 27 May 1881, Page 2
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216Commercial. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3093, 27 May 1881, Page 2
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