COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1119, 5 December 1883, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Fbhj>ing, Saturday'. '' r? * < r i Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill their monthly horse sale on Saturday last, and report as follows >'-^Th« attendance was fair, but the : biddinc doll. Hacks were not in gi'eat'deintod; but. a few sold ?t fair prices. Several medium draughts were quitted atlfrom £10 10s to £22 10s.

From thb N. Z. Tncw. A dull week's business is reported, *» also one or two small failures in th» country districts* There has; bsen an entire absence of anything like* speculation in the business done. A tew fair-sized parce's of Queensland; jSugart have changed hands at prices II shad* below those of the Sydney and Victoria quotations. We quote nominally i!4l, iJ37, aud £34 for IW>{l6 ft and 0 qualities respectively. We ucd^Uad toat f. cargo of Fiji sugar is expected to arrive at a Southern port, ifntS that several more cargoes are likely ta follow. It is generally agreed; that th« prices of v sugar must come* lower ooa* aide'ririg^the prudtictioa vaud cpnipetitiba of . Mauritius, Quei;^»i}d./ and the uifferent rtfinwieii. >; lt i> akserted that Vlau»itiuß whites.&> e not to be compared with those of^QueeMlmd for valae, and the introductipu of sugars from Queens* *land linyj ojthex market has compelled the Victorian Sugiur Opmpanj to reduce their X)u9|a|ioiu by 20t per