COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2295, 14 September 1908, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

PRODUCE MARKETS

Messrs F. (S. Malcolm and Co., auctioneers, Teport the following prices realised at their produce sales on Saturday: —Fowls 2s to 2s 5(1, cockerels Is 9d to 2s 3d, roosters 2s 3d to 2s 6d, eggs lOd to Is, butter 16 and Is 111, potatoes Id lb, £7 10s per ton, onions 2d per lb, 16s per cwt, cauliflowers Is 6d to 6s 6(1 per doz, pumpkins 4s per doz, marrows 2s per doz. Ten shares in the Poverty Bay Co-operative Supply Association brought 15s per share. Messrs Miller and Craig Teport the following prices realised at their produce sales on Saturday : —Roosters Is lOd to 3s 6d. hens Is. lid to 2s Bd, guinea fowl 2s 4d, eggs.lOd to Is, butter Is to Is 2d, honey 4d lb, onions lid lb, carrots 2s 6d doz bundles, cauliflowers 2s 6d to 12s doz, cabbage- plants 6d bundle, lettuce Is 4d doz, potatoes 10s 6d to 12s sack, pumpkins 6s 6d doz, cabbages 3s 3d doz, oranges 7s 6d and 6s case, lemons 3s to 5s 9d case, bananas 4s 9d oise, apples-9s 6d to 10s 6d case, bacon (rolled) 8d lb. One four-year-old horse realised £5 10s. Furniture and sundries sold at satisfactory prices. HORSE SALE. Messrs Williams and Kettle, Ltd., yarded about- twenty horses of various sorts at their weekly sale on Saturday. There was a good demand for hacks, and competition was keen. Poorer sorts brought from £5 to £7, medium hacks from £7 to £9, and bettor sorts sold to £l2. 15s. The stallion Sabretacho was passed in at 30 guineas, and the hack racer Never Mind failed to elicit a bid.

The New Zealand Lean and Alercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report on. Alatawliero stock sale he'd Thua day 10th inst: The weather was good and die >-t----tendance rather better then for the previous few sales. The demand for useful lines of stock seemed also better and altogether tee sale pissed off with greater spirit. ~ Sheep.—We yarded 1503 and sold 806. For the most part passed in lines represented ewes and lambs of rather inferior finality of which there was an over-supply .for the market. Hoggets were in brisk demand, and any’Tines of wethers entered weie eagerly competed for. The following are the day’s quotations. —ITv eves. 4-tooth, 12s 3tl, ewes and 'crabs low quality 10s 7d, cotter lines 1 Gs,. fj>t ewes, 'light weights, '3s, letter flinched sheep 14s to 15s, wethers small 13s 'kl, good lines 15s 3d, hoggets, culls B.s Bd, average lines 11s to 12s Sd, whilst- one small lot of very nice hoggets made 13s 2d. Cattle were a poor entry,-, the quality being sadly deficient. Steers were conspicuous by their absence. There was •considerable enquiry for this class of cattle and we would strongly recommend consignments at our ensuing sales. Of 97 yarded we disposed of 65 at following prices: Calves 25s to 30s according to size and quality, herd cows 22s 6d to 37s 6d, these are a drug in the market, cows and calves £2 10s to £2 13s, yearling heifers 34s 6d, springing dairy heifers £5 to £5 10s, 18-months steers in low condition £2 17s 6d, better sorts £3 -7s 6d.

Pigs.—We yarded 26 and sold -all under fair competition. Kill able sorts made from 24s Od to 30s, whilst store pigs realised from 12s t 0 18s.

WOOL. In the annual review of the Australasian wool markets, Messrs Dalgety and Co. point out somo of the advantages of colonial wool-selling. They show that the freight direct to Bradford, the Continent or Boston is less than if the wool is eent via London. If at any time there is n temporary slackness in demand, selling-brokers, who are in daily touch with growers, can meet .tho situation by withdrawing any lots that are not well bid for and it is considered that the colonial wool sales will continue to grow" at the expense of London. Out of the 2,057,831 bales of wool produced in Australasia last season, no less than 1,352,121 bales were sold locally. In New Zealand a smaller proportion of tho total_ clip is sold locally than in 'Australia, for out of 436,911 bales produced last year, only 132,349 bales were disposed of at local sales, a decrease of 48,358 bale 6on the previous year. Tho deereasc was due to withdrawals when the market collapsed, and in view of the experience gained, there will, no doubt, bo a considerable increase in loca) sales jn the coming season.