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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2647, 1 November 1909, Page 5

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PRODUCE SALES. The following prices ruled at Messrs F. S. Malcolm and Co.’s produce sale on Saturday:—Chickens 7d, roosters 2:> to 4s Gd, ducks 2s to 3s, eggs lOd and lid per doz, dairy butter 9d per lb, new potatoes 3d per lb, Derwents 11s per sack, onions 2d per lb, and small vegetables as usual. Messrs Miller and Craig’s prices were as follows: —Ducks Is Sd to 2s, bens Is 7d to 2s, roosters 2s to 2s 6d, potatoes 7s 6d sack, rhubarb Gd bundle, peas Is lOd peck, new potatoes 3d lb, leeks 2d bundle, butter 6d to lOd lb, eggs 10d to lid doz, honey 4d lb, carrots 3s sack. PICTURE SALE. Messrs Malcolm and Co.’s sale of pictures was not up to expectations, only about half of the remaining lots being sold at moderate prices. The balance will be sold privately. The pledge sale on behalf of Mr. G. Smith was successfully carried out. HORSE SALE. There was a good attendance at Messrs Williams and Kettle’s weekly horse sale on Saturday morning. About 120 horses were offered, but the bidding was not brisk. A line of draughts, sold on behalf of Mr. T. Fraser, of Pouawa, brought from £lO os to £22 10s.- A number of racehorses were put up, but most of them passed in. Sir Benson by Seaton, was sold to Mr. J. Hackett for £l3 13s, and Rewarewa was disposed of to Mr. Dickenson for 40 o-uineas. The following were passed in: Jet de More at 23 guineas, Shy Ann at 20 guineas, Eiya at 100 guineas (the only bid), Te Kainui no bid, The Squatter 40 guineas, Te Uku no hid, Te Raliui 25 guineas, _ unbroken gelding by San Remo, 14 guineas. A sale of hacks and harness horses followed, and met with a fair demand, the prices realised being: Hacks from 10s to £25, harness horses from £3 to £l7. FROZEN MEAT, The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., are in receipt of tlie following cablegram from their London office: —“Moderate demand for mutton, market weaker ioi lamb, improved for beef.” THE SKINS MARKET. rPnu Pnicss Association.! NAPIER. October 30 Messrs Dalgety and Co., London, cabled to their Napier branch yesterday : Prices are lower by |d to id toi crossbred 'fine- combing skins, M tor crossbred medium, §d for crossbied merino combing skins, par to 40 for coarse, Jd to fd for clothing skins.