COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2723, 31 January 1910, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

HORSE SALES

Messrs Williams and lvettlc yarded about 40 horses at their weekly horse sale on Saturday morning. There was a fair attendance, but bidding was anything but brisk. The prices realised were: Hacks, from £3 to £lO _2s 6d, harness horses from £5 to £l2 ss. Seven bags of wool were also sold, under instructions from the bailiff. Spirited bidding took placo, the lot being knocked down for £5 2s 6d.

PRODUCE SALES

Messrs F. S. Malcolm and 'Co. report : Ducks Is Gel to 2s 2d, pullets 8d to .Is, fowls Is 6d to 2s, roosters 2s : to 2s 4d, eggs Is 4d to Is 8d doz., plums Id to 2dib, greengages lid lb, peaches (Frimley) 4s 6d case, local 3d lb, apples 1-kl and 2d lb, potatoes Id to lid, rhubarb 3s doz., maize 3s 3d bushel, feed oats 2s scl bushel, dressed oats (white dun) 2s 7d bushel, butter lOd lb, pears Id to 2d lb, small vegetables at usual prices. Messrs Miller and Craig report the following prices realised at their mart on Saturday: Hens Is 10c! to 2s 3d, roosters Is od to 2s 3d. chickens 9d to lid, ducks Is 9d to 2s lid, maize 14s sack, potatoes lid lb, onions Ikl lb, ap--les 1-Jd to 2d lb, eggs Is 7d doz., cucumbers 6d doz., butter lOd lb, honey 4d lb., cabbages 2s sack, rhubarb.6d bundle.

PROPERTY SALES

Messrs J. Peckover and Co. report the sale of house properties in Ormond Road, McLean Street. Palmerston Road, Stanley Road, and ,ut> superior built villa and sections of Mrs. J. F. Fisher, Derby Street.

WOOL AND MEAT

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., received the following cablegram from their London office on Saturday: Wool—Market active for crossbred ; slightly lower prices for medium and coarse greasy; merino, strong fine, dearer. Meat —Market glutted with mutton; steady for lamb; slightly better for beef.

A LARGE DAIRY PRODUCE SHIPMENT.

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WELLINGTON, Jan. 30

The Shaw, Savill liner Corinthic, which left for London yesterday, had on board no less than 42,985 boxes of tbutter and 8609 crate.? of cheese. The .shipment was made up as follows: New Plymouth, 11,405 boxes butter, 3136 crates cheese; Patea, 3650 boxes butter, 600 crates cheese; Wellington, 11,131 boxes butter, 4579 crates cheese; Auckland, 16,809 boxes butter, 294 crates cheese.

PRODUCE MARKET

CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 29. Harvest work is still claiming the full attention of farmers throughout the province. It is not surprising that the amount of grain placed on the market so far has been within very narrow limits. ‘Offerings have been confined) to a few lines of wheat and Algerian oats. Scarcely any white oats have yet been on sale. The samples offered during the week have, on the whole, been of a very satisfactory class, although, m some, instances, the grain is very slightly the.result of unfavorable weather conditions during the ripening process, bines last report sales of new season’s grain have "been made up to 3s 9d per bushel on trucks at country stations, but sales at this price have been the exception, not the rule, current prices being 3s 7d to 3s Bd. It is expected tliat the wheat crop will, on the whole, prove rather more satisfactory than oats, but the returns will, in most cases, be below what was anticipated a couple of months ago, when everything pointed to phenomena] yields. With the exception of Algerian oats the market is practically bare, lines placed during last few dare having been exceptionally small. At present there are no miffing oats on the market. Reports continue to come to hand to the effect that the crops thrashed up to the present are turning out unsatisfactory, the returns being much below the estimates. Fair business is being done in potatoes for ship r ment northwards. Generally speaking crops are satisfactory, and up to the present there is no blight. Owing to the scarcity the price of fresh eggs has advanced to Is 2d per dozen.

THE WOOL MARKET

United Press .Association —CorYiticin LONDON, Jan. 23.. The wool market is spirited. Today's sale was one of the best of the scries.

FROZEN MEAT MARKET

(Received Jan. 30, 5 p.m.) LONDON. Jan. 29. North Island sheep 3 l-16d; the rest unchanged. t Lambs, Canterbury light 4t)d; others unchanged. Beef, forequarters 2Jd, hindquarters 3£d. . ' Australian sheep, heavy light 3 3-16 d. , „ . Lambs, best brands' 3 13-16 d, fair quality 3§d, inferior quality 3 7-16 d. Beef, forequarters 2£d, hindquarters 3d. River Plate sheep, heavy 3 7-16 d, light 3id. Beef, forequarters 2 /-16 d, hindquarters 3}d.