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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 374, 25 March 1902, Page 1

At Messrs McNicol and Co.’s autumn horse sale at Cambridge there was a fair number of outside buyers present, but the attendance of spectators and local farmers was not very large. Unbroken horses were not well represented, and the bidding was slack, most of the young horses being passed. Good hacks were in demand, one sold by Mr C. J. Storey to a local buyer making £4O, and anything good and young readily brought up to £3O. Draughts were far short of the spring sales, but good young horses, fit for town work, sold up to about £4O. Owners, however, refused to accept buyers’ values in a number of cases. As usual, at the autumn sales, the class of horses nre below the average for other seasons of the year, and a quantity of scrubbers were sold at any price. Rev. Dutton, chaplain of the “ Ninth.” has shaved off his beard. He feared that , it would otherwise “be mistaken for a wU'tG flag.” .