COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2222, 28 October 1907, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

HORSE SALE. - There was a good attendance and fair competition at tho horse sale held in tho Love-street Horse Bazaar on Saturday. The racehorse slelton Hall was sold to Mr. H. Denton for £35, and the carriage stallion Tommy Atkins was sold to Mr. E. F. Grey for £9O. The bulk of the main entry was composed of light harness horses, which sold at good prices. Following are some of the best prices, realised:—Chestnut gelding, good in harness, £10; brown gelding, 2 ytl.irs, broken, £ls; bay gelding, 2 years, broken, £ls 10s; bay hack mare, 3 years, £l2; brown gelding, 4 .years', unbroken’ £l4; roan mare, 5 years, broken, £l4 ss; bay mare, broken, £ls; roan filly by Loch Lomond, £l7; hay gelding. G years, £18; bay hack gelding, £l4 ss; brown gelding, good hack, £2l rlOs; buy gelding £ls; bay gelding. 3 years, unbroken, £39; hack, £2l 10s.

.-Messrs. Miller and Craig report the following prices at their produce sale on Saturday: —Green peas 2s 3d peck, new potatoes 3Jd fb,' table potatoes 17s (id sack, rhubarb 8d hello, walnuts 41 d lb, cabbage 3s 9d doz carrots 2s Gd, cauliflowers 12s doz’ kumoras lid ,Ib, onions 2d lb, radish 24d bdle, lettuce 4d bdle, swedes 7s Cd eack, asparagus 5d and Gd, butter 10d and Is, eggs Is broods of Wyandotte chicks 7s Gel to 9s Gd, pure-bred Wyandotte rooster 7s Gd white Wyandotte 4s Gd each, brown Leghorns 2s Gd, black Orpingtons os to /s Gd, ducks 2s Gd each, table 'fowls 2s to ,2s Gd, hen and ducklings 13s. During the afternoon a great deal of furniture was sold at satisfactory prices. The revenue collected at the port last week was as follows:—Customs duties £327 15s lOd, beer duty £3O lcs Gd, light dates £5 os 2d, shipping fees £lO 2:, 4d. Harbor Board revenue £2l 12s 3d; total, £395 13s Id. I’ress Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 27. .Local cable advice from London states th.it butter ex Athenic lias been sold at- 1245.