COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2259, 3 August 1908, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

HORSE SALES. Messrs AAMlliams and Kettle, Ltd., yarded about 20 hacks and Harness horses at their weekly sa'e on Saturday. Hacks sold from £5 to £l2, and two t'lirec-year-old fillies brought £23. CUSTOMS DUTIES. The following were the Customs duties collected in Gisborne during. July:—Spirits £1995 6s. cigars £IBB 2s Gd, tobacco £421 Us 6d, wine £152 15s 6(1, beer £39 4s; total £3490 6s 4d. Ollier receipts £594 9s 6d. The exports were : Beef 6142ewt, valued at £6564: mutton, 12,734 cwt. valued at £16,359; lamb,. 2032 cwt, valued at £3671: hides, 346, valued at £387 ; skins, _3245d0z, valued at £1395 ’ ’ tolls, valued nt ' PRODUCE MARKETS. F. S. Malcolm and Co. report a. large attendance of buvers at their produce-sales on Saturday last. Prices were as follows:—Roosters Is 6d to 2s 9d, liens Is 5d to 2s 3d, ducks 2s, eggs Is 6d, butter Is. onions (very few offering) 2d lb, table ■ potatoes (Derwents and Up-to-Date) 7s 6d ewt Id lb (in small ouantitios), seed potatoes 8s 6d ewt. A shrub and fruit tree.sale followed, and all the lot offered found buvers.

Onited Press Association. Copyright LONDON, July 31. At tho sheepskin sales 7269 bundles were offered, and 5371 Australasian sold. There was a good attendance, and active competition for merino.?, fine grades, full-woolled. Compared with the June sales, merino combings and fine crossbred combings were Id per lb dearer. All other qualities "'ere par to $d cheaper. 'The next saies will be held on September 10. Af the wooil auctions there was an animated sale. Prices are very firm.