Commerical.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 January 1911, Page 3

Commerical.

LEVIN AUCTIONEERING CO. The, Levin Auctioneering Company report baring held' successful sales on Saturday. At their yards they ottered Mr W. Johnson's dairy cattle and excellent priccs were realised The top prieo for cows was £9 ss, others making £7 17s 6d, £7 15s, and £5 10s. A line of 15-month heifers made! £3 15s each, and a bull £2 10s; At tho Central Mart, the firm hold a sale of. furniture, fruilt and sundries, and effected a clearance at satisfactory prices. Fruit sold particularly well. Quotations: Plums, 2s lOd, 3s 3d, 3s Gd> to 3s 9d ; apricots ss; apples, 2s 3d, all for half-cases; grapes lOd per lb; strawberries, Is ■per lb; potatoes, 5s 9d per ctrt. Furniture and sundries met with a. ready sale. Further consignments of fruit are and will he sold, as they arrive.

A rink of bowlers is coming across from Foxton next week to play a match for the Manawatu Ferns against the presenlb holders (Levin). Aii attempt to regain them will ho made by the original holders (Terrace End, Palmerston) some time early in February. Thomas Hu-mber, founder of Humbe rs, Limited, cycle and motor manufacturers, has died at Kingston on Hhaines, in ibis seventieth year. His life constitutes a. romance of trade and invention. Ho 'began his career as a mechanic, and, applying practical knowledge to inventive genius, he evolved the first .dumber cycle from the velocipede, and laid ithe foundation for the vast cycle industry of the present day.