Saturday's Sale.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 250, 24 September 1883, Page 2

Saturday's Sale.

Messrs Stevens and. Gorton's Saturday sales are. beginning to; ; attract the,. . attention of the pnolic to a marked ezteric. The firm did not expect ta# make a hit" right off, but s. were prepared to i wait their turn. The:firat one or, two sales were not exactly.. successful, but ii was determined to give the: new idea ai fair .trial. Last Saturday was. a great improvement on its predecessors, and.* large number of lines m drapery, andf other merchandise werejfquitted at fair— ; ly; satisfactory prices. . No doubt, now /' when fairly inaugurated^ weekjby. week,;, a jfre^ter amount of success; will fos acs?. I corded the firm m its new undertaking^ aad judging by last Saturday k-resulUs, there is ample room for the. weekly auction.. .Hales recently inVugur«ted, which bid fair to become very popular, andjp be.,recoi;nized institutions inJhjß district. The business of 'the fiim tik < rapidly extending since Mr Laig^hAa. had matters under his own personal supervision, and the general v*»ddcfc of those who do business, either at lie periodical stock sales, is at the- Saturday . general sales, is one ifeotiresatisfac* tion. Those who attended on Saturday ' went away conVmoed that when an unreserved sale ia. announced the be fe: poaeible faitk is kept with the public, which feature uhvaiiablj tells oh thi long run. „, J >>