COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3593, 5 August 1912, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

HORSE SALE. About- 50 hacks and harness horses including light and heavy draughts wore offered at Messrs Y\ illiams and Kettle’s Horse Bazaar on Saturday. A very good sale resulted, the majority of the lots being sold. Hacks made from £3 15 s to £2O, and harness horses from £6 to £ls. A number of heavy horses, offered on account of Air C. Keenan, were disposed of at prices ranging from £l6 to £23. C USTOMS BE YE NU E. The Customs returns ln_st week amounted to £22-81, and this constituted a rreel'd for any one work. Thß amounts collected were: —Customs duties £2199 13s (£2125 6s lid), bee. dutv £3B IPs (£B7 8s), light dues £42 lls'lOd (£ls 7s 4d), shipping fees UK SATURDAY’S M AII NETS. Messrs. Malcolm and Co. report a reaclv sale for table poultry, big prices ruling. Hens and roosters made 2s to 3sn ducks 2s tc- 2s 3d. special roosters 5s each, eggs Is 4d drzen, best southern feed potatoes 9s 6.1 cwt, onions 12s Gd hag, prime table potatoes Ss Gd cwt, small vegetables Is Gd ch z, cabbages 2s to 5s doz, sides bacon Bu, rolls Sd Hi. Turkeys and good table fowls wanted in anv quantity tor next week’s sale. LONDON WOOL SALES.

Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agencv Co.. Ltd., and It educed are in receipt of the following cable from their London office : ‘As compared, with Last closing rates prices are about 5 oer cent, to 71 per cent, higher for medium greasv cross!; rod and fine greasy merino; about par to •> per cent, higher for scoured merino, greasv crossbred lambs and orcssbied slipe; about par to b per cent lower for scoured crossbred. Thirty thousand bales of wool were held over; 233,000 sold and sales; 72.000 for Continent. Sales closed wit-h good competition. 18,000 bales were taken for America. Averago current value Now Zealand wools:

Good Merino I3^d Medium do 11W Inferior do OJd Fine Crossbred L3d Medium do 10 Coarse do (10’s) Old Coarse do (36’s) Od

Market shows increased firmness f< r mutton. Jdnrket weaker for lamb. Market steadier for beef.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, Aug. 3. The High Commissioner’s earned market report, dated August 2. states: “The wool sales have closed ■with a good demand for all descrip-

tions. The sales have not been affected adversely on account of the continuation, of the strike. There is a goed demand for American, especially crossbreds in good condition. Tito trade is good for Homo and Continent, and prospects are favorable; 17,090 bales of New Zealand wools were held; over. The estimated value of •superior merino, is Is to Is 2d, medium 9£d to llld, inferior 74d to ,9d; fine crossbreds (all grades) Is to Is 2ld; medium c rossbreds 9-}d to Is, coarse crossbreds 8d to lid.”