EAST STREET HORSE MARKET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2322, 7 January 1890, Page 2

EAST STREET HORSE MARKET.

Messrs Wjltta^i »n.d Blaad report h&vlDg held thair weekly sale of horses on Saturday, 4 h Jan, There watt a vqry large entry for the day. viz, 51 horser, oat of which we managed to place 35. There was also a very large attendanoe of buyers and otheri. Bat as la usual at this time of the year vendors have been holding on, thinking that the buyers are bound to have horses to reap their grain with, consequently tha vendors and buyers idea of values do not correspond, Although Saturday's sale proves that really good sorts huve not fallen la value, as I one would expect through the glut of i Saturday's market, something like 130 horses butng submitted to the hammer i« this town. Veiy few good sorts are being offered, but aged horses are very d'ffioolt to quU. The biddings on the whole were not so bad. The fojlqwlyg «ra the prices obtained $— Draught nasrcß fotir lo eevan years old, £20, £20, £20, £15 10a, £13, £12 10s, £12, £11; ditto geldlnga, five «nd ix years eld, £23. £16 10«, £16, £15, £13, £11; aged geldings, £20, £12 10;, £9, £8, £8, £5, £4 10s j colts and fitHee, a'broken, three and four Ftars old, £16 £15, £15, £15 ; spring oart horses, £14 15j, £14 10i, £12 10s, £11; hseks, £6 2<6ct; shree year o!d pony, £55a; four year ditto, £7 10i: crooks, £1 10j to £3.Buugy, £18 6i; spring c»rt, £4. Cow, £4 Produce-Oai 8, 2i to 2a '3d pr baahe 1; whaal: and ct»t straw ohnflF, £2 per lon j ch'okwbeat, 9a per bag ; new potatoes, Jd to 11 per lb, PouiTßY—ypwl', U6d per pilr: daoka