SALES OF CLYDESDALES.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 303, 2 November 1883, Page 3

SALES OF CLYDESDALES.

The whole of the Clydesdale itock of the Moa Flat Estate has been put up at amction ' by Messrs; Wright, Btephenson and Co., of Danfidin. fyjfm patne ftp#| lfqrtV*nd Sputh m |arge numbers, attracted, no ioubt, by the excellent pedigree, of the atpclc to Ib»e offered for tale, an 4 H ires anticipated that fancy prices would b« quite common, Tr« itpok, however, were in wretched condition, And treat disappointment was expressed by " tteeaers that they should hare been so muchneglected. Y?ry i&w of animals were in anything like selling-, let alone Bbow, ctm- ' d&iom Under these ch'cumstanoes long . , prfoeg.were npb to be expected, but it & Sfifacteiy.to^ote that of the l\t htoes dffered eVery orie was sold, arid the, prices, tiiken' all round, were satisfactory. The great feature of the sale was the disposal of . Lord Salisbury's stock, which were eagerly • Bought after by Southland and Tftieri farraew, '~~ tbrhtehesferpriced animal bejng a yeWS ; fifly,,diß,posgd6f fo Mr Duncan 'If! Callum, : . ..inTercare^ilj for guineas. The majority of; ;; ; t|ie .brop'4 mares were aged, and had been imv r..Rorted,by ; Mr Clarke sonaie, year» ago, front Tasmania. Most of them were "in fpal to Lord .Salisbury j the pripea ranged from 18 to 37 guineas. The young stock were by JU>jd frligbuiy, IlWihOO^rß4l)ythaPulft

of Hamilton), Sir Colin (bred by Mr Sym mons, the Oaks, Tasmania), and Royal Charter. The two, three, and four-year-olds sold at prices ranging from 15 to 39 guineas. The principal buyers were the Hon. Matthew Holmes (A.wamoa), Messrs James Shand (West Taieri), Edward Menlove (Oamaru), David Grant (Granton), John Reid (Elderalia), Wm. Patrick (Outran), Bobert Charters (Taieri), Robert Gawn (Taieri), J. K. Cameron (Waipahi), James Allan (Hope Hill), J. J. M'Anley, Duncaa M'Callum (Invercargill), Robert Cupples (Riverton), Geo. Thomson (Maungatua), Smellie «nd Yeung (Mosgiel), and Mollison and Duthie (Dunedin).