SHIPMENT OF HORSES TO SYDNEY. A PLUCKY VENTURE. Auckland, April 11.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 255, 14 April 1888, Page 5

SHIPMENT OF HORSES TO SYDNEY. A PLUCKY VENTURE. Auckland, April 11.

TiMh was, and nob so many years ago, when there was a considerable importation of Sydney horses into New Zealand, bub circumstances have changed so much in this respect that an enterprising Waikato faimei, ]Mr Hill of Hamilton, has taken o\u - by the Waihoia, which left Auckland \e;^teiday for Sydney, a tiial shipment of twenty-rune houses for sale in New South Sou tli Wales. The^e horses have all l>een bought in Waikato, and the shipment comprises different classes of animals the intention being to test lho market in Sydney and ascertain the stamp of horse most in demand over there. To obtain a fair profit upon his \<m<iuc Mr Kill will have to sell his horses at an aveiage price of £20 each, and as they are all picked animals of their several elates, young and sound, there are good gumnds for hoping that the speculation will pi ove a fan ly successful one. Amongst the shipment ai c some capital specimens of heasy draught animals, others being .• u-eful stamp for ouhnary farm work. Hu-ide^ the.se we noticed a fine pair ot hoitCs suitable for carriage purposes, these being 1 by the thoroughbred Cap-a-pie out of light diaught mare's. Another excellent pair were by the Norfolk trotter »lalhon, Mernlegs, well known in the Waikato. On the whole we may say that Mr Hill has got together as fine a lot of hoi-ev as could be selected to test the S\dniy market, and we sincerely hope he wili secure the due rewaid of his pluck ami enterprise. The pi ices obtainable for e\cn good hoi^es has fallen so low in this colony that anjone who makes an effort to initiate an export trade in this class of live stock with the lister colonies is a benefactoi to our farming interests. At present \aluc it ically does not pay to breed horses foi the local market, but a few shipments to the other would &oon reduce our stock of horseflesh to a point which would 1 c-establi^h paying prices for breeder?. The expoitation of even a hundred horses from such a district as the Waikato would quickly be felt in a lecovery of prices, especially as the poor market that ha* pi e\ ailed for some time past has picxented many fiom breeding their m,tie- at all this j)asfc season, a fact horn which wo anticipate a considerable unpi o\ ement bcioie long in the local denvnnl foi ih^t-clas^ draught and plough how*- The co-t of conveyance to Sidney ot Mi Hill's slijpment is, he infoims us, £5 ah(M(!,n 1*145 foi the lot, m> that it will lie •-ecu Mi Hill's i^k is no small one, when we arid to i hii sum the co^t of feed on tire \o\aoc, and the amount originally paid for the piueha s*'5 *' of the hoitcs.