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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2325, 4 June 1887, Page 2

TiJK HoKSK Tkade ix Canada.— Horses are cheaper in Canada than in England. The officers who went out to Canada paid tor the eighty-three horses they purchased i>2581 16s—an average of £31 10s Id for each animal. The average age of these horses was four and threequarter years. Probably a considerable number of sound horses, suitable for transport service in a campaigu, could be got for less than £45 per head (the price now paid in England). According to St. James' Gazette, the time to buy in Lower Canada is the winter. Therearenohorseor cattle fairs, or organised live stock markets in Canada, as there are in other horse-producing countries, and even ia the United States. It would be unquestionably beneficial to the Canadian breeders if such markets could be introduced ; the whole horse and cattle trade of Canada being virtually in the hands of Americans, who regulate the prices; which are so low that they make a good tiling of it, even after paying an import duty of 20 per cent, on the declared value of each animal. Last year something like 11,000 horses found their way into the United States from Canada. Mr Robert Teat notifies that having disposed of his Aamilton East business to MiReid, he will in future carry on his saddlery and harness business in Hamilton West and Morrinsville. Messrs W. J. Hunter and Co. will sell at the Ohaupo Cattle Yards on Tuesday, the 14th. inst., a large number of Cattle as per list. On Wednesday the 22nd inst. they will hold their usual horse sale at the Commercial Yards, Hamilton, when they will also offer several allotments of land ir\ Hamilton East.