HORSES FOR AUSTRALIA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2520, 4 September 1888, Page 2

HORSES FOR AUSTRALIA.

Mb John Hill, of Hamilton, has returned from Sydney, to which place he took a fine lot of light harness horses, thirteen in number. Mr Hill has come back well satisfied with the success of his venture. Amongst his shipment were seven Merrylegs, and the proprietors and admirers of that old horse will be pleased to hear that his progeny were in gre.it request, and sold well. They averaged £27, and the highest price they fetched was £35; but Mr Hill says that the buyer would have given much more than the latter figure had he been run up. The other horses in the lot realised an average of £15. Fast springcart and carriage horses that are showy sell very profitably in Sydney. In Melbourne heavy cart horses are in demand, and bring as much as £35 each. There is a steady export of horses from the South to Sydney and Melbourne, as many as thirty or forty a fortnight. Mr Hill says the country in New South Wales is looking very parched; it is a wonder how cattle or people either can live there, and the contrast of New Zealand's green pastures and flowing rivers was very conspicuous.