DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 10 December 1897, Page 13

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows for Saturday, December 4 :—: — The number of horses forward for this week's sale was not great, but it included three or four first-class draught geldings and two or three superior light harness horses. Both classes met with a good demand and changed hands, the former at up to £40 for a very powerful four-year-old gelding by Scottish Chief, and the latter at up to £20 for a fine upstanding four-year-old bay dog-oart horse by Betrayer, oat of a very active draught mire. The demand for these descriptions of horses is practically unlimited, and any of them coming into the market meet with ready sale at quotations. Useful draught horses, not too old, suitable for farm work, and strong spring cart and tram horses are also wanted, and buyers for such are always forthcoming at satisfactory prices. We quote : Firstclass young dranght mares and geldings, £35 to £40 ; good do, £28 to £33 ; mediumjdraught mares and geldings, £20 to £25 ; aged do, £12 to £18; first-class hack and light-harness horses, £18 to £25 ; good do, £12 to £17 ; medium do, £7 to £10 ; aged and inferior, £2 to £.'.

Mb. F. Meenan, King street, reports: — Wholesale price only — Oats: Quiet; feed, melium to goad, Is 7d to la 9£d ; milling Is lOd to 2s ; fowls' wheat, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; milling, 4s 3d to 4a 6d ; chaff, L 2 12s 6d to L 3 10s. Ryegrass, hay, L 2 10s to L 3. Straw, 24a per ton ; loose, 28s. Potatoes, 103 to LI per ton. Flour : Roller, Ll2 to Ll2 10s; Oatmexl: Lll in 25lbs. Batter: Dairy, 5d to 8d ; factory, lOd. Eggs, 9d ; Bran, L 3. Pollard. L 3 15s. Onions, 'Frisco, LlO ; Melbourne, L 8 per ton,