DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 21, 12 June 1902, Page 13

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co report as follows —The supply this week was meagre m the extreme, only some 20 odd horses being Witered, most of them draughts and medium draughts, ,uid live or six ordinary class and inferior light horses rho draughts, with the exception of four from the country, were about the poorest we tm\e seen in the yards for some tune. There was an eager demand for good, fresh sound draughts, and the few of such entered brought excellent prices, a.<* follows '—Bay gelding, 5 years, £46 brown gelding, 8 years, £45 , brown mare, 9 years, £42 ; bay gelding, b years, £39 , bay gelding aged, x-db , and one good spring dray gelding, aged, £31 Mr Malcomson's team sold up at £31, the wagon at £28 10s, a-nd the, harness at full rates The .sale, as far as demand and prices were concerned, was most satisfactory, but the number of draught horses forward was disap- * pointing Sound, good useful draughts ate wanted, and we srrongly recommend consignments There is also good nujuiiv for < .-.ring *an hordes — young end npst.iM.n:.Strong harness horses :u c also wan1(1(1 quote • Superior young draught geldings £40 to £50 extra good, prize hoises, £52 to £60 medium draught maies and geldings £30 to £3H , aged do, £16 to £25 : upstanding carriage hor.ses, £30 to £35 , well-matched carriage pairs, £80 to £90 ; strong spring van horses, £30 to £37 , milk-cart and butchers' older cart horses. £18 to £24tiam horses, £li< to i:i7 . llKht hacks £10 to £15 ; extra good hacks, £18 to £25 , weedy and aged, hacks and harness horses, £3 to £7.