LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 26, 26 June 1902, Page 13

LIVE STOCK.

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows :—: — We held our weekly sale on Satuivday, when we submitted a fair number of horses, chiefly draughts, for public competition. The entry included 13 of the best draught geldings that have offered in Dunedm for some tune — a consignment fram that well-hnown judge, Mr. Thomas Ryder of Invercargill. The attendance' of bujers of draughts was small. In consequence of this, Mr. Ryder's consignment did not meet with the attention the undoubted quality of the horses merited, and only a few of them were sold. As an indication of the excellence of the draft, we m;iy mention that we were offered £55 for Mr. Ryder's prize black fielding (five years), by Dan O'Conni'l, which offer was declined, 60 guineas being the vendor's reserve upon the animal. For tho other draught horses comprising the consignment we had offers ranging from £38 to £48, but as the bids fell short of Mr. Ryder's ideas only two or three sales were effected. For the same vendor wo offered the finest bay dogcart gelding that we have seen in Dunedm for many a day. After some very spirited bidding he became the property of Mr. E. 11. Hart, of Anderson's Bay, at £34. Fon another southern client we also sold nn upstanding harness gelding at £25, and on behalf of other vendors half a dozen aged draughts from £27 to £34. Wo quote :

Superior young draught geldings, £40 to £50, extra good prize horses, £51 to £55 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £30 to £38 ; aged do, £18 to £29 ; upstanding carriage horses, £30 to £35 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £80 -to £90 ; strong, spring-\an horses, £30 to £86 ; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, £18 to £27 ; tram horses, £12 to £17- light hacks. £10 to £15 ; extra good hacks, £18 to £25; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £4 to £8.