LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 31, 31 July 1902, Page 13

LIVE STOCK.

DUNEDINT HORSE SALEYARDS Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co report as follows — There was a line muster of buyers for draught horses at Saturday's sale, attracted, no doubt, by the. olTei mg of Mr William Moore's team of draught mares and geldings, wagRon and harness, from LJ^ivme The horses, with one or two exceptions, were aged and stale The rest! of the horses, although over six years old, were eagerly competed for, and sold at from £38 to £48, but th« worn-out ones, although \i» succeeded m selling them, were most dithuult to place, at prices ranging from £10 to £27. There were very few other draughts in the yard this week. Three seven or eight-year-old horses were sold at £38 10s, £BG, and £34 respectively (strong, actueb young farm horses are in great demand, and we could easily have sold a score of them had they been in the yards to-day. We recommend clients having suitable horses^ for sale to send them in. Strong van and spring-cart horses are also

in this market just now. Aged and inferior hacks and harness horses ar«J most difficult to get rid of. We quote : Superior young draught) geldings, £42 to £50 ; extra good, prize horses, £52 to £55 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £.30 to £40 , aged do, £18 to £29 ; upstanding carriago horses, £30 to £35 ; well-ma tchied carriage pairs,< £70 to £90 ; strong spring-van horses, £30 to £37 ; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, £22 to £28 ; tram horses, £12 to £18 ; extra good hacks, £18 to £25 i weedy and aged hacks and horses, £3 to £8.