DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 18 June 1903, Page 13

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows :—: —

There were no drauerht horses forward for this week's sale, and only a few medium and inferior saddle and harness horses. Some eight or ten light horses changed hands at prices \arying from £8 to £15. We note a groat demand for cood draught horses, both for town contractors and farmers, and we very strongly recommend consignments. We quote : First-class heavy draught mares and geldings, £55 to £60 ; prize stock mares and fillies, 60 guineas upwards ; ordinary draught mares and .geldings. £45 to £54 ; medium do, £35 to £44 ; aged do, £24 to £32 : upstanding spring-van horses, £30 to £37 ; upstanding carriage horses (pairs), £60 to £80 ; first class hacks and harness horses £25 to £30 ; good do. £3 Bto £24 ; light do, £10 to £16 ; aged and inferior do, £4 to £9.

Mr. Walter Frederic Osborne, R.H.A., a well-known Irish artist, has died at Dublin. He was perhaps the most gifted of contemporary Irish portrait painters, and had exhibited frequently at the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Royal Academy, and the Society of Oil Painters. He was 43 years of age.