LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 33, 13 August 1903, Page 13

LIVE STOCK.

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows :—: — r

There was a medium yarding of horses for last Saturday s sale, 40 horses of all classes being entered of which no less than thirty found different owners There was throughout the sale a good attendance of buyers who competed keenly for all sound, young horses The chief entry was a consignment of 11 sp-ring-cart and hght harness horses, the property of Messrs Tonkin and Lo , and considering that the horses were all over seven years old, they sold exceedingly well at up to £27 A truck of horses fro... the Clutha was disposed of' at for the draughts, from £38 10s to £46 (for a seven-year-old gelding), and some light hacks in the consignment fetched up to £21. The remaining sales were mainly of light harness horses, which realised up to £23^W6 quote : Superior young draught geldings, £50 to £55 • extra good, prize horses, £56 to £63 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £36 to £48 ; aged do, £25 to £35 • upstanding carriage horses, £30 to £35 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £70 to £90 ; strong spring-van horses, £33 to £42 ; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses' £20 to £27 ; tram horses, £18 to £28 ; light hacks £10 to £15 ; extra good hacks, £18 to £25 ; weedy and' aged hacks and harness horses, £4 to £8.