DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 20 August 1903, Page 13

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

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

Very few horses forward for this week's sale—only half a dozen draughts, all of them aged horses but one, and 10 or 12 harness horses, of quality ranging from medium to good. There was a good attendance of buyers, and almost every horse entered changed hands at excellent prices. The demand for draught horses is keener now than it has been at any time this year, and the same remark applies to strong, young harness horE.es. The sales on Saturday were as follows • — Medium draught geldings, five years old, £52 ; do aged, £40 ; do aged, £36 ; and three other very old horses at £28 to £33. One upstanding spring-van aged gelding brought £30 ; one upstanding five-year-old buggy horse, £21 ; and nine other common-class horses sold at from £9 to £15. We quote :— Superior young draught geldings, £55 to £60 ; 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 ; wellmatched carriage pairs, £70 to £90 ; strong spring-van horses, £36 to £43 ; 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 £9.

Mr. Patrick McCarthy, a pioneer of the Casterton district, Victoria, has died at the age of 72 years. Though blind from the age of three, he took a keen interest in everything that was going on, especially in sporting circles. In his youthful days, he was a fearless rider, and delighted in a good horse. Naturally gifted, it was still surprising how he got about unaided, and he could handle farm implements with a skill seldom' excelled by amateurs.