LIVE STOCK

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 32, 10 August 1905, Page 13

LIVE STOCK

DUNEDIN HORSE SALE YARDS. Messrs. Wright, Stephcnson, and Co., report as follows • — The supply of horses for Saturday's sale consisted of twenty draughts (with two or three exceptions all young and of good quality), and about a dozen saddle and harness horses, all of them stale and inferior. The attendance of town and country buyers was exceptionally good, and business was particularly brisk, especially in draughts, an almost total clearance of which was effected at good prices. Our prin-

cipal transactions this week include the following :— Bay geMing at ■ £14 10s ; bay gelding, rising three years* ■ at £43 ; bay . gelding at £42 ; bay geldiirg at £41 ; tay gelhing at £39 ; two bay mares at £70 the pair ; bay colt at £30 ; black mare at £29 ; bay filly, light, at £28 ; black gelding, light, at £26 ; and several others at up to £15. We qfuote : Superior young draft geldings at from £50 to £55 ; extra good, do, (prize horses), £56 to £65 ; superior young draught mares, £60 to £75 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £30 to £45 ; aged do, £17 to £30 • upstatading carriage horses, £25 to £35 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £80 to £100 ; strong spring-van horses, £30 to £35 ; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses' £20 to £28 ; light hacks, £10 to £18 ; rxtra gioori 'hacks £20 to £30 ; weedy anS aged hacks and harness horses' £5 to £8.