LIVE STOCK

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2, 11 January 1906, Page 13

LIVE STOCK

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co.. report as follows :— There was a rather mixed entry of horses for our sale la-st Saturday, very few of which were worthy of being specially mentioned. There were several buyers present on the lookout for heavy draughts for town work, but owing to this class being poorly represented, they had to go away unsupplied, There is a keen demand at present for useful, sound, young horses of this stamp. Light harness horses and hacks as a whole w«re also poorly represented with one or two exceptions. We were offered £23 for a small mare four years old, but the owner wanted a higher figure, so we had to pass her in. Considering the quality of most of the stock forward We had a very fair sale, and if the right kind af horses had been in the yard much more could have been done. Sound young horses of any class are selling very well in Dunedin at the present time, and we would specially recommend consignments of draughts and spring-carters. We quote : Superior young draught geldings at from £50 to £55 ; extra good do (prize horses), £5C to £65 ; superior young draught mares, £60 to £75 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £30 to £45 ; aged, £17 to £30 ; upstanding carriage horses, £25 to £35 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £80 to £100 ; strong spring-van horses, £25 to £35 ; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, £20 to £28 ; light hacks, £10- to £18; extra good hacks, £20 to £30 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £5 to £8.