LIVE STOCK

New Zealand Tablet, 24 September 1908, Page 17

LIVE STOCK

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows : As was anticipated, the entries for last Saturday's sale were

not 1 numerous, and business was practically at a standstill, the principal reasons being that both buyers and sellers prefer waiting , for our annual spring sale, which takes, .place on Friday, 25U1 " inst. There is, however, a good demand for active young draught marcs and geldings, also for ', upstanding spring-vanners and spring-carters if young, and staunch. Quotations : Superior young draught geldings, at from to ; extra good ditto (prize-winners),- at £ 5 o to ; superior young draught mares, at from £ 5 o to £60; medium draught mares and geldings, at from £ 3 o to £ 40 ; aged ditto, _at. from £15 to ; well-matched carriage pairs, at from to £100 ; strong spring-van horses, at from to £30 ; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, at from £18 to^3s-; -light 'hacks, at from £8 to £13 ; - extra good hacks and - harness horses, at from £ l 3 to ; weedy and good ditto, at .from £5. to £7.