DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3030, 24 January 1899, Page 8

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Weekly Report. Messrs Wright, Btephenson, and Coreport as follows : — The supply for Saturday's sale was poor, both as regards the quantity and quality of Ibe boraeß offered. Very little business waß In consequence transacted. Some half a dczsn aged draughts changed hands at from £16 to £30, one upstanding spring van horse, a -very good sort, at £25, and a useful cob gelding at £17. These sales and two or three inferior light horses sold constituted the day's bnsinesß. The demand for extra heavy young draught geldings, also for useful young farm horsea and afcroDg harneis horses, suitable for the trams and similar work, continues good, and consign meats of all these classes are readily disposed of at quotations. We qu?te : Superior draught gelding*, yonng, £35 to £40 ; extra good, a few pounds more ; superior young draught mires and fillies, £40 to £50 ; prize mares an 1 fillies, L6O to £100; ordinary draught mares and ge!d' fogs, £25 to £34 ; age I do, £14 to £20 ; young carriage and cavalry horses, £20 to £30; well-matched carriage pairs, £50 to £80; strong spring. ooa t horses (young), £16 to £25; ordiaary hacks and light harness horses, £8 to £14 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horeea, £2.