INVERCARGILL HORSE MARKET.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume 1, Issue IV, 24 May 1905, Page 3

INVERCARGILL HORSE MARKET .

Saturday, 20th May.

.T. A. Mi*chell and Co, report having had a largs entry this day, about 60 ho*s°s of a v tv mixed assortment being forward. They comprised a fair number of young, j useful draughts, and a few go d upstanding* haoks and light harness hors s. but the majontv were aged, infe ior draughts and weedy hacks. The demand for draughts with fe v exceptions, wis very slack, owing no do bt, to a great extent t» the number of clearing sales that have taken place within thi past fe.v weeks. For the best of the entry there was fair comjeiiiion, and, privately an! by auction, we placed a number of the better draughts at prices ranging from L 42 to L 35, ag-d and us ful a imals L3O to L2O, old and ni f Lls to L 5. Hicks and li-*ht hi nsss horsea— A. faw gool anim-ils were penned, tha bet of whioh met fair comp.tition bit inferior small md age I horses were not enquired fn*, and could only he pUced at very lo,w rates. A stylish upstanding h-rness horse brought L 22 10s : ordinary a.imis 1.15 to LIO small and o'd tj L 3. We offer a nambir of useful hordes at our Winto.i sa'e oa Friday.