INVERCARGILL HORSE MARKET.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume 1, Issue VI, 7 June 1905, Page 3

INVERCARGILL HORSE MARKET.

-' ■ '.. -. - Saturda-', 3i-d June. Messrs J. A. Mitchell aid .Co .r^porfc^r— We ha la large entry this day, .oyer. 70. horses being 'entered, "but owing to ths very rough waathor only 55 came .' ■ forward,including somo very gorl duujhts. For "those there . was m.)re eoq-rry tlmn has 03eh;the cis-; for somo wjeks, but a^ed., bw-conlitioned sorts W2re not m demand,' and could only b 3 placed at very • low rates/The hacks and,light harness .horses offeredwere only a medium lot, with, few cxc 'ptions, •md far thesa there was very little demand. On account' Mr Thomas iriH^ck we offered •the trott ; ng mare* Mirth and a handsom«colt by Kentucky, bat: ; these failed, to reach tha owner's reserves,. vVe §il) draughts... at 843 10s to £dfi, the fbrm?.r price f-.r .ftt'' ."• n:oa 6-yr-old mare wi'ih a good: reputation '"aY a worker, ordinaiy an.d aged £30 to;. £20, old s f ale animals, practioallv ui3aleable at £12 to £3. Oio strong light harness horse' brought £13. ordinary baoks and light h'iivnesa hotse-. '£9 to £13, -small, old and thin £6 to £2- • .- --X-X