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HORSE SALE AT WAIMATE.

Messrs Mi'es and Co., in conjunction with Captain Cotton, had a very successful horse sale on account of the executors of the late Mr M. Studliolme, at the Meikle cieek stockyard, on the Waimate Estate, near Studholme Junction, on Tuesday last the lth nat., and report: —

The lots compriEed 35 three-year-old horses, by Old Time b^ Prince Charlie (bred by Mr W. Boag), ou of mares bred on the estate, a sound useful lot of horses, very RUitable for farm work or expiess carts about town; these b ouxht an average of £11 11b each ; seven light draught horses, broke", brought £9 7s each ; and sa - en draught mares, »gpd, brought £11 li!s each. The light nurse »took— 3s gildings anil fillies l>y Guy Pawkes— were a very useful lot, showing a great deaf < f breeding, and were eagerly comp-te • tor, theresultb-ing an average of £14 'Is each. Eleven thoroughbred brood mares, aged, served by Guy Fawkes, brought an avf rage of £10 ss. Che sale wns well attended, ai.d resulted in the clearance of V 5 horsps out of 96 submitted, the few withdrawn being young horses in low condit'oii and but just recovering from strangles ; the buyers bping for the most part from Dunedin, Oamaru. and the immediate neighbourhood of Waimate. The North Oiago Times says :— Apparently there will soon be a scarcity of dairy cattle in this district. A ahorfc time ago we drew attent'on to the fact that Messrs Fleming and Hedley had sold to a bii'.er at Gore 50 head of dairy cattle. We now learn that the same buyer has purchased anothe- lot, numbering 74, through the same firm, and these are to be sent south.

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Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 19

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HORSE SALE AT WAIMATE. Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 19

HORSE SALE AT WAIMATE. Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 19