SALE OF DRAUGHT STOCK.

Otago Witness, Issue 956, 16 May 1889, Page 17

SALE OF DRAUGHT STOCK.

There has not been of late, years any extreme margin of profit between the cost of raising and, the, selling value of, high class draught horses having substantial qualifications for stud pur* poses. There appears, however, to be a.revmJ of a healthy sentiment regarding the breeding < of fir3t-class draught horses, and certainly f O£ago breeders seem now to have the promise of bene* : fifa which should accrue from long but hitherto ' ill-repaid efforts., By-the Mararoa, which Sailed on Wednesday, two animals, purchased'by Mr ArchibaldWWhetm t of Napier, vp.ere sbjlpped};and; whileitia to be regretted that they should have been deported from the Southern province, it if 1 satisfactory to know that thuy do not leave, the colony. ( Thia( 'sale of Pride's Darling .and 'the \ Marquis of Salisbury as the show yard.credentials of the animals will prove, rnufc^ be regardedwith real but disguised satisfaction by-some- of oiar prominent breeder^ of dra'iiglit' horses. ■ Pride's Darling was first prize hxpfi<\ mare, twice . at the"6'tago'Agricultural.ano! P.as^oral show, and first three years iv succession !at. tbe ' Taieri enhibitions. No mare has been so much teated-of late years as Pride" by intending exhibitots at 1 our' leading exhibition. The colii'', (bought by Mr(,M"'L^an)' Marquis of Salipliury,. by Lprd Salisbury, was foaled on. 15fch»Noyem- • ber, 1886, and is therefore two years oft. '^He : has an unbeaten record, having been and "winner as a '.yearling vof ( Sires* 1 Produce Stakes ' at-Dunedin , 1887, 'first at ,',Dun- . edin and .first at Taieri as a two-year-Old An,. 1888. The Marquis shows all'the.characterisfcica ': of impres,Biveaess prominent ;> in "the famSfi^pJd horse Lord' Salisbury, hlssir^i arid promises ,fc> grow up '„exceptionally, massive .animal. He . has extraordinary bone, the Lord Salisbury' chest, forehand, and quarters; and should* Mr M'Lean send him to Southern shows next year, the Marquis will trouble all-comers in the ring. < Doubtless the pncea^lso; guineas for.Pride's Darling and 300 guineas for the Marquis of Salisburyr-tempted-the "owners, Mr .R. Gawn and Mr Cullen, to part with the animals.

„ The Wellington!, Post . s'tetea i—t^We have, authority, for. stating, 'tuaththe (bill which -the; Government intend to introduce next session to' amend the Bankruptcy Act' will provide for the resident magistrates doing a' lojb ;6f; 6f ir ,th£ work whic^is^n'oWj, performed by the* judges ?of the . : Court. ;,, Jt,,is ( propbsed, .far. instance, ; :that bankrupts, should be^ul>jected4o a pilbjic •examination^ by ■ reVi'ient ' m>«gifltrat?e||'; i leavin|t „ tessF iße^r-m^'Ooui fMe^d^Kbt^ ', J

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