DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. Weekly Report.

Otago Witness, Issue 2263, 15 July 1897, Page 23

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. Weekly Report.

Messrs Wright, Stephexson, and Co. report as follows :—: — There was a fair entry of horses for Saturday's sale, contistiDg of Eonie really good young draughts and spring van sorts from the Gore district, besides a number of dealers' and town lots. For the former there was a good demand, nearly all .changing hands at satisfactory prices. We have numerous inquiries) for first-class young fillies and mares for stud purposes ; also horses suitable for town work. There is a fair inquiry for upstanding well-bred hacks, and animals of this description are readily«aleable at quotations ; light and inferior sorts are hard to dispose of at any price. We quote : First - class heavy young draughts at from £30 to £35 (extra heavy a pound or two more) ; medium, £22 to £27 ; aged, £15 to £20; hacks and strong-eftHrfage horses, £15 to £20 ; good spring-cart sorts, £11 to £15 ; light hacks, £7 to £10 ; inferior, £2 to £5. LAND SALE. Messrs Weight, Stephknson, and Co. report having offered by auction, at their stores. High street, on Saturday afternoon, a farm of 62 acres of fertile alluvial land on the Taieri plain belonging to Mr Charles Clarke, of Allanton. There was a good atteudance of the public, including several buyers, but as their ideas of value and Mr Clarke's were at variauce, no business resulted. £20 10a per -acre was the highest offer under the hammer, at which figure the farm was withdrawn. It is, however, still in the market for sale by private treaty. THE LABOUR MARKET. ! Mr Skene reports under date July ll:—We3 :— We shall be into spring in no time now, with work well advanced and no winter to speak of. We could do with a good spell of frost, snow, and rain now, but it would be a large order to please everybody. The demand is very good for country people, and couples, ploughmen, gardeners, grooms, and boys and lads are moving at satisfactory wages. Shepherds are still quiet, but another month should set them agoing. In town the building trade is all alive, and tradesmen are " as merry as larks."

! The Government have been advised that Lord Ranfurly leaves Vancouver on Monday by the Warrimoo, which is due at Sydney on the 30th, in which case it will be a week later before ! the new Governor reaches Wellington. The Wellington Industrial Association object to Dunsdin taking part in the conference between the Canterbury and Wellington Associations on the subject of federation. It in understood that the reason for objection is that the taßk of federation will become far more complicated if three associations are con-" cerned than it will be if only two are in . ; question*