OTAGO FARMERS' HORSE BAZAAR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2665, 12 April 1905, Page 24

OTAGO FARMERS' HORSE BAZAAR.

The Otago Farmers' Co-operative Association of New Zealand (Limited) report — We held our usual weekly sale of horses at our bazaar, adjoining wool and grain stores, Crawford and Vogel streets, on Saturday last, the Bth April, when we had an entry of 42 heavy draught, van, plough, spring-cart, light harness, and hackney horses. The attendance of town buyers was good, farmers were not numerous, but a good ruany buyers from the inland towns were in attendance. The entry consisted mostly of aged sorts, especially m the draught class, and for these bidding was not very brisk. At the same time a fair number changed hands at good values. Had there been a dozen really good clifty geldings for sale they could have been easily placed, as a. munber of buyers were present for this class. Plough mares and geldings were also wanted, and a number of this sort coming forwarcl would meet a ready sale. Sharp, active van geldings are also wanted . in fact, the demand for this class is very good, but, xmforrunatelyv those we had to offer on Saturday were past the age most in demand. Spring-carters nere not plentiful, but there was a. fair mquny for them, and half dozen could "have b:en ea=ily so'cl. Buggy geldings, quiet in single and double harness, aio in demand, and wanted by both town and cov.ntrv buyers We offeiod a lew. but they weie b'loly quaht\ enouuh for the buyers piesent. VTe had throe hackneys iicia

the north, but prices offered were not up to vendors' expectations. Taking the sale as a ■whole, bidding throughout was dull as compared with the previous week. Notwithstanding this drawback, the result was very satisfactory, a fair proportion of the entry changing hands at fair prices. We quote: Heavy draught mares and geldings, £55 to £60; lighter sorts, £45 to £50; van geldings, £38 to £12; mares ana geldings suitable for plough teams, £30 to £40; spring-carters, £22 to £32; single buggy geldings, £20 to £25 ; buggy pairs, quiet and good steppers, £45 to £55; waggonette pairs, £50 to £60: carriage pairs, £80 to . £100.

DUNEDIN" HORSE SALEYARDg.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report *s follows: — There was only- a moderate entry of hoises for this week's sale, about 30 coming under the hammer, almost all without exception being aged and stale. There wag only a medium attendance of the public, and actual buyers were scarce, the reason no doubt being that there was nothing special advertised for the sale. There aTe buyers on the look-out for good, young, active, heavy draughts, also strong upstanding light harness horses, and whenever such, fresh from the country, are submitted for sale they command good competition. Next Saturday we will offer a consignment of 50 draught mares and geldings and a few harness ponies from the. North Island on .account of Mr E. Stevenson, of Palnierston North. "We quote : Superior young draught geldings, at from £50 to £55; extragood' (prize horses), at from £56 to £65 ; superior young draught mares, at from £60 to £75 ; medium draught mares and geldings, at from £35 to £48; aged do, at from £22 to £34; upstanding carriage horses, at from £30 to £40; well-matched carriage pairs, at from £80 to £100; strong spring-van horses, at from £32 to £38; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, at from £22 to £30; light hacks, at from £12 to £20; extra good hacks, at from £21 to £30; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, at from £5 to £10.

FORBURY PARK RACECOURSE.

Messrs Sievwright Bros, and Co. submitted the valuable property known as Forbury Park Racecourse for sale by auction at their zooms yesterday. The property contains over 70 acres, and, together -with all the improvements, including two grand stands, refreshment rooms, committee rooms, stabling, etc., ■was put up in one lot. As showing the interest taken by the public in the sale, the firm's large auction rooms were crowded to the doors. The bidding started at £6000, and by bids of £1000 and £500 the price quickly ran up to £11,000, which price not coming up to the reserve, the property was passed in. The feeling on all sides was that the corporation should secure the property for the city, and we understand that negotiations will shortly take place with that object in view.