DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 23

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows:— There was a very mixed muster of horses, both draught and light, for Saturday's sale, the entry, with four or five exceptions, being all ajyed and done sorts. The attendance of the public was only fair, the reason, no doubt, being thai there was nothing special advertised for the sale. There are buyers on the lookout foi good, young-, active, heavy draughts foi contract work; also for strong, up-standing, reliable light harness horses, and whenever euch fresh from the country are submitted for sale they command good competition. During "the week we have disposed of quite a number of spring - vanneri and heavy ' harness sorts "at from £16 ,10s .to £33. We quote: Superioi young draught geldings, at from.£*s to £50 ; extr* good do (prize-winnersi, at from £5( to £55; superior yoang draught mares, at from £50 to £60; medium draught marej and geldings, at from £30 to £40 ; aged do at from £15 to £20; well -matched carriage pairs, at from £70 to £100; strong spring htjbi horse*, at from £25 to £30; milk-c*n ■nd butchers' order-cart horses, at from £11 to £35; light hacks, at from £8 to £13;

J txtra. good hacks and harness hor&ee, at ffcom £13 to £25 j weedy and good do, at from £5 to £7. OTAGO FARMERS' HORSE BAZAAR. The Otago Farmers' Co-operative Association of New Zealand (Ltd.) report:— We ' held our usual weekly horse 6ale on Slaturday last, when we offered 70 draught mares and geldings, lorry pairs, vanners, springcarters, harness horses, and hackneys to a splendid attendance of farmers, -contractors, *nd town and country tradesmen. Messrs Finlay and Billinghurst, of Aramoho, had I a superior lot of horses forward- for this 1 sale, comprising three, four, and five-year-old mares and geldings, specially selected for express, van,~..and lorry work. They were all good clifty sorts, with plenty of substance and good bone, and were one of the best lot of horses of their class we have offered for some time. Competition was keen, and they all sold under the hammer at satisfactory prices. Our other consignments came from Timaru, Wangaloa, Waihola, Owaka, and the Taieri, ai;d almost the whole of the country lots were cleared at good values. For mares and geldings suitable for general farm work competition was keen, and sound younpf horses, especially mares, sold well. A fair amount of business was done in aged draughts, but they were- harder to quit. Up- . standing gig horses were in demand, and sold readily, as also did quiet, steady-going harness cobs and ponies. We quote: Good useful draught mares and geldings (young and sound), from £35 to £45; lighter sorts and older, £23 to £33; heavy lorry J* pairs, from £80 to £100 ; u&sfui plough mares, • and geldings, £30 to £40; pedigree Clydesdale mares, to £160; good sorts of Clydesdale mares, suitable for stud purposes and general farm work, £40 to £50; carriage pairs, £80 to £100: spring-carters (good sorts), from £20 to £32; upstanding buggy mares and geldings, from £15 to £22; hackneys, from £12 to £15; lighter sorts, from £7 to £12.