DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 14, 2 January 1891, Page 15

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Weight, Stephenhon and Co. report &% follows :— Owing, no doubti to the Cdristmas holidays, only a small entry was offered to-day. There were no first-class horses of any description forward, but a fair amount of business was done in hacks aad medium draughts at prices ranging froaa £5 to £12. We off Ted and sold on account of Mr. James Thomson CWairuna) and various other owners 27 horses at quotations. We quote :— neally fiist-class heavy draught geldings, £22 to £27 ; medium draught horses, £14 to £20; light and »ged diaught horses, £7 to £12 ; good spnag.carter9, £10 to £15 ; wellmatched carnage pairs, £40 to £50 ; well-matched baggy pairs, £30 to £40 ; first-class hunters, £20 to £30.

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, reports : — Wholesale Drices .—Oats Is 2d to Issd (bags extra), goo 1 demand. Wheat: milling, 3s 3d to 3s IKI ; fowls', 3a 3d — latter firm, sacks included. Chaff : Market bare — £1 15s to £2 2s 6d ; hay, oaten, £3; best rye-grass, £3. Bran, £2 10s. pollard, £3 10s. Potatoes, old, £3 per ton ; new, 7s per cwt. Flour : roller, £10 to £10 15s ; stone, £9 5s to £9 15s. Fresh butter , very plentiful, value from 4d to 8d ; salt, nominal, for prime, 6d. Eggß, Bd. Oatmeal, in 251 b. bags, £8 10b.