DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 27, 3 April 1891, Page 15

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Weight, Stkphenson and Co. report as follows :— We note a demand for young draughts that can be sold from £14 to £16. We quote— Really first claes heavy draught geldings, £22 to £25 ; medium draught horses, £14 to £20 ; light and aged draught horses, £4 to £12 ; good spring-carters, £10 to £15 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £40 to £50 ; well-matched buggy pairs, £30 to £40 ; firstclass hunters, £20 to £30 ; Useful hacks and harness horses, £7 to £16 ; weedy sorts, £2 to £5.

Mr. F. Mbknan, King street, reports :— Wholesale prices— Oats : Is 3d to Is 5d (bags extra), quiet. Wheat : milling, 3s 6d to 4s ; fowls', 3s 6d — latter firm, sacks included. Chaff : Market full— £2 to £2 7s 6d ; hay, oaten, £3 ; best rye-grass, £3. Bran, £2 10s. Pollard, £3 10d. Potatoes, kidneys, £1 10s to £2 ; derwents, £2 10s. Flour : roller, £10 to £10 15s ; stone, £9 5s to £9 15s. Fresh butter, 7d to 9d ; salt, nominal, for prime, 6d. Eggs, Is 3d. Oatmeal, £8 15s.