DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 28, 10 April 1891, Page 15

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Weight, Stkphenson and Co. report as follows : — A very large number of horses came forward for to-day's sale, and among them were included drafts from Messrs. James M' Bride (Green Val« ley), George Field (Butcher's Gulley), and a team of horses, waggon, and harness sold by order of official assignee. A very large number of the horses were good useful draughts, and for these, when really good sorts and young, a very fair demand was experienced at prices ranging from £15 to £20. A very few useful hacks and harness horses were also offered, including a very handsome pair of chesnut bugpy horses by Messinebam, from E. Monson.of Queenstown, which found a purch iser at £30 10s for the pair. In all we offered ab^ut 70 hor^i s, of which 45 changed bands at quotations. We quote— really firstclass heavy di aught geldings, £22 to £25 ; good ordinary <<raught horses, £14 to £20 ; light and aged draught horses, £4 to £12 ; quod spring-carters, £10 to £15 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £40 to £50 ; well-matched buggy pairs, £30 to £40 ; first-class hunters, £20 to £30 ; useful hacks and harness horses, £7 to £16 ; weedy sorts, £2 to £5.

Mr. F. Mebkan, King street, reports :— Wholesale prices—Oats : Is 3d to Is 6d (bags extra), quiet. Wheat : milling, 3s 9d to 4s 3d ; fowls', 3s 6d— both firm, sacks included. Chaff : Market full— £2 to £2 7a 6d ; hay, oaten, £3 ; best rye-grass, £3 Bran, £2 10s. Pollard. £3 10s. Potatoes, kidneys, £1 10s to £2 ; derwents, £2 10s. Flour: roller, £11 to £11 15s ; stone, £10 to £10 15s firm. Fresh butter, 8d to9d ; salt, nominal, for prime, 6d. Eggs, Is 4d. Oatmeal, £8 15a.