DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 14, 20 January 1893, Page 15

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Weight, Stephenbon and Co. report aa follows :—: — Oar sale to-day was mucb larger than we have bad for some time. but, unfortunately, owing to laces being held at Tahona Park and the agricultural show at Portobello, the attendance of buyers was not so large as could have been desired. We offered consignments from both South and North, and with one or two exceptions cleared every one of the horses. The demand was chiefly for draught horses, which were taken up bath by town aiid country buyers. Inferior hacks and harness horses were again at a discount, very few of those offered changing hands. We beg to draw attention to the special Bale of a shipment of Melbourne draught horses which is to be held on Tuesday, the 24th inst, The last shipment of these horses excited universal admiration, and as this lot is for bona fide sale we hope to Bee a large gathering of country buyers. We shall also offer other consignments of horses at this sale. Oar weekly sale wilt be held next Saturday as usual. We quote : — For first-class draughts (extra heavy), L 25 to L3O ; good ordinary do (young), LlB to L 22 ; medium do, Ll2 to Ll6 ; aged do, L 6 to LlO ; good hacks acd harness horses, Ll2 to Ll6 ; medium do, L 7 to L 9 ; light and inferior do, L 2 10a to L 5. Mb F. Mbenan, King street, reports :— Wholesale price — Oats : Is 7d to Is lid (bags extra). Wheat (sacks included) : Milling, 2s 9d to 3s 3d, demand dull ; fowls', Is 9d to 2s 3d. Chaff : Inferior to medium, good supply, demand dull, £1 10s Oi to £2 5s Od ; prime up to £2 15s Od, good demand ; hay, oaten, quality inferior, demand dull, £2 10s to £3 Os ; ryegrass, £3 09, ot good quality. Potatoes, old market bare, demand good, £2 0s Od ; new provincial kidneys, £7 0s Od. good demand ; impoited, £6 10j Oi. Flour : Boiler, £9 Od to £9 15s ; stone, £8 0s to £8 15->, demand quiet. Oatmeal, bulk, £8 10s ; 251bs, £9 0i to £9 10s. Butter, fresh 7d to 9d ; potted, demmd good, 8d for prime. Eggs lOd per dczen.