DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 43, 21 February 1896, Page 15

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS

Weekly Bepobt,

Misses Wbight, Stephenson, and Co. reput as follows : — The demand at our sale on Saturday was very quiet, owing in a measure to the fact that no fresh boraes were forward. With a few exception?, the horses offered weie of a very "weedy" character. Buyers were present for good young draughts, and had there been any enterel good business could have besn done. Inferior draught and light ha'nies horses bad no inquiry. Nrxt Satuiday being a race day the usual weekly sale will be held on Monday, 24th inst, at 11 o'clcck. We beg to draw attention to the annual sale of the Wanington thoroughbred yearlings, which takes place on Friday, 21st inst, at 10 o'clock, at our saleyards. We quote: Heavy draughte, four to six year*, L 22 to L 27 ; do, eight to tea years, Lls to L2O ; light arid small do, L 8 to Ll2 ; aged and inferior do, L 4 to L 7 ; upstanding ppriog-cm horses, joung end sound, Ll2 to Ll6 ; well-bred upstanding hacks aa 1 harness horses, Ll6 to L2O, ; upstanding hacks and harness horse?, LlO to Ll4 ; aged and inferior L2to L 5

Mb F. Meenan. Kine ptreet, reports: — Wholesale price only— Oals, feed: Is 51 to Is 7£d ; milling, la 91; demand quiet Wheat -. Fowls' 2s 7 J to 3s 61 ; Fair dernaad. Milling, 3-* 10 I>o 4s Id ; Chaff : new now in, £2 10j to £2 13 ; old, £2 12s 6i to £3 2a 61; na'ket well supplied, Hay, oaten: None in maiket. Ryegrass, new, £3 The quality is goo 1 th:s teason. Straw : 32a 6i to 353, pressed aad loose. Potatoes : kidneyp, £2 17s 6Jto£32s 6d ; derwentp, not in market. Flour : sacks, £9 10s to £10 ; Roller, stone, £8 to £8 10i ; Oatmeal : in 251bs. £10 ; butter, dairy, 6i to 8d ; Factory, 9d to 10 1. Egga, Is. Onion?, 8s p-ir cwt. Melbourne, bran, L 3 3 3.