DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 1, 30 April 1897, Page 13

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows : For Saturday's sale we had a good entry of draught horses from the Palmerston, Taieri and Central Otago districts ; also, a consignment on account of the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company's Berkley and Roxburgh estates. Although the attendance of buyers was not very large a fair amount of business was done among draughts. Those commanding most attention were the three to five-year-old sorts, which sold up to L3l, besides these we also sold a number of good, useful animals at quotations. For upstanding light harness horses and strong active spring van sorts there is a fair inquiry. Horses of these descriptions, when showing quality and breeding, are always saleable at good prices. Weedy hacks and inferior harness horses are very slow of sale. We quote : First-class heavy young draughts at from L3O to L 35 (extra heavy a pound or two more) ; medium, L 22 to L 27 ; aged, LI 5 to L2O ; hacks and strong carriage horses, Lls to L2O ; good spring-cart sorts, Lll to Lls ; light hacks, L7to L 10;1 0; inferior, L 2 to Lo.

Mb F. Meenan, King street, reports : — Wholesale price only Oats : Fair demand ; feed, medium to good, Is lOd to Is lid ; milling 2s to 2s ld ; fowls' wheat, 2s 6d to 3s 4d ; milling, 4s 6d to 4s lOd ; chaff, L 2 os to L 3 ss. Ryegrass, hay, L 2 10s to L 2 los. Straw 24s to 26s per ton; loose, 28s. Potatoes, L 2 10s to L 3 2s 6d per ton. Flour: Roller, Lll to Lll 10s; Oatmeal: LI 2 in 251bs. Butter : Dairy, 6d to 8d ; factory, lOd. Eggs, Is 6d. Bran, L 3. Pollard, L 4. Onions L 5

Mr. R. Waghorn, painter and decorator, George street, has just landed a large and varied stock of paints, oils and wall paper. The goods are the very best and will be sold at most reasonable prioes. Messrs. Brown, Ewing and Co., Princes street, Dunedin, have just opened up a first class assortment of blankets from the very best manufacturers. As the cold weather is now fast; approaching, this is a Ine opportunity for housewives to procure these articles at prioes that cannot be elsewhere competed with.

Messrs. Reid and Gray's D. F. Ploughs and disc Harrows ha \e gained the highest reputation for first-class work amongst the farmers in New Zealand. Agriculturists who are about to com mence breaking up their land should at once send for one of the firm's catalogues which contains a full description, prices, etc., of all kinds of farm implements, etc.