DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 17, 3 September 1897, Page 13

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Weight, Stepkenson, and Co. report as follows •— There was a large entry of hor?es for this work's sale chiefly draughts and spring carters, the latter including a consignment of twenty from Sydney, whence they had been brought by Mr. James Hegarty m the steamer Wakitipu. A very rough passage across— seas for days having swept the decks from stem to stern— caused the horses to look at their worst, added to this that the most of them had scarcely size enough f.»r this mxrket, and it i-s almost needless to add that Mr. Hegarty's lot met vvich rather a poor sale The consignment of draught maros and geldings, twelve in number from Ashburton were mostly first-class sorts and young, and they met with very keen competition, the best of them bjing picked up by settlers from Waikouaiti and Tuapeka districts at prices ranging from L3O to L 35. The last-na-ned sum was given for a very fine raking four-year-old filly by Lord Lyon out of a Sir Colin mare Really first-class young draughts are much wanted, and good sorts coming into the market find ready sale at quotations. Strong upstanding spring cart horses also are wanted, and there is no difficulty in placing animals of the right stamp in this market For light and weedy backs there is no demand. We quote — First-

class heavy young draughts at from L3O to L 35 (extra heavy w£ a' !! W ° more) . ; medium > L22toL 27 ; aged, LI S to L2O ; £S£ lTff.TT ff r rarer W e ,horseß', horseß ' Lls to L2(i - e°^ «Pring-cart Borts, Lll to Llo ; light hacks, L 7 to LlO ; inferior, L 2 to L 5

A , Mb F- Meenan, King street, reports :— Wholesale price only— 9»M*,^ Ul £ ; / e6d> , medium to good, Is lOd to 2s; milling cLff T? I ; T f «°Ti 8 Wh^ 2S 6d to 3S 6d ' millin^' 4a 6d *o 4s 9dl ™ ?iJ? i h3 J? B - nn y es™B,e s™B, hay, L 2 10s to L 3. Straw 24s RolW Virf' |22 TBf;T 8 f; Jo***™*' L2to L 2 15s per ton. Flour: SSJ'th t Lll * 108; Oatm eal:Lll 10s in 251bs. Butter : US. Ch^LA." 10 ' 017 ' l - EggS ' M; Bran ' L - PoUard