DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 39, 28 January 1898, Page 15

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows for Saturday, January 22 :—: —

The entries for Saturday's sale were mostly made up of light harness horses on account of town vendors. Very few draughts were forward, and these only of medium quality, consequently there was not much business transacted. Although the demand is not very good at present for draught horses, it is certain to improve as the harvest approaches, and we hope to be able to ri port inquiries from all quarters for go>xl young draughts ere lony. Spring van and young light harness horses meet with a lot of attention whenever they are forthcoming, and r-onsignments of the^-e sorts will sell well in this market. Light, weedy sorts are dull of sale and very hard to place even at rcluced prices. We quote: First-class young draught mares and geldings. £35 to £10; good do, t!2.s to 1133 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £20 to £25 ; aged do, £12 to £18 ; first-clabs hack and liirht harness horses, £18 to £25 ; good do. C l 2to £17 ; medium do, C 7 to £10 ; aged and inferior, £2 to C 5.

Mr. F. Meexax, King street, reports: — Wholesale price only — Oats: Good demand, feed, medium to good, Is lOd to 2s; milling, 2s to 2s 2d ; fowls' wheat, 2s Gd to 3s G<l ; milling, 4s 3d to 4s Gd : chaff, L 3 to Lt. Ryegrass, hay, L 2 1()» to L 3. Straw, 24s per ton ; loose, 28s. Potatoes, Ll per ton, old ; new Auckland, none in market; Peninsula, L(5 10s. Flour: Roller. Ll 1 to Lll 10s; Oatmeal: Lll 10s in 25lbs. Butter: Dairy, 5d to 8d ; factory, lOd. Eggs, Sd. Bran, L 3. Pollard, L 3 15s. Onions, Melbourne, L 5 10s per ton.