LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 38, 20 September 1900, Page 15

LIVE STOCK.

Dunedin Horse Saleyards. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co. report as follows • — The entries this week were meagre in the extreme. There were no good draughts forward , only some half-dozen aged animals of this cliss and a ncore or thereabouts of medium hacks and harness horses. No draughts were sold, but there was a big demand for superior geldings for town carriers' work, and also for useful young farm horses. A good many of the hacks and harness horses changed hands, including a consignment of useful horses from Tuapeka, as follows —Spring-cart mare at L2ij, express horse at L2l 10s, buggy horse at LH, 2 order-cart hordes at LI ~> 10s each, and a pony hack at LlO. Hussar hors< s and good hacks and harness horses are wanted. Young horses of the right stamp would sell readily at quotations, which are as follows :—: — Superior young draught geldings, Ll"> to L~>\ ; extra good prize horses, L 53 to Lf>o ; medium draught mares and geldings, L 3."> to Ll2 ; aged do, L2l to L.'JO ; upstanding carriage horses, L 25 to L3O: well-matched carriage pairs. L<io to LSO ; strong spring-van horses, L 25 to L3.j , milk-cart and butchers' ordtr-cart hordes, Ll<i to L 22 ; tram horses, L!> to Ll.">; light hacks, Ls 'to Ll2 , extra good hacks, L2O to L2."j ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, L 2 to L.j.