LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 17, 24 April 1902, Page 13

LIVE STOCK.

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYAUDS. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows :—: — About 60 horses came forward for Saturday's sale, consisting principally of hacks and light harness horses, including consignments from North Island, Oamaru, and Christdiurch Only half a dozen medium draughts were offered, all of which

found buyers at prices considerably above owners' expectations. Four or h\e useful spring carters were disposed of at highly-satisfactory iigures One brown four-year-old gelding fetched £26 10s , one frve- .\ ear-old gelding, £20; and one or two others realised from £25 to £27 10s The bulk of the light horses were aged and o£ inferior quality ; nevertheless a good number of thorn changed luuid.s at fair pi ices. We ha\e a good nuxny inquiries for active dray geldings suitable for town work, and also for spring-van and spring-cart horses, consignments of which, we have no hesitation in saying, will meet with keen competition. Quotations :— Superior young draught geldings, £40 to £15 , extra good prize horses, £55 to £65 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £|}0 to £38 ; aged do. £18 to £25 , upstanding carriage horses, £25 to £30 ; wellmatched carriage pairs, £60 to £70; strong spring-van horses, £25 to £30 , milk-cart and butchers' order cart horses, £18 to £25 ; tram horses, £15 to £18 , light hacks, £7 to £10 ; extra good hacks, £15 to £25 ; weedy and uged hacks and harness horses, £2 to £5.

ALDINGTON STOCK MARKET. Fut Cattle.— lß3 were yarded, mostly unfinished sorts, many of which were passed in, but anything prune sold at an achance. The ruling price for beef was 19s 6d to 25s per 1001 b. Prime steers brought from £8 to £9 5s ; others, £6 10s to £7 10s ; prime heifers, £7 10s to £8 7s 6d ; others, £5 30s to £7prime cows, £7 10s to £9 15s • others, £5 7s 6d to £7. Storo Cattle.— 350 were brought forward, mostly good sorts, and there was a keen demand Calves 10s : 15 to 18 months old, £2 6s to £3 lls ; two-year-old steers, £3 15s to £4 Ms ; heifers, £3 12s 6d • two and a-half year-old steers, £5 l.s ; heifers, £5; three - year - old steers, £5 2s to £5 7s 6d ; heifers, £5 12s 6d ; mixed (three and four-year-olds), steers, £7 Is ; heifers, £6 5s , dry cows, £1 2s 6d to £3 15s. Dairy Cows.— ALout 80 were offered for~sale. The best sorts were inquired for at from £7 10s to £9 2s 6d, and up to £10 ; others, £3 5s to £7. Fat Sheep. — 4500 were yarded, mostly good lines of wethers and ewes There was keen inquiry for wethers, and the best went up to 18s 6d ; good. 15s to 17s 9d. There was a rather irregular sale of ewes. Extra prime sold for 18s ; prime, 15s to 17s 6d ; medium, 12s to lls (M ; inferior, 8s 6,d to 10s 6d. Fat Lamlxs. — 2332 were penned, including many secondary sorts. Late rates were fully upheld. Exporters took 1454 at 10s l,d to 13s, the average price being 12s 3d ; butchers bought 234 at from 7s to 13s lOd, average 12s ; graziers 138 ati from 9s to 10s 7u* ; and 506 were passed at 12s 6d to go to the factory on vendors' account. Storo Sheep. — The total brought forward was 16,000, mostly wethers and lambs. Forward wethers were in demand, and good lambs rose from 6d to 9d per head. Ewes were not so much sought after. Forward wethers brought from 14s to 15s 4d;, good sorts, 12s 3d to 13s lOd ; backward sorts, 6s 7kl to lls 6d ; mixed wethers and ewes, lls 6d to 12s 2d ; two-tooth ewes, 13s 5d : two and four-tooth, 10s Id ; six and eight-tooth, 10s Id to lls lid ; eight-tooth, 10s 2d >; aged, 3s 5d to 6s 6d ; forward lambs:, 8s to 9s 6d ; backward, 4s 6,d to 7s 6d. Pigs. — 550 were offered for sale. Fats were firmer, and owing to southern buyers, who took 200 for Studlholme, Oamaru, and Dunedin, strong stores imiproved. Baconers sold at from 34s to 48s, or 3i to 3£d per Ib ; porkers, 22s to 325, or 3^'d to 4-d per rt> ;, big stores, 20s to 25s ,i smaller, 12s 6d to 18s ; suckers and weaners, 3s to Bs.