LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 14 May 1903, Page 13

LIVE STOCK.

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Wright, Stophenson, and Co. report as follows :—

The entry for this week's sale was a poor one, comprising only some half a dozen useful draughts and a score of medium class hacks and harness horses. The best of the light horses sold readily at from £17 to £25. the last-named figure being given for a five-year-old gelding, broken to saddle only, whilst for a good tranvway mare £23 10s was paid. Concerning the state of the market itself, we have to report that for over 30 years we have not known good young draught stock to be so scarce, and in consequence of this better prices are ruling than we have known during the same period. We quote : Superior young draught geldings, £50 to £55 ; extra good, prize horses, £56 to £65 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £36 to £48 ; aged draught mares and geldings, £25 to £35 ; upstanding carriage horses, £30 to £35 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £70 to £90 ; cart and butchers' order-cart horses, £18 to £25 ; tram horses, £16 to £27 ; light hacks, £10 to £15 ; extra good hacks, £18 to £25 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £4 to £8.