LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 40, Issue 40, 1 October 1903, Page 13

LIVE STOCK.

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

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

For this week's sale the principal entry was a team of nine draught geldings, waggon and harness, the property of the Gibbston Coal Company. The horses camprising it were just out of hard work, consequently a bit rough and low in condition, and, with one exception, they were all over six years old ; but they were all heavy and of good class and staunch, amd consequently commanded good prices, as follows :— -£62, £55, £53, £51, £46 10s, £45 10s, £44 10s, £42, and £40. The waggon and harness brought full value. A number of other heavy draught geldings, most of them aged, were sold at from £33 to £49. A few good harness horses came forward for this week's sale, and sales were (effected as follows :— 1 first-class five-year-old buggy horse, at £30 ; one good cab horse, six years, at £26 ; another same class at £27, and a third at £22. We q,uote : Superior young dralugiht geldings, £54 to £65 ; extra good prize horses, £66 to £80 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £40 to £50 ; aged do, £25 to £38 ; upstanding carriage horses, £30 to £40 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £80 to £100 ; strong spring-van horses, £30 to £38 ; milk-cart and butchers' ordereart horses, £20 to £28 ; tram horses, £16 to £30 ; light hacks, £10 to £18; extra good hacks, £20 to £3u ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £4 to £8. j