LIVE STOCK

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 15, 14 April 1904, Page 13

LIVE STOCK

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

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

There was a large number of horses forward for tjhis week's sale. The entries included a shipment of 20 Victorian horses, most of them useful young farm horses. Besides the Melbourne consignment, we offered a considerable num/ber of botti draught and harness horses. The majority of them, however, were aged, aj>d it was somewhat stiff work effecting sales. Inquiries for horses at tine present time are almost entirely confined to' a younger class of horses, both in the draught and light sections, than were on offer to-day. We quote : Superior yopng draught geldings, £50 to £58 ; extra sood, prize horses, £60 to £65 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £35 to £48 ; aged do, £22 to £33 ; upstanding carriage horses, £30 to £35 ; well-m,atohed carriage pairs,, £80 to £100 ; stirong spring-van hoTses, £30 to £10 , milk-cart and butchers' orier-cart horses, £22 to £30 ; tram horses, £14 to £25 ; light hacks, £10 to £15 , extra good hacks, £18 to £30 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £3 to £7.