LIVE STOCK

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 40, 7 December 1905, Page 13

LIVE STOCK

Having to go io press sonic hours earlier than usual this week, owing 1o the General Election, we have been unable to gi\c a report of the stock sale at Burnside. DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co., report as follows :—: — There was a rather small entry of horses for last Saturday, composed chiefly of light harness sorts. There was a fair attendance of the public, and a moderate amount of business was transacted during the day. Now that .summer has come the inquiry for good hacks and stiong light harness horses has improved. Consignments of these sorts are selling readily at full market rates, but inferior and weedy animals are very hard to place. Draughts were poorly represented. Only a few of this class were foiward, and these, with one exception, were only of medium quality. For really good young mares and geldings, suitable for heavy town work, and active sorts for farm work, there is a splendid demand, and whenever these are forthcoming they always realise full values. We quote: Superior young draught geldings at from £50 to £55 ; extra good do (pri/.e horses), £sfi to £65 ; superior young draught mares, £60 to £75 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £30 to £15 ; aged, £17 to £30 ; upstanding carliage horses, £25 to £35 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £80 to £100 ; strong spring-van horses, £25 to £35 ; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, £20 to £28 ;

light hacks, £10 to £18 ; extra good hacks, £20 to £30 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £5 to £8.