LIVE STOCK DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 25, 21 June 1906, Page 13

LIVE STOCK DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co., report as follows :-— A fair' number of horses came forward for last Saturday's sale, principally aged draughts and light harness sorts. The attendance of buyers was excepHonally good for a sale at which no very special consignments were anno'nccd. During the week we sold a bay gelding (prize-taker), 7yrs old, at £60, a 3yrs old colt at £4 fi, a medium draught mare (good sort) at £40, and several others at up 1o £'25 10s. We quote :—: — Superior young draught gfldin^s, at from £50 to £55 ; extra good prize horses, £56 to £65 ; superior young draught mares, £60 io £73 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £30 to £15 j as;ed do, £-17 to £30 ; well-mat-ched carriage pairs, £80 to £100 ; strong spring-van horsea, £25 to 35 ; milk-cart and butchers 1 '- order-carit horses, £20 to £28 ; lieht hacks. £10 to £18 ; extra good, hacks, £20 to £30 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £5 to £8.