LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 20 February 1908, Page 17

LIVE STOCK.

Messrs. - Stephenson,. "and Co. report, as follows : — To- a fairly good attendance of buyers we .offered moderate entry of horses on Saturday last, the major portion being aged and W|Orn-out sorts from towndealers and other vendors in and about the city. Only a few of the draughts forward could be described.! as serviceable, the balance being oldi and done, and,; J although' there were several buyers in quest of first-class sound, young unfortunately at this sale there were very few animals these buyers could bid* for. This market ite exceedingly bare of "first-class heavy , ' town shatters. We quote: Superior young draught ■geld.iriigs v ttt from £45 to £50; extra gcod^ do. (prize-winners 1 );- "at from £50 to £55 ; [superior young draught mares at from £50 to £60 ; medium draught mares and -geldings at from £30 to £40 ; aged do. at from £15 to £20 ; well-matched carriage pairs at fiom £70 to £100 • strong spring-van horses, at from £25 to £30 ; milkcart and^ butchers' order-cart horses at from £18 %o "£35 ; light hacks at from £8 to £13 ;. extra good<hac"ks and harness horses at from £13 to -£25 ; weedy 'and' aged do, at from £5 'to,. £.7.