AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL SHOWS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8964, 30 November 1894, Page 5

AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL SHOWS.

(By Telegraph.)

[FEOM ODB SPECIAL COKEESrO-fDENT.]

DUNEDIN, November 29.

The Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association's anuuat show was brought to a close to-day, when the weather was delightfully hue. There was a very large attendance, and amongst the visitors were the Hon. R. Seddon, the Hon. J. G. Ward, and the Hon. John McK.en_.ie.

The Premier during the course of his remarks at the luncheon table, spoke of the excellent qualities of tne show, and congratulated the Otago Association on being ahead of what he saw at Canterbury, though they said that Canterbury, taken all round, had the finest show in the colony. He expressed himself as highly pleased with the quality of the stock _j_d the excellence of the machinery aud other exhibits on the f round. He paid a high compliment to the 'resident, Mr P. Pattullo, on the success which was attending the show, and on the able manner in which be (Mr Pattullo) was tilling the office of President of so important a Society over which he was presiding. After the luncheon the work ot judging was resumed, and got through shortly after five o'clock. The Society is certainly to be congratulated on the great amount of success which has attended the eighteenth annual exhibition. HORSES. The quality of some of the draught entries could be improved upon, bat the mares and young fillies were, as a whole, a first class lot. Mr J. H. Mitchell's Hard Times was again first in his class and champion of iho yard. The best he had to meet was a nice quality looking horse Salisbury's Champion, a three-year-old, which will take a lot of beating next year. The two-yea.-olds were a fairly good lot. Mr R. Charters' Pride of Glen was placed first, with Mr R. Gawn's King of Quality second. Mr R. Charters was also first with the yearlings. The aged mares were a very fine well furnished quality looking lot of animals. The competition between the seven brought into the ring was very keen. Mrs C. Findlay's Kate was placed first and Mr W. Blakie's Maggie McCormick second. The dry mares were another good lot, and the same may fairly be said of the three-year-old?. " Mr James Gow was first in ths dry mare class, and Mr W. Blakie's Queen was first in the three-year-olds, Mr K. Gawn's Duchess lU. coming second. Mr K. B. Ferguson's Early Rose was adjudged the best two-year-old, and Mr R. Gawn was first with a promising yearling filly Bell of Silver. Mr W. Blakie's Darling and Queen were first in the class for a pair of mares, Mrs C. Findlay's Jean and Kate coming second. Blakie also took a first with Maggie McCormick IL, and the championship with The Queen, a good roomy quality-looking mare by King of the Clans. The geldings and town carriers' horses were a graud lot, and were most favourably commented upon. The chief prize takers were horses Shown by the Grey Valley Coal Company and Messrs John Hughes, Webster, Callendar, J. Longworth and Sons, M. Donaghy and Co., Sander Bros, and James Fox. Thoroughbreds were represented by Occident and Wayland, placed in that I order, Waikari and a brood mare ! shown by Mr G. L. Sise. There waa a big show of ponies, and the best, perhaps, which has been seen at Dunedin. Mr E. Morris' Matchin was first in entires and Mr S. S. Myers' Little Albert second. | For a pair of ponies not over 14 hands Mies i Hume's Darby and Joan were first, and in the class for ponies under 14 hands Mr M. I Dunoan'B Tommy was first. There was a notable improvement in many of the light - ! horses shown. Mr James Allah's Berlin Abdallah was first in his class. Mr W. H. Taggart took Beveral first prizes for carriage and buggy horses, and was also first with his four-in-hand team. Mr H. Taggart's Wickiow beat Mr J. A. Duff's Meny Stanton. In the hackney entire class, j special prizes of £10 10s, £5 5s and £2 2s, offered toy Mr Taggart; brought out a most promising lot -of < get. _.' The _.jicat ..prize. was, gained by Mr L. £>. Robertson, the second by J. Lindsay and the third by Mrs Cutten. The}- 14at roadsters; were an "uneven aud moderate lot, with the exception of Cable, an aged son of British Lion, shown by Mr J. B. Reid. .Iv the 12at class there was nothing special, and Billy, the winner, exhibited by; Mr S. C. Leary?;beat Dr. Allan's Linburn and Mr Tarrat's Chestnut, and was also placed first in the lady's hack 'class, Miss Orbflli'a Luoy being second, and Miss L. Roberts' Brown third. There were five competitors, and tho horses were ridden by the ladies. Mr Buckland's grey was first and Mr Taggart'B chestnut second for the best walking horse. Trooper G. L. Sise's Benmore and Sergeant Stronach'a Jasper were first and second -respectively as cavalry horses. Mr Kean's Sam, winner of the Hunt Cup, beat Cable, Patrol, and others in tbe lost class, and Mr Taggart's Pioneer took first for l?s& hunters. After jumping twenty-four times, Mr J. H. ; J owett's Pofiets was awarded first prize for the beet leaping horse, and Pioneer and Sanhad to jump ian extra six times before the second and thiid awards were made. Sam afterwards, ridden by Miss Pardy, won the Lodies' Jumping Race, and also the High Leap, covering himself with glory; •-■'■ COLOSIAL PRODUCE. The chief prize-takers for butter were Mrs McKay, Mrs K. B. Fergusson, Miss E. Kempshall, Miss J. G Drake, and Mrs W. Gray. Tho display of hams and bacon was particularly good. Amongst the prize-takers were A. W. Lindsay, Jas. Louden, Wardell Bros., and McDonald and Millar. MACHINERY. The display of harvesting and general farm machinery was unusually large, all the local manufacturers being strongly represented, as were also the various importers. Reid and Gray had a most attractive collection, comprising nearly every implement required on a farm or station, the whole forming one of the largest exhibits yet made by one single firm on any of our colonial show grounds. The Buckeye Harvester Company had a nice collection of binder twines, reapers, and mowers, &c MasseyHarris and' Co. had a big display of reapers and binders, hayrakes and hay tedders, drills, cultivators, and binder twines. The-*' Welter A. Wood Com- 5

pany had their celebrated single apron reapers and binders, mowers, side deliveries, ' hay rakes,: Bennett's stump puller, Wilson and McKay's draiu plough, binding twiaes, machine oils, &o. A.H.. Anderson, Christchurch j exhibited several

Aveling and,. Porter's"' 6-h.p. and 8-h.p. and Beaven, Booth and Macdonald, P. and D, Duncan, and Mason, Struthers each had collections of their special exhibits, including the Andrews and Beaven cbaffcutters,

the Carlyle ploughs, harrows and wool presses, the Duncan drills, -ploughs, and wool presses, and the Deering harvesters and De Laval cream separators. Morrow, Bassett and Co. hod a particularly nice display of tbe ever-popular McCormick reapers and binders, grass mowers, bay rakes, harrows, root sheers, seed and manure drills, chaff cutters, ploughs, corn crushers, grubbers, and a large variety of other implements and machinery. A miscellaneous collection of other exhibits of various firms helped io make this department of the show one of much interest. to the many visitors to Tahuna Park. Donaghy and Co. had, as usual, a grand exhibit of binder twine, ropes, seaming and other twines.

(press association telegram.) NEW PLYMOUTH, November 29. The Taranaki Metropolitan Agricultural Show ia on today. The exhibits are far greater than has ever been known. There are great crowds of people at the show, coming from all parts of the district.