HORSE PARADE.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 15, 15 October 1874, Page 5

HORSE PARADE.

" The i annual walking show, of entires,! in connection, 'with the Clutha' A!gricultiiral and Pastoral Association,; was, held : on Friday last. ' " •*■-"•- ' •*■■ *• r j . . j The;, weatl^r; *-had*-ios £ some, • ;time previously been extremely wet and boisterous, J and it was JeSred? that -horse<i'.wdujd;no.fc;be j brought fojwai*d v 3^ wouldthus^roye leas ..atlr active jthan_ ion , some loriner^ occasions. • /The day, T-tow-ever, proved* finej"* ancf there was a large; attendance of settleTs and others, while the number of horsefe turned but ( was very creditable to the. district '-.. L ; The following were- the" animals entered, and, we place them in. the order in which the entires' were made with the Secretary,:..-----,,, „ , *,'„. „.-.„.- , :i> - „ ; * CLYDBSnAI-ES. , „ Marquis - - • Hislop 8r05..-^ -.,-•,-;•.:, . Taieri Lad - - -Petrie and Anderson; Farmers' Favorite M'Farlahe & Warnock CharliW 3 ''"'-^--* •.."-u--<3hurnsideJv'-|..> **i. ; Clutha Lad - - W. A. Mosley ;,i Bismarck*- - - James Motion" '•?•-? ' - Young. , i hane <of t . ■... „'y u> . : V V* : * -»'• ; "".;clyjffeV vyr^^wT/Biid' ' ' | ; Sir/WmtWallaCe^;!/^^^ ! '; •rHo^duGHßEia>i. J / -' / "' - ' .' ; "' ; ; ' 'Caitph^ 1 -'-'-"- \ Croyden - • ■» 8.. Powell ..-- s v.i'/«*--f, ;".. Forester. - - : tJ.-:G( Lewis; ..y^y^ [n. Barwpn; /•-.*: 7 c; f - G-.- s .Cppn_l.be 1 .Quicksand '/•.]• W.Quin' .i' 4, "One 6'clo'ck wasJ^^r^'-^^-^^ l^ 6 ' .Starts and f s,hprtly v jheriM%V i the whole 'were 1 turned' ouffroin'their-diffie^ and formeS'info' ilie-procession without the - lea^t jracerdehttoriicohf usibn.?^rAfte^'n|arc|ir Hn^ round the appointed, trianglpl-thfffcus-j tprbary? njimbpr^rf times they were called up in their order in front of the Crown

*- 3 ■.—^l' 1 . 1 '..,,... - _ ~ I <J-*4. ■ i******n!*****^**j***B*fß.,-. :Hotelrwheu^h*?^e*c>i_ta^^ pedigrees and the names of the districts in. which they were respectively to tit^veltlie:; season. • . . ■'.''- ■'' £ :'-'t4'4" ! As the Committee had decided not to award prizes nor to appoint judges to place the horses in the order of their merit, thus allowing each eettler to form bis own unbiased opinion, it would be out of place for .• us to confirm or unsettle the various judg-. tn€ntS arrived a^ We]wp>lgoi^y *jm that the various horses Were minutely and 'j leisurely scanned, and their good and weak points freely 'commented upon .as they passed before the crowd. As a rule the 'horses were injfirst-clas3 condition, and lppkpd well,, .and .all who *the parade agreed 'that'll passed oft very satisfactorily. ' t .. -;>f?i '.U-n.rirff---^-