HONOURS IN SYDNEY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 175, 18 April 1908, Page 3

HONOURS IN SYDNEY.

RESERVE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR MOUNT HERBERT ESTATE. . GOOD SALES EFFECTED. BT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Sydney,"April'l6. • At.' :'the : Agricultural Show the ' Mount Herbert; estate was-.-awarded second prize arid reserve champion prize for a Shorthorn bull. . , ;,Afc the stud sales at Taree, bulls , belonging to the Mount Herbert estate realised £110, £100,j£105, and £146 respectively; and two of.Mr.. .Small's, of. Timvald. £20 each. Mr. Dalziell, of Wellington, paid £155 and £105 for two Shorthorn bulls. '' 1

This success of the Mount-: Herbert' estate at ,the\Royal Show in ;Sydney will please everybody, and surprise nobody; The Mount Herbert herd is probably the' best Shorthorn herd in the best Shorthorn district in the Southern Hemisphere. Probably the hull which.has distinguished himself by becoming reserve championin Sydney,. after a' rough passage, is Duke Beaufort 111, a three-year-old.,/; This bull was. hitherto unbeaten, but that claim must henceforth be dropped if to bo. reserve champion), is equivalent, to being beaten. Duke: Beaufort 111 was champion at -the.-last Hawkels Bay, and Manawatu Shows,' and the same helxl supplied 'the.Hawlce's Bay .champion cow." The judge-at the lust-named show, Mr. J. J. Bayliss, of Wagga' Waggaj'New- South Wales; said, "the Hawlce's Bay Shorthorns were tho finest he ever saw in his life. There were a few special animals'in Australia which iriight be better than those at that show,' but collectively > tbo Hawke's Bay animals were the best." Duke Beaufort, 111 comes of an. aristocratic family. His sire, .Clifton'; Coronation, was/,, champion at Christchurch two'. shows ago. 1 - . . A large : number' of' New '..Zealand cattle, sheep,'.'..and''.horses wore sent-over;, to the 'show by' different; owners for sale purposes.