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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5465, 2 March 1889, Page 2

To Hawke's Bay belongs the honor of having beaten all competitors fit the Melbourne Exhibition in the long wool and crossbred types of woo!. An analysis of the awards, talon from the Australasian of January 26, shows that Mr. G. D. Hamilton, of Mangatoro, has not only beaten all competitors in the clues for which his wool was entered, but thht be haw been awarded a higher vuliie pel fleece, nnd with one exception per lb, than wool, longwool pr crossbred, at the exhiiltion. The wool exhibited was in tho olnfis, ".'Wool in bale, skirted," prize to be givm for the highest value per fleece, and the avurd is as follows :—First order of merit, "Through," G. l>. Hamilton, Napier, N.Z., value per fleece 7s t> l-12d; ficconJ ordur of merit, Sir William Clarke, BolVida Vale, Victoria, value per fleece "j* Id: the«> being thus over 2 s fid per fleece in favor ol Mr. Hamilton's wool. As this is for tkirted fleeces, it will be seen thai the renl Kelboirne value per fleece would bo over !)s. and the weight per fleece unbkirted not lew than lOlbs. The halo contained forty fleece*, which '(skirted) averaged over eigit lbs., time being iihnoat tho heaviest, us well as the most valuable, fieeoes of tho bngwool and crossbred exhibited, and raaiitaining this position against small lots of only ten fleeces. The highest prici* per lb. was obtained by Sir William Clarke for tenfl«?ec<s—lljd, Mr Hamilton's bale being equal to about Hid, which would be equal to about Is Id in London. It will bo observed tlat any floecos that ut all approach. Mr Hamilton's in value are either in small lots, wheio only ten are exhibited, or from young nheep in classes where sixteen months' growth of wool were allowed, instead of the usual 1 twelve months. What makes the result of the competition more remarkable is that we nre informed that the wool is nil from ewes coven years old, and all with lambs, and thut, Owing to the quantity of sand, &c, in the fleeces, the selection of the forty fleeces could bo made from forty-fivo only. We :ire also informed that when younger these sheep have yielded more than ten shillings per fleece, and as rhtioh as thirtyfive shillings per acre for wool, without any assistance from extra keep in winter. At a rectnt show a pen of this breed took first prize for fnt fcur t w>J ti< wethers. Mr. Hamilton estimates that on such lands as constitute tho bulk of the runa to the south of Nupier three of these sheep can be kept as easily as two longwools., Mr Hamilton has been able to bring Old Country experience to bear on tho subject, as well as over thirty yours colonial, and we heartily congratulate him on the success of his efforts in producing so profitable a breed of sheep; and it must be satisfactory to know that the fertile bush lands around Woodtille and Danevirke can grow wop), of so high and profitable a class. We have to thank Air. Hamilton for placing many of the above particulars at cur disposal, whiuh cannot fail to be read with interest in a wool producing district liko Hawke's Bay.