RICHMOND ROYAL HORSE SHOW.
Colonial visitors to London this sninlner may bo reminded that a very ir>Uivftin>,- and important horse show /s held oa the 18th and 19lh of June next, in ihe Old Buec Park at Richmond, Surruy, about half an hour's pleasant ndc fiom tlie Metropolis, by road, tail, or mcr. Tho owners of all the best horses iv (ho ecuncrj' aio attracted to this classic shov. . The show is now recognised as one of the big social events of tho London season— a pockot edition of Ascot and Goodwood — aii'l thLs year promises to be even mora brilliant, than usual. A feature of ihe show will he tho jumping competitions, for which tho prizes ha>o been Inigelj iu-fi-eabed.
A report iliat a woollen mill is to be established at Blenheim has aroused inuc 1 ' interest, sayh the Marl boron jjh lie-rali. '■ The cost, indmliim a hcbicry dopui-th/enl, is to be £17,000, and Ih© eousuinin. ', capacity of the plant described wo. aid be 150,000 to 160,0001b of clean wool— that is to say wool treated at the mill. The quantity of "clean" wool would re^ l 'csei»t 200,0001b of wool as it came fro.'" the station. After being treated by > ne fellm-on^er, who scours for colour, tVe wool hat- to undergo a further fcovvOS pioccss at the mill, in which it loves. .>o to 60 per cent, of its original (yvev-k*-
RICHMOND ROYAL HORSE SHOW.
Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1909, Page 4
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