PALMERSTON NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 14532, 7 December 1910, Page 1

PALMERSTON NOTES

There was a record attendance at the Pa'mi-rsfon show this year. Jha aate iiioiir-y realised £54. at*' against £43 Isct year. Tln> quality of i-.us closes of stock exhibited was of a hiirh order, but iho number of entries in man ci;.<rs-:>s was not -up to the- standard of some previous years. The tennis courts, having been topdressed and sent! ally improved, will be officially opened on the 14th inst. The play has fo far improved that the mcniborti of the dub ■are hankering to meet thus s'.in.soji across the net teams from Oamaru and Dunodin. • Tha harvest this season will b© the poorest that' Shan; Valley has known for, many a year. What rain \vp have had came too late for the white crops, but it has done an unoalculabie service for the root crops. Mr ,]. E. Goodwin, a highly respected resident of Palmerston for thirty yean*, has purchased a. grocery business in\Christchurch, where he has gone with hid family to reside. Mr Good win' 6 many friends will wish him well in Iris new home. Mr Thomas Muir. just returned from ihe Old Country, visited mahy agricnllural and pastorid .shows in the United Kingdom, where he saw such an exhibition of .stock of every class that breeders j in this Dominion would do well ia late ; but what struck Mr Muir's sense originality w.is the peculiar adopted by fiheejwwners to make * 8 taciilar display in the ring. They the fleeces blue, red, yellow. every other conceivable-color, not .satisfied with a single iamb Joseph —Own corrcspondeirt,^^^^^^^^^^^^H