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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 41, 1 September 1880, Page 4

TT ORSE CARDS, AND Ant Description of Business Caeds, Printed at the HAWEEA & NOEMANBY STAE. Charges reasonable. Printing neatly executed. mHE THOROUGH-BRED *HORSE BOUKBAKI, By Eavensworth, dam Coquette, Will Run with Mares this Season In the owner*B 50-acre paddock. Terms — Single Mare, £2 ; two or more, as per agreement. Paddocking free for four weeks, after which 2s. per week will be charged. Every care taken, but no responsibility incurred. All fees to be paid on removal of mares. For further particulars, apply to THEODORE ESPAGNE. rpo STAND THIS SEASON, •*- IN THE Hawera and Manutahi Districts, The Pure-bred Clydesdale Stallion KNOCKDON, A Bright Bay, rising three years old, standing 16$ hands high, with immense muscular power and splendid action. Knockdon is out of the celebrated mare Princess. Princess by Emperor, out of the celebrated mare Kate, imported by the late Mr. James Strachan. Princess took first prize in Timaru in 1874, against eleven brood mares. Emperor gained three first and three second prizes, being beaten only by his sire, Napoleon. Knockd on's sire was bred by James N. Fleming, Esq., of Knockdon, out of the renowned mare Rosie, by Prince Christian. Prince Christian was also bred by Mr. Fleming ; was by his horse Prince Consort, out of his prize mare Nell. Rosie was also bred by Mi*. Fleming; her sire was bred by Major Findlay, of Eastern Hill, out of a Highland and Agricultural Society's prize-winner. Her dam, Old Rosie, gained first prize as a three-year old at the Highland and Agricultural Society's Show at Dumfries, and as a brood mare the following year at I Kelso. Rosie gained many prizes in Scotland, amongst others, first, as a twoyear old at Ayr, 1867 ; first, as a threeyear old at Ayr, 1868 ; second, as a brood mare at Ayr and Maybole, 1869 ; and first as a brood mare afc Ayr, in 1871 ; same day winning sweepstakes for best brood mare, open to Scotland. She was beaten at Ayr and Maybole, in 1869, by Mr. Fleming's mare Salt, but was placed before the same mare in 1871. As a brood mare, Rosie has not been surpassed. Her first foal, a filly, was four times fii*st as a yearling, viz., at Ayr, Glasgow, Maybole, and Highland and Agricultural Society's Show at Dumfries. Tn 1871, she was shown twelve times, and always gained the first place. These winnings included Glasgow, East Kilbride, and Highland and Agricultural Society's Show at Perth. _a 1872, she was again first at Ayr. Her second foal, also a filly, gained second prize at Ayr, and first at Glasgow, and Highland and Agricultural Society's Show at Perth, as a yearling in 1871. In 1872, she was again first at Ayr and Glasgow. At pi*esent, she is considered the best of her age in Scotland. Her next foal was Knockdon. He was foaled on the 26th May, 1871, and gained the first prize at Ayr, and second at Glasgow, in 1872, and first at Timaru as a three-year-old in 1873, and first again in 1875, against all comers. Knockdon took first prize in Timaru as a yearling^; first in Wanganui as a two-year- old; first in. Wanganui as a three-year-old ; first in Waverley for all horses. Terms.— £4 10s. for single mares. A reduction for two or more. Groomage fee, 58. Paddocking free for four weeks. Every care taken, but no responsibility. Fees payable on or before Ist January, 1881. Mares limited. Apply to A. CHABMERS, Hawera. rpAKE NOTICE, that I intend apply- *- ing to the Patea County Council for a Slaughtering License, to slaughter large and small cattle, at my slaughter-yard, situated in Mr. Croker's paddock, one mile from Normanby, in the Patea district. THOMAS CATO.