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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8603, 9 June 1908, Page 8

The booking of isoats at Mr Park's depot for the "Elijah" Festival has been considerable during the week, and ticket-holders are urged to ro-. serve at once without extra charges— for no more tickets will be sold than. is provided in the seating accommodation. For the two shilling 6eats chairs will be provided. The concert is on. Wednesday week, and the booking, of. the prominent seats will fill up iii A ■ few days. Entries for the National Dairy Show in all divisions close this evening at 9 p.m. A large number of entries have already been received from the surrounding provinces, in all divisions of the Show. Especially is this satisfactory in the fruits, vegetables, and farm roots sections. Exhibitors in some of these classes hail from Taranaki, away around Hastings, Clive, and down /to Carterton. Altogether the Agricultural Hall promises to be a most interesting feature of the Show:

! Comment .ng on the death of St. Simon, a London exchange says:—''On the walls of the box he occupied. at Welbeck are affixed enamelled . plates, on which were set forth,, year by year, the achievements of liis sons and daughters on the turf. . These statistics constitute a wonderful record. I believe his skeleton. is to be set up in the box he so long; i occupied. The bones of Touchstone are in a similar way preserved . at Easton, where the late Duke of Westminister built a museum specially for their reception. The frame <>t St. Simon will, however, have themore appropriate setting, and for generations yet unborn it will serve as a reminder of one of the most remarkable horses the world has seen ■:.;• is likoh to see."

Some little excitement was occasioned on the Gisborne wharf recently whilst a consignment of sheep was being placed on the lighter for transhipment to the s.s. Wanaka in the roadstead. A mob of about 500 were being driven towards the wharf; a detachment got away ,and proceeding along the railway line, leaped over the bank into the river, when the tide was just about full. About 80 sheep took to the water before they could be checked, and began swimming about in all directions. A niimlie rof boats were got out. and williug hands were soon at work rescuing the sheep. .However, being dark, all the sheep could not be picked up. and about a dozen were drowned.