The Geelong Agricultural Society offer prices to the value of £50 for the largest collections of sparrows' heads and eggs, and to give better facilties to eountry collectors to dispose of them without having to come Geelong, various members of the committee nave been appointed to receive the heads and eggs of the birds in their several districts, and to keep an account of the receipts. The costliest horse stable in the world belongs to D. E. Grouse, and is located at Syracuse, N.Y. : It has now cost the owner, a millionaire horseman, something like £140,000. Incidental expenses will make the stable cost little short of £200,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8482, 5 February 1891, Page 5
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