COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9023, 31 October 1892, Page 3

COUNTRY NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.J Hamilton, Saturday. Mr. C. Kelly's furniture was insured for £'200 in the Royal, and the house, which belongs to the family of the lite Dr. Carey, for £250, as stated in my telegram, in the New Zealand Company. The gold and silver medals to be fired for at Raglan by the Te Avvamutu Mounted Rifles were oil view to-day in Mr. llowden's shop window. At Mr. J. McNicol's horse sale on the Claudelands' show grounds yesterday the bidding was somewhat slack, and some of the stock scarcely realised prices expected for them. Amongst those sold was the pair of geldiugs which took first prize at the show in class for buggy horses over 15 hands 2 inches. These fetched £00, and the heavy draught, which took first prize, made £39; other draught horses made from £15 to £24; good hacks from £14 to £'24; light hacks from £6 to £11. Tramway hordes from i' 7to £13. Several ponies and inferior horses from 30s upwards. The leaping matches omitted from my report of Thursday's proceedings at the Agricultural Show wer% as follow : —For horses under 15 hands, weight not under lOst, including water jump, three entries, A. R. Hines's Maori Ist, and E. Souter's bay gelding '2nd prize. For horses any height, weight not less than 12st, three jumps, including water jump; 12 entries : H. BullockWebster's Ledbury, Ist prize; A. R. Hines's Maori, 2nd. Wire-fence jumping competition, over fence3feet9 inches hi'di: V. Papesch's bay gelding Ist prize; J. McNicol's Laverock, 2nd. One omission, but one of a very important character, appears in my report amongst the classes of sheep exhibited. Class SB, the "blue riband" of the sheep exhibits is not alluded to at all. For the honour of Waikato I hasten to rectify the mistake. Class 88 is for the best pen of ten ewes (Lincolns) under 18 months. It will be recollected that at last year's Auckland show the prize was carried off by Mr. S. T. Seddon, of Knighton, near Hamilton, much to the chagrin of other exhibitors, who vowed that Mr. Seddon should never have a chance of doing the same thing again. This, however, he has done against eight other entries, one of whom is no less celebrated a flockownt-r than Mr. James Wallace. The awards under class 88 on Wednesday were S. T. Seddon, lambed August and September, 1891, bred by exhibitor, first prize ; J. McNicol, bred by exhibitor, lambed September, 1891, second prize; and Joseph Barugh, bred by exhibitor, lambed September, 1891. commended. Another opportunity will be afforded the province of beating these sheep, for they will be entered for the forthcoming Auckland Snow as a challenge from Waikato. Had the prize tickets been made out more quickly and affixed earlier, the above omission, and perhaps others in my report, would not have occurred. Ngakuawahia, Saturday. At a meeting held for the purpose of considering the desirableness of altering the date of the Ngaruawahia annual race meeting from the autumn to the spring, it was decided to hold the meeting (subject to the approval of the Auckland Club) early in December or January. The first meeting of the new Town Board was adjourned until the following night. At the adjourned meeting, except the passing of a few accounts, there was no business of any consequence transacted. [BY TKLKGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Rotorua, Saturday. The charge against Andrew McMath for uttering and issuing a valueless cheque was heard to-day before Dr. Cinders and Mr. Thomas Wrigley, J. P.'s. Accused was sentenced to three months' hard labour. Workmen are now engaged erecting poles, etc., to establish telephonic communication between Whakarewarcwa and the post office here.