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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1194, 18 January 1895, Page 34

Owing to the theft of books from the Canterbury Public Library the custom of allowing subscribers to have access to the shelves has been abandoned. An iron railing now separates the subscriber from the volumes he wishes to handle, and a catalogue, more or less up to date, is provided to guide him in selecting the book ho wishes to take out. It is stated that in the department of fiction alone, 500 books are missing.

THURSDAY, 28th FEBRUARY, At 2 o’clock, AT THE WINDSOR PARK ESTATE, NEAR O AMARU. IMPORTANT SALE OF PUREBRED LINCOLN, BORDER LEICESTER, ENGLISH LEICESTER AND SHROPSHIRE DOWN STUD SHEEP. An unrivalled opportunity for she ep-bre odors W RIGHT, STEPHENSON & CO. have received instructions from Edward Menlove, Esq., of Windsor Park, to offer by auction at above time and place, for Genuine Sale--2390 purebred sheop, as follows: — 700 stud Lincoln ewes, 1 and 2 shear sheep, say, 350 oach age, i.e., 2 and 4-tooth 40 stud Lincoln rams, 1,2 and 3 shear sheep 500 one shear pure-bred Lincoln flock rams 150 ono and two shear stud Border Leicester ewes, say half each 2 and 4tooth 200 ono shear purebred Border Leicester flock rams 100 one and two shear English Le t ice-ter stud ewes, say 50 each, 2 and 4tooth 100 ono shear purebrod English Leicester flock rams 400 one, two and throe shear Shropshire Down stud ewes 100 one shear purebred Shopshire Down flock rams 100 purebred Shropshire Down Ram lambs 2390 Note. —In directing the attention of sheepbreeders to this, tho largest sale of purebred sheep that has been held in this Colony, the auctioneers would state that Mr Menlove’s flock of Lincolns is the oldest in New Zealand, having been established nearly a quarter of a century ago. Ho commenced with about a hundred ewes from the farfamed flocks of Messrs Dudding, of Riby Grove (Lincolnshire), and Kirkham, of Biscathorpe (Lincolnshire), at an average cost of FORTY-FIYE GUINEAS each. Mr Menlovo himself has managed the stud flock, and by judicious and heavy culling annually, and by tho use of the very best stud rams that money would procure, has attained for himself a name as a breeder of Lincolns and other stud sheep second to none in this Colony. At the Sydney sales of July last a draft of Mr Menlove’s Lincoln rams brought fmn to 6& guineas each.