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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 349, 16 January 1912, Page 1

i ji e o n r.3 o rom victoria . THE PUREBRED CLYDESDiLE STALLION, (b'oaled Decemosr '22nd, I'JUI) * To travel OthUfpu, Apir'nn, V.^ikntm), Scott'a Gap, Merrivale, Orawia, Eastern Bush and Waiau Distriots. " Tweedside is a symmetrically built bay horse, stands IGA hands high, on good legs nice flat bone, wi h feet and pasterns that cannot be surpassed, and a grand mover. . Hia sire. Clyde Boy, was sold as a three-yr-old by public auotion for the sum of 400 Guineas; grand-sire that well-known and Iterling breeder, Herd Laddie (2863 C.S B), won firet prize ani champion at Nathalie m 1890, first and champion at Tatura. and Dogherty Cup at Nathalie m 1891. The p izjs won by his Btock m this country and Australia would fill a volume, some of tl em being shown 21 times and paining 21 firsts and 8 champion prizes, a3 well as winning tho Produce Stakes aud Gold Cup twice m succession at tbe Melbourne Royal Show. G grand sire Jemmie Gray (14b4), g g grand sire Hercules (378), sire of *he t ■•ur.<*.<=r efaT" lion cox's Pride of Scotland, g g g g grand sire Rjb Roy (714) sire of tho famous Blackleg. Tweedside's dam Alice Maud 111, by Hodges Super or (839 C S.B). grar,d sire Earl Granville (251 imp), winner of the West Loihhn District Premium m 1874, the West Camberland m 1875, and the Border Union Sociely tnlß7G2g grand sire Bergamie (44 C.S.B), winner of the Highland Soc : efcy's Show at Kelso m 1863, g « graud sire Johnny Cope (417) winner of the Gatehouse of Fleet Distrust Premium m 1859, g g g grand sire Muircock (550 C S B). Alice Maud 111 is wiriner of 15 first and champion prizes, and her dam was the New Zealand bred Mare Alice Maud I, winner of several prizes m New Zealand and Victoria. The sire of Alice Maud I was Nimmo's Prince, and hor grand-Biro was the famous Prince Charlie (imp), g grand sire Farmer (284), g g grand-sire Glancer (388), g g g grand sire Young Champion (937), gg g g grand sire Blomfield Champion (95), g g g g g grand sire Glancer 11 (337), g g g g g g grand sire Glancer I (336), gg g g g g g grand aire Glancer alias Thompson's Black Horse (135) who was out of the Larnpits mare, one of the foundations of the Clydesdale breed m Scotland. Alice Maud I, duni Nell, by Wallace (imp), g grand dam Gipsy Queen by Napoleon, by George Buchanan (imp). Tweedside is winner of first prize at Gore, 1904. second at Invercargill same year ; 1905 first and ohampion at Gore and second at lavercargill; 1906 second at Invercargill, 1907 first at Otautau, third at Invercargill. From the foregoing it will be seen tbat Tweedside has descended from the most fashionable blood m the world, his progenitors and relations of both sides being prize takers m the first-class for many generations. TERMS:— £5 5a each mare. £2 to be paid at end ot January. 1910, and the balance when mare proves m foal. All mares sold or exchanged to be paid for m full. Good grass paddocks provided. All care taken but no responsibility incurred whatever. For further particulars apply to — D. KING, Owner, The "Bend," Wiuton

Commercial* PRODUCE PRICE CURRENT. WHOLESALE Butter— Farm 7d Separator 8d Faotory Butter, Is l|d Eggs 9d Flour £9 10a to £10 i>s Oatmeal £14 to £14 10s Pollard £6 0s Bran £5 Chaff, £4 10a. Potatoes, £2 per ton. BETAIL. Farm Butter 9d Separator lOd. Faotory Butter Js 3d. ; . Cheese 8d Eggs, la Baoon lid Ham lid Flour— 2oolbs, 21s; 1001 b Us, 501 bss 9d 25 3s. Oatmeal— *solbs, 8b 3d ; 251DS 4s .Id Pollard 7s 1001 b Bran. 6s, bag Chaff 5s 6d per owt. Potatoes 38 per owt. _^ WEDNESDAY, JAN, 31. WALLACE HALL. Stevenson's Pictures, Latest. Brightest. Best Wednesday, Jan. 3i. OTAUTAU HORSE BALE. FRIDAY, JANUARY. rpHE New Zealand Loan & MerJL oantile Agency Co., Ltd., will hold their monthly Horse Sale m O'Brien's Urown Bazaar Vital Statistics. ♦ The returns for the Otautau district for the quarter ending 31st December, 1811, are : — Births 35, deaths 6, marjiages 4. The following table shows the registrations m the Otautau district for the year ending December, 1911, together with those for the year ending December 81st, 1910 :— 1911 1910 Births ... 128 111 Deaths ... 25 20 Marriages 10 24