THIRD DAY—JUNE 19.

Otago Witness, Issue 2883, 23 June 1909, Page 37

THIRD DAY— JUNE 19.

The attendance- at the Dunedin Fanciers annual show on Saturday proved that the last day is the most popular. From an early hour the Brydone Hall was thronged with children, who had thoughtfully brought their parents along to view the pets. These included some blue Persian cats, whose listless mission in life seemed to be to exibt beautifully. Other cats shown were large enough for classification with the great carnivora, but instead of the attributes of tigerclom, such as cage-pacing and tail swishing, they manifested a perfect mania for slumber, and when stirred up by the inquiring finger of the small boy, merely opened their great yellow eyes in mild remonstrance. There was a wi-«-!ooking white cockatoo, which held up one foot in dignified disapproval when the crowd became too prpssing, or fussed himself into a fluster of self-importance when ho thought himself admired. The parrots did not say much, but looked unutterable things, and, like their classic prototype, seemed to think a good deaJ. The redpoles, who aggressively draw up their own drinking water with a toy locomotive, as usual were greatly admired. The rabbits were more than usually demure, and evidently not on speaking terms with their neighbours — two frolicsome puppies in the next cage. The guinea pigs seemed to feel the cold, which had brushed all their fur the wrong way. The attendance in the evening was largo'! and enthusiastic in approval. The annual show wa? brought to a successful conclusion ci v 10 o'clock. PRIZE LIST. Children's Pets. (Judge. Mr T. Hides.) Cats, lons hair, blue Persian (three entries) — Mrs Henderson 1, 2, and 3 Silver Persian (on© entry) — C. A. Hutton 1. Short hair, biack (one entry)— C. H. Morrall 1. White j (one entry) — Cecil G Lane 1. Tabby (0110 entry) — Mrs Glover 1. A.O.C. (one entry) — "Walter Grieve 1 Heaviest cat (two entries) — C. H. Morrall 1. Parrots (two entne?) — K. Skinner 1, iliss Harris 2. Cage birds (one entry) — X. B. Frew (pair redpoles) 1. Eabbits (six entries) — Olive 3.1 Lane 1. Geo. Gray 2, R. O. Douglas 3, Glenroy Wheeler and Alice Reid vhc. Puppies, pug (one entry) — Geo. Gray 1. Guinea pigs (tSree entries) — Egbert Dredge 1, Geo. Gray 2 and 3. Special Peizes. Best cat — Mrs Henderson (blue Persian). Best pct — Olive M. Lane (pair of rabbits). S§so«<2 best pct — X, Skinner jfpazrots).