The privileges in connection with the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s Autumn meeting are advertised to be sold by Messrs Maclean and Stewart on Thursday next.
In a day’s threshing, of 13J hours, Mr Muirbead, on Mr Robert Millar’s Winchmore farm, near Ashburton, got through, with a Clayton and Bhuttleworth machine, 2828 bushels of oats in a crop that went 62 bushels to the acre. A biggish day’s work ! The annual athletic sports, for which an excellent programme has been provided, will take place clos • to the Upper Rangitata Hotel on Monday next. There are .£4O to be given away in prizes and an excellent day’s sport is expected.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3111, 22 March 1883, Page 3
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