ANNUAL RAH FAIR.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11558, 20 February 1906, Page 3

ANNUAL RAH FAIR.

FRIDAY NEXT. At the Richmond stockyards on! Friday next, at 1. p.m., following the I special stock sale,- Messrs Bisley j Bros, aud Co. conduct the annual Ram Fair, for which; entries number over 250, and include imported, prize, stud, and flock rams. Tho Romney Marsh breeders are Messrs Tanner, Reid, Dorset, Allan, W. R. Hunt, Thos. Hunt, E. J. Salisbury, Saxon's Estate, Hunt Bros and others. The English Leicester breeders are Messrs Nelson Bros., Threlkeld, Brookland, G. and A. Hunt, Thos. Hunt, and W. R. Hunt. Shropshire Down broeders include Lincoln College, Parry. Johns, Grant, G. and A. Hunt, J. Marsden, and Geo. Best. Merino breeders are J- Bell, Blenheim, and Irvine Bros., which are bred from imported stock. Border Leicesters from Messrs Brookland and E, J. Salisbury. Corriedales from J. Withell and Springfellow. Lincolns. from CV Withell, and Southdowns from H. Pannet, forming one of the finest selections yet submitted to the sheep farmers ol tbe Nelaon province.

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