CHRISTCHURCH A. & P. SHOW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 220, 12 November 1900, Page 1

CHRISTCHURCH A. & P. SHOW.

A HARKED BDOOIBB. n£(« ram uMounoi.) CaEiwcHOtcH, November 7. jfTbo Metropolitan Show if the Uanterbuvy A. k F. Aaeooiation opened to day in splendid weather and with entrioß considerably is exoeesof thoee of the previous year. Judging to day was confined to sheep and cattle. Unit of » he other clauses will be judge! to-morrow, and the remainder on " Poop'e's Day," Friday. Tliu (jclulii f ol ure, nan whole, superior to tluwe of the pr viouo year. Liocolus oapuciuliy f<«m a «pl«udid class. Many of the memo* have been imported f'Oui the U»xt flock*, and rewii. in>(Kjrtsitioua from good Kuglihli tl.ici<ti ar i abowfi. Shropshire Down* , (u j Southdown lawtw, however, uro MMiealy up to ihe umuhl standaid «i uellenue. Slieep generally idiot! aigus t <llH r <MI lll.f ,v U.I" « W Ht". In merinos, fin# combing, R. Oampbtll aiirt eiui.it, Lwi'nl, p.ii,;Uk.iy r * iii the board, iu cmibing VVal « MarFarl&ae, A. A. ItcMaaur, and trustees of the late Thomas Oarter. D D. MacFarlaae, W. MacFwlaw, an. the principal priM-winners; Mr. M. English in Leioeatsra. Mtaira. Jaa, little, E. and J. Reid, and g. Wright stored wins in Border Leioaatera. Mr. John Little won in the aged mm and ewe, and Mr. J. 8, [q o.asses for rama and ewee under thirty months. Mr. J. 8. Holmes, the Im4 Moaiuki estots, uad the Oaaterboty Agricultural College aoorsd in Lincoln; Messrs Bealay Btw, Qutarta* in. cultural College, and Mr. J. f, BrfdU « Komney Marsh; C»per aad Nephew* Meeen. H. Ovenon, & Oarforth, and J. Johns In flwthitofi Messrs B. Euij, Aitkw, aadSeth,Bir Q. Clifford, and Mr, X. B. Urto. In Shropehirt Downs; Mr. J. B*Wa|. tow in inbcid and hatfbnd. Cattle wart better tmwratad than prevemeat in oonlitien eoupand with last show. Bhorthorns w*n ammtlr floe, and there was rtry keen eoaiM:itun. The prise for ohampiou bull fell to Mr. (jhamberkic's Oik* of Bothaay, winner «f last year'* ribbsns, aad the aama msk'i Oountesi soored the **■»-'rHiiihfr In mtc. There was vwy little «m----petition in Felled Angus; aeSighkad cattle; and Mr. Gould waa tbe only axhibitor in Alderneys or Je aaya. Ayr> t hires ware aptrtioularly strong aewiou, but the only outaide wpstilet was Mt, Oowan, of o*m vu, who divided hoaasw with the Sannyaide Asylum, the Utter winning the Ayrshire Onp with 38 points, and ohampioaship is bolls aad oows. The Oamaru representative waa next with IS points, fit oattle wen a very good claw, hat no enormously heavy beasts wan on show, (ha balk of the prize-winners ware bed k the North Island. There is a very find display of machinery.