Wellington A. and P. Show

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6706, 20 November 1889, Page 4

Wellington A. and P. Show

THE AGRICULTURAL AND PASTOEAL ASSOCIATION. [Pee Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Nov. 19. Aa the day wore on, the attendance at the Show increased, and at one time there must have been 800 people on the ground, ■which for the first day, and considering there was no holiday in town, must bo looked upon a3 highly satisfactory. The champion prizes in Shorthorns, Herefords, and Ayrfchires went to Wairarapa breeders, and. in Polled f nguß cattle those from the New Zealand and Australian Land Company's Totara estate, Oamaru, were awarded first and second prize 3. The special prize for the best bull on the ground waa awarded to Mr J. Rosa' (Patea) Mussulman. Judging in sheep was not concluded to-day. Marlborough furnished almost the only exhibits of merinos, from the flocks of Messrs C. C. Goultor and U. Ward. Aa the Marlborough Provinc9 ranks just now as an infected district, the" letter of the law ha 3to be complied with by placing its contributions of sheop in isolated pens ; though no suspicion of uncleanlinusa is attached to the animals in question. Several exhibits in Lincolnsand Hampshire Down 3 are Rent from Canterbury. The medal given by the Governor for the entire bred in the Colony best calculated to improve the breed of caddie horses fell to Puriri, a chestnut by Towton, dam Waimea, bred by Mr 11. Redwood. [FEOM OUB SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] The Press this evening in a " cigarette," exhorts everybody to forgot Ireland and go in for the Show. Toe Show, by the way, is mo3t popular. To-day ia judging | day, but a good many people have gone out unable to resist the magnificent weather. The two evening papers exhaust themselves in description. The Post, which has been supporting the movement right through, thus speaks of the southern snppoit received :— -" We are assured that very little was known in the South about the Show. Mo3t stock owners were aware that such an event was coming off, but knew little of its central nature, and understood it to be more or less of a local affair. Last week the Society awoke to a sense of the situation, and sent two gentlemen to attend the Christchurch Show and enlighten the pastoralists of the plains as to what the Wellington gathering was really to be. Ab the result of their mission the entries were materially swelled, but it waa ascertained that owners of some of the beat stock ia the Colony who had entered for the local Shows of the South would have preferred to come to Wellington if they had known how matters stood, bat had already made such arrangements aa could not be broken through. So far from manifesting aoy feeling of hostility towards or jealousy of the new venture, the southerners wisely recognised that the progressive districts of the inland part 3of Wellington, very large portions of which have yet to receive their woolly or horned denizens, were likely to offer a market for their beat stock, which would prove far more profitable than the already settled and well-stocked plains of their own neighbourhood." The writer proceeds to comment on the number of entrieß, 741, pointing out that it was not till 1873 that Christchurch passed that standard, and not till 1876 that the entiieß " mounted materially above that figure." On the whole the Show is a decided Buceeßa. Everybody agrees that the beginning is remarkably good.