Kennel Notes.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7186, 10 June 1891, Page 4

Kennel Notes.

.Mr J. C. Coupe judges throughout a< Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne Shows.

New Zealand fanciers who intend sending dogs to the Victorian Show will, by sending a little earlier, be enabled to run for quite a hoat of honoure. Essendon opens the boll on June 25, followed by Geolong, on July 31 ; Melbourne, on August 12 ; Ballarat, on August 21 ; and the Eoyal Agricultural Society, Melbourne, on Auguat 25. The Committee of the Victorian Society intends to exercise strict supervision over the collars and chains placed on dogs in this year's Bhow. Dogs not provided with suitable collars and double swivelled chains will not be benched.

Mr W. Boiiby's fox-terrier Melbourne Bill, by Champion the Belgravian— Lady Sneerwell, is dead. He was one of the best bred animals ever imported to Australia. The Sydney Society's catalogue does nob holdout any inducement to Hew Zealand owners to send their representatives over. Entry fees aro 5b each to non-members, and prizes are.£l, 7a Gd, and 2s Gd. 0 ivnera must feed their own dogs during the four days of the show ; a stipulation which is most illiberal, especially when the balance sheet shows the Society to be in a Bound financial position, with a substantial credit balance. Tho Sydney show is, wo think, the only one in the world where exhibitors are expected to feed their own dogs, and where such a paltry item as a third prize of 2s Gd is allowed to disfigure the programme.