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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 789, 10 November 1882, Page 3

Saz>v op Back and Show Veivueges. T.Bullock will dispose of the above • privileges to-morrow, at 3 p.m. sharp, at otbe Bazaar, Burnett street. - SoDDEif Death. A woman named Ellen Bennett, residing at a boardinghouse in St Albans, fell down dead oh oh Wednesday. Her body was conveyed to the morgue, Christchurch, and an inquest was held yesterday morning, at the Clarendon Hotel; before Dr Coward, -.coroner, and a Jury of whom Mr D McLean was foreman. Evidence was taken, by which it appeared that the deceased was a widow, aged about thirty-; five years, that she had been living at the place where she died only a few days, and that her death had not been caused by any extraordinary circumstance. Dr Symea, : who had made a post mortem examination, ..stated, that death had been caused by pleurisy. A verdict was returned in ac--cordance with the surgeon’s evidence. '■ ! Wkiii Done, Westehfield I—Mr D. ■ Oliver, of the Westerfield estate, is ' giving, on behalf of his principal, three guineas, fend on his own account two guineas os' prises at the forthcoming ‘ Show.' ’ The former for the beat five -merino rams under eighteen'months, and the latter for the best five merino ewes ’" unde* eighteen months. The prizes in ; 'both cases -to be given for sheep only * which ‘have' never been housed, clothed, *■’nor band fed. Mr Oliver’s opinion is, to ■nse fais-own words, that the true advanderivable from exhibitions of sheep *' can never be attained while agricultural societies continue to encourage the artificial • pampering sysfem by awarding ' pnzes’to animals which have only acquired their apparent excellencies by temporary adaptation, and not by inheritance.