THE LATE HORSE PARADE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 341, 24 October 1879, Page 3

THE LATE HORSE PARADE.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail

Sib,—Will you, be kind enough to allQWf me to contradict a statement in the report of the. Akaroa Horse Parade, which is likely to damage the reputation of my horee Black Douglas in this district. Your reporter says that he shows a deal of the Suffolk Punch in his breeding. Now by looking up the New Zealand Draught Horse Stud Book, it will be seen that his own pedigree, and both his darn" and sire, are of the purest* Clydesdale breed eyer imported to the colony ; and where the, Suffolk Punch comes in is past my com-' prehension, except in the imagination iof your reporter. ■ * „;' , • I don't mean to disparage the Suffolk. Punch, they are, very good horses id their own place, but they are more; in their place in a heavy waggon on ,the Canterbury Plains than on the steep hill roads of Banks Peninsula 5 for it; is a well known fact with the breeders,pi draught stock, that they have, neither; the constitution, tho activity, 6r the durability of. Clydesdale. ' : . ? ■ ' By giving the r abpve a, place in your valuable columns, you will greaitly oblige ycurs respectfully, i

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