MASTERTON A. AND P. SHOW.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16141, 20 February 1918, Page 10

MASTERTON A. AND P. SHOW.

— • (TRKSS ASSOCIATION TfL£CRAM.) 31ASTERTON, February 19. ' Tho Annual Show of the Master ton A. and P. Association opened to-day in fino, but dull, weather, and with a largo attendance of breeders and ex- 1 liibitors. | 1 The following, championships were j awarded: Lincoln ram, Estate of the j ! late J). McGregor, ewe, 15land Rayner; ' ! Jlomney Marsh ram and ewe, AY. Perry j Southdown ram, W. Howard • , liootii; ewe, J. Knight (Fuilding); J ; .Shropshire ram and ewe, Sir James ! 1 Wilson (Bulls); Shorthorn bull, Dalziell \. Bros.; cow, AY. Howard Booth; Here- . lord bull and cow, Ernest Short (Feiid- ' ing£; Polled Angus bull and cow, Burl- | , ing' Bros.; Ayrshire bull, John Aitchi- ( j son; cow, C. B. Morgan; Jersey bull, •' , •H. liagie; cow, W H. Booth; Friesian j bull, Brentwood Farm Company. Tho j sheep dog trial was won by C. S. Hay, tho maiden jumping competition by I>. , D. Morrison's War Head, and the chal- ( longe jumping competition by H. Has- 1 sail's Micky Free, -with J. J. Bryce's , Twilight second. ( SERIOUS CHARGES. ! ) , ( (TRUSS ASSOCIATION' TELKORAiI.) ' AUCKLAND, February I'.!. ( Peter -McFai'lane JDewar, health specialist, was to-day committed for j trial on a charge of counselling or procuring a woman to permit the use fcf ( an instrument. At the Supreme Court, the jury fail- , ed to agree in the case against Hannah ; Dalton on a charge of having used an < instrument or other means on one Vera t Baker, with intent to procure abortion. { At the last session the accused was i charged with the manslaughter of i Baker, and the jury, failing to agree, a 1 new trial was ordered. The present s proceedings are on 3n additional count. ( c The Carl Rosa Opera Company, t which was on tour at the end of last < year, secured some of its greatest sue- } cesses in _W ales. At Cardiff, owing to the restricted train service, the miners came in bodies of 20 and 30, having tramped 1-j miles to the theatre, and c after hearing the opera through, they r cheerfully tramped back again? " t