WOOL EXHIBITION.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 172, 26 October 1877, Page 7

WOOL EXHIBITION.

The Messrs Goldsborough, of Melbourne, are getting up an exhibition of wool on their own account. As prizes, four gold cups are offered by the firm on the following conditions : — 1. A gold cup, for the .most valuable bale of fifty fleeces of washed wool, not skirted, grown either in Victoria, Kivorina, South Australia, Tasmania, or New Zealand. 2. A gold cup, for the most valuable bale of fifty fleeces of greasy wool, not •skirted, grown either in Victoria, Riverina, South Australia, Tasmania, or New Zealand. 3. A gold cup, for the most, valuable bale of fifty fleeces of washed wool, not skirted, grown either in New South Wales or Queensland. 74. A gold cup, for the most valuable bale of fifty fleeces of greasy wool, not skirted, grown either in New South Wales or ' Queensland. Rams' wool is excluded from competition. The number of days' growth of the wool, the time when shorn, and whether from ewes, wethers, or hopgets, is to be.stated. The exhibitors are also required to brand their bales with three letters different from the station brand, which latter will be put oh the bales after the award is made. R. Goldsborough and Co?s agents at the different shipping ports will take charge of all exhibits -consigned to them, and pay all charges and expenses thereon. •JPor those who .desire to -haye '"their wool brought into, comparison. directly with, presumedly, the' best clips in the respective colonies, this is. an -excellent opportunity— a better opportunity .probably than is found at -ordinary -tWhibiv tions. •