Notes From Sydney

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 42, 17 September 1885, Page 2

Notes From Sydney

(By a Late Feilding Resident.) •• Sydnet, September 4. • On the 2nd inst, I went to th< Annual Agricultural Bhow hlfta Moor Park, which was attended^ 01 the first day by 10,000 visitors. Th< exhibits consist of engine driving reaping machines, by various makers chaff cutters .by yarious makers Then a row of wool presses, ploughs harrows, and all sorts -of machlher used in farming, besides other inachin cry. Further down were exhibits o: iron wire of all sorts; of woods .and patents, with books, catalogues, 'testimonials, &c, &c. After passing tHesi exhibits I joined a circle watching some Volunteers giving an exhißitioi of jumping hurdles, and drill geite rally. I then passed to the tors* parade and saw a splendid lot of animals ; from . ponies about the i ' size 6: lirge dogSj to heavy cart hones, atic saw some N.-Z. blood prize-JakVa There was- a capital show of dogs poultry, cattle/, aheepY produce f^oix New Zealand, Victoria, Titomanjif and all about. The Kaiapoi' Go. had a capital position faring, the entrance to the covered stuilding.wjncli contained the more beautiful andinosi perishable exhibits. The man is charge had it very well set out, but i1 lacked the word "New Zealand" which should have been printed? 1 ; on calico .and hung over the exhiTbit^. Instead of which he had small ; cattle with the word" Kaiapoi Woolen?Cto.jr" &0., which puzzled everyone or even know where 'Kauqffii^. From the name " AgriculturatjSJ^r*' many were prevented from exhibiting. 1 expected to see furniture madd frlm. New Zealand woods and &a exhibition of New Zealand flax, tow, w¥ial, oats, &c, with a keglprife?^ %|^ best butter, seme of its .ibeet entile, &c. Well, I suppose you hare bad enough of the one yarn.""*" - ■^■^" : ' ; When I see land sold here at j£3a to £45 per acre for butter and^^eese making, and see hay being sent to the owners of that land to feed their cattle and so retain the half of them alive, I cannot but think that there must be better times in store for, the. rejected New Zealand lands which^oan-'hardly be sold at £10, and of equal value^to the land here which is readily sold at the above -prices. I fancy New Zealand land' sellers Should take the hint given by you in the Stab when you stated trough its columns that the £5000 profit made on the sale of the Westoe estate' by the purchaser would have been made by Sir Wi Fox if he had spent £50 in advertising; I fancy New Zealand farms Would sell readily here if fairly advertised in these papers through local agents here who could give information. - '-••* The smoke seen from a distance hanging over Sydney resembles*, a smouldering bush fire. ■ ■ <■"