OTAGO SHOW.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1610, 24 November 1905, Page 2

OTAGO SHOW.

I Par Press Association. I Dunedin, lest night. I The Otago show opened in fine weather, II bat windy. The display of agricultural and dairy implements was one of the best I yet seen on the ground, 54 firms showing, I being ten more than last year. Oattte II were good all round. Ladbrook, of Middle* I vale, won the championship in Shorthorns, I with Dnke, beating Roan Premier and I others. The Shorthorn championship oow II was the. two-year-old owned ,by W. WidI dell, Waikaka Valley. In Polled Angus ] I Murray, Roberts and Go. swept the board, II being opposed only in the all-aged bull 11 olass. Keith, Oamaru, and Elliott Bros., j I Dunedin, won honorß in fat oattle. In -1 sheep the strongest seotions were Border I Leioeaters and Romney Marsh. Little I Bros, scored in English Leioesters, the I New Zealand Land and Agency Company I ia Lincolns, and Seth Smith in Shropshire Downs. Pigs were a small but seleot I seotion, competition being confined to G. I Briee, of Obristohurob, who has taken I most prizes at northern shows, and Sea-1 cliff Mental Hospital, the former takiog all the prizes but one. I Later.—The Olago A. and P, Society’s I I summer show commenced to-day on the I Tabuna Park, which has been improved j lin several aapeot3 since last year. The I I weather in the early morning was beauti- I I fully fine, bat a strong gale set in, and I I though it lost its foroe in the afternoon I I the wind was very cold. The attendance |

I was fair UDder the oircumstanoes, the 1 only attraction besides the judging of I oattle, sheep, and pigs being some pony I raoes whioh were well contested. The I features so fir are the oattle section and a I great display of maohinery and implements. The sheep were small in number, but of rare quality. Iu pigs there were I only two exhibitors, Charles Brioe, of I Christchurch, practically sweeping the I board with Yorks and Berks, while the 1 Seaoliffe Mental Asylum took the prizes I for Tamworths. The championships were awarded as follows: Bborthprn, bqll W. 0,. Ladbrook, cow W. Wadde); Polled Angus, bull aod oow Murray, Roberts and Co;, 1 Ayrshire, bull P. Ireland, oow A, Gillies; Alderney or Jersey, bull A. Small (Lumsden); fat cattle, A. J, Keith ; mast points, for Shorthorn W. Waddel, Polled ADgus Murray, Roberts and Co. Sheep: Border Leicester, Little Bros, ram and ewe ; Linoolns, New Zealand and Australian Limd Company ram and ewe; Romney Marsh, ram Watson Sbennan, ewe Fulton’B trustees; Shropshire Downs, B, Setb-Smith ram and ewe; halfbred, New Zealand and Australian Land Company tm and ewe; fat Bbeogi, J. Lough,