AUCKLAND AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume IV, Issue 14, 15 December 1857, Page 1

AUCKLAND AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

The show of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, and Agricultural Implements was held at Newmarket on Thursday the 3rd December, and attended by a very large number of spectators. The amount of money taken at the gates shewed that there could not have been less than 700 visitors. The number of entries were—horses, 63 ; sheep, 1-20, horned cattle, 70; pigs, 8. There were also 12 for agricultural implements. There were some very fine animals exhibited, but want of space will not allow us to give a list of the decisions of the Judges. In the afternoon, about seventy gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner, which had been laid out in a iarge tent in the paddock adjoining Mr. Ruekiand's sale-yard. Caplain Ilaullain was chairman on the occasion.

After dinner "The Queen," " the Prince Consort and Royal Family," were given by the chairman and heartily responded to. He then proposed "Her Majesty's Representative, Colonel Gore Browne, Governor of New Zealand," and adverted to His Excellency's desire to promote ihe best interests of Her Majesty's subjects. This toast was received with great applause. His Excellency rose, and said, " Mr. President and gentlemen,—l beg to thank you very much for the very flattering manner in which you have drank my health. I believe there are few among you who lake greater interest in agricultural affairs than I do. I think we may congratulate ourselves on the exhibitions we have this day witnessed, and trust that each eoming year-for this, I hope, is but the first of a "series of showswill see an improvement on the last. Meetings such as those of to day, are attended with many and great ad vantages. The skilled agriculturist will be able to prove to thai slovenly cultivator that flogging a piece of I land to death, and exchanging it only to do i the same to another piece, is not the most remunerative method of farming." We would drawtheattention of our Maori friends to the latter part of His Excellency's speech, as being particularly applicable "to Ibeir method of cultivating the ground. To select a pieccof forest land, erect a rude fence round it, and subject it to a partial cultivation for thrceor four years,and then, the fences having fallen to decay, and the soil become unproductive, to leave it, and go through the same process with another piece, is attended with much extra labor; and tends tc induce a. wandering mode of life. We are not aware that any of the Natives were exhibitors; b til we hope losee them compete with their European friends on future occasions. They are possessed of every facility for rearing cattle, horses, and sheep*. Let them therefore avail themselves of the benefits to be derived from these shows. Let them direct their attention lo breeding animals of a superior crass; and then come boldly forward to prove that thev are not only willing to imitate the exampre of the Pakeha, bul are ambitious lo equal, if not to excel him, in the exhibition of those things which were unknown, even by name, to their forefathers.