CONSIGNMENT OF PEDIGREE STOCK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8341, 25 January 1907, Page 6

CONSIGNMENT OF PEDIGREE STOCK.

(From Our Own Correspondent). LONDON, Dec. 14, 1906. A lai'ge and important'consignment of pedigree stock left for your colony by the Rimutaka; Mr James E. Davenport, of Christchurch, was the purchaser, and he spent nearly twelve months in making the selections. He has chosen none but first-class animals, and the names of their breeders are sufficient guarantee of their quality] and value. The consignment consists of Shropshires, four shearling rams and five shearling ewes; Southdowns, two rams; Lincolns, three shearling rams; Leicester, seven shearling rams and sever shearling ewes; Border Leicester, three shearling rams and five shearling ewes; Ryelanas, three shearling rams and thirty shearling ewes. One of the Shropshire s rams, which' was bred by Sir Richard Cooper, and won numerous prizes as a shearling and as a lamb, won a first prize at the Bath and West of England Show, and a first at the Royal Agricultural Show at Derby this year. Another winner was a Southdown ram, it was bred bv His Majesty the King, and was a winner at the last-named Show. Two of the Lincoln rams are by the celebrated ram "Nocton Riley," the sire of the winner at the Derby Royal Show, which was sold for 150 guineas at .Mr Henry Dudding's sale. They were bred by Messrs Wright, from ewes purchased from Mr Duckling. Of the Leicesters four were winners at the Royal and Yorkshire Show, and the others are all by noted sires. The Ryeland sheep were bred by Mr T. W. Barneby, who owns the leading Ryeland flock. They are a splendid, even lot, with beautiful fleeces, and include the first prize ram at the Royal Derby and Hereford and Worcestershire Shows. The Romney rams are from the noted old flock of L. and G. Finn, and the ewes are from the prize winning flock of Mr Charles File. TJie cattle consist of three Shorthorn bulls, one roan Shorthorn heifer,and one black-polled bull. One of the Shorthorns, "Fairfield Duke," aged twelve months, is the winner of five prizes. Another is out of the cow which bred "Charming Victor II.," the two-year-old bull which took second prize at the Royal Show this year, and sold for 1,500 guineas. The Shorthorns were all purchased from the well-known "breeder, Mr George Harrison. The black-polled bull "Justice of Hursley," two-year-old, was bred by Sir George Cooper, at Hursley Park, Winchester, and was a winner at the Royal Derby, Brighton and Tunbridge Wells Shows. Mr Davenport commemorated the occasion by inviting a few friends to inspect the animals 'at the Royal Albert Docks. He afterwards entertained them on board the Rimutaka, when Mr Douglas McLean, of Napier, in proposing - his health, congratulated him on the acquisition of so many prize animals. The freight alone on this consignment is estimated to amount to over £6OO,