THE AUCKLAND CA TLE SHOW.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 692, 21 November 1876, Page 3

THE AUCKLAND CA TLE SHOW.

ISl« --We • b-erve V at y« u v«iy pr« perly imt'Ced Major Jack»«-ns Ln.coln« in the Waikato Times, »td, as unw of our put- animals at tbe Mine Ixhibmou bel< ng to our station in the Waikato, we beg the favour »f your giving f»ir play, and that you will be kiud enough to allow tbia letter to appear in yi ur columns. T) c faoc is, we f«e) rery niuth aggrieved at t • treatment we nave roonvo 1 »n stud Hreetug from »<m» «>f the Anck-laud|n«s»spap*-rs ; the or. dit due t* u- h ♦» b*en i<i««ii to other*, and our animal have also I c n most i-tup'dly misrepresented. Mr Prowde, «xej.t <noelv*>s, the only own* r of pute t-red feiua'e a1 o thorns in the jMviuce, or ii the »lsnd Heid b ok, ha«, f«»r year* betn driven from our "howysrls, and r pme tativeslroru our herd have also, year aft r year, hem k>pt away from th-» show* (• r similar r*a»<>ns. It i-« ve»y dangerous to tie charto «r of pure bred cattle to submit th m to su> h an ordeal, and we wi 1 take oar* we ar« not caught in a iio i ar manner attain, th» judg-t not bein>t supplied »i h data, o- the nec«»-aiy n.f »r. mmion to eoab c fchr-m correctly to emimit* or ju ige »t-c!s. ThU year, a t*H> ution was p«H d ly th" Show Comttluee, tbtt the ages and limagu of animals, *o. Khtu^ b« supplied to tha jmtges "We find, after the awaids, that the inf< rniati. n bad a^aiu been »oppi »•>■•(», after a dihtioot poraise to «hcontrary to intending exhibitors. We can only »u|po>e that this mu t have ben dnne at the in>-t nation of • me inter-sttd m-ml>er of toe connuit'e-. Wi w>i jjiTJ y«>o oie mstaiic* h \»se>l a •n • ffect wk suppose ih 3 nevleot. uai a d. We cxl ibir«d a grand youn* th nh«»n 1 nil Dukeof Cambridge, he wbo three weeks too old to show as a two year o d, and he bad to be put >n the dan. and compute mth ful q own anim«ls. Now we mainlain tha' if the junges had been supplied with this youug bull's sge, and if in addition, they lied been iu'nuh dwi h a tape, to have measured his points, as a »hon h'rn, n-'t ing could \\ure pn Tented hit Dfirit pl> cc't first. Aa it w«s, one of the judg'SioM u», they did not know win ttodo wnh him, and thiir dilemm* cv minated in hmhly comma ding him, wbch | laced I iin third in his cUss. Th* followi. q i* our li*t of prize* :— Fi' at and •« cond priao* f r thorthorn cow*, flrrtand *»<od p ixes for iwo year old »boriborn htifera ; firet prif f r under two year* oil shortiom buil, Duke oi Ban.ilon ; firat prize tor u. der one y ar old shorthorn bull, Duke of Newcastle ; flrnsne* s*<-oi>d for fjrarle slw.rlhorn two {ear old heif,r»; fir«t forywlin* grade • lf.r; first fjr yearling K«"»de bull he »ot ail the pn* a for pedigree Her foros, bull*, cow>, ai d ht-i<er«, »nd all the \<r ze» for Southdown sheep ; first fir longwool e»»a, and first «nd second for Lm oln ««ts, betides »fsw other pnz s not worth mm i tuning. Our leid* comprise snimtls of bctb wxesurp ited by ourseWenfrom the herds ol s»\«u difierent English breiders, and all ceebratfd as prize wtuner* nt the Koyal atdotb>r hxhititlors. Our flock* are from e*e» «n<i nm^ we hart- imported frrm nine different and auanent sheepbnrdersof diff-rem cunti s in Ent'lnid. V\ • do not nell m c coloured roan cattle and tall themahonhirns ; we hare n«ter sold Hsrelord bul.s and cnled them I)«tods; we have nertr sold a Lincoln ram and cal ed it a Leicester ; i eT«*r sold a mi't'g'fl and said ii was a Linco n, never a Southnovin a* a bUckfaied horned Scot —We beg to rerotiin, yours very truly, X and £ Maclean