THE WAIKATO SHOW.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 693, 23 November 1876, Page 2

THE WAIKATO SHOW.

What should be the great annual event in YVaikato, and what will doubtless yet •come to be so, will, (or the first time, be commemorated today. There is no exhibition of the kind in New Zealand better patvoniied, more flourishing, or held in higher estimation than that of the Canterbury Association — yet, at its commencement, its projectors and those who took imorest. in suhtaining it, had a, hard up-hill battle to tight RCfninst the apathy and indifference

of cattle owner-, and the neglect ot iho *(<MWiial public. Pfrscirer.ince, however, a*, it alw.iys will do in the long run, luts overcome aII uhst teles, and the Canterbury Association sands high m the wtitnauou of the public throughout the Co'nny. Aiul suit will bo with our own Waikato A gricult oral . "We have the animals, bm. anfortnnately, its in the case of the Messes R. and E. Maclean, their owners, for' reasons of their own, decline to bring them ibr ward. Those gpntlemen, in a letter to the Editor, published in our last i'-sup. noticed our remarks that Major Jackson's Waiknto- sheep had taken first prize at the Auckland Show, and go on to say, "and as some of our prize animals at the same exhibition belong to our station in the Waikato, we beg the favour of your giving fair j>iay % and that you will allow this letter to appear, Ac" Bat, does it not strike our correspondents of Tuesday, the Messrs K. And R. Mac ea», that while anxious for fair play for' themselves, they are not giving it to the Waikato, Their Waikato bred ctttle go to swell the importance of the Auckland show, but, not a. solitary head have th»*y entered in the Exhibition of the Waikato Associations to be held to-day. ♦We dontft say bat that the Messrs Maclean may have a very good and sound grievance against the Auckland Committee of the Show of the 9ih instant. That may be so, but it has nothing to do with present case, and tig Waik.ito settlers, they have fallen far short of their duty to Waikato. Wetires<rry for it, for i ho herd of Messrs K. and E. Maclean artf not sach as can be omitted from any cattle shpw in the Province*, without leaving a void it is difficult to fill. In pedigree cattle, we caraiot expoct to see a great competition. The district is too young for that, but iv Grade Shoithorns and Herefords we ought to have real ly a good show to-day, and of draught horso stock thore ought to bo a show second to none that can be presented by any district in the Province. The weather promises (o be all tlint c.in be desired, and as the d.iy will be more o< less kept as a holiday thiougbout the distiict, we may expect to see a general muster from all parts.