SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 984, 12 October 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[press agency. I AUCKLAND, last ni_r.it, At Arthur's produce sale to-day, potatoes realised Is 4d to 5s 6d \ onions, 2d to 3^-d j cheese, 6d to B]d ; bacon, 5-£ d to 9d. WELLINGTON, last night. PARLIAMENTARY. Mr Barton is preparing a statement setting forth his causes of complaint against the judges. BALCLUTIIA, last night. The rirer is rising rapidly. The water is now across the main street at the Post Office. The remainder of the people are leaving the town ship. NAPIEB, Wednesday. At the Agricultural Show at Hastings to-day, the attendance uo_iaisted chiefly of thoao interested m sheep breeding. Altogether, there was a marked Improvea_\y_X_ sbowu over last year, evHencinj/ great pains iv breeding aupeiior animals. Mr A. McLean took tha champion prize f>r merino r*m. , twelve months old and upwards ; Mr A. __\. Lyons, chumpion pfize for meriuo ewes, twelve months old | and upwards • this latter bred m the province. Mr Lyoqs also took a special

i prize for a m- riuo rain hoe;gett, bred m the province - the same animal taking the firtt pnza m its class The cbampion prize for the longwool rams was taken by Mr P. Dolbei ; the champion prize for the loogwool ewes, by Mi- MoHardy ; the champion thoroughbred sire, by Mr Allan MoL an, wi'h Patriarch; champion thoroughbred m»re, by Mr Fergusson, with Lyra ; champion draught aire, by Mr Kvaus, with Dugdale ; champion draught mare, by Mr Healaye, with Kate; champion bull, by Mr Me Hardy, with Prince Leonar I ; champinncow, by Mr MoHardy, with Duchess of Edinburgh WANGAMJI, Thursday Ine following are tne entries for the Wanijanui Spring Meeting :— Handicap Hurdles Sloper, Junius, Bully-for-You, A_akuu, Little -Thought. Of, Cossaok, and (Jrey Mouse. Wanganui Stakes Handicap— Expectation, Loc bin var, Luna, Polly, Haphazard, Tamouri, Ooway, Queen of the Vale, Izaak Walton, and Sunshine.