490 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Chairman of the Committee of Judges, accompanied each 

 prize with a few well-chosen words. He stated that at no 

 competition had so many good performers come forward to 

 compete, and that not only had the judges been obliged, 

 from the number of competitors, to refuse permission to 

 many excellent players to compete in public, but that they 

 had likewise great difficulty in determining between the re- 

 spective merits of several of those who had competed. 



