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Monthly Council, March 5, 1890. 
in Yorkshire than that the weather 
should be as fine, and the numbers of 
those who attended equal to that 
occasion, when 73,821 people passed 
the turnstiles in one day. Indeed, 
they came in so quickly in the middle 
of the day by the excursion trains, 
that they were obliged to give up 
passing them through the turnstiles, 
and Colonel Challoner and Lord Brid- 
port got a washing-tub, and sat on 
chairs on each side of it, whilst the 
people tossed their shillings in as 
they went by through the open gates. 
Mr. Goeringe, as senior steward 
of implements, said he felt bound to 
endorse all that Sir Jacob had ex- 
pressed as to the great courtesy 
shown them by the Mayor and Cor- 
poration of Leeds. 
The President expressed the feel- 
ing of regret with which the Council 
had heard the Mayor's communica- 
tion, and his own sense of the kind- 
ness and hospitality which the Mayor 
and his colleagues had shown them 
when they visited Leeds the other 
day. He regretted that they would 
not see so much of them as they 
would have done had they gone to 
Leeds, but if the Mayor and the 
other gentlemen would condescend 
to visit them at Doncaster, he was 
sure they would do their best to re- 
turn the hospitality which they had 
received. 
The Mayor of Leeds said he was 
very much obliged to the Council, and 
the only reason for the withdrawal of 
the invitation was the great prosperity 
of the town of Leeds. 
His Worship and Mr. Wigram then 
withdrew. 
Invitation from Doncaster. 
The Earl of Feversham then 
introduced a deputation from Don- 
caster, consisting of the following 
gentlemen : — The Earl of Wharncliffe, 
the Hon. H. W. Fitzwilliam, M.P., 
the Mayor of Doncaster, Col. St. Leger, 
Mr. C. E. S. Cooke, Mr. F. J. S. 
Foljambe, Mr. F. B. Frank, Mr. E. J. 
Streatfield, Mr. G. B. C. Yarborough, 
Mr. Alderman Bentley, Mr. Alderman 
Smith, Mr. Alderman Stockil (Chair- 
man of the Race Committee), Mr. T. 
Anelay (Borough Steward), and Mr. 
G, Chafer (Local Secretory). 
The Karl of Wiiahnclipfe said 
he had the honour to represent Don- 
caster, as being a resident landowner 
of the locality, and he thought, per- 
haps, the nearest landowner to the 
town. They regretted very much to 
say that they were deprived that 
day of the presence of a neighbour 
whose loss by death they all deeply 
deplored, and who had been of the 
greatest possible assistance to them. 
He referred to Lord Auckland, who, 
although known to all of them for a 
very long time, could not have been 
valued half so highly as by those in 
the neighbourhood. He would rail 
upon the Mayor, who was fully cog- 
nisant of the facts and figures, to 
make the statement which he had to 
communicate. 
The Mayor of DONCASTER (Mr. J. 
Firth Clark) said he had, on behalf 
of the Corporation of Doncaster, and 
of a very large and influential pub 
lie meeting of landowners, manu- 
facturers, and others, to give the 
Society a very hearty invitation to 
hold their Meeting at Doncaster in 
1891. Lord Wharncliffe had spoken 
of the influential character of the 
deputation, and he counted it an 
honour to speak on their behalf, to 
give the Society the invitation, and 
to lay the necessary facts before the 
Council. It was proposed to hold the 
Show on their well-known racecourse 
called the Town Moor. Most of them 
would agree that this site could not 
be surpassed, probably hardly equalled, 
in Yorkshire for the proposed Show, 
and the Corporation offered ninetj 
acres of that course for the purpose. 
The Inspection Committee had seen 
the site, and should be able to judge 
of its capabilities. It was surrounded 
by farms, and a good deal of the land 
adjacent was also the property of the 
Corporation. The site, too, was a 
very beautiful one, and an attraction 
in itself to bring visitors to the town. 
The approach from the town was a 
very broad, even one, lined with mag- 
nificent trees, and so wide that four 
lines of carriages could be driven 
abreast ; and there was also a broad ap- 
proach from the station to the town. In 
addition, the town could offer a num- 
ber of hotels for the accommodation of 
visitors. The inhabitants of t he town 
were accustomed to provide -for a 
very large influx of visitors every yeftt. 
