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Implement. 
Mr. Fraskish (Chairman) reported 
that the total amount of space allotted 
in the Implement Department at the 
Doncaiter Meeting was as follows : 
, Ordinary shedding, 8,343 ft. ; special 
shedding, 2,106 ft.; machinery-in- 
motion, 2,024 ft. Total, 12,473 feet 
run. The Committee recommended 
the acceptance of the offer of Messrs. 
Hornsby and Sons to provide, free of 
cost to the Society, an engine and 
threshing-machine, with trusser at- 
tached, for the purposes of the 
Threshing- Machine Trials. 
General Doncaster, 
Mr. Dent. said before he proceeded 
to the business of the General Don- 
caster Committee he was allowed by 
the gracious permission of His Eoyal 
Highness the Prince of \Vales to state 
that the Prince and Her Eoyal 
Highness the Princess hoped to visit 
the Society's Show at Doncaster. 
(Loud cheers.) When his Royal 
Highness's arrangements were com- 
pleted, it would be made known to 
the members on which day of the 
' show they would be able to be pre- 
sent. 
The Pbesident said he was sure 
the Council would allow him on be- 
half of the Society to express the 
great gratification and pleasure of 
■ the members of the Society at the 
announcement which they had just 
heard. His Royal Highness the 
Prince of Wales took on every occa- 
sion the deepest interest in all their 
nation.il industries, but perhaps in no 
industry did he take more interest 
than in that of agriculture. He felt 
that he could not let that opportunity 
. pass without expressing their great 
gratification at learning His Royal 
Highness's gracious intention to be 
present at the Eoyal Show at Don- 
caster. (Cheers.) 
Mr. Dent then reported that the 
General Doncaster Committee had 
considered and approved the pro- 
visional programme for the Doncaster 
Meeting, and had altered the time of 
the cattle parade on the Wednesday 
of the show from 11 a.m. to 12 noon ; 
the final details to be .'settled by the 
Honorary Director and the Secretary. 
Applications had been received from 
the Shire-horse Society, British Berk- 
shire Society, Shorthorn Society, 
Hunters' Improvement Society, and 
Hackney Horse Society, to hold meet- 
ings in the Doncaster showyard, and 
had been granted on the usual condi- 
tions. The Secretary had been 
instructed to communicate with the 
Vicar of Doncaster as to the arrange- 
ments for the preaching of the 
sermon at the Sunday service, in 
view of the lamented decease of the 
Archbishop of York. A letter had 
been received from the St. John 
Ambulance Association, undertaking 
the ambulance arrangements in the 
showyard. The Committee consid- 
ered it desirable that a lecture on 
horse-shoeing should be given in the 
shoeing-shed on the Wednesday 
afternoon of the show. 
Show-yard Works. 
Sir Jacob Wilson (Chairman) re- 
ported that the Implement Yard at 
Doncaster was now completed and 
the stands allotted ; that the entrances 
and offices were in a very forward 
state ; a large number of horse-boxes, 
cattle-sheds, refreshment-rooms, &c., 
were built ; and that the works gener- 
ally were well in hand. The Local 
Committee had laid the water-mains, 
and were now finishing the services 
about the Yard. The levelling was 
almost complete, and only a few 
holes about the Yard required filling 
in. The Committee had approved 
certain additions to the Royal Pav- 
ilion at Doncaster, according to the 
plan submitted by the Surveyor. They 
recommended that an office for re- 
ceiving milk in the Show -yard be 
erected at Doncaster in a similar 
manner to that at Plymouth, 
Selection. 
Earl Cathcart said the time had 
come when the subject of the choice 
of a President for the next year must 
be considered. The Committee of 
Selection were unanimous on the sub- 
ject, which had been discussed by 
them at two meetings. They thought 
it would be agreeable that the noble 
Lord whose name they submitted 
should be nominated in his own 
county of York, and that it would be 
desirable and advantageous for the 
