General Meeting, Tuesday , June 20, 1893. 
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ber of the Society, I am only too glad 
to be the spokesman on this occasion, 
and to tender our thanks to the Mayor 
and Corporation for having given us 
every possible assistance towards 
making this Meeting a success. I 
am particularly pleased to be asked 
to propose this resolution as holding 
the title of Earl of Chester, of which 
I am very proud. (Cheers.) I am glad 
to propose this vote of thanks to the 
Mayor and Corporation, and have little 
doubt that the Show will be a great 
success in every respect. (Cheers.) 
Mr. J. Bowen-Jones said that as 
Senior Steward of Stock he had been 
asked to second the vote of thanks 
which had been moved by His Royal 
Highness, and he could endorse em- 
phatically every word that had fallen 
from the Prince’s lips. Some twelve 
months ago, as one of the members of 
the Inspection Committee, he came 
to Chester, and found the Mayor then 
as heartily determined to make the 
Meeting a success, if they visited 
Chester, as he had since proved him- 
self to be. He felt that the thanks of 
the Society were in every way due 
both to the Mayor and the Corpora- 
tion of Chester for the earnestness 
with which they had taken up the 
movement, and for the way in which 
they had carried it into effect. It 
was in a great measure to their exer- 
tions that the great success of the 
Meeting would be due. 
The vote having been carried by 
acclamation, 
The Mayor op Chester (Mr. 
Charles Brown), on behalf of the 
Corporation, thanked the meeting 
most earnestly for the resolution 
which they had so unanimously 
passed. They had been very pleased 
that the Society should meet at Ches- 
ter that year. Frora the time that 
they first heard of the decision of the 
Council the Corporation had endea- 
voured as far as possible to make the 
Meeting a success. They had been 
seconded very heartily by the citizens 
generally, by those in the county, and 
also by their good friends in North 
Wales. Five-and-thirty years ago the 
Society’s Meeting at Chester proved a 
great success in every sense of the 
word, and he hoped that the present 
occasion would prove equally success- 
ful to the Society. 
Vote of Thanks to Local Committee. 
Sir Jacob Wilson said he had 
been deputed to move the next reso- 
lution, which was, “ That the best 
thanks of the Society are due, and 
are hereby tendered, to the Local 
Committee for their exertions to pro- 
mote the success of the Meeting.” 
He thought that when those who 
were present had had an opportunity 
of examining the contents of that 
vast expanse of shedding, they would 
agree with him that they were abun- 
dantly justified in passing that reso- 
lution. He dared say that a large 
majority of those who entered the 
yard simply accepted the situation as 
if those sheds and their contents 
had been dropped from the clouds. 
Little did they know the exertions 
and anxiety caused to many to pro- 
duce the result now presented to 
them. Before the Society could take 
its work in hand, a great deal devolved 
upon the Local Committee in order to 
make matters more agreeable and 
satisfactory to all concerned. When 
he heard complaints, not unnatural 
probably, from exhibitors in regard to 
the rings in which their animals were 
shown, he would like to plead with 
them to have a little generosity for 
those who had done their best. 
Every Showyard was not like a billiard 
table, and much of the land in their 
country was laid in ridges and furrows. 
If they knew the thousands of pounds 
that had been expended upon the 
ground, they would not be quite so 
lavish in their criticisms. Every- 
body had done their best, and the 
Local Committee above all. He sup- 
posed that now he must be regarded 
as one of the old fogies of the So- 
ciety; but he was not ashamed to be- 
long to that party, because he had 
had the privilege of being present at 
two Shows at Chester. There were 
probably not many present who were 
at the Meeting in 1858. But there 
were certain matters connected with 
that Show which he should never for- 
get. Particularly did he remember 
that wonderful show of cheese, which 
he then thought he should never see 
equalled again. There was also a 
grand show of Shorthorns on that 
occasion. In one class of yearling 
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