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Agricultural Society. The Society's defender was the 
Royal Gazette, which apprehended no harm from its 
constitution, notwithstanding that it had come into being 
"at a time and in a place where recent circumstances 
combine to make every individual who has property at 
stake a politician to the extent of his ability." The 
Gazette also remarked, 
We certainly in some degree regret its exclusiveness, and would be 
happy to see its numbers and efficiency augmented by the admission of 
professional and mercantile men, by which means its objects would also 
be more extended, and much greater practical benefit ensue than from 
the limited sphere of its present range. 
The writings of the rival journals on the subject of the 
Agricultural Society were frequently most amusing in 
respect of warmth and vituperation. 
In view of the discussions which recently took place on 
the financial affairs of the R. A. & C. Society, I may 
state that at one of the. general meetings early in 1834, 
it was found necessary to pass a regulation that no 
member after election should be permitted to take his 
seat until his subscription had been paid, and failure to 
settle up within three months entailed the expurgation 
of the member's name from the roll. 
Another dinner in connection with the Society was 
held on the 25th June, 1834, and this is the last gather- 
ing of the kind under its auspices of which I can find 
any record. 
There appears to have been a lull in its operations for 
several months, but at the monthly meeting in Septem- 
ber, 1834, the hon. John Croal in the chair, it is stated 
that the members present took into " serious consider- 
ation" the fact that the agriculture of the colony had 
been greatly affe6ted by recent events— the allusion, 
