Garioch Livestock Show

At the Competition for Premiums given by the Garioch Farmer Club, which took place at Old Rain, on the 8th current, there was an excellent show of Cattle and Horses.

The Premiums were adjudged as follows, viz:-

For	the 1st best	BULL,	to Mr Davidson, Cairnbroggie.
	the 2d	Do.	to Mr Marr, Cairnbroggie.
	the 3d	Do.	to Mr Williamson, Bethelnie.
For	the 1st best	COW,	to Mr Horn Elphinstone, of Logie Elphinstone.
	the 2d	Do.	to Mr Marr, Cairnbroggie.
	the 3d	Do.	to Mr Leslie, Badenscoth.
	the 4th	Do.	to Mr Walker, Fintray.
For	the 1st best	QUEY,	to Mr Davidson, Cairnbroggie.
	the 2d	Do.	to Mr Walker, Fintray.
	the 3d	Do.	to Mr Marr, Cairnbroggie.
For	the 1st best	MARE,	to Mr Walker, Fintray.
	the 2d	Do.	to Mr Davidson, Cairnbroggie.
	the 3d	Do.	to Mr Stephen, Conglass.
For	the 1st best	FILLY,	to Mr Horn Elphinstone, of Logie Elphinstone.
	the 2d	Do.	to Mr Arthur Clark, Kintore
	the 3d	Do.	to Mr Booth, Fisherford of Auchterless
	the 4th	Do.	to Mr George Rae, Fintray.

Landed proprietors being precluded by the regulations of the Club, from receiving Premiums; the premiums for the Cows, fell to be paid to Mr Marr, Mr Leslie, and Mr Walker; and those for the Fillies, to Mr Arthur Clark, Mr Booth, and Mr George Rae.

As a proof the excellence of the Cattle exhibited, the Bull (2 years old) which claimed the 2d Premium, was sold for Twenty Pounds sterling, after the show.

Upwards of forty gentlemen, proprietors, and farmers, dined at Pitmachie Inn: General Hay in the chair: and the afternoon was spent with all that harmony and hilarity, which has ever characterised the meetings of the club.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 23rd July 1817.

Auchterless theft

STOLEN,

On Tuesday night the 7th April, from the Stable of ALEXANDER McKENZIE, Crofter at BADENSCOTH, parish of Auchterless,

A BLACK MARE, 10 years old, 13 hands high, without any white upon her, a good deal raised in the back by the draught, supposed to be been carried southward.  Any person who can give such information as may lead to the recovery of the Mare, will be handsomely paid for their trouble, by applying to Mr LESLIE, at Badenscoth.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 15th April, 1812.