From February 7 to 12, the first annual show of the Hudson River Poultry, Dog and Pet Stock Association, will be held at Newburgh, N. Y. J. H. Drevenstedt, of Washington, N. J., is the secretary.
THE Detroit Kennel Club recently lost fifteen valuable dogs that had been raised for stock purposes by a strange epidemic, resembling pneumonia. Examination of the lungs of a number of the dogs was made soon after death, and they all bore evidence of the same disease that characterizes the lungs of human beings who have died from pneumonia. It seems from information received from different parts of the country that the mysterious malady is quite general, and not confined to any given section.
THE annual meeting of the New England Kennel Club was held recently at its rooms, Hamilton Place, Boston. In token of his long services to the club as treasurer, that pleasant gentleman and enthusiastic spaniel-man, W. O. Partridge, of Boston, was tendered a suitably engrossed testimonial by the club. The following officers were elected for 1889: President, F. B. Fay; vice-president, E. H. Moore; secretary, J. W. Newman; treasurer, Geo. A. Fletcher. Executive committee, the officers and J. E. Thayer, Jean Grosvenor, Frank M. Curtis, J. H. Long, Dr. J. G. W. Werner.
YACHTING.
THE Toronto Yacht Club and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club have decided to consolidate, and after May 15 next will be known only as the Royal Canadian Yacht Club.
The fusion of these two organizations will make the Royal Canadian one of the strongest yacht clubs in the world, with a membership of 650.
MR. C. D. MOSHER, of Amesbury, Mass., who built the phenomenal launch Buzz last season, whose mile record is 2 min. 8 sec., is now designing a steam yacht twice the size of the Buzz, but on the same lines.
MR. S. AUSTIN, Jr., of Philadelphia, has purchased of Mr. Jacob Lorillard his yacht Anita. Mr. Austin paid $22,500 for the Anita, and Mr. Lorillard is now having designs made for his fiftieth yacht.
