Honiton Christmas Market: This annual market and meat show took place on Saturday, when notwithstanding the ground was covered with snow, making traffic very difficult, and that the weather was bitterly cold, the attendance was quite up to expectation: … Mr. W. T. Hook also came up to his shows of former years. He exhibited two choice Devon steers of about 40 score apiece, bred and fed by Mr. W. Summers of Widworthy Barton; some prime Dorset horns bred at Upottery Manor by Viscount Sidmouth, and a choice lot of Down wethers supplied from the flocks of Sir J. H. Kennaway, Mr. R. Marker and Mr. Pinsent Matthews. …
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