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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1017, 5 December 1883, Page 4

Consultation. Robin hood's cheat novelty COMPANY OX THE C.J.O. SUMMER MEETING, To bo held on the Christchurch Racecourse on TUESDAY, JAN. Ist, 1831. Midsummer Handicap and Middle Park Stakes, 2,000 Shares of 10s each—£l,ooo. 70 Prizes—Five separate allotments, each share having five distinct chances. List of Phizes : Applications, if by letter, with two twopenny stamps and exchange on cheques one shilling added. Please write signature and address legibly to avoid errors. Money orders, l ank notes and drafts, registered letters and telegrams received ] and promptly attended to N.B.— All letters containing coin must be registered. Address— Hobix Hood, care of Thos. Stapleton, Box 238, Post-office, Christchurch; or Jdbal Fleming, City Baths, Colombo street, Christchurch. In answer to numerous inquiries we beg to state that we are in no wty connected with any other Company. N.B.—Our Spring Meeting Consultation of 1882 (12 months since) closed with 3,178 subsc:ibers at 10s each ; our Melbourne and New Zealand Cup, 1883, just closed with 7,069 at 10s each, showing the progress we have made and the estimation in which we are held. 11 915 * FORTUNE FOR ss. A _ _

R Letters Telegram a not accepted. ADAMASTORM Novelty Consultation on the Dunedin Cup, 1884. Post Office Orders payable to Adamastor. £SOOO. Will close on or about FEBRUARY 19ih, 1834. DUNEDIY CUP, 1831, To be run at Dunedin on the 21st FEBRUARY, 1884 20,000 Members at 5a each. 304 PRIZES, Tobs distributed as follows ; Cash Awards. Feb.uary, 1884. Each Ticket has seven separate chances. Race and Cash awards being drawn for separatsly. When convenient please sen! P. O. Order to Adamastor). By so doing you protect yourself against loss, as it is equal to Registration. Country Cheques must have Is exchange added, and marked correct by 13ank. Two stamps must be sent for reply and result. My Consultation will bo advertised in all the principal papers in New Zealand. If stamps are sent, please add Is in the £ extra. Programmes sent Free on application. No' ICE —Not less than Two Tickets sent to any one address. Result will be sent to every Shareholder directly after the

drawing N. B. —The Press of New Zealand can know, by applying to the undermentioned, whore the throe principal prizes go, also iheir uam s and address, if required, but not for publication. Registered Letters or Telegrams not accepted. Post Office Orders or .Bank Notes preferred. Address— ADAMASTOR, Care of Lyons and Uart, 11 916 P.U. Box 151, Dunedin. Conveyances. LONGBEACH ROYAL .MAIL COACH Leaves Longbeach for Ashburton daily (Sundaysoxcepted) at 7.30 a.m., Waterloo 8.10 a.m., Ashton 8.25 a.m., Whoatstou. 8.45 a.m., arriving at Ashburton in timu for the 10.24 express from Christchurc-i to Timaru. The coach leaves the coach Rabies, Wakanui Road (opposite Central Hotel), Ashburton, at 4.5 U p.m., arriving °t Longbeach at 7.3(J p.m. Parcels or orders left at any of tinabove places wiU receive strict attention Fares —Through single fares, 5s ; return same day, Bs. From this date RETURN FARE at SINGLE RATE--', on Saturdays "My, between Watertou and Ashburton. W. E. BOND, Proprietor, 427 c Longbeach. mINWALD AND MOUNT SOMERS RAILWAY. MOUNT SOMERS AND ANAMA ROYAL MAIL COACH. This Coach leaves Hood's Hotel, Moun> Somers, for Anama Railway Station, at 7.30 am. and 5.35 p.m. every Tuesday and Sara May; returning to Mount Burner on the arr : val of each train.

Parce.B and Luggage punctually attended to. Single fares, ?s; return, 3s. JOHN HOOD Publication. IN THE PRESS, AND WILL SHORTLY HE PUBLISHED, “OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS.’ by alfkkd saundeus. This Book, writ en by an old New Zealand colonLt, will be found to contain the most modern and complete information upon the Breeding, Roaring and Management of every description of Domestic Poultry; suggestions for the improvement of Poultry Shows ; nil that is known about the principles to bo observed in the mating of Breeding Stock; and some well defined rules for selecting, with certainty, the most economical a_d beneficial description of food, for any animal, from a baby to a mouse, it will show the best sort of fowls to keep, and the rules for selecting them ; and, whilst condemning the cruelty and mischief of many common piactiees, it will point out how to keep poultry with certain profit, in brilliant health, and producing abundance of eggs at every season of the year. 240