Page 4 Advertisements Column 3

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1021, 10 December 1883, Page 4

Consultation. Robin hood’s great novelty COMPANY ON THE C.J.O. SUMMER MEETING, To be held on the Christchurch Racecourse on TUESDAY, JAN. Ist, 1884. 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 Prizes : 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, bank notes and drafts, registered letters and telegrams received and promptly attended to N.B.—All letters containing coin must be registered. Address — Robin Hood, care of Thos. Stapleton, Box 238, Post-office, Christchurch; or Jubal Fleming, City Baths, Colombo street, Christchurch. In answer to numerous inquiries we beg to state that we are in no way connected with any other Company. N. B.—Our Spring Meeting Consultation of 1882 (12 months since) closed with 3,178 subscribers at 10a each ; our Melbourne and New Zealand Cup, 1883, just closed with 7,069 at 10s each, showing £5009. Will close on or about FEBRUARY 19th, 1884

DUNEDIN CUP, 188(, To be run at Dunedin on the 21st FEBRUARY, 1884. 20,000 Members at 5s each. 304 PRIZES, To be distributed as follows : Cash Awards. Will close on or about the 19th February, 1884. Each Ticket has seven separate chances. Race and Cash awards being drawn for separately. When convenient please send 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 Bank. Two stamps must be sent for reply and result. My Consultation will be advertised in all the principal papers in New Zealand. If stamps are sent, please add Is in the £ extra. Programmes sent Free on application. Notice —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by applying to the undermentioned, where the three principal prizes go, also their nanu-s and address, if required, but not for publication.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 Hart, 11 916 P.O. Box 151, Dunedin. Conveyances.

Longbeaoh royal mvil COACH Leaves Longbeaoh for Ashburton daily (Sundays excepted) at 7.30 a. m., Water ton 8.10 a.m., Ashton 8.25 a.m., Wheatstone 8.45 a.m., arriving at Ashburton in tims for the 10,24 express from Christchurch to Timaru. The coach leaves the coach .'tables, Wakanui Road (opposite Central Hotel), Ashburton, at 4.50 p.m., arriving at Longbeach at 7.30 p. m. Parcels or orders loft at any of the above places wiU receive strict attention Pares—Through single fares, 6s ; return same day, Bs. From this date RETURN PARE at SINGLE RATE;?, on Saturdays ~nly, between Waterton and Ashburton. W. E. BOND, Proprietor, 427 c Longbeaoh. mm WALD AND MOUNT SOMERS X 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 Saturday; returning to Mount Somer on the arrival of each train. Parcels and Luggage punctually attended to. Single fares, ?s; return, 3a, .n JOHN HOOD Publication. IN THE PRESS, AND WILL SHORTLY BE PUBLISHED, “OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS,’ I$Y ALFRED SAUNDERS. This Book, written by an old New Zealand colon! t, will be found to contain the most modern and complete information upon the Breeding, Rearing and Management of every description of Domestic Poultry; suggestions for the improvement of Poultry Shows ; all that is known about the principles to be observed in the mating of Breeding Stock; and some well defined rules for selecting, with certainty, the most economical and 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 practices, - 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