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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1022, 11 December 1883, Page 4

Consultation. R OBIN HOOD’S GREAT NOVELTY COMPANY ON THE C.J.C. SUMMER MFETING, To be held on the Christchurch Racecourse on TUESDAY, JAN. Ist, 1884. Midsummer Handicap and Middle Park Stakes. 2,000 Shares of 10a each—£ 1,000. 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 — 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 Oonsulta- i tion of 1882 (12 months since) closed with 3,178 subscribers at 10s each ; our Melbourne and New Zealand Cup, 1883, just closed with 7,059 at 10s each, showing the progress we have made and_ the estimation in which we are held. 11 915 AF ORT UN E FOR ss. Registered Letters Telegram s not accepted. £SOOO. Will close on or about FEBRUARY 19th, 1881. DUNEDIN CUP, 1881, 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. February, 1884. Each Ticket has seven separate chances. Race and Cash awards being drawn for separately. When convenient please send P. O. Order t (payable 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 atamps 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 leas than Two Tickets sent to any one address. Result will be sent to every Shareholder directly after the drawing. N. Li. —The Press of New Zealand can know, by applying to the undermentioned, where the three principal prizes go, also their names and address, if required, but not for publication.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.U. Box 151, Dunedin. Conveyances. Longbeach royal mail COACH Leaves Longbeach for Ashburton daily (Sundays excepted) at 7.30 a. m., Waterton 8.10 a.m., Ashton 8.25 a.m., VVheatston. 8.45 a.m., arriving at Ashburton in time for the 10.24 express from Ghristchurc to Timaru. The coach loaves the coach stables, Wakanui Road (opposite Central Hotel), Ashburton, at 4.5 u p.m., arriving °t Longbeach at 7.30 p.m. Parcels or orders left at any of the above places wiU receive strict attention Fares—Through single fares, 5s ; return same day, Bs. From this date RETURX PARE at SINGLE RATES, on Saturdays ~nly, between Waterton and Ashburton, W. E. BOND, Proprietor, 427 c Longbeach. mINWALD AND MOUNT SOMERS X RAILWAY. MOUNT SOMERS AND ANAMA ROYAL MAIL COACH. This Coach loaves 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 'iu the arrival of each train. Parcels and Luggage punctually attended to. Single faros, ?s; return, 3s. .n JOHN HOOD Publication. IN THE PRESS, AND WILL SHORTLY BE PUBLISHED, “OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS.’ BY 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 u...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 practices, it will point out how to keep poultry with certain profit, in brilliant health, and producing abundance of eggs at oir OT y season of the year. 240