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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1026, 15 December 1883, Page 4

Consultation. Robin hood’s great novelty COMPANY ON TUB G.J.C. 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—£ i ,000. 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, hank 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 I 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 I 3,178 subscribers at 10s each ; our Mels bourne and New Zealand Cup, 1883, just closed with 7,069 at 10s each, showing i the progress we have made and the estil mation in which we are held. 11 915 [ FORTUNE FOR ss. Registered ) Letters ) Telegram s t not ac- ) cepted. ADAMASTOR’S Novelty Consultation on the Dunedin Cup, 1884. Post Office Orders payable to Adal master. £SOOO. Will close on or about FEBRUARY 19th, 1884. DUNEDIN CUP, 1881, To bo run at Dunedin on the 21at FEBRUARY, 1884 20,000 Members at 5s each. i 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 ((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 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 bo sent to every Shareholder directly after the 3 drawing. N. B. —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 ac- . cepted. Post Office Orders or Bank Notes preferred. . Address — ’ ADAMASTOR, Care of Lyons and Hart, I 11 916 P. O. Box 151, Dunedin. '■ Conveyances. Longbeach royal mail COACH Leaves Longbeach for Ashburton daily 1 (Sundays excepted) at 7- 30 a. m., Waterton 8.10 a. m., Ashton 8.25 a. m., Wheatstou. 8.45 a.m., arriving at Ashburton in tinv: for the 10.24 express from Chriatohurc i to Timaru. The coach leaves the coach stables, Wakanui Road (opposite Central Hotel), Ashburton, at 4.50 p.m,, arriving at Longbeach at 7.30 p.m. Parcels or orders left at any of the above places wiU receive strict attention Fares—Through single fares, os ; return same day, Bs. From this date RETURN FARE at SINGLE RATES, on Saturdays "nly, between VVaterton and Ashburton. W. B. BOND, Proprietor, 427 c Longbeach. rniNWALD AND MOUNT SOMERS J. RAILWAY. MOUNT SOMERS AND ANAMA ROYAL MAIL COACH. This Coach leaves Hood’s Hotel, 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, 3s. .n JOHN HOOD Publication. IN THE PRESS, AND WILL SHORTLY BE PUBLISHED, “OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS,’ BY ALFRED SAUNDERS. This Book, writien by an old New Zealand coloni t, will bo found to contain the moat 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 ia known about the nrinciples to bo obaerved in the mating of Breeding Stock; and some well defined rules for selecting, with certainty, the moat economical acd beneficial description of food for any animal, from a baby to a mouse. It will show the beat 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