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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1038, 31 December 1883, Page 4

Consultation. Robin hood’s great novelty COMPANY OK 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, 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 233, 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 subsciibers 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 esti-

£SOOO. Will close on or about FEbR.UA.RY 19th, 1884. DUNEDIN CUP, 1881, To be run at Dunedin on the 21st FEBRUARY, 1884 20,000 Members at 5s each. 304 PRIZES, To be distributed ss 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 to Adamastor). By so doing you protect yourself against loss, as it is equal to Registration. Country Cheques must have la 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 sene 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applying to the undermentioned, where the three principal prize i go, also their narass and address, if required, but not for publication. Registered Letters or Telegrams not accepted. Post Office Orders or Bank Notes preferred.

Address— ADAMASTOR, Jure of Lyons and Hart, II DIG P.U. Box 151, Dunedin. ammtßmamm ——an—n—pant. Conveyances. LONGBEAOH ROYAL MAIL COACH Leaves Longboach for Ashburton daily (Sundays excepted) at 7.30 a. m., Waterloo 8.10 a.m., Ashton 8.26 a.m., Wheatstone 8.45 a.m., arriving at Ashburton in tim for the 10.24 express from Ohristchurc . to Timaru. The coach leaves the coach stables, Wakanui Road (opposite Central Hotel), Ashburton, at 4.50 p. m., arriving at Longboach at 7.3 U p. m. Parcels or orders left at any of the above places wi'l receive strict attention Fares—Through single fares, 5s ; return same day, Bs. From this date RETURN’ FARE at SINGLE RATE*’, on Saturdays "My, between Waterton and Ashburton. W, E. BOND, Proprietor, 427 c Longbeach. i'SIINWaLD AND MOUNT SOMERS JL railway. MOUNT SOMERS AND ANAMA ROYAL MAIL COACH. I This Coach leaves Hood’s Hotel, MounSomers, for Anama Railway Station, at 7.30 am. and 6.35 p.m. every Tuesday and Saturday; returning to Mount Somer on the arr’val of each train. Parcels and Luggage punctually attended to. Single fares, ?s ; return, 3s. . u JOHN HOOD Publication. IN THE PRESS, AND WILL SHORTLY BE PUBLISHED, “OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS,’ BY ALFRED SAUNDERS. This Book, written by an old New Zea. land coloni t, will be found to contain the most modern and complete information upon the Breeding, Rearing and Management of every description of Domestic i’oultry; suggestions for the improvement of Poultry Shows ; all that is known about the nrinciples 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