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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1051, 16 January 1884, Page 4

Robin hood’s great noyklty COMPANY O THE DUNEDIN CUP, To be run on Dune'in Ra eo mrso in Pi B UAIiV, 1884. 2,000 Shares at 10 ah-£I,OOO. 49 nominations 25 cash bonds. 'J’otal, 74 py.zsa. First horse ... ... ... £4OO Second horse ... ... 150 Third horse ... ... 75 Other starters, divided ... 100 Non-starters, divided ... 150 23 cash bonds at £5 ... 125 Address £I,OOO ROBIN HOOD, Care of Thos. Stapletom, Box 238, Post-office, Christchurch ; or Care of Jcbal Flesiino, City Baths, Colombo street, Christchurch. As our No, 1 and No. 2 cnG.J.G, Summer Meeting have filled so satisfactorily, early application for this No. 1 is requested, as it will soon be filled and No. 2 started. Our books are at all times open for inspection to any subscriber in our Company. Information not confined to the press. Wo consider each subscriber has an equal right of Inspection. 1 47

£SOOO. Will close on or about FEBRUARY 19th, 1884. DUNEDIN CUP, 1884, To be run at Dunedin on the 21st FEBRUARY, 1884,

20,000 Members at 5s each. 304 PRIZES, To be distributed as follows :

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 seal 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 Mew Zealand. If stamps are sent, p ease add la in the £ extra. Programmes sent Free on application.

Notice —Not less thanlbvo 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by applying to the undermentioned, where the three principal prizes go, also their names and address, if required, but not for publication. Registered Letters or Telegrams not accepted. Post Office Orders or Rank Notes preferred. Address — ADAMASTOR, Care of Lyons and Hart, 11 916 P.U. Box 151, Dunedin. Conveyances.

T ONGBEACH ROYAL MAIL I J COACH Leaves Longbeach for Ashburton daily (Sundays excepted) at 7.30 a.rn., Watertou 8.10 a. m., Ashton 8.25 a. m., Wheats to a--8.45 a.m., arriving at Ashburton in tim for the 10.24 express from Christchurc , to Timaru. The coach leaves the coach stables, Wakauui Hoad (opposite Central Hotel), Ashburton, at 4.50 p.m,, arriving Longbeach at 7.30 p.m. Parceia or orders reft at any of the above places wiU receive strict attention Pares—Through single faros, os ; return same day, Bs. From this date UETURrI FA MS at SINGLE BATE'’, on Saturdays ~nly, between Watortoa and Ashburton. W. E. BOND, Proprietor, 427 c Longbeach.

mm WALD AND MOUNT SOMERS I KAILWAY. MOUNT SOMERS AND ANAMA ROYAL MAIL COACH. This Coach leaves Hood’s Hotel, MounSomers, for Anama Railway Station, at 7.30 a in, and 5.35 p.m. every Tuesday and Saturday; returning to Mount Somer on the ar rr val of each train. Parcels and Luggage punctually attended to. Single fares, ?s ; return, 3s. .n JOHN HOOD

Boarding Houses, &c. ; > RINGB ALBERT BOARDING 1 HOUSE AND TEMPER ARCS HOTEL 0. TRUCKLE bags to return thanks to his friends and the public for their patronage since he has taken over the Prince Albert Boarding House, and trusts by always keeping a good table and accommodation for boarders and travellers to receive a continuance of the same. Private rooms for families. C. TRUCKLE, Prince Albert Boarding House and Temperance Hotel near Cookson’s Stables, Wills stkb£l', Ashburton ; next Oddfellows’ Hall, and one minute’s walk from die Railway Station. Charges strictly moderate. 1144

Publication. JN THE PRESS, AND WILL SHORTLY LE PUBLISHED, “OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS,’ by alfked saundbks. This Book, writ; on by an old New Zealand coloni 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 orinciples 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 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 cf eggs at »vory season of the year. 240