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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1370, 3 November 1884, Page 1

Business otices. MRS HOOS, (Late of Melbourne), Dress and mantle maker Tanoked street, (Corner of Tanored and Casa treets), Ashburton. Fit and Style Guaranteed. Charges moderate. 3.396 An Apprentice Wanted. 1 A AAA BOTTLES SOLD LAST IU>UUU LAST WINTER. I USE DR ERNEST LOW’S Cherry Pectoral, A safe, pleasant, and reliable medicine for the cure of Colds, Coughs, and all Throat and Lung diseases. Sold all over the colonies by Chemists and Storekeepers in Is 6d and 2s 6d bottles. Wholesale Agents Hakeis and Son, and Kempthokne, Pbossbe and Co., Christchurch ; or to the proprietor, B. CITRON, 6 1110 Akaroa. HR SIDNEY WOLF From the Royal A cademy of Music, London, PROFESSOR OF SINGING AND PIANOFORTE, Cox Street, Ashburton. SINGINGCLASS. Quarter commences THURSDAY, 24tb, Oddfellows’ Hall. Singing at sight. Part singingj Gleeej etc., etc. Terms—One Guinea per quarter. 4960

O E SALE, CRUSHED OATS, 2a 6d per bushel. OH4FP, BRAN, &c. FIRST-CLASS POTATOES. A LOT OF IRON TANKS. Joseph Clark, Ashburton end Tinwald

Consultation. A FORTUNE FOR 10 s, A Fortune for 10a ADAMASTOR’S NOVELTY CONSULTATION ON THE MELBOURNE CUP, 1884. To be run on 4th November. 134 nominations. WILL CLOSE NOVEMBER Ist.

Capital, £5,000 ; in 10,000 shares of 10s each. 319 prizes to -be distributed as follows :—Horses : First, £1,000; Second, £400; Third, £200; Starters(divide),£3oo; Non-starters (divide), £6O0 —Total, L 2500. Cash Awards: 6 at £IOO, £SOO ; 10 at £6O, £SOO ;20 at £25, £500; 40 at £lO, £4OO ; 50 at £6, £3OO ; 60 at £s—Total, £2,500. Each Ticket has seven separate chances, race and cash awards being drawn for separately. Please send Post Office Orders when convenient, or Hank Notes. Cheques must be marked correct by Bank. Notice —Registered Letters not accepted. Two stamps required for reply and result. Programmes, with nominations of horses, sent free on application. Will positively close on or before November Ist, 1884. ADAMASTOR’S SPECIAL PRIZE of £SO.—A special Prize of £SO will be given to the first Shareholder of 4 tickets, or more, who names the first three horses in their respective places. A register will be kept of the date each Tipster’s letter is received, and the first correct Tipster will receive this Special Prize. Each shareholder of not less than 4 tickets is entitled to a tip ; of 8 tickets, 2 tips, and so on for each and every 4 tickets. The £SO is placed in the hands of the Editor of the Otago Weekly Witness, Dunedin. Books open to subscribers for inspection. All subscribers on application can know where the principal prizes go to, and their names and address, if required. N.B. —The Dunedin Cup will follow. Address—ADAMASTOR, Care of Lyons and Hart, 2 331 P.O. Box 151, Dunedin. Robin hood s great novelty COMPANY’S Programme on the Melbourne and New Zealand Gups, November, 1884, is now open with a subscribed capital of £IO,OOO, in 20,000 shares at 10s each, 404 prizes, each ticket having seven chances. To an investor of 20a the odds are 25 to I, £3,110 may be won with one ilcxet. Melbourne Gup (134 prizes)—lst horse, £2,000 ; 2nd, £9OO ; 3td, £450 ; other starters (about £33 each), £9OO ; non-starters (about £l6 each), £1,750 —total, £6,0,0. New Zealand Cup (70 prizes)—lst horse, £I,OCO ; 2nd, £4OO ; 3rd, £2OO ; other starters (about £27 each), £250; nonstarters (about £ll each), £6so—total, L 2,500. j Cash bonds (200 prizes)—2 at £SO, £IOO ; 6 at £25, £l5O ; 6 at £2O, £l2O ; 40 at £10; 146 at £5, £73o~total, £1,500. , Will close on November Ist. 55,000 1 shares have been sold by ns on various events since our commencement. Applications as usual—two 2d stamps for reply and result; money ‘ orders or cheques marked correct with Is exchange added preferred ; if notes or coin are sent letters should be registered ; telegrams and registered letters received and promptly attended to. 10 per cent deducted from all prize moneys, 4 pet cent of which we give to agents who sell tickets for us or clients who purchase books of 25 shares. Programmes with nominations and particulars (past, present, and future,) forwarded post free on application. Agents returns must reach us not latsr than 31st October or they will not be recognised. Address— Robin Hood, care of Thos. Stapleton, Box 238, P. 0., Christchurch, or Jubal Fleming, City Baths, Colombo street, Christchurch. N.B.—Although ws send to newspapers throughout New Zealand, the names and addresses of principal winners, our Company, as many other Consultations adver-

tise they do, respectfully remind the public and our clients that our books are at all times open for inspection to any subs riber. Informa ion not confined to the Press. We consider each subscriber has an eaual right * inspection, 1 17