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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1328, 30 August 1886, Page 3

Public Notices. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. HUNT CLUB STEEPLECHASES AT TIMARU, SEPTEMBER 2. SATURDAY RETURN TICKETS to Timaru will be issued at Christchurch, Oamaru, and Intermediate stations on the Ist and 2nd September, and to Washdyke, from Christchurch, Temuka, and intermediate stations on the 2nd, available for return t il 3rd September. Pa's ngera for the racecourse platform per express train, 2nd September, o»n alight at Washdyke, and join a train there for the racecouise platform. I 8533 By order.

LONG BEACH ROAD BOARD. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that it is the intention of this Board at a meeting to be held on FRIDAY, September 10,1886, to strike the following separate RATES in the District, viz, : Nos. 1,2, 3, and 4 Ward, a rate of threefourths of a penny in the £ ; No 5 Ward, ' a rate of one halfpenny in the £ ; for the period commencing April 1, 1886, and ending March 31st, 1887, payable in one sum on Friday, September 17th, 1886 That the ratebooks and estimate of such special rate are open for inspection at Messrs Fooks and Son’s Offices, Ashburton . JOHN GRIGG, 8515° Chairman. ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. ANNUAL ELECTION FOR COUNCILLORS.

IN pursuance of the “ Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,” and the ‘•Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876,” I hereby give notice that the ANNUAL ELECTION for THREE COUNCILLORS in place of Councillors Thomas, Scaly, and Caygill, who retire by rotation, but who are eligible for reelection, will be held on 'J HURSDAY, the 9th day of September next, at the Borough Council Chambers, Baring Square west, Ashburton. NOMINATIONS will bo received at the Town Clerk’s Office till 12 o’clock noon on TUESDAY, Slat AUGUST instant, CHARLES BRADDELL, Returning Officer. Borough Council Office, Ashburton, 23rd August, 1886 8504 PRELIMINARY NOTICE. MESSRS MACPHERSON, SAMPSON, AND CO., A UCriONBBRS, VALUATORS, STOCK LAND, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS, Will commence business in the course of a few days in Ashburton at the CENTRAL AUCTION MART, Havelock street, lately occupied by Messrs Zouch and Macpherson. Agents for the following: Mutual Life Assurance Society of Victoria, Limited. The Equitable Fire Insurance Association of New Zealand. Messrs Booth, Macdonald, and Co., Carlyle Implement Works, Christchurch. P. McNeave’s Patent Footrot Application. 4:8522

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BANKRUPTCY THIS DAY Gr. L. Beath & Co. offer the STOCK-IN-TRADE OF THOMAS JACOBS, DRAPER AND CLOTHIER Late of High street, Christchurch, and Akaroa. AT A DISCOUNT OP 10 s »» f

, the STOCK in the BANKRUPT ESTATE of SIMPSON AND HARPER, WOOLLENDRAPEBS, AT A DISCOUNT OF 08. gD. IN THE £ TOTAL VALUE £3210 0 s 0 D

Unprecedented Bargains. Stock Sheets in course of publication. The above are two of the Cleanest Stocks ever offered in Christchurch, Simpson and Harper having been in business only four months, whilst the largest portion cf Thomas Jacob’s Stock was purchased by him this winter. fjIHE PROBLEM SOLVED By the aid of mathematical science, and by carefully studying the human from in all its varied phases of development, we have long ago reduced the art of fitting to , a certainty. But In these days of falling prices, another problem presents itself for solution, and it is this : to produce CLOTHING TO MEASURE at thelsame price as ready made goods so that everyone may enioy the luxury of a Perfect Fmv no Suit, at the lowest possible expense.

it gives us much pleasure to Inform jar friends and the pnblio generally that nls PROBLEM IS ALSO SOLVED, and we are now making suits in our usual First-class style, at the following prices: £ a d. Fair Tweed Suit to measure ... 3 0 0 Better quality 3 10 0 Good honest Ashburton or Kalapol Suita ... ... ... 4 0 0 I Fancy Coatings, Broadcloths, etc, in proportion. As no margin is for risk of kind, orders at these prices will be sxa outed for CASH ONLY. Several large shipments of Autumn and Winter Tweeds and Fancy Coatings just received. Craighead & Co. TAILORS AND CLOTHIERS ASHBURTON.