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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1343, 16 September 1886, Page 3

Meetings. SFLEOT QUADRILLE ASSEMBLY AN Extended Programme will be held TO-MORROW (FRIDAV). Gentlemen, 3s 6d ; I ndies free. By order of the Dance Committee. 9649 A X ❖ THE ORDINARY MEETING of the THISTLE LODGE. No. 627, B.C , will be held TO-MORROW EVENING at the Orange Hall, Burnett street, at 7 30 Visitors and full attendance of members invi e 9640 By order of the B. W M

Public Notices. FISH! FISH I FISH I WANTED known to the inhabitants of Ashburton and neighborhood that a consignment of prime Smoked Fish has just reached Westqati & Bates, Oyster Saloon, Tancred street. 9647 WESTGATE & B ATES, (From G. Elliott, Christchurch), Fishmongers and podlterebs, OYTSTER SALOON, Tancred street, Ashburton. N.B.—We are now receiving daily Fresh Fish of the best quality. 9648 E HAVE FOR SALEPRIME SEED WHEAT, OAT', and BARLEY Some of the above lots have been grown in the Timaru district. PIG FEED FOR SALE In any quantity. Just landed— All Kinds of CLOVER SEEDS, choice quality RYEGRASS and COCKSFOOT for bile, FRIEDL AN DER BROS MACPHERSON, SAMPSON, & CO Auctioneers, valuators, STOCK LAND, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS, Will hold their reeular WEEKLY SALE of Horses. Cattle, Pigs, Poultry, Produce, and Sundries, at the CENTRAL AUCTION MAI T, Havelock street, EVERY SATURDAY, at 12 o’clock sharp Special Sales conducted when required on very easy terms. Agents for Mutual Life Assurance Society of Victoria, Limited. The Equitable Fire Insurance Association of New Zealand. Messrs Booth, Macdonald, and Co., Christchurch. P McNeavo’s Patent Footrot Application. For Sale 2 Second-hand Spring Traps (nearly new) 1 Superior Second-hand Dogcart (almost new) 1 Blacksmith’s Patent Portable Forgo Quantity Superior Hurdles Several Properties to Let or for Sale. MVCPHi:RSON, SAMPSON & GO., £0593 Auctioneers Great Sale Extraordinary. ORR & ALCO RN On the Opening of the SPRING TRADE, BEG to announce to their customers and the public generally that tiny have now opened up the greater portion of their Direct Importations for the Season All the LATEST NOVELTIES in DRESS MATERIALS, including the new Glow-worm, Kyrle, and Canvas Cloths, and the newest things out in Printed Sateen} Oatmeal, and Zephyr Cloths.

In Ladies’ and Children's Straw Hats Bonnets, Flowers, &c., we are now showing the largest and most attractive stock ever seen in Ashburton. We desire especially to call the attention of everyone to a SPECIAL PURCHASE of a SET of SAMPLES, representing the stock of one of the largest wholesale lionses in England. In this stock there are no less than 2242 different articles, comprising Costumes, Mantles, Ulsters, Children’s Dresses, &c , Pelisses, Ladies’ and Maids’ Corsets, Tunics, Aprons, Hats and Bonnets, Fur Capes, Underclothing, Quilts, Towels, Toilets, Boys’ Suits of all kinds, Men’s Suits and Overcoats, Wool Shawls, &c. Many of these articles are of a style and quality suitable for a wealthy city trade, and never before seen in Ashburton

At the price we have purchased those goods we are enabled to BELL them at LANDED COST, and have a fairprofit, but saving over 50 per cent to the purchaser. Together with these goods, that are, without tear of contradiction, the cheapest lot ever sold in Canterbury, we have decided to reduce the whole of our stock to prices to correspond. 1 his SPECIAL SALE will commence , On SATURDAY NEXT, 18th inst Orr & Alcorn. 9646

fJIHE PROBLEM SOLVED By the aid of mathematical science, and by carefully 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 the same price as ready made goods so that everyone may enioy the luxury of a Perfect Frrrvo Suit, at the lowest possible expense.

it gives ua much pleasure to inform jjr .'Hands and the public generally that ms 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 Kaiapoi Suits ... ... ... 4 0 0 Fancy Coatings, Broadcloths, etc, in proportion.

As no margin is allowed for risk of kind, orders at these prices will be sxb onted for CASH ONLY. Several large shipments of Autmnn and Winter Tweeds and Fancy Coatings jnst received. Craighead & Co, tailors and clothiers ASHBURTON.