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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1730, 8 December 1887, Page 2

VICTORIA_ HOUSE. DIMAET AND COE HAVE extreme gratification m announcing their Third Annual Distribution of Beautiful, Uetful, Rare and ValuaWo Works of Art, which comprise, — GLASS SUGAR BASINS, COLORED, PLAIN, AND ENGRAVED WATER JUGS, BUTTER DIBHES, &c , &0., to Cash Pur«hassr« of Parcels to the value of 20s, 40s, and upwards. COUPONS ABE NOW BEING ISSUED. GIFTS ARE EXHIBITED IN WINDOWS. _ DIMANT cSc COE General Drapers and Clothiers, EAST AND TANCEED STEEETS. 12 22 ALBERT EOBEETS HAS FOE SALE,— Clovers, — BED, "WHITE, COWGEASS, ALSYKE, and TEEPOIL. RYEGRASS, COCKSFOOT, and RAPE, Golden Tares, Cape Barley, 8BED; PEAB.SEED OATb; (various binds), CRUSHED BEANS PLOUGH BHABEB COOPER'S SHEEP DIP, Acknowledge! to bo THE BEST IN THE MAEKET

PICKFOBD AND OTDRILL FURNITURE WAREHOUSE, CABINETMAKERS AND UNDERTAKERS, TANCRED STREET, Opposite Union Bank. NEW GOODS — Chairs of all kinda, Toilet Ware, Pier and Toilet Glasses? Mattreßses and Palliases, Couches, Cheap Perambulators. Furniture to any Design Made to Order. Having procured a very superior HEARSE and MOURNING COACH, wit. Plumes and complete fittings, they are now prepared to undertake FUNERALS IN TOWN OR COUNTRY With Despatch and Economy, combined with reasonable charges,

XMAS. XMAS. XMAS. WE HAVE MADE EXTENSIVE PURCHASES FOR THIS XMAS TRADE. 100 pairs Kaiapoi Tweed Trousers, from lOs 6d 47 Colonial and Ashburton Tweed Suits from 38s 6d One Case Stockman's Col. Moles 5s lid And art) giring (irand Value m Hats, Shirts, flannels, Drawers, Booto, 6cc» mitchell"-&T turner.

STILL AHEAD OF ALL OTHERS, AND THIS IS ENDOBSED BY THE BUYING PDBLIO. SALES FOR 1886, 45,557 MACHINES. fT^BIS record stands nnparaHed. It is^laid before the pablio as the best evidence 1 of the merit of the WALTER A. WOOD BINDERS and REAPERS. This exhibit of Bales showing at once their volume and their marvollons growth, has always bad, and mast continue to have, an Irreilstable influence npon the judgment of the farmer' m determining what make of machine it la practically and economically bis interest to own, Tha best possible teßt of the merit of machinery Is comparison, This is the test npon which we are satisfied to rest the claims of the WALTER A. WOOD HARVESTING MACHINES. Each year's addition to the record of sales contributes to tbe value of tbe teat. It will be seen that moro than 45,000 maobines have been placed In the hands of the farmers during last season, and it Is everywhere known that these farmers unite m tbe verdiot that the harvesters, binders, mowers and reapers that do the best work m the grain field and hay field, that are most readily understood and operated by the driver, that are most easily drawn by the team, and L tbat last the longest, are those that bear the name of WALTER, JL. WOOD, name which these machines have long made familiar m all civlHsedJparts of the world. durability; of the wood machines: Sitles'o^ repairs leaa than for any'other Maohines. It io a fact'attestedjby agents who sell them, and by farmera who use them, tha) \ Wood's Machines requires far less repairs than any other machines m uee. Xc other harvesting machines are as durable and free from breakages, F. FEKRIMAN, Ashburton, Agent.

AGAIN YICTOEIOUSJ! THE Latest Honors— firat prize— Gold Medal and 600 francs awarded to the Walter A. Wood Binder, after a three days' Government trial, at Melun, In France. MoOormlck Wood-f rame 2nd, Hornaby 3rd. The " Cultivator and Country Gentleman " eayp :— " The trial at Molnn w»b a grand success. It was attended by the French Cabinet Minister of Agriculture, and be Department Director, as well as n-any other French Government officials. M asallltfre, Inspector-General of Agriculture, having personal direction." The result has been published In the leading American dailien— aast— west-*---north and south— ln the following cable despatch, which was clipped from tho .New York Tribune," of 11th A gust, 1887 : — A Government Harvebter and Binder Contest was held near Melon July 29, 30, 31, the most important Europoan lontest slnca 1885. The WALTER A. WOOD Machine received firßt prise — gold nedal and 500 francs. McCormick Wood-f rame, second ; Horußby, third McOormlok a eMisme Machine, *«•* T^fcnjton c, a«»d Ackboret's Machines also competed In he