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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1735, 14 December 1887, Page 2

VICTORIA _ HOUSE. DIMANT AND COE HAVE extreme gratification m announcing their Third Annual Distribution of Beautiful, Useful, Rare and Valuable Work* of Art, which comprise,— _ GLASS SUGAR BASINS, COLORED, PLAIN, AND ENGRAVED WATER JUGS, B OTTER DISHES, &c, &c, to Cash Purchasers of Parcels to the value of 200,405, and upwards. COUPONS ABE NOW BEING ISSUED. GIFTS ARE EXHIBITED IN WINDOWS. DIM ANT eft; QOE . General Drapers and Clothiers, EAST AND TANCRED STREETS. 12 22 ALBEET KOBEETS has for sale.— Glovebs, — RED, WHITE, COWGRASS, ALSYKE, and TREFOIL. RYEGRASB, COCKSFOOT, akd RAPE, Golden Tares, Cape Barley, SEED PEAP, SEED OATb (various kinds), CRASHED BEANS PLOUGH SHABES COOPER'S SHEEP DIP, Ackccfledg;^ to bo THE BEST IN THE MARKET] XMAS. XMAS. XMAS. WE HAVE MADE EXTENSIVE PURCHASES FOR THIS XMAS TRADE. 100 pairs Katapoi Tweed Trousers, from lOs 6d 47 Colonial and Ashburton Tweed Suits from 38s 6d One Case Stockman's Col. Moles 5s lid And are giving Grand Value m Hats, Shirts, Flannels, Drawers, Boots, &oj MITCHELL~&r TURNER. PICKFORD AND UNDRILL. TJWRMTURE WABEHOUSE, CABINETMAKERS AND UNDERTAKERS. %J TANCRED STREET, Opposite Union Bank. NEW GOODS— Chairs of all kinds, Toilet Ware, Pier and Toilet Glassef Mattreasea and Palliaßes, Couches, Chaap Perambulators FURNITURE 10 ANY DESIGN MADE TO ORDER, Having procured a very superior HEARSE and MOURNIN9 COACH, Flumea and. complete fittingß, they are now prepared to undertake FUNERALS IN TOWN OR- COUNTRY With Despatch and Economy, combined with reasonable charges. STILL AHEAD OF ALL OTHERS, AtfD TH3S IS ENDOBSED BY THE BUYING PUBLIC. | SALES FOR 1886, 45,557 MACHINES. n .IBIS record "stands unparalled. It lifllaid before the public as the best evidence . i of tho merit of the WALTER A. WOOD BINDERS and BEAPBKS. This exhibit of Palea shoving at once their volnme and their marvellous growth, h is always bad, and most continue to have, an irretistable influence upon the ji idgment of the farmer m determining what make of machine it Is practically and et 'onomlcally bis interest to own The beet possible test of the merit of machinery is comparison, This ia the test is; oon wliloh we are satisfied to rest the claims of the WALTER A. WOOD HAJR* H ESTING MACHINES. Each year's addition to the record of sales contributes to ti e value of the test. It will be seen that mora than 45,000 machines have been placed m the hands of tl c farmers during last season, and it is everywhere known that these farmers unite I'l i the verdict that the harvesters, binders, mowers and reapers that do the best >» crk m the grain Sold and hay field, that are most readily understood and* operated 1 jv the driver, that are most easily drawn by the team, snd that h\Bt the longest, are Hhose that bear the name of WALTER JL. WOOD, *iame which these machines have long made familiar m all olvlHscd ports tf the world. | DUBABILITY.' OF|;THE WOOD MACHINES] I Sales of repairs lees than for any' other Machines. It. ls a fact attested by ogenfa who sell them, and by farmers who use them, thi) Wood >s Mechines requires far Iras repairs than any other machines In nee. N( Other '.harvesting machines are ss durable »nd free from breakages, F. FERRIMAN, Ashburton, Agent. ! AGAIN YIGTORIOUS I tTiflE Latest Honors — first prlz9— Gold Medal and 500 franos awarded to the -L Walter A. Wood Binder, after a three dayB 1 Government trial, at Melon, m ! France. McOormick Wood«frame 2nd, Hornaby 3rd. ! The " Cultivator and Country Gentleman" cays :— "The trial at Melun wis a | grand socceis. It was attended by the French Cabinet Minister of Agrlcnlture, and i be Department Director, as well sa rrany otber French Government officials. M assiHdre, Inppector-General of Agriculture, having personal direction." \ The result bas been published m the letding American dailiep- -east— went — ; ' -nor»h snd south — m the following cable despatch, which was dipped from the it jNew Tork Tribune," of 11th A gnat, 1887 : — A Government Harvefctor and P binder Contest was held near Melnn July 29, 30, 31, the most important European !'. ,ontest sines 1885. The WALTER A. WOOD Machine received first prize— gold ' oedal and 500 franos. MoCormick Wood-frame, second ; Hornsby, third McOormlok i*i el-fume M'fhlne, * n J T ..b.Qston c, ard Ackboret'o Machines also competed m he . ■ . ■ ,