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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 147, 14 December 1877, Page 3

BOOTS! BOOTS! BOOTS! Cliristmas is Coming. TO THE INHABITANTS' OF THE PENINSULA. is the time to give your Orders in the above line, and W. M. strongly advises you to get your name down early on the list, to ensure getting the work executed in time for Christmas and the Holidays. Independent of the Goods Made to Order, W. M. has in Stock an excellent variety to Suit all Tastes, and he trusts to do a good trade, and earnestly solicits* a call, knowing well that a trial -will prove that you have been to the right shop and will also induce you to repeat your visit. ORDERS WILL BE EXECUTED PROMPTLY AND WELL. Will endeavour to give you such an article as a former employer used to speak of when he said—" Give your customers such a boot, made of such materia that will compel them to come back, with tears in their eyes, for some more." NOTE THE ADDRESS— W. MEEOH, VICTORIA HOUSE, AKAROA. £1000. £}1000. ■G. L BEATH AND CO. HAVE much pleasure in informing their numerous Customers in Town and .Country, tbat on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26th, they commenced giving Tickets for their THIRD GRAND DISTRIBUTION OF NEW YEAR'S GIFTB. The number of Gifts for this year's distribution has been increased: to FIFTEEN HUNDRED, including one each of Fifty, Twenty-five, and Ten Guineas. The Drawing - will take place early in February, as last year, in the _ ODDFELLOWS' HALL, LICHFIELD-ST., CHRISTCHURCH. . T«tal List of Gifts for 1878 : FIRST ... (50 guineas) ... ... ... Value £52 10 0 SECOND (25 guineas) „ 26 5 0 THIRD ■ ... (10 guineas) ... ... ... ■.., , 10 10 0 20 Prizes, each Value£s ... .... ,•/ „ 100 0 0 50 „ „ £2 . „ 100 0 0 300 . „ . £1 ~ 300 0 0 516 „ 10s ... „ 258 0,0 611 „ „ 5s ... ... ... ... „f , 152 15 0 1500 Prizes Total Value— 0 0 Tickets" may be obtained at G. L. BEATH & CO.'S, Argyle H6use, Christchurch, up to the end of January, 1878, subject to the following conditions: 1. Each Cash Purchaser will be presented with One whole Ticket for every Pound's worth Bought. For example :—The Purchaser of a Ten Pound Parcel will receive Ten 2. ' Purchasers of Ten Shillings worth of Goods will receive aHaJf Ticket; two of which must be exchanged for a Whole One prior to the end of January. 3. Each wnole Ticket will be numbered. The Winning Numbers will be advertised in the (Jiristchurch Papers the morning after the Drawing. 4. The number of tickets to be given away is limited to 9500 ; Customers are therefore requested to make their purchases as earl3'_as_possible. __; . ._ 5; Holdersrof"Wmhihg~numbW any Class of Goods in the Warehouse to the Value of the Gifts Drawn. ' •■ .[[ SPECIAL —All Season's Goods, including Millinery; Hats anil Bonnets, .Dresses, Prints, Boys', Youths', and Men's Clothing, &c, will be cleared at Sale Prices. ', „ 1

AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD TENDERS are invited for the Construction of about Forty Chains, Beach-road, Wainui, fronting on Messrs Bates and McDonald's sections. Specifications to be seen at the Road Board Office, Akaroa. Tenders to be sent in by Saturday, the 22nd instant, at noon, addressed to the Chairman. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. ,JOHNIBARWICK, Clerk to Board. Akaroa, Dec. 10,1877. AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD DISTRICT. NOTICE. AFTER this date, no Sledging will be allowed on any Benched Roads within this District. By order of the Board. JOHN BARWICK, Clerk to Board. Akaroa, Dec. 10,1877. AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD. * NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. THAT no Tender any Work will be recognised, unless sent in on the form issued by the Board. By order of the Board. JOHN BARWICK, Clerk to Board. - AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD. .ELECTION NOTICE. IN Pursuance of the " Regulation of the Local Elections Act, 1876,'" I hereby give notice, that an Election will be held on TUESDAY, January 1, 1878, at the Road Board Office, Akaroa, for the purpose of electing. THREE Members to serve o t n,.the said Board, in the places of Messrs '■' Frederick i W." Williams, B. Shadbolt,.|and, Etienne Lelievre, who retire by rotation, and that s th'e Nomination, of Candidates must be :"■ forwarded to m.c in the form required by ••. the said Act,'before noon, on Tuesday, December the 25th instant, at the Road Board Office, Akaroa. By order of > '* ■ H. PIPER, » * Chairman. L JOHN BARWICK, I ; ■ Clerk to Board. Nomination Papers can be obtained on - application at the Road Board Office,