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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 354, 9 December 1879, Page 3

'Models, naotical or mechanical, by men Patch-work Cutting out and making white shirt, wearable size Cutting out. and making regatta shirt, wearable size Cutting out and making Crimean shirt, wearable size Book-markers, girlß only, under 14 I Bet-1 ironed shirt ; Best dressed doll, dothing to be made and doll to be dressed -by exhibitor, girls under 8. 10, 12, and U Pillow lacePoint lace Crewel work Plain needlework, under 8,10,12. and 15 Hemming/handkerchief, under 8, 10, 12, and 14 Button holes, by boys or girls under 12 Crochet or tatted antimacassar, under 14 Crochet, tatting, adults and girls Woolwork, adults and girls under 14, entirely done by exhibitor Embroidery, adults and girls under 12 Cone work, leather do, for frames or boxes Collection of pressed ferns, sea weeds, and leaves Essay oh the "Natural resources and capabilities of Akaroa Harbour and adjacent country." ■ : .! RULES. 1. All needlework exhibited for prizes must be done by the hand. 2. More than one prize will be given for. many of the things named in this schedule. • 8. No name to be attached to any exhibit for competition. ; 4. Exhibitors to state in what class their exhibit is to be placed. N,B.—-Persons willing to give prizes in money or otherwise, are requested to communicate with the Secretary as soon as convenient. Admission : One shilling. STEPHEN WATKINS, Hon, Secretary. BBUOB'S FAMILY* COMMERCIAL HOTEL, AKAROA. QUPERIOR ACCOMMODATION Private Rooms for Families. Terms : Per week . £2 2s. Do. Children ... ... £1 Is. Single Gentlemen : Per Meal ... ... ••• 2s. ..„ Day , ... Bs. „ Week ... ... ... £1 10s. criterToF"hotel. Per Meal ... ... Is. 6d. ■• Week' ... £1 ss. J. BEECHER, Nov 28 ' Proprietor. THE CELEBRATED AND FAST TROTTING PONY MERRYLEG-S WILL TRAVEL through the Peninsula, stopping at Mr Olphert's Hotel on Monday, Night, and at Mr W. Chamberlain's, Akaroa, on Tuesday Night. Terms—£3 3s for the season. Grootnage, ys, payjible at first servie«\ Two or more mares arranged for. Apply R. DUNN, in charge; AKAROA HORTICULTURAL AKD INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. npHE above will be held on -L TUESDAY, DEC. 16. Exhibits and donations of prizes invited. Schedulfs of Prizes may be seen at all .the stores;, and full information can be obtained from the undersigned. ■■ STEPHEN WATKINS, Secretary. OKAIN'S DISTRICT ROAD BOARD. ELECTION OF MEMBERS. ' '* ig hereby given, in ac- ~. cordance with " The Regulation of Local Elections* Act, 1876," that an Election will be held oa TUESDAY, ,^&^'dt^'6^&Si!iiy'., lßSoj for the return of TWO duly qualified persons to serve as members of the above-men-tioned Road Board, in the places of Messrs Barker and O'Connor, who retire by rotation, but are for rekiectipfi../, .. /;r |...;| r : -~ ".'; 4 The^NOM-INATIGN ; of Candidates will take place at noon on WEDNESthe 24th day of December, 1879, in ihe Library/ Okain's Bay, and the Polling (if necessary) will take place in the Libraries, Little Akaloa, Okain's and Le Bon's Blys, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on the day abovementioned. '. D. WRIGHT, Returning Officer. Okain's Bay, Dec. 1, 1879.