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FIRST £5000 PRIZE " ROBIN HOOD COMPANY'S Melbourne Cup and N.Z. Metropolitan Meeting Programme, November, 1885. 50,000 Shares at 10s, £25,000. The best programme yet offered to the New Zealand public. To an investor of 20s the chances are only about 14 to 1. 1814 prizes. Each ticket has 8 chances. Melbourne Cup. ! First horse £5000 Second horse 2000 Third horse 1000 New Zealand Cup— First horse £1000. New Zealand Derby — First horse £600. Canterbury Cvp — First horse £400. Four Classes Cash Bonds, 1525 prizes. Apply early, in the usual manner. As the Gaming and Lotteries Amendment Act comes into force on November Ist, 1885, we will positively close on 30th October, 1885; hour of closing will be advertised. Programmes will be drawn and results advertised in leading papers on 31st October. All results will be posted in time to bear the Christchurch postmark of 3 1st October. The drawing will be open, to all subscribers, who may get tickets of admission on application for same. Leading citizens and. Press representatives as usual will also be specially invited to attend the finale of this big programme. Clients who may draw a prize in any part ot New Zealand are hereby specially invited to forward ihehr vouchers for payment through a Bank, or any other channel they may think fit, if not disposed to send through the post after Ist November Circulars with full particulars on application. ROBIN HOOD COMPANY, Care of Stapleton and Fleming, Box 238, Post Office, Christchurch MELBOURNE CUP. To be run at Melbourne, NOVEMBER 4th, 1885. £3000 ON THE MELBOURNE t UP. 6000 Subscribers at 10s Each. 98 Cash Bonds. In all about 200 Prizes. HORSES. CASH BONDS. Ist horse ... £750 lat £100 ... £100 2nd horse ... 500 lat £75 ... 75 3rd horse ... 250 2at £50 ... 100 Others divided 400 4at £25 ... 100 sat £20 ... 100 10 at £15 ... 150 20 at £10 ... 200 55 at £5 ... 275 £1900 £1100 Grand total, £3000. Each Ticket bas the chance of winning the Ist prize, and 8 separate Cash Bonds, £1050 in all. Note.- Ist. Drawing under supervision of committee of subscribers and representatives of the Press. All bo ks open to the inspection of subscribers. 2nd. All cheques outside Hawke's Bay must have ls added for exchange. Bank notes or post office orders preferred. Two stamps for reply and result. - Yours faithfully, SHAKKSPEAEE, Care of E. Ashton, Occidontal Hotel, Or Post-office. B>x 109, Napier. THE LAST CHANCE ! ADAM BEDE Is now forming his Final Company on (he MILBOUBXE CUP, 1885. To be run First Week iv November. Unlimited Number of Subscribers at 10s each. 25 tickets for £12 VS the "' ew Act conies into force on the Ist of November, Adam Bede has decided to make the remainder of the Series into one Grand Final Consultation, of an unlimited number of Subscribers at 10s each. Prizes will be paid in the same proportion as No. 1, that is, should 10.000 tickets be sold— first prize £10UU, and so on, pro. rata. First Horse 25 per cent. Second Horse I<> per cent. Third Horse 5 percent. Other Starters (divided) 25 per cent. Non-staters (divided) ...35 per cent. If 15.000 Members, first prize £1.500. If 20.00U Members, first prize £2,000. Early application for tickets is specially I oequested, and application by Letter I inly, enclosing Two Stamps, with exchange on cheques, or by m-mey order, or drafts. Registered Letters or Telegrams will not on any account be received. P.O. Orders particularly preferred when procurable. FINAL LIST NOW OPEV. Special Notice. — All persons taking 25 tickets will be allowed one ticket gratis. The best and most liberal programme in New Zealand, and remember, Adam Bede will not issue any circulars after the Melbourne Cup, 18M5. It will greatly expedite business if an addressed envelope is enclosed with application. Address — ADAM BEDE, Care of H. N. Abbott. Box No. 2, Post ( Jffice, Auckland I~~E R HO T E L. Opposite Queen's Wharf, WELLI.NGTW. S. S. DOWNES, . Proprietor. •'For the Blood ts the Life." — Ciarke's World -famed Blood Mix* ture in warranted .to cleanse the blood ' from all impurities, froni 'whatever cause arising. For Scrofula, Scurvy. Skin and Blood Diseases,, and Sores, of all kinds, its effects are marvellous. Thousands of testimonials. Sold in bottles, 2s 6d-nnd: lis- each, by Chemists and Patent Medicine, Vendorsererywhere. S-le Proprietors, The Lincoln and Mid;--land Counties Drug Co., Lincoln, England. — Advt» -. , I ; Page Woodcock's Wind Pills Jiav© for thirty years /he'd the first place in t c wor ; ld as ,an/; effectual, •jptidote to indigestion, wind on. the stomach, billiousness, and .all complaints arising fomd^ - "ordered stomach, bowels," or liver. Touic, invigorating, and pnri ! 'ying,'they form the bie^t remedy extant, and niay-be takrn by old and yoiih^w'ith equal ben'fit. — ls l|d, 2s 9d,.;456di J family Boxes -Lis,; of all Chemists!' Proprietor, Page. Woodcock, ; Lincohf,( England, j-r ; ""■ j . ..pJNB^Bpk of 'Clarke's B 41 Pills is. ( warranted' to cure all discharges 'from the" . Urinary. *^igans,.ip; either; sex (acquired, or const ltu'tionaT), Gravel, and Pains in 1 the ,Ba ekv ; Kua ran t eed free from; M ercury. SQidfin Boxes,, 4s 6d each, by all Cheansts and sßatent.vMedicine; Vendors ; . Sole !P-d.ODSi(Jtor8 j; .,TheLL'ncola 'and Midland . i UqanM e ',j',':P*'*4'?i' C°m •Lincoln/- r E > nglaHd. WhoJesA^fiAU.^ "Whplesale^ouscft. — -Apyj'V

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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 55, 17 October 1885, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 55, 17 October 1885, Page 4

Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 55, 17 October 1885, Page 4

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