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(3-RAND ART-UNION, CONSISTING OF Pianoforte (new), Incubator, Doublebarrelled Breech-loader, by Charles Newton (late Roorke), Harmonium, Six quarter-acre Sections, Town of Hokitika, the Full Set of the Encyclopedia Britannica (new edition), 24 Splendid Pictures of English and Foreign Cathedrals, and a Library consisting of 600 Volumes of Magnificent Books (handsomely bound and splendidly illustrated). Three-fourths of the Books are quite new, and the remainder are in excellent condition. 2000 TICKETS, at 10s. EACH. 175 PRIZES. For Tickets or information, apply at Mr GILBERT STEWART’S HOTEL. No. PRIZES. £ s. 1. One brilliant-toned Pianoforte, by one of the best makers, walnut, new, to be delivered direct from the importers—(Messrs Manson & Co.) ... 75 0 2. Twelve volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, new edition, with the guaranteed right to receive the other 12 volumes as published ... 50 0 3. One Christy’s Patent HydroIncubator, with Patent Mother and all appliances necessary for rearing chickens, proved at competitive trials in England to be the best v yet invented 30 0 4. One Double Barrelled Breech 12. Sir William Jardine's Naturalist’s Library, 1200 Colored Plates, Numerous Portraits ■ ' and Memoirs of Eminent Naturalists, 42 volumes ... 20 0 13. Baronial Halls and PictureesqueEdifioesof Englandfrom : Drawings by Harding, Cattermole, Prout, Muller, Holland, and others, with descriptions by S, C. Holi, 72 Tinted Plates and numerous Woodcuts, 2 volumes, folio size, morocco binding ~,30 0 14. Hogarth’s Works, engraved by himself, 153 Plates, including the two suppressed plates, folio size, morocco binding, published at £SO ,„ .„ gO 0 16. The Turner Gallery, Sixty Engravings, from the principal works of J, M. W, Turner, with Memoir and Illustrative Notes, India Proofs, folio size, morocco binding, published price ~,30 0 16. The Aldine Poets, 52 volumes, leather binding ~.30 0 17. Celebrated English Pictures reproduced by the Permanent Woodbury process, from piq* tures by Landseer, Turner, Mulready, Creswick, Stanfield, and others, 90 full page plates, with explanatory notes, folio size, 3 volumes.., ...15 0 18, Maund’s Botanic Garden, or Figures of Hardy, Ornamental Plants, cultivated in Great Britain, with their names, orders, history, quail* ties, etc., etc., with 250 plates, comprising 1500 Co* lored Figures, 6 volumes ~,16 0 19, Wild’s English Cathedrals, 12 selected examples from the Cathedrals of England of the Ecclesiastical Architecture of the Middle Ages, beautifully colored, mounted ... J 5 0 80, Wild’s Foreign Cathedrals, 13 selected examples from the Cathedrals of Strasburg, Cologne, Chartres, Beauvais, Rheims, St, Ouen, and Anfiens, beautifully colored, mounted ... ... ... 15 Q gl. The People’s Gallery of Engravings, 400 exquisite Steel engravings, 7 volumes, Leather binding ... ,16 0 83, Chambers’ Encyclopaedia, New Edition, 10 volumes, Russia binding ... ... j_g q 83. Stephen’s British Entomology, . or a Synopsis of Indigenous Insects, their Metamorphoses, Times, of appearance, Locali* ties, Foqd and Economy, etc., 88 Plates, comprising hun* • dreds of beautifully colored specimens, 6 volumes, leather tending ... 12 iq 84. Hume and Smollett’s History of England, with valuable notes • and continuation to 1846, 254 Steel Engravings,' 8 volumes 12 10 And 151 other Prizes, comprising very handsome Engravings, Musipal Instruments, Books, sc., sc, Tickets may be obtained from the Secretary, a«‘d from Mr J. M<Whirter nnd Mrs Piezfii, Wpmea \ Messrs Blake, Pearn, Gilbert Stewart, and Horne, Kumara \ and M r A. Foldi, DiUman’s TownThe drawing will be conducted by a Committee to be phosen by the subscribers, and the date thereof will be duly notified. E, T, RQBJNSON, Treasurer.

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Kumara Times, Issue 1441, 11 May 1881, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Kumara Times, Issue 1441, 11 May 1881, Page 4

Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Kumara Times, Issue 1441, 11 May 1881, Page 4

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