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Kumara Times, Issue 1513, 3 August 1881, Page 3

Q.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 Encyclopaedia 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. 173 PRIZES. For Tickets or information, apply at Mr GILBERT STEWART’S HOTEL. No. PRIZES. £ * 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 Encyclopaedia 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 trial? in England to be the best list’s Library, 1200 Colored Plates, Numerous Portraits and Memoirs of Eminent Naturalists, 42 volumes ... 20 0 13. Baronial Halls and Pictureesque Edifices of England from Drawings by Harding, Cattermole, Prout, Muller, Holland, and others, with descriptions by 3. O. Holl, 72 Tinted Plates and numerous Woodcuts, 2 volumes, folio size, morocco binding ... 20 0 14. Hogarth’s Works, engraved by himself, 153 Plates, including the two suppressed plates, folio size, morodco binding, published at £§o ... ... 20 0 15. 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 ... ... 20 0 17. Celebrated English Pictures reproduced by the*Permanent Woodbury process, from pictures by Landseer, Turner, Mulready, Oreswick, 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, qualities, etc., etc,, with 250 plates, comprising 1500 Colored Figures, 6 volumes ... 15 0 19. Wild’s English Cathedrals, 12 selected examples from the Cathedi’als of England of the Ecclesiastical Architecture of the Middle Ages, beautifullycolored, mounted ... ... 15 0 20. Wild’s Foreign Cathedrals, 12 selected examples from the Cathedrals of Strasburg, Cologne, Chartres, Beauvais, Rheims, St. Ouen, and Amiens, beautifully colored, mounted 15 0 21. The People’s Gallery of Engravings, 400 exquisite Steel engravings, 7 volumes, Leather binding ... 15 0 22. Chambers’ Encyclopaedia, New Edition, 10 volumes, Russia binding 15 o 23. Stephen’s British Entomology, or a Synopsis of Indigenous Insects, their Metamorphoses, Times of appearance, Localities, Food and Economy, etc., 88 Plates, comprising hundreds of beautifully colored specimens, 6 volumes, leather binding * 12 10 24. 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, Musical Instruments, Books, &c., &c. Tickets may be obtained from the Secretary, and from Mr J. M'Whirter and Mrs Piezzi, Waimeaj Messrs Blake, Pearn, Gilbert Stewart, and Horne, Kuraara ; and Mr A. Foldi, Dillman’s Town. The drawing will be conducted by a Committee to be chosen by the subscribers, and the date thereof will be duly notified. E. T. ROBINSON, Treasurer.