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Invercargill Advertisements. SAMUEL BEAVAN, HARDWARE MERCHANT, INVERCARGILL, HAS NOW OPENED HIS new store, WITH THE LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTED STOCK OP FURNISHING AND GENERAL IRONMONGERY, PLATE, CUTLERY, IRON BEDSTEADS, MATTRESSES, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, GLASS, CHINA, AND EARTHENWARE, IN THE COLONY. JN making this announcement, he wishes further to intimate that he has made an ENTIRE REVISION OF PRICES, With a view to give the Public THE ADVANTAGE OF LARGE SHIPMENTS, DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURERS. (3) PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND. £2500 REWARD. T7OR THE DISCOVERY OF A PAYABLE r GOLDFIELD. Fifteen hundred pounds (£1500) of which will be guaranteed by the Southland Prospecting Association, and one thousand pounds (£1000) by the Southland Government* in accordance with a notice in the Government Gazette—to the following effect, viz., "That a reward of £IOOO will be paid to any party who shall discover a Payable Goldfield within 12 month? from the date hereof, conditionally, on the discoverer or discoverers giving satisfactory proof to the Government that 16,0000zs of gold, the bona fide produce of that particular field, being within the Province of Southland, shall have been realised and brought to Invercargill within 12 months from the date of the discovery, - and duly reported to His Honor the Superintendent." The Southland Prospecting Association will pay their subsidy of £ISOO, in virtue of the following resolution passed at a Public Meeting at Invercargill, November llth, 1863, viz.—"That the said reward will be paid to such person or persons who may be declared entitled to the Government Reward of £IOOO. Intending Prospectors are also notified of the following resolution passed at the same meeting, viz.—" That in the event of a payable Goldfield being discovered in the Otago Province, and such Goldfield being shown to be to the advantage of oouthland, that the Committee shall have power to give a proportionate reward to the discoverer, and such Money to be raised as the Committee may deem most advisable. By order of the Committee of the Southland Prospecting Association. I. H. MOSES, Honorary Secretary. Invercargill, 14th November, 1863. N.B.—Prospectors requiring Maps of the Southland Province, can obtain them on application to the Secretary. 740

WANTED-JOHN W. A. STONE, who arrived at Sydney by the "Thames" brig in 1852, to write to his Brother, FREDERICK G. STONE, Poit-office, InvercaigilJ, Southland, j New Zealand. 1 j