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Manawatu Herald, 29 September 1892, Page 1

The Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, TEAR o__H 0 USE. WE ARE NOW OPENING OUT OUR NEW SPRING FASHIONS "Which have arrived by the Steamers Doric, Ruahine, Arawaj aud which comprise all the LATEST NOVELTIES IN SPRING DRESS FABRICS from English and Continental Manufacturers SPRING MILLINERY from the best French Modistes SPRING MANTLES, Jackets, Jerseys, Dnst Cloaks SPRING WAT I EAU JACKETS, Lace Capes, Silk Capes, Dolmans . . SPRING .BLOUSES, Dressing Gowns, &c, &c. SPRING RIBBONS, Gloves, Laces, Sunshades, &0., &c. and Spring Novelties in every department. Most of these are now ready for inspection at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, TE ARO HOUSE, Wellington.

TO TRAVEL THIS SEASON IN THE OTAKI & FOXTON DISTRIOT. The Powerful Thoroughbred Carriage Stallion •-.■•. TAM O'SHANTER. TAM O'SHANTER, by Messenger (imp) — Banshee, by Sir Charles ; gd. imported irom Tas mania by M chad Studhoimo who bi-ed Bansliee TAM O'SHANTI R is a grey hoi'B-, ten ytars old, standing 16 hands 2 inches, posse-sing jjreat hone and strength. Ho gained first J prize at Ashburton, 1884, first in ] 1885 and 1886, second in Cim&t- j church in 188G, first in ( hristchurcb 1887 and 1888, and first in Kirwee in 1888. lie took first prize at the Ellesmere A. and P.. Show, 1889, in Oarriago Class, and special prize for the best Carriage Horse on the ground ; fi st at Rangiora, 1889 ; second at the C. A. and P Association Show. 1889, and Eail Onslow's (Governor of New Ze. land) silver medal for the be? t Carriage ti orse on tbe ground, the prize being awarded to the horse best adapted fov improving the breed of carriage horses, and free from all hereditary unsoundness. TAM ■ O'SHANTER has proved hims- lf a very snre foal getter. MESSENGER, sire of TAM O'SHANTER, wos a bay horse, standing 16 h.nds 2 inches liigh, possessing great power, and full of stout and fast blood. Archer, half brotber of his sire. Bottler, was tbe winner of tbe Melbourne Cup in two successive years, carrying the top weights n. 98t 71b and lOst 121 b, and was one of the greatest two-mile horses ever bred in Australia. Cinderella, dam of Bottler, was also the dam of Tim Whiffter, winner of both Metrop<*itan and Melbourne Cup in 1867, and numerous other great races; while Tarragon, out of Messenger's dam, was the winner pf the Victorian Champion Race in 1866, after a dead heat with Yolunteer-tbe first heat run in smin 47sec, and the second in omin 48sec, carrying 9st 131 b. Bottler was a'so a creditbale performer on the colonial turf. Terms, for the Season.- £3 8s per single mare ; two or more, £3, payable by promissory note from first service. Groomage Fee Bs. Ail Mares Sold, Dying, or changing hands in any way, to be paie for. Otaki Mondays, Manakau Ttje s. .days, Foxton Wednesdays, Oroue ! Downs Th u£Bdays, bhannon Fki ' days. Levin and home Saturdays. For further particulars apply t( Groom in charge, or to i H. HEWN, ) Proprietor, Manakau.