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Manawatu Herald, 8 November 1892, Page 1

63 d per yard Summer Dress Tweeds, in Diagonals and Vandyke designs. Well assorted in all the most fashionable colors. Jl& per yard Summer Dress Tweeds, a grand assortment in effective Checks. Well assorted in browns, greys, and fawns. Bid per yard Broche Cashmerettes, a most attractive Summer Dress Fabric. In heliotrope, fawn, grey, cardinal, navy, brown, &c. 93 d per yard Diagonal Cashmerettes, a most useful and effective material in all the new, leading, and fashionable colors. 8s gd The Full Dress, double width Summer Cheviot Tweed, stylish designs, and in the most fashionable colors. 12s 6d The Full Dress, new Flaked Summer Homespuns, double width. Makes up well, and is guaranteed to wear well. 15s gd The Full Dress, the new Hopsacking Tweed, porous and light in weight, the newest material out. Send for patterns to .T A "K/TTiiF* SIMIITHI, Te Aro House, Wellington.

TO TRAVEL THIS SEASON IN THE OTAKI & FOXTON DISTRICT. The Powerful Thoroughbred Carriage Stallion TAM O'SHAWTER. TAM O'SHANTER, by Messenger (imp.) — Banshee, by Sir Charles ; g.d. imported from Tas mania l>y M'chael Stiulbolma who bred Banshee TAM O'SHANTIR is a grey hors', ten yrars old, standing 10 hands 2 inches, possessing great, bone and strength. He gained first prize at Ashburton, 1884, first in 1885 and 1880, second in Christchurch in 1880, first in Chris tchurch 1887 and 1888, and first in Kirwce in 1388. He took first prize at iho EUesmero A. and P. Show, 1889, in Carriage Class, and special prize for the best Carriage Horse on the ground; fist at Rangiora, 1889; second at the C. A. and P. Association Show. 1889, and Earl Onslow's (Governor of New Zealand) silver medal for the best Carriage Horse on tie ground, the prize being awarded to the horse best adapted for improving the breed of carriage horses, and free from all hereditary unsoundness. TAM O'SHANTER has proved himself a very sure foal getter. MESSENGER, sire of TAM O'SHANTER, was a bay horse, standing 10 hands 2 inches high, possessing great power, and full of stout and fast blood. Archer, half brother of his sire, Bottler, was the winner of the Melbourne Cup in two successive years, carrying the top weights of 9st 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 Metropolitan and Melbourne Cup in 1807, and numerous other great races; while Tarragon, out of Messenger's dam, was the winner of the Victorian Champion Race in 1800, after a dead heat with Volunteer— the first heat run in smin 47sec, and the second in smin 48sec, carrying 9st 131 b. Bottler was a'so a creditbale performer on the colonial turf. • Terms, for the Sea6on. - £8 8s p.er single mare ; two or more, £3, payable by promissory note from first service. Groomage Fee Bs. All Mares Sold, Dying, or changing hands in any way, to be paid for. Otalri Mondays, Manakau Tuesdays, Foxton Wednesdays, Oroua Downs Thursdays, Shannon Fbi- { days, Levin and home Saturdays. For further particulars apply to Groom in charge, or to H. HENSON, Proprietor , Maual? aa .