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Manawatu Herald, 19 November 1892, Page 1

NEW AND !NEXPENB|WIiSm^DREBB FABRICS. bid per yard Summer Dress Tweeds, in Diagonals and Vandyke designs. Well assorted in all the most fashionable colors. yU\ 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. g^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 vJ^ZMI-ES SDVCXTHC. Te Aro House, Wellington.

TO THAVEL THIR SEASON IN THE OTAKI & FOXTON DISTRICT. Tlio Powerful Thoroughbred Cn rringp Stallion TAM O'SHANTER. TAM O'SHANTER, by Messenger (imp.) — Banshee, by Sir diaries ; gd. imported from Tas mania by M chad Sludholmo. who I -red Banshee TAM OS HAN t'i R is a grey hors •, ten yrars rid, . standing 10 hands '2 inches, possessing »veat bono and strength, no gained first prize at Ashburton, 1884, first in 1885 and 1880, second in Christchmvh in 1880, first in ( hristcluu-clj 18&7 and 1888, aud first in Kirwee in 1888. lie took first prize at ihe Ellesmere A. and P. Show, 1889, in Carriage Class, and special prize for the best Carriage Horse on the ground ; fi st at Rangiora, 1889 ; second at tbe 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 hims If a very sure foal getter. MESSENGER, sire of TAM O'SHANTER, was a bay horse, standing 16 bunds 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 •veights 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 tho dam of Tim Whiffter, winner of both Metropolitan and Melbourne Cup in 1867, and numerous other great races ; while Tarragon, out of Messenger's dam, was the winner of the Victorian Champion Eace in 1866, after a dead heat with Volunteer— the first heat run in smin 47sec, and the second in omin 48sec, carrying 9st 181 b. Bottler was a'so a emlitbale performer on the colonial turf. Terms, for the Season.- £8 3s per single mare ; two or more, £.3, payable by promissory noto from first service. Groomage Fee Bs. Ail Mares Sold, Dying, or changing hands in any way, to bo paid for. Otaki Mondays, Manakau Tubs - j days, Foxton Wednesdays, Oroua | Downs Thursdays, bhannon Fri- { days. Levin and home Saturdays. For further particulars apply to Groom in charge, or to i H. HENSON, j Proprietor, Manakau.