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Manawatu Herald, 8 December 1892, Page 1

We have made the fallowing iirangementt! for the distr tiution of CHRISTMAS GIFTS During the present month of December, and we feel confide.jt 3011 will SAViil MONEY by purchasing from us, besides getting a PHE3ENT, in accordance with the underacted scale : — Every Cash Customer will be enabled to SELECT GIFTS from a large vario'y of Fawcy Articles imported expressly for tin* CIIRISTM a S SE BON from Japan and London, in accordance with the folio -ing fcnler — On all purchases amounting to 10s a preseut to the valno of Is On all purchases amounting to 15s a present to the value of 1/6 On all purchases amounting to 20s a present to the value of 2* On all purchases amounting to 25s a present to the value of 2/6 . On a'l purchases amounting to 80s a present to the value of 3j '■'■•• On all purchases amounting to 85s a present to the value of 0/6 On all purchases auiJiinti'g to 40s a present to the value of 4-s On all purchases amounting to 45s a present to the v;ilue of 4/6 On all pnrchases amounting to 50s 0. present to the v.i ue of os Ami so on in pro, ortion tip to otOU. obJLv/v./j or any larger sum. At the time of pucchasa each Customer w ill receive a TICKET with the money value of the Gift stated on it, and this ticket may be exchanged at once, or at any time during the month of December, for such article or articles as may be selected. 1 he Exceptions are Kid Gloves, Millinery, Dresses made io order and Tailoring. The Wholesale Famiiy Drapery Warehouse, TE ARO HOUSE.

TO TRAVEL THIS SEASON IN THE OTAKI jfc FOXTON DISTRICT. The Powerful Thoroughbred Carriage Stallion TAM O'SHANTER. TAM O'SHANTER, by Messenger (imp.)— Banshee, l>y Sir Charles ; gd. imporled from Tas mania liy M chad Studholma. who Irod Banshee TAM O'SHANTi R is a grey hors-, (en yars rid, standing 16 hands 2 inches, possessing great bone and strength. Ho g»ined first prize lit j*sh burton, 1884, first in 1885 and 1880, second in Chri&tchnr h in 1886, first in f hristchurch 1 887 mid 1888, and first in Kirwee in 1888. He took first piizo at the Ellcsmero A. and P. Show. 1889, in Carriage) (. lass, ami special prize ' for the best Carriage Horse on the ground; fist fit Rangiora, 1889; second at the C. A. and P Association Show. 1889, and Earl Onslow's (Governor of New Zealand) silver medal for the bo-t Carriage Horse ou tie ground, Ihs 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, wns a bay horse, standing 16 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 successivo j'ears, 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 the dam of Tim Whiffler, winner of both Metropolitan and Melbourne Cup in 1867, snd numerous other great races ; while Tarragon, out of Messenger's dam, was the winner of the Victorian Champion Race in 1866, after a dead heat with Volunteer - the first heat run in smin 47sec, and the second in omin 48sec, carrying 9st 131 b. Bottler was aso a creditbale performer on the colonial turf. Terms, for the fcieascm.- £8 8s pei single mare ; two or more, £3, payable by promissory note from first service, Groomage Fee Bs. All Maies Sold, Dying, or changing hands in any way, to be pair for. Otaki Mondays, Manakau Tueb days, Foxton Wednesdays, OrouE Downs Thursdays, bhannon Fm days, Levin and home Saturdays. For further particulars apply t< Groom in charge, or to H. BENSON, Proprietor, Manakau.