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Manawatu Herald, 13 September 1900, Page 3

£5,000 Our> Grand £5,000 Ornithological Contest. Something entirely new and interesting. Read what you are to do. You may get £200 cash. Our contest is to see who can make the largest list of names (or kinds) of birds from the following list of letters : WDOOOCCKQULIAPRTARIDG ESPNIELVEBRDIMWADOHTL We will recognise as a bird anything belonging to the feathered tribe, whether it be a Hen, Crow, Singer, or any other kind. You can use any letter as many times to make a name as it appears in the list of letters above ; for instance Woodcock, Plover, Snow Bird, &c. To any persons who can make a list of 25 or more diffrvent names of birds, wo will give absolutely FREE a beautiful Prize value £200 or less. BIG PRIZES AWARDED DAILY. When you have made out your list fill out the line on the bottom of this adv. and send to us with a'Stampe: 1 , Addressed envelope, then if you are awarded a prize you can if you desire pet the prize by becoming a subscriber to THE WOMAN'S WORLD. We shall award a prize to every person who sends the name of 25 Birds and our Gifts will be as follows : For the best list, received each day, a. Gold Watch ; for the second best solution each day a beautiful Imported Tea Set; for the seven next best solutions, each day a Konrah-Sakih Diamond and Ruby Ring ; for the next best solution, a Gold Piece: and for nil other correct solutions, Prizes of Good Va'ue. These prizes will be forwarded daily, you will not have to wait a long time in uncertainty before you know the result. There is no element of lottery in our plan, it makes no difference whether we get your solution late or early in the day. All you need is to post this adv. to us, and on the day it reaches us, if your lift is the best, YOU SHALL HAVE THE GOLD 'WATCH, or if second best the Beautiful Tea Set, and soon. We guarantee that we will award you a prize. There is absolutely no opportunity for deception on our part — we cannot afford it. We want to get 1,000,000 well satisfied subscribers, and for that reason we don't want you to send any money until you know exactly what prize you have gained by answering the puzzles. As soon after 4p m. each day" as possib'e, the examiners will judge the lists to the best of their ability, and will designate the prizes. We will write to you at once notifying you what prize has been awarded you, then if you are fully satisfied you can send your subscription to THE WOMAN'S 'WORLD and your prize will go by return of post carefully packed. To a person of narrow ideas it seems impossible that we should be able to make such a gigantic offer, but we have the money, brains, and reputation, we know exactly what we are doing, and if we can legitimately gain a miion subscribers by this grand idea, we know that this million of well pleased subscribers can be induced to recommend THE WOMAN'S WORLD to all friends thereby building up our circulation still further. We are willing to spend £5,000 in this contest in building up a big subscription list, and when this money is spent we reserve the right to publish a notification that the contest has been discontinued. Don't delay until it is too late. The contest will continue until January Ist, 1901. We give a Bonus Prize of £50 independent of all others to the person who sends in the list gotten up in the best and handsomest manner. Our Committee will decide and award prizes daily, but the special £50 prize will be awarded in March 1901. Any birds name found in the dictionaries accepted. WHO WE ARE. The " Woman's World " is a thoroughly reliable concern, we are known to do exactly as we advertise. As to our reliability we refer to any Advertising Agent or business man of London. Name ....,,.,.,....., Street Town Country 0 Address: The " Woman's World," Brentford, London, W., England.

OR SALE— A PIANO, nearly new, in first-class order, by Ecke, Berlin. Black and Gold Case. Apply to Manawatu Herald Office. ANTED— Prom Ist October, for . fouv months, a srna'l furnished (moderately) House or Cottage. State terms to A.8., P. 0., Palmerston N. Planting Season. Louth Nurse ry, FOXTON. piCHARD GRAY, in tendering j\ his thanks to the public gene rally for their patronage during the past 20 years, desires to call attention to his NURSERY STOCK, particularly Cupre?s, Macrocarpas and Raspberry Canes. Landscape work is a special feature of his, also planting Forest Trees by the acre. £. Edmund Smith, TAILOR, MAIN-STREET, FOXTON. IN thanking the public for the pupport accorded to me sinoe start '. ing in business in this town, I desire ! to state that no effort will be spared . on my part to retain the name I have ! gained. Customers will find New Books of Patterns from which they can make • their choice. j FIRST-CLASS TAILORING GUARANTEED. Style and Fit a Specialty. E. Edmund Smith, THE TAILOR, ; Next Bonk of New Zealand, Foxton. Dm a makes BOOTS ftlA^' £ HARNESS flll"2^fe waterproof as a 9^m^mm^ duck's back, and j <2OLD MEDAL soft ns velvet, Ob m q Adds three times llfflNlM to the wear of UDDIII father. Plea- , WIPPBpIH ■ snnt odour. A!---i lows polish with blacking. j 22 EXHIBITION HIGHEST AWARDS for superiority. Binck or Brown colour. Sold by Boot <SYo>vs, Saddlers, Ironmongers, I tt-c ilannfixctorij, DuUi'kh, Lvndvn, Eivj.

MANAWATU COUNTY COUNCIL. A Meeting of Ratepayers will be held at Mr T. Bowe's residence, Awahou Riding, on MONDAY, the 17th instant, at 1 p.m., to consider the proposal for raising a loan of £400 under "The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," and amendments, for the purpose of construction of Elkins-Motuiti Road, Awahou Riding. FRED PURNELL, County Clerk. Sanson, 10th Sept., 1900. FOR SALE. yfQI ACRES rich alluvial land, T*o I cannot be surpassed in New Zealand, fenced and divided, mostly all ploughed, will grow any crop, being first-class fattening country. ■ The buildings comprise one 4-rooined cottage (in good order), one 5-roomed cottage, orchards, stables, storerooms, butcher's shop ; 2 sets of sheep and stock yards, dips, etc ; large barns, granary, cow-yards, cow-bails; most of the paddocks supplied with water by artesian wells : and pumps, all fences in good order ; i divided into paddocks, being situated J close to creamery, and within 5£ miles of Foxton township. j This property can be sold in three : farms of 157 acres (with cottage and j buildings), 130 acres with cottage, ■ and 144 acres no buildings, fences, on outer boundaries. Apply G. A. PREECE, Sole Agent, Palmerston North. NOTICE. A LL ACCOUNTS owing to me in [\ connection with the Foxton ■ Bakery must be paid by 14th of Sep- ! tember, or will be sued for without i respect of persons. All accounts may be paid to my brother, A. Lang- I ley, Foxton, whose receipt will be a sufficient discharge for same. : G. J. LANGLEY. : JAMES SUTTON, BOOTMAKER, j (Next door to Foxton Bakery.) j Main-street, Foxton. j SEWN WOBK A SPECIALTY. Eepairs nearly executed. j