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Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 137, 20 November 1884, Page 4

To Staud this Season at the Pines Stables, Foxton. THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE Somnus BY the Premier Stallion Traclucer, out. of the tboroughbrod imported mare Hammock, thi3 highclass mare being the property of the Middle Park Stud Company. An only a limited number of mares will be received, early application will be necessary. , , .- Foj full particulars as to pedigree, performance^ terms, &c,, see cards with photo thereon, which can bo seen at the principal business places throughout the district, and can also be obtained on application to the undersigned. BAKER & Co., Proprietors, '• JPoXtOD. THE THOROUGHBRED STALLIOIf Morpheus Will Travel the Palmerston, Peilding, Halcombe, and Sandon Districts this Season. MORPHEUS is a golden chesnut, standing 1 6 hands 3 inches thoroughly sound m all respects. H« is 7 years old, and by that fast and well-known horse Castaway, dam Somnambula by Towton, imported, dam Opera; by II Barbiere,r dam. Cassandra by Priam j Towton^ imported, by Melbourne ; Castaway by Traducer, imported, dam Mermaid, imported. MorpJims comes from a great racing family, claiming some aristocratic and high-class performers as his relatives. JEUs sire won the Wellingtpn Cup and ran second for the Christchurch Derby and Great Autumn Handicap He is full brother to Lurline. and Le Loup. The performances of these animals m New Zealand and Australia need no comment,. Le Loup won the Canterbury J. C. Handicap and Cup m 1880. • Opera, grand, dam of. Morpheus^ won the Canterbury Derby m 186,4., Tambourini was ; also from- (jpera, by Towton, .and, won amongst other races, the- .Canterbury J. ; C. Handicap and Canterbury aud WelUngtpn Cups, besides perf ovming successfuliy over hurdles. Salvage, by Castaway, ran second .for the Wellingtpn Cup m 1882, giving the winner a year and a pound. Won , the (jreat Autumn Handicap at Christchurch, and ran second to Adamant for the Dunedin, ,Cup giving the winner two years and twenty four pounds. Won; the Auckland Cup and Free Handicap. Towton, imported, is the grand sire of Morpheus, and the sire of such noted performers as Golden Olo^ud, Master Rowe, Misfortune. Tambounni, Lara, Puriri, Korari, j Atalanta, . Ayucena, Cocksure, Maiora^Lillipee, Stirabout, Songster, Lacenfeedjj Ramarama, aud brother m blood to Darebin, admitted to be as. brilliant a. horse as ever trod the Australian turf. Darebin, by The Peer; imported, full brother, to Towton, imported, dam Lurline, full sister to- Castaway.; * Terms, j groomage fee, 55.; , W; J. CLOUTER <k go.,' . Proprietors, Palmerston Noitk. Central Seed Stoi^, MANNERS-STREET, WELLINGTON. *! - Nursery Grounds — Taranaki-steeet and. Lower Hutt. Establislied 1865. F. CQQPER,; Wholesale and Retail . SEEDSMM & EiORtST. FloweEj Garden, Farm, Agricultiiral and,; Pastoral . Seeds ; Conifera ,ani Other Tree Seeds ; Clover and Natural Grass Seeds. r . The Choicest Seeds Only Kepifc. On Sale— Every Description, of Horticultural Requisites and Requirements. Wellington made Flower Pols at Pottery Prices. All Country Orders Attended to iHth Dispatch. ■■■""..... .■■■■■■■. ' '— '-* GRATEFUL — cpMFORtUf&. Epp f s Cocoa. „. BREAKPASiT.', „;' " By a thorough knowledge ol^ihe natural laws which govern the operations of digestion; and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected; cocoa, Mr Epps has. provided our breakfast tables with a dehWely flaybtjred beverage which may save us' many heavy doctors' bills. It is by >he judicious use of such articles of diet that, a constitution .may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease." Hundred* of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame . " -— See aarticle m the Givil> Service Gazette. " Made simply with boiling water or milk.' • , !.'..: Sold m ,paokets, by Grocers, labelled thus:— JAMES EPPS AID GO., 11 hom(e6pathic chemists, england. :'..;