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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5431, 23 August 1878, Page 1

Art Union QAIIPBEI.V3 AK'f UNION. 4000 TICKETS AT ss. EACH. THREE HUNDRED A 'D EIGHTY-TWO PRIZES, Varying in amount from a Gold Wedding ■ Ring to ONE HUNDRED POUNDS CASH, Less 5 per cent, (.€5) which I promise to give to the Benevolent Society. In submitting tbo above to the favorable consideration of the public, I respectfully thank them for their patronage during the last ' thirteen years that I have been in business in i Wellington. I am compelled to give up business, as the strain on my eyesight would in a few years result in partial blindness. Consequently, I have purchased some laud in the wairarapa, and intend to settle there about the end of the present year. In the following list of prizes X pledge my word as a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Forester, ' and a Cosmopolitan that I have not put anj fictitious value on any of the prizes 5 I also guarantee every article as genuine, as X have carefully excluded all fancy or plated goods. The watches, jewellery, &c., are sterling gold aud silver ; the miscellaneous goods are in strict conformity with their description in the list. The drawing will take place as soon as the tickets are sold, and will be under tho scrutiny and supervision of a committee of ticketholders. I have made tho price of the ticket 55., so as | to be within the means of everyone who can , afford to speculate that amount for a chance of 1 obtaining a valuable equivalent in the shape of j whafc the eccentric Wemtuick describes as 1 “portable property,” or £IOO in hard cash. ■ The winning numbers will be duly advei- | tised as soon as the drawing is over. < j Orders for tickets by post, if accompanied 1 by cheque or P. 0., will be attended to by re- j turn of post. The following is the list of prizes : —* Prizes. Value. I Cash (less discount as aforesaid) £IOO 0 1 Massive gold English lever watch, 382 prizes Value £IOOO Ticket* obtained from Mr. Willeston, Lambton-quay ; Mr. Gillespie, Shepherd’s Anns, Tinakori-road; Pier Hotel; Mr. Fraser, Manners-street; City Hotel; and from C. j Campbell, Manners-street. 1 PUBLIC NOTICE! 1 MJ. MULLIGAN’S , GRAND ART UNION! Ih POSTPONED until THURSDAY, sth SEPTEMBER, 1878, To allow district and country agents to make up their lists, and thus give all ticket-holdcx'S AN EQUAL CHANCE. £ a "o' o> 0 WORTH or GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, CLOCKS, TIM B-PIECES, AND REGULATOR Ladies’ and Gents.’ Diamond Rings, Gold Signet Rings, Gold Dress Rings, Wedding Rings and Keepers, Gold Lookots, Gold Pencil Cases, Gold Seta, Broodies and Earrings ALL JEWELLERY WARRANTED GENUINE QUALITY. Gold Scarf Pins, Gold Scarf Ring , Ladies' Diamond Slides, Ladies’ and Gents.’ Gold Albert Chains and Guards, / and a valuable quantity of Plate, Field, Marine, and OPERA GLASSES. 1000 TICKETS at £1 EACH. 500 PRIZES. 500 BLANKS. First 50 Prices are—Gold watches, English patent levers and genevas. Second 50 Prizes—English silver patent levers and gouuvas. prizes—100 clocks and timepieces, regulators, French clocks, with shades. Prizes—2oo gold prizes, ladies’ gold sets, brooches and earrings, gold chains and Alberts, diamond rings, lockets, wedding rings and keepers, gold pencil cases, gold neckchains, signet rings. 100 Prizes—Field, marine, and opera glasses;, tea and coffee services, electro-plate; sterling silverßmngs, cake baskets. Gold crosses, scarf rings, scarf pins, watch keys, studs, sleevo liuka and solitaires, greenstone brooches and earrings. The purchaser of four tickets not winning a prize, the whole of his money will bo returned. Tbo bona-liile purchasers of ton tickets entitled to one ticket free. THE DRAWING WILL POSITIVELY COME OFF ON THE stu SEPTEMBER. As Mr. Mulligan is Giving Up the Business, Tho Drawing will bo Conducted by a Committee of Gentlemen elected by tho Ticketholders. Great Sacrifice in Jewellery, Watches, Clocks &c. THE WHOLE OF THE STOCK MUST BE SOLD, No reasonable offer refused, as Mr. Mulligan is giving up the business, gPEC lAh NOTICE. SPECULATORS ARB INFORMED THAT ' MULLIGAN’S ART UNION, THE REST AND SAFEST SI'EOOLATION OF THIS YEAH, WILL BE DRAWN WITHOUT FAIL ON THURSDAY, sth SEPTEMBER, Commencing punctually at 10 o’clock a.m. LOSE NO TIME IN INVESTING IN A CHANCE. .As most of tho tickets ax-o disposed of. REMEMBER THURSDAY, sth SEPT,