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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5811, 13 November 1879, Page 1

Shipping Notices TOR WANGANUI AND NELSON. rjnilE New Screw Steamer V/ A K A T U, Captain Charles Evans, Will leave for the above ports on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19th. For particulars, freight or passage, apply to JOHN H. HEATON, A gent, Panama-street. WELLINGTON AND WAN GAN r I LINE OF STEAMERS. uteameM of the above Line are appointed to Wellington as under (circumstances permitting). For FOXTON S.S. STORMBIRD, THIS DAY, at 5 p.m. For KAIKOTJRA and LYTTELTON— S.S. JANE DOUGLAS, ou FRIDAY, at 7 P*m. For WANGANUI, TARANAKI, and MANUKAU The s.s, RANGA’iTRA, THIS DAY, at 4 p.m. For freight or passage apply at the offices, Custom House-quay. R. S. MARTIN, Manager. Sporting RACING CLUB. HANTS'UAL MEETING. ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 & 6, 1880. FIRST DAY. Maiden Plate of 40 sovs. Entrance, 2 sovs. One mile and a half. Hurdle Race of 50 sovs. Entrance, 3 sovs. About two miles, over seven flights of hurdles. Hack Hurdle Race of 10 sovs. Entrance, 10s. Mile and a distance. Wellington Cup of 400 sovs. Second horse to receive 30 sovs from the stakes. Two miles. The winner of any handicap race of the value of 200 sovs. after declaration of weights, to carry 7lbs. extra ; of two or more such races, lOlbs.; of any handicap race of the value of 100 sovs to carry 51bs. extra ; of two or more such races, 81bs. extra. Nominations, enclosing 2 sovs, to be made to the Secretary, Empire Hotel, Wellington, before 8 p.m. on Thursday, 6th November, 1879. Weights declared on Monday, 24th November, 1879. Acceptances to be notified, and 4 sovs paid, before S p.m., on Friday, 19th December, 1879, the balance of G sovs to be paid ou night of general entry. Mo B j day, 19th January, 1880. Flying Stakes Handicap of 50 sovs. Threequarters of a mile. Nomination, 1 sov, to be made on night of general entry. Weights declared at 8 p.m. night before the races. Acceptances with 2 sovs to be paid to the Secretary before 10 p.m. night before the races. Hack Race of 10 sovs. Entrance, 10s. Mile and a distance. SECOND DAY. Empire Plate of 100 sovs. Entrance 5 sovs. Weight for age. Second horse to receive 25 sovs from the stakes. One mile and a quarter. For all horses owned six months previous to the race by bona fide settlers of the Provincial District of Wellington. Hurdle Handicap of 75 sovs. About two miles, over eight flights of hurdles. Nomination, 1 sov, on night of general entry. Weights declared 8 p.m. night of first day’s races. Acceptances with 3 sovs to be made before 10 p.m. Wellington Racing Club Handicap of 200 sovs. Second horse to receive 25 sovs from the stakes. Nomination 3 sovs on night of general entry. Weights declared 8 p.m. on night of first day’s races, and acceptances with 5 sovs to be paid before 10 p.m. the same night, to the Secretary, at the Empire Hotel. One mile and a half. Hack Race of 10 sovs. Entrance, 10s. Minimum weight, Bst. Mile and a distance. Ladies’ Purse of 30 sovs. Entrance, 2 sovs. Gentlemen riders. One mile and a half. Consolation Handicap of 30 sovs. Entrance, 2 sovs. One mile. General entry night, Monday, the 19th January, 1880. All communications, entries, &c., to be addressed to the Secretary, Empire Hotel, Wellington. H. M. LYON, Secretary. Business Notices. W r I L L I A M BLACK’S AMERICAN COACH FACTORY, CODRTBNAT-PLAOE, Wellington, and Grey town. By special appointment to his Excellency the Marquis of Normanby. Every description of Carriage, Buggy, &c., manufactured and repaired ou the shortest notice. Orders executed to all parts of the colony. ALL WORK GUARANTEED, WILLIAM BOOTH AND CO. TARATAHI SAW AND PLANING MILLS, WAIRARAPA. j Totara, Bed Pine, Matai, White Pine, and other Timbers cut to order. LARGE STOCKS of DRESSED TIMBER are kept.—Flooring, Lining, &c. Yard in Wellington— Pipitea Point, opposite Ra;iv*a', Station (agent, H. Dbtden) And Manners-street, opposite Fit > Brigade Station (agent, T. C. Williams) And also at Lower Hutt Toll-gate (agent Joseph Brown). SCHWABE, BENSON, AND CO., ARCHITECTS, INSURANCE BROKERS, FINANCIAL AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS, High and Dowling streets, DDNEDIN, N.Z. Indents Executed. Money Advanced on Freehold Security, and Valuations Given. Agents for Pacific and Transatlantic Express Company. JMPOR TA N T NOTICE. JACKSON, PLIMMER, & CO. beg respectfully to inform the public that they have purchased from the Trustees of the assigned estate of EDDIE & JACK, the Bottling and Wine and Spirit Business lately carried on by that firm ; and that in future it will be carried on in the premises known as Noah’s Ark, Custom House-quay, where by strict attention to the requirements of their customers, they trust to receive the support so liberally bestowed on the late firm. Note the Address— JACKSON, PLIMMER, & CO,, Noah’s Ark, Custom House-quay. J. WALKER, GUNMAKEK Manners-street, Wellington AND