Page 3 Advertisements Column 3

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 282, 29 December 1877, Page 3

Good News! Good News! — '■■■•• t GREAT CLEARING SALE, Preparatory to Stock Taking. THE mulersignod bogs to call the 'attention 'of the inhabitants of Waverley, Waitotara° and Whennakura, to his Great Clearing Sale, which is NOW ON, and will continue EO R IT 1)A YS. The GREATEST BARGAINS will be given FOR CASH ever before known in Waverley. Come one, come all ! and secure bargains while they may be had, from D. M. HO OG, WAVERLEY STORE. . ,

A WERA AT HLETIC SPORT S. To be hold on the Ist January, 1878. Judge— Thomas Mason, Esq. Starter —T. Shalders, Esq. 1 100 Yards Flat Race—lst prize, £3 ; 2nd prize, 10s 2 Hop, Step, and Jump—lst prize, £!■; 2nd prize, 5s 3 Quarter Mile Handicap Flat Race — Ist prize, £8; 2nd prize, £2 ; 3rd prize, 10s 4 Running Long Jump—lst prize, £1 ; 2nd prize, 5s 5 Boys under 14 years of age—2oo yards Handicap Flat Race—lst prize, 15s; 2nd, 10s; 3rd, 5s 6 One Mile Handicap Flat Race—lst prize, £7 ; 2nd, £1 7 Vaulting with the Pole—lst prize, £1; 2nd, 5s 8 100 Yards Sack Race—Prize, 10s 9 220 Yards Handicap Flat Race—lst prizej £4; 2nd, £1 10 Running High Jump —Ist prize, £1 ; 2nd, 5s 11 Quarter Mile Handicap Hurdle Race —lst prize, £G ; 2nd, £1; 3rd, 10s 12 100 Yards Three-legged Race—lst prize, £1; 2nd, 10s; 3rd, 5s 13 Standing High Jump—lst prize, 15s; 2nd, 5s 14 Half Mile Handicap Flat Race—lst prize, £4 ; 2nd, £1 15 One Mile Handicap Walking Race — Ist prize, £3 ; 2nd, 10s *l6 100 Yards One-legged Race—lst prize, 10s ; 2nd, 5s 17 Tilting in the Ring—lst prize, £5 ; 2nd, £2 18 Greasy Piggg All competitors must bo subscribers to the Sports Fund of not less than 5s each. J. STRACHAN GREIG, Hon. See. and Treasurer, 750 Hawera Sports Committee. Programme :

PATBA EDUCATION BOARD. TENDERS will be received _at the Board’s Office, Carlyle, up to 10 a.m. on Saturday, 29th December, for Three Contracts. Plans and specifications can be seen at Mr Furlong’s, Hawera, and at the office, Carlyle. 775d29 VV. COWERN, Secretary. S T 0 R E. ■'VTOTICE. —We have enquiries for the purchase of a Good General Store in the Patea District —Leasehold preferred. CHAS. BOWNALL & CO., Agents, Grcy-strect, 796d22 Wellington. Bank of New South Wales. A BRANCH of this Bank has been opened at NEW PLYMOUTH , for the transaction of all usual Banking Business. December 11, 1 C. E. 877 F or SCREVEN, ho Inspector). 762ja13 TO SHEEP FARMERS. IN STOCK AND TO ARRIVE. 1,250 Gallons Calverts’s Carbolic Acid Fluid. CALVERT’S SHEEP DIPPING FLUID is offered to the Agricultural public as the cheapest and most efficacious dip for curing scab &c., and the destruction of ticks, lice, &c., and also for improving the condition of the fleece. It is the only disinfectant sheep dipping fluid in use, thereby making it safer than any other dip in the cases of scab and lice, and frequently preventing heavy losses to the Sheep Farmers. Its universal use in Great Britain, America, Australia, and New Zealand is the most substantial proof of the satisfactory results achieved through its use. Full directions for use on application. ALSO IN STOCK, COOPER’S SHEEP DIPPING POWDER with full directions. JOHN ANDERSON, Victoria Avenue, SOOjliiO Wanganui. Impounding Notice. tMPOUNDED in the Public Pound, X Waverlov, on the 13th December, 1877 1 Light Bay Horse, blazed face, very bad back from saddle gall, and branded like diamond with stroke at bottom. To be sold on the 2nd January, 1878, if not claimed. VV. A. G. WINCHCOMB, 795j2 Poundkeeper. Photographic Notice. r\ H. MONKTON will photograph \J ■, Carte do Visites, Views, Hotels, Public Buildings, &c., from Wanganui to New Plymouth, in the course of a few weeks. Further notice will appear. 796ja5 Ewes and Z>amhs For Sale. THE undersigned, who will he at his Paranui Run for the next six or seven days, has for sale about 700 Ewes, and 1,000 Choice Lambs. Also for sale at Wangaelm, 1,000 Ewes, and 1,500 Lambs.

Kakaramea athletic SPOUTS, To be held on the Reserve, on New Year’s Day. Judge—Q, Byrnes-, Esq. Ilaridicappcr—U. E. Mcßae, Esq. Committee— Messrs K. E. Mcßae, R. W. Foreman, A. Hiuiter, T. Haywood, W. Williams, jum, Peter Wilson, and J. Adamson. Hon, Sec, and Treasurer—ll, Chadwick. PROGRAMME: 1. 100 Yards Maiden Race—lst prise, £1; 2nd, 6s 2. 100 Yards Boys’ Race, under 14 years; post entries—lst prize, 10s; 2nd, 2s Gd 3. Quarter Mile Handicap—lst prize, £2; 2nd, 10s 4. Running Long Jump—-Ist prize, 10s; 2nd, 5s 5, Vaulting with Pole—lst prize, Ml; 2nd, 10s 6. 100 Yards Handicap—lst prize, £110s; 2nd, 10a 7r Running High Jump—lst prize, 15s; • 2nd, 6s 8. 70 Yards Sack Race, oVer six hurdles 1 foot high—lst prize, 15s; 2nd, 5s 9. One Milo Handicap—lst prize, £3; 2nd, £1 10. 220 Yards Hurdle Race, 10 flights of 3ft Gin (handicap)—lst prize, £2; 2nd, £1 11. Standing High Jump—lst prize, 10s; 2nd, 5s 12, Tossing the Caber—lst prize, 15s; 2nd, 6s 13. One Mile Handicap Walking Race—lst prize, £2 10s; 2nd, £1 14. Three-legged Race —Ist prize, 10s; 2nd, 5s 15. Half Mile Race (handicap)—lst prize, £2; 2nd, 10s 16. Consolation, 200 yards—lst prize, £1 10s; 2nd, 10s 17. Greasy Pig Entries for all except Handicap Races will bo closed at 11 o’clock cm the day of sports. 11. CHADWICK; 770 Hon. Secretary. To Let.—Patea District. STENT’S FARM, containing 400 (four hundred) acres of the finest land in the district. Thirty acres are bush, which can be sold for firewood, it being one of the nearest bushes to Patea; an Orchard containing 300 Fruit Trees, good House, Paddocks, &c., Pro - prietor in Europe, reason for letting. Inspection invited. For terms apply to F. R. JACKSON, Wanganui ; 636f3 Or J. SOUTHEY, Patea;

Apply at once to P. RICHARDS, Paranui Eitiij Whcnuakura Block, 799ja2 £25 0. WANTED to Borrow, tor the erection of a Library and Institute in Carlyle, the sum of £250. Valuable freehold section and building for security; Parties willing I o invest, are requested to forward terms, &c., on or before the 14th January, 1878, to ‘ D. M. HARRIS* , Secretary 792j12 Patea Library arid Institute. NOTICE. THE offices of the undersigned, at Carlyle and Hawera respectively, will be closed from Tuesday, 18th inst., until sth January, 1878. H. E. P. ADAMS. 755d22 d. R. B. ROY. ROBERT CURRIE, Watchmaker and Jeweller, opposite Town Hall, Carlyle, Patea. 70R131