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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 953, 18 June 1881, Page 3

SALES BY BOURKE & SMITH. Monthly Cattle Sale, AT WAERENGA-A-HIKA. MONDAY JUNE 20th, 1881. "gOURKE & gMITH, Have been instructed to offer to 50 HEAD MIXED CATTLE STEERS, HEIFERS, and MILKING COWS. 193 TUESDAY, 21st JUNE, 1881, 12 o’clock Noon. BOURKE & SMITH Have received advices of a consignment, to arrive on Sunday next from Napier of — Fruit and forest trees, Ornamental Shrubs, Flowering Plants, Pot Plants in every variety, &c., &c., Which will be sold in lots to suit purchasers, on above date. N.B. —This consignment should recommend itself to intending purchasers, as the Trees have all been reared in Napier, and from the short time they will be out of the ground, little fear may be entertained of failure in growth. 194

JUST LANDED, Ex Rotomahana. gQ SACKS SPLENDID CANTERBURY POTATOES. BOURKE & SMITH. 195 SALES BY PITT & BENNETT. JJITT & JJENNETT, Will sell by auction THIS DAY (Saturday) At 2 p.m. Turkeys, seeds, furniture, ORANGES, &c. CANTERBURY HAMS & BACON. 199

COOK COUNTY COUNCIL. GENERAL RATE, 1881-2. "TVT OTICE is hereby given that the Cook County Council has this day made a General Rate of ONE SHILLING in the £ for the period commencing the Ist day of April 1881, and ending on the 31st day of March 1882, to be due and payable in two equal instalments, on ithe Ist August 1881, and on the 31st December, 1881. The Rate Book is open for inspection at the Office of the Council during Office hours. J. WARREN, County Clerk. Gisborne, 9th June, 1881. 190 Melbourne Cup, 1881. H. N. ABBOTT’S ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES ON THE Melbourne Cup. 10,000 s Ji B E S A C c I IBEES AT ABOUT 250 PRIZES. First Horse, £1,500 : Second Horse, £7OO ; Third Horse, £4OO ; Other Starters (divided) £1,500 ; Non-Starters (divided), £2,700 ; Ten Prizes at £lOO each, £l,OOO ; Twenty Prizes at £5O each, £l,OOO ; One Hundred Prizes at £l2 each, £l,2oo—Total : £lO,OOO. SPECIAL PRIZE FOR EARLY APPLICANTS. To induce Early Application a prize of £2O will be given amongst the First 4000 Subscribers. Please add Exchange to Cheques, & Stamp for reply. An extra stamp, if result is required by post. Gisborne Agent -.— D. PAGE, Masonic Hotel. H. N. ABBOTT, Treasurer, 121 United Service Hotel, Auckland.