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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1229, 20 December 1882, Page 3

COMMON, SHELTON & CO., STOCK AND STATION AGENTS, SHIPPING AND General Commission Agents Gisborne. CASH Buyers of every description of Produce Cash Advances made against Stock and Station Securities, and against growing Clips and Crops. Agents for— South Britssh Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand Little’s celebrated Non-poisonous Sheep Dip Anderson’s Oamaru Flour Moore’s new patent Barb Wire, 3 baths. COMMON, SHELTON & CO., Have for sale at lowest prices the following goods i—* Arsenic Almonds Biscuits Bacon Blue Bran Cocoa Coffee Candles Chaff Flour Golden Syrup Jams Kerosene Linseed Marmalade Milk condensed Oatmeal Oats Oysters Pepper Pickles Potted Meats Raisins Rice Ruddle * Soap Salt Sulphur Salmon Soda Sugar Treacle Tea Vestas Vinegar Ales Bitters Austrln. Wines Brandy Champagne Claret Geneva Ginger Wine Lime Juice Old Tom Port Wine Rum Schnapps Sherry Stout Whisky TOBACCO AND CIGARS. Axes Brooms Buckets Cement Piping Corugated Iron Ridging Spouting Nails Fencing Wire, annealed, steel and barb Raw and Boiled Oil Red and White Lead And a Cheap Lot of Useful Ironmongery Woolpacks Cornsacks Tarpaulins Saddles and Bridles Grass Seeds of Every Description And a Large Assortment of every description of Station, Store, & general requirements. COMMON, SHELTON and 00., Gisborne. 342

WAERENGA-A-HIKA JOCKEY CLUB. BOXING DAY RACES, Io be held on the Waerenga-a-hika RaceCourse. on— TUESDAY DECEMBER 26th, 1882 President : A McDonald, M.H.R. Vice-President : G. L. Sunderland. Stewards : A. McKenzie, F. Carden, D. Page, W. Cooper, jun., J. Maynard, R McDougall, T. E. R. Bloomfield. Judge : W. F. Crawford. Starter : C. D. Pitt. Clerk of Course : A Pritchard. Handicapper: R. Austin. Hon. Sec. and Treasurer : M. H. Smith. PROGRAMME. First race to start at 12 o’clock sharp, HANDICAP HURDLE RACE, 40 sovs.; second horse to save stakes. 2 miles over 8 flights of hurdle, 3ft 6in. Nomination, 2 sovs., acceptances, 2 sovs. To start at 2.30 p.m. HACK HURDLES, 10 sovs. 1 mile lOst. For all horses not trained for the November meeting. Post entries 1 sov. To start at 1.30. p. m. MAIDEN PLATE, 20 sovs,, second horse to save stakes. 1> miles. Weight for age. 2 years old and upwards. For all horses that have never won an advertised race exceeding £2O nett. Entrance £2 10s. To start at 2.15.p.m. BOXING DAY HANDICAP, of 50 sovs., | second horse to save stakes. 2 miles. Nornnation, 2 sovs., acceptance 3 sovs. To start at 3 p.m. SELLING RACE, 20 sovs.; second horse to save stakes. 1| miles. Weight for ageWinner to be sold for 20 sovs., any surplus to go the Club ; olbs allowance for every 5 sovs. Post entry, £2 10s. To start at 3.45 p.m. LADIE’S PURSE, 25 sovs.; second horse to save stakes. 2 miles. Welter weight for age ; 12st 41bs top. Gentlemen riders members of the Club only. Entrance, 3 sovs. To start at 4.30 p.m.

HACK FLAT RACE, 10 sovs. 1 mile. For all horses that have never won an advertised race. Post entry, 1 sov. To start at 5 p.m. FORCED HANDICAP, 10 sovs. 1 mile Winners compulsory ; hacks and beaten horses, optional. Entrance, 1 sov., on the ground. CONDITIONS. The Poverty Bay Jockey Club Rules will be strictly adhered to, unless where otherwise specified. Qualification to non-members, £1 Is. Members will not be allowed to nominate horses the property of non-members, except by paying £1 Is for each horse, hacks excepted. Three horses to start for each race, or only half the stakes will be paid. Any jockey riding except in colors entered and proper jockey costume (except hacks) will be fined £2 ; and this rule will be strictly enforced. Any person entering a protest shall deposit the sum of £3 with the Stewards, and such protest proving frivolous the amount shall be forfeited to the Club. All protests must be entered within 15 minutes after the race, or the Stewards will not entertain it. No entry shall be received except on these conditions : viz., that all disputes, claims, and objections arising out of the racing shall be decided by a majority of the Stewards or Members of the Committee whom they may appoint, and their decision shall be final. Nominations for the Handicap Hurdles and Boxing Day Handicap must be sent (sealed) to the Secretary, and directed to the Masonic Hotel, Gisborne, not later than 8.30 p.m on SATURDAY, Nov. 25th, 1882, enclosing entrance fee and qualification, name, age, and color of horse. No entry will be received after that time unless by post letter (registered) or telegram, bearing that or previous date. Acceptances for Handicap Hurdles and Boxing Day Handicap (enclosing colors) on night of general entry at the Masonic Hotel, Gisborne, on Saturday, the 16th December, at 8.30 p.m. The stakes will be paid, less 5 per cent, commission, at the Waerenga-a-hika Hotll, on Thursday, December 28th, at 8 p.m. For any match run on the course £2 2s must be contributed to Race Fund. 458 M. H. SMITH, Hon. Sec.