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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1234, 28 December 1882, Page 3

SALES BY W. RATCLIFFE & CO. Mw. Ratcliffe & Go.. Will hold Regular Sales as follows LIVE STOCK. Bbidge Hotel—Every alternate Thursday WOOL, SHEEPSKINS & LIVE STOCK. Waemnga-a-hika—Monthly. Dates for Quarter Waeres-ga-a-hika—23rd November Bridge Hotel—3oth November Bridge Hotel—l4th December Waerenca-a-hika—2lst December 73 Bridge Hotel—2Bth December. H. McKAY, (Successor to W. K. McLean.) ACCOtNTANT. HOUSE, LAND, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT. Office Lowe-strect. HMcKAY will undertake the sale of • Properties, Shares &c. The Investment of Moneys on Mortgage ; also in Land, Shares and other safe investments. Valuations made of Land, Buildings, Merchandise &c., in Town or Country. Agent for the Hamburg-Magdeburg Fire Insurance Company. Registry Office for Servants. Special facil itiea offered to those desirous of obtaining situations. 273 JUST ARRIVED !

JUST ARRIVED TI COME AND SEE THE SPLENDID NEW SUMMER GOODS, AU marked in Plain Figures, Cheaper than at any other house in Gisborne, AT—MRS. WILLSHIRE’S Gladstone Road. 396 WAERENGA-A-HIKA JOCKEY CLUB. The Settling Night for the Boxing Day Races will take place at 8 o’clock, on Friday Evening, instead of Thursday. 413 M. H. SMITH, Hon. Sec. IEW YEAR’S SPORTS. A HANDICAP RIFLE MATCH, for all Comers ; Horse Racing and Caledonian Sports, will be held at KAITERATA HI, near Ormond, on NEW YEAR’S DAY, when upwards of £2O will be given away in Prizes. Full particulars in a future advertisement. A. PETERS, Kaiteratahi Hotel, 387 North Ormond.

CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR’S Gr 1 It S . grahanTpitt and BENNETT, ~[~>EG to announce the arrival of a Magnificent Shipment of Christmas Presents which they intend presenting to their Customers during this week. Every purchaser of Tex Shillings worth can select a Handsome Present, equal to TEN PER CENT. Of the purchase, from a Large Collection, now on view. GRAHAM, PITT, and BENNETT will continue to sell at their well-known low prices. 898 Karaka Race Meeting. TO be held at KARAKA, on the Ist January, 1883 (New Year’s Day). Stewards :—F. Ewen, Esq.; Kuare ; W. Cooper, Esq.; Jno. Parsons. Esq.; M. J. McLeod, Esq. Starter : J. Brown, Esq. Clerk of the Course : E. Tait, Es<p Handicapper : P. Breingan, Esq. Judge :W. B. Mills, Esq. Clerk of Scales : G. Grey, Esq. KARAKA HANDICAP HURDLE RACE, of 10 sovb.; distance, 2 miles, over 8 flights of hurdles. Nominations, 20s ; acceptances, 20s ; open to all comers. HACK HURDLE RACE, of 5 sovs ; distance 1 mile, over 4 flights of hurdles ; post entry, 10s ; lOst up ; for horses that have never been trained. STOCKMEN’S RACE, of 7i sovs.; distance, miles ; owners up ; confined to Shepherds, Stockmen, and Station Hands. Post entry, 20s.

KARAKA HANDICAP,of 12-J sovs.; distance 2 miles. Nominations, 20s ; acceptances, 30s MAORI RACE, of 5 sovs.; distance, .3 miles ; catch weights ; post entry, 10s. HACK RACE, of 5 sovs.; distance, 1 mile; catch weights. Post entry, 10s. CONSOLATION RACE, of 5 sovs.; distance 1 mile ; catch weights ; entrance, 10s. The above Races are for horses that have been owned for three months by people residing between the Kaiteratahi and the Motu Districts, except In the Handicap Hurdlesand Karaka Handicap, which are open to allcomers. These races will be run under the Poverty Bay Turf Club Bules. 405