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Busiuess Notices. GOOD NEWS FOR HARD TIMES. RETIRING FROM BUSINESS. IMMENSE SLAUGHTER IN PRICES OF DRAPERY AND CLOTHING. TO COMMENCE ON Saturday, October 2. JAMES "STRACHAN, HAVING decided upon RETIRING FROM BUSINESS, and to place it the market for entire disposal, deems it necessary to REDUCE THE STOCK to make it easier for intending Purchasers to take over the Business, he has resolved TO OFFER THE WHOLE STOCK AT PRICES WHICH MUST PROVE A BOON IN THESE HARD TIMES. THE NEW SUMMER GOODS will be sacrificed with the rest of the Stock. As a considerable portion of the OLD STOCK was taken at half the original cost at the last Stock Taking, the prices at which it will be cleared cannot fail to give satisfaction to every Purchaser. COME EARLY IF YOU WANT A GOOD CHOICE. If the Business is not disposed of before, the sale will be CONTINUED to December 1, when the balance will be offered by Public Tender, as he is FULLY DETERMINED UPON RETIRING FROM BUSINESS, Grand Gift Art Union on November 8, When dSXOO of Prizes will be DISTRIBUTED to Purchasers During the Sale. Every Buyer whose Purchases (during the continuance of the Sale aggregate to £1 or over, will for every such Pound so expended receive a Ticket. The PRIZES will be DRAWN on MONDAY, November 8, which will include Silk Dresses and other useful articles. JAMES STRACHAN, GREAT SOUTH ROAD, TIMARU, OPPOSITE KING’S STABLES. HELP OUR INDUSTRIES. FARNLEY DRAIN PIPE, BRICK, AND POTTERY WORKS, AND CANTERBURY COLLIERY. CHRISTCHURCH, Sx MARTIN’S, AND SHEFFIELD. A UST IN, K I R K & C O. (Limited Proprietors) Manufacturers of Field Pipes, Stoneware, and Salt-Glazed Drain and Sanitary Pipes, Chimney Pots, Vases, Fountains, Bread Pans, Preserve and Pickle Jars, Honey and Salt Jars, Butter and Cream Jars, Bed or Foot Warmers, Pie Dishes, Teapots, Kitchen Sinks, Ventilating Bricks, Garden Borders, Fire Bricks, Fire Tiles, Register Tiles and Floor Tiles, Flower Pots and Saucers in variety, Building Bricks and Well Bricks of all patterns. SILT PITS TRAPPED: As ordered specially by the Christchurch Drainage Board. CANTERBURY COAL (in Large and Small Quantities) : As used by all the Boilers in Ch-istchurch and Railway Engines, and almost every House. To the trade 12s per ton in trucks at Sheffield. Our Manufactured Goods have taken the following Awards: —Canterbury Provincial Government Bonus, £250; New Zealand Interprovincial Exhibition 1872, FIRST ; Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Associations, FIRST for years 1872, 1873, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878 and 1879, also TWO FIRST PRIVATE PRIZES; and*TWO FIRST AWARDS at Sydney International Exhibitions, 1879 and 1880, Create all the Work you can by Buying Everthing you use of Colonial Make as far as you can. OFFICE AND YARDS : COLOMBO STREET, CHRISTCHURCH. Price Lists by Post on Application. ENCOURAGE YOUR NATIVE INDUSTRIES!

Public Notices. T IMARU ATHLETIC CLUB, SPRING- meeting. NOVEMBER 9th, 1880 (Prince of Wales’ Birthday). PROGRAMME OF SPORTS. 1. Maiden Race, 100 yds—lst prize, 30s ; 2nd, 20s ; 3rd, 10s. Entrance, 2s 6d 2. Prince of Wales’ Handicap, 200, 300, and 410 yds, to be decided by points, Winners of each event, 10s extra. Ist prize, £10; 2nd, £5; 3rd, £3. Nominations, ss. Acceptance, ss. 3. Boys’ Race, Handicap, 150 yds, in costume, for boys under 16. Ist prize, 20s ; 2nd, 10s. Entrance, 2s. 4. Walking Handicap, 2 miles. Ist prize, £4; 2nd, £2; 3rd, £l. Nomination, 3s. Acceptance, 2s. 5. Vaulting—lst prize, £2; 2nd, £l. Entrance, 2s 6d 6. Running Handicap, 1 mile—lst prize, £4; 2nd, £2 ; 3rd, £l. Nomination, 3s. Acceptance, 2s 7. Running High Leap—lst prize, 20s; 2nd, 10s 8. Wrestling, Cumberland style—lst prize, 60s ; 2nd, 40s. Entrance, 5s 9. Champion Race, 300 yds. All start from scratch —Prize, Gold Medal, value £5 ss. Entrance, 5s 10. Handicap Hurdles, 880 yds—lst prize, £4; 2nd, £2; 3rd, £l. Entrance, 3s. Acceptance, 2s 11. Consolation Handicap, 120 yds, for all beaten competitors duringjthejday. Entrance, 2s 6d. Nominations for the Champion Race, Prince of Wales’ Handicap, Walking Handicap, One Mile Handicap, Handicap Hurdles, to be made on or before Tuesday, October 19, with the necessary amount in cash, and naming colors, addressed to the Secretaries at W. Collins and Co.’s Auction Rooms, Stratballan street, Timaru. All other events post entries. Three entries for each or no event. Handicaps declared on Friday, October; 22. Acceptances, November 1. All Prizes to be either money or trophies at the option of the winners. Successful competitors will be presented with their Prizes on the stage of the Theatre Royal the same evening, at which place an entertainment takes place on behalf of the Club. Half-yearly Tickets are now being issued at 5s 6d each. }*«•*•• FARMERS’ CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. UNDER the auspices of the Committee of the above Association, MR BATEMAN of Christchurch, will deliver LECTURES on the advantage of Co-opera-tion, at the following places: — Geraldine, Temuka, Pleasant Point, St Andrews, Makikihi, Waimate, and Timaru. Dates and further particulars will appear in future advertisements! H. EX LEY, aENERAL CARRIER, FORWARDING and RECEIVING AGENT, TIMARU. Expresses meet all Trains North and South. All orders promptly attended to.

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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2369, 20 October 1880, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 South Canterbury Times, Issue 2369, 20 October 1880, Page 4

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