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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2370, 21 October 1880, Page 4

Business 3Noticess. GOOD NEWS FOR HARD TIMES. RETIRING FROM BUSINESS. IMMENSE SLAUGHTER IN PRICES OF DRAPERY AND CLOTHING. TO COMMENCE ON Saturday, October 2. JAMES STRACHAN, "AVING 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 OFFEE THE WHOLE STOCK AT PEICES WHICH MUST PEOVE A BOON IN THESE HAED 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 :vill 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 I FULLY DETERMINED UPON RETIRING FROM BUSINESS. Grand Gift [Art Union on November 8, When worfcli. ot Prizes will be DISTRIBUTED to Purchasers During the Sale. Every Buyer whose Purchases [during the continuance of the Sale amount in the 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 OITE INDUSTRIES. FARNLEY DRAIN PIPeTbRICK, AND POTTERY WORKS, AND CANTERBURY COLLIERY. CHRISTCHURCH, St MARTIN'S, AND SHEFFIELD. UST I N , IRK (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. SHjT PITS TRAPPED : As ordered specially by the Christchurch Drainage Board.' ? CANTERBURY COAL (in Large and Small Quantities) : As used by all the Boilers in Christchurch 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. Crecite all the Work you can bv Buying Evertliing you use of Colonial Make as far as you can. AND YARDS : COLOMBO STREET, CHIUSTCHURCH. Price Lists by Post on Application. ENCOURAGE YOUR~NATIVE INDUSTRIES! P»vil>lic Notices. rpiMARU ATHLETIC CLUB. SPKING- 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 Od 6. Running Handicap, 1 mile —Ist 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 during] theJday. Entrance, 2s 6d. I JBusiness IVotlcess. BESWICX STREET OYSTER SALOON. TTT M. |R OG E R S & CO. Has Opened a NEW FISH MART & OYSTER SALOON As above. Constant supplies of Fresh and Cured Fish and Poultry. Families waited on daily. Note the address — IS" Next to B. Wallis's.Beswick street. DUNDEE HOUSE, TIMARU. GOOD NEWS IN BAD TIMES. JONES AND CO., DUNDE \JT, HOUSE, have; resolved to BI DUCE their PRICES in order to effect a Speedy Clearance of the remaining portion of their Stock, which must be cleared. i Please notice the undermentioned Prices: — Gents' Elastic Sides, from 8s 6d per pair. Children's Goloshes, 6d per pair. Maids' Real Levant Lace-up Boots, size 10 to 13, 3s 6d per pair. Children's Strap Shoes, Is per pair. Other Goods Equally Low. N.B.—THE PREMISES TO LET. Nominations for the Champion Race, „ All Outstanding ACCOUNTS must be Prince of Wales' Handicap, Walking Paid before October fa. Handicap, One Mile Handicap, Handicap All CLAIMS against the above firm are Hurdles, to be made on or before Tuesday, requested to be rendered at one. October 19, with the necessary amount in cash, and naming colors, addressed to the COAL. COAL. COAL. Secretaries at W. Collins and Co.'s Auction Rooms, Stratballan street, Timaru. |^\ UR PRICES, for Coals delivered in All other events post entries. \J Town are— Three entries for each or no event. Newcastle Coal (per ton).. 43s Handicaps declared on Friday, October/ „ „ „ \ „ .. 22s 22. Acceptances, November 1. ~ „ „J „ .. 12s All Prizes to be either money or trophies] Kaitangata „ (per ton).. ;>ss at the option of the winners. „ „ „\ „ .. 17s Gd Successful competitors will be presented ~ „ „J „ ~ 9s with their Prizes on the stage of the Theatre Black Pine and msxed wood at e q Ually ]ow Royal the same evening, at which place an Rates. entertainment takes place on behalf of the BUNDESEN & SMITH Clu -?" ,_. , , , . . -, Coal and Firewood Merchants, Half-yearly Tickets are now being issued Corner Church and Bank Streets, Timaru. at os Gd each. GRATEFUL.—COMFORTING. P P » S COCO J r Secretaries. . GRATEFUL-COMFORTING. FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIA- - BREAKFAST. UxTTvnr. i.i_ ~~~ * i.i "By a thorough knowledge of the natural NDER the auspices of the Committee laws 4 ich * n the o p era tions of digesvkv™ * h « e /£ -°y\ Aa ™ c ™*}™, MR t . and nut b rition) and by a carefu i applif £S£?o 0f (^ ns \ chu \ ch ' ™J dellV6r cation of the fine properties of well-selected LECTURES on the advantage of Co-opera- CQ Mr E h * xovidicdi our breakfast tion, at the following places:— tables with a delicately fl avo ured beverage Geraldine, Temuka, Pleasant Point, St yhich may save us many heavy doctors' Andrews, Makikihi, Waimate, and bills. It is by the judicious use of such Timaru. articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to Dates and further particulars will appear resist every tendency of disease. Hundreds in future advertisements. of subtle maladies are floating around us ■ ~— T „ ready to attack wherever there is a weak j H. Ji jL hHi x, point. We may escape many a fatal shaft ] 1 ENERAL CARRIER, FORWARDING by keeping ourselves fortified with pure T and RECEIVING AGENT, blood and a properly nourished frame."— TIMARU. Expresses meet all Trains North and South. All orders promptly attended to. See article in the " Civil Service Gazette." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold in packets or tins, labelled:— JAMES EPPS & CO., homc3opathic chemists, ... London.