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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2430, 31 December 1880, Page 2

Special Advertisements LAND TRANSFER OFFICE. D. M. ROSS, Writer, Notary Public and Arbitrator R OSS. W. M. SIMS, Practical Accountant Insurance Agent, Valuer. SIMS, AND CO. Licensed Land, Estate, and Monet Brokers, May be CONSULTED at their LAND TRANSFER OFFICES concerning matters f TRANSFER LEASE, Mortgage, Encumbrance, Powers of Attorney, Declarations or Titles to Land. Vlonet Invested. Estates Managed. Insurances Effected, Loans Negotiated. ADVICE FREE. £4OOO SWEEP NO. 7, ON THE WELLINGTON CUP To be run in the first week in FEBRUARY, 1881. Tickets - £l. £ First Horse .. •. •. 1000 Second Horse .. •. 800 Third Horse .. .. 200 Other Starters (divided) .. 700 Non-starters (divided) .. 1800 The £7OO for other starters will average u I£loo each horse. The £IBOO for non-starters will average bout £6O each horse. Mr George Noith, of Lambton Quay, announces his seventh annual sweep on the Wellington Cup. This time it is for no less than £IOOO, which will give handsome prizes even to the non-starters. Mr North’s former racing sweeps have invariably been conducted with such thorough fairness as to give entire satisfaction to all interested, and wc are not surprised to hear that there is already a brisk demand for tickets for his “ four-thousand-pouuder.”- “ Evening Post,” September 9, Address—GEO. NORTH, Box 109, Post Office ; or, Lambton Quay Wellington,

AWARDED FIRST PRIZE FOR WATCHES AND CLOCKS, NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION, 18G5. a. & t.loung, Watchmakers and Jewellers, GREAT NORTH ROAD, TIMARU, INVITE SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THEIR LARGE STOCK OF FIRST-CLASS ENGLISH LEVER WATCHES, WHICH HAVE BEEN SPECIALLY MADE TO ORDER, AND IMPORTED DIRECT FROM THE MAKERS, THUS SAVING ALL THE INTERMEDIATE PROFITS, AND ENABLING G. * T. Y. TO SELL THEM AT A MUCH LOWER PRICE than such Watches are Usually Sold at in the Colonies. AMERICAN WALTHAM AND GENEVA WATCHES ALSO IN STOCK. N.P..-EVERY WATCH is carefully EXAMINED and REGULATED before being placed in the PURCHASER’S hands, and a written WARRANTY given for a period of TWO YEARS, and should REGULATION or other ATTENTION (except actual breakage) he required during the term of warranty, it will be done FREE OF CHARGE.

NOTICE. ALL Letters or Correspondence intended for the Editorial Department of this paper, ought to be addressed to the Editor. Advertisements, orders for printing and Ibusiness matters relating to the office, together with cheques, Ac, to be addressed to the Manager. It is particularly requested that no letters be directed, either to the Proprietor or any member of the staff of this office, privately i f the communications arc not of a private nature, as delays are sometimes occasioned by so doing. TIMARU MEDICAL DISPENSARY, Established 18(5(3. E LIZA mT ■W atkisb ’ Having Purchased the Business carried on by her late husband, in succeeding to the same, BEGS TO SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE OF THE INHABITANTS OF TIMARU AND THE SUKKOUNDINU DISTIUCTS. She has <ippoiuted Mr R. F. Stewart as Manager. A constant supply of the Best Drugs will be received, and a large and varied stock of Surgical Appliances and Druggists’ Sundries kept on hand. Prescriptions will be made up accurately, and delivered on the shortest notice. T. HALL, (Late of Tate and Hall) LAND BROKER and Estate Agent, CERTIFICATED ACCOUNTANT IN BANKRUPTCY, prepares TRANSFERS, MORTGAGES, LEASES, AGREEMENT, Ac. (Under the Land Transfer Act.) CASH ADVANCES made on deposit of Deeds. MONEY TO LEND and Mortgages arranged on Properties. £IO,OOO at the present time to LEND, inerest 8 per cent, procuration fee, 1 er cent Offices at the late Russell Ritchie and Co’s Stores, opposite Club Hotel. CITY HOTEL. ECOOKSON takes the opportunity of • conveying to his numerous friends and the public generally his heartfelt appreciation of the exceedingly liberal patronage bestowed upon him through a ong period at the Garrick, at Barrett’s, and during the past two years at the Commercial Hotel. He has now much pleasure in intimating that to-day he HAS ENTERED UPC 21 A LONG LEASE of that old, centrally situated, and most popular house, the CITY HOTEL, Which by EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS AND ALTERATIONS, Now in progress, in the carefully selected and choice stock, and the most assiduous attention, he intends to raise to the pbsition the LEADING HOTEL IN CHRISTCHURCH. From the kindness extended to him in the past, E. C. does not fear that he will be forgotten by any of his old friends, or that he will fail to meet the requirements of the public generally. Yet he is anxious to convey an assurance that one and all may rely upon A HEARTY WELCOME AT THE “CITY.” Christchurch June 24,188