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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4909, 3 October 1884, Page 4

General Notices SPORTING NEWS. - 320 Cash Prises. 3^ FIFTH GRAND HAMBURG DRAWING ISJKOW GP*N. TITHE Four previous Drawings were filled, X and all applicatiooa that camo too late for the Fourth will bo registered in this Drawing. The Fifth Grand Drawing for £4000 will close the erad of Octobek, and the Sixth Drawing will Open on the Ist Noybmbek This Fifth Grand Drawing will consist of 320 Money Phizes, amounting to £4000, subscribed by 8000 members at 10s ■ each. The various Motcby Fbizes will be distributed us follows :— 1 £300 PBIZE 15 £25 PRIZES 1 £200 PRIZH) 15 £20 PBIZBS I 1 £100 PRIZE 15 £15 PRIZES 2 £50 PRIZES 160 £10 PRIZES 10 £30 PRIZES 100 £5 PRIZES Total Amount, £4000. 320 Monex Pbizes. The Grand principle of these Hamburg Draivings is that & purchaeer of 25 Programmes is guaranteed a Pbize, and the chances are in favor of the investor drawing a labge Phizb, as there are 220 IABGE Peizes •to 100 small ones. To any investor of £2 the chacces are only 6 to 1 against him drawing a prize, and the Head Pbize or any other may be drawn by any investor of 10b. Read thu Cabeftoiy.—ln JBoaz's Grand Hamburg Drawings the greatest odds are otily 25 to 1 against an investor of 10s drawing a prize. Bui carefully note Borne of the Hone Consultations 011 the Melbourne Cup, advertieii g 20,000 members at 10s each, pqual k> £10,000. The Cup gives 1.33 nominations, so that the odds are over 150 to 1 ugiinst an investor drawing a horse. Now late the Casii Prizes drawn attho fame time, and calculate the odds ; you will find in each of the Cash awards that the odds vary from 200 to 5000 to 1 against an investor drawing a Cash Pbize. The whole 20,000 marbles are advertised to be replaced for each Drawing of the CA6H Peizes, which grve the enormous,odds against investors. The Company would simply ask investors to calculate the odds before placing their investments in any horse consultation', and the Company would not presume to tell the public that they have a number of chances and van win a number of prizes for a single inyestraent of 108. This Fifth Grand Drawing for £4000 will take place under the supervision of a committee of eight gentlemen, and the prizes will.be paid over as early as possible after the drawing. NOTICE.— Country [Cheques marked correct by Bank, only payable to a number, and la added for exchange. P.O. Orders prefcrreS, made parable only to BOAZ. Bank Notes accepted. Two 2d stamps for reply and result. Registered letters and telegrams not received. Name and address of applicant should be plainly written. All letters must be addreßßed—BOAZ, care Mr Mosely, Whole'alo and Retail Tobacconist, Box 64, Post Office, Dunedin. OTEEDMAK'S SOOTHING POWDERS CHILDREN CUTTING TEETH. CAUTION TO PURCHASERS. The valuo of this well known Family Mcdi cine has been largely tested in all parts of th world, and by all grades of society, for up wards of FIFTY YEARS. Its well-earned extensive sale has induced SPURIOUS IMITATIONS, some of which in OUTWARD APPEARANCE so closely resemble the original as to have deceived many purchasers. The-proprietor therefore feels it due to the publio to give a special caution against the use of SUCH IMITATIONS. Purchasers are therefore requested carefully to observe the four following distinctive characteristics, without which none are genuine j— Ist—ln every case the words JOHN STEEDMAN, CHEMIST, WALWORTH BURREY, are engraved on the Government Stamp affixed to each packet. 2nd —Each Single Powder has directions ! for the dose, and the words, John Stbedman, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey, printed thereon. 3rd—The name Steedman is always spelt with two EE'a. 4th—The manufacture is carried -on solely at Walworth, Surrey. Sold in Packets by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors. Sold by Kbmpthobhh, Psossbb, and Co., Auckland. 1988 "fHEqREATJMEBICAN_MEDICINES PRIC E " HALF A CROWN COAL, FIREWOOD, TIMBER, &o. T HAVE ON HAND and FOR SALE t X the Lowest Current Rates at the Yards Grahamstown and Shortland Wharf— NEWCASTLE & BAY OF ISLANDS COAL, PIEEW OOD, PKOPS, POSTS, KAILS PALINGS, TIMBER of ALL KINDS for BUILDING And every description of IRONMONGERY AND BUILDERS REQUISITES. H. 0. GILLESPIE. Yards-—Grahamßtown (Holdehip's late^tio3 her yard) Shortland, at Wharf. 1109 rj.aiSfAICaiS'TAL Priatiao-, in colow, gold \J or brouse in k etj le hitherto unobtain able on th* Thames at tho Evranro Sxj b /TtORRfiCT NUMiJiSHS Giurant^d a V &* mmUJ G gT.A.3 Th*^