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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4912, 7 October 1884, Page 4

General Notices . SPORTING; KEW3, FIFTH ii HAMBURG DRAWING IS NOW, OPEN. riIHE Four previous Drawings were filled, JL and all applications that came too late for the Fourth will be registered in this Drawing. The Fifth Grand Drawing for ,£4OOO will close the e:>:d of Octobee, and the Sixth Drawing will Op?n on tbe Ist November. This Fifth Grand Drawing will consist of 320 Moket F.BIZE3, amounting to £4000, subscribed by 8000 members at 10s each. # T.'i6 rariou3 Money Fbizes will bo distributed aa follows.: — 1 £300 PEIZE 15 £25 PRIZES 1 £200 PETZE 15 £20 PRIZKS 1 £100 PRIZED 15 £15 PRIZES 2 £50 PRIZES 160 £10 PRIZS3 10 £30 PRIZRB 100 £5 PRIZES Total Amoitnt, £4000. 320 Moket Phizes.

The Grand principle of these Hamburg Drcnvings ia that a purchaser of 25 Programmes is guaranteed a Pbize,. and the chances are in iavor of the investor drawing a 1.412G8 Pbizs, as the c are'22o iab&k Prizes to 100 small ones To any investor of £2 the charces are only 6 to 1 against him drawing a prize, and tbe Head Puize or any other may ba drawn by any investor of 10s. ' • Read this Carej>tjijdy.—ln JBoaz's Grand Hamburg Drawings the greatest odds are only 25 to 1 a^iurst an investor of 10s drawing a prize. Bui carefully note some of the Hone Consultations on tbe Melbourne Cup, advertising 20,000 menjboM at 10a each, equal to £10,000. The Cup gives 133 nominations, so lh»t the odds are over 150 to 1 against an investor drawing a horse. Now lake tbe Cash Prjzes "drawn at the eatne time, r.nd cilciilate the odds j jou will find in each of the Cash awards that the odds vary from 200 to 5000 to 1 against an investor drawing a Ca3H Pbize. The whole 20,000 marbles are advertised to be replaced for each Drawing of the Cash Peizes, which give the enormous odds against investors. The Company would simply ask inveßtor3 to calculate the odds before placing their investments in any horse consultation; and the Company would icot presume to tell tbe public that they have a number <l chances and can win a number of prizes for a single investment of 10c. This Fifth Grand Drawing foe £4000 will take placi-undor tho 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 JBanh, only payable to a number, and la added for exchange. P.O. Orders preferred, made payable only to BOAZ. Bank ' Notes accepted. Two 2i 6tanjps for reply and result Registered letters and telegrams not received. Katneaud address of applicant should be plainly written. All letters must bo addressed —BOAZ, care Mr Moseiy, Wholesale and Eetail Tobacconist, Box 64, Poet Office, Dunedin.

ST&EDMAN'S SOOTHING- POWDEB.S CHILDSEN CUTTING- TEETH. CAUTION TO PURCHASERS.' The value of this -well known Family Mcdi cine has been largely tested in all parts of th world, &ni. by all grades of society, for up wards of FIFTY YEABS. Its weU-oanaed extensive ealo hae induced SPURIOUS IMITATIONS, some of which in OUTWARD APPEABAKOK so closely'resomble the original as to have deceived many purchasers. The proprietor therefore feele it due fco the public fco give a special caution against the uae of SUCH IMITATIONS. Purchasers are therefore requested carefully fco observe the four following distinctive characteristics, without which none are genuine;— Ist—ln every case the words JOHN BTEEDMAN. CHEMIST, WALWOBTH SUBSIDY, are engraved on the Government. Stamp affixed to each packet. 2nd—Each Single Powder has directions for the dose, and the words, Johk Steedman, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey, printed thereon. Brd--The name Steedinan is always spelt with two EE's. 4th—The manufacture is carried on solely at Walworth, Surrey. Sold in Packets by all Ohemißta and Medicfae Vendors. Sold by Kbmfthoeks, Peosseb, and Go., Auckland. 1986

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COAL, "FIREWOOD-, TIMBEB, &c. I HAVE ON HAND and FOR SALE t the Lowest Current Rates at the Yards Grahamstown and Shortland Wharf— . NEWCASTLE & BAY OF ISLANDS COAL, FIEEW OOD, PKOPS, POSTS, BAILS PALINGS, TIMBER of ALL KINDS for BUILDING And every description of IRONMONGERY AND BUILDERS REQUISITES. H. 0. GILLESPIE. ITards—Grahamstown (Holdahip'a late tim ' ber yard) . i Shortland, at Wharf. 1109 j MMAIi'E'NTAJj Prinfeza?, in colon, golc* \) or i'rc-r-sa in a style hitherto unobtain aSlc Vo the T? a;se« »t the ESvBHOra SxJB OiS« . .-. . „ ■ ' /^CBBKCri HVMBEBS Gaarantesd a