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Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1582, 3 August 1885, Page 3

" Tlil'TH STRANGER THAN FICTION." I)OBIN T HOOD COMPANY, I Hive- just Closed then- July Meeting with 11,000 Shares, beiim' 0000 itj.re tlriii last year, and 3000 over original issue, thus enabling them to yam ali..t 300 extra cash prizes of £5 each. They have during tlic past Tr.elve Months allotted 63,910 Shares, anJ distributed £31,955.. As tho Robin Hood Company do not, for many reasons think it advisable to hold their clients' money for Four Months by opening on the Melbourne Cup, they have decided to open the following PROGRAMME, OX THE COUNTY PURSE and HAWKESBURY GRAND HANDICAP, To BE nVS AT SYDNEY, SEPT. 10th & 12th, 1885. 10,000 @... 10a £5,000 ... FIRST PRIZE £1000. —800 PBIZES.— County Purse.— oß Nominations. First £300 Second ... ••• 150 Third 100 Other Starters— Divided— 800 Non-starters— Divided— 600 £1,450 Grand Handicap.— lo6 Nominations. First £1.000 Second 500 Third 250 Other Starters— Divided— 400 Non-starters— Divided — 850 £3,000 96 CASH BONDS. 1 @ 25 ... £25 89 @ 5 ... £445 2 " 20 - 40 ~^^ 4,, 10 ... 40 £500 Will Cloae as soon as Full, But not laterthaii Tuesday, Bth September. Agents will bear in mind to send Returns as°Boon as possible. As we aro certain of fillinu', tickets will be sold " Hiu'h and Low " from the start. Early application therefore necessary. Please send two 2d. stamps for reply and result, (two stamped addressed envelopes greatly expedites business.) P. O. orders preferred. Is. exchange on stamps and cheques outside Canterbury. Coin or Notes should be registered. Registered Letters and Telegrams received. If stamps are not sent, as requested, for reply and result, results will be sent by Book Post. Ooen. ROBIN HOOD COMPANY, Care of Stapleton and Fleming. Box 238, Post Oth'ce Christchurch, Reefton aaent :- Mr P. Salmon, Dawson's Hotel, Broadway. £3JKML £3,000. ADA MA^ TUA £3,000. INNU AL CONSULTATON \ On the 3AWKESCURY GRAxtt) HANDICAP. To be run nt HAWKESBURY,! New Sox'tu Wales. On the 10th Skptemeek, ISBS. I 109 Nominations*, - Including all the New Zealand cracks namely — Welcome Jack, Vanguard, Oudeiii, Liverpool, Thunderbolt. | ....6000 MEMBERS at 105... 218 PRIZES. Horses. First £500 Second ... ... 300 Third 200 Starters (divided) ... 200 Nun-Starters (divided) 600 £1,800 CASH AWA'IDS. 1 at 100 £100 2 „ 50 100; 8 „ 25 200 10 „ 20 200j 20 „ 10 200: 20 „ 8 160, 48 „ 5 240; A . 109 £i,200; a 5 Each Ticket has Eight Chances,; > O and can obtain a prize in each of; ?3 £ the Eight drawings. |W 2 Please send P.O. Order whenjW < convenient, or bank notes (do notjgg 3 enclose coin). Country cheques must, c! have one shilling exchange added, j^Jj and marked correct by bank. Two 5 Stamps requisite, for reply and result. < Should this Consiltation exceed 6 3.0C0 all money ovor will be devoted 1 s; to extra <:5 each Cash Awards, less: > usual conniiissiou - - being a ninth; y . drawing. a» N.R — As usual, the names and ad-j p dresses of the principal prize-takers, gj also the names and addresses of the > 52 gentlemen who form the committee^ tidjwiil he forwarded to all the leading^ i? newspapers throughout the Colony. ;^ s READ THIS ! READ THTS ! ! OPINIONS OF THE DUNEUIN PRESS. Form the " Fv ni»n Star," Duneihn, of May 2(i'//, 1885. Ada Mantua has forward to us the names of the committee who superintended her drawing, and a list of the names and addresses of those who drowthe principal prizes. The Com-mitt-.-e '.voroall weli-known residents of Dunedin. From the " Oftvio fhn'/t/ Times, 1 DuneiHn, of May 27///, 1881. Ada Mantua has sent, us the names and addresses of theprincipal winners and also the names of her Cuinmitte. AmoniX the C> umiiitteo thero wero a number of well known business men, and a representatives from one of the Dunedin newspapers. The Committee express themselves as beiivj throughly satisliud with the drawing. The first Prizo wont to Greymouth, the second to Dunedin, and the third 'to Clyde. Also the opinions of fifty other Itiadin-i newspapers can bo had on application. Note Address — ADA MANTUA, Care of Lyons & Hart, I?ox .%L PostOHice, Dunedin. Reefton Agent : Jamgs ►Stkvi:nson, McOartin's Hotel, liroadway. r«O(W\A \;< : -|v oarly, as f?OAAA XO\)vo ii.no i.s limited. 3b-JwUU Melbourne (.'up wMI folli;w