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Observer, Volume XI, Issue 717, 24 September 1892, Page 2

v 150.1j.Kj V xhn, GRAND CHRISTMAS Prize Distritation. VALUABLE PEESENTS FOE NOTHING. Save your Observers, and you may win 15-gainea Oil Paintings, or one of a hundred other Prizes. 100 Prizes Offered. Coupon. GRAND CHRISTMAS Prize COMPETITION. Name Address

The Proprietors of the Observer and Free Lance have decided, at the suggestion of many of their supporters, to revive the former custum of a GEAND CHRISTMAS PRIZE DISTRIBUTION. It is their intention to offer an immense number of prizes, about 100 in all, to te drawn for in CHRISTMAS WEEK. These prizes will be chiefly articles of considerable value, including oil-paintings, hand-painted goods, musical instruments, first-class watches, cheques for various sums, in addition to a large number of other articles of ornament and use. This is not an art union. It is an absolutely free distribution of prizes, and all you have to do to f ecure a chance is to save up your coupons and send them to the Manager of the Obser. VEtt. Every six coupons will entitle you to one chance. The coupon will be published in every issue Tip to the time of the drawing You may win one of these splendid prizes at no cost to yourself. After you have read your Obsertee, cut out the coupon and preserve it, and so on nntil you get six. Then we allot you one chance. All coupons are alike, so that two or more from the same issue may be used in the •one set. EXTRA CHANCES fob SUBSCRIBERS. We desire to encourage our readers to enter themselves as regular subscribers to the Observes, and consequently we undertake to allot Extra Chances, apart altogether from the •coupons, to every subscriber whose name apjsears on our books, on the following system : — Every Subscriber of One Year, whose fee (13s) is paid in advance, will be allotted Eight Pull Chances, in addition to the coupons he receives in his papers. To every Subscriber of Six Months (7s) we shall allot four extra chances, independent of his coupons. Every Subscriber of Three Months will be entitled to two extra chances, besides coupons. This means that you will receive three times -fche worth of your money in tbe Observer, itself the brightest and raciest paper in New Zealand, and the only one that can boast of •original illustrations, and you will also have several chances of the valuable prizes we offer. The coupons will be entered in a ticket book as tbey are received, and all these tickets will be used in the drawing. We do not send you tickets; we simply enter your name and address •on receipt of the coupons Th« drawing will be conducted by an independent committee of well-known citizens. "We append a list of the principal prizes, some of which may now be seen ar, the Observer Office. The watches, which are both guaranteed, are on view m Stewaat Diwson's window, and an early opportunity will be taken of placing the whole of the articles on view. Every prize is what it professes to be ; our object is to win the approbation of our subscribers, and we are offering nothing cheap and showy. See them for j ourselves, and you will be astonished. Ist Trize.— Magnifi-ent pair of oil paintings, admirably executed and handsomely framed in heavy gold frames. These pictures would grace the moat artistic drawing-room in the colonies, and form a splendid prize. They are worth fifteen guineas. 2ndPbize. — ' Be of Wi'cox and White's New Model Symhonias, in Vcutiful walnut case, obtained from Mr W. H. Webbe, Manager of the Berlin Piano Company, who are the sole agents in Aucklund. The wholesale cash price is £5. A child can play the instrument ; all that is necessary is the mere mechanical turning of the handle. The mu^ic is jrovided on rolls, which are fitted with the Syniphonia. Thousands of tunes can be played on ike instrument, and it is indispensable at country dances,