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Hastings Standard, Issue 469, 5 November 1897, Page 4

IS. IL. K.i£ agist. H AVING sold out my Hastings business I bog to request that ail accounts owing by me bo sent in at once. FURTHER, That all accounts owing to me MUST be PAID on or before the 30th Nov., 1897, otherwise they will be put in the hands of my solicitor for collection. B. L. KNIGHT. Nov Ist, 1897. BALL E VERY Household Requisite at the Lowest Price. NOVELTY DEPOT Hastings & Napier. st N GAPUKE STUD NOTICE. The Musket-bred horse WONDERLAND, Out of Fairyland, will be at the service of breeders for a limited number of mares this season Service Fee - - £A. 4s. Two or more mares, property of same owner, at a reduction. Also the pony stallion Acknowledged by competent judges to be one of the most perfect specimens of his kind in existence, combining the fleetness and docility of the high-class Arabian with the strength and vigor of the cart horse. Service Fee - - ,£3 Bs. Two or more mares, property of same owner, at a reduction. Well-grassed and watered paddocks for mares ; charge, 2s per week. Every care taken ; no responsibility incurred. For further information apply to WM. M. BROUGHTON, Ngapuke. N.B.—Mares for either of the above sires will be brought from, and returned to Mr Beecroft's stables, Hastings, free of charge. THE CHAMPION Thoroughbred Stallion S«I»l T S, Traducer—Hammock.

This stallion is the sire of so many winners that comment is unnecessary. Two need only be mentioned here : Dudu, who won the 'Wanganui Cup three times, the Egmont Cup twice, the Burke Memorial Stakes, &c. ; The Artist, winner Flying Handicap and Wanganui Stakes last year, and the Metropolitan Handicap Canterbury Jockey Club November, 1895. The breeding of Somnus need not be enlarged upon, only to say that he descends (both from sire and dam) from the mighty Eclipse, viz., Hammock, bay mare, bred in England in 1871, got by Orest (son of Orestes, by Orlando), her dam Mother Neasham, by Buccaneer, out of Little Hannah, by Lanecost. Phoenix— Miss Clifton, by Partisan —Isis, by Sir Peter—lbes, by Woodpecker—lsabella, by Eclipse —Squirrel Nancy, by Blank—Naylor, by Cade—Spectator's dam, by Partner —Bonnie Lass, by Bay Bolton—Barley —Arabian—Tyer'ly Turk—Taffolet— Barb —Place's White 'Turk Natural Barb mare. Traducer, brown horse, bred in England in 1851, got by The Libel, dam Arethusa (dam of Fern hill) by Elis—Languish (sister to Languish by Cain—Lydia, g.d. of Ghuznee), by Poulton (son of Sir Peter, Variety, by Hyacinthus, sister to Swordsman, bv Weasel (son of Herod and Eclipse mare), Fanny's dam, by Luck. The Libel by Pantaloon (son of Castrel) dam of Pasqunade (sister to Touchstone). He will stand at Stortford Lodge, Hastings, this season. Fees—£6 6s each mare. Well grassed paddocks at 2s 6d per week. Every care taken, but no responsibility. Further particulars may be obtained from A. ELLINGHAM, Stortford Lodge. Of to GroQtu-itt'Cli&rge,