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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5206, 16 October 1878, Page 4

£Li**rigtft XX ONES" T' TOM M.K3S»J 4-L will run With ft fyW limited number of mares < pMi9RHtJgHi this season at Mr George Meritt's Paddocks, at Farndon. Honeßt Tom is now rising four-years-old, standing 16 hands lin., by Little John out of Young Diamond, one pf the largest prize takers in Tasmania, Auckland, and Hawke's Bayj and never was beaten. Young Diamond out of Old Diamond, pure Clydesdale mare, by the oelebrated Olydeß. dale Entire Iron Duke. Iron Duke, and Old Diamond both imported to Tasmania! by Duncan Campbell, Esq., and as priz^e taken* were never beaten, vide New Zealand ?tud Book* For symmetry andmusculardevelopment they are unequalled. Young Diamond* four-years-old, waa, imported to Auckland by G. P. Donnelly, Escj., carrying a foal to one of the best horses in Tasmania ; said foal has been also ft large prize taker in Auckland' and never !waa beaten, Young Diamond was sold attheMeanee about seven years ago by publio auction for the sum of 155 guineas to the late E. ; A. Carlyon, Esq., from whom Mr George Merritt purchased Honest Tom when nine months old, Young Diamond, the dun, dying when he waa only two weeks oldj he being therefore brought np by hand. -"' Honest Tom has oeen serving xnarea for the last two seasons, and is a sure foal getter, having run and served 53 mares last season, all of which proved in foal to him, He is considered to be one of the grandest and most compact horses in New Zealand. He is a dark bay with four white poihte, standing on four short well set legs, pone in Eroportion. He has magnificent loin and arrell, being well ribbed itp, and in Jail [ points a perfect model of symmetry. i : <■ Honest Tom when two yeararold took the firat prize at the Hawke's Bay Agricultural Show. Terms— Single mare, 4 guineas; two or more, property of the same owner, as per agreement. ; 309 GEORGE MERRITT. DRAUGHT STALLTON. «l_a npHE Imported Clyde i&GCtf%i dale Stallion ; <33EQfe2 "LOBD NELSON" "Will stand this season at Weßt Olive Hotel Stables. . ; Lord Nelson is by Sir Colin Campbell, out of Scotland's Pride, a mare never beaten in Scotland or New Zealand. Sir Colin Campbell is by King Fergus, and 8 years old. Terms— £s . Two or more mares, as per agreement. . . Every care taken, but no responsibility. Paddooking free for one month, after which a charge of 2s 6d per week will te made. All mares to be paid for and removed by the Ist of January, 1878. Due notice will be given when mares are stinted* [ iP-Lumidgft TPHE Clydesdale Horse A&SWU JL LORD NELSON and ; 1 " 5 Blood Horae HB]^" «nHPOMPOULES will travel this Season through Te Ante, Taradale, and Olive weekly. ' Mares left at Mr. M'Oartney's Hotel, Taradale, and at Mr. Reynolds, Havelock, will be sent for free of charge Proprietor :— W. RUDDIOK, 7£> West Olive, Hotel. TO STAND THIS SEASON. «jp^ fTIHE Superior Thoroughbred A jffltgfr^ JL Entire fMWD "HEROULES," SJLlJL^Bred by Mr Murphy, 0! Spring Creek, and raced by Mr Redwood. Got by Ravensworth, dam Plover, by Sir Heroules, Ravensworth by Touchstone, Fair Jean by Veralum, Fair Queen by Pantaloon. Hercules is a bay horse, 7 years old, and stands 16| hands high, combines the best of blood, with good bone and immense power, and has proved himself a good horse on the turf. At the Canterbury Meeting in 1876 won the Grand Stand Handicap, 1 mile, in 1 mm. 50 sees., carrying Bst 71bs, beating 6 others in the same year j won the Hawke's Bay Stakes, 2 miles, in 4 mm. 4fc sees, beating Fishhook and the Maori Weed. 'Xhe Australasian in speaking of the Sir Hercules blood, lately remarked :—" No family has gained such a reputation as that which descends from the Colonial-bred bir , Hercules. In contests of every desorsption the representatives of this line have achieved more than their share of popular triumph, from the time Mr Tait earned all before him with old Cossack (brother to Waimea) down to the present season, when Kingsborough, Dagworth, Melbourne, Reprieve, Sterling, Fitz- Yatfandon, Valentia, Calumny, Ringwood, and many others with a dash of the old blood, carried their owners' colors to thr fore in some of the hardest tussels of the year." Terms— Six guineas each mare. Two or more by arrangement. Good paddocks, but no responsibility. Mares to be paid for on delivery.. For further particulars, apply to WILLIAM RUDDIOK, Proprietor, 72 West Olive. JAMES MACINTOSH HAS Opened the Shop, lately in the occupation of Mr Kenneth Nasmith, at Port Napier, as ENGINEER, BOILJJR-MAKBR, IROK AND BRASS FOUNDER, AND GENERAL JOBBING BLACKSMITH, And hopes by strict attention to business, and supplying a first-olass artiole at a moderate price, to merit a fair share of publio patronage. 31 BOARD AND RESIDENCE FOR GENTLEMEN, OR PARTIAL BOARD. f ADIES coming into town for the day J j can be accommodated with refreshments. . . Mrs Danvers begs to respeotfnlly inform her friends and the publio that she has recommenced the above business in the Shakespeaxe-road, Napier, next house to Dr Powell. 63 STUART AND CO., General Merchants and Auctioneers. A GENTS TO LLOYD'S. PC&RT NAPIBR. A UCTION SALES held in Town or J\ Country of Stock, Lakd and Merchandize 204 p ARD B N 088 DS! JUST ARRIVED, PKR S. S. "WiKiKA, 1 mHE FIRST SHIPMENT OF NEW SEEDS IN GREAT VARIED. Also, S.S. "Claud Hamilton," from Melbourne, A Prime Lot ov NAVY AND OTHER TOBACCOS In Fine Condition! S. HOOPER, Hastings-street. 39 EDUCATIONAL. MRS APLIN'S SCHOOL for Young Ladies will Commence on Monday Next, THE WILLOWS,.^ Franoe-road, MR. HUGH APL IN, TEACHER OF MUSIC. Cl. Tjp WiLiowy 33