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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2212, 23 January 1868, Page 4

Near Advertisements. CHRISTCHURCH VOLUNTEERS. \J Cup, presented by the Chairman of the City Council (E. B. Bishop, Esq.) are WARNED that the next firing for thoCup will take place at the Range Hillsborough, on SATURDAY NEXT, ttao 85th inrt. Intending competitors must find their own ammunition, and be on the ground by 3.30 p.m. By order of the Chairman, EDW. W. TIPPETTS, 4355 Hon.-Sec. CANTERBURY RIFLE ASSOCIATION, GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING. X Association will be held at White's Hotel, Cathedral Square, Christchurch, on TUESDAY, January 28, at Eight in the evening. To receive reports of the proceedings of the Council during the past year. To receive Treasurer's report and accounts, elect officers, and other business. H. E. ALPORT, «48 Hon. Secretary. CANTERBURY RIFLE ASSOCIATION. A MEETING of the Council of the above Association will be held at White's Hotel, Cathedral Square, Christchurch, on FRIDAY, the 24th January, at half-past Seven p.m. To receive report of Committee, and other business. H. E. ALPORT, . 4349 Hon. Secretary. POTATOES! NEW POTATOES!! American Earlies ) ~j„„.,k Ash-leaf Kidneys f I * d l )erlb > AT TflOS. LEE'S New Store, High Street. 4347 Groceries, Fruits, Hams, and Bacon. NOTICE. riIHE UNDERSIGNED are purchasers of _L Wheat, Oats, and Barley. None but | good and thoroughly well dressed samples will be purchased. The undersigned wish particularly to call the attention of farmers to the manner in which Barley is often broken in thrashing, rendering an otherwise good sample quite unfit for malting purposes. ] BIRCH & CO. I Kaiapoi, Jan. 22,1868.

SHEEP FOB SALE. 10R SALE BY THE UNDERSIGNED a Flock of 1748 Merino Sheep, consisting o£ Ewe and wether lambs Ewes and wethers two to eight-tooth Deliverable after Shearing. For particulars apply to MATHESON'S AGENCY, 4352 Christchurch. CORNSACKS. jIOR SALE BY TflE UNDERSIGNED ' 25 BALES CORNSACKS MATHESON'S AGENCY, 4353 Christchurch and Lyttelton. TO WEST COAST DEALERS AND OTHERS. \ A A to 700 FAT WETHERS for Sale. Apply to THOS OYERTON, 4346 Lake Ellesmere, CEREAL CROPS. IHE Undersigned specially invites reports . of the present state of Graiu Crops from each outlying district. B. D. BUST, Secretary of the C. F. Club. PUBLIC TRIAL OF REAPING MACHINES.

\0 SUIT the desire of some Makers, , Proprietor!, and Salesmen of Reaping Machines, and a number of tie Agricultural Community, the CANTERBURY FARMERS' CLDB Have arranged to teat the respective qualities of various Reapers on ITDEBDAY, JANUARY 28th, 1868. The trial will take place in a field of wheat immediately in front of Ham House, the appruach being up the roadpast Webb's Bush luu, Hiccarton. The main feature of the test to be ; Quality of work, Kconomy in working, and General suitability for colonial une. The present entries comprise : Brigham and Bickerton's self-delivery machine" Excelsior" Ditto manual delivery "Buck's eye" Hornsby's self-delivery reaper, "Universal Harvester" Self-delivery ditto, "Patent Governor Self-Kaker," and Combined reaper and mower Robinson's patent sheaf-delivery reaper Anderson's provincial manual-delivery reaper BurgeßsandKey'smanual-delivery reaper Samuelson's manual-delivery reaper. N.B.—Other entries are expected, but auch must be made with the undersigned by noon on Friday next. All machines to be on the ground ready for work by eleven a,m, on the day of the trial. Entrance to the ground to non-members, Is each. Members of the Club and of the Cantoibury Agricultural and Pastoral Association. free. ' Befreshments will be provided by a wellknown caterer; and trustworthy persons appointed to take care of horses at a moderate and uniform charge. B. D. BUST, 4350 Secretary.