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Marlborough Express, Volume XXI, Issue 208, 12 September 1885, Page 3

General Manager's Office, Wellington, Sept. 9. 1885. FITTEN TENDERS will be received at the Railway Station, Pioton, up to NOON of SATURDAY, the 19th September, 1885, for freight of BIRCH SLEEPERS from Pelorns or Queen Charlotte Sound to Oamaru or Port Chalmers, Conditions of I contract and forms of tender, and ! all other information can be obtained from Mr H. C. Seymour, Government Timber Inspector, Picton. J. P. MAXWELL, General Manager New Zealand Railways. To Stand this Season at Kaituna. THAT THOROUGHBRED HOUSE Leos. T EOS is a Chestnut, five yeara old, Jj standing over sixteen hands m height, with great bone and power. Got hy Leolinus, out of Petroleuse, bjJOxforJ, out of Hartshorn, by the Touchstone horse Mountain Deer, Oxford is the sire of Sterling, whose get Isonoiny was the best horse m England, Leolinus (himself a grand performer), is by the Stockwell horse Caterer, from Tasmania, who is by Melbourne. It will thus be seen that this horse combines m a marked degree those strains of blood now so much sought for by English lireeders. Apatt from his other performances Lkos won the Dunedin Suburban Welter. Hie feat m winning the Epsom Welter Handicap, one mile and a half, as a three year old, under the import of lOst 51b, m the unprecedented time of 2min. 42Jsecs., stamps him as a weight-carrier of no ordinary merit, Leo.s, will visit Canvastown every Monday, returning through Havelock and Kaituna on Tuesdays ; at his own stables on Wednesdays and Thursdays; Spring Creek, Marlborough Town, and Blenheim on Fridays ; returning home on Saturdays by Ilenn ick New Road. Good paddocks will be provided at Kaituna for mares, at Is per week. Every care taken, but no responsibility incurred. Terms.— For Thoroughbred Mares, 7 guineas; others, 4 gaineaa. Groomago fee, us ; to be pp'rt on first service. A liberal reduction, as per agreement, will be made on two or more mares, the bona fide property of ono person. All fees to be paid by Ist January, 1886. 1200 JAMES DAVIES. Notb.— Leos will visit abovo placei, livers and accidents permitting. ,