Art Union CLOCKS, TIME-PIECES, AND PECULATOR, Ladies* and Gents.’ Diamond Plugs, Gold Signet Kings, Gold Dress Kings, Wedding Kings and Keepers, Gold Lockets, Gold Pencil Cases, Gold Sets, Brooches and Earrings. ALL JEWELLERY WARRANTED GENUINE QUALITY. Gold Scarf Pins, Gold Scarf Ladies’ Diamond Slides, Ladies* and Gents.’ Gold Albert Chains and Guards, and a valuable quantity of Plate, Eield, Marine, and OPERA GLASSES. 1000 TICKETS at ... ... £1 EACH. 500 PRIZES. 500 BLANKS. First 50 Prizes are—Gold watches, English patent levers and genevas. ; Second 50 Prizes—English silver patent levers and genevas. Prizes—loo clocks and timepieces, regulators, French clocks, with- shades. Prizes—2oo gold prizes, ladies’ gold sets, brooches and earrings, gold chains and Alberts, diamond rings, lockets, wedding rings and keepers, gold pencil cases, gold ueckchains, signet rings. 100 Prizes—Field, marine, and opera glasses; i tea and coffee services, electro-plate; sterling ; silver mugs, cake baskets, 1 Gold crosses, scarf ring*, scarf pins, watch I keys, studs, sleeve links and solitaires, green- 1 stone brooches and earrings. The purchaser of four tickets not winning a prize, the whole of his money will be returned. The bona-fide purchasers of ten tickets entitled to one ticket free. THE DRAWING WILL SHORTLY COME OFF, As Mr. Mulligan is Giving Up the Business. Tho Drawing will be Conducted by a Committee of Gentlemen elected by the Ticketholders. Great Sacrifice in Jewellery, Watches, ! Clocks. &c. THE WHOLE OF THE STOCK MUST BE SOLD. No reasonable offer refused, as Mr. Mulligan is giving up the business. gPEC IAL NOTICE. SPECULATORS ARE INFORMED THAT MULLIGAN’S ART UNION, . tile' best and safest speculation OF THIS YEAR, WILL BE .DRAWN ON THURSDAY, 22nd INSTANT, Commencing at 10 o’clock a.m. LOSE NO TIME IN INVESTING IN A CHANCE. QAMP'BEIiL’S APv T UNION. 4000 TICKETS AT ss. EACH. THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-TWO PRIZES, Varying in amount from a Gold Wedding Ring to ONE HUNDRED POUNDS CASH, Less 5 per cent. (£5) which I promise to give to the Benevolent Society. Tu submitting the above to the favorable consideration of the public, I respectfully thank them for their patronage during the last thirteen years that I have been in business in Wellington, l am compelled to give up business, as the strain on my eyesight would in a few years result in partial blindness. Consequently, I have purchased some laud in the Wairarapa, and intend to settle there about tho end of the present year. In the following list of prizes I pledge my word as a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Forester, and a Cosmopolitan that I have not put any fictitious value on any of the prizes ; I also guarantee every article as genuine, as I have carefully excluded all fancy or plated goods. The watches, jewellery, &c., are sterling gold and silver ; the miscellaneous goods are in strict conformity with their description in the list. The drawing will take place as soon as the tickets are sold, and will be under the scrutiny and supervision of a committee of ticketholders. I have made the price of the ticket 55., so as to be within the means of everyone who can afford to speculate that'amount foria chance of obtaining a valuable equivalent in the shape of what the eccentric Wemmick describes as “portable property,” or £IOO in hard cash-. The winning numbers will be duly advertised as soon as the drawing is over. Orders, for tickets by post, if accompanied by cheque or P. 0., will be attended to by return of post. The following is the list of prizes :—- 35 Clocks, own make,English, French
382 prizes Value £IOOO Ticket.) may be obtained from Sir. Willeston, Lambton-quay ; Sir. Gillespie, Shepherd's Arms, Tinakori-road; Pier Hotel; Sir. Fraser, Manuors-stveot; City Hotel; and from C. Campbell, Manners-street.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5422, 13 August 1878, Page 3
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