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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 771, 1 October 1878, Page 2

LATE ADVERTISEMENTS. VOLUNTEER .HALL, OAM ARU. MADAME g6RA.--.VAL VOSE, AND COMPANY', .tor s Few Nights Only, commencing TO-NIGHT. TO-NIGHT. TO-NIGHT. MADAME CORA, The far-famed Queen of Magic, In her ever-popular Entertainment, entitled, 120 MINUTES OF MAGIC, MUSIC, MIRTH, MESMERISM. Madame Cora will be assisted in her Magic Illusions by Mastek Willie, and Miss Maude Clifton. The World-famous Great and only VAL VOSE, In his celebrated reconstructed VENTRILOQUIAL ENTERTAINMENT, Entitled, THE MERRY OLD FOLKS, In which he will introduce his Wonderful and Pleasing MECHANICAL FIGURES, Five in Number. Madame Cora will Distribute Handsome,. Valuable, and Useful PRESENTS EVERY EVENING. The Management wish it understood that the Presents are Given and no charge made for them. Admission—Front Seats, 3s: Centre Seats, 2s ; Back, Is. 917 NORTH OTAGO AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION. THE ANNUAL WALKING SHOW of ENTIRE HORSES will take place on the Grounds of the Association on FRIDAY, the 4th of OCTOBER. Entries to be made with the undersigned up to f> p.m. on THURSDAY, 3rd OCTOBER. Entrance Fee, os. J. CHURCH, S4S Secretary. NOTICE. OTEMATATA RACES POSTPONED on account of the late i Rains and heavy Floods, from 27th SEPTEMBER to THURSDAY, 10th OCTO- - BER, IS7S. jftiS W. G. MUNRO. iNORTH OTAGO PERMANENT i BUILDING SOCIETY. I rpH-B usual MONTHLY MEETING will • -*■- be held at the Secretary's Office, Tynei street, ou TUESDAY EVENING, OCTO- ! BER 1. between the hours of 7 and GEORGE SUMPTER, Secretary. ING AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY. npKE MONTHLY MEETING for Issue of New Shares and Receipt of Money will be held on TUESDAY EVENING OCTOBER 1, at 7.30. JOHN HARDY, 923 Secretary; [TAITAKI SHEEP AND DOG ' TRIAL, To be held at DUNTROON, near the Racecourse, on WEDNESDAY, 2nd OCTOBER, 1878. Judges: Messrs. H. Little, W. Turnbull, and Thos. M'Donald. Committee : Me.<j3r3. M'Kellar, A. W. Wright, GeorgeOliver, A. H. Chapman, and A> M'Mister. AGED DOGS. First Prize ... £l2 Second Prize ... £8 Third Prize ... £5 YOUNG DOGS. First Prize ... £8 Second Prize ... £i> Third Prize ... £3 Prizes will be awarded according to points in ivich Cl.'i'K —viz., 5 points for the best heading : 3 points for the Dog which brings the sheep back best ; 2 points for the which yards the sheep best; 2 points for the D(>% best under command. The decision of the Judges to be in all cases final. Four sheep will be allowed for each competitor. Six hurdles to form a pen, the gate to act Any Competitor when working his Dog must remain within (50) fifty yards of the pen. In the Trial for aged Dogs, no Dog will be allowed to start before the sheep are (A) half a mile from the pen ; (20) twenty minutes will be allowed for yarding from the time of start. In the Trial tor Young Dogs, o Dog will be allowed to start before the sheep are (500) five hundred yards from the pen ; time and sheep same as for okLTkigs. The Classes are—Dogs o£ any age, and Dogs aged 18 months and under. The Trial will commence &t 8. o'clock u. the morning sharp. E. p. SMITH, 919 Hon. Bec. [•'COEMI'CK'S R EAPER AND -i-M- BINDER. I wish to inform the Farmers of the District that anyone desirous of securing these celebrated Machines for the, Coming Harvest must make early application, as there are ONLY A FEW UNPLACED of the Cargo shortly due here, which is probably the only lot that will be sent to New Zealand this year. WILLIAM YOUNG, For the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. Agents. 840