Auctions. .Annual Horse Parade. Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Tahuna Park. THURSDAY, 6th OCTOBER. EEID, MACLEAN, & CO. • will hold a Sale of Clydesdale and Thoroughbred Entires.'Clydesdaleand Thoroughbred Maros as above. Owners intending to offer horses at this sale will oblige by forwarding particulars as early as possible. REID, MACLEAN, & CO. 20th August. 25au Late Advertisements. THE COLONIAL BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. A BRANCH of this Bank was OPENED at the BLUFF on August 18 for the transaction of all General Banking Business, under the management of Mr A. R. PETRIE. By order of the Board, H. MACKENZIE, General Manager. Dunedin, August 22, 1887. 26au For Sale. SPECIAL Grasses for Permanent Pastures. Imported Parr's Perennial Ryegrass, also Parr's Evergreen and Colonialgrown Perennial Ryegrass (from old pastures), Italian Ryegrass. Cocksfoot, Tail and Meadow Fescue ; and, ex Deva and Ravenswood, from London, Sheep and Hard Fescue, Poa Pratensis, Poa Trivialis, Poa Nemoralis, Crested Dogstail, Meadow Foxtail, JUST LANDED, ex Deva and Ravenswood, from London — 31 Tanks Clovers, and as under: Whito Alsike, Cowgrass, and Red Clover, Timothy, Lucerne Trefoil, Broad Leaf Essex Rape, Tares, Ribgrass ; Intermediate, White, Belgium, and Alteringham Carrots ; Long Red Globe and Tankard Mangolds; also Champion, SEcrving's, and Bangholme Swedes, . Green and Purple Top Yellow Aberdeen, Mammoth Purple Top, Red and White Globe, Greystone aud Whitestone, Dale's and Fosterton's Hybrid, and Wall's Eclipse Turnips. JUST LANDED, ex Arab, f,rom New York— 120 Cases Clovers and Timothy. TO ARRIVE, per Orari, from London— lo Tanks Turnip Seed. TO ARRIVE, per Star of the East, from New York — 120 Cases Clovers and Timothy. COLONIAL-GROWN SEEDS— Rape, Tares, Barley, Cape Barley, Linseed, and Ryecorn, Prairie Grass. Growing tests may be seen at Stores. Special quotations to the Trade. HENRY CONNELL, Seedsman. Oamaru. 20 August, 1887. 26au THE FIFTH ANNUAL PARADE OF CLYDESDALES and THOROUGHBRED ENTIRE HORSES, under the auspices of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association, will be held at Tsiiuna Park on THURSDAY, 6tb October, at 12 o'clock. Entries in duplicate, with full pedigrees, must be made at my office, Rattray street, Dunedin, not later than 4 p.m. on Saturday, Ist October, to give time for publication in the tabulated catalogue. Entry Fee — Entire 'Horses, ... ... 10s. Mares, Ponies, and other stock ... ss. SYDNEY JAMES, Secretary Dunedin Agricultural and Pastoral Association. 26au FOR SALE OR LEASE. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Subdivision of the well-known HopgesHoe Bush K2stat<\ Near Milburn, Into Small AGRICULTURAL, aud DAIRY FARMS. npHB UNDERSIGNED JL • have received instructions from Mr Henry Driver to offer far sale oar lease. The whole of the celebrated | HORSESHOE BUSH ESTATE, Subdivided into 9 COMPACT AGRICULTURAL and DAIRY FARMS, Containing from 150 to 500 Acres e?,c3i. The character of the abo.vs is so well I known that it is scarcely necessary to refer to the advantages i|t possesses for mixed farming. The soil, for the most part being upon limestone formation., has been highly improved, thoroughly fenced |into 40 small paddocks, with live hedges and Tasmanian posts aud rails: thousaads of tons of lime and manures have bg^ pu,t into the land' without anything beipg taken out of it, atid every paddock is supplied with a running stream of wa.^ejf throughput the year. Several of the fairm.s have comfortable homesteads and ! ether buildings, requiring no outlay of capital \ whatever. SITUATION^ '3O.railes from Dunedin, on main line of railway, and no farm is more thjsni. a. mjb distant from a railway station, LIME ; to any extent will be supplied to purchasers or lessees at actual cost of production. GRAIN and OTHER CROPS oan be produced in quantity and quality unequalled elsewhere in New Zealand, specially for wheat growing' yield being large and sample first-class. TERMS CONDITIONS, together with plans of the Farms, may be obtained upon application to the Undersigned, who are authorised to state that the Farms are for lorn fide SALE or LEASE with right of purchase. For further inf omatioo apply to ..! MURRAY, ROBERTS, & CO., • Dunedin; Or at the Homestead, on the Estate, i