THE GRAND ANNUAL SHOW Coder the Auspices and Directions of the WAIBARAPA & EAST COAST PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY Will be held on the SOCIETY’S SHOW GROUNDS, CARTERTON, ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1886. THE SHOW Will include Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Implements, Farm and Dairy Produce, Vehicles and Industrial Exhibits. The Society will, as in previous years, offer about fiftf Gold and Silver Medals, as well as cash prizes in each of the above stated sections of Exhibits, and in addition hereto a large number of Valuable Special Prizes in cash aud hi plate have been promised, bringing the total amount of all prizes folly up to the average of the last three years. Winners of medals will have the option of taking in lien thereof £1 cash for Silver Medals and £3 cash for gold medals. A Leaping Match, a Shearing Match and a trial of Sheep Dogs will take place during the afternoon. Programmes and Prize Lists, giving full information as to conditions of entry, regulations of judging and all other details, are now being prepared, and will be published and circulated shortly. Arrangements will be made to run SPECIAL TRAINS At reduced rates, also to have the Show Day Proclaimed a Bank and ,General Holiday thronghont the Valley.
Intending Exhibitors are informed that entries close on SATURDAY, the 23rd October, 1886, at noon, either at the Secretary’s Office, Carterton, or at the offices of Messrs R. Brown and Co, Mastertoo, F. H. Wood and Co., Grey town, and J. D. Oakly, Feat hers ton, and that no entries can be received after that date. All communications in reference to the Show addressed to tbs Secretary at Carterton, either by letter or telegram, will be promptly attended to. Admission to the Show Ground—Members free; non members before noon, 2s 6d ; after noon, Is. For the purpose of affording more adequate encouragement to certain classes of Exhibits such as DOGS, POULTRY, PIGEONS, INDUSTRIES. FLOWERS, &c„ the Society has decided to hold a SEPARATE SHOW for these classes during the early part of December, and full particulars thereof will be published. W. BUCHANAN, President. Carterton, 26 1886. QARDENING > c'NTRACT undertaken or ’Ji labor by the day in any pr •! the vVairarapa. Apply William Brooks, Grejtown. W.B. ir- in constant communication with the Wauarapa, Wellington and Nelson Nurseries, therefore is in a position to supply hia patrons with the best of everything in the way of Trees, Shrubs, &o. 547q WAITS® KNOWN THAT WM. BENTON HAS WIRE FENCING POSTS FOR SALE, AT 41s PER HUNDRED, A large quantity on band. Also, HOUSE BLOCKS, SHINGLES AND TIMBER. W. BENTON, Builder and Contractor, Featherston. 15tc _ NELSON, MOATE AND CO. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TEA MERCHANTS, BLENDERS, AND IMPORTERS. Willis Street, .. .. Wellington. Our Pure Blended Teas are the rage of the colonies.—Our" Challenge Blend ” at 2s 4d, is superior to ordinary grocers’ mixture sold at 3s or 3s 6d p<r lb. See Circulars for Frets Opiniont. PRICES—2s, 2s 4d, 3s, Ss 4d, & 4s per lb. SOLD IN— Packets, 11b, Fib ; Boxes, 101b, 121b, net Half Chests, 401b, 501b net.
Acknowledged by Tea Exports, the Press and ,he Public to be 1 » best value iu the Southern Hemisphe' «se Teas are bought and blended b< n I'ioueeional Taster, mixed machinery, and -ueplied to .■>. i.r rohee, and over 600 Agents direct from air Wholesale Establishment. AWARDED GOLD A SILVER MEDALS. Thousands of Families are drinking these Teas Daily. Bee Government Analysis Sold by grocers in all towns throoghont the colony. COFFEES m Are now introduced la ourtradeT NELSON MOATE & 00, Obmstobobob. Drawn, Acckubd, A WiLLis-Smat, (neat Empire Hotel) WELLINGTON, 0. H. COLEQROVB, 674 Manager. $. M. MAXTON Sc SONS, sou Minis ros ossnows.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1883, 13 September 1886, Page 1
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