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West Coast Times, Issue 1008, 15 December 1868, Page 4

A. J. SOLOMi WHOLESALE AND RETAIL IRON Revell Street, Hokitik IMPORTERS of every description of m veyors 1 tools, agricultural implements powder, shot, &c. ; cutlery in great variet ship chandlery ; boiled and raw linseed, i chimneys, wicks, &c. ; paints, oils, colors, and earthenware ; fancy goods, stationer brushware, musical instruments, fishing pipes, tobacco, cigars, &c, and all kinds of A. J. S. and Co. are celebrated for sellii Wes Hours of business — I N.B.— LICENSED TO SELL F

LANGE'S FIRST DISTRIBUTION or SIX T Y-F IVE PRIZES Of the Value of £320. On the best Art Union principle. To take place on Saturday, December 19th. JLANG-E, Jeweller, Revell-street, , North, Hokitika, opposite Jones' Commercial Sale Yards, has arranged to hold a DISTRIBOTION OF PRIZES, He therefore begs to inform his friends and the public generally that he intends to distribute £320 worth of first-class Colonial Jewellery, comprising gold and silver watches, diamond riugs, goldmounted greenstones, Albert chains, &c. The whole of the goods guaranteed as per Catalogue. 320 TICKETS AT £1 EACH. N.B. — Tickets may be obtained at J. Langes, Jeweller, and Mr P. Cran Storekeeper, Gibson's Quay, Mr Edwards, Empire Hotel, Stafford Town. Tickets will also be forwarded by post, on receipt of cash or Post Office order. Place of drawing will be announced in future advertisement. 3861 SIN CL A 1 11 AND JA C X (Late Spiccr aud Murray), UNDERTAKERS THE Oldest Establishment in Hokitika. Address — Revell-street North and Bealey-street South. Orders from the country and outlying districts punctually attended to. Tombstones and Enclosures erected. 4020

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND LEICESTER MEETING, 1868. UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS. THE FOLLOWING PRIZES WERE AWARDED TO J. & F. HOWARD, - Britannia Iron Works, Bedford. The First Prize for the best Wheeled Plough for general purposes. The First Prize for the best Wheeled Plough for light land. The First Prize for the best Swing Plough for general purposes. The First Prize for the best Swing Plough for light land. The First Prize for the best Subsoil Plough. The First Prize for the best. Harrows f or Horse Power. The First and only Prize for- the best Steam Cultivating Apparatus for farms of moderate size. The First and only Prize for the best 5-tined Steam Cnltivator. The First and only Prize for the best Steam Harrows. The First and only Prize for the best Steam Windlass. The Silver Medal for their Patent Safety Boiler. J. & F. Howard thus received • TEN FIRST PRIZES, ONE SECOND PRIZE, and a SILVER MEDAL, Carrying off almost every Prize for wind: they competed, and this after trials the mosl severe and prolonged ever known. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCLETI OF ENGLAND. The Grand Annual Show of the above Society, which has been so judiciously hole this year at Leicester, may be considered a; one of the most successful on record, 96,65J persons having paid £6,740 Is 5d for admis sion. The field trials of tillage implement! lasted a week, under scorching weather al the time, and watched by large numbers oJ agricultural and other spectators. The horse drawn ploughs have been through the mossevere ordeal that they have ever known The judges have taken the greatest possible care and pains, intently watching every fur row, measuring and testing the work witl rule, square, and level, clearing awsiy the cv soil for an examination of the unmovei bottom, taking by draft-dynamometer tin motive-power required to draw each hnple ment, and finally inspecting the parts an( construction of each selected plough. And moreover, the condition of the ground ha been such that no second-rate tool could pos sibly gloss over a piece of work that migh be pleasing to the eye, but wanting in sound ness of execution. The result of the preli minary, second, and final trials has been ti give Messrs James and Frederick Howard of Bedford, the lion's share of the honours Messrs Ransomes and Sims, of Ipswich, i second place; and Hornsby and Sons, o Grantham, a third place, but considerably lower down in the scale of awards; whils other makers are commended or nowhere,— fsf^raph,